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July, 23 – September, 3 2016
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Residenzplatz 1
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Letters and words, numbers and codes, signs and symbols — since the avant-garde movements in the 20th Century, texts and fragments of scriptures have been used in manifold ways as a form of artistic expression in paintings, graphics, collages, sculptures and installations. How words become visualized and how they serve as artistic practice is the central topic of this year's exhibition during the Salzburg Festival at the Gallery Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg.
As Hugo Ball captured it in his Dada Fragments (1916): "The word and the image are one. Painting and composing poetry belong together. Christ is image and word. The word and the image are crucified." This statement not only implies that the re-emergence of the visual appearance of scripture in the avant-garde started from literature, but also emphasizes the strong bound of scripture and picture to religion.
Historically speaking, the interaction of scripture and picture has a longstanding tradition, as for example in medieval scripts and illuminations. "The picture as reproduction of scripture was a matter of course to the gothic painters, i.e. that of the Holy Scriptures," writes the literary scholar Peter Bürger, and continues: "To the point that characters were shown in pictures, for example as banderols, which served as a medium between the transcendental and the mortal world or as banderols with the name of the portrayed saint. The change occurred in the Renaissance with the upcoming of the perspective picture-space, oriented on the viewpoint of the spectator. The image then became an illusionistic depiction of a scene."
The division of image and scripture was long-lasting: "It was not before 1910 that cubist artists all of
a sudden began to integrate letters, scripture fragments and newspaper scraps into their work, either by painting or gluing", as media scientist Reinhard Döhl states. They were inspired by the word-image-experiments of Stéphane Mallarmé, who was interested in the visual appearance of language, especially in regard to typography. These experiments were followed by intermedia concepts in the fine arts: "cubism, futurism, and above all the œuvre of Marcel Duchamp finally led the way to an unconstrained convergence of literature and visual art. The once established boundaries between visual representation and verbal expression began to dissolve," Toni Stooss observes. Literature, graphics and fine arts started to blend more and more into the art movements of the 20th Century, their tendency towards intermedia approaches consolidated. Nowadays, various artists make use of letters, numbers, words, text passages and digits in such diverse ways as design element, naturally loaded with meaning.
A strong link between image and scripture arose from the emergence of abstract art, although the artists still felt the need to somehow give a comment, even though their message could mislead their viewers. A good example for this are the works by Antoni Tàpies, who puts mysterious codes in the pictures, which give indications for interpretation.
One can trace the complex entanglements of scripture and picture in all exhibited works at Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art. Language, material, light and shadow are the ingredients out of which the Belgian artist FRED EERDEKENS (* 1951) forms his characteristic sculptural objects. His artistic twisted wire creations are brought to life by the play between light and shadow: the sculptures cast shadows on different surfaces and transform to word and text fragments. The poetic shadows clearly make the ambiguity of language to subject of discussion.
BRIGITTE KOWANZ (* 1957) also prefers working with light and text. Her most significant
œuvre "Addition — Lux es lo que se ve" (2002) exposes spatially based light art. Sequences of numbers are there to be summed up, but the total of the numbers result in alphabetic characters:
a subtle play with encoding and decoding. "Light is, what you see" …
BRUNO PEINADO, born 1970 in Montpellier, confronts us with the daily flood of images.
He challenges our remembrance and awareness with reflections as well as visual and linguistic "approaches". The familiar lettering becomes evident as an aberration on second glance only:
"Wild" Disney.
The œuvre of the swiss artist DANIELE BUETTI (*1955) consists of photography, video, sound, drawing, sculpture as well as digital-assisted media. In the 1990s he became famous for his photographic works in which he disfigured perfect beauties by adding scars, advertising slogans and logos. In his perforated large-size photographies/light boxes, Buetti also deals with the glamorous fashion world, with youth culture and the obsession with beauty by using texts in his works.
