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The holiday of Shavuos is the unique moment in the year where Am Yisrael convenes to re-experience Ma'amad Har Sinai - the national assembly at the foot at Mount Sinai; the moment of Kabalas HaTorah, the receiving of the Torah HaKedoshah.
There are a vast amount of sources dedicated to detailing the abundant and fantastic miracles that occurred at Ma'amad Har Sinai, but among the most famous is not found in the Midrashim or the commentaries, rather it is simply stated in the Torah itself. The Passuk says (Shemos 20:15), "V'Chol Ha'Am Ro'im Es HaKolos" – 'And the whole nation saw the sounds'. Amazing. Had the Torah itself not said it, telling the average reader that the Jewish nation perceived auditory messages with their eyes would be passed off as a far-flung psychedelic interpretation of the experience. But there it is; the Torah tells us, "V'Chol Ha'Am Ro'im Es HaKolos" – 'And the whole nation saw the sounds'.
In order to reach a deeper understanding of what it means to see sounds, we need to understand the components separately by clarifying the seemingly obvious difference between our senses of sight and sound. With Hashem's help, if we explore the profound words of the holy Sfas Emes hopefully we will walk away with a clearer and more inspiring understanding.
Everything in the Briyah, the expanse of creation, has Ma'alos and Chesronos - pluses and minuses. When comparing anything, one side will have strengths and weaknesses that the second side won't. In the sensory world this applies just the same; sight affords us opportunities that sound doesn't; and conversely, the ability to hear can accomplish things that sight cannot.
In the visual spectrum of Re'iya we say that what you see is what you get. We can perceive a whole message at once. There is a certain Shleimus, wholeness, that sight affords. We can take in an entire landscape in one shot. We can utilize Re'iya to recognize a person's face with all of its factors and unique characteristics at once. Sound doesn't quite pull this off. Sound by its very nature is a sense built on sequential processing. In a conversation or a song, syllable after syllable is decked on top of various nuances of tone to create a flowing idea that is only understood as the concept develops. Under normal circumstances, if we attempt to process the sounds that make up the phrase 'have a nice day' all at once, we will be left confused by the senseless cacophony.
Sound - Shmiya, has its strengths as well. Sound gives us a glimpse into the internal workings of the world. Sight only reveals the surface level. Any blockages in the way serve as the farthest point that can be perceived. If I visually judge a book by its cover, I remain clueless as to what its content is. On the other hand, sound is not bogged down by such things. Shmiya by its very nature comes from an internal reaction and it can never be seen. Speech – not just in the psychological sense – starts on my insides. Air is channeled form my guts and emerges developed. Speech, then, is a revelation of internal expression that surpasses shallow externalities; it is an internal experience. The eyes, which themselves remain surface-level organs are not like the ears, which in the very design channel sound deep inside my head.
Sight is externally full, but it ends with that level of profundity as well. Sound is deep but choppy. Sight is whole while sound needs to be pieced together. But, as we will explain, for Torah to be experienced as transcendental and other-worldly, it needs to be accepted on both levels and in the counterintuitive order.
This is what happened at Ma'amad Har Sinai. Because the Jews accomplished the supernatural feat of accepting the Torah both wholesomely and internally it came across to them supernaturally. Am Yisrael accomplished this with their famous words Na'aseh V'Nishma - first they accepted to fulfill all the Mitzvos and only then they resigned to learn about them. Let's explain what this means.
Na'aseh - we will do – is connected to Re'iya because like we said, Re'iya means to absorb a greater context. When the Jews say Na'aseh first it means that Jews first accepted upon themselves the entire picture, the full spectrum of Torah-observance. Only then they said Nishma - we will listen, they took upon themselves the detailed education process second. Education is intrinsically a Shmiya-related process. One piece of information is build on top of the next to formulate a coherent lesson. Trying to digest an entire textbook at once would be very much like attempting to decipher 'have a nice day' in one confusing sound-bite.
But the Jews said, 'We don't care! We are so excited to bring Ratzon Hashem into our lives that we'll try to take the whole thing on at once, with all of its massive implications. Na'aseh. Only after we've been completely fused with God's will can we start to pick up the details. Nishma. First we full heartedly sign up, we get on board and sign at the dotted line - Na'aseh. Once we're fully invested, emotionally and physically and we know that we won't back out will we work out how to really grasp all of its complexities and really make it our own - Nishma.
Because the Jews were willing to go against logic and accept the big picture without knowing the details, because they brought Na'aseh before Nishma, Hashem reciprocated by reflecting their courageousness in the form of the Torah's counterintuitive delivery – they were able to See (in connection to Na'aseh) the Sounds (in connection to Nishma).
What does this have to do with my acceptance of the Torah? The answer is that the concepts that we just discussed are the remedy to an all-to-common general lack of excitement about Torah that many of our peers may sometimes feel. How many times have we heard someone say that a certain aspect of Judaism, a specific concept or series of laws simply doesn't speak to them? 'I dunno; it's just not for me.' This is tragic. But it comes from a very 'Nishma-first' attitude. We believe - and for good and justified reason – that Judaism will be more meaningful if we accept it in parts. 'I'm not interested in being a 100% Eved Hashem just yet – let's learn a little bit and see where it goes.' Such an outlook may be logical but it's doomed for mediocrity. The Jews at Sinai certainly didn't feel that way. They knew that accepting all of the seemingly endless details of an observant lifestyle may have been a little too much to handle at that moment, but they knew that they wanted to be fully on board, they knew that we were going to be entirely in-sync with the grand plan, even if it meant a slow process of picking up more and more knowledge as they went along. They were Na'aseh-first. We can learn from this model.
Na'aseh V'Nishma, and its production of V'Chol Ha'Am Ro'I'm Es HaKolos teaches us that any attempt at spiritual growth must be preceded by a whole-hearted dedication to everything holy – even if in actuality such deed is out of reach. The emotional and mental dedication to the cause - Na'aseh is absolutely crucial if there is to be meaningful and internalized carrying out of action - Nishma. Only when I go through this seemingly backwards logic in my dedication to spiritual growth will I be open to the possibility of experiencing a truly meaningful - and perhaps even magical - experience of my own Kabalas HaTorah.
Shavuos is our opportunity to set the record straight once again. Shavuos means that Am Yisrael is once again standing at the foot of Har Sinai, and if until now I've been picky-choosy and thereby overall unfulfilled and uninspired by my Judaism, now's the time to turn it around. Now's the time to say to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, "It's just me and You. Nothing else. I'm on your side. It's going to be hard, I know that already, and I may not be able to do everything at once, but I want to. I want to be a massive Tzadik. I want to be on a spiritual high 24/7. I want to keep all of the Mitzvos all the time. First I'll say Na'aseh, I'll tell you that I want it all. The I'll say Nishma, I'll show you that bit by bit I'll make my way."
