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As not only fans of Marilyn Manson, but as citizens of the United States of America, we are shocked and disappointed at the action being taken against Marilyn Manson - and who knows who else - from doing what they have been given the right to do; express themselves and their opinions. A right granted to them (and every other US citizen) by the very thing this country was built on (and takes for granted) - The Bill of Rights. Or more specifically, The 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech.
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Ok, ask me how old I am. No, go ahead, it's ok…ask me. Alright, alright I'll tell you. I'm 31! Yes, I am officially 31 years old and proud of it! I feel great about it! Turning 30 last year was awesome and I've already gained another year of experience. Time really flies so we have to be sure to learn as much as we can as we grow. Through my twenties I secretly dreaded that day – it always seemed so old to me. (I can remember when I also thought 25 was old. Now that's funny.) Hearing people talk about it made it seem as if that was the age at which the door to your youth slammed shut forever! All I knew was I didn't want to be caught on the other side of that door. Inevitably, after 29 years I could no longer hold 30 back. This month I have stepped a little further into this new decade. Surprisingly, I still feel super optimistic about it!
The end of my twenties were really great years. I became a wife, a mother, bought my first house and even a new car. That was a time of new experiences and major changes. What began unplanned and unexpected brought some of the greatest moments of my life. It began rough but soon smoothed out. Hmm… Will I be able to top the last few years? I believe so. I'm darn sure going to try!
I have learned so much at this point. I have been through situations I never expected I'd have to deal with, and stepped into new roles I didn't see myself in. Quite a few lessons came through tough experiences. Even though they came with a price I benefited immensely from each one (I firmly believe experience is the best teacher). I don't have one regret. How is that possible? Not to say that there aren't things I would have liked to unfold more favorably; but it's easy to wish every situation you face would be peachy and regret when something is not. However, it is tougher to look at those trying situations and see how you can gain from them. When you do this you're able to be thankful for them. Some occurrences that take place in life will serve to better you as a person. One experience may teach you about being a truer friend – another may reveal areas of weakness in your character. Whatever it may be, once you see these things, focus on positive changes that you can make, and not on the negative aspect of it.
A wiser, stronger and more confident woman entered her thirties than the one who entered her twenties. I am more prepared for these next 10 years, and this is why I am optimistic about the journey ahead. I now have knowledge I didn't have before. I know how to deal with certain situations that may arise because I have faced them before.
For example: I know how to deal with people more appropriately. This is something I struggled with. At one point I had allowed experiences in life to cause me to stay on the defensive. This meant I was always ready to "pounce" at the hint of something being said or done against me. In all honesty I had become bitter and I didn't like who I was. This was a concealed struggle within me that I dealt with for many years. It was all in effort to protect myself from people. With much prayer God helped me to overcome this battle. He helped me to understand that what is most important is how I treat others. Even if someone mistreats me I have to respect that individual anyway. This doesn't mean I have to remain around them. I most certainly can and will distance myself if necessary. But I have to show love regardless. My pain had slowly eaten away at the love I had, severely limiting my ability to be loving and kind toward others. Now I realize that everyone isn't out to hurt me. I've learned to consider people's actions and words more closely. In doing this I don't take things the wrong way as before. I know to give a person a chance to act or speak before I jump to a negative conclusion about their intentions. I'm more focused on showing love than receiving it. It's amazing the things that can happen when we simply re-adjust our way of thinking. Most of all, I always remember that I am responsible for my actions and not the actions of another person.
Taking this knowledge into the future will surely serve to better my social skills and relationships. If I had this understanding earlier on I could have avoided a lot of heartache and discontentment. I am also able to teach this to my son so that he doesn't suffer in this area as I did. A large part of the last 10 years was plagued with ignorance and immaturity, but knowledge takes away ignorance and growth removes immaturity. These are two things that we will always need more of.
It is lessons like this one that have taught me more about life and even about myself. Indeed, I have much more to learn, and I look forward to each lesson and even each new decade.
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The course of asthma during pregnancy in a recent, multicase–control study on respiratory health
- A. Grosso1Email authorView ORCID ID profile,
- F. Locatelli2,
- E. Gini1,
- F. Albicini1,
- C. Tirelli1,
- I. Cerveri1 and
- A. G. Corsico1
© The Author(s) 2018
- Received: 29 November 2017
- Accepted: 27 February 2018
- Published: 17 April 2018
Over the years it has been widely stated that approximately one-third of asthmatic women experience worsening of the disease during pregnancy. However, the literature has not been reviewed systematically and the meta-analytic reviews include old studies. This study aimed to examine whether the prevalence of worsening asthma during pregnancy is still consistent with prior estimate or it has been reduced.
A detailed Clinical Questionnaire on respiratory symptoms, medical history, medication, use of services, occupation, social status, home environment and lifestyle was administered to random samples of the Italian population in the frame of the Gene Environment Interactions in Respiratory Diseases (GEIRD) study. Only clinical data belong to 2.606 subjects that completed the clinical stage of the GEIRD study, were used for the present study.
Out of 1.351 women, 284 self-reported asthma and 92 of them had at least one pregnancy. When we considered the asthma course during pregnancy, we found that 16 women worsened, 31 remained unchanged, 25 improved. Seven women had not the same course in the different pregnancies and 13 did not know. The starting age of ICS use almost overlaps with that of asthma onset in women with worsening asthma during pregnancy (19 years ± 1.4), unlike the other women who started to use ICS much later (30.3 years ± 12). In addition, the worsening of asthma was more frequent in women with an older age of onset of asthma (18 years ± 9 vs 13 years ± 10). Among women who completed the ACT during the clinical interview, the 50% of women who experienced worsening asthma during pregnancy (6/12) had an ACT score below 20.
