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Re: Doctors need to understand absolute versus relative risk reduction with statins
Freudenthal1 is right to point out that, even in high risk groups, it remains a fact that the majority of patients taking a statin will derive no meaningful benefit from it.
The real life incidence of statin side-effects is much more common than is widely recognised, perhaps around 5 – 10%.2 It is not enough to say rhabdomyolysis is rare and dismiss people with genuine symptoms who have a "normal" serum creatine kinase (CK) activity. I would guess that around half of the patients referred to my secondary care lipid clinic are for statin-related side-effects. Not all are muscle related; commonly one encounters gastrointestinal disturbances, memory loss, headaches and even alopecia. After excluding other obvious causes for such symptoms, it is generally possible, in my experience, to find a low dose of an alternative statin which can be tolerated by at least half of these patients. However, in others this is simply not possible.
Nonetheless, a surprising number of patients express a willingness to "put up" with a degree of myalgia or muscle fatigue, generally because they have been rather miss-sold the absolute benefits of treatment, or daren't not take it after dire warnings by an over-zealous cardiologist or GP. These are exemplified by the throwaway remarks of physicians reported in the Patient Journey featuring Mustafa Gunaydin's case (which may or may not have been statin-related ultimately).3 The problem is that the underlying mechanism of most side-effects is not known, therefore do we know that encouraging people to "put up" with such side-effects is appropriate? Surely in such cases one should primarily do no harm, and bear the truth of the first sentence in mind; most patients are perfectly capable of understanding the numbers and making an informed choice.
1. Freudenthal B. Understanding absolute versus relative risk reduction. BMJ 2012;345:e8357
2. Nair RK, Karadi RL, Kilpatrick ES. Managing patients with 'statin intolerance': a retrospective study. Br J Cardiol 2008;15:158-60.
3. Fisher C, Ferris N. Neuromuscular degeneration. BMJ 2012;345:e6880. (17 October.)
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I was watching CNN the day of this writing and learned of FBI Director James Comey's announcement that the Hilary Clinton email investigation would be reopened. I found a comment about Republicans and Democrats more interesting than the actual announcement. Jake Tapper of CNN pointed out Continue reading

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Freeriding with the Kiwis
Callum Jelley not only has one of the oddest names around, but he's part of the MBUK Wrecking Crew. At the moment, Cal's gone AWOL and is currently dossing his way round the biking world- follow his travels as he tears up some of the best riding spots around...
My name is Callum Jelley I'm a member of the MBUK Wrecking Crew and I'm going to chase summer around the world with my bike in tow. The bike is a Giant Reign X frame, the perfect tool for both fast DH, big hitting freeride runs and all day singletrack.
Component-wise I'm running the new DT Swiss E2200 all mountain wheelset; Fox 36 vans and a DHX 5 rear shock, Formula The One brakes, Funn bar and stem, Hope ceramic bottom bracket and Sram gear assembly with Ride On cables. I'll be hitting up New Zealand from of April 5 to 25 with www.freeridenz.com and then on to Whistler for a whole season of shredding all that Whistler and British Columbia has to offer…
For the New Zealand part of the trip I'm going to be travelling with Freeride NZ, started by Dan McMullan in summer '07, the company specialises in Freeride and Downhill tours ranging from one day to three weeks on both the North and South Islands. As well as Freeride and Downhill they offer single day cross-country tours, heli-biking days and loads more. The two guides, Dan and Glenn, are super friendly and accommodating – so if you want to do a trip that they don't advertise they will do their best to sort you out.
Dan the boy and Glenn pick me up in there van with a big spray-painted trailer with 3 Commencal's on it and the ability to carry up to 12 more: this would soon be put to the test! We picked up Dan B from Oz who is going to be with us for the whole of the South Island section of the trip, then we headed off to the trails!
First we drove up to Coronet Peak with the promise of virgin singletrack snaking its way down a valley. The trail was amazing, it just flowed so well and the dust billowed behind us as we shredded down the mountain. The road back up was one of the scariest shuttling roads I've ever been on, it's an old access road to the gold mines that used to exist around Queenstown. We spent the rest of that day riding the trail and warming up to the 20 days of riding ahead.
The second day began early with a plan to hit some local downhill tracks around Queenstown, and then session the Mini Dream-Track, which is baby brother to the infamous Dream Track built by Nathan Greenwood and seen in the films New World Disorder 5 and Drop In NZ. The great thing about the trails is their proximity to Queenstown itself. We started off on a track called Wynyard's, it's a pretty fast steep DH track with lots of berms and a couple of wooden features dotted through it. It also runs straight through Mini Dream Track so we stop off here and ditch the bags and don the pads and get ready to get our dirt jump on! Every jump there is so well maintained and with plenty of backing form the council – the locals really do look after the place.
After hitting a few smaller lines and then building up to bigger table tops, Dan the boy decides to step it up and try the big line which starts with a small kicker drop into the landing of a big double then off the brakes over a huge first double with a even bigger landing then onto a left handed hip step-up and then another left handed hip. It was by far the biggest line I've seen and I felt I'd only have this one chance to give it a go. After Dan had got through the line with style and flow I knew it was possible, so I saddled up my Giant Reign X and dropped in! It was a beautiful line, the first jump shot me so high, I picked up tons of speed on landing and floated over the two hips! It was the best feeling of my life getting through that line and setting up my riding in a massive way on the second day out: a great omen for the rest of the trip.
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This first card uses Christmas Princess Rio from Simply B Stamps along with Santa's Workshop from Make it Crafty. Plus I used the Treasured Moments ticket die and sentiment stamps from Whimsy.
For some reason the cards are turning out more blue and I wasn't able to figure out what color I needed to add or subtract. The red and blues are actually spot on but the white is what turned out blueish - maybe it's just my perception but anything else I tried made it too green or red. O'well, I'm sure they're fine.
This next card uses Thanksgiving Rio from Simply Betty Stamps and in the background I used a Little Village Scene from Make it Crafty.
This combination reminded me of Christmas dinner's way back when I was a kid and the snow was abundant. I've now moved to a warmer climate and winters like this are things we can only dream of now. LOL I think the whole state of Texas would shut down if we got this much snow... that looks like at least two or three feet piled up on those roof - wow, could you imagine it? Not here I can't. :D


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The Mandalorian
Set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order, we follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy…
Living his best life in post-apocalyptic LA, a slacker strives to find the girl of his dreams while outwitting mindless ghouls and cliquish gangs.
The Treadstone project, having created super spy Jason Bourne, turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.
Armed with a great passion for social justice and with a great facility to always say what she thinks, Kate Kane is known in the streets of Gotham as Batwoman,…
In the year 2199, a young woman who has lost everything finds a new life at Earth's Space Training Academy where she learns to defend the galaxy from intergalactic threats.
Wu Assassins
The last in a line of Chosen Ones, a wannabe chef teams up with a homicide detective to unravel an ancient mystery and take down supernatural assassins.
The Boys
A group of vigilantes known informally as "The Boys" set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
Blood & Treasure
An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts.
Decades ago, a hero from the stars left this world in peace. Now, the son of Ultraman must rise to protect the Earth from a new alien threat.
Haunted by a tragic loss, an ex-cop with a rare inability to feel pain strikes out on his own to catch offenders who've eluded Johannesburg police.
The Widow
A woman's search to uncover the mystery of the disappearance of her husband leads her to the Congo, where she's forced to seek the truth about what happened to the…
Doom Patrol
The Doom Patrol's members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The…
The Umbrella Academy
A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.
This thriller and coming-of-age drama follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth…
Deadly Class
Follow a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may…
The Passage
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only…
The Protector
The epic adventure of Hakan, a young shopkeeper whose modern world gets turned upside down when he learns he's connected to a secret, ancient order, tasked with protecting Istanbul.