HaKadosh Baruch Hu should give us a Bracha to tap into the amazing inspiration that comes to us by standing at Ma'amad Har Sinai once again. We should have the energy and motivation to achieve our upmost in Avodas Hashem. If we can do this there is no doubt that we will live lives of Shleimus and Simcha mocing closer to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and ultimately the Geulah Sheleimah!


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The Senate for the first time has approved an openly gay black man to become a top-level federal judge.
Senators voted 98-0 on Tuesday to confirm President Barack Obama's nomination of Darrin Gayles. Gayles will be a district court judge in Florida.
By 52-44, the Senate also approved Obama's choice of a gay black woman, Staci Yandle, to serve as a district judge in Illinois. While that is not a first, the White House said Yandle's confirmation meant Obama has now appointed more female judges than any other president.
In a third roll call, the Senate voted 92-4 to make Salvador Mendoza a federal district judge in Washington state. The White House said Obama has appointed the most Hispanics to the federal bench of any president.
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As an independent consultant, you have the freedom to work with various businesses and control your own work schedule, but, with this freedom sometimes comes a lack of opportunities you would have as an employee in a traditional workplace. One of the issues that is not provided to a self-employed contractor is a retirement plan. With a variety of options and ways to save for retirement, you can financially prepare for your retirement with the proper plan and knowledge.
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Determining how to save and how much you need to save can be one of the biggest obstacles in planning for your retirement, but, you need to break this down simply and on a manageable basis. If you wanted to have $1 million after 30 years, you would need to invest $1,025 per month in an account that makes an average of 6% a year in interest. The more time an investment has to grow, the more it will increase in compound interest. In the example above, the $1,025 per month investment over 30 years would result in a total of $369,000 in total contributions. Earning 6% a year for 30 years would accrue total interest of $635,385, or nearly twice the amount originally invested. Typically, most people saving for retirement cannot divert a large portion of their income into retirement, especially in the early stages of their careers. A more prudent method would be to increase the retirement savings level as your income increases. You could do this by automatically deducting a certain percentage of your pay every month into your retirement savings account. As your income increases, so does your savings amount, in a proportional way.
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If the Truth Be Told
Accounts in Literary Forms
2016 - 250 pages
ISBN Paperback: 9789463004541 ($ 28.00)
Subject: Art-Based Research, Social Fiction
Number 19 of the series: Social Fictions SeriesFree Preview If the Truth Be Told
If the Truth Be Told: Accounts in Literary Forms plays with the sense of truth. It is composed of six chapters, "Childhood Dangers," "Relational Logics," "Jesus Chronicles," "Criminal Tales," "Aging, Illness, and Death Lessons," and "Telling Truths." Each chapter includes fictional and nonfictional accounts, including poems, stories, monologues, short dramas, essays, creative nonfiction, and mixed genres, to address each chapter's subject. Pieces are based on the author's personal experiences, newspapers accounts, and purely fictional accounts (all revealed in an appendix at the end of the book).
Moving through the book from beginning to end, readers may or may not know whether they are reading a nonfictional or fictional text. Pelias intentionally subverts assumptions readers may have in reading the different pieces in order to blur the boundaries of what counts as evidence, what might be accepted as truth, what might be of use in everyday lives. In this vein, Pelias invites readers to consider what they value and why. As an engaging compilation of literary works, this book can be read by anyone simply for pleasure.
If Truth Be Told can also be used in any number of college courses in communication, creative writing, cultural studies, ethics, narrative inquiry, philosophy, psychology, sociology and qualitative inquiry. The book includes an extensive appendix with general and chapter-by-chapter discussion questions.
"In this remarkable new work Ron Pelias offers us touching, lyrical accounts of both the profound and the everyday. Indeed, the joy of If the Truth Be Told is how Pelias conveys these simultaneously, the one through the other: the intensity in the mundane, the ordinary in the complex. Through the detailed attention he gives to both content and form--his discerning observational eye and his keen grasp of the intricacies of literary form and voice--he takes us into the range of human experience: from the ache and loss of ageing to bitter-sweet childhood episodes, from the strains and refrains of domestic relating to questions of faith and belief, from horror to sadness to laughter to love, and more. We accompany him into the universality of our little lives and he leaves us somewhere other than where we were. The book is a joy. Read, write, teach, live."
-- Jonathan Wyatt, Edinburgh University
"If the truth be told, I'd say that Ron Pelias recognizes and shows readers that truth is a slippery subject. Using poems, plays, stories, monologues, short dramas, and essays, he provides a vision of truth-telling as a caring, humane, and ethically demanding quest as well as a shifting, illusive, and sometimes frustrating struggle. Blending fiction and nonfiction, personal narratives and newspaper accounts, and autoethnography and ethnography, Pelias creates literary texts that eloquently represent the quandaries of childhood, religion, violence, relationships, aging, retirement, illness, death, and telling truths. In the process, Pelias becomes a conversational partner for the reader, modeling a perceptive, introspective, and caring manner of coping with the challenges of truth-telling through the life cycle. If the truth be told, I'd confess that I found myself in many of the stories he told; I anticipate that other readers will as well, and we'll all be better for it. If the Truth Be Told solidifies Pelias's standing as a wise and creative writer par excellence."
-- Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida
"Everyone should read this book. Pelias glides so easily back and forth, between poetry and prose, between memory and imagination, between his (genuine) gentle heart and his (imagined) criminal mind, between essay and parody, between script and quip, between loving us all with the light that shines forth from our depths and skewering us with the darkness that sometimes engulfs our hearts…that we quickly begin to glide with him, to develop a groove, to fall into the rhythm of his words. This is a remarkable book, a human journey that does not weary, though it is at times strenuous. You will not be disappointed. Buy this book. Read it. My bet is that you will want to read it again. And again …."
-- Christopher N. Poulos, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"In conversation when one uses the interjection 'If the truth be told,' it is typically accompanied by an admission of one's true feelings. This interjection rhetorically clears the discursive field to allow the individual to state something that he or she might otherwise not say, or might even lie about in order to be polite or to maintain appearances. Pelias' If the Truth Be Told explores the blurry zone between the fictive and the factual implied by this interjection by placing emphasis more on the conjunction 'if' and less on any certain 'truth.' Through an array of writing strategies—poems, micro dramas, monologues, essays, flash fiction, and literary nonfiction—he draws upon his life, other's experiences, and his imagination to put into play a myriad of speaker's perspectives in order to illuminate with deft precision and concision the stakes and challenges in telling any truth. For anyone interested in learning how to poetically and creatively capture the human experience, If the Truth Be Told is a must read. Each tale richly satisfies yet whets the desire for more; the only solution is to keep reading right through to the end."