Asthma was observed to worsen during pregnancy in a percentage much lower to that generally reported in all the previous studies. There is still room in clinical practice to further reduce worsening of asthma during pregnancy by improving asthma control, with a more structured approach to asthma education and management prepregnancy.
- Asthma control
- Pregnancy
- Inhaled corticosteroids
Asthma is the most common respiratory disorder complicating pregnancy and it is associated with a range of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. Its prevalence among pregnant women varies among studies from 4 to 8% and appears to have increased over recent decades. Several studies have demonstrated that the use of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) for the treatment of asthma does not affect fetal growth, and that maternal uncontrolled asthma has a greater impact on the fetus and placenta [1–3]. Even though asthma is a potentially serious medical condition and despite known risks of poorly controlled asthma during pregnancy, a large proportion of women still have a sub-optimal asthma control, principally due to concerns about surrounding risks of pharmacological agents, particularly ICS, and uncertainties regarding the effectiveness and the safety of different management strategies.
The course of asthma during pregnancy, evaluated in numerous retrospective and prospective studies over the years, has resulted to be variable. It has been stated that about one-third of asthmatic women experience worsening of the disease during pregnancy [4–7]. However, the literature has not been reviewed systematically and the meta-analytic reviews include old studies that vary in population characteristics such as asthma severity and treatment received. Many of these old studies have several methodologic inadequacy, such as low power or lack of control for confounders.
While a number of factors that may worsen asthma have been proposed in the literature, the mechanisms involved are largely undefined, and thus a woman's asthma course during pregnancy is often unpredictable [8].
The aim of our study was to examine whether the prevalence of worsening asthma during pregnancy is still consistent with prior estimates or it has been reduced. For this purpose, we used data of our population-based Gene-Environment Interactions in Respiratory Disease (GEIRD) study.
Study design
GEIRD is a multicase–control study on respiratory health, involving seven Italian centres. Cases and controls were identified through a two-stage screening process in pre-existing cohorts and in new random samples from the Italian general population.
In the first stage (2007–2010), eligible subjects were administered a screening questionnaire on respiratory symptoms. In the second stage (2008–2016) all the responders with symptoms suggestive of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or chronic bronchitis (CB) and a random sample of subjects without respiratory symptoms or with symptoms suggestive of rhinitis, were referred to clinical centres to undergo the "phenotypization" protocol. Protocol and descriptive characteristics of the GEIRD study are available on the web site http://www.geird.org [9].
Study population and procedures
For the present study we used clinical data belonging to 2606 subjects, who completed the stage 2 of the GEIRD study. Clinical data were obtained by means of a structured medical interview through the Clinical Questionnaire, a modification of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) questionnaire (http://www.ecrhs.org) including detailed questions on respiratory symptoms, medical history, medication, use of services, occupation, social status, home environment and lifestyle. For the evaluation of regular ICS use and patient adherence to anti-asthmatic treatment the questions: "Since the last survey have you used inhaled corticosteroids?", "How old were you when you first started to use inhaled corticosteroids?", "Have you used inhaled corticosteroids every year since the last survey?", "If you are prescribed medicines for your breathing, do you normally take: A) all of the medicines? B) most of the medicines? C) some of the medicines? D) none of the medicines" were used [10].
On the basis of the answers to the Clinical Questionnaire, a woman was considered to have asthma if she answered affirmatively to both questions: "Have you ever had asthma?" and ''Was this confirmed by a doctor?''.
The asthma course during pregnancy was evaluated with the specific question: "What happened to your asthma during your pregnancies? A) got better B) got worse C) stayed the same D) not the same for all pregnancies E) don't know".
Participants were considered to have allergic rhinitis if they answered positively to this question: "Do you have any nasal allergies including hay fever?".
Atopy was assessed by skin prick tests (SPT). Individuals with at least one positive SPT were considered to be atopic. The allergens selected in all centres were Cupressus arizonica, Graminacee mix Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, Artemisia vulgaris, Dermatophagoides farina, Ambrosia artemisifolia, Alternaria tenuis, Parietaria Judaica, Dog dander, Corylus avellana, Cat hair, Olea europea, Betula verrucosa, Cladosporium herbarum (ALK diagnostics, Denmark) (Mailing 1993).
In a subsample of 50 asthmatic women, we also evaluated the asthma control by means of the Asthma Control Test (ACT™). Patients assigned scores of 1–5 to each item, resulting in the following grading system: uncontrolled/partly controlled asthma with score ≤ 20; well controlled asthma with score > 20 [11]. These data refer to the time of the clinical interview and they cannot be used as an indicator of asthma control before pregnancy.
No clinical data before pregnancy are available.
Statistical analysis
Women who answered "D) not the same (asthma) for all pregnancies" were excluded from the statistical analyses. The sample who answered "E) don't know" was included in the group of those unchanged/improved asthma. The relationship of the main determinants of unchanged/improved asthma during pregnancy and worsened asthma during pregnancy was evaluated by Fisher's exact test for categorical variables and by Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney non-parametric test for continuous variables. The statistical analyses were performed using Stata 14.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA).
Out of 1351 women, 284 (mean age 44.4 ± 9) self-reported asthma and 92 of them had at least one pregnancy.
When we considered the asthma course during pregnancy, we found that 16 women worsened, 31 remained unchanged, 25 improved. Seven women had not the same course in the different pregnancies and 13 did not know.
