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UW students talk about fears after alleged daylight sexual assault
A suspect is in custody after a stranger sexually assaulted a UW-Madison student in broad daylight Sunday morning.
Police tracked down a 23-year-old man shortly after the assault happened on University Avenue.
"Speaking as a female who walks this street many times a day, I think it's terrifying and very sad and disappointing," Clarissa Keller, UW-Madison Graduate said.
It's one of the busiest streets in downtown Madison. Now it's the scene of a sexual assault in broad daylight.
"We always assume if we're walking in a busy area in broad daylight in public, we're going to be fine, but I guess you can never be safe enough and that's really scary," Keller said.
A UW-Madison student told police it happened while she walked to work Sunday morning near the Fluno Center.
"It was a brutal, savage attack on a young woman," Joel Despain, Madison Police Spokesperson said.
Police said the assault went on for several minutes until a bystander called police.
"What we can see from surveillance video is she was being stalked the entire time that she's walking along the street. A complete stranger pulls her and pushed her into a grassy area right outside the Fluno Center right on University Avenue in the daylight and began sexually assaulting her," Despain said. "When we got there the suspect took off running."
Police said the suspect fled the scene at the Fluno Center and made his way to Dayton Street. A K-9 unit led police to a nearby apartment where they found the suspect.
"Very unusual. We give people lots of ideas about precautions they can take: staying in well-lit areas and not walking alone, but it's a well-lit area and it's daylight," Despain said.
Investigators turned to city surveillance video to help track down a suspect. Officers arrested 23-year-old Alex Wade. The suspect was booked on counts of second-degree sexual assault with use of force and resisting and obstructing. He has not yet been charged.
"It doesn't surprise me there's assault going on in Madison because we walk around all the time and get honked at and cat-called," Lauren Mudlaff, UW-Madison Student said.
Some students say the current climate always requires them to remain vigilant.
"It's not that surprising. It's something that we hear about and it's sad how normal it has become," Remy Ziolkowski, UW-Madison Student said.
"Our hopes and prayers go with this victim that somehow she can manage to push through as a college student with a bright future who now has to deal with a lot," Despain said.


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- Wyoming: Confirmed cases of COVID-19: 275. Deaths: 1 — Recovered: 138.
- By county: An elderly man in Johnson County has died, becoming Wyoming's first coronavirus-related death, the Wyoming Department of Health reported. Laramie County leads the state with 60 confirmed cases, followed by Teton with 56, Fremont with 41, Natrona with 33 and Sheridan with 12. Campbell and Johnson counties now report 11 cases each. Two counties, Platte and Weston, have reported no cases.
- Testing: 5,571 tests had been administered and processed, according to the Wyoming Department of Health. Experts and officials agree testing numbers fall well short of the reality of the disease's spread.
- United States: 557,663 confirmed cases, according to the Johns Hopkins Institute. Total deaths: 22,116 — Total recoveries: 41,871.
- The latest: Wyoming state government revenues could plummet anywhere from $555 million to nearly $2.8 billion over the next two years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and an oil price war, according to a memo the Legislative Service Office sent to lawmakers on April 10. The state's unemployment insurance fund, meanwhile, is the strongest in the nation, according to a Tax Foundation study. The study ranked Wyoming No. 1 in its ability to pay unemployment insurance, using statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor. According to the study, Wyoming had enough money in its unemployment insurance trust fund at the beginning of 2020 to pay unemployment benefits for 321 weeks, based on claims filed by April 4. That's compared to states like California, which had enough money to pay benefits for four weeks, or Texas, which had money to pay benefits for six weeks, according to the study. Nearly 5,000 people filed unemployment insurance claims last week alone, according to data provided by the Department of Workforce Services, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.
- More news: More than 88% of Wyoming businesses that responded to a survey by the Wyoming Business Alliance anticipate revenue loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. City officials in Cheyenne — and across Wyoming — are anticipating a major cut in sales tax revenues will make the budget process particularly challenging, according to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
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Mayor Charles C. Kokoros is pleased to announce the Tri-Town Board of Water Commissioners has received a $200,000 grant for the planning, studies, and engineering and design work necessary to remove PFAS at the Tri-Town Regional Water Treatment Plant.
The Baker-Polito Administration today took action to protect public health and drinking water supplies by finalizing regulations that establish enforceable standards for public drinking water systems impacted by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and require regular testing for the contaminants.
Building on this action to protect public drinking water supplies, the Administration today also announced more than $1.9 million in awards to 10 public water supply systems in Ayer, Westfield, Barnstable and Hyannis, Hudson, Millbury, Barnstable and Cummaquid, Acton, Easton, Devens, and Braintree, Holbrook and Randolph, to support their efforts to address PFAS contamination and design treatment systems to eliminate it in their drinking water.
"Our administration is committed to ensuring that all residents have access to safe and clean drinking water," said Governor Charlie Baker. "By setting stringent standards for PFAS in drinking water, we can ensure that all public water systems across the Commonwealth are testing for these emerging contaminant, while providing them the tools and resources they need to address any contamination."
"Over the last several years, the Administration has supported local communities in taking aggressive action to test for PFAS contamination and to address it quickly," said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. "These new standards and grant funding reinforce our commitment to ensuring that all sources of drinking water across the state are safe, clean and healthy."
The new drinking water standard for PFAS establishes a limit of 20 parts per trillion (ppt) for the sum of six PFAS compounds, called "PFAS6." The rule requires public water suppliers to test for PFAS6 and act when there is a detection above the limit. In using the sum of six PFAS compounds, these standards provide a higher degree of protection, particularly for sensitive subgroups including pregnant women, nursing mothers and infants. There are currently no federal PFAS standards for drinking water.
"Building on our continued efforts to address PFAS chemicals, we are proud to issue these science-based drinking water standards to protect residents and the environment," said Energy and Environmental Secretary Kathleen Theoharides. "By setting these strict standards and providing technical and financial assistance to local communities and water suppliers, we can help to alleviate this threat to the health and safety of our citizens."
The standards finalized today are based on the most up-to-date scientific data. The rules are in response to requests by citizens and public health advocates to regulate PFAS, as well as an evaluation of these chemicals by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). Recognizing that PFAS is an area of growing knowledge and information, the MassDEP regulations also require regular re-evaluation of data to determine whether standards will need to be updated in the future. The draft standards were released in December 2019, and reflect a significant public comment period.
"As part of our continual review of emerging scientific data for environmental and water quality standards, we have established these rules to protect our communities from the dangers posed by PFAS chemicals," said MassDEP Commissioner Martin Suuberg. "The standards require all public water suppliers to take steps to lower PFAS levels below 20 ppt for all consumers. MassDEP stands ready to offer financial and technical assistance to any community facing this challenge."
All community public water systems will be required to test for PFAS6. Large public water supplies, those serving a population of 50,000 or more, will be the first to test for PFAS6 under the new regulations, beginning their initial PFAS6 tests January 1, 2021. Public water supplies serving populations between 10,000 and 50,000 will begin initial tests April 1, 2021, and those serving a population of less than 10,000 will begin testing October 1, 2021.
The regulations detail the responsive actions that public water suppliers must take when the limit – known as a Maximum Contaminant Level or MCL – is exceeded, as well as the provisions for public notice of such an exceedance so that communities can be educated and proactive in protecting their drinking water quality.