A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
Star Wars Resistance
Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot for the Resistance, is tasked with a top secret mission to investigate the First Order, a growing threat in the galaxy.
The Dragon Prince
Two human princes forge an unlikely bond with the elven assassin sent to kill them, embarking on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into…
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system…
Wynonna Earp
Based on the IDW Comic, Wynonna Earp follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures. With her unique abilities, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she's…
Martial Universe
Lin Dong, a child from a small village isn't favored by his clan. By chance, Lin Dong obtains a mysterious artifact that is coveted by many clans in the martial…
Stan Lee's Lucky Man
London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic…
Action drama series inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six.
Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Based on the best-selling Bob…
The Outpost
Talon, the lone survivor of a race called the Blackbloods, sets off to the edge of civilisation to track her family's killers. On her journey she discovers she has supernatural…
Sacred Games
A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes
Trunks returns from the future to train with Goku and Vegeta. However, it disappears without warning. Then the mysterious Fu bursts in, telling them that Trunks has been imprisoned in…
Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
Two teenagers from very different backgrounds awaken to newly acquired superpowers which mysteriously link them to one another.
Follow 16-year-old Henrietta, aka Henry, who discovers she has the ability to teleport. The first time she realizes this, she is in a truck with her high school's Golden Boy,…
The Taoism Grandmaster
It has been foretold over three thousand years ago that the apocalypse is impending and that one Taoist grandmaster will emerge to save the world. To give the people a…
Cobra Kai
This Karate Kid sequel series picks up 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening…
Lost in Space
After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
A desolate land stretches out from the city of poverty. A motorcycle speeds recklessly, blowing clouds of sand and dust. The rider is the protagonist of this story – he…
The Boss Baby: Back in Business
With a little help from his brother and accomplice, Tim, Boss Baby tries to balance family life with his job at Baby Corp headquarters.
Deep State
What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job…
The Crossing
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing…
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After causing the near extinction of mankind seven years ago, genius scientist Leon Lau must now fight the ecological disaster he unwittingly created.


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Even though she's made plenty of headlines, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has largely avoided the news media since taking the top job at the struggling Internet company last summer. But she's definitely in the spotlight this week:
First, she agreed to sit for an onstage interview with Fortune magazine on Tuesday night after the magazine featured her in its annual list of "Most Powerful Women." Then she joined a group of corporate leaders from around the country who were invited to meet in Washington D.C. with President Obama on Wednesday, for discussions about the looming federal budget crisis.
The Fortune event was closed to outside press, but it doesn't sound like Mayer revealed any big secrets about her plans for the company, judging from the write-up by Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram and an unauthorized live-blog by Kara Swisher at All Things D.
Instead, Mayer repeated some of the points she stressed on the company's last earnings call, when she made the case for turning Yahoo into a mobile-focused tech company.
Yahoo already has "a terrific set of assets on the web – all the things people want to do on their mobile phone," she said, according to Lev-Ram's account. "The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business."
Mayer, a former longtime Google executive, also talked about making Yahoo a "fun" place to work, which is pretty much a standard talking point for any Silicon Valley CEO.
But the Wisconsin native offered her own version of a famous quote from former Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, in response to a question about setting priorities. Mayer – who gave birth to her first child over the summer – said her top priorities are "God, family and Yahoo."
Citing the need to ruthlessly focus on those priorities, Mayer said that's why she hasn't been doing interviews or public speeches, according to Lev-Ram, who reported that Mayer added: "And I will go back to not talking after tonight."


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Hard Water vs Soft Water – Is There Really a Big Difference?
Even if you have never given much thought to how it might affect your home you have probably at least heard about the concept of hard water versus soft water. But do you really understand the concept and what the differences are between the two?
What is Hard Water?
All water that falls as rain begins "life" as soft water. Along the way though, as it trickles through the ground it picks up all kinds of minerals that dissolve into it. Calcium and magnesium are the most common but limestone, chalk, copper and a number of other substances can be present as well.
Water treatment plants do not remove these deposits. They cannot, as the minerals have already dissolved into it and extracting them at the plant would be difficult and expensive. Therefore most of the water that flows from the plant into a home is considered hard.
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What is Soft Water?
Soft water contains only sodium ions. This rarely occurs naturally as more than 85% of US households have hard water and the same figures tend to hold true all over the world. Soft water is actually created by being treated by a water softener, usually one located in the individual home itself.
Hard Water Vs Soft Water
Although you cannot see any difference between hard and soft water as it flows from the tap there are major differences between the two that can impact the quality of your everyday life at home:
Hard WaterSoft Water
- Often leaves dishes coated in a slimy film because the dish washing liquid's capabilities are lessened by the minerals in the water
- Is responsible for that scummy "ring around the bath tub" that is so annoying.
- Can make it hard to get a good lather with your favorite soaps and shampoos
- Can shorten the useful life of appliances that use it as a layer of minerals can build up on their workings, causing them to be far less efficient.
- Is sometimes considered a better drinking water because of the minerals it contains. Some of the minerals are indeed good for the human body, especially calcium.
- May have elements in it that are not so nice to drink including dissolved sewage
- Is free, with the exception of any charges you owe a water company.
Soft Water
- Is a better choice for dish washing and laundry as it works well with the detergents used in it.
- Does not leave that telltale ring around the bath tub behind.
- Does not affect the effiency of your soaps and shampoos and makes it easier to get a good lather.
- Will not leave a residue in the workings of appliances, allowing them to operate more efficiently.
- Is fine for drinking but may occasionally have a slightly salty taste thanks to the sodium ions.
- Has all minerals removed so is reasonably "pure" compared to hard water
- Costs money to create because it has to be treated by a water softener.
Getting Softer Water
As you can now see there are not too many advantages to be gained from having hard water in your home. A home with hard water rarely produces sparkly clean dishes or bright white clothes because the detergents simply do not work as well.
A home with hard water's appliances usually have a shorter life expectancy however expensive they are and a homeowners with hard water may never quite get all the benefits they expected from their expensive shampoo.
Softening your water does come at a price. You do have to purchase – and then maintain – a water softener or water softening system. Before you dismiss this out of hand as an unnecessary expense you may want to look at the long term first.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
BizarroGirl In Tiny Titans #46
I have talked about how great Tiny Titans is too many times on this blog to count. It is a great mix of silliness and DC continuity and silliness about DC continuity. As a result I can enjoy it as much as the supergirls at home.
This month's issue, Tiny Titans #46, riffs on the mysterious purple woman appearing throughout the DCU these days. The Source blog has been posting some panels. Here is a link to their discussion: http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/11/30/art-baltazar-and-franco-talk-the-mysterious-hooded-woman-in-purple/
And as much as the payoff to the purple lady gag is great, I liked the games page at the end even more.
I don't think I'll be taking away any of the surprise when I say that this connect the dots puzzle ends up being BizarroGirl.
I absolutely loved the BizarroGirl story arc by Gates/Igle/Chang in the Supergirl book. So I am glad to see that she has somehow managed to catch on, even if it isn't in the main DC continuity yet.
For all I know, Bizarros don't exist yet in the DCnU.
While the purple lady is an ongoing gag, the bulk of the issue revolves around the Protector subbing for Robin. Tiny Titans creative team of Franco and Art Baltazar are really kicking over some stones of the old DCU. Here is the 'old' Protector's Whos Who 1987 Update page where we learn he is a 'normal' high school student fighting against drug dealers after losing his brother to addiction.
As I said above, Tiny Titans allows me to introduce some of the DCU concepts to my kids in a friendly, simple, and innocent way. So I really love this book.
Throw in BizarroGirl and I'm tickled pink!
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- Michael Bailey said...