Characteristics of women with worsened asthma and women with not worsened asthma during pregnancy
"Not worsened" asthmatics
(n = 69)
"Worsened" asthmatics
(n = 16)
Smoking status, n (%)
Current smoker
13 (18.8)
3 (18.8)
Former/never smoker
56 (81.2)
13 (81.2)
BMI category (kg/m2), n (%)
< 18.5
3 (4.5)
0 (0.0)
44 (65.7)
12 (75.0)
14 (2.9)
4 (25.0)
> 30
6 (8.9)
0 (0.0)
Asthmatic treatment adherence category, n (%)
7 (19.0)
1 (7.7)
30 (81.4)
12 (92.3)
Age of asthma onset (year), mean ± SD
13.3 ± 10.2
18.2 ± 9.5
Allergic rhinitis, n (%)
14 (21.5)
3 (20.0)
51 (78.5)
12 (80.0)
Atopy, n (%)
10 (15.4)
2 (13.0)
55 (84.6)
13 (87.0)
Starting age of anti-asthmatic drug use (year), mean ± SD
22.3 ± 15
19.3 ± 10.0
Starting age of ICS use (year), mean ± SD
30.3 ± 12
19 ± 1.4
Regular ICS use, n (%)
49 (71.0)
7 (44.0)
20 (29.0)
9 (56.0)
When we considered smoking habits, BMI, presence of atopy and rhinitis, no statistically significant difference between the two groups was found in the univariate analysis.
The main finding in the present analysis is that asthma was observed to worsen during pregnancy in a percentage much lower that the one generally reported in all the previous studies, 18.8% (16/85) versus 30%. A meta-analytic review of 14 studies, conducted before 1990, assessing changes in the course of asthma throughout pregnancy suggested that approximately one-third of pregnant asthmatic women experience a symptomatic improvement, one-third experience a worsening, and one-third remain the same [12]. In our knowledge, at present, there are only few published data recently collected and the use of heterogeneous methods, such as the subjective nature and different definitions of asthma symptoms and control, makes the comparison with the older studies difficult.
The worsening of asthma during pregnancy represented an important problem in the management of the disease, taking into account the increased risk for preterm delivery, low birth weight preeclampsia and Cesarean delivery. Some studies indicated that over one-third of women may discontinue their asthma medications during pregnancy, many without consulting their doctors and that only half of the pregnant women with asthma used their controller drugs regularly during pregnancy [13, 14]. The undermedication of pregnant women with asthma may contribute to worsening of asthma symptoms in some women during pregnancy [15].
Over the past 20 years, there was an evolving understanding of heterogeneous airways disease, a broader evidence base, increasing interest in targeted treatment, and evidence about effective implementation approaches. Substantial advances have been made in knowledge about a wide range of new effective therapies and understanding of many important aspects of asthma care. In the past medication would not have included inhaled corticosteroids, which are a mainstay of treatment today. Inhaled corticosteroids are the treatment of choice for all levels of persistent asthma and asthma guidelines around the world strongly recommend that women continue their asthma medications during pregnancy to maintain adequate control [13].
It has been well documented that the course of asthma during pregnancy may be influenced by the various physiologic changes during pregnancy, as well as the severity of the pre-existing disease and that in general after delivery, asthma returns to the severity that was present before pregnancy [6, 7, 16, 17]. Our results indirectly confirm the influence of the severity of the disease in the asthma worsening that was present despite a more frequent regular use of ICS and a higher treatment adherence. A further confirmation comes from the result of a low ACT score in the subsample of 50 women.
Also, the age of asthma onset was higher in this group than in the other and it is well known that adult-onset asthma has a low remission rate, a worse prognosis and a poorer response to standard asthma treatment [18]; in general, asthma in adult-onset usually relates with severe types of the disease. The concomitant presence of rhinitis worsens the asthma control in these subjects, as shown by the Rhinasthma's score. The score was on average higher in asthmatics who reported worsening of the disease (31.36 ± 25.92), although the difference with the comparison group was not significant, probably because of the small number of cases. Differently from Grzeskowiak et al. no influence of smoking habits and BMI on worsening asthma during pregnancy was found in our sample.
Strengths and limits of the study
Strengths of our study include the use of data recently collected from more than 1300 women randomly drawn from the general population rather than from clinically selected groups, the collection of high quality data, the standardized questionnaires and protocol procedures. Nonetheless, our study has several limitations. The first weakness is the relatively limited number of cases, which also precludes the multivariate analysis on the factors associated with the worsening of asthma during pregnancy. Another important limitation is that we fully rely on self-reported data. In addition, we have only data on asthma control and on use of ICS referred to the time of the clinical interview and not those before pregnancy.
The most interesting findings of this study are that: (1) the prevalence of asthma worsening during pregnancy is actually reduced compared to the past and (2) the worsening is significantly related to the severity of the disease, as indicated by the more regular use of ICS and by the presence of an ACT score below 20. There is still room in clinical practice to further reduce worsening of asthma during pregnancy by improving asthma control, with a more structured approach to asthma education and management pre-pregnancy.
Authors' contributions
AG and IC conceived and designed the study. AG and IC prepared a preliminary draft of the manuscript. FA, EG, CT and AG contributed to the data collection. FL performed statistical analysis. AGC contributed to the interpretation of data, revised the paper critically for important intellectual content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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To protect participant privacy, data are available upon request from the GEIRD study (http://www.geird.org). To request the data underlying the findings in this study, please contact Prof. Giuseppe Verlato (firstname.lastname@example.com), on behalf of the Steering Committee of the GEIRD study.
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All procedures of the research project were approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee in each centre. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants.
The GEIRD project was funded by the Cariverona Foundation (Bando 2006), the Italian Ministry of Health (RF-2009-1471235), Chiesi Farmaceutici and the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Isabel Celis 911 Calls Released: 'My Little Girl … I Believe She Was Abducted'
The father of missing Tucson, Ariz., girl Isabel Celis sounds calm as he describes finding that the 6-year-old has disappeared from her bed and tells police he thinks she was abducted in the recordings of two 911 calls released today by police.