"The public absolutely has a right to know if their drinking water is safe," said Brad Campbell, President of Conservation Law Foundation. "These new standards are a major advance in safeguarding our water from toxic PFAS. The provision for three-year reviews will further protect us and will ensure that these critical standards keep pace with the growing body of science on PFAS toxicity."
"This PFAS6 drinking water standard puts in place the necessary protections for people who rely on public water supplies," said Dr. Wendy Heiger-Bernays, Clinical Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health and Chair of the Lexington Board of Health.
With increased PFAS testing underway, the grant awards announced today will provide funding to water suppliers for the planning, studies, pump tests, and engineering and design work necessary to remove PFAS contamination from water systems. Communities that have spent funds to address elevated levels of PFAS are receiving reimbursement for costs already expended while remediating PFAS contamination.
The water supply systems awarded grants are:
"Long-term exposure to PFAS puts vulnerable people, like pregnant women and infants, at risk for cancer and other long-term health complications. The last place in 2020 that people should have to be concerned with exposure to cancerous material is their kitchen tap," said State Senator Julian Cyr (D-Truro). "I'm encouraged that MassDEP is offering support to the town of Barnstable as they work to reverse the costly use of these chemical contaminants near the local water supply."
"I am pleased that actions are being taken to address the ongoing issues created by PFAS chemicals," said State Senator Michael Moore (D-Millbury), Chair of Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security. "By implementing these standards and regulations we have taken a step towards protecting residents of the Commonwealth from hazardous chemicals. However, the root cause of this issue still remains, and we must continue to take aggressive actions to prevent any further contamination of our waters."
"This new Maximum Contaminant Level is a critical step towards protecting our communities and our health from the long-lasting dangers of PFAS. It is the culmination of years of work, and years of advocacy from constituents and residents," said State Senator John Velis (D-Westfield). "The grants provided to Westfield, and other communities in the state, will allow us to continue studying, testing and designing a system to ultimately remove PFAS completely from our drinking water system. There is still much more to be done to address the full impact of PFAS, but these regulations go a long way, and I'm grateful for MassDEP's work and the work of so many in our Westfield community."
"I am very grateful the town of Barnstable will benefit from this round of grants from MassDEP," said State Representative Will Crocker (R-Barnstable). "Cleaning up and protecting our groundwater is paramount for keeping our residents safe. This funding is an important next step in the overall plan."
"Once again, Massachusetts is moving forward to protect drinking water against PFAS contamination," said State Representative Kate Hogan (D-Stow). "In addition to passing smart regulations to protect citizens, my colleagues in the Legislature and at MassDEP are providing funding so that our communities can test regularly and conduct plans, studies, pump tests, engineering, and design necessary to remove PFAS from water systems. We've also designated funds to reimburse towns like Hudson that have already expended funds to address elevated levels of PFAS."
For additional information on the PFAS awards and the grants program, turn here.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a family of chemicals widely used since the 1950s to manufacture common consumer products and used in firefighting foams. They have been linked to a variety of health risks, particularly in women who are pregnant or nursing, and in infants. See more information on PFAS in Massachusetts here.
To help ensure the safety of drinking water around the Commonwealth, the Baker-Polito Administration secured $28.4 million in two recent supplemental budgets for water infrastructure and PFAS testing. More than $8.4 million was appropriated for the testing of water supplies for PFAS and $20 million was appropriated to the Commonwealth's Clean Water Trust, which makes financing available to communities to address contamination issues if they are detected. To date, 87 select private wells and 34 public water systems have received free PFAS6 testing, and 42 more public water systems are in the process of being tested.
MassDEP is responsible for ensuring clean air and water, safe management and recycling of solid and hazardous wastes, timely cleanup of hazardous waste sites and spills and the preservation of wetlands and coastal resources.


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|Computer Science, University of Aarhus
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|Software developer at Safeticket ApS
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|Software developer at Telia Stofa
|System administrator and software developer at pil.dk
|Web developer at MegaMusic.com
Fired due to the employers financial problems
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I am 39 years old and have been studying computer science at the University of Aarhus for about three years.
In the time from september 1999 up to and including january 2000, I worked for Megamusic, Inc./MegaMusic Europe Aps where I was responsible for the development of www.megamusic.com as well as configuration and maintenance of the Linux server running the system. Part of the job was the implementation of the payment system delivered by Emprise (www.emprise.de). All the server side scripting was done in Perl.
From april 2000 to february 2007 I worked as a developer at pil.dk. My primary occupation was development and maintenance of advanced web applications, all running on unix. The technologies used were primarily Perl and PHP utilizing different database backends. During the last year there I worked almost exclusively on the companys payment solution called quickpay.dk. While working on this I gained substantial knowledge about the protocols used in communication with PBS, WorldPay and a number of home bank systems. Furthermore I was in charge of implementing the then recent security requirements from VISA.
From march 2007 to july 2010 I worked as a developer at Telia Stofa. I worked on a number of internal systems that ran the internet platform as well as the platform for digital TV. Furthermore I worked on the support systems used by a lot of the other employees for support, customer care and diagnostic purposes. These systems were generally built on Linux using PHP or Perl combined with mySQL or PostgreSQL with a web based front end with varying amounts of javascript. Since the launch of the Video On Demand platform I was deeply involved in the integration of the backend that handled all its data, including integration with systems at the content delivery partners.
In july 2010 I started as a developer at Safeticket ApS. My job was to build a new platform from scratch that could be the basis for the ticketing system going forward. The platform is based on FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, Perl and nginx. Tickets are mainly sold online using card payments but there is also support for selling them through a backoffice function as well as having a thermal printer print tickets as they are sold. Since Safeticket is a small company I also handle maintenance of the servers. Since january 2011 I have been a partner in the company. During my time as part of the project we have aggressively developed the system and it is quite possible that we now have the most flexible ticketing system on the market.
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Phage therapy
Phage therapy is the therapeutic use of lytic bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections. Bacteriophages, or "phages" are viruses that invade only bacterial cells and, in the case of lytic phages, cause the bacterium to burst and die, thus releasing more phages. Phage therapy is one of the viable alternatives to antibiotics, being developed for clinical use in the 21st century by many research groups in Europe and the US. After having been extensively used and developed mainly in former Soviet Union countries for about 90 years, phage therapy is now becoming more available in other countries such as USA for a variety of bacterial and poly-microbial biofilm infections.[1] Phage therapy has many applications in human medicine as well as dentistry, veterinary science and agriculture.
An important benefit of phage therapy is that bacteriophages can be much more specific than more common drugs, so can be chosen to be harmless to not only the host organism (human, animal or plant), but also other beneficial bacteria, such as gut flora, reducing chance for opportunistic infections. They also have few if any side effects as opposed to drugs, and do not stress the liver. Because they replicate in vivo, a single, small dose is sometimes sufficient. On the other hand this specificity is also a disadvantage, a phage will only kill a bacterium if it is a match to the specific subspecies; thus phage mixtures are often applied to improve the chances of success, or samples can be taken and an appropriate phage identified.
Phages are currently being used therapeutically to treat bacterial infections that do not respond to conventional antibiotics. They tend to be more successful where there is a biofilm covered by a polysaccharide layer, that antibiotics typically cannot penetrate. Other biofilms include those on medical instruments, so an enzyme added to a phage can effectively and selectively wipe out even bacteria beneath these films, which is impossible currently in Western medicine. [2]
Following the discovery of bacteriophages by Frederick Twort and Felix d'Hérelle in 1915 and 1917, phage therapy was immediately recognized by many to be a key way forward for the eradication of bacterial infections. A Georgian, George Eliava, was making similar discoveries. He travelled to the Pasteur Institute in Paris where he met d'Hérelle, and in 1926 he founded an Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia devoted to the development of phage therapy.