Fun fact about the Protector that you probably already know but I will share just in case; The Protector first appeared in a self-contained anti-drug comic sponsored by Keebler. At the time the licensing rights to Robin were in the hands of Nabisco, so the Protector was created as a substitute. While I have never seen it there was also an anti-drug ad for television that Robin would have also been unavailable for since at the time he was part of the Super Friends series.
Again, you probably already knew this but I thought I would comment anyway. I just found your blog and look forward to reading more.
- December 2, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Anj said...
The Protector first appeared in a self-contained anti-drug comic sponsored by Keebler. At the time the licensing rights to Robin were in the hands of Nabisco, so the Protector was created as a substitute.
Thanks so much for the comment and for stopping by!
I did not know the details behind the Protector so thanks so much for sharing. That is so interesting!
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Maryland Lays Out Plan to Combat Sprawl
Writing for The Atlantic, Eric Jaffe reports:
"To service this auto-centric growth, the state will need to build thousands of miles of new roads at a cost of billions of dollars. In addition to construction costs, building roads to serve sprawl carries a relative cost of rendering existing transit systems less effective. That's a particular burden for low-income residents who can't afford locate close to main mass transit lines, since the cost of owning a car in Maryland is estimated by the plan at $8,500 a year."
"The solution proposed by PlanMaryland is to increase housing density in areas that already have roads, water systems, and transit access - in other words, to build upon the built."


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On the market for an iPhone? Here's a breakdown of all the currently shipping iPhones from Apple.
Apple Executives Optimistic About Future of iOS, Expect Tablet Market to Surpass PCs
Business Insider reports on a new research note from Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope covering a recent meeting between Shope and Apple executives Tim Cook, Ron Johnson, and Peter Oppenheimer. According to Shope, the executives expressed considerable optimism regarding the future of iOS, particularly when it comes to the iPad. In fact, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook reportedly noted that the company expects tablet sales to surpass PC sales over the next several years.
Shope says, "the company appeared more overtly optimistic on the long-term prospects for the iOS platform than it has been in quite some time."Apple's iPad of course currently dominates that tablet market, and while its share will almost certainly shrink as more competitors come to market, most observers expect Apple to continue to lead the market for years to come.
For one, Cook said, "he sees no reason why the tablet market shouldn't eclipse the PC market over the next several years," according to Shope's note.
According to a separate article relating information from the note, Shope reports that Apple is once again touting its preference for an "integrated" ecosystem for iOS over the "fragmented" one it sees for Google's Android platform. Apple's executives reportedly suggest that while the Android approach may yield market share gains over the short term, but the the fragmentation will ultimately weaken the platform and degrade the user experience.
To that end, Apple argues that the true measure of a platform's value should be measured by how well it supports the entire ecosystem surrounding it, and with the company having paid out over $2 billion to App Store developers so far, it believes that it offers the most successful and sustainable model among mobile platforms.
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Hence the reason for the iPad Keyboard Dock :D or you can use a Bluetooth Keyboard with it.
Yeah, why carry a lap top, when you can carry an ipad, a keyboard dock and a card reading attachment.
I love my iPad just cos its more portable than a laptop and it was awesome at a wedding I went to recently, which I shot the photos for my cousin. I was able to show him & the guests all the snaps like 5 mins after i'd took them on my iPad
I know the feeling, it is completely impossible to do that with a laptop.
The iPad or any tablet for that matter will never replace my laptop. Typing for an extended time on a touchscreen is just not practical.
I agree for me personally (or until they beef them up) tablets will not replace my computer, but my iPad2 does a great job of replacing my computer on the go. If I need to do some serious work though, it's back to my computer.
I think tablets are great, fun, useful devices. I mean, I love my iPad, but to me, it will never replace my computer. It replaces it in some ways, like casual internet browsing, but if I'm going to do some hardcore word processing or video editing, I'm going to want my laptop there.
This is just it. Tablets should be seen as a complement to laptops and desktops NOT a replacement. Just like laptops didn't replace desktops, tablets simply wont replace laptops. There's room in our lives for all three.
Funny how the measure of the platform changes once Android starts shipping tons of units.
That being said, I do tend to agree with that statement. Android is blowing up big right now and things will even out soon enough. I think (and hope) that iOS 5 will blow our minds.
Well, although laptops didn't replace desktops, they certainly became just as powerful, popular, and ubiquitous as desktop PCs. And a lot of the other predictions in the article certainly came true: laptops became thin, light, have high-resolution displays, and have (had) standard card architectures for expansion. They also dropped to the predicted $1,000 price point (and then some, of course) making them useful in all the markets listed in the article (e.g. students, professionals, vertical markets).
Laptops were a fledgling technology back then much like tablets are today. Who knows what will happen? Look at the picture of the laptop of 1987. We laugh at that now. Will we look back at the likes of the iPad in another 25 years and laugh at how crude and clunky it was?
Unsurprisingly, the articles published over the last 30+ years, that have predicted "product X will replace product Y", have been penned by a "futurist" that just so happens to be employed by a business that manufactures product X.
iCal'd for future claim chowder.
Your iCal must be filling up with your petty little vendettas.
Btw, is there not a forum ruling on repetitive posting? You don't wanna get stuck in Time Out again, do you?
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It shows forecast spending of $98.7 million for 2013–2014, a reduction of $20 million from the previous year, falling further to $95.9 million in 2014–2015.
From 2014-15 LAC is estimating full time employee equivalents (FTE) of 858. That's down slightly from the estimate a year ago, and a long way below the 1,117 FTEs two years ago.
Each year I produce a Wordle showing the RPP's most used words. This year the prominent words are matter of fact and properly bureaucratic. Again the terms geneal* or newspaper are nowhere to be found. Phrases go in and out of fashion. "Whole-of-society" which appeared 14 times last year is gone; "whole-of-government" has appeared. The phrase "First World War" appears 9 times.
The thrust of LAC's ambition is summarized in the Minister's message:
In 2014–15, LAC will provide Canadians with easier access to its collection by significantly increasing the amount of material made available online. The organization will continue to proceed with the digitization of nearly 640,000 service records of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in order to contribute to the commemoration of the First World War. LAC will also acquire information resources that represent Canadian society, as well as preserve documentary heritage of national interest in both analogue and digital formats, particularly by completing the transfer (to Winnipeg) of analogue material relating to the Second World War. In addition, LAC will continue to partner with public and research libraries, museums and other institutions across Canada to bring the country's heritage closer to Canadians. LAC will also provide support and training to government departments on recordkeeping and information management.The aspect of LAC operations of most interest to genealogists and like clients is now found under Program 2.3: Access to documentary heritage. It is explained as:
The purpose of providing access to documentary heritage is to make Canadian information resources known and accessible to anyone interested in Canada, its society or its experience. By providing access, LAC contributes to the creation of new knowledge that will increase the understanding of Canada's continuing memory.$28.6 million and 237 FTEs are allocated to this program for the foreseeable future, to 2016-17.
Performance targets are as last year: for March 31, 2015, 75% client satisfaction with online services; 60% of clients who report being able to find what they are looking for online. As I commented last year, with less than 1% of LAC material online the latter seems like a hugely ambitious target. Will a way be found to interpret the wording to produce an acceptable performance?
Reading through the section we learn that LAC's website is among the most popular of all federal departments and agencies, with an average of 1.5 million visits per month. In addition, an average of 1.4 million searches per month are conducted of the AMICUS catalogue.
At the lowest level of dis-aggregation within this program the planned key activities for the year are:
- Develop new online resources and update existing ones on the First World War (including databases, guides and digital content) so that participants in the Lest We Forget Project and other researchers have better access to information about the soldiers who fought in that war.
- Develop new online resources and update existing ones on Aboriginal heritage (such as research assistance tools that provide historical and geographic information about the various bands or communities and about the treaties).