-- Lesa Lockford, Bowling Green State University
"Pierced with vivid and vulnerable description, emerging optimism, and inconclusive resolution, Pelias offers an incomparable model of autoethnographic and performative inquiry, as well as a remarkable account of an accomplished life."
-- Tony E. Adams, Northeastern Illinois University
Ronald J. Pelias has spent his career working with the fusion of performance, literature, and qualitative methods in an ongoing search for truths that provide momentary places of rest.


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President of Bechem United Kingsley Owusu Achiaw is disappointed over the decision to choose the Accra sports stadium for their CAF Confederation cup campaign.
He made the comments following the poor attendance for their first leg game against Algerian side MC Alger last Sunday with Bechem reported to have rake in paltry 1,900 cedis as gate proceeds.
According to him, using the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi would have been a better option than the Accra Stadium.
"Kumasi is far better than Accra. Kumasi is closer to Bechem our base, and the supporters would have increased in numbers," Achiaw told Kumasi-based Bohye FM.
Bechem fought hard to secure a slim 2-1 win over the Algerians ahead of the second leg this week.


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Many schools in Delhi, which are likely to be affected by police arrangements due to the full dress rehearsal of Independence Day celebrations tomorrow, will start at 10 am to avoid any inconvenience to the students, a communication said.
The directorate of education (DoE) has issued the directive to schools following Delhi Traffic Police's recommendation in this regard.
"The full dress rehearsal of the Independence Day celebrations will be held tomorrow. Therefore, in order to avoid inconvenience to students, the schools in the affected areas will be opened at 10 am tomorrow instead of the regular timings," the communication to schools by the Delhi government said.
"The schools which are likely to be affected by heavy police arrangements will be the ones adjacent to Ring Road from ISBT to Rajghat, JLN Marg from Raj Ghat to Ranjit Singh flyover, Asaf Ali road, Church Mission road, SPM Marg, Pul Duffrin North, Zoravar Singh Marg and Yamuna Bazar up to Hanuman Sethu," it added.
The celebrations for the 72nd Independence Day will be held at the Red Fort.
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Aphasia after stroke is associated with high mortality and severe motor, social, and cognitive disability. During the past decade, therapies administered by stroke teams have made great strides to limit the damage due to a stroke. Progress in aphasia rehabilitation has not experienced the same rapid advancement. This proposal is based on evidence from children and adults provided by us and others suggesting that the brain may have untapped potential for recovery of aphasia after stroke. The first step toward accessing that potential and the overall aim of this proposal is to understand how the neural circuitry supporting language functions responds to acute ischemic injury in order to restore language functions. Further, we will take the next step of testing the impact of a new therapeutic strategy on aphasia recovery and on the plasticity of the underlying neural circuitry of language. By administering an intervention, we will provide clinical and neuroimaging evidence that constraint-induced aphasia therapy (CIAT) positively affects language recovery after stroke. The findings will have implications for understanding of the differences in language plasticity between different age groups and for the design of effective treatment interventions. To fill the gap in our knowledge we propose a study with the following specific aims: (1) In young and old adults we will map longitudinal changes in language activation patterns and determine language localization and lateralization using fMRI after LMCA stroke. We will compare the language activation patterns between the groups of adults with those found in children with perinatal and postnatal stroke from our previous studies;(2) In dextral and non-dextral LMCA stroke patients, we will map changes in language activation using fMRI, assess the differences in post-stroke language recovery between these groups, and determine whether non- dextral patients exhibit a) more symmetric or right-lateralized language distribution as compared to dextral patients, b) whether the changes in lateralization correlate with recovery from aphasia, and c) whether these patients activate additional language processing and production areas;and (3) We will demonstrate via a pilot study that CIAT administered 1 year after the incident stroke positively influences recovery of chronic aphasia after stroke when compared to traditional care. We will apply CIAT and use fMRI and neuropsychological measures to document the relationship between the clinical and anatomical correlates of post-stroke language recovery in dextral and non-dextral LMCA stroke patients.
Project narrative Loss of language functions after stroke (aphasia) is one of the most feared symptoms of stroke. Language is a fundamentally human cognitive function. Without it, our social and economic status in society is tremendously impaired. Highly productive members of the society who lose language capability due to a stroke are often devastated and may not be able to re-enter social and professional life at the pre-stroke level. In this study we will examine the changes the brain undergoes while recovering from an aphasia-causing stroke, the mechanisms that underlie such recovery, and test the efficacy of a new and promising method of aphasia rehabilitation called constraint-induced aphasia therapy.
|Griffis, Joseph C; Nenert, Rodolphe; Allendorfer, Jane B et al. (2017) Linking left hemispheric tissue preservation to fMRI language task activation in chronic stroke patients. Cortex 96:1-18
|Griffis, Joseph C; Nenert, Rodolphe; Allendorfer, Jane B et al. (2017) Damage to white matter bottlenecks contributes to language impairments after left hemispheric stroke. Neuroimage Clin 14:552-565
|Griffis, Joseph C; Nenert, Rodolphe; Allendorfer, Jane B et al. (2017) The canonical semantic network supports residual language function in chronic post-stroke aphasia. Hum Brain Mapp 38:1636-1658
|Griffis, Joseph C; Allendorfer, Jane B; Szaflarski, Jerzy P (2016) Voxel-based Gaussian naïve Bayes classification of ischemic stroke lesions in individual T1-weighted MRI scans. J Neurosci Methods 257:97-108
|Allendorfer, Jane B; Hernando, Kathleen A; Hossain, Shyla et al. (2016) Arcuate fasciculus asymmetry has a hand in language function but not handedness. Hum Brain Mapp 37:3297-309
|Vannest, Jennifer; Maloney, Thomas; Kay, Benjamin et al. (2015) Age related-changes in the neural basis of self-generation in verbal paired associate learning. Neuroimage Clin 7:537-46
|Gregory, A M; Nenert, R; Allendorfer, J B et al. (2015) The effect of medial temporal lobe epilepsy on visual memory encoding. Epilepsy Behav 46:173-84
|Szaflarski, Jerzy P; Ball, Angel L; Vannest, Jennifer et al. (2015) Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy for Treatment of Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Randomized, Blinded, Controlled Pilot Trial. Med Sci Monit 21:2861-9
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|Nenert, Rodolphe; Allendorfer, Jane B; Szaflarski, Jerzy P (2014) A model for visual memory encoding. PLoS One 9:e107761
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We have seen that Kiss Me Kate puts a scripted spanking scene into a play that doesn't have one, The Taming of the Shrew. But we have also seen that Shrew sometimes, though far from invariably, includes an unscripted spanking scene as a matter of long-standing stage tradition. So what happens when the Shrew production featured in Kiss Me Kate is already following that stage tradition?