"I want to report a missing person," Sergio Celis says on one of the two recordings, made the morning of April 21. "My little girl, who is 6 years old - I believe she was abducted from our house."
The second recording is of a call featuring Isabel's 14-year-old brother, Sergio, who later gives the phone to his mother after she returns home from work. Both the boy and his mother are frantic, though the woman seems to control herself when she is asked for specific information about the girl's height and weight, what she was wearing, and her hair and eyes.
Police today also discussed the decision to bar Sergio Celis from contact with his two sons, though they declined to provide any specifics about the reason for the decision. They said the move should not be interpreted as an indication that Sergio Celis is a suspect in his daughter's disappearance.
"A voluntary agreement was reached between Child Protective Services and the parents to restrict access or, voluntarily, for Sergio to give some space and distance away from the two older children," Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villasenor said.
"This doesn't mean that we have settled on a path with this investigation," he said.
He added that investigators are looking at all possibilities.
"Probably, [there are] about 12 to 15 detectives that are assigned to follow external viewpoints on this investigation, the possibility of a stranger abduction or something of that like," he said. "And then, we have probably four detectives or so that are following the possibility of inside-the-family involvement."
Isabel Celis was reported missing by her father around 8 a.m. April 21 after her mother left for work and her father went to wake her up.
The girl was not in her room, and a bedroom window was opened with the screen removed, police said.
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After Isabel was reported missing, police interviewed 15 registered sex offenders in the neighborhood.
Police have searched homes in the family's neighborhood, dug through a nearby landfill and searched waterways and drainage systems in Tucson. More than 1,000 tips have poured in regarding the 6-year-old's disappearance, police said.
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Hello and welcome to Show # 220. This week we are lucky to have Artist and Animator Thomas Estrada as our Special Guest. Listen in as Jimmy and Lisa have a great conversation with Thomas.
"Since 1997 I've had the amazing pleasure of working in the animation industry on feature films and video games (The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Home on the Range, Sinbad, Over the Hedge, God of War II, Gears of War II, Uncharted, Disney Infinity)
In September 2017 with the desire to spend more time with family I made the exciting and terrifying decision to become a freelance artist full time. Being able to do custom commissions, travel the country doing comic conventions and meeting new people through various art events has been an awesome experience.
I am so grateful to all the support I have received going all the way back to '97 and continuing forward. I am quite literally living the dream."
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2014 is starting out great, and we have a few changes that we would like to announce
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Tadwallader Jutefruce was a mild mannered (and very "square") student at Benedict Arnold High who, when angered, turned (temporarily) green and then transformed into the stylish and popular super-hero who called himself Super-Hip (though Jutefruce himself was unaware of his dual identity, which was known only to his super-intelligent talking dog, Harvard Harvard III). Jutefruce frequently tagged along with his uncle, comedian Bob Hope and shared in several of his adventures. As Super-Hip, he later played guitar at the wedding of Elasti Girl of the Doom Patrol. Super-Hip has apparently remained in touch with Doom Patrol member Robotman and recently aided the fugitive Doom Patrol. Jutefruce now lives in Las Vegas and seems to have permanently adopted his Super-Hip persona.
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When artist get started doing music and when pursuing music they jump in head first; and don't realize the dynamics behind how their music careers are suppose to work.
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Creating a positive impact in our communities is the aim of Auckland Foundation.
We help match generous donors with resources to give to the projects and causes that need them.
Auckland Foundation has the following contestable granting rounds each year.
The Grassroots Giving Programme
Grassroots organisations play a crucial role in keeping our communities connected and thriving.
Auckland Foundation is proud to be a Regional Funding Manager for The Tindall Foundation.
Through our Grassroots Giving programme, Auckland Foundation has developed a unique knowledge base of the small, often out-of-sight groups that make communities hum. Our donor's focus in this funding area is to support families and social services.
Each year we receive a broad range of applications from many great organisations, all working hard to support the diverse needs of communities in Auckland.
The Grassroots Giving Programme supports communities across the Auckland region – from Rodney (Wellsford south) to Franklin (Pokeno north). This includes Auckland City, North Shore City, Manukau City, Waitakere City, Papakura, Waiheke and the Gulf Islands.
Priority is also given to smaller organisations working in the heart of the community using support from volunteers, rather than large well-funded service providers.
Grants awarded will range from $1,000 – $15,000. Please note that the maximum grant available from this funding round is $15,000.
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The Tindall Foundation also works with appointed Faith Funding Managers across NZ. If your organisation is faith-based, please check with one of the following Faith Funding Managers first before applying to the Grassroots Giving Programme.
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2019 Funding Application Round
The 2019 Grassroots Giving Programme will be open for applications from 9am Thursday 1 August, closing at 5pm on Friday 30 August
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The Grassroots Giving Programme supports community groups and charitable organisations who deliver initiatives in the Auckland region that support families and communities under the following themes:
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The North Shore Fund seeks to support those smaller but essential local organisations who are strengthening community networks.
Whether this is through addressing social disadvantage, or promoting general health and wellbeing in their communities, grants will be awarded to support communities across the North Shore.
This includes the local board areas of Takapuna-Devonport, Kaipātiki, Upper Harbour, and Hibiscus and Bays.
Initiatives that have been supported through the North Shore Fund include dance movement therapy classes for young people and adults with disabilities or special needs, a youth-led programme to engage local young people, and a 100% volunteer-driven project to enhance and preserve a local bush reserve.
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2019 Granting Round
The North Shore Fund will re-open for applications on Thursday 1 August 2019 until Friday 30 August 2019.
