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Hello! We are still here! Sorry for not posting in awhile. My mom came in town for two weeks and then Maggie was sick for a week so I've been out of the blogging scene for a bit.
Well, we've now been in England now for about 6 months and have started to feel more settled. It really has been crazy how fast the time has gone, but it has really helped having so many visitors to break up the months. I think that has really fought off homesickness for us, but there are definitely days that are hard. So far we are really loving it here. There is so much to explore and learn. The hardest part are all the rainy days! Plus, I kind of miss my hot summery days. ;) It's pretty rare for the temp to get above 75 degrees. We definitely take advantage whenever the weather is nice though!
Paddle boating in a park in Warwick.
Maggie wasn't quite sure what to make of it.
Warwick Castle in the background.
This girl loves her ice-cream even though it gives her a brain freeze every time!
A park in Royal Leamington Spa with a wadding pool.
Maggie & I have settle into a pretty good routine of getting out of the house everyday. We either have one of Maggie's classes (Monkey Music or Toddler Sensory) or it's a gym day. There are also several trips to the grocery store scattered through our week as well. Everything spoils here so much quicker so we can't stock up as much as I would like to. I have cut down on the time I spend in the grocery store trying to figure out what their version is of something we used back home and where they keep it on their shelves. I still google things almost every week. Now that's it's been a few months I'm definitely craving a few random things that we can't get here like pudding, cherry pie filling, fountain drinks, cool whip, ready made cookie dough, donuts, Jiffy corn bread and any good Mexican food. Pretty much all the bad stuff. Ha! I definitely miss just going to the store and getting what I want. Here I have to figure out what the equivalent is if there is any. The English are not known for how great their food tastes but it is a lot healthier. Oh and I miss frozen yogurt!! Ok, I'll stop now. :)
Maggie has been doing really well. Growing like and weed and sprouting teeth like it's her job. She started walking towards the end of 13 months and now crawling is no longer an option. All day long she just walks around the rooms usually toting a book along with her.
She pretty good at getting into things and loves creating messes for momma to clean up. ;)
I'm always amazed at her confidence and openness. She is obsessed with babies and other little kids. If there are any near by she has to be with them and tries to plays. She can spot a kid a mile away. It really is the sweetest thing.
Knowing that our time here is short, we have been trying to get out most weekends and see as much as we can. This leaves us pretty tired but with lots of memories.
There is just so much history here. All of England could fit into the state of Louisiana but there is no way we are going to be able to cover it all (as much as we would like to).
Kensington Palace
We are so lucky to have some good friends here with us even though they live about an hour and a half away. We make it a priority to see each other as much as we can.
London Zoo
Maggie's at such a fun age and really enjoyed this visit to the zoo.
Last but not least, Maggie hanging out with her good friends Claire and Ellie. We are beyond lucky to have this family move from Oklahoma to England with us at the same time. They have really helped us not feel so along in this experience. It can definitely get a little lonely around here. I just try and remind myself that this is a once in a life time opportunity and to make the best of it. We want to take full advantage of being over here while we can. Who knows when we will ever make the trip back. All and all, it's been pretty great and have been enjoying our time. If you follow us on Instagram or Facebook you can see that I am pretty good about posting our daily adventures on there. I will try and get better about recording them here too. I don't want to forget these memories!


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Big, handsome and inscrutable, this exhibition of Edward Ruscha's recent work extends his esthetic of blankness, continuing, as Peter Plagens notes, to "illustrate without illustration, to criticize without criticism" (whatever that means). Much has been written about the trenchant ironies of his Oklahoma origins and subsequent residence in Hollywood, and the ways in which the mute, implacable density and porousness of his practice nimbly deflect critical jargon. In his text works from the '70s, using spinach, egg yolk, blood, or juice as his medium, he subtly and indirectly mocked the pristine,

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- Matthew McConaughey gave out free turkey lunches to first responders in Houston on Sunday.
- It was part of his partnership with Wild Turkey, where he is creative director.
- He surprised firefighters, police officers, 911 dispatchers, and emergency room staff.
Matthew McConaughey is known for representing Texas, and he gave back to the Lone Star State in a big way over the weekend. The Oscar winner surprised first responders around Houston with free turkey lunches and inspiring speeches and thanked them for their work after a devastating hurricane last year.
It was part of a collaboration with Wild Turkey, where Matthew serves as creative director. He took part in their annual Wild Turkey Gives Back day; last year, he gave out turkeys in the company's hometown of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
Matthew surprised firefighters, 911 dispatchers, emergency room doctors and nurses, and police officers on Sunday, which was National First Responders Day. He also met with Houston's mayor, Sylvester Turner, who gave him a shoutout on Twitter for his good deeds.
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This year, Matthew surprised first responders who took action last year during Hurricane Harvey in Texas. Wild Turkey has also donated $10,000 to Team Rubicon, a disaster response organization that trains military veterans and first responders and sends them to areas in need. (If you want to donate, you can do so here.)
"I'm Texas born and raised, so acknowledging the hard work and dedication of first responders in Houston is meaningful to me personally," Matthew said in a statement. "Over the past year alone with the hurricanes in Puerto Rico, the Carolinas and Florida and the fires in California, the number of heroic men and women on the front lines of natural disasters is staggering."
He also posted two live videos from the event, in which he talked about the importance of first responders. "Today's about saying thank you to these people that were all on the front line, and got out there to rescue people first," he said in a video.
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The starters for the 2019 All-Star Game were announced on Thursday. Mike Trout and Nolan Arenado were among the big names selected by fans. The rest of the rosters — reserves and pitchers — were just announced on ESPN.
American League Reserves
C – James McCann, White Sox
1B – José Abreu, White Sox
2B – Tommy La Stella, Angels
2B – Whit Merrifield, Royals
3B – Matt Chapman, Athletics
SS – Francisco Lindor, Indians
OF – Austin Meadows, Rays
OF – Joey Gallo, Rangers
OF – Mookie Betts, Red Sox
DH – Daniel Vogelbach, Mariners
DH – J.D. Martinez, Red Sox
Notable Omissions: Xander Bogaerts, Red Sox; Max Kepler, Twins; Gleyber Torres, Yankees; Luke Voit, Yankees
American League Pitchers
SP – Justin Verlander, Astros
SP – Gerrit Cole, Astros
SP – John Means, Orioles
SP – Lucas Giolito, White Sox
SP – Charlie Morton, Rays
SP – Jake Odorizzi, Twins
SP – Mike Minor, Rangers
SP – Marcus Stroman, Blue Jays
RP – Ryan Pressly, Astros
RP – Shane Greene, Tigers
RP – Brad Hand, Indians
RP – Aroldis Chapman, Yankees
Notable Omissions: José Berríos, Twins; Ken Giles, Blue Jays; Alex Colomé, White Sox
In the American League, the Astros have the most representatives with six. The Yankees, Rangers, Indians, and White Sox have three each.
National League Reserves
C – J.T. Realmuto, Phillies
C – Yasmani Grandal, Brewers
1B – Pete Alonso, Mets
1B – Josh Bell, Pirates
2B – Mike Moustakas, Brewers
3B – Anthony Rendon, Nationals
3B – Kris Bryant, Cubs
SS – Trevor Story, Rockies
SS – Paul DeJong, Cardinals
OF – Jeff McNeil, Mets
OF – Charlie Blackmon, Rockies
OF – David Dahl, Rockies
Notable Omissions: Max Muncy, Dodgers; Eduardo Escobar, Diamondbacks; Manny Machado, Padres
National League Pitchers
SP – Luis Castillo, Reds
SP – Mike Soroka, Braves
SP – Sandy Alcantara, Marlins
SP – Walker Buehler, Dodgers
SP – Hyun-Jin Ryu, Dodgers
SP – Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers
SP – Jacob deGrom, Mets
SP – Zack Greinke, Diamondbacks
SP – Max Scherzer, Nationals
RP – Will Smith, Giants
RP – Kirby Yates, Padres
RP – Josh Hader, Brewers
Notable Omissions: Zach Eflin, Phillies; Tanner Roark, Reds; Felipe Vázquez, Pirates
In the National League, the Rockies, Dodgers, and Brewers tied for the most representatives with four. The Mets, Braves, and Cubs had three each.


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Thanksgiving and Family Night was celebrated on Friday, November 23, 2018. It was a night for prayer, thanksgiving, reflection, entertainment and nice food.
The program started off with an evening prayer lead by our Achen, Rev. Fr. Paulose T. Peter. Secretary Miss Taimy Thomas welcomed everyone to the function. St. Mary's Church Choir sang the opening prayer son. In his off the cuff remarks, Vicar Rev. Fr. Paulose T. Peter spoke about the importance of coming together as a church family to express gratitude to God for His manifold blessings. He also said we should be thankful to each other for their support and help in our daily lives. Caleb Palappillil also made an excellent speech on Thanksgiving and how we need to incorporate that concept in being thankful, caring, and sharing not only on Thanksgiving day, but on a day to day basis.