The obvious and pleasing answer is… that Lilli Vanessi gets spanked twice!
And, yes, it really has happened. It may, indeed, be a venerable tradition in its own right: according to newspaper reports, Joy Turpin was 'spanked hard twice' by Hayes Gordon in the original Australian production back in 1952. I can't show you either spanking, if there really were two, but here she is being smacked:
And here's another moment that's not a spanking, but isn't entirely irrelevant either:
Whatever really happened in 1950s Australia, we're on surer ground when we reach the 1992 production by the Community Theater Company of Easthampton on Long Island. Don Gettinger plays Fred, Jo Carney is Lilli, and the Shrew production features the customary wooing scene spanking when Petruchio is telling Kate she has no choice but to marry him:
After which Mr Graham perhaps feels the need to up the stakes a little when ensuring that Miss Vanessi gets what she's been asking for – which means spanking her with something a little more fearsome than the palm of his hand:
There are several other cases where we come very close to a double spanking, but don't quite make it. In 1982, for instance, at the South River High School, Edgewater, Maryland, Fred first takes her OTK to threaten her with the paddling of her life …
… then does it again to give it to her:
A disappointingly swift blackout there, but otherwise some pleasingly vigorous action!
There's a similar pattern to the 2002 production by Broadhollow Players of New York. It's not actually a spanking the first time round, but he does get her over the table:
And then…
The 2002 production at the Odyssey Academy of Rochester, New York, has a very exciting initial OTK. There's no actual spanking, but keep watching for a smack after he tumbles her off, followed by some more terrific business with her face down on the table:
And the spanking is in the same vein:
Here's what appears to be a slightly peculiar student exercise, with New Yorker Lauren E. Krauss playing Lilli in modern dress. What's odd about is that Lilli gets smacked, then put across Fred's knee and not spanked. So far, so familiar… but when it comes to the cue for the spanking, he just carries her off the stage:
It's not just schools, students and amateur theater that give Kiss Me Kate a second spanking; it has happened in a high-end professional production too, at the 2008 Glimmerglass Opera Festival production at Cooperstown, New York. Yes, New York again! But in other respects we must expect the unexpected.
The show starred Brad Little as Fred and Lisa Vroman in an unconventional Shrew costume that seems to be channeling Batgirl:
At least it helps make up for some rather weak and awkward positioning for the spanking:
And it certainly didn't offer the same degree of bottom protection as the usual full skirt and layers of petticoats.
But like the others featured in this article, the production had a second treat in store for us, and in an unaccustomed place. Because after Kate arrived at Petruchio's house, hungry for her dinner, guess where she wound up…
That's so much better than the first spanking – so hurrah for the Shrew/Kate Spanking Doppler Effect!


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This is a quick one dear readers. The Annual Old Pre Meds Conference has been set for Orlando Florida in June. But, there is more good news..........
The Old Pre Meds NorthEast Regional Conference is set for March 18, 2012 at UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, NJ.
The school is in Southern NJ just outside of Philadelphia. So far there are 3 confirmed speakers and once I get everything fully confirmed I will post.


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Reza Yadollahvand1* and Haji Gholi Kami2
1Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Nour, Iran
2Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran
Received Date: March 24, 2014; Accepted Date: April 28, 2014; Published Date: May 30, 2014
Citation: Yadollahvand R, Kami HG (2014) Habitat Changes and its Impacts on the Caspian Pond Turtle (Mauremys caspica) Population in the Golestan and Mazandaran Provinces of Iran. J Aquac Res Development 5:232 doi:10.4172/2155-9546.1000232
Copyright: © 2014 Yadollahvand R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Habitat Changes and its Impacts on the Caspian Pond Turtle (Mauremys caspica) Population in the Golestan and Mazandaran Provinces of Iran
The Mauremys caspica (Gmelin 1774) belongs to the Geoemydidae is a medium-sized freshwater turtle that is widespread throughout the Middle East [1]. In Iran the Caspian Pond Turtle, is widely distributed in the north, west and south-west of country [2-4]. While the species is still common in many parts of its range, landscape alteration, pollution and intensification of water management in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran are increasingly threatening the survival of many populations [1]. In this study, 118 specimens were collected from 23 stations (Figure 1) including lakes, rivers, ponds, pools and fish farms in Golestan (72 specimens) and Mazandaran (46 specimens) provinces during 2011- 2012. At different stations, depending on environmental conditions, various tools such as long-handled net gillnet by small mesh, a number of small fish for bait was used for sampling and sometimes turtles were captured by hand. Habitat of this species is often covered by canebrake and bed is marshy and muddy. Sex was determined by visual observation of morphological characteristics. Of 118 specimens of Mauremys caspica, 62 specimens were males and 56 specimens were females. In males and females, maximum straight carapace length frequency was between 96.93–119.80 and 174.53–199.41 respectively. In over than 30% of specimens, necrosis and tissue destruction were observed in carapace and plastron (Figure 2). Also, the turtle leech, Placobdella costata of the family Glossiphoniidae was identified from 3 specimens. Sexual ratio (male/female) did not significantly differ from 1:1 (K-squared test: K2=XX; P=0.58). By comparing the sex ratio with previous reports (1:3) in this area [4] and also according to population histogram (Figures 3 and 4), there is a change in the population which could be due to a drought in the lakes and rivers of area, in recent years and the loss a part of the population [5]. Also, factors such as increasing agricultural pesticides, heavy metals [6], acidity of the substrate and effects of fungi can be the main causes for necrosis and tissue damages that these damages have been reported on Emys orbicularis [7]. Increased consumption of turtle eggs and also use as pet can be another threat for population of this species. Local peoples believe that turtle eggs of this species have therapeutic effects.
Turtle species are indispensable for the sustenance of different ecosystems, in as much as, it works as a scavenger in different ecosystem, aquatic and terrestrial habitat in particular; thereby keep the water quality pollution free [8]. Finally, due to role and importance of turtles in nature and also reducing the population of this species in recent years because of various factors, it is necessary to take appropriate decisions to protect of this species. Use of bio-fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers, legislation prohibiting the use of turtle eggs, and to prevent the discharge of waste water from factories and manufacturing centers in water resources, are the most useful items to protect the population of these species and other aquatic fauna in this area.
We thank Najmeh Okhli and Hasan Boroughani from Golestan University and Mahmoud Ghasempouri from Tarbiat Modares University for their encouragement and help in sample collection.


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Hi all,
I have a teradata sql coding question need your help. Any idea is welcome.