- Add new databases and improve existing ones in order to increase the amount of searchable information having to do with the history of immigration and cultural communities in Canada.
- Continue with the renewal of the National Union Catalogue, a free catalogue that provides access to the holdings of 1,300 libraries across Canada.
- Continue to implement the content digitization strategy by focusing on the digitization of the most frequently requested documents.
- Continue the digitization projects being carried out to digitize and post online over 60 million images.
- Continue to share content on LAC's social network sites, namely through blogs, podcasts, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter, to reach a maximum number of clients and to make the collection available through a wide range of channels.
- Develop new online resources and update existing ones on the First World War, Aboriginal heritage, and the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation.
This includes those for Program 2.3.2 which is mislabeled 2.3.1 in the document.
Overall, the document reflects a department getting on with business but without any real leadership evident, as can be expected for an organization which has been without a permanent head since mid-May.


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The Book of Lost Fragrances Virtual Book Tour.
M.J. Rose: I've been fascinated with lost fragrances since long before I started writing The Book of Lost Fragrances... since I found a bottle of perfume on my great grandmother's dresser that had belonged to her mother in Russia. Here is one of those lost fragrances that stirs the senses and the imagination... (researched and described with the help of the perfume writer Dimitrios Dimitriadis)
For more guest posts and reviews, check out the full The Book of Lost Fragrances tour here.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Guest Post: Guerlain - Lavande by M.J. Rose
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text: We'd like to thank the REI store in Framingham, MA for their assistance in promoting the upcoming free screening of Mother Nature's Child at the Arnold Arboretum at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 27th. The film will be followed by discussion. REI is a major supporter of all efforts to get children back into contact with nature!


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Any form of textile construction has my heart. I flirted with the idea of staying in college longer so I could live out my passion and study textiles and fashion. I was in my last quarter and taking surface design and textile classes when I realized it was what I truly loved. I learned crochet, some sewing, and a form of textile art that really boggles me–embroidery.
It takes a special human to create embroidered artwork. After a few college projects trying to create the type of beautiful artwork I now find on Etsy and Instagram, my fingers were numb and my mind was in as many knots as the ones I had to untangle along the way. So embroidery artists, bless you and your patience!
Like I mentioned, I follow several folks on Instagram who have made this tedious craft their form of artistic expression (take Sarah K. Benning as an example), and I'm always stumbling upon others. Recently, I traveled down a blog rabbit hole and found designer and stylist Thread Honey's whimsical (and sometimes cheeky) embroidered pieces. If you're a feminist who loves astrology, pop culture, and impeccable knolling, check out her lovely work! You can also purchase patterns of some of the pieces I'm sure are her most popular.
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Dustin Johnson holes out from 171 yards in final shot of victory at FedEx St. Jude Classic
The tournament might already have been wrapped for Dustin Johnson, but that didn't stop him from putting a neat little bow on it with his final shot of the weekend.
Holding a four-stroke lead over second-place finisher Adam Putnam, all Johnson had to do on the 18th hole was avoid catastrophe on a historical level. Instead, he holed out from 171 yards on his second shot to eagle and move to 19-under for the tournament.
Dustin Johnson holes out to win FedEx St. Jude Classic
This is how Dustin Johnson finished off his @fesjcmemphis victory…
Makes sense that he's the new No. 1 in the world. pic.twitter.com/bvRjkihL0e
— GOLFonCBS (@GOLFonCBS) June 10, 2018
With the victory at TPC Southwind wrapped up, Johnson is now again the top player in the World Golf Rankings. The win is Johnson's second of the year and continued a season in which he's made the top 20 in all but one of the 10 official PGA Tour events he's entered.
"I'm glad it's over, for sure. What a cool way to end the day, to hole out that shot on 18," Johnson said on CBS's broadcast. "Obviously a lot of good things happened this week. I knew coming in this week I was swinging really well and I had a lot of confidence in the game. I played really well all week."
Indeed, a lot of good things did happen for Johnson. The 33-year-old was swinging a hot club all weekend.
Dustin Johnson's impressive shots at the FedEx St. Jude Classic
Johnson's final shot on the 18th hole was the final impressive shot in a tournament full of him. Johnson had already shown off his ludicrous velocity earlier in the day by hitting a 307-yard drive with an iron on the difficult par-4 10th hole.
Dustin Johnson drove this ball 307 yards…with an iron. pic.twitter.com/lyYXFmzsse
— GOLFonCBS (@GOLFonCBS) June 10, 2018
Before he showed off the power, he had already shown the touch with a birdie on the tournament's first day, capped off by a chip out of the water.
Birdie from the water?!
Dustin Johnson can do it all.#LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/Jshyb7D2Q6
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 8, 2018
Your move, Justin Thomas.
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I came across this picture on Tumblr and I am absolutely obsessed! I love floor to ceiling shelves! I can imagine this with old antique vases or jars too. This room is perfect!
With college fast approaching I've been working to choose my favorite pieces out of the (seemingly never-ending) wardrobe. I've been trying to inspire myself by reading old magazines and watching movies. This editorial really stood out to me (I love sheer clothing and messy up-dos).


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A burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Is the web really free? >> getwired.com
Terrific unravelling of how the web now works by Wes Miller:
Imagine the response if you told a friend, family member, or colleague that you had a report/blog/study you were working on, and asked them, "Hey, I'm going to shoulder-surf you for a day and write down which Websites you visit, how often and how long you visit them, and who you send email to, okay?" In most cases, they'd tell you no, or tell you that you're being weird.
Then ask them how much you'd need to pay them in order for them to let you shoulder-surf. Now they'll be creeped out.
Finally, tell them you installed software on their computer last week, so you've already got the data you need, is it okay if you use that for your report. Now they're going to probably completely overreact, and maybe even get angry (so tell them you were kidding).
More than two years ago, I discussed why do-not-track would stall out and die, and in fact, it has. This was completely predictable, and I would have been completely shocked if this hadn't happened. It's because there is one thing that makes the Web work at all. It's the cycle of micropayments of personally identifiable information (PII) that, in appropriate quantities, allow advertisers (and advertising companies) to tune their advertising.
Uber isn't worth $17bn >> FiveThirtyEight
Aswath Damodaran:
the market would have to be three times my estimate — about $300 billion — or Uber's market share would have to be more than double my base case estimate — more than 20 percent — to justify a $17bn valuation. The former may hold if you see Uber's market more expansively than I do, and the latter may come to fruition if you believe Uber will have an easier time overcoming the competition and the regulatory constraints on its growth.
I also examined how the value would change if Uber's slice of gross receipts were to drop from my base case estimate of 20%, again allowing for different potential market sizes.
Not only does this table point to devastating effects on its value should competition force Uber to cut its 20% take, but it also reveals a danger for Uber (and its investors) in focusing too much on growth in gross receipts. Uber may be able to expand its market by charging less, but the effect on value of doing so will be negative.
We'll have to wait for Fox News's valuation to be sure.
Answering the 64-Bit Question >> Tech.pinions
Ben Bajarin:
many missed the single biggest feature of the iPhone that required it to be based on a 64-bit processor — encryption. I have had many long conversations with chipset architects since then and repeatedly heard encryption is THE use case that will see the most performance benefits from a 64-bit architecture. Which means, it is likely Touch ID is simply not possible, at least in Apple's deployment, on a 32-bit architecture. This could also explain why so many competing attempts at a fingerprint solution are terrible compared to Apple's Touch ID.
Apple's competition is left playing catch up. This is one of the key things I am looking for Google to address next week at Google I/O. As I sit attentively in the audience, I anticipate they will answer the 64-bit question. This is essential for Google, not just because 64-bit mobile architectures are the new basis of competition but because these architectures will usher in the new mobile era. One based around a new ecosystem of security and privacy through hardware encryption.