Shauna Jerin entertained the audience with a beautiful presentation of classical dance. The solo songs sung by Mr. Shaji Chacko, Mr. Varghese Abraham, Miss Irene T. Babu were melodious and were well appreciated by the audience. The duet song sung by Mr. Shaji Chacko and Mrs. Beena Chacko also was excellent. The popular singer of the tri state area, Mr. Jemson Kuriakose sang few melodious and nostalgic Christian devotional songs. Akasha George played a beautiful Christian devotional song on the piano. Mrs. Licy Johny's recitation of a poem was humorous and entertaining. Caleb, Isabella, and Noah also made their first appearance on stage with their songs. The two skits presented by men and women of the church were the main attraction of the evening. Both were well received by the audience but judged by the measure of the applause that followed, women outperformed men. Women's skit had the advantage of three narrators, Miss Elizabeth Chenkottayil, Miss Irene Babu and Mrs. Merene John. They both did a fabulous job in doing it, and the audience appreciated it as well. As, always our Achen made the audience laugh their bellies out by his collection of classy jokes as he presented the Chiri Arangu. Varghese Plammoottil extended the vote of thanks.
Miss Teena Thomas was the m.c. for the evening and she did an excellent job in presenting the programs smoothly and efficiently. Professional Sound System was Provided by Mr. Aby John- Visual Dreams.
Thanksgiving and Family Night was celebrated on Friday, November 23, 2018. It was a night for prayer, thanksgiving, reflection, entertainment and nice food.


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For a few years now, General Motors has been adding a nearly constant stream of electrified vehicles to the lineups of all of its brands. One of the newest EV announcements is for Chevrolet in the form of a refreshed 2022 Bolt EV and an all-new 2022 Bolt EUV model.
While we are familiar with the Bolt EV, the Bolt EUV (Electric Utility Vehicle) is an SUV model. It will have a longer wheelbase than the smaller Bolt, which should translate to more interior space for both passengers and cargo.
Another big surprise for the Bolt EUV will be the availability of Super Cruise. This will be the first non-Cadillac model to offer this advanced hands-free driving technology. The Bolt EUV will help make this premium technology more accessible to the average driver.
As for the standard Bolt EV, it will not be completely redesigned for 2022, but is going to get some significant updates. These will include a new infotainment system, more supportive seats, and an improved dashboard. It will also come equipped with gear selector buttons and Adaptive Cruise Control technology.
Both the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV are expected to enter production in summer 2021 and will start arriving at dealerships shortly after that.
Keep your eyes on the ELCO Chevrolet blog for more information on the 2022 Bolt EV and EUV as it becomes available.


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The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers in the United States and Canada. Their website has very good information about abortion, and resources for women who are pregnant and considering abortion
The National Coalition of Abortion Providers represents the political, business and networking needs of independent abortion providers across the country.
The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) is an affiliation of community-based abortion funds throughout the United States.
NARAL Pro-Choice America is the political arm of the pro-choice movement and a strong advocate of reproductive freedom and choice.
Medical Students for Choice works to de-stigmatize abortion provision among medical students and to persuade medical schools to include abortion as a part of the reproductive health services curriculum.
PRCH is committed to ensuring that all people have the knowledge, access to quality services, and freedom of choice to make their own reproductive health decisions.
Choice USA mobilizes and provides ongoing support to the diverse, upcoming generation of leaders who promote and protect reproductive choice both now and in the future.
The Religious Coalition is an alliance of national organizations from major faiths unified in the commitment to preserve reproductive choice as a basic part of religious liberty.
This Pro-Choice website has a variety of articles about abortion and reproductive rights written from the Catholic perspective.


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But I love him very much, and he desperately needs some new dress clothes for Easter. So when Amy from Nap Time Crafters asked me to participate in her Spring Pattern Shop Tour for her Peek-a-Boo Pattern Shop, I jumped at the chance to sew up the Little Gentleman Pants and Vest Pattern for my son.
Doesn't he look handsome?
The pants have inseam and welt pockets, a flat front with a faux fly, and elastic waistband in the back. I sewed on a button and belt loops (not a part of the pattern) to the pants to make them look a little dressier since my son will wear them to church.
My favorite part of the pants--the functional welt pockets on the back!
Amy's pattern instructions show you a super simple way to make welt pockets! I've read other tutorials on how to make them, but her method involves just one piece of fabric. The trick is all in the folding! Genius!
These pockets definitely dress up these slacks and give them that store bought feel. Don't you agree?
I'm not sure about other 8 year olds, but my son enjoys wearing a vest. He has another one that is more casual and has a guitar applique on the back shoulder, so he was most excited about me making him a new vest.
|Ella was jealous of all the camera time Connor was receiving!
When I bought the khaki twill fabric for the pants and vest, I didn't think about buying any fabric for the lining. My fabric stash at home is rather limited when it comes to male acceptable prints and colors, but luckily, Connor was pretty satisfied with this navy blue and green print that I had. Whew!
The vest is reversible if you sew buttons on both sides, and the pattern instruction pictures are great at showing you how to sew it together with no exposed seams.
I'm so pleased with the ensemble; however, I did not make the shirt. It's a Polo that I picked up at a consignment sale last week for $3! Can't beat that deal!
If you have a little boy who needs some new dress clothes like mine did, then I hope you'll try out the Little Gentleman Pants and Vest Pattern, too. Or, if you need to make your little girl an Easter outfit, then maybe you'll consider the Evelyn Dress Pattern. I remixed it to make Ella a Christmas dress last year, and I use the same pattern all the time to make reversible A-line dresses and swing tops to applique (in fact, I used it to make Ella an Easter swing top I'll be blogging about soon).
Be sure to check out all the other bloggers participating in the Pattern Shop Tour. I can't wait to see what else everyone is making! Just click the blog names below to be taken directly to their blogs.
Want a chance to win all the patterns showcased in the tour? Then be sure to enter below. I'd really appreciate you following sewVery if you don't already! Two winners will be announced after the contest ends on March 16th!a Rafflecopter giveaway
And for Thursday only, Amy is offering up her Elaina Pintuck Party Dress pattern for only $4! This would be great for a little girl's Easter dress!
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Jessica Toh & Family (14D Treasure of Europe - May 2016)
We would like to take this opportunity to commend one of your professional tour leaders for his excellent service.
We returned from our trip with great satisfaction under the leadership of SA tour leader, Mr Cyril Sheng for the 14D Treasure of Europe tour departure on 21st April 2016.
We have encountered many tour leaders in the past but Cyril is simply 100% AWESOME!
With his vast years of experience, he has enriched us with his extensive knowledge on facts and information about the trip.
He would make it a point to give us background knowledge of the place of interest that we be visiting and what's not to be missed like best gelatos, hand-made chocolates and macarons.
Before the day end, he would brief us what's on tomorrow itinerary and do weather forecast check and he would recommend us the appropriate attire to keep us warm.
Each day without fail, he would remind us like a broken old recorder to be caution and be on super high alert of pick-pockets syndicates and scams. Appreciate his life experiences sharing on what to look out for and how they do it to increase our awareness, it is proven to be very helpful as we had one close encounter with some strangers conducting some survey who tried to approach us but his reminder bubbles pop out of our heads and instantly we managed to get out of the situation.
At all times, he ensure that all the 26 group members are well taken care of, tried his best to accede to our various requests especially shopping if time permits.
He is very helpful and meticulous person that take care of the slightest details.
Is really comforting to know that he is always around to help with our orders during our own paid meals and once he surprised me by standing right in front of the paid toilet gantry to assist us to insert coins into the machine for toilet access at one of the comfort stop. Amazing!
He was really considerate to buy us chocolate bars to boost us up before we ascend up the mountain and follow by sweet lollipops when we hit the mountain top. The most impressive part is he take the extra effort to unwrap the individual sealed packaging of the 26 lollipops during the train ride up ready to pop into our mouth.
What more can we ask for? We all felt very spoiled and his service has far exceeded our expectations.
We are sincerely touched by his little acts of kindness that normally take for granted.
We have good faith that he has put in his utmost best to deliver his service to let us have a memorable and enjoyable trip.
Cyril, we really want to THANK YOU so much for the experience of a lifetime and we wish you all the best!
We will definitely look forward to travel with SA Tours again!


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*will be posting Food Friday here until my other blog is up and running ... many thanks to everyone for being patient and understanding. :)
Looks good! Rainy days na nga when I left last Sunday,we were stranded!
yum yum yum, look at that belly :P~
i havent tried miso. i always use tmarind
here's my share
yumm...yumm...kanin na lang kulang. :)
Mine is up already :)
Happy Food Friday!