My data looks like below, sort by user_id and eventtime.
user_id eventtime
1 1:00:00
1 1:30:00
1 1:45:00
1 1:50:00
1 3:00:00
2 1:00:00
2 1:30:00
2 1:45:00
Now I want to create a new variable called "prev_1h_event_cnt", which counts how many event occurred within 1 hour time window right before the eventtime on this row, for each user. E.g., for row #4, how many event occurred within 1 hour time window before 1:50:00? Count = 3. When it comes to a new user, I need to reset this count to be zero.
So the result would look like below:
user_id eventtime prev_1h_event_cnt
1 1:00:00 0
1 1:30:00 1
1 1:45:00 2
1 1:50:00 3
1 3:00:00 0
2 1:00:00 0
2 1:30:00 1
2 1:45:00 2
Please help to give some idea on how to make this happen. Greatly appreciated!
And for user_1 1 and eventtime 2:40 it should return 3, too?
I don't think there's an easy way to get this result, even a cursor or recursive query will fail.
Some fancy SQL using cross joins might work, but performance will be horrible for larger tables.
This would be a task for a cumulative count using RANGE, but this syntax is not implemented in Teradata.
Hi Vrushang,
based on the description the result should be the number of rows within 60 minutes before the current row's eventtime, i.e. a moving count (not cumulative as I wrote in my first post).
Without OLAP (but possibly very bad performance):
SELECT t1.user_id, t2.eventtime, COUNT(*) -1
FROM tab AS t1 JOIN tab AS t2
ON t1.user_id = t2.user_id
AND t1.eventtime BETWEEN t2.eventtime - INTERVAL '1' HOUR AND t2.eventtime


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I had to do something! It's hard to describe "what isn't" but I have high hopes. For now thoughts and ideas on parenting, step parenting, marriage, divorce, adoption, death and whatever else I think I may have constructive commentary on. If you have some commentary or thoughts of your own, please feel free to share!
Double the mum, double the weirdness
It's been longer than normal since I've heard via email from my bio mom. I've mailed twice this week to ask if all is well and to say it's difficult not to worry something is wrong, could she just send a quick note to say she's ok. Having experienced sudden death of loved ones twice, I know shit happens. I wait for it to happen.
Last night I received a call from an old family friend of my parents. It had been so long since I'd talked to her that she started out the conversation with, "you likely don't remember me". Of course I do remember, although I was very surprised to hear from her.
She called because she was worried something was wrong with my mom and just wanted to check in with me to see if my mom was starting to experience dementia or was perhaps over medicating herself. That the last few times they'd talked my mom hadn't seemed herself some of the time, repeating herself and forgetting previous conversations.
I really appreciated the call and we had a good talk. It wasn't the old friend's intent to worry me and although I was truly thankful for the call, it was striking to be contacted out of the blue and hear an old friend's perception of my mom's behavior. In a way it felt validating, but in another it felt a little ominous.
If something has happened to my bio mom, it will be strange. I barely know her, her family knows nothing of me. To date she's not told me who my bio father is which is something I want to know. I'd have decisions to make regarding revealing myself, an action I cannot take lightly.
I foresee looming decisions to make regarding my mom and her care and well being. I can't help but wonder how the future will play out, or if the future is now.
Strange times these.
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I hope you hear from your silent mom soon, and that everything is ok with your other mom. How hard the unknowing is ~ and to have to deal with two different kinds of unknowing with two different kinds of moms...ReplyDelete
Sending you some positive vibes to get you through all of this!
I hope everything is OK, Campbell.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2011 at 5:22 PM
That must be so difficult to have so many unanswered questions. I hope you get the answers.ReplyDelete
I hope you hear something soon, Campbell. And I hope your Mom is OK.ReplyDelete
Thanks you guys. You're all very kind.ReplyDelete
I did call bio mom last night and am about to post on it.
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Insights Into Bloggers
With blogs becoming an increasingly popular way for Internet users to get information, it is interesting to see where this content is coming from and who's writing it. SYSOMOS has recently released the findings of an interesting study about the blogosphere using data gathered through their social media monitoring and analytics platform. They analyzed more than 100 million blog posts that provided information about their age, gender and location information. Here are some interesting findings:
Age – Not surprisingly, the most active bloggers are younger people who have grown up during the blogging "revolution", which started about seven years ago. Bloggers in the 21-to-35 year-old demographic group account for 53.3% of the total blogging population. This group is followed by the generation just behind them – people 20-years-old or under are 20.2% of the blogging landscape. This group is closely followed by 36-to-50 year-olds (19.4%) , while bloggers who are 51-years-old and older only account for 7.1%.
Gender – The difference between genders in the blogosphere is balanced with women making up 50.9% and males 49.1% of bloggers. This suggests the Internet is a gender neutral environment.
Location – It should not be much of a surprise that the most bloggers (29.2%) are located in the U.S. In fact, there are more than four times as many bloggers in the U.S. as there are in the second most populated country within the blogosphere – the U.K., which is home to 6.75% of bloggers. Japan accounts for the third-most bloggers (4.9%), followed by Brazil (4.2%), Canada (3.9%), Germany (3.3%), Italy (3.2%), Spain (3.1%), France (2.9%) and Russia (2.3%). India is contributes just 2.14% of the bloggers.
What do you think of these findings? Any surprises?


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After a while, American consumers just seemed to give up expecting a fair deal. Candy bars are smaller than they used to be, Girl Scout cookies come in smaller packages, even products that we grew up trusting are getting smaller and costing more. All of this reminds me of the assassination of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate where he was stabbed to death by people he thought he could trust. His last words are said to have been: *** "Et tu, Brute?"*** which is Latin for ***"And you too, Brutus???!!!" *** Centuries later, this famous tragedy is a perfect lead-in to my review of **Scott Rapid-Dissolving Bath Tissue**.
**Betrayed with My Pants Down!**
With rare exception, I have bought virtually nothing but **Scott** paper products for the last four decades -- almost as long as I have maintained my own household. I was a foot soldier in a vast army of consumers who believed that the name **"Scott"** on bath tissue was like "sterling" on silver. I would pass up special deals and generous coupons on other brands, just to remain loyal to **Scott Tissue**. In fact, I was happy with the product up until the last year when something nobody seems to understand has happened to compromise the quality of this erstwhile fine brand. The rolls of any type of **Scott tissue** are suddenly smaller than they used to be, are quickly used up, and worse yet seem to be comprised of weirdly textured paper which lacks durability. Even Scott Extra Soft Tissue is not as gentle as it once was and also promotes clogging of drains. Like Julius Caesar bleeding to death on the floor of the Senate, I feel betrayed, bamboozled ... I've been **HAD** ... and now all I can say is ***"And you TOO, Kimberly-Clark?"***
**Not Just a Voice Crying Out in the Desert, Either.**
As of a week ago, I still hadn't given up on **Scott paper** products and so it came to pass that I was suckered in for one last time to buy **Scott Rapid-Dissolving Bath Tissue**. Although this product is specifically designed for toilets on RV's and boats, I thought it might be a good thing to try out in my condo because whoever built our building years ago used cheap pipes for the plumbing and we tend to have a problem with occasional clogs.