Code Spaces hosting shutting down after attacker deletes all data >> Slashdot
Code Spaces [a code hosting service] has been under DDOS attacks since the beginning of the week, but a few hours ago, the attacker managed to delete all their hosted customer data and most of the backups. They have announced that they are shutting down business.
From the announcement:
An unauthorized person who at this point who is still unknown (All we can say is that we have no reason to think its anyone who is or was employed with Code Spaces) had gained access to our Amazon EC2 control panel and had left a number of messages for us to contact them using a Hotmail address. Reaching out to the address started a chain of events that revolved around the person trying to extort a large fee in order to resolve the DDOS.
That's all the customers' data, of course.
Nokia paid millions of euros in ransom>> MTV.fi
The blackmailer had gotten hold of the Symbian encryption key used for signing. The code is a few kilobytes in size.
Had the key been leaked Nokia would not have been able to ensure that the phones accept only applications approved by the company.
In 2007 half of the smartphones sold in the world were manufactured by Nokia.
When Nokia paid the money it was promised that the key will not be misused. It is not known how the key ended up in the hands of the blackmailer.
Nokia took matter to the National Bureau of Investigation, which began to investigate the case.
The situation, however, progressed rapidly, and the ransom payment was made in the Finnish city of Tampere. The money was left in a bag at a parking lot nearby Särkänniemi amusement park.
Then things went wrong. The blackmailer took the bag. Police, however, lost track of the blackmailer and the money was gone.
The case is still unsolved.
But surely the blackmailer had the encryption key and the money?
Finding the best lost-item trackers: Tile, TrackR and Duet reviewed >> WSJ
Joanna Stern:
These trackers work best when you've misplaced your items in close proximity, which is usually the case for me. (Yes, my glasses are often right on my head.)
When the trackers are in range of your phone's Bluetooth radio (100 to 150 feet), the app's proximity meter indicates how close your keys or wallet may be. Tile gives you text clues ("It's about an arm's length away") while TrackR and Duet show wireless signal strength.
Duet and TrackR let you set alarms that sound off on the phone and the tracker when the two are no longer connected. That is, when you've walked away from your precious belonging. TrackR's iPhone and Android apps even let you configure a song to play if the alarm is triggered. I chose the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling."
But even if you never again lose your keys, you may lose your mind with this feature. Anytime I stepped out of range—taking the garbage out, charging my phone in another room—the sensor on my keys tripped, and alarms (and that song) began blaring.
The Tile seems to come out ahead (it's more accurate about location - which must be the point) but is iPhone-only.
SMRC, dba promises billions to charity by architecting the digital conscience >> PRWeb
[Company] founder, Phil Nakata, a former IBM Chief Technology Officer and former Computer Science Corporation Partner explains, "By giving everyone a trusted digital companion -- think a Siri with the intelligence of a supercomputer - we can provide everyone the individually tailored knowledge, resources, and security they need to fully express themselves. Then by taking how business is done on the web currently, and feeding it the red pill, we can use the system's business intelligence to create massive amounts of value for humanity [the individuals and their social causes], by, first, biometrically securing everyone's identities, while simultaneously giving them back the revenues and control of something which is worth trillions: their market data."
"Architecting the digital consciousness"?
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Nicktoons MLB – Just what America was waiting for
2K Play has decided to find out what would happen if you put Nickelodeon and Major League Baseball together in a room, and left them there for long enough to develop a game.
The result, apparently, is Nicktoons MLB, and it's currently in development for Xbox 360 with Kinect, Wii and Nintendo DS. The game boasts an all-star roster from all 30 MLB teams, plus a collection of comedic Nicktoons from the popular tv show, resulting in what's been described as an "unforgettable" baseball gaming experience.
This one might be worth checking out – when's the last time you played baseball with (or against) SpongeBob Squarepants, ZIM, or Ren and Stimpy? How about team members from the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers or the New York Yankees?
Now's your chance to face off, on custom-created digital ballparks – is your home field advantage at Fenway Park or Frosty Freeze Field?
Steve Lux, Vice President for business development at 2K Play sounds like he's having a good time with this one:
"The Nicktoons are an animated bunch and it's no secret they have been petitioning our office to facilitate this unprecedented match up.
"Whether an extraterrestrial from Planet Irk, superheroes who wear underwear on the outside of their costumes, or a secret agent dog, time will tell if these heavy hitters have the grit to play in the big leagues."
If you're in the United States, keep an eye out for special events in the build-up to the summer launch of Nicktoons MLB, particularly on social media and around Major League ballparks.


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form keeps me from asking if dedicated server for eco will get lunched on steam for some reason as a tool set.
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I want to see it as integrated into game client, into where you select server, as button [Create Server].
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that be cool too for small groups of players but i would not want to have to keep my main machine on all time, with game running in back ground, be hard on my water pump lol,
as along as they also keep separated tool system, that does not need a gfxs card, my 2008 server machine does not have one, and I dont want to own two copys of game just run dedicated server :)
so id be happy with just tool set on under tools section. :)


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In the first post we talk about setting goals and I just wanted to add two more things to that. When you are setting your goals always set them just beyond what you believe in your heart you can do. If you want to become really successful you are going to have to grow in not only your skills but your ability to conquer new things.
By making your goals just beyond your reach you are going to have to stretch yourself to do reach them and when you do that you will find the next level of success is closer then what you think.
The other thing is that you can use the same formula to figure out how many customers that you need to reach sales goal as well, so this is not just for building a team.
The One Action You Absolutely Need
There is one thing that is absolutely vital to your business and it is the thing that most people just won't do. It is the key difference between the successful and the unsuccessful and that is…
Now were expecting some sort of magical, mystical thing or an extraordinary quality that only a 'select few' has that allows you to make excuses as to why you are not succeeding?
The reality is if you want to build a business and reap the financial success and recognition that you want you are going to have to put in the sweat hours of continually prospecting.
Some people think that certain people are 'lucky' and that is why they succeed, but I love Seneca's definition that…
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."Tweet This
And I can't stress that enough. Here's the thing. Nobody I know wakes up in the morning and goes, "Yeah, I have to go prospecting today." In fact it is something that most people dread and that is because they don't realize that prospecting is the key to success and something they should be excited about.
I think one of the things that stop people from prospecting is the fact that they haven't found a way of doing that they like. I find that most people tend to have one or two ways that they really do well in, but if they haven't figured out which ones they like best then they get frustrated and bored with recruiting and quit.
So the two mains to prospect is offline (locally) and online and you need to figure out which one works best for you. You can't go by what others tell you is the best way and there will be times where you are going to have to do it differently from your leader and that is ok. The main thing is to find the one that works for you and then do it on a consistent basis to achieve results.
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If you are more interested in offline local prospecting then check out my MLM Success 101 course for $19. There are ten videos that will show you everything you need to be able to go out and recruit someone this week.
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Make a commitment to yourself that in 2016 you are going to do the actions needed to ensure your success. You will be so glad that you did.
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The New Quantum RenaissancePolitics / Science Sep 27, 2012 - 04:40 AM GMT
We are at the beginning of a new renaissance that explores the quantum nature of our shared reality. This new age is fast forwarding us to an era of Quantum engines, devices and systems which are beginning to deliver nascent solutions in:
1. Quantum Computing;
2. Quantum Cryptography;
3. Quantum Communications;
4. Quantum Medicine; and
5. Quantum Energy Devices.
The most significant innovations and inventions of our time are increasingly likely to be manifest at Quantum levels. Multiple paradigm-changing Quantum Technologies provide significant solutions to current global challenges in many critical areas of human endeavour and may also present outstanding opportunities for proactive, brave and technologically savvy inventors, innovators and investors.
Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Universe
The Quantum Age Begins
The dawn of the Quantum Age -- full of promising new Quantum Technologies -- demonstrates that not only is Quantum Physics relevant but every literate person can appreciate its profound beauty at many subtle levels. It is estimated that about 30 percent of the US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) already stems from inventions based on quantum physics: from lasers through to microprocessors and mobile phones. The discovery that quantum physics allows fundamentally new modes of information processing is outmoding the classical theories of computation, information, cryptography and telephony which are now being superseded by their Quantum equivalents. Quantum Technologies are essentially about the coherent control of individual photons and atoms and explore both the theory and the practical possibilities of inventing and constructing Quantum Mechanisms and Quantum Devices spanning the 3Cs: Computing, Cryptography and Communications.
Faster Than the Speed of Light: Quantum Entanglement & Quantum Coherence
Quantum Entanglement occurs when two entities or systems appear to us to be separate but through Quantum Coherence act as one system, with states being able to be transferred wholesale from one entity to the other but without a known signal being transferred. Quantum Entanglement is at the heart of our understanding how significant events across the universe operate at the macro- and micro- level in synchronicity despite considerable distance between them. Quantum Entanglement suggests that information is exchanged faster between Quantum Entangled particles than the speed of light.
Fascinating Action at a Distance
In Quantum Mechanics, non-locality refers to "action at a distance" arising from measurement correlations on Quantum Entangled states. The dividing line between the micro world of Quantum Processes and the macro world of classical physics is now fading faster than ever before. Evidence is quickly mounting of the use in nature of Quantum properties and processes including Quantum Entanglement. Recent science has shown that Quantum Coherence and Entanglement provide the only viable explanation for a host of mysteries in nature: how photosynthesis in plants works, how birds migrate, how millions of cells co-ordinate hundreds of thousands of activities simultaneously without significant errors, and more.
Instantaneous Communication
It did take a long time to prove that Quantum Entanglement truly existed. It wasn't until the 1980s that it was clearly demonstrated. In 1982, at the University of Paris, a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. The challenge posed to scientists with this discovery is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Is the universe violating Einstein's special theory of relativity all the time? Yes, it appears that nobody has told the universe that Einstein said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so it is doing its "spooky action at a distance!"
Holographic Universe
Since travelling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try and come up with elaborate ways to explain away Alain Aspect's findings. It has also inspired others to offer even more radical explanations including that of the holographic universe! The implications of a holographic universe are truly mind boggling… Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why a number of physicists including David Bohm made this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms.
A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern -- the area where the two laser beams superimpose -- is captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears!
Fractals in Nature and Mathematics
The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half is still found to contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film is always found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole! This is exactly like fractals in nature and mathematics.
Holistic in Every Part
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organisation and order. For most of its history, Western science has laboured under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom or a national economy, is to dissect it and to study its respective components. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may be understood only as integrated holistic systems. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made. We will only get smaller wholes or less evolved, less detailed, incomplete miniatures of the whole picture.
Unity Consciousness: Extensions of the Same Source
This insight suggested to some scientists, including David Bohm, another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believed the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is, in fact, an illusion. Bohm suggested that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually system components of the same fundamental something! Recent research into the structure of water by Nobel Prize-winner Luc Montagnier, and as previously suggested by Jacques Benveniste, has shown water's ability to retain information imprinted into it in a stable manner that is retrievable at a later date!
Investing in Future Technologies
The same principles of Quantum Entanglement, Resonance and Coherence apply to other fields, such as telecommunications, computers, and energy. Imagine communication devices that need no cables or even a wireless infrastructure. Imagine information being able to be transported magically over distances in a holistic state-dependent way instead of bit by bit or in packets.
Highly Secure Communications
There are some real and amazing applications of Quantum Entanglement in the security world. It can be used to produce unbreakable encryption. If we send each half of a set of entangled pairs to either end of a communications link, then the randomly generated but linked properties can be used as a key to encrypt information. If anyone intercepts the information it will break the entanglement, and the communication can be stopped before the eavesdropper picks up any data.
Infinity Manifest
The Roman philosopher Cicero observed more than two thousand years ago, "Everything is alive; everything is interconnected!" or "Omnia vivunt, omnia inter se conexa!" We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole, undergoing rapid evolution. The "point" of the Singularity is reached essentially when all of the scientific and technological innovation trends appear to go out of control at the human level, ie, they have moved beyond our event horizon, and we can no longer follow along any previous linear logic or understanding to comprehend their combined effects. That technological change is instantaneous and omnipresent and defined by the Quantum Age. As we initiate, establish and activate the new "International Quantum Exchange for Innovation" or "IQ:EI" we aim to be at the forefront of nurturing Quantum Technology ideas, inventions and innovations.
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One of the biggest challenges for young leaders today is that they don't understand how much influence they have on other people. When I work with people in their teens, 20s, and even 30s, it is not uncommon for them to tell me, "I don't really have any influence over what other people do in my organization." For teens, the context is school, sports, church, a fast-food job, or some club. For adults, the context is usually one of their first "real" jobs in a developing career. While the contexts are different, the problem is the same: they don't understand how much influence they have over others.
My good friend Amy Shattuck addressed this very subject in her latest blog post, "Look Up!" Her opening paragraph reads:
Look up, especially if there are currently others near you. You'll find it doesn't take much effort to direct the attention of others in the direction you look. Don't believe me? Do it. Look up!
She's right. I remember a very humorous experiment that I conducted as a teenager. I was with a few friends at the Minnesota State Fair. (In Minnesota, we take the Fair pretty seriously. It is the country's second largest state fair. Last year, over 12 days, almost 1.8 million people entered the gates of the fair!) While walking amongst the crowd, we stopped, I slowly looked up, and then pointed to the sky as if I was looking at something. In reality, I was only imagining something there.
Then, my friends slowly followed my gaze up, and they, too, began to point to the sky—at nothing. We didn't say much other than, "Do you see that?" "Yeah, what is that?" In just a few seconds, as we stole glances downward toward other people, we noticed that others began to look up, too. As they stopped to look up, they influenced others to do the same. Some even began to point with us. Soon we had a small crowd stopped in the middle of the street, looking into the sky at nothing, blocking the flow of thousands of people! I suspect a few who joined us had caught on to the game, but that's irrelevant in that they were still proving the point that we were influencing others.
Why is this important? This simple exercise (which I encourage you to try at some large, public gathering), shows that very simple behaviors have a significant influence on others. We all influence other people. Amy highlighted this point in her blog:
We're always being observed … by our boss, colleague, teacher, peer, parent, friend and yes, even by our foe. Those observations carry with them incredible opportunities, but if we lack awareness, they will be missed. With the choices I make personally, I have opportunities to influence someone in either a positive or negative manner. That choice will cause others to at least momentarily direct their attention my way.
Our ability to influence others is simultaneously easy and significant! That combination can be an positively powerful or terribly dangerous!
The choice of positively powerful or terribly dangerous is yours and it is tied directly to what you choose to look at. I'm not referring to looking at nothingness in the sky. I am referring to your choices about what to look at in what you read, people you associate with, even the televisions shows you watch. What you look at will "program" you and determine whether your influence is positive and powerful or negative and dangerous.
"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." (Philippians 4:8, ESV)


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Jeremy Denk Plays Prokofiev and Grieg on Six-State US Tour with Moscow State Symphony and Pavel Kogan
Jeremy Denk kicked off the new season with the release of his long-anticipated first solo album, Jeremy Denk plays Ives, and successful concerts at both Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls. Next he embarks on a six-city US tour with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, one of Russia's most esteemed ensembles, under its music director and chief conductor Pavel Kogan, winner of the National Prize of the Russian Federation (and son of violinist Leonid). Appearing in La Crosse, WI (Nov 5), Naperville, IL (Nov 6), Notre Dame, IN (Nov 7), Morgantown, WV (Nov 10), Louisville, KY (Nov 13), and West Palm Beach, FL (Nov 17), Denk performs Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto, one of the most technically formidable examples of the genre, and Grieg's Piano Concerto, to which, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he recently "brought the right dose of suaveness…while keeping a keen emphasis on clarity and rhythmic exactitude and not trying to oversell it" (Denver Post).