@ Lani:
hope the trip wasn't that delayed! good to know that you're back posting. :)
@ Jay:
this was the first time i tried using miso...and we all liked it. :)
@ Jhen:
yup, rice nalang ang kulang!lol
thanks everyone! enjoy your weekend
sinigang na bangus sa miso is my fave... i love those bangus belly :p
Yummy *drool* yums! I love bangus belly and will definitely make siningang sa miso.
My FoodFriday Filipino Egg Pie
Have a great weekend!:)
WOW! I love bangus belly!! panalo ang shot na ito!
Ahhh, sarap niyan! I have one of your ingredients in my entry but cooked differently :)
Happy Friday!
@ Rache, Oggi, Peachkins, and T. Julie:
thanks for playing again!
enjoy your weekend! :)
i love tyan ng bangus! it's my favorite part. we don't cook miso at home but i enjoy it at country spice.
thanks, LM!
happy weekend!
The soup looks delicious!
thanks, Aiwei
it was indeed... :)
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new zealand 2007 - day 3
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okarito, haast
march 20, 2007
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On the road by 6:20, we departed from Greymouth in the dark and damp morning and drove south to Okarito in just over 2 hours. Okarito is a small town with maybe a dozen or so permanent residents. What brought us here was the Okarito Lagoon and the kayaking outfit that rents and guides kayaks. We drove through pretty lush temperate rain forest before the road opened up onto the shores of the lagoon. We were greeted by one of the staffers as a large group was being outfitted and shipped off. Jeremy and I changed and gathered what we wanted to bring while the others moved toward the shore. Unlike the Australian Outback flies, the sandflies here bit! How quickly it all comes back to you.
A few more couples arrived and we were all briefed on the various routes to explore depending on current, tide, and time. The lagoon is a large body of protected water - protected as in, sequestered from the ocean by a strip of land and protected as in, calm. It is also an excellent place to spot a huge variety of birdlife. At low tide, many of the mud flats attract herons and other birds who come to feed.
We shoved off in our two-seater kayak (aka divorce boats) and paddled out to the channels. We essentially explored all of the suggested routes although a few times we hit water so shallow that our paddles hit the ground. It was incredibly fun to maneuver into tiny jungly coves and listen to bird songs without being inundated by creepy crawlies hanging out in the vegetation. New Zealand is quite special in this way. There were black swans, white-faced herons, cormorants, shags, ducks, and so many other birds. We had lunch on a small sand bar and eventually paddled in by 3:15 pm. Instead of camping in Okarito, we figured we should press on to Haast to eat up some of the long drive we had the next day.
As expected, the drive was all eye-candy and the weather held nicely. We stopped briefly in Franz Josef to mail postcards that we had written in Australia and picked up more postcards of New Zealand. Once we reached a campground in Haast, we paid for a dorm room to crash in. Cooking dinner in the communal kitchen (a very nice kitchen facility) we noticed the elaborate meals everyone else had prepared compared to our canned soup in our backpacking pot. Their meals didn't look all that appealing, and our prep and clean up was definitely a fraction of theirs. I personally wouldn't want to come to New Zealand to spend a lot of time and energy cooking. I'd much rather spend all of my energy seeing the lovely wilderness.
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The case for self-driving cars rests largely on their propensity not to crash, and the generally accepted idea that they'd do better than harried, angry humans behind the wheel. For example, a 2012 study by KPMG and the Center for Automotive Research predicts that a self-driving fleet could eliminate 93 percent of crashes attributed to human error. Google isn't shy about noting that its self-driving cars have racked up more than 1.3 million miles of real-world testing since 2009 but have been involved in just 17 crashes, all but one caused by human error.
The practical question, however, is: Just how safe do these vehicles need to be before we'll let them intermingle at large with human-driven cars on the highway? And here there's big problem, at least when it come to proving the case for autonomous cars scientifically. According to a RAND study released today, autonomous cars would have to be driven hundreds of millions of miles and, under some scenarios, hundreds of billions of miles to create enough data to clearly demonstrate their safety. "Our findings demonstrate that developers of this technology and third-party testers cannot simply drive their way to safety,"the report says.
The study springs from a question its coauthor, RAND's Nidhi Kalra, asked herself while making a presentation on the question of how safe autonomous vehicles should be before we put them on the road. "My initial question was; If we assume they're perfect, how many miles do autonomous vehicles have to be driven to prove they're [safer] than human drivers?"
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Nidhi recognized that no one knew. Nor did they know how many test-miles would be necessary to prove the safety of self-driving cars that, like Google's car, are very good but not quite perfect. She began making literal back-of-the-envelope calculations and then took the exercise to RAND's researchers and statisticians, who turned it into a full-on study. "We asked whether it was practical to answer these questions with test driving," Kalra says. "The answer is no."
The chief reason why this is so is that Americans drive like crazy. We rack up nearly 3 trillion miles every year, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. In 2013, there were 2.3 million injuries reported, a rate of 77 injuries per 100 million miles driven. The 32,719 deaths from car crashes that year correspond to a rate of about one fatality per 100 million miles driven. "Even if you're not a statistician, you can say: if I want to prove through test driving that autonomous vehicles are safer than humans, I've got to drive them at least 100 million miles without a fatality," Kalra says.
RAND concludes that under even the most aggressive test driving schedule you could put out there, existing fleets of autonomous cars would need decades and even hundreds of years to log enough miles to adequately show their safey vs. human-driven vehicles.
"We know that Google has driven [theirs] 1.3 million miles without a fatality," Kalra says. "That's commendable, but it's two orders of magnitude shy of what one would need to do to make some statistical claim about their performance with respect to fatalities." The study's co-author, Susan M. Paddock, adds: "Even if autonomous vehicle fleets are driven 10 million miles, one still would not be able to draw statistical conclusions about safety and reliability."
So what to do? Kalra thinks that we may have to put the technology on the road before we're certain how safe it is. If there's no plausible way to establish their safety in a laboratory setting; she speculates that the alternative may actually be putting AVs on the road in a controlled setting. "So we can learn in a very intentional way rather than learning through tragedy or mistakes that have to be rolled backward."


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While "Star Wars" and Marvel franchise rumors are just that thus far regarding Zac Efron, one thing is clear—the actor is certainly willing at the present to play up his public image for laughs, as "Neighbors" recently exampled to a surprisingly effective degree. He's got the range to add some empathy to the character as well, and it's clear directors have been paying attention to that juggling act, as a new role could see Efron back in sending up his partying ways.
The Wrap reports Efron is in negotiations to star in an Untitled DJ Project produced by Working Title and directed by Max Joseph, one-half of the hosting team on MTV's "Catfish" series. Following a young DJ as he navigates the music world and aims to deliver his first club hit, the film will serve as Joseph's feature directorial debut; he isn't entirely green though in either technique or subject, as Joseph's also directed a number of short documentaries including "12 Years of DFA Records." Efron has yet to confirm his place in the role—an interesting if not timely avenue to take—but Joseph is currently casting other parts in hopes of shooting this July in Los Angeles.
Once stalled in pre-production for some time, the newest iteration of "Tarzan" is in full swing with David Yates at the helm and Alexander Skarsgard in the title role, and you can count one more onboard as Djimon Hounsou has joined the project, reports Deadline. The "Guardians of the Galaxy" actor will play Chief Mbonga in Yates' adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel, and alongside a strong cast including Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz the stars are lining up for the film to head into production this summer.
Christian Slater is in a bit of a revival at the moment, and in some peculiar roles as well. Last seen as the tree-worshipping father to a young Joe in Lars Von Trier's "Nymphomaniac," the actor is next up to star opposite James Franco in the long-gestating "Adderall Diaries," based on the "true crime memoir" by Stephen Elliot. Slater will play Hans Reiser, a man on trial for killing his wife, while Franco will play Elliot, who observes the case unfold and explores key moments from his own life. The Pamela Romanowsky-directed film is set to shoot in New York this year. [Deadline]
J.K. Rowling's venture into television with the miniseries adaptation of her book "The Casual Vacancy" is rounding up a cast. Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, Rory Kinnear, Monica Dolan, Julia McKenzie, Rufus Jones, Simon McBurney, Colin Wall, Keeley Forsyth, Abigail Lawrie, Krystal Weedon, Richard Glover, Marie Critchley, Ruth Price and Michelle Austin will star in the BBC/HBO production reports Deadline. The series will follow the behind-the-scenes dramas of the residents of Pagford, a small English village. Production begins in July.