"I can remember how I used to visit these little shops with my mother in Barcelona, which used metallic curtains to protect from flies and mosquitos. I think, poetry protects us against the flies and mosquitos of life," said the Catalan sculptor JAUME PLENSA (* 1955) in an interview. This memory exactly describes his artistic œuvre, in which the written word is of special significance. His mostly oversized figures, often formed out of a net composed of metal letters, are meditative and combine the human body with space and time. In dealing with Sigmund Freud's writings, which again and again appear as symbols in his objects and images, Plensa also discusses social conventions and taboos.
The Austrian artist JOCHEN HÖLLER (* 1977) plays with established concepts of information transfer, classification and language systems in his "paper-works". Thereby, he refers to Foucault's attribution of the importance of the archive: "I am not going to describe the archive neither as the totality of texts, which are stored for a civilization, nor as the entirety of traces, which could be saved after their fall, but rather as the game of rules, which determine the occurrence and disappearance of statements, their short survival and their obliteration…" Höller's preferred tool is
the scissors to cut out words, fragments and whole sentences from books and rearrange new word-orders, sentence-constructions, but also huge language-generators or fragile bookworms and more.
In his "Money pieces," an artwork made out of original banknotes, CARLOS AIRES (* 1974 in Ronda, Malaga) refers to the excesses of our capitalist-orientated society and questions to what extend our wishes and desires are focused on material things. Furthermore, he uses political connotations for nearly all of his works.
VADIM ZAKHAROV (* 1959 Tadschikistan) is an obsessive (text-)collector. Since more than
30 years he gathers an archive of conceptual art, that comes into artistic focus again and again. Zakharov works with his collecting mania not only against the disappearance of cultural memory,
in fact he is creating his very own artistic identity: The archive becomes art to him. In his "Movies in One Drawing" he transforms and reduces famous classics of film history by projecting them onto the (projection-)screen. He then paints over the relevant accents — be it architectonical elements, textual overlays, silhouettes and so on — and hereby freezes the various moving images. Hence, the film-concentrate results from the constant overpainting of the several film-images. Text fragments are often the only textual references.
Hans STAUDACHER (* 1923 in St. Urban/Ossiacher See) is regarded as one of the most important representatives of non-figural painting and the lyrical Informel in Austria. "I work like a fencer," says Staudacher about himself. "On the one hand very aggressive, on the other hand I try to bring poetry into my works." Scripture and picture form a poetic connection especially in his work. In a manifest from 1960 Hans Staudacher speaks about "new painting and poetry": "Abstract art is handwriting, color, dance, game, sign, inspiration, speech, word, excess, movement, speed. It is not transferable, not understandable, it is exuberance — and all of this because it has strength."
The Austrian sculptor, graphic designer, photograph and media artist Hans KUPELWIESER (* 1948) repeatedly overrides the mechanism of media and material in his often room-spanning sculptures and he prefers to move within the boundaries of two- and three-dimensionality. His kinetic object
"K-Effect" seems to withstand the laws of optics. "The mirror is not only bent concavely, but also possesses an additional curvature. The artist discovered this optical phenomenon by accident: 'The effect isn't described in the literature,' said Kupelwieser. And so he names it without further ado after himself: K for Kupelwieser-Effect." (Michael Ortner)
The overlapping of scripture and picture in the present context is from extraordinary diversity and furthermore well-known in the mass media. Nevertheless, the question of decipherability arises. Superficially, scripture and language is easier to unravel than a picture. "Language is the most complete tool to create as well as to destroy meaning. Playing with words is a wonderful mechanism, because in the same sentence we praise the meaning of language only to question it shortly after," said Octavio Paz. The works on the issue of scripture and picture vary in genre and media.
They are exhibited in the exclusive ambience at Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg (Residenzplatz 1) and invite you to a special encounter with contemporary art.
Participating artists:
Carlos AIRES • Hans BISCHOFFSHAUSEN • Daniele BUETTI • Fred EERDEKENS
Jan FABRE • Lionel FAVRE • Susy GÓMEZ • Douglas HENDERSON • Jochen HÖLLER
Markus HOFER • Brigitte KOWANZ • Hans KUPELWIESER • Ken MATSUBARA
Bruno PEINADO • Javier PÈREZ • Jaume PLENSA • Hans STAUDACHER
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The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Growing up in England and not having any particular interest in military fiction, my acquaintance with the American/Vietnam war has been casual at best, confined pretty much just to the musical Miss Saigon and Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam, as well as the odd aside in books like Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis or Pat Conroy's Prince of Tides. So I was a little surprised when, reading through one of the Nebula Awards collections which contained an extract of Elizabeth Anne Scarborough's novel, I was utterly captivated by the setting, the writing and the premise behind the book.