In neighbouring countries including Russia, extensive research and development soon began in this field. In the USA during the 1940s, commercialization of phage therapy was undertaken by the large pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly.
Whilst knowledge was being accumulated regarding the biology of phages and how to use phage cocktails correctly, early uses of phage therapy were often unreliable. When antibiotics were discovered in 1941 and marketed widely in the USA and Europe, Western scientists mostly lost interest in further use and study of phage therapy for some time.
Isolated from Western advances in antibiotic production in the 1940s, Russian scientists continued to develop already successful phage therapy to treat the wounds of soldiers in field hospitals. During World War II, the Soviet Union used bacteriophages to treat many soldiers infected with various bacterial diseases e.g. dysentery and gangrene. The success rate was as good as, if not better than any antibiotic.[citation needed] Russian researchers continued to develop and to refine their treatments and to publish their research and results. However, due to the scientific barriers of the Cold War, this knowledge was not translated and did not proliferate across the world.
There is an extensive library and research center at the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia. Phage therapy is today a widespread form of treatment in neighbouring countries. For 80 years Georgian doctors have been treating local people including babies and newborns with phages. "Phages will kill bacteria completely but only if they are matched well."[3]
As a result of the development of antibiotic resistance since the 1950s and an advancement of scientific knowledge, there is renewed interest worldwide in the ability of phage therapy to eradicate bacterial infections and chronic polymicrobial biofilm, along with other strategies.
Phages have been explored as means to eliminate pathogens like Campylobacter in raw food and Listeria in fresh food or to reduce food spoilage bacteria.[4] In agricultural practice phages were used to fight pathogens like Campylobacter, Escherichia and Salmonella in farm animals, Lactococcus and Vibrio pathogens in fish from aquaculture and Erwinia and Xanthomonas in plants of agricultural importance. The oldest use was, however, in human medicine. Phages were used against diarrheal diseases caused by E. coli, Shigella or Vibrio and against wound infections caused by facultative pathogens of the skin like staphylococci and streptococci. Recently the phage therapy approach has been applied to systemic and even intracellular infections and the addition of non-replicating phage and isolated phage enzymes like lysins to the antimicrobial arsenal. However, definitive proof for the efficiency of these phage approaches in the field or the hospital is only provided in a few cases.[4]
A clear benefit of phage therapy is that it does not have the potentially very severe adverse effects of antibiotics. Also it can be fast-acting, once the exact bacteria are identified and the phages administered. Another benefit of phage therapy is that although bacteria are able to develop resistance to phages the resistance is much easier to overcome. The reason behind this is that phages replicate and undergo natural selection and have probably been infecting bacteria since the beginning of life on this planet. Although bacteria evolve at a fast rate, so too will phages. Being smaller, they can mutate faster. Bacteria are most likely to modify the molecule that the phage targets, such as a cell surface glycoprotein, which is usually a bacterial receptor. In response to this modification, phages will evolve in such a way that counteracts this change, thus allowing them to continue targeting bacteria and causing cell lysis. As a consequence phage therapy is devoid of problems similar to antibiotic resistance.
Bacteriophages are often very specific, targeting only one or a few strains of bacteria. Traditional antibiotics usually have more wide-ranging effect, killing both harmful bacteria and useful bacteria such as those facilitating food digestion. The specificity of bacteriophages reduces the chance that useful bacteria are killed when fighting an infection.
Increasing evidence shows the ability of phages to travel to a required site — including the brain, where the blood brain barrier can be crossed — and multiply in the presence of an appropriate bacterial host, to combat infections such as meningitis. However the patient's immune system can, in some cases mount an immune response to the phage (2 out of 44 patients in a Polish trial [5]).
Development and production is faster than antibiotics, on condition that the required recognition molecules are known.
Research groups in the West are engineering a broader spectrum phage and also target MRSA treatments in a variety of forms - including impregnated wound dressings, preventative treatment for burn victims, phage-impregnated sutures. Enzobiotics are a new development at Rockefeller University that create enzymes from phage. These show potential for preventing secondary bacterial infections e.g. pneumonia developing with patients suffering from flu, otitis etc..
In its simplest form, phage treatment works by collecting local samples of water likely to contain high quantities of bacteria and bacteriophages, for example effluent outlets, sewage and other sources. They can also be extracted from corpses. The samples are taken and applied to the bacteria that are to be destroyed which have been cultured on growth medium.
The bacteria usually die, and the mixture is centrifuged. The phages collect on the top of the mixture and can be drawn off.
The phage solutions are then tested to see which ones show growth suppression effects (lysogeny) and/or destruction (lysis) of the target bacteria. The phage showing lysis are then amplified on cultures of the target bacteria, passed through a filter to remove all but the phages, then distributed.
Phages are "bacterium specific" and it is therefore necessary in many cases to take a swab from the patient and culture it prior to treatment. Occasionally, isolation of therapeutic phages can typically require a few months to complete, but clinics generally keep supplies of phage cocktails for the most common bacterial strains in a geographical area.
Phages in practice are applied orally, topically on infected wounds or spread onto surfaces, or used during surgical procedures. Injection is rarely used, avoiding any risks of trace chemical contaminants that may be present from the bacteria amplification stage,and recognizing that the immune system naturally fights against viruses introduced into the bloodstream or lymphatic system.
In August 2006, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved spraying meat with phages. Although this initially raised concerns since without mandatory labeling consumers won't be aware that meat and poultry products have been treated with the spray,[4] it confirms to the public that, for example, phages against Listeria are generally recognized as safe (GRAS status) within the worldwide scientific community and opens the way for other phages to also be recognized as having GRAS status.
Phage therapy is used for the treatment of a variety of bacterial infections including: laryngitis, skin infections, dysentery, conjunctivitis, periodontitis, gingivitis, sinusitis, urinary tract infections and intestinal infections, burns, boils, etc. - also poly-microbial biofilms on chronic wounds, ulcers and infected surgical sites.
In 2007, Phase 2 clinical trials are nearing completion in a London throat, nose and ear hospital for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections (otitis).
Phase 1 clinical trials are underway in the South West Regional Wound Care Center, Lubbock, Texas for an approved cocktail of phages, including P. aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli (better known as E. coli).
Reviews of phage therapy indicate that more clinical and microbiological research is needed to meet current standards. [6]
Phages can usually be freeze dried and turned into pills without materially impacting efficacy. In pill form temperature stability up to 55C, and shelf lives of 14 months have been shown.
Other forms of administration can include application in liquid form. These vials are usually best kept refrigerated.
Oral administration works better when an antacid is included, as this increases the number of phages surviving passage through the stomach.
Topical administration often involves application to gauzes that are laid on the area to be treated.
The host specificity of phage therapy may make it necessary for clinics to make different cocktails for treatment of the same infection or disease because the bacterial components of such diseases may differ from region to region or even person to person. Such a process would make it difficult for large scale production of phage therapy. Additionally, patent issues (specifically on living organisms) may complicate distribution for pharmaceutical companies wishing to have exclusive rights over their "invention"; making it unlikely that a for-profit corporation will invest capital in the widespread application of this technology.