Finally, a Tom Stoppard-penned period piece is always an occasion to celebrate, and on top of an already-stellar cast including Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O'Connell, Holliday Grainger, Christoph Waltz and Zach Galifianakis, the 17th-century drama "Tulip Fever" can now count two more: Dame Judi Dench and "Glee" star Matthew Morrison. Centering around a married woman (Vikander) in Amsterdam who falls for the man painting her portrait, Dame will occupy a supporting role as the Abbess of St. Ursula's, a "rescuer of orphan children", while Morrison will play Mattheus, an oft-drunk bohemian artist. We've heard somewhat little news about the Justin Chadwick-directed adaptation of the Deborah Moggach book, but with a cast this good consider our interest peaked. [Variety]
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text: The independent critic Grego Applegate Edwards has issued a wonderful review of John Eaton-The Sor Juana Project! He has praised its "precision and flair" of the ensemble, as well as the "presence and poise" of the vocalists Kate Maroney, Hyona Kim, Tony Boutté and Bridget Parker. It was indeed a privilege for Aquava New Music Studio to be commissioned by the John Eaton Foundation to bring this project into fruition. John Eaton (1934-2015) was a visionary and influential figure in the world of microtonal American music, and considered "the most interesting opera composer working in America today" by Andrew Porter and the Financial Times. For more information on John Eaton's work and legacy, please visit his biographical page at the John Eaton Foundation's website. The the two-CD album John Eaton-The Sor Juana Project is available at CDBaby, Amazon.com, and digital outlets everywhere.


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A great way for technology pundits to attract attention is to predict the death of a popular technology. Over the past couple of years there have been a slew of columns and blog posts prophesying the demise of the mobile Web at the hands of mobile apps (one pundit sees apps dominating users' attention, another predicts apps will kill off the entire Web) -- or the demise of mobile apps at the hands of the mobile Web (one company argues that app development rarely pays off, while this journalist complains that there are too many apps and they can't be searched).
The boring truth is that neither solution is going away soon. But let's not totally dismiss the pundits of doom and gloom. They serve a useful purpose by highlighting the fact that both the mobile Web and mobile apps have limitations and flaws that users would never tolerate in other contexts.
The early days of cellular telephone service is a great analogy. If you are old enough to remember what cell phone service was like in the mid-1980s, you know exactly what I mean. Coverage was spotty. Noise and static were ubiquitous. Calls were more likely to be rudely dropped by the network than ended by the callers politely saying "Bye." Yet people were eager to pay high prices to make mobile phone calls that were terribly unreliable and scratchy compared to landline phone calls.
Likewise, users crave mobile access to the Web and mobile apps despite a multitude of problems. Web pages can take a long time to load on mobile devices (particularly indoors, during peak hours, and where there isn't 4G service) and often don't display well on small screens. Apps may not work properly (or at all!) on specific phone models or operating system versions. And some apps continue to run in the background -- collecting and forwarding data -- even after they have been closed by the user. Yet there are signs that people rely more on the mobile Web than the desktop Web (Google reports it is seeing more mobile searches than desktop searches), and there are more than three million apps in the iOS, Android, Amazon, Windows, and BlackBerry app stores (see page 42 of the very informative FCC report on mobile competition).
Let's take a closer look at the pros and cons for both mobile apps and the mobile Web.
The case for and against mobile apps
There continues to be a compelling case for mobile apps. Apps are fast, easy to use, and provide at least partial functionality even when there is no network connection. A quality app is a great way to keep a brand in front of users -- most users only download and install a limited number of apps. According to a survey conducted in Canada, on average smartphone users spend 86% of their time using apps. And an app from a trusted provider offers better security than a Web browser.
Apps can leverage other phone capabilities and cloud computing. For instance, an app can track the user's location and record the user's key clicks. Apps can upload data to the cloud for analysis and provide links to related Web sites. Vendors can distribute processing between their servers in the cloud and smartphones running their mobile app for greater computing power and efficiency.
There is a downside to mobile apps, however. Many apps don't work properly on all phones. (My company did a study of the top restaurant chains' apps in 2014 and found a disturbing number of complaints about apps that don't open, crash frequently, or have features that don't work properly.) Popular apps require ongoing updating and testing. The opportunities for small app developers are rapidly vanishing. Only a small percentage of apps are profitable.
The case for and against the mobile Web
The mobile Web has significant advantages. It gives small companies a chance to be seen. There are now "responsive" Web sites that automatically adjust to the device's display capabilities. Mobile Web sites are searchable and can be accessed just by clicking on a link. Mobile Web sites are easier to develop and update, and separate versions aren't required for different devices. Some argue that HTML5 eliminates the performance gap between the mobile Web and standalone apps by enabling browser-based apps. And mobile Web sites can be updated without consuming any of the user's data allotment.
The mobile Web also has its downside. Web sites can't track user behavior in as many ways and with as much precision as mobile apps. Web sites can't be as tightly integrated with the user's device, so they can't leverage the phone's other capabilities as easily. And most merchants would rather have an app icon on the user's screen than a bookmark in the user's mobile browser.
In the end, you won't be able to tell them apart
We are being presented with a false choice. The mobile Web and mobile apps are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the two solutions often work together. For instance, Facebook's mobile app helps users discover content on the mobile Web. As Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile wrote, "We enter social apps for discovery and then access the mobile Web while still in-app. It is a mistake to conflate time spent on the mobile Web with time spent in a traditional browser." Others point out that mobile Web browsers are themselves smartphone apps.
The real question isn't which solution will vanquish the other, but how will both solutions evolve to address their shortcomings. Responsive Web pages, HTML5, and devices with larger, higher resolution screens will make the mobile Web more useful. "Write once, run anywhere" technology will make mobile apps more reliable. Successful mobile apps must do more than merely replicate a company's Website. Likewise, successful mobile Websites must provide mobile visitors with continually updated content and links.
Neither the mobile Web nor mobile apps are going to die. They are going to converge.


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Bulls could bring back golden age of Chicago sports
If the Bulls win the NBA title, this could be the golden age of Chicago sports, after the Blackhawks NHL title last year and the Bears reaching this year's NFC title game. The White Sox, despite blowing six of their first seven saves, also look like the AL Central favorites with the Twins falling apart.
Chicago's other highlights include the Cubs setting baseball's all-time winning percentage record (116-36) in 1906 before losing to the "Hitless Wonders" White Sox in the World Series and the 2003-06 stretch where the Cubs reached Game 7 of the NLCS, the White Sox won the World Series and the Bears reached the Super Bowl. But the best, by far, has to be 1983-85, featuring the "Winning Ugly" White Sox whose 99 wins ties the team's best record in 94 years; Ryne Sandberg's 1984 Cubs that turned Chicago into a Cubs' town again; the Bulls drafting Michael Jordan, and the fabled 1985 Bears.
Unwritten NBA rules
The Bulls escaped a late 10-point deficit in their playoff opener, in part because they made 26 of 32 free throws to Indiana's 11 of 17.
Getting an unexpected scare, but winning, should actually be good for the Bulls. What I don't like is the huge free-throw discrepancy just after Pacers coach Frank Vogel predicted that would happen.
"Nobody plays by the runs (in the playoffs)," he told reporters, explaining why he had his players prepare for being grabbed and held on every play. "If you're on the road in the playoffs you do not get calls."
If that's true, the NBA should be ashamed of itself.
Parity thrives in area baseball
Area baseball teams never had bigger stars than when Seth Blair, Jake Smolinski and Cody Scarpetta were seniors in 2007. The NIC-10 rarely had more stars than when five players signed Division I scholarships last year. But this still might be the best baseball season ever.
Of the seven games I've covered this year, six have been decided by one run, with scores ranging from 2-1 to 19-18 and 11-10. The NIC-10, BNC West and NUIC all should feature wild conference title races.
A sports cut that make sense
The District 205 administration came up with a sports cut that even sports people agree with: having coaches drive small activity buses. A normal driver's license is all that is required for these buses, so schools won't have to pay bus drivers to sit around at sporting events. It is projected to save $63,254.
"We're being charged $20 an hour for bus drivers," Guilford athletic director Brad Seago said. "The bowling teams, golf teams, tennis teams, even basketball could use them. My predecessor, Jan Jamison, proposed this. I've been trying to get this passed for 11 years. Every school in the state has these little buses."
Small crowds not yet a worry
The Cubs rank 12th in attendance, the White Sox 23rd. The Sox have made the playoffs twice in 10 years, one less than the Cubs, and the Cubs seem a .500 team at best.
But the cold weather is the main reason for the slow attendance start. As long as the Twins look horrible and the Cardinals and Brewers mediocre, the Sox and Cubs will remain contenders. Combine that with better weather, and the fans will come.
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Friday 22 May 2015 11:40am
The first definitive summary of the best and safest treatments for kidney disease and diabetes patients has been compiled by Christchurch doctor and researcher Associate Professor Suetonia Palmer.
The international relevance of her work for doctors, patients and those who decide which drugs to fund has been demonstrated by the prestigious Lancet medical journal publishing an article on her study in its latest edition.