Lieutenant Kitty McCully is an army nurse in a hospital at the China beach base in Vietnam. Though as a female nurse she is kept well behind the lines and even Viet Cong rocket attacks on the base are more a source of annoyance than terror, yet everyday she is presented with a stream of war casualties, from wounded GI's to Vietnamese civilians to even prisoners of war. Kitty tries to maintain a professional attitude and do her best not to get too stressed or caught up in the dislike of difficult colleagues. Above all, Kitty fears she's losing her empathy and becoming simply cold. Yet, a mystical amulet Kitty unexpectedly comes into contact with from Xe, the old Vietnamese holy man will awaken Kitty's understanding of others, give her a strange power of healing, and also provide her only hope of survival when she finds HERSELF lost and alone in the middle of a hostile country.
Though I was eager to read The Healer's War, I admit it took me a surprisingly long while to get around to it since, given the extract in the Nebula collection, I expected the book to be pretty grim. Grim it undoubtedly is in places; even before things go severely wrong for Kitty. However, one thing which I definitely didn't expect, was how often the book was funny. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, as well as collaborating with Anne McCaffrey, is famous for humorous fantasy novels and even from such an inherently dark setting as a hospital in the Vietnam war it's fairly easy to see why. Occasional bits of odd observational humour, small anecdotes or tales about her colleagues and patients, even a little artful crudity which Stephen King would admire (I'll never think of Hershey bars the same way again), all make the book a wonderfully contrasting narrative, rather than an endless cycle of sorrow, which of course in turn makes the sorrow all the sharper.
Another fascinating thing about The Healer's War, and something which was very evident to me from the extract in the Nebula collection, is that the book has a stark, complex immediacy to it. Coming from a medical family, much of the way that Kitty experiences life on the ward, with schedules, long hours, matter of fact descriptions of horrific wounds or medical conditions, patients who become friends and pushy bureaucratic superiors was rather familiar to me, even if the impetus of the war and the setting were extremely different.
It's easy to see that Scarborough was writing from personal experience (having been a nurse in Vietnam herself), experience, particularly with Kitty's very flawed and human reactions to those around her, from the dire consequences of medical mistakes, to the casual way she approaches romance, to her at times strained reaction to the Vietnamese culture (especially to the reports of the horrific conditions in native hospitals). Indeed, speaking of natives, Kitty's attitude and reactions to the Vietnamese culture as a whole are wonderfully flawed, especially in these days of strict political correctness, since while Kitty is certainly no racist, and indeed deplores the racist behaviour of some of her colleagues, she still has to occasionally face her own impulses or assumptions head on, such as when, on a leave to Taiwan she finds herself speaking pigeon English to well educated, English speaking Taiwanese, or feeling a stark relief when realizing that the plane she's travelling on is not flown by an Oriental, moments which were both wonderfully uncomfortable, and yet completely and understandably real.
Speaking of friends, though everything is told in a strict first person perspective, we still become extremely close to a number of other characters. Indeed, it's notable that since most of the seriously wounded GIs would be evacuated out of country, all of the long term patients Kitty makes friends with are Vietnamese, people we get to know along with her, from Ahn, a rebellious one legged child, to the lordly holy man Xe. Indeed, Scarborough herself admitted that The Healer's War is a intended as much to shed light on the Vietnamese who survived the war and the conditions they lived under, as much as explore the experiences of Americans. From the vivacious Sundi, to the courteous Lieutenant Lun, to the determined Thai, indeed the stark, brutal racism of one particularly unpleasant example of the medical profession is something we feel at an especially nasty second hand along with Kitty, indeed rarely have I seen an author tackle racism so honestly, and yet with such nuance.