When I accessed **Scottbrand.com** the other day to research **Scott Rapid-Dissolving Bath Tissue**, I was surprised to see a whole flock of complaining letters from an unhappy forum whose anguished narratives made Caesar's last cries seem downright philosophical and resigned by comparison. It's not just me -- **No**, the people have spoken and a lot of them are going to start buying other brands of toilet paper in the future.
**Scott Rapid-Dissolving Bath Tissue** has done nothing to restore my rapid-diminishing faith in Kimberly-Clark. I've got to say that, in the last analysis, I don't give a rat's ass what kind of effect it had on our pipes, I probably won't buy any kind of **Scott Tissue** again. I'm only giving it two stars and I only gave it **that** much because of an even **worse** experience I had years ago, in my first apartment, when I totally ran out of toilet paper and had nothing else to use for one whole night except wrapping tissue paper printed with "*Santa Claus is Coming to Town*." After all this time, I still remember what **THAT** paper felt like and **Scott Rapid-Dissolving Bath Tissue** is better than **that** was.
It's better than a page torn out of an old catalogue!
Lasts long enough to get the job done but is designed to break up quickly once it is in water.
It's okay, I guess.


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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Garena DropKick!
1. Unpack DropHackDLL.dll and DropHackRun.exe into your Warcraft III installation dirrectory.
2. Run Warcraft III
3. Run DropHackRun.exe and press "Inject" button, "Ijection SUCCESFULL!!" message will apear and DropHack dialog window. Now u can close Drophack Starter.
4. Create game in Warcraft III. When any player join to your host in DropHack dialog window will be enabled button with that player nickname, click on it to kick this player from your host.
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The Blizzard loading screen tooltip says something like, "Take everything in moderation, including World of Warcraft!" Hence, the creation of Tuesday maintenance days. Also known as: "You WILL give our servers a much needed break!!" I hear that even Ragnaros is complaining about the constant flow of raiders maiming, beating and killing their way towards his sanctum already.
In other news today. Sol has officially announced his retirement to his guild leader, and passed the family reins on to that fiesty dwarf hunter, Khrox. This didn't come as a surpirse to the guild, whom long expected the transition. There were a few laughs to go around, but overall there was a strong sense of understanding and support. Just some of the many things which make DUT such a great guild.
Khrox has boldly stepped up to the tasks at hand. He's proven to be a work-horse. A strong supporter of and leading contributor to the guild. He makes his rounds with a form of calculated precision and swiftness, while still hungering for more. Hmmm, 25 dailys? Is that all? He could easily double that without even breaking a sweat. Soloing and farming dungeons, hrumphhh. A walk in the park. Why just yesterday, a rather typical day for this BM hunter, 25/25 dailys, 90 achievement points, 30 honorable kills, 7 soloed dungeons, several hundred thousand points contributed towards guild level advancement, a good sized batch of DE fodder gathered for one guild mate and plans to assist another with some dungeon runs to gear and help level him. And this somewhat crazy dwarf was still looking for more to do?
A good part of this has to do with the class and spec, or so I think. BM dwarf hunters are just awesome, and only get better the more you learn how to play them. True though, any class/spec you play well seems and is awesome. It's finding that class/spec that "clicks" for you which can be a long journey constantly in progess.
When Khrox first came into the family, his intended roles were simply to provide some additional bank space, and dabble in the collection of rare pets. Those roles were his mainstay untill level 60, when he suddenly burst into maturity and started to really show his strengths. Before lvl 60, it was all fun and games. Outland and Northrend though were viewed as horrible grinds to run out of necessity. The straw that broke the camel's back though. Khrox hit up only those zones which were above level for him and stormed his way through them to reach 80. He left many things behind in his wake, undone. 80-85 was fun and challenging again. Four of the five zones were completed to achievement level, two of them were completely drained of quests. Along the way, mastering the class/spec was priority bound.
Well, I should think that I've babbled on enough for now. There is no real point to this post, nor is there any earth-shattering useful information to be had. If anything could possibly be considered useful here, it's that underlying thought about finding a class/spec that fits YOU, then don't forget to have fun mastering said class/spec. There are soooo many possibilities. And, don't be afraid of "Change." It is a constant entity, always around you.
Now get out there and reek havoc throughout Azeroth.......and beyond!


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Huawei takes aim at global laptop and tablet computer markets
Huawei's latest generation of Matebook products began selling in China on Wednesday
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Huawei Technologies, one of the world's top three smartphone makers, is bent on expanding its footprint in the laptop and tablet computer segment to mount a challenge against global rivals after launching its latest Matebooks on the mainland.
Wan Biao, chief operating officer of Huawei's consumer business group, said the company would currently focus on "efforts to make the laptops sell well," a move to help the Chinese technology giant to expand revenue sources.
"Our strong sales growth was driven by Huawei's substantial investment in design and manufacturing," he said. "The investment paid off as consumers were convinced of the quality and customer experience."
Sales of Huawei's laptops and tablet computers jumped 70 per cent in the first quarter from a year ago, bucking the downward trend in the global laptop and personal computer market.
Huawei did not reveal the absolute sales figure for the laptop segment.
Wan declined to disclose a sales target on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Asia in Shanghai on Wednesday.
Worldwide, shipments of laptops and personal computers dropped 6.2 per cent in 2016 to 269 million units, the first time that annual PC shipments has fallen below 300 million units.
For the first quarter, worldwide PC shipments dropped 2.4 per cent to 62.2 million units.
"Huawei could report growth due to its low base, and it could also bank on its established brand awareness to boost sales," said Xin Haidong, an independent IT analyst. "Developing the PC segment is obviously part of its global strategy."
In May Huawei unveiled three new Matebook products in Berlin, its latest efforts to bolster the PC business.
Huawei debuts in the laptop world with three new models
The Matebooks which began selling on the mainland on Wednesday are targeted at the mid-range market.
Huawei said the new Matebooks would complement its smartphones, wearables and smart internet of things solutions.
"They represent Huawei's ambitions of becoming a horizontal consumer electronics giant in the world," said Xin. "Huawei has already had qualified vendors to ensure supply of the major parts of the products."
Huawei introduced its first Matebooks in 2016.
The three new Matebooks include Matebook X, an easy-to-carry 13-inch fanless laptop starting from 6,988 yuan (US$1,027), a 2-in-1 tablet Matebook E priced at between 4,988 yuan and 7,388 yuan and Matebook D, a 15.6-inch laptop starting from 4,988 yuan.