In addition, due to the specificity of individual phages, for a high chance of success, a mixture of phages is often applied. This means that 'banks' containing many different phages are needed to be kept and regularly updated with new phages, which makes regulatory testing for safety harder and more expensive.
Some bacteria, for example clostridium and mycobacterium, have no known therapeutic phages available as yet.
To work, the virus has to reach the site of the bacteria, and unlike antibiotics, viruses do not necessarily reach the same places that antibiotics can reach. [7]
Funding for phage therapy research and clinical trials is generally insufficient and difficult to obtain, since it is a lengthy and complex process to patent bacteriophage products. Scientists comment that 'the biggest hurdle is regulatory', whereas an official view is that individual phages would need proof individually because it would be too complicated to do as a combination, with many variables. CSLPublic awareness and education about phage therapy are generally limited to scientific or independent research rather than mainstream media.
Phage therapy is generally considered safe. As with antibiotic therapy and other methods of countering bacterial infections, endotoxins are released by the bacteria as they are destroyed within the patient (Herxheimer reaction).[8] This can cause symptoms of fever.
Care has to be taken in manufacture that the phage medium is free of bacterial fragments and endotoxins from the production process.
Lysogenic bacteriophages are not generally used therapeutically. This group can act as a way for bacteria to exchange DNA, and this can help spread antibiotic resistance or even, theoretically, can make the bacteria pathogenic (see Cholera).
The lytic bacteriophages available for phage therapy are best kept refrigerated but discarded if the pale yellow clear liquid goes cloudy.
- Lindalee Tracey and Emmanuel Laurent, "Killer Cure", Films à Trois, 2005
- Pirisi A. Phage therapy: advantages over antibiotics? Lancet 2000; 356: 1418. PMID 11052592.
- Intralytix
- Phage International Inc.
- Filby, G.(2007) Winston Churchill Fellowship - 'The Health Value Of Bacteriophages'
- Riedel, G.W. (2006) Phage Therapy overview
- Brüssow, H 2007. Phage Therapy: The Western Perspective. In S. Mc grath and D. van Sinderen (eds.), Bacteriophage: Genetics and Molecular Biology. Caister Academic Press, Norfolk, UK. ISBN 978-1-904455-14-1
- ↑ Phage Therapy: Bacteriophages As Antibiotics, Evergreen, Access Date - 10/17/2007
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- ↑ Killer Cure, Phage International Inc.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mc Grath S and van Sinderen D (editors). (2007). Bacteriophage: Genetics and Molecular Biology (1st ed. ed.). Caister Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-904455-14-1 .
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- ↑ Evergreen PHAGE THERAPY: BACTERIOPHAGES AS ANTIBIOTICS
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what ever some guys do bad, others might do better.......
I know Hetoreyns piece "Warbird vs. Farragut" and if my memory serves me right, it's featured as a demo track somewhere on this site. It's has a very classic sci-fi vibe to it and as long as people write music like this instead of succumbing to some miserable conclusion that in the shadow of the immortalized greats, everything one could possibly compose can only be garbage, it's all good. :)
Plenty of people have jumped in before I got a chance to address Muzicsculp's tongue-in-cheek, but otherwise legitimate query. The discussion has taken a turn as is customary in the forum and I would attempt to make some practical sense of it.
Suffice to say that modern symphonic music is not in competition with film-music in any way - never has been, especially quality-wise. All one has to say is Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Stravinsky, etc., or even just Bach, or Mozart, or Beethoven, etc., and the discussion ends before it even begins.
It is exactly the opposite. The greats of film-music (Steiner, Herrmann, Williams, Goldsmith, Jarre, Morricone, et al.), they learned their lessons from having studied the masters, and applied the techniques of serious symphonic music to their soundtracks as needed, as well as stamped their work with their own voice and authenticity, and we are all grateful for their results, and in turn have learned from them.
The other opinion I wish to offer is that to just throw a huge list of names and random works from the modern symphonic repertoire to people completely unfamiliar with serious music is not particularly useful. It is like throwing somebody into the ocean without land in sight, without compass or direction. Asking someone to listen to Saariaho and Murail when they have never listened to Debussy or Bartok does answer the question posed, but it is a meaningless exercise.
I'm guessing that Muzicsculp's idea of symphonic music ends with Beethoven or thereabouts and spontaneously begins again with Williams and Zimmer. I would advise that a bridge of sorts be created that will elucidate the connections between modern music's orchestral tools and, moreso, film-music's copies thereof.
Limiting the repertoire to orchestral works, I would say, listen to:
Claude Debussy: La Mer, Iberia, Jeux.
Maurice Ravel (virtually anything however personal favourites include): Le Tombeau de Couperin, Daphnis and Chloe (complete, not the suites), Concerto for Piano N.2.
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird (Suite if you must but full score much richer), Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, and for some more austere scoring (with choir - bonus!) Symphony of Psalms.
Sergei Prokofiev: The Buffoon (same as with Firebird), Symphony N.5, Romeo and Juliet (same as with Buffoon), Piano Concerti Nos.2 and 3, Violin Concerto N.1
Bela Bartok: Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta, Piano Concerto N.2, Concerto for Orchestra, The Miraculous Mandarin.
For choir enthusiasts that would like to hear what real writing for voices and orchestra can sound like aside from Carmina Burana, listen to Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony (Symphony of a Thousand) and Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.
George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique, Edgar Varese's Ionization, or other works by early modernists can serve as another bridge to composers with different sensibilities and orchestral devices, such as Iannis Xenakis, Gyorgy Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, etc. And only after those we can start discussing Kaija Saariaho, Gerard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Alfred Schnittke, Helmut Lachenmann, etc.
One will achieve and learn NOTHING should one listen to the above works without the corresponding scores!
In addition, the word 'delightful' is not one that springs to mind when considering modern music. However, for the uninitiated that wishes to straightaway hear something "current" that inheres immediate pleasure qualities, I would suggest:
Carl Vine: Piano Concerto, and Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Isle of Bliss, Piano Concerto N.3
Aaron Jay Kernis: Symphony in Waves, Colored Field
Following all this, compare the breadth of indigence and charlatanism of 95% of current film/game/TV music to what you have explored. Do this seriously and no matter how un/talented you are, your work will automatically commence to improve; as if magically...
P.S.: I am not suggesting that film-music should sound like concert music, in fact they should be quite different. However, I am saying that current film-music has ceased for the most part to be informed by its mother (serious music), and has turned to other - base and paralysing - sources (and practitioners) for its inspiration, and the resulting cost has been painfully apparent for many years now.
P.S.2: I am not here to extol modern music. In fact I believe that especially during the last few decades it has plateaued into a sulphurous swamp of cacophony, rehashing the cud of more technical cliches than film and pop musics put together (allowing for some exceptions). In fact, as with Hollywood, everybody thinks that they are a valid composer in this field as well, provided they employ some academically 'acknowledged' techniques (mainly pertaining to 'gestures'). Emetic stuff but that's another thread....
Thanks man :D I appreciate the nice comments.
I totally agree that in todays world there's way too much 'Generic Epic' and so few big fantasy film scores that actually excite. Other than being 'BIG' most scores for films are done in e-flat and consist of string and horn chugging. One major thing I like about working with the Vancouver B movie Factory is that for the music score I get to do whatever the hell I want with no executive veto screwing with me. As a result I think I've made some of my more interesting and exciting music scores with them.