With a heavy emphasis on character and Kitty's experiences, the first half of the book naturally moves at a slower pace, indeed the amulet which is the book's major fantasy element only makes a brief introduction, and Kitty takes the abilities it gives almost in stride, though given her twelve hour days and constant confusion it's not too surprising. This doesn't however mean the action was in any sense draggy or uninteresting, not with Scarborough's engaging style and gift for anecdotes, whether humorous, horrible or simply human. In particular, Kitty's at times touching, at times exasperating relationship with the ten year old Ahn.
Another interesting element in this half of the novel is Kitty's experiences being one of the few western, English speaking women in a base full of men, experiencing attention that can range from flattering, to gallant to slimy, attention which she admits she does occasionally revel in, especially when it comes to quick, casual romances with handsome helicopter pilots. On the one hand I admired the way Kitty was very honest about the attention she received, and the fact that she chose to work in Vietnam partly out of sympathy for the men being drafted in the States. On the other I did find a few generalised comments about men a little odd, such as her note that amputee victims were eager to "prove themselves men", though whether this was a 1960's thing, a 1980's thing or indeed a military thing I am not sure. I also appreciated Kitty's honesty about many of her instinctive reactions, such as when she admits that even though there was more to her attraction to a man than just his good looks or having all body parts present, she might not have considered looking further to find those things if the good looks and intact body weren't there to begin with.
Of course, this is a war zone, and we here about plenty of atrocities, from both Viet Cong and American troops, and then later in the novel when things really hit the fan we experience things first hand. The atrocities are pretty damn atrocious and talked of in the stark, uncompromising realism with which Scarborough approaches everything else. In particular, this is where the fantasy element comes into play, since in equipping Kitty with an amulet that can heal others and pick up mystical auras, Scarborough is able to discuss the motivation of those engaged in atrocities in a way which is surprisingly poetic, and yet frighteningly immediate.
While Scarborough admits herself that the chief purpose in giving Kitty the amulet was so that she could be lost in the jungle and actually survive, so that she could explore what life for the ordinary Vietnamese was like caught between two warring sides, at the same time the amulet itself does add a wonderful extra dimension. For example, one major character we meet later in the novel is William, a decent, good natured soldier who suffers extreme fits of irrational rage due to seeing all of his friends get slaughtered, and seeing the colours of his aura shift and change and how the war had shaped him was quite poignant, even as Kitty has to decide practically whether travelling through the jungle with such an unpredictable, though trained guide is a good idea.
Using the amulet Scarborough was able to give first hand views of atrocities that bit of extra added punch, since it's one thing to see innocent civilians being cut down, quite another when you realize the person involved with it is feeling almost nothing at all, or when you see that those supposedly on "your side" have just as much a predilection for violence as the enemy. I will admit it did stretch my credulity a little when the amulet started to give Kitty the ability to telepathically communicate with non English speaking Vietnamese, but since the amulet is definitely more of a plot device than a strictly defined magical artefact I was happy enough to go with this as just another part of the almost nightmarish bad acid trip the book became.
My only major problems with The Healer's War occur towards the end. The book's first half is a slow thoughtful character drama with characters we grow to love despite the inherently nasty setting. The book's third quarter is a nightmarish acid trip into a deeply hostile place. The final quarter however things became somewhat aimless. While I appreciate that military paranoia and bureaucracy over Kitty's recovery could definitely wind themselves in tortuous knots, actually having this happen was about as interesting as it sounds, after a truly horrific introduction, Scarborough's paranoid general seemed to have been a lost plot thread, and some characters we meet at this stage, such as a friendly nursing sergeant, are given sketches which are too cursory to make us care about them as we did the characters earlier in the novel, and yet long winded enough to get in the way of something happening.
Sadly, one majorly lost thread here was the amulet, with Kitty simply bringing it back to America and literally shoving it in a draw. Given its central importance to the plot, even if Scarborough's intention was not to put together a fantasy novel, closure of the amulet's story would've been appreciated, especially with the major part played earlier in the novel, and some comments about the status of Xe its former owner and Kitty in some sense, carrying on his legacy. Speaking of closure, while I realize that part of Scarborough's intention was to show just how much of a mess Vietnam was, at the same time, the fact that we here so little of any of the Vietnamese, or indeed American characters we took such a long while getting to know throughout the course of the story is downright disappointing.