The University of Otago, Christchurch researcher together with a global team used innovative statistical analysis to compare hundreds of research studies on the effectiveness of blood-pressure-lowering drugs for patients with kidney disease and diabetes. The result: a one-stop-shop, evidence-based guide on which drugs are safe and effective.
Diabetes and high blood pressure are the most common causes of kidney disease around the world, and people often have both. Chronic kidney disease caused by diabetes always affects both kidneys and generally gets worse over time, often leading to kidney failure requiring dialysis treatment or a kidney transplant.
Associate Professor Palmer says this study is important because diabetes and kidney disease are at epidemic proportions in New Zealand. A common treatment for those with diabetes and kidney disease is blood-pressure-lowering drugs. The aim of these drugs is to prevent kidney damage.
However, doctors and patients face a bewildering array of treatment options as there are many drugs available to lower blood pressure, many used in combination. There are also hundreds of research studies done on the effectiveness of drugs or combinations of drugs. It is not possible for people to identify the best available treatments without scientific advances such as this study.
Associate Professor Palmer works as a nephrologist, or kidney specialist, at the Canterbury District Health Board and commonly sees first-hand how confusing the wide range of treatment options can be for patients, and those who treat them.
Her paper is the first to compare all drug options, and combinations of commonly used drugs, against each other.
Associate Professor Palmer says it is thrilling to have her work recognised by one of the world's leading medical journals.
"It shows that we are producing research of international value at the University of Otago in Christchurch in collaboration with strong global partnerships."
The research published in the Lancet journal was funded by the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation. Associate Professor Palmer also receives funding from the Royal Society as a Rutherford Discovery Fellow and the Health Research Council of New Zealand. The research was done in collaboration with researchers at the Universities of Sydney, Ioannina, Copernicus, Calgary, Bari, Alberta, and Novara, and University College London. The Australian authors are Professor Jonathan Craig and Giovanni Strippoli, affiliated with the Sydney School of Public Health.
Read the Lancet article here.
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Adrian Borland
Adrian Borland
|Background information
|Birth name
|Adrian Kelvin Borland
|Also known as
|Joachim Pimento
|6 December 1957
Hampstead, London, England
|26 April 1999 (aged 41)
Wimbledon, London, England
|Years active
|Red Sun, Play It Again Sam, Resolve, Earth
|Formerly of
Adrian Kelvin Borland (6 December 1957 – 26 April 1999) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, best known as the frontman of post-punk band the Sound.
Following a substantial musical career spanning numerous groups, as well as a solo career, he succumbed to symptoms of what is known as schizoaffective disorder, and committed suicide by jumping in front of a train on 26 April 1999.[1][2]
Early career[edit]
Adrian Kelvin Borland[3] was born in Hampstead, London,[4] the son of Bob Borland, a physicist at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, London, and his wife Win, an English teacher.[5]
At primary school the young Borland was already friends with future Sound bassist (and Second Layer collaborator) Graham "Green" Bailey,[6] and would meet Stephen Budd, closely involved with his band The Sound in their early years, in his early teens. Budd would later recall, "We met when we were both 14. He was the only other kid I knew with an electric guitar. Even at 14 you could see he was a genius".[6] Borland played guitar left-handed.[7]
Borland's first band, the Wimbledon-based punk rock trio the Outsiders, was formed with Borland at its nucleus, manning vocals and guitar. Bob Lawrence was on bass, and Adrian 'Jan' Janes manned the drums. Their debut LP, Calling on Youth,[8] was self-released on their Raw Edge label, and became the first UK self-released punk album.[9] and won them their first unfavourable reviews: "apple-cheeked Ade has a complexion that would turn a Devon milkmaid green with envy", reported the NME.[10][11]
A single released that November, One to Infinity,[12] was labelled as "tuneless, gormless, gutless" (again by the NME),[13] but was praised elsewhere.[14] It was followed by a second album, Close Up in 1978.[15] This received better reviews from the press.[16][17] During his time with The Outsiders he played on stage with Iggy Pop.[9][18]
It was after this album that important changes took place that would decide the band's future: Lawrence left to be replaced by Borland's old friend Graham 'Green' Bailey, and Adrian Janes' departure to go to college[19] allowed Geoffrey Cummant-Wood (the band's manager) to suggest 28-year-old Mike Dudley in his stead.[20] The Outsiders trio then became the Sound, a quartet, with the arrival of Bi Marshall (real name Benita Biltoo),[18] an acquaintance of Bailey's and the band from around 1977.[19] The new sound was augmented by her use of the clarinet (later saxophone) and synthesizer.
The Sound: 1979–1988[edit]
Borland became the kernel of the Sound, being the songwriter, main vocalist and guitarist, penning tracks for the early Propaganda sessions and the Jeopardy recordings (their debut album release, originally recorded by Budd for his Tortch label which had put out the band's first release, the Physical World EP. The album was subsequently released on Warner's Korova label and Budd became the Sound's early manager).[21] From this point on Borland became critically acclaimed,[22][23][24] if never a household name.
The Sound's second album, From the Lions Mouth, was even more enthusiastically received,[25][26][27][28] selling over 100,000 units worldwide.[18] Borland's personal productivity was enhanced even more with two collaborations that year, one with Jello Biafra in The Witch Trials,[29] and another with Sound bassist Graham Bailey in Second Layer, which spawned the electronic album World of Rubber. The Sound were caught on a downcurve, however, the following year with the release of All Fall Down (1982), an experimental and bitter album that represented the band's refusal to make more commercial music to satisfy their label (Korova, a Warner Bros. subsidiary). Korova responded by dropping them,[30] while the music press rapidly disowned them; a Sounds review called the album "virtually worthless".[31]
The Sound never recovered from this setback, although they did release a mini album, Shock of Daylight, a live album In The Hothouse and two further albums Heads and Hearts and Thunder Up over the next five years. These were all released on small independent labels, and never reversed the band's diminishing profile.
Although it is unclear as to when Borland was diagnosed with his condition, from 1985 onward the symptoms of his depression became more and more apparent.[32] His problems would manifest themselves in many of the songs on the Sound's final album, Thunder Up, as well as in the schizophrenic layout of the piece; while the initial tracks deal with confronting issues (for example "Acceleration Group", "Barria Alta"), the second half proceeds at an entirely different tangent, becoming either tortuous ("Shot Up And Shut Down"), frenetic ("I Give You Pain") or mournful ("You've Got A Way"). The touring for Thunder Up culminated in disaster for the band when Borland left halfway through a set at Zoetermeer, Netherlands. It would be the last Sound gig.[33] Dudley described the break-up in 2004:
We had decided the three of us, Colvin, Graham and myself, to tell Adrian that the Sound needed a break and that he should get some rest and some help, and that in the meantime we would go off and look at other things...but when it came down to it I sat there and listened to the others say "Yes, Adrian. No, Adrian" to Adrian, who wanted despite everything to go on, and I just said at that point "I'm leaving the band", my intention being that the band would come to an end there and then, forcing Adrian into the position where he would get some rest, for his sake.[32]
The band continued without Dudley into 1988, but soon collapsed. The Big Takeover lamented that it was "Like an old friend losing a long fight with a disease".[34] Borland would later blame himself for the break-up of the Sound.[35]
After the Sound: 1988–1999[edit]
Early solo career[edit]
While his former bandmates discontinued their musical careers, Borland moved to the Netherlands in 1988 to found yet another band, after initially going there on holiday and to meet his manager (Rob Acda).[36] Adrian Borland and The Citizens was formed there, taking advantage of the popularity of the Sound on the continent, and the relative inexpense of venues in the Low Countries.[35] Musically, this was a period of unprecedented collaboration for Borland; for instance, he worked (albeit under the pseudonym "Joachim Pimento") with the Honolulu Mountain Daffodils right up until their final release Psychic Hit List Victim in 1991.[37]
In 1989, Adrian Borland and The Citizens released Alexandria, a huge departure musically from Thunder Up and featuring four backing vocalists, bass, cello, clarinet, drums and kettle drums, piano, saxophone, harmonica, tambourine, viola, violin and guitar. Some continuity was provided by former Sound bandmate Colvin 'Max' Mayers collaborating by reprising his role of keyboardist, while Nick Robbins again engineered and co-produced the album with Borland.[38] The album featured much calmer, lighter tracks than those on Thunder Up, such as "Light The Sky" and "Rogue Beauty". As always, some tracks deal with Borland's own precarious emotional state, such as "No Ethereal" and "Deep Deep Blue". In an interview with Melody Maker the same year, Borland said of the title:
"I think The Sound suffered from this image of being blunt and straightforward and hitting you in the face with what we wanted to say, right from "who the hell makes those missiles?" So I wanted something more vague, something almost without reason."[39]
The album, however, suffered from poor sales, selling an estimated 10,000 copies on the continent and a mere 1,000 in England. Borland attributed this to poor distribution.[35] Although Borland expressed an interest in re-forming his old band, the Sound never re-formed: bassist Graham Bailey moved to the United States in the early 1990s; keyboardist Max died on Boxing Day 1993 from an AIDs-related illness; and an undisclosed antagonism had caused an irreparable rift between Borland and drummer Mike Dudley. Speaking of a possible reformation in 1992, Borland said:
"it's my fault 'cos I started this rumour at an Iggy or Kraftwerk gig earlier this year, it's definitely not happening, for a start the person who probably won't do it is the drummer. But even Graham & Max have gone off the idea now. Graham & I are going to do something in the future, but we're so busy you know? When I'm not busy he's busy, we never find the right moment."[35]
1992 saw the release of Brittle Heaven, which would later lend its name to the Adrian Borland website. With a menagerie of 14 songs with little difference in style to those of his previous release, the real difference now lay in the composition of the Citizens, which was by now almost exclusively Dutch. Don Victor now co-produced with Borland.[40] The album benefits from lavish investment in production, although this puts it in a similar position to the Sound's Heads and Hearts album in that it is much more polished than Borland's other solo material. Critical reception ranged from the noncommittal to welcoming; AllMusic described it as 'one hour of finely woven tapestry, of gorgeous music', albeit 'Not quite as good as 1989's Alexandria', handing it three stars out of five,[41] while David Cavanagh gave it four, praising the atmosphere of 'a strange, dizzy optimism' pervading the album.[42] As one critic argued: '[Borland's] reflective writing remains as good as ever',[43] and The Big Takeover went further, proclaiming it 'inspired'.[44]
With some critical endorsement Borland continued to work on new material throughout the year. At some point in 1992 he travelled to Amsterdam to record a session with Victor Heeremans, re-recorded and released many years later as the posthumous The Amsterdam Tapes album.[45] Recorded in a crossover point in his career, it represents a shift in both musical and mental directions: while tracks like "Ordinary Angel" show some continuity with the tone of Brittle Heaven, the forcefulness of tracks such as "Fast Blue World", "Darkest Heart" and "Via Satellite" clearly preclude Borland's later, harder style as seen on 5:00AM and Harmony and Destruction. On the other hand, the acoustic-based fragility of tracks such as "Happen" and "White Room" represents a more immediate turn to lighter, less ambitious music -the latter would be re-recorded to feature on the 1994 album Beautiful Ammunition.