Denk's most recent orchestral engagement was also with the Philadelphia Orchestra, when he played Liszt's First Piano Concerto with Charles Dutoit at Carnegie Hall (Oct 12), showcasing his trademark combination of pianistic chops and intelligent musicianship:
"Mr. Dutoit set the tone with an opening passage that leaned on Liszt's dramatic dissonances and demanded an assertive pianistic response. Mr. Denk supplied that, along with a sparkling, powerhouse sound. But, typically for Mr. Denk, his reading never threatened to be matter over mind. Every phrase was fluid, shapely, and thoughtfully etched. He made Liszt seem, at least in passing, as if he were as deep and revolutionary a thinker as Beethoven." — Allan Kozinn, New York Times
A week later, it was Denk's talent as a chamber musician that New Yorkers could enjoy, at the first of two "Folk Traditions Concerts" with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall. Inspired by his passion for the music of Central Europe, Denk was behind the planning and programming, as well as performing in Dohnányi's Piano Sextet and Dvorák's Piano Quartet in D. The New York Times's Vivien Schweitzer praised Denk's "thoughtful music-making" and "finely crafted phrasing," noting that "throughout the evening the standard of playing was impressive." The second concert is scheduled for March 15.


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The sudden death, in October, of the director and actor Patrice Chéreau sent waves of grief through multiple spheres of international culture. The film community mourned the maker of "Queen Margot," "Intimacy," and "L'Homme Blessé"; French theatregoers remembered a restless, multifaceted career that had begun in earnest when Chéreau was still in his teens. But the keenest sense of loss may have been felt in the opera world, where Chéreau had established himself not merely as a brilliant practitioner of opera direction but as a prime mover in the recent history of the art. Wagner titled his most ambitious prose work "Opera and Drama": Chéreau erased the difference.
Chéreau's operatic breakthrough was his production of the "Ring" cycle at the Bayreuth Festival, in 1976, with Pierre Boulez conducting. The director was only thirty-one, and old-school Wagnerians regarded him as a subversive French interloper. His decision to transplant the action of the "Ring" to nineteenth- and twentieth-century settings, in line with the leftist interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's "The Perfect Wagnerite," caused a legendary scandal; in "Das Rheingold," the audience was confronted with the image not of the primordial Rhine but of a hulking hydroelectric dam. In time, though, the power of the conception conquered skepticism. At the final revival, in 1980, Chéreau and his collaborators received an ovation that went on for more than an hour. That "Ring," shown on television in the nineteen-eighties, and now available on video, is widely seen as the classic Wagner staging of the modern era. What Chéreau perfected, in this and in subsequent productions, was a mode of abstracted realism in which every moment was charged and nothing was forced. Even the slightest gestures and the most marginal characters contributed to the unfolding of the drama.
Chéreau directed opera in New York only once, in 2009, when he brought his production of Janáček's "From the House of the Dead" to the Met. It was the most cohesive, potent evening of theatre I have ever seen there. Last summer, Chéreau staged Strauss's "Elektra" at the Aix-en-Provence Festival; unwilling to wait for a New York tour, I went to Aix and reviewed it for the magazine. The performance I attended was the last in the run, and I was struck by the almost frantic nature of the applause, and by the fervor of the hugs exchanged onstage. When I heard the news of Chéreau's death, I recalled that scene and wondered what emotion lay behind it. Recently, I talked to the composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who collaborated with Chéreau on both "Elektra" and "From the House of the Dead." He spoke lucidly and movingly about what it was like to work with Chéreau.
There is endless controversy over the role of the opera director. Every month, another scandal seems to erupt somewhere in Europe over a radical reinterpretation of a familiar work—Wagner set in death camps, and so on. Ideally, what should directors achieve, and why do they cause so much angst?
I sympathize with the directors, in a way, because they are in a difficult situation. In no other art form, certainly not in straight theatre or film, is everything so fixed in advance. The score cannot be changed in the slightest particular. Sometimes, I think that this idea of being absolutely true to the text has gone to an absurd point. There is total inflexibility. In fact, the opera composers of the past—these guys like Mozart, Weber, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, even Wagner—were practical theatre people. In Dresden once, I looked at Strauss's score for "Salome," and he had crossed out the brass at one point because they were too loud. I can't do that. Meanwhile, the audience wants to see the same "Aida" it has seen many times. The directors react against these strictures, they get pissed off by bourgeois taste, and everything kind of deteriorates. Even Chéreau, who was so respectful of the text, sometimes felt constricted. He'd ask, "Wouldn't it be great, Esa-Pekka, if we could move this scene over here?" And I would say, "Sure, Patrice, that would be great, but …" Yet he was never distracted by this politics of opera. He could find freedom within the boundaries.
When did you first become aware of Chéreau, and when did you meet him?
I saw the "Ring" on television, like so many others, and was in awe of it. I saw some of his early films also, and his "Hamlet" in Avignon. I first met him in the early nineties, in a rather odd and funny way. I had decided that I wanted him to recite the role of the Narrator for my recording of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex." I disliked the rather pretentious way the narration was usually done—the Cocteau style. Chéreau agreed to take it on, and so one day there he was, saying, "O.K., how do you want me to do it?" And I'm saying, "You are Patrice Chéreau! You should tell me the way to do it!" But he said, "I am here as an actor. I need instruction." I became very embarrassed, getting red in the face and sweating. Finally I said, "All right, maybe it can be a sort of matter-of-fact approach, as if you were reading the news." And he said, "O.K., that's it," and did it. This is something for my memoirs—the time I directed Patrice Chéreau.
Quite often, you meet people you have admired from afar, and they turn out to be not so nice. This happened to me many times in my youth. But Patrice was really remarkable as a human being. Very shy, very modest, very warm and thoughtful. I was always so impressed by the lack of fuss, the lack of grand gesturing, the lack of anything but focus and determination in his work. Whenever he suggested something, it was always with some overwhelmingly powerful argument behind it, and it was never about pecking order or power or any non artistic aspect—always about expression. And if I suggested something slightly different—maybe moving a singer to an acoustically better position—he would have no problem with that. I cannot recall one single moment of real disagreement or tension. In opera, this is a bit rare.
You jumped at the chance to work with Chéreau on "From the House of the Dead."
Yes—Peter Gelb came to see me in Paris and asked me about taking over from Boulez when the production came to the Met. And I said, "Now we are talking." On previous occasions, the Met had suggested less exciting opportunities. I went to see the production in Aix, and I must say that it was one of the most powerful experiences of my life. And for me it was made more poignant by the fact that Boulez gave me his copy of the score, saying, "You should have this now." He had corrected, like, a hundred and fifty misprints, so it was not only poignant but also useful.
Did Chéreau arrive with everything mapped out in advance, or was he more fluid and changeable?
Of course, he arrived with ideas. The concept for the set was worked out with Richard Peduzzi long in advance, and he knew generally how the action would interact with the set. And he prepared meticulously, through textual analysis and by studying the score. But, no, he didn't have an inflexible, machinelike concept of the work. He had to meet with the performers and see what they could actually deliver. On "Elektra," he spent a long time with Evelyn Herlitzius [who played the title role] before the rehearsals. Just the two of them, trying all kinds of things together—she is physically such a strong performer. With Peter Mattei, in "From the House of the Dead," he realized that Peter is a very good, natural actor, and he kept adding layers upon layers, giving him more challenging material. Every day, he would arrive with a new thing for Peter to do. It was like building a cathedral brick by brick. And this is the real mastery: not for one second would you think these little gestures are happening because M. Chéreau has told the singers to do them. Rather, you think, This is the story. This is the way it has to go. That is the greatest praise you can get: the director has rubbed himself out of the picture.