Not that the book needed a big happy Hollywood reunion, indeed, given that the book's ending delves heavily into themes of PTSD and how distant the Vietnam war was when back in America such a Hollywood reunion would've felt rather inappropriate, yet, a word or two, or at least some indication of the fate of characters besides Kitty would've been welcome, particularly characters like Ahn and William who'd played such a major role previously.
All in all The Healer's War is an amazing book. Dealing with such complex themes as racism, war, atrocity, and yet still managing to be profoundly and compellingly readable with characters you really care about.
The Healer's War is only very distantly a fantasy novel and yet it contains so many of the things that I personally love in fantasy. An alien and difficult setting, a flawed, human protagonist having to cope with a situation outside their control without the benefit of superpowers, even a very strange new way of looking at the world. Yet at the same time, it's still a damn good story, told with poise, humour and character. Despite a few issues with its final section and the way it handles its one fantasy element, it was a truly amazing story and one which definitely earned its Nebula award.
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A treaty of peace and friendship, made and concluded between
William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, on the part
and behalf of the said States, of the one part; and the undersigned
Chiefs, Warriors, and Deputies, of the Kickapoo Tribe or Nation,
on the part and behalf of the said Tribe or Nation, of the
other part.
THE parties being desirous of re-establishing peace and friendship
between the United States and the said tribe or nation, and
of being placed in all things, and in every respect, on the
same footing upon which they stood before the war, have agreed
to the following articles:
Every injury or act of hostility by one or either of the
contracting parties towards the other, shall be mutually forgiven
and forgot.
There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all
the citizens of the United States of America, and all the
individuals composing the said Kickapoo tribe or nation.
The contracting parties do hereby agree, promise, and oblige
themselves, reciprocally, to deliver up all the prisoners
now in their hands (by what means soever the same may have
come into their possession) to the officer commanding at Fort
Clarke, on the Illinois river, to be by him restored to their
respective nations as soon as it may be practicable.
The contracting parties, in the sincerity of mutual friendship,
recognize, re-establish, and confirm, all and every treaty,
contract, and agreement, heretofore concluded between the
United States and the Kickapoo tribe or nation.
In witness whereof, the said William Clark, Ninian Edwards,
and Auguste Chouteau, commissioners as aforesaid, and the
chiefs, warriors, and deputies of the said tribe, have hereunto
subscribed their names and affixed their seals, this second
day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifteen, and of the independence of the United
States the fortieth.
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– Mustang Creek Estates of Burleson, a residential-style assisted living and memory care community, is proud to announce its newly formed partnership with Johnson County Children's Advocacy Center. Studies show that in one year, more than 65,000 cases of child abuse are confirmed in Texas. To help children who are victims of sexual or physical abuse, Mustang Creek Estates of Burleson is hosting a donation drive which will go until the end of August. The public is encouraged to drop off diapers (any size), toys and stuffed animals, shampoo, lotion, soap, deodorant, hair brushes, socks, t-shirts, books, pens and crayons at Mustang Creek Estates of Burleson in House B at 1155 NW John Jones Dr. in Burleson. In addition, the senior living community is hosting an open house happy hour event on August 3 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in House B. Guests will be able to donate items for the children and families in need, enjoy refreshments and learn more about this newly formed partnership.
"When Mustang Creek Estates of Burleson reached out to me and offered to host a donation drive I was thrilled," said Alex Vazquez, family advocate/forensic interviewer at Johnson County Children's Advocacy Center. "All of the supplies we provide to families are donated, and every donation makes a difference. This was such a nice surprise, and everyone is so excited about the generosity of Mustang Creek Estates of Burleson."
Johnson County Children's Advocacy Center provides resources for children who have suffered sexual or physical abuse, witnessed a homicide or violent crime or have been found in dangerous drug environments, and proceeds from this donation drive will benefit children and families affected by these life events. Mustang Creek Estates of Burleson is always looking for ways to have a positive impact on the local community, and the open house happy hour event is one of the many ways the community serves as a resource in the Burleson area.