I guess my point is that music .. film or classical .. doesn't have to be a magnificent exercise in applied mathematics, and frankly that kind of music does nothing to excite me. But film music should have integrity life and dignity. If all it is a just a bunch of staccatto hits with no sense of emotional connection then it's most likely just going to be crap that services a film.
Personally I've always tried to write my music to be of the highest emotional value. I'm no mozart .. but I'm not trying to be .. but that doesn't mean it's not worthy. My recent effort (listed under the thread 'kick ass film music') is very satisfying for me because it was a chance to write something warm and loving, yet with mystery and high octane action with some kick ass beats, bass and synths complimenting the orchestra. Does that make it low brow rubbish? .. some would say so ... but I dare anyone to listen to the track and not find themselves excited, and above all leaving that track feeling all warm and fuzzy at the end.
At the end of it all .. isn't music all about how it affects you? There's lots of great film music out there .. I dearly love the music that Jerry Goldsmith wrote .. and not everything he did was gold .. but damn I learned so much from him, and I'm glad he's an influence for me. I feel that I've really found my voice in music lately and I find it worthy .. worthy of being heard. Assuming all the music snobs .. who think that unless you're schooled in the complete works of every legend that you obviously can't write anything good .. give me a chance!
I suspect I'll be famous about 200 years after I'm dead :P
Dunno guys, I completely understand the gripe about modern film music being less than the classical greats .. but I think that's because no one's bothering to listen to the younger, and practically unknown composers who never get a chance to be heard.
Just my $0.02 worth :P
Bill, I agree with all the composers that you mention. However, I was talking about current film composers (all of the ones you mentioned are dead) and in any case "most" implies the majority, and film music includes made for TV films, so I dare you to watch the SyFy channel, for example, for a day and then come back and tell me that you still disagree with what I said.
DG, you have me there.
By the way, I have to add that I don't like to contradict DG because I have heard his music and it is uniformly excellent and imaginative composing with the best mixing and programming - even though he is too modest to post it here.
A great listening/learning resource that covers the scope mentioned earlier:
I personally didn't go through such a linear, historical, progression at first having a piano teacher who worked me through Bartok's Mikrokosmos. In this way I got the gift of an embodied sense of some of the concerns of the contemporary music of the 1920s - 1930s Europe. I always felt more at home in the contemporary idiom than the Classical stuff my father liked to play and listen to. It just felt more "now" that the older music and I've continued to take "delight", yes, in the new music of the day ever since... that is once I'd caught up with it in my listening.
Of course, a deep study of the past is extremely useful in developing a deeper sense of where these musical traditions and innovations come from. But my own experience demonstrates that it's not a pre-requisite to an appreciation of more contemporary approaches to music.
Rautavaara's music is delicious. He writes beautiful concerti for piano, flute and harp that are all rewarding listens.
But I've got to once again promote Takemitsu's music as a really interesting case of a composer with a deep connection to the roots of the twentieth century orchestral idiom. As the years went by his oeuvre showed an increasing and easily discernible relationship with past traditions of writing coming out of Debussy, Ravel and Messiaen, but always with a remarkable stamp of originality that was all his own.
And there's been real innovations in some of the film music of the past as well. Listen the score Bernard Herrmann composed for the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Much of the introductory music pre-figures the minimalism of the early '70s, Glass and Reich by a good twenty years. His work with Hitchcock is also singular.
Best to all,
As usual, I fully agree with the main thrust of your full post above, so I'am just quoting the second post scriptum ...
It is an another thread, but just out of curiosity: can you name a few exceptions you are referring to above? (I'm asking because even though I agree with much of what you wrote I still find many pieces of younger generation composers standig in the tradition of the Modernist Revolution (which I am a staunch defender of, independently of the fact that I myself am in a period of composing what would best be described as "New "Old" Music" (which is an another topic as well :-) to exhibit real skill, inspiration and compositional integrity in general.)
To come back to the very first question without to much words:
There is a simple but very good reason why here is "not much" ( I would prefer to say "not only") filmmusic posted here (there is still enough currently aswell in the Demozone):
In my eyes it is the wonderful fact, that VSL (at least in my ears) reached a quality, which do reasonably allows the attempt to realize serious challenges from the musical tradition. (And I do really enjoy especially this very much).
Be happy VSL brought it that far! Thats also not that bad for those who are more interested in the filmmusic-genre in a more strict sense.
I think that 90% of users that posting so called film music doesnt even write for movie and never will be. They think the film music is easier to compose because of a lot of prerecorded and preproduced patterns. And also because 90% of todays film/trailer music sounds same. With VSL we can reach more and I hope we want . I am big fan of film music, but seriously composed (sorry, but four minutes drum pattern with same strings ostinato pattern doesnt belongs here) with at least minimal artistic message.
Hello community.
Interesting thread for sure.
As always, in matters of art, it is very difficult to make "jugements". We react much more with our feelings, and that is ok for me. While I made a rule, when I like something, to try and understand why I do like this and not that.
Prestige comes into play, for sure. We all do love Mozart, don't we ? Well after controlling this assertion, I must say that SOME of Mozart's works don't please me at all, while I consider his (? his ?) requiem as one of the best pieces I know off. The name Mozart, as agreed by a large number of fellows, helps like his work without further investigation. (Don't get me wrong, I adore Mozart, but not all of his numbers).
Easy to dislike Hans Zimmer because his music doesn't compare with the good classicals, if we use the analysis criteria that apply to classical music. It seems indeed very poor. But when we widen the sight and consider his music for what it really is (some will talk more of sound design, but I don't think of it that way), he reached some sort of true excellence in his job. (Don't get me wrong, I hate Zimmer, but have great respect for what he achieved. Not Zimmer, but I hate the fact that such an artist outperforms others that I like more, just because of the "give them what they need" principle, which is to me contra artistic).
Funny example is Ennio Morricone, which is to me one of the greatest FILM music composer, as he is excellent at this particular thing : put the right mood on the right scene. Every film he did, bingo, right on spot : you simply can't imagine the film without his music. The fun is : when you listent to interviews of this outstanding composer, he claims his film music is completely secundary and of no importance (for him). Instead, he promotes his "classical" work that represents him much more. Funny, I don't like his classical symphonies at all, while I'm a big fan of all his cinematic work. Other fun : the score "The Mission" made its way to the classical venues and is considered classical music by all the profession (ar...).
I have, for myself, a little test that I constantly use in appreciating music of any kind :
Inside a particular idiom of music, if I can sort out what piece is way better than the other, then it means that I understood the underlying "rules" of that music (I mean the intuitive inherent rules), and I can say that I somehow "know" that music and can "juge" at least for myself of the quality of a work inside that idiom.
When I happen to find, again inside an idiom that I think I understand, a piece that I find weak, then I try to make one, inside the same idiom, that is better. More than often, I find that I can't do better, and so my vision of the piece and that of the idiom changes to... a better understanding of the said idiom.
Example, just try, really try and make something better than Morricone on this scene :
And of course, one can say it is just three notes of harmonica on an everlasting trivial harmonic pattern, but that is my point : this analysis is absolutely not pertinent. To understand the pertinence of this music, you have to try yourself. It will widen your ears.
My two cents.