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Having personally experienced the heartbreak of child cancer and the loss of her infant son Clinton, Joy Whitley wanted to create something to support families going through a similar experience.
Sadly Joy passed away in 2017, but her final wishes will endure thanks to her generous bequest to Auckland Foundation and the establishment of The Clinton and Joy Whitley Fund.
The Clinton and Joy Whitley Fund will award funds towards projects and initiatives in the field of paediatric oncology, and that support children with cancer under 12 years old and their families.
Open to any trust, society, institution or organisation which can demonstrate charitable purposes under New Zealand law, applications will be considered for purposes such as:
- International paediatric oncology guest speaker tours to New Zealand;
- Support or development of child cancer camps;
- Paediatric oncology education, research and resources;
- Seminars in support of families dealing with child cancer;
- Academic and scientific research related to advances in the field of paediatric oncology;
- Items of equipment or technology relating to the treatment of paediatric oncology.
2019 Funding Round
Applications will open at 9am on Thursday 1 August. Guidance notes and online application form will soon be made available on our website.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss an application, please contact Nicola Edwards.
Daphne Gretta Mary Stevens Community Music Scholarship Fund
Auckland Foundation is proud to be administering the Daphne Gretta Mary Stevens Community Music Scholarship Fund.
Born in 1926 in Helensville, Daphne has been a musical stalwart in the Waitoki community. Since starting her piano teaching career at the young age of 15, she has been involved in teaching and performing piano for more than 70 years, supporting and encouraging hundreds of students and local musicians.
Her services to music were recognised in July with a Queen's Service Medal (QSM).
While ill-health means that Daphne is no longer able to teach, her love of music – and love of learning music – continues through her music scholarship fund.
The annual scholarship will each year assist an individual or group who want to develop their skills and contribute towards promoting music in the South Kaipara community.
The scholarship criteria can be found in the Guidance Notes. Applications should be made using the application form.
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Woman goes blind after cat licks her eye
An Ohio woman has gone blind in her left eye after her cat licked her and transmitted an infection called cat scratch disease (CSD), fox8.com reported.
Janese Walters told TV station WTOL in Toledo that she initially thought she had pink eye, but when she told doctors she owns a cat, they immediately suspected the condition.
"Anything that is exposed to the cat's mouth— including if you have a little scratch that the cat licks— that's how you get it," University of Toledo doctor Kris Brickman told WTOL. He added that while "cat scratch" doesn't pose a health risk to felines, it can to humans.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CSD can affect the brain, eyes, heart or other internal organs. Although serious complications from the disease are rare, they may require intensive treatment. Cases are most common among children younger than age 5 and among people with weakened immune systems.
Brickman advised cat owners to wash their hands after playing with their pets. He said 40 percent of cats carry the bacteria that leads to CSD.
"Don't let [cats] lick any open wounds, and try not to get bit by any cat," he added.
Walters didn't know what CSD was prior to being diagnosed, but she said she hopes her story causes other cat owners to take caution.
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Loud and Clear Voices is a London-based award winning voice over agency. We've hand-picked our voices from all areas of the media so we've got some fantastic actors, comedians, TV presenters, DJs and a few quirky "none-of-the-aboves".
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Jamie Grant who founded the agency has worked at record labels, production companies and talent agencies in a career of over 20 years' in the media, so he understands you need to be fast, friendly and fabulous in this business.
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Often, I'll hear Writer Wannabes bemoan the fact that they have worked on a single project for years -- without completing it or anything else in that time.
A working writer must be able to do several things well. Many of those things relate to wordsmithing and craft. However, two critical non-Muse-related skills are the ability to multi-task and to finish something.
Juggling for Fun and Profit
The capacity to work on multiple projects at the same time is essential. On any given day, I'll work on several different projects in varying stages of completion.
The first thing in the morning is reserved for tying up any business-related loose ends that arose during the night while the Coffee Genie clears out the cobwebs in my brain.
Then, I'll work on drafting "creative stuff." Any time the words stick, rather than obsess over them, I'll take a break and do something else. If I just need a little down time, I'll do something short (blog and FaceBook updates fill the bill nicely). If I'm at a big inspirational block, I might shelve the creative writing and work on a chapter of a project that needs editing.
If the creative impulse starts to wane, I'll often switch gears and work on PR and marketing stuff for projects or for clients.
That's what works for me. An entirely different approach might work better for someone else. The point, however, is to KEEP GOING. A writer's job only starts with the blank page. It certainly doesn't end there. If the Muse is not responding, that doesn't mean that you can't have a productive day of writing.
Making the Most of Writing Time
A writer must be able to finish a project. This does not mean that any project will ever be perfect. It simply means that a project will be publishable.
And so, for what it's worth, I thought I'd share my Top 3 Time Cheats for Getting Stuff Done.
1. 15 Bite-Sized Pieces
I heard somewhere -- probably in a movie; almost certainly from a suspect source -- that the average book had 15 chapters. Regardless of the credibility of the information's origin, there is something to it.
Blake Snyder's "Save the Cat" beat sheet has 15 beats to it. It is an excellent jumping-off place for outlining creative projects of all ilks -- from screenplays to books.
Even if not saving felines, an easy "time cheat" for not only getting started on a book project, but for creating a road map that helps ensure I finish the thing, is to make a 15-item list. Each item on the list gets a title that has something to do with the sequencing of the book. This list becomes a default Table of Contents.
Then, it's easy to take each of those 15 chapters and synopsize each chapter. I write in present tense, much as I would do for a non-fiction book proposal. In very little time, I end up with a workable game plan.
I'll add or subtract chapters later as necessary, when the project starts taking real shape. In my experience, this works better than an outline. It's faster, too!
2. "Say It. Out Loud."