"We hope the public will support our effort so we can give children and families what they need," said Karen Jennings, executive director of Mustang Creek Estates of Burleson. "Our team and our residents want to make a difference and encourage others to do their part as well. We are honored to partner with Johnson County Children's Advocacy Center, and we are thrilled to host our open house event. We look forward to answering any questions the public might have about this donation drive or about our community."
Mustang Creek Estates, whose mission is to provide seniors with high-quality residential-style assisted living and memory care at an affordable price, has additional locations in Allen, Frisco and Keller. Recently, Mustang Creek Estates announced construction of its newest senior living community in Sachse. The community is now accepting reservations and expects to open in fall of 2017.
Mustang Creek of Burleson is excited about their partnership with Johnson County Children's Advocacy Center. Attendees interested in coming to the event should RSVP by contacting Madison Forrest, activity coordinator at Mustang Creek Estates of Burleson, at 682-401-5302 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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WASHINGTON — The commander-in-chief is set to address the nation Monday evening on the nation's strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia.
Monday's news conference is scheduled for 8 p.m. C.T. from Arlington, Virginia.
On Sunday, the White House announced President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense James Mattis had reached a decision after spending the day at Camp David talking with military leaders.
However, Mattis didn't release any additional details about the plan when speaking with reports, saying the President wanted to be the one to deliver the news.
CBS News analysts suggest the plan will further help military leaders overseas, allow for the possible deployment of 4,000 additional troops and will put pressure on Pakistan to stop harboring terrorists.


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Lack Of Sex Education Found To Help Teenagers Delay Sex
"Sex education found to help teenagers delay sex", according to a new CDC study. Great news, no?
Except, when you read the Reuters article you have this:
The researchers did not evaluate the content of sex education programs, including whether students were taught about contraception or about abstinence only.
Huh? Either Reuters is misreporting or the quality of research at the CDC is seriously lacking.
If you don't know whether the programs you're evaluating do, in fact, teach sex ed (comprehensive programs), or not (abstinence-only programs), you can't draw any valid conclusions about the effects of formal sex education on the timing of teenagers' sexual debut.
For all you know, most, or even all, of the programs you evaluated were abstinence-only programs, in which case the finding, and the headline, would be "Lack of sex education found to help teenagers delay sex."
If you have access to the study, please share; it would be interesting to find out who the clueless culprit is, Reuters or the CDC.
UPDATE: Here's the abstract, thanks to reader lyrl.
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I.Afraid, so dark,My soul, so starkAnd empty quite,Not black, not white.
II.The colors fadeAnd grays invadeWhat once was hope,This tiny rope.
III.So small, outwiped,The fear too tightThan to let goAnd not to show.
IV.What force this is,A steep abyssAnd dark a placeAnd deadly race.
V.But hope not comes,The sound of drums,Of drums of warJust sound in choir.
VI.The mind filled dark,A shadow's ark,Now cannot fightUp to the light.
VII.Just paralyzed,The problems sizedSo oppressing,Devastating.
VIII.What then to say?What awful playTo pursue thenAnd what a plan?
IX.And further on,What seemed once wonNow fades to nilAnd tears them fill.
X.Afraid and dark,The nagging markOf life's own endHas shivers sent.
April 2th, 1999
I.Don't know what to write,Don't know what to say,The options seemed wideAnd clear went the way.
II.Away seems the light,Away what was known,The shadows of nightTheir powers have shown.
III.In nebulous shapesAnd shadowy formThe darkness just gapesAnd soon comes the storm.
IV.By force it will takeThe efforts away,Will everything take -And nothing shall stay.
V.Too late, all these waysAre gone, don't return,Beyond, all but graysWill vanish and burn.