With this I agree completely. I must say MANY of Mozart's works don't please me at all (e.g. allmost all of his earlier symphonies). Some of Beethoven's works (e.g. the 2nd piano concerto) don't please me either. Much of Schubert doesn't please me much either. And I do regularly exhibit a very short temper when confronted with the childish "offended divinity" attitude displayed by many in the classical music world when it comes to criticising a work of a "great composer" - especially so in the case of those who I can be fairly certain would praise a completely vapid and unsubstantial classical period piece to stars if you just pasted Beethoven's name on it, but would at the same time automatically frown upon a truly substantial and inspired piece by Ferdinand Ries, Carl Czerny or Louis Spohr as a matter of course.
Having said that, I also have nothing but admiration (and humble respect) for just as MANY of Mozart's (or Beethoven's or Schubert's) works and many of them belong to the music I cherish most - but, they do so because of their actual inherent merits, not because they have the names "Mozart", "Beethoven" or "Schubert" printed on their front pages.
Though in the case of both Mozart and Schubert you have to remember - everything those two did was the work of a young composer. Neither one of them had a chance to get past their 30s. In fact almost everything Schubert wrote was in his twenties - he died when he was 31. It is incredible to look at the complete Schubert or Mozart editions now available on CDs - 69 cds for Schubert, 170 CDs for Mozart, with no duplicated works. Compare that to your favorite classic rock band. Mozart cut 170 CDs! And he died when he was 35. The level of artistic accomplishment is not at normal human levels.
OK, once more besides all looooooong lametis for surpressed filmusic or indignated classical tradition here are the simple facts about the Music presented by the VSL in their music page:
There are ca. 740 mp3's in totalpresented in the music section of the VSL-Site
430 are in "contemporary" or "film" music."style" (While "contemporary" seems to mean here for the most of them nothing else than commercial or/and functional music)
288 are Baroque, Classical, romantic and 20th century modern style.
Sorry I myself present on my own site klassik-resampled allone defenitivly remarkebly more (=five times as much as VSL) Baroque, Classical, romantic and 20th century modern style mp3 than could be found here on the VSL-site.
Even if you would only count orchestral and chambermusic and do not count my solokeyboardrecordings, there are on klassik-resampled still more Baroque, Classical, romantic and 20th century modern-mp3's than you ever can find on the VSL-Site (Orchestral: klassik-resampled 15 hours, VSL 11 hours, chambermusic: klassik-resampled 6 hours, VSL ~ 3 hours.) What means that even in more than ten years the VSL does collect less much Baroque, Classical, romantic and 20th century modern music on their site than just one normal single user like me would produce.)
And please keep in mind, that this is the original repertoire for the orchestral instrument/s which are digitally produced by VSL, like Bach WTK,, Mozart, + Beethoven Sonatas, Chopin Nocturnes & Studies etc is the original repertoire for the piano. So there is nothing wrong to try those digital instrumnts with their original repertoire.
So this is the clear answer to the question posed at the beginning of the thread:
There is definitly no problem at all concerning the presentation of "film" and "contemporary" music production on the VSL-Site. And of course no dominance of "serious" music from our musical tradition at all. The opposite seems to be true.
And why ever the film-musicians comunity-members perhaps might hesitate to post their stuff (what I dont think is realy the case) is their decision.
However if comunitymembers interested in the classical tradition are that busy that there is many new stuff to hear this is really nothing anyone has any reason to complaiin at all in my eyes. It just demonstrates how mighty, versatile and inspiring the VSL-Products are.
So if you prefer to have more music in a contemporary, functional or filmmusic style just go produce it and and post it likewise....
I really don't wish to discuss modern music further here, it is such a massive discussion, a field of inquiry so vastly larger than film-music, that I won't do it justice here, and certainly don't have enough time to do so elsewhere. Be that the case, I can only resort to some aphoristic remarks, which however do reflect my position on the subject:
I listen to as many modern works as is healthy for me. Lots of those scores are produced from the young and the younger generations ('young' in terms of modern music stretches to include composers my age - shhh, it's a secret...) And I am referring to free-atonal works in this case.
Without exception, I can find no raison-d'etre for any of those works; works that despite stemming from different people scattered about the remotest recesses of the planet, they all sound and look the same (they ALL sound and look the same), in terms of intentions, sensibilities, and execution. No nationality, no personality, no character. Orwellian clones that hilariously believe they are expressing themselves, when thousands of others are writing entirely the same stuff (exactly like all the untalented hordes sequencing string ostinati with dreams of Hollywood...)
From personal experience I know that most of them (statistical deduction) couldn't compose a convincing tonal work to save their lives. Most of them are harmonically illiterate beyond the very basics of functional harmony (even university graduates!), and wouldn't know about musical continuity and organicism if it hurled in their faces. Whereas convincing - not great - 'modern' music, is so easy to write for an educated "musician" it's a joke. Great modern music is a very rare gem indeed, but the composers capable of it and the ones I respect, you can tell they could write non-gestural music should they wish to, i.e. they are real musicians.
Since I don't intend to argue this as a) it would take too long, and b) it is my personal appreciation of the current state of affairs, I would like to suggest those composers-exceptions to you - all my such exceptions of living composers write sophisticated tonal / chromatic music, and there are quite a few. Those two I mentioned above (Vine and Rautavaara) feature on the top of my preferences.
P.S. to the rest of the forum: Of course not all Mozart is great, but we are talking about an opus no. in the 600s for a 35 year old (Schubert in the 900s for a 31 year old). Goldsmith scored a little more than 200 films and do you know how many of them are worth listening to?... And lest we forget, a lot of the early stuff in Mozart's case was actually composed by a young child; including the first symphony which is quite good. I wonder how many here could handle and balance the classical orchestra and sonata form as well as Mozart did at age 8...
P.S.2: My musical opinions are not musical snobbery. I am not suggesting that only trained musicians can write great music. In fact, most trained musicians cannot. And Paul McCartney, Benny Anderson, and Barry Gibb for example, were infinitely more inspired than at least 2/3rds of the New Grove gang.
However, when one wishes to write for orchestra, one must be told that orchestral writing is not merely 'Melody and Accompaniment', and one is cheating only themselves (OK, and the ignoramus director who hired them), when they only look to Hans or James Newton to learn the craft, instead of the traditional masters. The greats of film did so in the past, instead of just bying a laptop and start banging away. However, what did they really know? Maybe today everybody is so much more talented and intuitive than Herrmann and Williams, they do not need Mahler, Stravinsky, Ligeti, and Saariaho. They just need Inaction Strings and Project Scam and hoopla! Music!!
Oh come on this is definitly neither the question posed at the beginning of this thread nor anything, which still must be discussed in any way at all. Everybody can think about music and compose whatever he has fun to do so.
And if he wants to convince anyone of anything concerning music the only argument that counts are the ears which are interested and enjoys listening.
"Modernism" is definitly a problem of the 20th century and became history in the "postmodernism" of the 90th. That is already more than 20 Years ago. Now we are so free that you can write good or awful tonal or atonal music how much you ever want to.
If anything might be intersting to discuss is the question,
a) if the money some at least hope/wish or dream to earn by doing filmmusic is really the only esthetic value which is left, or
b) if there is any other reason what music might be about, what obviously seems to be true for those who uses VSL-Samples for traditional Orchestral-repertoire without expecting any huge Hollywood-payments (instead of just illustrating one or another imaginated Filmcue with VSL-Samples and dreaming to be discoverd as the second Hans Zimmer once).