Huawei shipped 34.55 million smartphones in the first quarter of 2017, up 21.6 per cent from the same period a year earlier.
It trailed Samsung and Apple worldwide.
In 2016, the company's shipments of smartphones hit 139 million units.
Richard Yu Chengdong, chief executive of Huawei's consumer business group, said earlier that the Chinese company aimed to become the world's second-largest maker of smartphones in two years.
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The Video...
I had the privilege of participating in Asbury Church's Belize Mission Trip. We were in Orange Walk, Belize from Jan. 21st - Jan. 28th, 2012. As you watch the video, I hope you are blessed with the realization that we can all make a difference... even if it's a little at a time. Prayers are powerful... Healings occurred as a result of prayers... for me and others from our Asbury Team and members of El Buen Pastor. We were blessed with having a heavenly presence captured on camera during our women's Tuesday night foot washing (You'll see it in the video). As I examined the photo, the exposure is crisp, with undulating cloudiness... like angel's wings. This was definitely not the result of a long exposure with a blurred image! I pray this video blesses you and opens your heart to receive the amazing plans God has for you, to receive the blessings God wants to give you, and to receive what God wants you to do with each of these!
Belize 2012 from Holly Van Gilder on Vimeo.
Many of the pictures from this video can be seen larger and longer in the slideshow at the bottom of this page.
On This Trip...
We were blessed with the deepening of previous relationships, both within our group and the people of El Buen Pastor Church and Louisiana Government School. We were so blessed to be a part of the dedication service at El Buen Pastor, seeing our efforts of helping to expand their church complete... until they grow even more!
Through contributions and donations from fund-raisers & various "drives," we were able to contribute: To El Buen Pastor, a fountain, engraved stones (marking the relationship between Asbury & Buen Pastor), a new church sound system, a "Good Shepherd" quilted banner, 5 constructed & finished church pews; for a member of Buen Pastor, we painted the interior and exterior of his home; a widowed member of Buen Pastor received 2 doors & 10 windows and the paid services of a carpenter to install them in her home; The Louisiana Government School (a couple of blocks from the church) received 5 instruments - Violin, Flute, Clarinet, Trombone and Baritone Horn, along with soccer balls for their sports programs; The Dental Team provided 80 children with preventive care sealants and restorative care in fillings and extractions, in addition to distributing hundreds of toothbrushes, toothpaste & floss the the children of Louisiana Gov't. School; The Asbury Team headed up a 4-day after-school Bible School in a few of the Louisiana Gov't. School's classrooms, thanks to their generosity; Asbury also led a Children's Church Service Sunday morning, Led a separate Men's & Women's Tuesday Night Bible Study and hosted 50 women from the community at Buen Pastor for a Spa Day; To an orphanage, we were able to donate over 150 lbs. of clothing and supplies for the children.


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Friday, August 21, 2015
Poppyseed Wall/Shelf Decor
These art blocks and art cubes are a new product that I have been working on for the past few days. Art blocks are approximately 3.5" x 3.5" x 1.75" big and the cubes are 2.5" across.
Blocks are ready to be wall mounted but much as the cubes make adorable shelf or wall accessory. Each cube features six unique mini pieces of art and you can rotate the images to fit your mood and decor. As this is a new product I would appreciate any sort of feedback you can share. Good or bad as long as it is honest. It will be much appreciated. If you don't feel like leaving the comment on the wall, please feel free to drop me a line at email@example.com.
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Alberta Slip
Low temperature, fine-grained, medium plastic, dark brown burning clay that melts to form glossy rich beanpot brown slip glazes at high fire reduction (cone 10) and a glossy transparent brown glaze around cone 6 oxidation (with a 20% boron frit addition e.g. Ferro 3134).
Albany Slip was long a 'standard' within the North American pottery community. It was a silty glacial clay that melted easily at high temperatures to form a 'natural glaze'. With a little frit, feldspar, lithium carbonate, or gerstley borate, it produced a wide range of earth tone glazes in middle fire oxidation. Albany Slip responded well to coloring oxides and stains to produce deep blacks, browns and even blues and it produced a low thermal expansion (to avoid crazing). At cone 10R with only a small iron addition excellent tenmoku surfaces were possible. In the late 1980s Hamill and Gillespie Co. discontinued Albany Slip leaving thousands of users with less than ideal alternatives.
In 1988 we formulated Alberta Slip as the first widely available substitute material and published the process we used to do it. It had the same chemistry and very similar firing properties as an average sample of Albany Slip (the material was somewhat variable). Alberta Slip has been proven over many years and is used by people across North America to make many stunning glazes. Other substitutes have appeared from time to time but no others have had the success of this material.
Alberta Slip has its own website at http://albertaslip.com, it has lots of recipes and pictures and instructions on how to roast (or calcine) it (it is a must-read for all users). Digitalfire.com also has an article about how it was formulated and an information page.
All of these mugs are made from glazes whose major component is either Alberta Slip or Ravenscrag Slip. They are all fired at cone 10R.
Process Properties
In our studio we use pure Alberta Slip as a glaze at cone 10R. We mix it using equal weights of water and a 60:40 roasted:raw mix of Alberta Slip powder. This produces a specific gravity of about 1.40. We then add Epsom Salts to gel the mix slightly, this provides the best application properties (this must be done carefully in order to no over-gel). To make a more viscous slurry we use about a mix of about 90:100 water:powder, this produces a specific gravity of about 1.45. This applies well without needing to be gelled, but it can go on too thick (and more dripping will occur).
Like classic Albany Slip, Alberta Slip begins melting at middle temperatures and by cone 10 it produces a glossy brown in oxidation and a tenmoku in reduction. One of the major advantages of this material is the ease with which it can be adapted to different temperatures. 20% frit produces very good melting at cone 6 and 50% melts at cone 06.
Since it is basically a clay material, it generates a significant amount of gases as it decomposes during melting. However despite this it can produce stunningly smooth and defect-free surfaces (we do not have a good explanation for this).
There are some coarser particles in the material so always sieve your glazes through 80 mesh or finer before use (the increased effort to screen finer than 80 mesh is not generally worth the trouble).Since Alberta Slip is a plastic clay it dries hard but has an associated shrinkage, that means you may need to roast part of the Alberta Slip powder (see the preparation page at AlbertaSlip.com for details). As a raw material its plasticity makes it an ideal base for 'slip glazes' for use on leather-hard ware.
Like Albany Slip, Alberta Slip has a low thermal expansion. Thus glazes will tend to be craze free. Glazes having significant lithium carbonate can lower the expansion enough to produce shivering. Using this with materials containing high K2O/Na2O can produce glazes that craze (especially on porcelains).