Around this time also Borland began working on music production; he produced albums by Felt, Into Paradise and Waiting Sound.[35]
In 1994, Borland returned to the UK to record his third album, Beautiful Ammunition, at the Acton Survival Studios on Resolve Records.[46] Whether because of meager investment or because of his desire to explore a more acoustic sound, the new album displayed a simpler format, largely devoid of any discernible concept: "Beautiful Ammunition" is very simply put together, only acoustic guitar, synthesiser and a few drum machines. Everything is very basic, which I like", Borland said later.[47] One notable change from Brittle Heaven is presence of dark, introspective songs, particularly "Lonely Late Nighter" and "White Room", emphasised somewhat by the empty, lonely musical framework. This is not to say, however, that more confident tracks are banished from the album: "Reunited States of Love" and "Someone Will Love You Today" are perfect examples of this, and yet still exemplify in their tentativeness a decisive split from Brittle Heaven-era songs. Critical reception was as muted as always, and mixed where evident; Big Takeover complained that it was 'too light and airy', but vaguely appraised the work as 'finely honed and pleasant'.[48]
The following year, 1995, was to be an important year for Borland; not only was the album Cinematic written and released, but his work with Carlo van Putten, Claudia Uman, Florian Brattman and David Maria Gramse in The White Rose Transmission came to fruition, with the side-project's self-titled debut appearing that year. They would continue to perform intermittently throughout the 1990s, Borland being a major contributor.[49]
Cinematic was a stablemate of Beautiful Ammunition in that it was also created in the Survival Studios and under the Resolve label,[50] yet demonstrated a further evolution in Borland's musical career. Despite being in a similar situation as regards funding, Cinematic benefited from much better, integrated production as well as punchy tracks such as "Bright White Light". With the psychological opener "Dreamfuel" a dream-like atmosphere pervaded the album, establishing itself in indolent, moody tracks like "Cinematic" and "When Can I Be Me?". It was, overall, a more coherent attempt than its predecessor, but – predictably – did not win over the public. Critical reception, however, was even more welcoming. With an AllMusic.com ranking of 4 stars the album was lauded:
"Generally quieter but no less intense than much of his '80s work, Cinematic lives up to its name more than once, with mysterious atmospheres matched by often understated but still sharply realized songs and lyrics."[51]
Simon Heavisides stated: 'Isn't it great when your old favourites don't let you down?...[it] leaves you with the feeling at the end that you want to hear the whole damn thing over again."[52] Mitch Myers wrote in 1997: 'Everybody is a star, but Borland's cinematic life is well worth watching.'[53] Glenn McDonald, however, offered up a less enthusiastic summation: 'The music had an impressive sweep to it, but the production seemed to me to emphasise the mechanical repetitiveness of the arrangements'.[54] The album also lent its name to Cinematic Overview the following year, a compilation album of Borland's work stretching all the way back to the mid seventies.
Also in 1996, the newly formed Renascent Records label reissued Sound records Heads and Hearts (with Shock of Daylight)[55] and In The Hothouse,[56] complete with new packaging, and liner notes by Borland himself.
Later years[edit]
Borland's last release during his lifetime was the album 5:00AM. A switch to Earth Records and a slight change of crew – Tim Smith of Cardiacs now co-produced with Borland[47][57] – were the only ostensible differences between the new work and Cinematic. However, the money invested in the album allowed for much better production, a direct result of which was the recording and inclusion of "Baby Moon", a song which Borland had held onto since 1993 but did not want to waste 'on a lo-fi production'.[47] The songs are generally punchier and more radio-friendly, such as opener "Stray Bullets", "City Speed" and "Redemption's Knees", but containing powerful, dark, indolent tracks which, at this point, Borland had made his solo trademark: "Vampiric" is arguably the best example of this in all of his discography. The album is also representative of earlier work in that it does not fail to neglect his mental state, dealing with it in an optimistic, confrontational fashion in "Over The Under": 'Under this roof, under the sky/I want to live, at least I'm going to try/But I'm over the under now'. That song would prove to be Borland's last single release. The critical reception was, perhaps, the best of any in his lifetime. Glenn McDonald produced the following glowing review:
"5:00am turns out to sound exactly the way I wanted Cinematic to. Borland's voice, when he sings like he means it, is a glorious amalgam of Burgess, Ian McNabb, Ian McCulloch, Mike Peters, Jim Kerr and Then Jerico's Mark Shaw, the breathy intimacy that for me misfired on Cinematic here filling, elegantly, the roll that hoarse fervor played in his singing with the Sound."[54]
Borland himself was excited by 5:00AM, and was keen to draw lines between it and his most successful period: '"5:00 A.M" takes up, where "Thunder Up" – which was the last Sound album – left off...It's still the same person, who writes the songs, only a little bit less in love with himself and more worldview orientated.".[58]
Before attending to what would become his last solo recordings, Borland wrote twelve of the fourteen tracks on The White Rose Transmission's second release, 700 Miles of Desert, recording them with the band between November 1998 and January 1999 and producing the album himself.[59] Borland was proud of the work, and said so in his last public writing, dated 18 March 1999:
"Everybody involved worked hard but enjoyed themselves immensely and the end result is better than any of us expected. It's hard to be objective but I'll just say the final mastered slice of silver has rarely left my CD player."[60]
By 1999, Borland had lived with severe depression for about 14 years.[61] He had still been denied commercial success or widespread popularity outside of continental Europe, and he had tried to kill himself at least three times, the third (according to his mother Win Borland) when he jumped in front of a car. He had also developed a drinking problem.[62]
His plans for that year were staggering. Not content with merely anticipating the release of 700 Miles of Desert he expressed the intention to record a sixth solo album with Heads and Hearts producer Wally Brill, a tour of Europe that June to promote the WRT album, a further tour later in the year to promote the new solo release, and 'a 12 song acoustic record with Wally Brill using percussion, trumpet, violin, viola and atmospheric electric guitar' for 2000.[60] Meanwhile the remastering of several the Sound recordings, created at the very start of their career in 1979, was underway by Wally Brill. The finished product, Propaganda, was released by Renascent and featured linernotes by Borland, like all previous releases.[63] It would be officially released on 26 April – the very day Borland would die by suicide.[64] Of the plans drawn up by Borland over the winter, only his solo album was undertaken. It was recorded at The Premises, London over a number of months, although Borland himself recorded guide vocals and guitar in the space of about a fortnight.[65] After this point his disposition changed. In a letter he wrote to his parents shortly before his death he expressed fear at being sectioned in Springfield mental hospital.[66] 'He was returning home distraught and anxious...he had ignored the medical advice to pace himself', his mother, Win Borland, wrote.[67] At evidence given at Westminster Coroner's Court it was revealed that he had visited an ex-girlfriend in the days before his death and that his condition had worsened thereafter. The Wimbledon Guardian reported:
"She said: "His thoughts were coming out loud and at one point he said there's always the railway line". She called 999 but by the time police arrived he had disappeared and was reported as a high-risk missing person. That night Mr Borland turned up at Kennington Police Station claiming he was being chased. Later he rang his mother to say he was in a curry house in Kennington. She alerted police and following a series of phone calls and hold-ups he was eventually dropped off at his mother's home at around 3.15 am by officers who described his state of mind as "lucid"."[66]
The night of the 25th, Borland slipped away to Wimbledon Station. In the early hours of the 26th, horrified commuters watched as Borland died by throwing himself under a train. He was 41 years of age,[68] and was interred at the Merton & Sutton Joint Cemetery, London. In an account given by drummer Mike Dudley his funeral was attended by his parents, Bob Lawrence and Adrian Janes of The Outsiders, original Sound keyboardist Bi Marshall, early Sound manager Stephen Budd and Wally Brill, co-producer of Heads and Hearts and Harmony and Destruction, among a multitude of others.[69]
Although 700 Miles of Desert was released to minimal critical acclaim, Borland's work has enjoyed an appreciative critical reception and a lasting fan base, with sites such as brittleheaven.com and renascent.co.uk providing an online outlet for information and sales. In 2000, a book of anecdotes and memories written by his friends, colleagues and mother was published in English and Dutch, named Book of Happy Memories[70] (after the Brittle Heaven song "Box of Happy Memories"), compiled by Willemien Spook and Jean-Paul van Mierlo. 2001 saw in a tribute album, titled In Passing – A Tribute to Adrian Borland and the Sound,[71] as well as Renascent reissues of Sound albums Jeopardy!, From The Lion's Mouth and All Fall Down . 2002 saw the release of Harmony & Destruction, the remnants of his sixth solo album painstakingly salvaged by Pat Rowles (No Corridor) and audio engineer Pete Barraclough (The Lucy Show, Archive) from the recordings made by Wally Brill at the Premises and four-track demos recorded by Rowels. The BBC recordings of Sound sessions from the 1980s were released with linernotes by Mike Dudley in 2004.[72] 2006 saw The Amsterdam Tapes,[73] a demo album from 1992 that was rejected by his label also remastered and rerecorded by his friends; a band of them grouped together later that year under the moniker 'The Sound of Adrian Borland' to promote it. That same year five live albums, collectively known as The Dutch Radio Recordings, were released by Renascent. These garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews.[74][75] His collaborative project with Graham Bailey as Second Layer was also resurrected in 2009 by Cherry Red Records; who re-released a remastered version of the 1981 album World of Rubber in the same year.[76]
Mark Burgess' song "Adrian Be" is dedicated to him.
A book of Borland's lyrics, called Adrian Borland & The Sound - Meaning of a Distant Victory, was published in 2016 by Giuseppe Basile and Marcello Nitti.[77]
In 2016, an English-language Dutch documentary about Borland, directed by Marc Waltman, premiered at the IDFA festival in The Netherlands.[78]
Musical style[edit]
Borland's initial influences can be traced through his work with The Outsiders into punk bands of the 70s, such as the Sex Pistols. However, it is clear that he had a broader appreciation for other forms of rock parallel to this; his admiration for The Stooges and Iggy Pop was reaffirmed on several occasions[79][80] Other influences included The Velvet Underground,[81] Lou Reed,[36] Jim Morrison and Joy Division[80] and David Bowie.[35] In terms of admiration for contemporaries, mid-show interview in 1984, he cited New Order, Soft Cell and Eurythmics.[82] His favourite bands from the eighties were The Waterboys and Talk Talk.[79] He also lauded Ride in the early 1990s.[35]
Popular themes[edit]
Borland's earliest lyrics with the Sound showed a tendency toward introspection, even before their music was really influenced by Joy Division.[83] The song "Words Fail Me", was the earliest clear example of this. Many songs simply portray general themes of urban squalor, and political lyrics such as "Cost of Living", "Music Business" and the track "Missiles", which would reach infamy when included on their debut release, Jeopardy!. The songs on Jeopardy! would largely reflect inward tensions rather than political ones: a curious compromise is reached on "Unwritten Law", an attack on religious dogma surrounding suicide: 'A hand is a hand/A knife is a knife/Blood is blood/And life is life'. From The Lion's Mouth would also contain another reference to religion with "Judgement". Political songs would be largely absent from most further releases; only "Golden Soldiers" ("And I will drink to those who sacrifice and die for me/So I could be so golden") and "Shot Up And Shot Down" ("Most of England is sleeping in the sun/But not everyone") suggest political topics. In his solo work there are more stark examples, such as "Beneath The Big Wheel" and "The Other Side of The World" on Alexandria and the quasi-religious song "Station of The Cross" on Beautiful Ammunition. As Borland's condition got worse in the latter half on the 1990s, political themes were dropped as introspective ones once more took precedence.
While Borland denied that music helped him (he claimed it "doesn't make any difference" in an interview in 1992[35] ), after his death his mother wrote that they were at least a cathartic form of therapy and "helped him to come to terms with his problems".[84] Thus it is that we can frequently infer from the body of work he left what his state of mind may have been at various stages of his life. The Jeopardy! opener "I Can't Escape Myself" would project Borland's dissatisfaction with himself, and serves as an early example of his more depressive lyrics. "Fatal Flaw", from the generally more confident album From The Lion's Mouth explores mental weakness, a theme repeated more frequently on All Fall Down in the schizophrenic "Party of The Mind" and "As Feeling Dies"; on Heads and Hearts the crazed "Whirlpool" and "Burning Part of Me"; on Thunder Up the whole second half of the album. In his solo career songs such as "Deep Deep Blue", "Lonely Late Nighter" and "Stranger in the Soul" parallel Borland's suffering with his condition – by "Harmony & Destruction" it is merely easier to pick out upbeat songs from the multitude of depressed ones.
"Night Versus Day", a song that had also been part of the Propaganda sessions, is an example of Borland's fascination with dichotomy and the themes of light and dark, which were usually used as a metaphor for the polarising effects of his condition. "New Dark Age" and "Winter" both link the night with fear or slowness. The most obvious Sound song with this idea is "You've Got A Way", the closing track on Thunder Up: "You've got a way/To shoot my night right through with the light of day". It is noteworthy that Borland's first solo single was "Light The Sky", the lyrics of which ae echoed in "Shadow of Your Grace": "You lit up my life and work/It was falling into place". The dichotomy is reversed on the 5:00am track "Vampiric": "Before the dawn draws its first breath/Before the Sun destroys what's left/Of us". The album title should also be noted for being the time that dawn usually rises around the equinox. The theme of night and day is brought in as a central concept on the album Harmony & Destruction: the bright opener is "Solar", for instance, while "Startime" and "Heart Goes Down Like The Sun" are dark-named songs about depression. It may be significant that in "Last Train Out of Shatterville", which may be an act of suicide ideation, describes a train pulling out "in the cold morning light", and describes a previous suicide attempt as happening "last dawn as you slipped from curb to bonnet". The final track "Living on the Edge of God" contains the lyric "Strip me down, expose the man/Not a pretty sight in the morning light".