Edward's command to Bella in Twilight might not qualify as great dialogue but it makes for excellent Time Cheating advice.
No matter how fast I can type (Maybe around 80 words a minute. 100 on a really good day...), I can speak much more quickly. An inexpensive, recordable MP3 player / jump drive is the writer's Best Friend. So is the built-in MP3 player option on my cell phone. I think I talk to myself on my phone more than I talk to anyone else...
I dictate my thoughts as quickly as they come. Then, I just download the audio file and transcribe it. A cursory edit is inevitable during transcription and voila!, a workable first draft!
3. Do What Ya Gotta Do
Know what it will take to complete a project, then build the staircase that will take you there.
Don't focus on writing 15 chapters. Focus on identifying 15 story beats.
Then turn those 15 beats into a 15- chapter outline
Then focus on synopsizing those chapters.
Then give yourself a reasonable amount of time (one or two weeks, for instance) to write each chapter.
Write your deadlines on the calendar. ("March 1. 16: Chapter 1 drafted..."). Revise as necessary, but stick to your general schedule.
Keep the entire project at the same level of completion. In other words, don't edit your early chapters into oblivion and ignore the rest of the book. If at all possible: DO NOT EDIT until the rough draft is finished. Editing differs entirely from the creative process. Save the editor's hat to wear after the Muse has gone.
Remember: Progress, not perfection.
If you steadily continue working on each step, meeting each smaller goal that you have set for yourself, you'll finish the thing. And you'll still have time to live your life, to run your errands, and get groceries, and pick the kids up from school, and spend time with your honey, and practice the piccolo...
Life is too short to spend it wishing you had lived. Finding the time to write isn't something that will magically happen someday. If it's important, you'll find a way to cheat time now. There is no better time to get started.
Which reminds me... I think I hear my chapter outlines clamoring for attention!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
One Writer's Guide to Cheating Time
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- Katje van Loon said...
Good post!
I tended to edit as I went a lot with my first novel, which is why it took me 13 years. But that was a good thing, at least for that story -- I started it when I was 12 and the constant edits gave me opportunity to find my writer's voice, which wouldn't have happened if I had just written it straight through and *then* began to edit. (Also, the story changed SO much that it's completely unrecognizable from my original idea.)
I wouldn't want to repeat the process, however. I'm currently looking for ways to cheat time with the next few books in the series, all currently WIPs.
Thanks for these tips. :)
- Sunday, February 12, 2012 6:55:00 PM
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Do herbal pills work well?
I found some one talks about usage of cellulose, does it works?
Cellulose is an organic compound, which is the structural component of the primary cell wall of green plants. Cellulose was considered to be useless in the past, because it cannot be digested by human. However, cellulose has been identified to be useful to treat obesity, since it mainly acts as a booster to digestion system and is often referred to as "dietary fiber". Moreover, cellulose, surprisingly, leads to a feeling of full without providing any extra energy.
Cellulose is also an advantage of herbal weight-loss products. Lets take Meizitang, which I found on the internet, as an example, it contains the extract of green tea as an important ingredient. Green tea provides not only a variety of enzymes, amino acids, vitamins, caffeine, but also cellulose or dietary fiber.
Diet pills
Diet pills have an obvious appeal for anyone struggling to lose weight, offering a quick fix with no real hardship..I personally feel having a healthy diet and exercise would work better..
I have used so so many herbal diet pills and none of them did any good. I think it is all a money making business. All promised and no results. They know we are desperate.
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Things are not going according to plan. Not that there was much of a plan, but there were some overarching goals. And so far I am far from them. In fact, I just might be falling backwards.
One main point of this whole move to the middle of nowhere was to regain my connection to my capabilities, to redevelop my sense that I am competent and able (which I know that I am, I just have some trouble feeling like I am).
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So, so far I'm not doing much to gain a sense of strength. I feel more like this loss of autonomy is some giant lesson in being patient, and being okay with needing help. I am not happy about this.
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A Tribute to John Carpenter Pt 1
Every year, I try to do something a bit special for Halloween. In 2009, I did nothing but review horror movies for a month. 2010, I cut that down a bit but also threw in a couple of blogs. 2011 and 2012, I pretty much did a couple of blogs and some "Appreciation" articles on horror directors (James Whale in 2011, Terence Fischer in 2012). Back then I did a few of those Tributes, but then I hit Ingmar Bergman and probably bit off more than I could chew and didn't return to it (or finish it).
But this year, I'm at least going to do one for October and who better to do a Tribute on than my favorite horror-movie director. I had a lot in contention, George Romero probably the other one I was considering (and who knows…October isn't over with yet), but I figured why not just make this a little easier on myself and go with a personal favorite filmmaker.
I think for most people, especially if you're my age and grew up when there was only a handful of channels to watch, the movie that probably introduced you to Carpenter was Halloween. Because every Halloween was on television, and when cable hit it was often on more than one at the same time even. Usually AMC. Halloween is pretty much the It's a Wonderful Life of horror movies: everyone has seen it, everyone knows it, it plays a million times during the month and at the end the hero shoots the bad guy in the face.
Or something like that, I haven't seen It's a Wonderful Life in a long time.
Both are life-affirming in their own way, I suppose.
Even stranger, though, is it was my parents that kind of introduced me to it. They're from the generation that likely saw the thing in theaters in their 20s and remember vividly how it was unique and new. They also probably knew that it's pretty tame by comparison to other horror movies, especially the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street films that were still going strong at the time.