However for me those tonal-atonal-discussions sound more than odd today and completly offtopic in this thread here. Better produce some good music of whatever concept you like in the time you spent writing things like this here.
If that is what you understood from my post, then perhaps a course in the english language would not be amiss?
But you are right in one thing. I did spend valuable time writing here instead of writing music, I shouldn't have; even though I was asked in a previous post to address these exact issues, be they only somewhat off-topic mind you.
I was asked in a previous post to address these exact issues, be they only somewhat off-topic mind you.
Yes of course I understood that you answered gorans question
(Vine and Rautavaara)
And for all the rest I knew we would finally agree:
But you are right in one thing. I did spend valuable time writing here instead of writing music, I shouldn't have; even
To come back to the very topic of this thread:
Of course I would have enjoyed it much more to hear good and fresh examples of your musical "capablity" might it be filmmusic, contemporary, traditional, neoromantic, commercial, neoclassical, dodekaphonic, functional, mikrotonal or christmas carols.
I myself at least am sure it would need no further arguments at all if it simply is done well. and presumably we even consent in this point.
I agree very much with Errikos who is speaking as a composer frustrated with the various dysfunctions in modern music - i.e., academic championing of atonalism at the cost of everything else including quality, as well as pop music which includes film music composed by pop musicians such as Zimmer or the recent Oscar winner Reznor who is a universe away from what Hollywood composers were in the 1940s - Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Franz Waxman, Herrmann (whose first film was Citizen Kane!). All of the aforementioned were brilliant, even genius masters of orchestration, advanced Mahler-Post-Romantic harmony, and extreme Richard Strauss-level orchestral counterpoint who took to film music of the day because it offered them work but also gave them inspiration. Korngold viewed his film scores as "operas without words." Herrmann created his greatest music, arguably, in his film scores, and if you listen to his pure concert music you will discover many references to his film scores, such as the wonderful "Echoes" string quartet, one of his latest works and a tremendous, flawless masterpiece, referencing "Vertigo" and others. Great music knows no boundaries that are conventional.
As for "classic" composers in film bussiness we must realise that very little number of composers were or are allowed to bring music of their intention. Mostly, the director screw it and want it to fit scenes no matter what the music language means. The whole history of film music is full of examples where great composers was replaced in minute by not so good only because they not agreed on this kind of music destruction. Zimmer is one of the best examples of this nonoriginal fastworking replacers that satisfy every director's request. Remember that director is still most important person in film making process...


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Bloorcourt's Paradise Theatre has Returned to Form
How a once-derelict heritage theatre got a new lease on life
Photography by Rick O'Brien and Reynard Li
It's hard to miss Paradise Theatre, which has come a long way since we noted the start of its restoration. Physically, the landmark's marquee and neon signage still advertise its art deco pedigree to Bloorcourt passersby. Built in 1937, the theatre showed everything from talkies to porn before it was essentially abandoned and put up for sale in 2006.
Credit financier Moray Tawse for not only resurrecting the building but also the sense of occasion cinemas once commanded. As a child, Tawse would join his mother at the Odeon Biltmore Theatre in Mount Dennis, taking in films, cartoons and newsreels while she worked. Decades later, seeing Paradise Theatre in such grim shape made him sentimental. "A real estate investor wouldn't buy it as an investment," says Tawse. "I was caught up in the nostalgia."
Instead of a pure rebuild, though, Tawse adapted it to the surrounding neighbourhood, now a dense cluster of families and young professionals. Along with films, the 208-person theatre is outfitted for music, comedy and other events, while a full sit-in restaurant and a trio of bars cement its destination status. Solid Design Creative, whose work includes Maison Selby and DaiLo, was commissioned for the interior design; ERA Architects maintained the heritage elements.
Save for the all-season patio and addition above it, the exterior is true to the original. The buff brick facade and cast stone detailing have been restored, as has the stainless-steel cladding around the newly installed box office. Throughout the interior, Solid tapped into the full scope of art deco aesthetics, which are restrained at times, saturated at others.
The lobby hews to the former. A sloping, mirrored ceiling and piano-finished walls give off ample ambient light, making the contained space glow. At the far end of the room, a pearl-hued wall featuring era-appropriate scalloped patterning – Instagram fodder for sure – backs a central bar, its steel frame recalling a streetcar. It's a posh setting for hushed conversation during intermission.
Osteria Rialto and Bar Biltmore play the lobby's raucous opposite. White marble, weathered brick, polished oak, custom pendants, loud geometric tiling: every detail iterates the era's loudest look and feel. In Rialto, a partition inset with vintage crystal plates sections off an out-of-the way private booth, while in Biltmore, a marquee runs the length of the bar, pitching the drink menu. Art deco? Not particularly. Defining? Absolutely.
Tawse brought on Basilio Pesce, most recently the chef de cuisine at La Banane, to head the kitchen. In Rialto, the focus is on pan-Italian cuisine, with the only constants being house-made pasta, bread and salumi, locally sourced ingredients and, when appropriate, a bit of char from the wood-burning grill. Biltmore will feature a raw and small-bites bar in lieu of the full menu, while mixologist Robin Goodfellow's cocktail lists will be available throughout, including the theatre's VIP mezzanine.
In its heyday, Paradise was a neighbourhood theatre in a city full of them, and Tawse's vision for it isn't too different: a community hub frequented by locals, and a throwback to Golden-Age-of-Hollywood glamour on a strip of Bloor in need of a little sparkle. PARADISEONBLOOR.COM; SOLIDDESIGNCREATIVE.COM; ERAARCH.CA


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How an Audit Firm in Singapore is Leading the Industry by Embracing Digital Solutionsby Juan Force Girl with Goals
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global economic activity. The implementation of strict policy measures across industries has set off a global economic crisis. At Verz Design, we are interested to learn more about the digital solutions businesses have adopted to cope with the new normal. We also find out interesting business tips to explore in the new era of digitalisation. Learn about how an audit firm in Singapore is leading the industry by embracing digital solutions.
Helmi Talib is an accounting services singapore that delivers tax, accounting, auditing, and business advisory services to clients across the Asia Pacific region. Helmi Talib incorporated digital solutions well before the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of this, the firm was more prepared to face the challenges brought by the pandemic.
Helmi Talib implemented a COVID-19 recovery response to help their clients navigate these uncertain times. The management built a strategic plan that is geared towards ensuring their continued ability to deliver excellent services while maintaining health and safety measures for all.
1) Ensuring Digital Preparedness
Helmi Talib established their website back in 2017 and have been incorporating other digital solutions since then.
"Making use of digital solutions has been established as a vital ingredient to a successful marketing and promotions strategy in today's age." For an SME like themselves, digital solutions like having an updated website allowed them to compete with bigger corporations in the industry.
Helmi Talib understood that social media is one of the quickest ways to gain access to a large target audience. Because of this, they worked on a digital marketing plan with Verz Design. They created a digital marketing strategy that is focused on building their firm's presence on various online platforms.
Over the past year, their SEO efforts have pushed their website to the top of search results pages. They plan to continue to build on this momentum by frequently updating and improving their online content.
They also believe in this day and age, businesses must embrace digital solutions and start building their online presence.
2) Adapting Cloud Systems
This audit firm in Singapore recognised the need for a system that would ensure quick and secure coordination between the team and clients. They promptly started work to transfer their servers onto cloud systems.
A cloud system refers to the computing components that enable the delivery of cloud computing services via the internet. These services include tools and applications like data storage, servers, databases and software.