Solo albums[edit]
- Alexandria (1989), PIAS
- Brittle Heaven (1992), PIAS
- Beautiful Ammunition (1994), Resolve
- Cinematic (1995), Resolve
- 5:00 AM (1997), Earth
- The Last Days of the Rain Machine (2000), Red Sun (posthumous)
- Harmony & Destruction (2002), Red Sun (posthumous)
- The Amsterdam Tapes (2006), Pop One (posthumous)
- Beautiful Ammunition (with 3 earlier unreleased songs and inclusive the song "Beautiful Ammunition") (2017), Stichting Opposite Direction/Sounds Haarlem likes Vinyl'
- Lovefield (with 10 earlier unreleased songs (2019), Stichting Opposite Direction/Sounds Haarlem likes Vinyl'
- Cinematic (with 4 earlier unreleased songs (2020), Stichting Opposite Direction/Sounds Haarlem likes Vinyl'
- Lovefield - Neon And Stone (with 4 earlier unreleased songs (2021), Stichting Opposite Direction/Sounds Haarlem likes Vinyl'
- 2 Meter sessions (2022) Stichting Opposite Direction/Sounds Haarlem likes Vinyl'
- 5:00AM (with 2 earlier unreleased songs (2022), Stichting Opposite Direction/Sounds Haarlem likes Vinyl'
Compilation albums[edit]
- Vital Years (1993), Gift of Life
- Cinematic Overview (promotional-only) (1995), Setanta
- BBC Recordings (2004), Renascent
- The Dutch Radio Recordings, vol 1–5 (2006), Renascent
Singles and EPs[edit]
- Light the Sky (1989), PIAS
- Beneath the Big Wheel (1989), PIAS
- All the Words (1992), PIAS
- Over the Under (1997), Earth
- The Outsiders
- Calling on Youth (1977), Raw Edge
- One to Infinity 7" EP (1977), Raw Edge
- Close Up (1978), Raw Edge
- with the Sound
- Physical World E.P. 7" EP (1979), Tortch
- Jeopardy! (1980), Korova (reissued 2001, Renascent)
- "Heyday" Single (1980), Korova
- Live Instinct Maxi (1981), WEA Records BV
- From the Lions Mouth (1981), Korova (reissued 2001, Renascent)
- "Sense of Purpose" Single (1981), Korova
- "Hot House" Single (1982), Korova
- All Fall Down (1982), WEA Records (reissued 2001, Renascent)
- "Party of the Mind" Single (1982), WEA Records BV
- "Mining dor Heart" Flexi (1983), Vinyl Magazine
- "Counting the Days" Single (1984), Statik
- "Golden Soldiers" Single (1984), Victoria
- Shock of Daylight EP (1984), Statik
- Heads and Hearts (1985), Statik (reissued 1996 with Shock of Daylight, Renascent)
- "Temperature Drop" Single (1985), Statik
- "Under You" Single (1985), Statik
- In the Hothouse (1985), Statik (reissued 1996, Renascent)
- Counting the Days (1986), Statik
- Thunder Up (1987), PIAS
- "Hand of Love" Single (1987), PIAS
- "Iron Years" Single (1987), PIAS
- Propaganda (1999), Renascent (recorded 1979)
- The BBC Recordings (2004)
- Physical World EP reissue (2020), Reminder
- Will And Testament/Starlight (2021), Stichting Opposite Direction/Sounds Haarlem likes Vinyl'
- with the Witch Trials
- The Witch Trials (1981)
- with Second Layer
- Flesh as Property EP (1979), Tortch
- State of Emergency EP (1980), Tortch
- World of Rubber (1981), Cherry Red (reissued 2009, Pop One)
- Second Layer (1987), LD Records
- with Honolulu Mountain Daffodils
- Guitars of the Oceanic Undergrowth (1987)
- Tequila Dementia (1988)
- Aloha Sayonara (1991)
- Psychic Hit-List Victims (1991) (EP)
- "Also sprächt Scott Thurston" (1988) (single)
- with White Rose Transmission
- White Rose Transmission (1995), Strange Music
- 700 Miles of Desert (1999), Fuego
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External links[edit]
- Official website
- Kellman, Andy. Biography of Adrian Borland at AllMusic
- Renascent Sound site
- 1957 births
- 1999 suicides
- British post-punk musicians
- English punk rock guitarists
- English male guitarists
- English male singers
- English new wave musicians
- English songwriters
- English record producers
- Musicians from London
- Suicides by train
- Suicides in London
- 20th-century English singers
- 20th-century British guitarists
- People with schizoaffective disorder
- 20th-century British male singers
- 1999 deaths
- 20th-century British businesspeople
- British male songwriters
- Setanta Records artists


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What book do you wish you were reading right now? Where would you take it to, if you could go anywhere to read for a while?
I am rather later here today.
And not around much this week.
I was having a bit of a sleep in, since I have been sick all week with a cold/upper respiratory thing.
No, it did not stop me from going to the Flower Show Friday and Saturday, photos you will no doubt be seeing something of in the coming weeks. Maybe one or two, or a dozen, of the 259 I took. Being sick is one thing, but this was the Flower Show!
But today is Monday and let me say, in answer to today's question, that the Flower Show is NOT a place I would go to read. They do keep it nice and cool, for the flowers, but a really comfy chair is almost impossible to to find and the crowds..well, the crowds are huge and noisy.
I will pick the book I am actually reading. At the moment, I am reading "Shore Excursion" by Marie Moore.
From the publisher's description...
"Travel agents are a vanishing breed, but Sidney Marsh, a New York transplant from Mississippi, is holding her ground--at least on land. She is the tour leader on a cruise through Scandinavia for a group of eccentric senior citizens who call themselves the High Steppers. Sidney expects her days to be filled with long meals, shopping expeditions and visits to museums, churches and fjords. But this cruise is anything but routine. There is a killer on board..."It is a fun little murder mystery and what better place to read a book that is set on a cruise ship would be...a cruise ship!
My ideal would be one that starts here..Liberty Park in NJ would be perfect...goes tran-Atlantic and then goes someplace nice for another week or two. South, into the Med or north, checking out some fiords and such, either would be grand. I would like to have the same cabin I had on my last cruise. I will get up whenever I wish, grab a comfy chair, on the desk if it is nice or up in the Crows Nest if there is a chill, a hot beverage by my side, an endless view and a good book. My only decision will be in what restaurant to have dinner and whether to go to the show or not.
And of course, when I finish this book, there is that nice library just waiting, not to mention my ever more crowded Nook.
Wow, I seem to me having an issue posting this today, screwing up things left and right, so I will leave you with a fitting cruising song...


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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - The long-awaited first day in the trial of the soldier accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009 has ended with new details from prosecutors but little word from the defendant.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan could face the death penalty if convicted of the numerous murder and attempted murder charges he's facing for the attack on the sprawling Texas base. It remains the deadliest mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation.
Prosecutors detailed what they said was Hasan's meticulous plan to kill fellow soldiers while avoiding civilians, including stockpiling bullets and researching jihad online.
Hasan is representing himself and told jurors that evidence would show he was the gunman. He declined to cross-examine most witnesses, including victims who survived.
The trial is expected to last several weeks.
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Ben Barnes
Student Spotlight
by Rebekah Tilley
photos by Mark Cornelison
Flexibility. You want it in your joints, in your schedule and in your undergraduate major. Rising UK senior Ben Barnes found the right blend of flexibility as a Topical Studies major.
As you might think, it takes a significant amount of initiative on the part of the student to design a unique program of study, and you need a lot of clarity when it comes to knowing what you want your future career to be. "And I did," said Barnes. "I had that clarity when I was designing the program."
Barnes is not your typical American college student. For starters, he's Australian, and at 24 he is also slightly older than his fellow seniors. Barnes took a few years off between high school and college to explore his options, working on mango farms and later a government apprenticeship program.
"All of these work-related experiences combined to tell me what I wanted to do in school and I started refocusing," said Barnes.
Coming to UK as an international student with a year's worth of course work from an Australian university, Topical Studies was a particularly good fit for Barnes. "It has a very flexible curriculum and I could choose everything that I had done up to that point to count toward my major," said Barnes.
Originally interested in sports medicine, Barnes was fascinated by the musculoskeletal system and how to make it function in the most optimal way.
"But the more I looked into that, the less and less satisfying that was because you're helping people who are already in the top 2 percent of the population in terms of endurance and strength," explained Barnes. "To me, helping people that are in the bottom whatever percent get back to being normal is a little more satisfying."
This led Barnes to focus his program of study on aging and gerontology. As a sophomore Chellgren Fellow, Barnes began working in the lab of Esther Dupont-Versteegden, an associate professor in the UK College of Health Sciences, where he began developing a strong interest in medical research. His goal after college is to complete a combined M.D./Ph.D. program and have a research focused career.
Barnes has an opportunity to jump-start his research program as a prestigious Gaines Fellow. Recipients enter the program as juniors and, with a cohort of 11 other students, take specialized classes together on topics such as identity, theoretical physics, history, architecture, creative writing and music. "It was a very broad study that has helped me a lot in the way I think," said Barnes who just completed his first year as a Gaines Fellow.
The Topical Studies major is geared toward looking at a general area from the vantage point of a myriad of different disciplines, and the Gaines Fellowship compliments this approach perfectly.
"I entered as a Gaines Fellow not as a complete scientist but definitely being very science focused," said Barnes of his experience. "I came from looking at things almost in a lopsided fashion to maybe not mastering all those different ways of thinking, but definitely appreciating them."
Barnes plans to take a similarly multi-faceted approach to his senior Gaines Fellow research project, which is still in the early stages, as he looks at the physical as well as social consequences of a condition called sarcopenia, or age-related muscle wasting.
"I'm going to be looking at certain physical consequences such as diseases that come from inactivity that grow out of muscle wasting, but also ways in which people who are dependent on other people as a result of sarcopenia are viewed and how they view themselves," explained Barnes.
He also hopes to add an international dimension to the project by comparing an American population group with a population group from another country.
This multi-disciplinary approach is born out of a program of study that values flexibility and creativity in pursuing a specialized academic interest. And Barnes hopes that it ultimately helps people regain strong, flexible muscles as well.