If he was working with somebody less talented as an actor, through weeks of drilling and supporting he would create an actor where there hadn't been one before. And rather than telling them what they should be thinking, he gives them—gave them—physical tools. He would say, "If you grab the chair with your right hand and hand the letter over with your left hand, then it works." He also got them away from bad operatic gesticulating. It was very clever: instead of telling them not to do those silly gestures, he would assign specific tasks that stopped them from lapsing into old habits. He drilled people so well that even if the singer couldn't identify completely with the part the expression would come through. In the end, the non-actors acted as well as the actors. For the chorus in "From the House of the Dead," he didn't treat them as a lump of people, moving them from point A to point B. Everybody was an individual, with a temperament and an imaginary narrative. Of course, to get to this point takes hundreds of hours of work. Not many directors are willing to do this. But the result is something very unlike other productions: everywhere you look, you are surrounded by stories.
It can't have been easy to practice this method at big opera houses, with their set routines.
The sheer volume of what these houses like La Scala and the Met do, with fifteen or twenty pieces in the repertory, means that routines fall into place and things have to go a certain way. Professional people learn to operate within the parameters. Patrice would accept certain facts, but he would become very frustrated. Sometimes there are union rules that are so bizarre and so counterproductive and so Kafkaesque that there's nothing to do but laugh or cry or get drunk or whatever. At La Scala, the chorus has a clause in their contract that states that they don't have to sing during staging rehearsals. So they are running around silently miming their parts, and it is very hard to get the timing right when they are not actually singing. I remember a lunch we had after one of those days, where Patrice said, "I'm done with this fucking opera thing. I will not touch opera again in my life. That's it." And I said, "O.K., but there's this one piece, and it has very little chorus by the way." And he said, "What is that?" " 'Elektra,' by Strauss." "Maybe. I don't know." I am happy I made this argument.
"From the House of the Dead" began in an electrifying way. You went to the podium without the audience noticing, and then the houselights suddenly switched off, and the music began. "Elektra" began very differently, with several minutes of stage action amid silence: the maids of the House of Atreus sweep the stairs, carry water around, and so forth. How did Chéreau come up with this idea?
He said that it was very important for the audience to understand that this is a totally normal household. [Laughs] Of course, he laughed, too, but that was the idea: we begin with something totally mundane, with these household chores, and then Elektra is thrown in, and the opera starts, and you realize that it is not normal at all. I quite like that idea. Musically speaking, I like the silence before the noise. People are coming away from their cell phones and their cars and the bar before the show, entering into this silence. And then the maximum contrast: first, the sound of brushes, and then this huge, dark D-minor chord. If you don't know the piece, it is a shock, and if you do know the piece it is still a shock, because you don't know when it comes.
In Hugo von Hofmannsthal's text, Elektra dances herself to death in an ecstatic dance. As Chéreau stages it, she stops and freezes while her brother Orestes walks all the way from the back of the stage to a door stage right. There is something incredibly chilling about the image—the long line created by his walk becomes the equivalent of a film camera pulling back, revealing an entire landscape. How did this come about?
He had trouble with the ending. I think we saw thirty different versions. Early on, he knew that Elektra should not die. He thought it would be even more tragic if she became an empty shell, all motivation gone now that the obsession with her mother's crime has ended, but she is still alive. Then, about halfway through the rehearsals, he had this idea of Orestes walking, walking, walking, walking. It underlines the tragedy even more. There is no neat closure, no achieving of a goal with the deaths of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. Nothing has changed; the circle of violence will go on and on.
You knew that he was undergoing treatment for cancer?
Yes, he was open about the seriousness of it all. But none of us knew quite how sick he was. Maybe he didn't even know himself. He would go back to Paris every two weeks to have chemo and come straight back and go to rehearsals. We were rehearsing in Milan during a heat wave, and there was no air-conditioning, so it was something like a hundred and five degrees Fahrenheit inside the hall. He would come in looking absolutely awful, and yet he would rehearse for six or eight hours straight. Finally, I just couldn't take it anymore, and I said, "Patrice, what are you doing? You should take a day or two off. I can work on musical rehearsals or whatever." And he said, "No, no, I have to work." And now I understand: work kept him going, and if he had free time he might start to think, and in his condition, if you start to think … At one point, we talked about the future, and I mentioned doing something in 2017-18. He looked at me and just shrugged.
I sensed strong emotion onstage when you were taking your last bows together.
Yes, there was. We had spent a long time together, Patrice and I and the cast, and we all felt lucky to have been a part of this project. He, too, was happy with how it had gone, and he was smiling after the show, which was really great to see. Then we had dinner and a party. People tend to flip out a bit at these affairs, jump into fountains and so forth. And we said goodbye and agreed to have lunch in Paris in the fall, and he gave me a hug and held me very firmly. Of course, I wonder about this. It is pointless to speculate whether he knew we might not see each other again. [Pauses] But, anyway, a dear memory.
Did you learn something from Chéreau that you can apply to your future work?
I think about his ability to make actors out of singers. I realize that he was enabling them to go somewhere they wouldn't normally go, giving them the confidence to do something that they weren't even aware they could do. If I or anybody else could apply the same principle as successfully—say, to conducting an orchestra—that would be quite remarkable. Even more, I think about how everything seemed to go a certain way because it had to, not because someone had made a series of decisions. I would be on the podium watching in wonder as it all unfolded—and yet I knew how he got there. It's as if you go see a magic show, and somebody tells you exactly how every trick is done, and you are still astonished. That is what it was like to work with Patrice Chéreau.
Above: Patrice Chéreau in Madrid, in 2006. Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty.


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Tuesday 4th November 2008
Philip St.John is a prolific writer. His short stories
have been published in New Irish Writing and broadcast
on radio. He has just completed an M. Phil in Creative
Writing at Trinity College Dublin. Philip will read from
his latest novel, Crazy Baldheads, set in Jamaica in 1982.
He will also be happy to answer any questions you might
have on writing a novel.
Photographer & Artist
Jo Callanan, born in South Africa and now living
in Greystones, qualified as a Graphic Designer with
photography as a major interest.
In June this year, she hosted an open Studio Exhibition
day at Stylebawn farm studios, with a number of artists
who share and enjoy the open space of the Wicklow
foothills. Her presentation is not to be missed.
The young Irish Tenors
Tim Scanlon from Wicklow Town, Cormac O'Daly from
Tralee and Billy Kilkenny from Malahide (l to r) make up
The Young Irish Tenors.
In 2006, they embarked on two hugely successful U.S and
European tours, alongside Irish Dancing Troop, Rhythm of
the Dance. Cormac studies with Irish tenor, Emmanuel
Lawler, at the Conservatory of Music Dublin, where Billy
began his singing career under Vocal coach Robert Alderson.
Tim attended the prestigious Music department of Estonia's
Tallinn University, studying vocal training and choral
conducting with Merica Aarme and Pille Saar.
Check out www.theyoungirishtenors.com
Kris Finnerty is a singer/songwriter who lives
in Bray, Co. Wicklow. His latest album, Christy is Dead,
is 10 years of work comprised into one CD. The artwork in
the booklet to the songs themselves are a true showing of
Kris's artistic nature and talent.
His influences include Counting Crows, Band of Horses,
Ben Harper and Bob Dylan. He can be regularly seen at
The Porterhouse on Bray Seafront, Marriot Hotel and
The DungeonFitzpatrick Hotel, Killiney.
Check out www.bebo.com/Chistyfinno
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