Rather than keeping files on a hard drive, cloud-based hosting makes it possible to save them on a remote database. As long as a person has access to the internet, that person will have access to the data anytime, anywhere.
The client portal on their website allows clients to have easy, convenient access to important documents of ongoing projects. They also ensured the security of sharing these documents online. These digital measures that they have adopted in response to the pandemic greatly benefited their clients.
3) Utilising Online Communication Platforms
Helmi Talib equipped themselves with conferencing tools to allow their team and clients to collaborate seamlessly. They arranged regular online meetings to assist their clients with any inquiries they may have.
Maintaining frequent online communication helped make the transition of adapting to the new normal, smooth and easy for clients. The audit firm in Singapore also subscribed to online training platforms such as LinkedIn Learning. This is to help prepare their employees and provide them with the necessary skills to cope with the changes brought by pandemic.
4) Enhancing Website Capabilities
Helmi Talib recognises that the pandemic not only changed the nature of businesses but consumer behaviour as well. "The current situation has naturally urged people to turn to online solutions for all their needs.
From paying bills, purchasing groceries, ordering food, buying clothes and other consumer items. "Never before has a situation warranted the need for implementing technological innovations as it does today."
They believe that now is the best time for businesses to finally step up their game in building their online presence. Helmi Talib suggests that for SMEs in the same industry, a good place to start is with a simple yet user-friendly website.
Your website design doesn't have to be too elaborate. Don't aim to put all the new website features in it. A simple design with features offering easy navigation is preferable.
Avoid including unnecessary information, this will only clutter your pages.
Helmi Talib believes that the way to get your website design right the first time is by seeking professional help.
"Getting the help of professional web development agencies can help simplify the process. By leaving the designing and developing aspect to experts, you can focus on building your brand and your core business."
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2019 Study on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & The Future of Monetary Policy: Technologies, Opportunities & Regulatory Concerns
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As indicated, we have updated the report to include information on the 10/18/19 session at the World Bank IMF Annual Meeting during which China outlined its plan for using digital currency in Africa and the Caribbean: "Central Bank Digital Currencies in the Caribbean: How Can Public and Private Sectors Work Together."
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Found this trawling through the Russian blogs. The footage of the HD maps looks interesting. Sorry no English version.Update. Added a short exert showing how debris is thrown about.
Found this trawling through the Russian blogs. The footage of the HD maps looks interesting. Sorry no English version.Update. Added a short exert showing how debris is thrown about.
I think this may come in 9.18. Either this or the Tier 10 lights.
T10 lights… this is planned for the big 1.0.0 patch (remember that we are actually in 0.9.17.1 and not 9.17.1)
T10 lights are actually due on the next big update as stated in WG NA QnA stream, wich is prob due at the end of next month or beginning of the month after. The graphics however most likely late summer to early fall.
Never mind the pretty maps, at around 11 minutes in, that Centurion A-X appears to be firing a machine gun or autocannon…
Dev tool, you can see him hold tab and what ammo he would like to fire. Hopefully it doesn't work in random battles…
I thought so, first time I've seen it though.
I think that's a dev tool. he's pressing a button on the keyboard while he's clicking the mouse, so maybe it replenishes all ammo and instantly loads the main gun. Coax mgs and stuff aren't in the game and won't be anytime soon.
They will never be in the game. It's completely pointless in almost all situations. Just look at war thunder.
Special feature for decs – can fire without reaload.
*Devs of course 😀
so they remove all possible climbing opportunity, sacrificing lot of fun, all for better graphics. No variaty in tactics, making gameplay boring.. gg
35 fps average !?!?! in wargaming HQ !?!?!
ms ≠ fps
Now if only the game was still playable beyond tier 6 I might be interested.
It's DX11 I'm happy I only have Windows 7 🙂
To sum up, new graphics is about pressure waves from shots being visible on grass and water; tanks getting wet when driving through water and then dirty when driving on sand; waves being only visual effect rather than "physical" (i.e. they don't make splash when hitting the tank); more destruction effects (not much will be visible on low graphic settings, understandably). And most importantly, statues having dicks.
P.S. and yes, CAPS+2 is a dev feature for instant reload.


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Jay Z appears to address Beyonce cheating allegations on new album 4:44
The rapper seems to apologise to Beyonce, his wife of nearly 10 years, with personal lyrics addressing family, shame and regret.
Friday 30 June 2017 15:44, UK
Jay Z has appeared to confirm rumours that he cheated on wife Beyonce with a series of revealing lyrics on his new album 4:44.
The new record, released on Tidal, has sparked discussion online as fans speculate on the meaning of the personal lyrics.
In one song the rapper makes an emotional apology, while in another he confesses to having "cut off my nose" to "spite my face".
Rumours of Jay Z's infidelity have surrounded the couple, who were married in 2008, for several years.
They came to a head in 2016 with Beyonce's critically acclaimed visual album Lemonade.
Defiant hints of cheating fill the album and are most prominent in the track Sorry, in which the star tells a sobbing and repentant partner she regrets "the night I put that ring on".
She goes on to tell him to "call Becky with the good hair", using slang that fuelled speculation about the identity of Jay Z's alleged lover.
Family Feud sees Jay Z address Becky directly, telling the unidentified woman to "Let me alone".
The album's title track contains even more apologies, including the lyrics "if my children knew, I don't even know what I would do" and "what good is a menage a trois when you have a soulmate?"
In another track, Kill Jay Z, the rapper sings: "You almost went Eric Benet, let the baddest girl in the world get away."
The lyric likely references the R&B singer who was famously unfaithful to actress Halle Berry.
In an interview with iHeart Radio, Jay Z went into more detail about the album's lyrics, and called title track 4:44 "one of the best songs I've ever written".
Jay Z and Beyonce have three children, including twins who were born in June.


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Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the giants. Classical Archives offers a long list of links with which it says educated music lovers should be familiar. The site also offers a well written bio of the Baroque composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist:
Johann Sebastian Bach was better known as a virtuoso organist than as a composer in his day. His sacred music, organ and choral works, and other instrumental music had an enthusiasm and seeming freedom that concealed immense rigor. Bach's use of counterpoint was brilliant and innovative, and the immense complexities of his compositional style—which often included religious and numerological symbols that seem to fit perfectly together in a profound puzzle of special codes—still amaze musicians today. Many consider him the greatest composer of all time.
Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685. He was taught to play the violin and harpsichord by his father, Johann Ambrosius, a court trumpeter in the service of the Duke of Eisenach. Young Johann was not yet ten when his father died, leaving him orphaned. He was taken in by his recently married oldest brother, Johann Christoph, who lived in Ohrdruf. Because of his excellent singing voice, Bach attained a position at the Michaelis monastery at Lüneberg in 1700. His voice changed a short while later, but he stayed on as an instrumentalist. After taking a short-lived post in Weimar in 1703 as a violinist, Bach became organist at the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt (1703-1707). His relationship with the church council was tenuous as the young musician often shirked his responsibilities, preferring to practice the organ. One account describes a four-month leave granted Bach, to travel to Lubeck where he would familiarize himself with the music of Dietrich Buxtehude. He returned to Arnstadt long after was expected and much to the dismay of the council. (Continue Reading…)
Above is the "Double Violin Concerto in D Minor, 2nd Movement" and below — in keeping with the spirit of the season — is the "Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 – Part I: 'For the First Day of Christmas.'"