I wish I could recall exactly when I saw it, but I only know I remember the impression it made and that unforgettable music that I associated with the Halloween holiday ever since. The opening scene, all in first person, is probably my earliest memory of seeing any horror movie. I mean actually sitting down and watching it, not just clips of Frankenstein or some late-night 1950s giant-insect flick. I remember thinking "wow...the killer was a kid." Then I remember thinking "wait...I'm a kid...what exactly are my parents tyring to tell me by showing me this?" Other scenes I have a distinct memory of as well, such as Laurie Strode walking down the street alone and feeling eyes on her, or the bedsheet covering Michael Myers or the frightening simplistic "just looking out the window...uh oh" moment.
Years later, I would really find my own love of horror. Years later I would know who John Carpenter was. I think I'm better for it.
Two behind the scenes shots of Carpenter on set of the original Halloween. On the left he's showing Michael Myers (Tony Morgan) how to look over a banister and on the right showing him how to stab and look curiously at a dead body.
Assault on Moviemaking
Did you know Carpenter just happened to win an Oscar before he even shot a movie?
Yeah. He actually won one straight out of USC Film School called The Resurrection of Broncho Billy, a short about..
Wait, why tell you? It's a short, and it's free to see. Here you go:
Before he dipped in to all-out horror, John Carpenter dabbled in action thrillers. After his student films at USC and the strange and bizarre Dark Star, a well-intended but probably too low-budget for its own good space movie and, going by a recent interview, he's none too fond of himself. Still, you can see that there was something at work there, even though it's kind of unclear exactly what. It's very much 1970s experimental filmmaking meets goofy science fiction. If you're a completionist, it's a must-watch to at least see the early workings of the guy that would eventually shape the genre film scene for the next couple of decades.
Here we have rare set photo from the film.
But what really got John Carpenter notice, well other than that Oscar obviously, was the film Assault on Precinct 13 in 1976. He did everything on this film, something Carpenter would be known for: writer, director, producer, editor and composer. What's interesting is that even when he was working with bigger budgets, he still often did all this himself. Assault on Precinct 13 is a lean action thriller that still holds up well today. Hell, even the remake kept a lot of the elements that made the original great, though it also added more than is necessary on other aspects. It's that fundamentally sound of a picture.
Assault is a raw, visceral thriller/action movie that exempllifies grindhouse cinema in the 1970s. With Carpenter's visual touch, though, it rises above its own material.
I adore Assault on Precinct 13, especially its underrated soundtrack. It's one of those movies that just gets straight to the point and doesn't BS. It's essentially a straightforward genre film that takes element of horror movies (good guys trapped in a building and being attacked) and moves along at a terrific pace to a satisfactory end. That's something that Carpenter just did well as a writer and director and it showed even more in his follow-up, Halloween: staying true to genre roots and just telling a good story is what makes a film last and become timeless.
Sure, he also wrote the Eyes of Laura Mars before Halloween, which was critically acclaimed and probably put him more in line to start doing movies he wanted to with its success, but nobody really considers it a "John Carpenter film." It's an Irvin Kershner movie. Halloween came at a perfect time because he not only showed he could do a film on his own (Assault on Precinct 13) but had a bit of credibility with a non B-movie flick (Eyes of Larua Mars which starred Faye Dunaway off of his spec script).
But then came his stardom with Halloween… well Hell what more is there to say? It set the standard for what all the slasher movie films were to be, even though Carpenter admits he was just as influenced by other films (notably Psycho) before launching in to it. The thing is, though, it's a great education piece on how to direct a thriller. At its heart, like Assault, it's a fundamentally sound film from beginning to end, which is the part that a lot of slasher movies in the late 70s and 80s, the height of the slasher genre, seemed to completely ignore. They just saw it as "guy, knife, teens, let's kill them" and call it day. But when you see it, the way Carpenter structures a scene and uses the camera to tell the story is why this film, made in 1978, still holds up extremely well.
A simple POV shot of a figure small in the frame, a cut away to a reaction of Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis), then back...only now he's gone. Simple, effective and as a result Halloween remains timeless thanks to its fundamentals. Carpenter does this numerous times in Halloween. Toying with what you see or don't see in place of the character is classic Carpenter but also fundamental cinematic storytelling.
But the most notable on top of all the solid filmmaking and high influence that I probably don't need to really go in to?
Only the most recognizable horror-theme in history.
Ah, but not all was great, because he followed up Halloween with the pretty middling The Fog in 1980.
Oh wait, actually there's a bigger thing to be had before we reach the 80s. Technically, Carpenter's next film was a made for TV movie special about Elvis.
Yep, Elvis.
And do you know who played Elvis?
Yeah, we'll get to more Kurt Russel in just a bit.
So while it's not really your typical "John Carpenter" movie, it's an important entry because its here where he met Kurt Russell and Kurt Russell just happened to be in the best of John Carpenter movies. Plus, it was probably a bigger hit than Halloween, certainly more mainstream, leading to Emmy nominations, big ratings and gave Carpenter the credibility to show he can direct outside genre films, though he really never would again.
Not that it mattered, because right after that he went on to do The Fog which, as mentioned, is pretty mediocre. Those aren't my words, those are John Carpenter who noted that "It was terrible. I had a movie that didn't work, and I knew it in my heart." He knew on the rough cut he had a bad movie and tried to salvage it, which is why there's various cuts of the film and he added in an opening scene (if you want the definitive cut, this was just released on DVD by Shout Factory). But the thing is, even a bad Carpenter movie is often still a pretty dang good movie (we'll get to Prince of Darkness in a bit), and there's so much creativity, enthusiasm and originality happening in The Fog, not to mention one awesome Tom Atkins, that it's hard to not at least enjoy it to some degree. It's about undead pirates. Eat your heart out Disney.