Our melt flow tests show that Alberta Slip displays the same characteristic blistering as Albany in fast firings, however, it does not melt quite as vigorously (although it does flow as well). In addition, Alberta slip is not as inherently fine and silty as Albany. Alberta slip will tend to gel glaze suspensions a little more than Albany did and it does not deflocculate easily.
Glaze Recipes
A range of glaze recipes for Cone 10 and 6 can be found at this material's dedicated web site: AlbertaSlip.com.
Since Alberta Slip fires by itself to a dark gloss at cone 10, it is an ideal base for dark shiny colors (requiring the help of a flux at lower temperatures). Alberta Slip provides one of the best ways to create difficult-to-make black glazes. As little as 2-5% combined cobalt oxide, copper oxide, black stain, etc. can be employed to make range of excellent glossy blacks. The more fluid the glaze (i.e. more frit) the more the likelihood of crystalline effects. Saturating the color can produce gunmetal blacks.
This is a clay, if used raw in high percentages, it can crack during drying
In the past variegated crystal green glazes were made with addition of around 5% rutile to Albany Slip (and frit if needed). This works also with Alberta slip. The classic cone 6 variegated brown recipe using Albany with 10 lithium carbonate, 5% tin works well with Alberta Slip.
Visit the following page for information on variegating, opacifying and coloring glazes: Variegating Glazes.
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H450 mugs fired at cone 10R with pure Alberta Slip on the outsides, G1947U transparent (left) and pure Ravenscrag Slip on the insides. By Tony Hansen.
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IN THE BEGINNING, there is water, or an image of water; light and darkness moving over the face of the deep. We see a man tumbling towards us, like some fallen angel moving through water rather than air; then we see that same man, apparently come to rest on the grubby first-floor balcony of an art-house cinema just a little like the Hillhead Salon. The balcony belongs to the cinema bar, the Elite; and our hero, or anti-hero, stands waiting for the faint glimmer of sun – just a couple of minutes a day – that occasionally lights the horizon of the city where he now dwells.
These are the opening moments of Alasdair Gray's Lanark, as reimagined by writer David Greig and director Graham Eatough, for this mighty new four-hour stage version of the novel, which was first published in 1981 – although, since we are dealing here with a great post-modernist dedicated to the disruption of form, we begin not at the chronological beginning of the tale, but at the start of what the novel calls Book 3, and Greig calls Act 2, when our hero's life as a young, asthmatic and eczema-ridden would-be artist called Duncan Thaw, in the relatively familiar setting of postwar Glasgow, has reached a crisis that leads to the transition – drowning, rebirth or shift to a parallel universe – that we have just glimpsed.
It's this huge imaginative leap – from an all-too recognisable mid-20th century Glasgow of war and rationing, limited horizons and endless petty agonies and sexual humiliations, to the dystopian fantasy-vision of a future Glasgow called Unthank – that gives Alasdair Gray's great novel its huge, transformative significance in late 20th century Scottish literature, not least because it so clearly links the conventional 20th century narratives of working-class Scottish life to some of the great emerging global genres of the 21st century – to science fiction and fantasy, to dystopian narratives of environmental collapse driven by monstrous corporate greed, and to the idea, less well established in 1981 than today, of parallel universes which are both familiar, and profoundly, strangely different.
And it's because it embraces and explores all those genres with such confidence and flair, while never losing sight of the essential narrative of Lanark/Thaw/Gray's astonishing journey, that Greig and Eatough's new stage version – co-produced by the Edinburgh International Festival and the Citizens' Theatre – comes so close to the impossible goal of doing full justice to this magnificent novel. The linchpin of the production is Sandy Grierson's astonishing performance as Lanark himself: thoughtful, self-absorbed, sometimes childlike, yet sexually and creatively driven, and – crucially – possessed of a physical precision and atheticism that enables him to switch in an instant between naturalism, and a much more stylised, metaphorical sense of Lanark's journey.
Grierson is supported every step of the way, though, by so many other strands of Eatough's astonishing production. There's Jessica Hardwick's terrific matching performance as Rima, the Eve to Lanark's Adam, and the defining woman of his life, often given the freedom completely to contradict Lanark's version of his own narrative. There's the superb ensemble work of a company of ten actors who are also great Scottish theatre-makers, many of them deeply linked to the wave of unstoppable cultural change in Scotland that began in the early 1980's; the company includes Gerry Mulgrew, George Drennan, Louise Ludgate, Paul Thomas Hickey and Andy Clark, alongside a trio of younger actors.
And there is the constant, inventive stream of shifting imagery, both visual and aural, delivered by designer Laura Hopkins, lighting designer Nigel Edwards, video artist Simon Wainwright, and composer and sound designer Nick Powell, who created a "supergroup " of musicians influenced by Gray's work to conjure up on scenes like the unforgettable 50's-style "Unthank Jazz" sequence, with superb choreography by EJ Boyle; there's also an inspired use of video, and of the old song Ca' The Yowes Tae The Knowes, to conjure up the vague remembered glimpses of Glasgow that haunt Lanark when he reaches the brave new world of The Institute, a hospital-like, pseudo-Utopian circle of hell that also features in Act 2 of the story.
Just here and there, there's perhaps a slight sense of this huge scene-by-scene ingenuity acting as a substitute for a deep analysis of Gray's themes: then again, an understandable tendency to rely a little too heavily on Grierson's charismatic central performance, in a way that slightly diminishes Gray's intense scepticism about Thaw/Lanark's voice, and its reliability.
In the final, apocalyptic scenes, though – where Greig plays boldly and theatrically with Gray's questions about the shifting layers of fiction within the story, and even takes us, in a superb moment of graphic imagination, to visit Gray himself , before returning us to Lanark's poignant final scene at the Unthank Necropolis – this brave adaptation seems wholly at one with the bold, mysterious and infinitely searching spirit of Gray's novel. On Sunday night, after the premier of Lanark, David Greig sent a twitter message about Alasdair Gray, now 80 years old, and in intensive care in Glasgow. "Thinking of Mr G right now. Wishing him well and wishing he could be with us. He wrote an amazing transformative book. The rest is homage." What's certain, though, is that if Alasdair Gray could see this version of Lanark, centre stage at the Edinburgh International Festival, he would know that this story alone represents a great life's work; and that its impact – not only in Scotland, but across the world of 21st century imagination – has barely begun to be measured.
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Quoted in the Scotsman, Sarvadi said: "The overall feel will be something like the eighteenth at Pebble Beach or the holes around the turn at Turnberry. The 'wow' factor is going to be something special. Tom Doak has seen the land and routed the holes. All we're waiting to discover is what's under the brush and the buckthorn."
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