I can't say for certain if Carpenter learned any lessons on The Fog. It didn't matter too much because it still made money and got decent reviews, which pretty much set up Carpenter to own the 1980s genre scene and pretty much do whatever the hell he wanted. It may lack the sharpness of Halloween or the creative burst he would have in the coming decade, but it's far from a bad movie.
On the left, Carpenter poses with the three lovely ladies from The Fog (no Tom Atkins, unfortuantly): Adrienee Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh, and on the right Carpenter sits down at a keyboard to compose one of his memorable film themes.
Escape From the 70s
Escape From New York was the first feature collaboration with Carpenter and Kurt Russel after the Elivs television film and all for the better. Russell was kind of stuck in a rut with family films and Carpenter, already friends with him, decided he would cast him as lead despite him not being a "name" or having an "edge."
I know, right? Kurt Russell, at one point, wasn't considered "edgy" or "gritty" enough. Some people just don't understand it's all acting when it comes down to it. Most actors can play most roles, it's kind of their job.
And in this one, it was Kurt Russell's job to do one thing: be a bad ass. With his performance and Carpenters solid directing skill, and a pretty decent budget to play around with, we ended up with one of the quintessential flicks of the 1980s. It made a nice bit of money, growing about 25 million which is pretty damn good considering it only cost about one million to make, received good reviews and even managed to get one unknown James Cameron his first big-movie gig, here as a matte painter and effects artist.
It's amazing to go back and see how many big stars are actually in the movie. Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasance, the ever-reliable character actor Harry Dean Stanton and one gorgeous Adrienne Barbeau, who Carpenter cast in The Fog previously.
Like Halloween, this one is all about the music. Again done by Carpenter himself.
Escape From New York is a time-capsule of a movie. It says more about the time it was made in than trying to predict the future: violence and gangs were on the rise, poverty high, Vietnam was still in the social conciousness, New York written-off by a lot of people by that time as just a cesspool. In a way, it's a commentary more than anything. No better example of this than the scene where Lee Van Cleef's character, Haulk, takes Snake Plisskin in to his office and Snake, after being told the "deal" answers with "I don't give a fuck about your war... or your president."
For an early 80s genre picture, with a limited budget but with a ton of talented people on board, Escape From New York had a good amount of positive feedback coming its way, not to mention being a hit at the summer Box Office and influencing many writers and filmmakers for the decade to come - something that Carpenter's work does a lot.
A young James Cameron paints a matte painting of New York on the left, and on the right Carpenter goes over a scene with Lee Van Cleef.
After this one, and some hullaballoo regarding Halloween II which he wanted nothing to do with, Carpenter went on to make what is arguably the best horror movie of the 1980s: The Thing.
I find the history of The Thing even as interesting and entertaining as the film itself. Firstly, it was a remake, and if you ever doubt remakes then just look at The Thing and how to do it right. Secondly, Carpenter seemed to foreshadow his own career by putting the original playing on a television in his own Halloween, as far as I can tell a complete coincidence. Thirdly, the script was written by Burt Lancaster's son, Bill. I just find that interesting.
Fourthly, it was shot in British Columbia in sub-freezing conditions and when not shooting there they were shooting for months on sound stages that were also refrigerated to be sub-freezing conditions. Today, all that coldness, shaking and chilled-breathes would be done with computers.
The cast, including Kurt Russell and Keith David whom Carpenter will both work with again in the future, shot a nice chunk on location, pretty much any of the exterior daylight stuff. Here they are in the snow.
The Thing is a testament to practicality and in-camera effects. From the atmosphere generated by those cold sets and location to the genius animatronic and puppetry effects, it has not aged a day since it came out in 1982. That's something I feel Carpenter films do better than most: age extremely well. It all goes back to the sensible and solid cinematic language that Carpenter gives the audience.
The saddest thing about The Thing, and this is something people seem to forget, is that it bombed. It bombed hard. It was out against ET The Extra Terrestrial, the biggest film of the 1980s arguably and well in to its dominating run at the top of the Box Office, and just didn't have a chance. It also opened against Blade Runner and was battling Poltergeist for the horror tickets so that didn't help. 1982 was a good year for genre films, wasn't it?
"Home video played a powerful force in my career, bringing back some of my old movies to be appreciated by a new audience." - John Carpenter
The Thing's success came later. After not doing well critically or commercially, the years went on and more and more people began to see and appreciate it. The atmosphere. The sense of paranoia and not knowing who to trust played on basic human fears and it manipulates you in a way few films can. The more people later came to watch it, the more they came to appreciate it and that seems to be the case with a lot of Carpenter's work.
The 1980s were huge for horror and I'd say that as the years went on, home video became a presence in households, that The Thing was rediscovered and beloved in the same way people later came to love other 80s horror classics like Evil Dead and An American Werewolf in London which were far more acclaimed and financially successful in the early 80s.
On the left, one of many outrageous practical effects for The Thing, effects done by Rob Bottin (sans one animatronic dog by Stan Winston) who also did makeup on The Fog. On the right, Bottin and Carpenter stand in front of an in-the-making effect.
Oh, and of course….the music is still as much a character as anything. This time, though, it was composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone, though it has a distinct Carpenter touch at times. A funny fact, it's pretty loved now, but it was nominated for a Razzie back when released, showing that nobody really knows anything.
But The Thing's popularity grew and grew, right alongside Carpenter's own fame. Much of the appreciation of him, like The Thing, came later as more people re-watched films and started to take more notice of the man's work, especially when it came to more cult-favorites such as They Live, the commonly overlooked Starman or In the Mouth of Madness. Better late than never.
As the decade went on, Carpenter dabbled in a few more things that seemed to be in his wheelhouse but push him as an auteur. In the next years he will do an adaptation, a sci-fi romance movie and the craziest action flick he'd muster.
And you can read that in Part Two Here.
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