VI.Away all the thought,Away all that safe,Remains just a noughtAnd destiny's slave
I.Again I check and seek for new,Again I try to find a clue,Again for hints I search and goAnd look for flurries in the flowOf times and shades of times again,Of words and shades of echoes then,Of truth and hidden meaning stillAnd try to find to know the willThat leads this all and hides so well,That sees this all and will not tellWhat just exactly lies behind,What just exactly I would findWhen I now turned around to gazeAnd try to start a fury chaseOf thoughts against mere shadows but,To open doors which were to shutAnd not to enter, not to see -All past themes do I want to flee,All past ideas leave behind,With future then to fill my mind.
II.A glance behind, just to make sure,One to the side to see the lureThat darkness wants me follow now.But what I use is not a tow,Not thick a rope, not even strong,But what I know: It is not wrong.A tiny thread I follow straight,But what a threat there will awaitAnd laugh at me, I just don't know,But those are thoughts that times agoAnd not to mention here to seem.To follow nebulae and steamCould lead to places that I seek,A place that showed where I was weak,A place that showed what I denied,A place that showed what demons liedAnd fooled me down my dreams at days,That showed me all the handsome waysWhich neat and tidy used to look,And methods that looked by the book.
III.Am tired now of games and lies,Am tired now of useless tries,Just tired now of false repliesAm tired now of past denies.The shades of shadows I now see,I hear them calling, shout at me,I see them waving like before,I feel them touching me once more.And fire starts to come to me,This is a time I cannot flee,A time when thoughts are down, are gone,A time when sleep has almost wonAnd is to carry me away,Away to places where to stayAt daytime I would never care,And not at all that strangest flairAnd sounds and smells then hear and feel -The dreams take over and soon stealThe thoughts of mine and wishes deep -And life itself falls into sleep.
IV.At daylight I just used to cloakAnd not remember which dreams wokeLike nightmares me out of my peace -And now around they come to teaseMy mind to see what I would say,To see if I would turn awayAnd try to lie to dreams of mineAnd try to step aback to whineAnd to forget what aims I had,Just to deny what once but fledTo mind and soul, to soul and mind -It's easy to ignore that kindOf unpleasant and nasty thingsThat crawl around, but no one thinksOf things he sees and hears all day,Of things he meets on ev'ry way,Of things that used to be just clearAnd not to doubt and not to fear;Those things that not to prove just are,On darkened skies they seem a star.
V.Deep down the quarrels do not end,Deep down I cannot use a handOr body force to clarify -The choir of questions, what, when, why,Is drumming deafly there and dark.Where is the end? Where lies the markThat makes the time and takes the life?That takes me down when I just thrive?But when - to ask - should it be right?Which time would be a one I liked?Just don't pretend to know one thing,Just don't ignore the angel's wingThat all the times took care of all -But now, when all the walls to fallAnd all the bridges seem to fadeAnd all the questions to debateAnd all the efforts to combineAnd all to leave which once was mineAnd all to think at once that day -And all the times will fade away.
VI.In dreams deep down I feel the truth,The dreams deep down now try to sootheMy mind, and all the worldliest shapesWill something be that far just waitsTo see me then. And all the fearsSeem foolish then. And all the tearsWill vanish soon and hope will spread.What dangers wait, what deadly threat?I laugh at these! Whom shall I fear.The Lord again just seems so near,Not far is He, not fantasy,Nor is He myth, nor fools he thee.A calming voice, a guiding hand,A voice that calls me to His landJust when He wants me to return.But first I am alive to learnAnd see the World and feel His breath.This knowledge now just laughs at deathAnd shadows flee and leave the night -So that at last I'll see the light.


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By Neil McLeman
Mark Hughes is adamant he will defy the doom-mongers and keep his job, even if his Queens Park Rangers side lose to Reading tomorrow.
And QPR manager Hughes said he had not even discussed his position with chairman Tony Fernandes.
Rock-bottom Rangers host the Royals in a battle between the only two clubs without a win in the Premier League this season.
But the Welshman said his situation at Loftus Road is different from Manchester City where he was sacked in December 2009.
While the Abu Dhabi-owned club undermined Hughes during his dying days, Fernandes visited the QPR training ground this week in a very public show of support for his man.
And Hughes insisted this backing, which the Malaysian businessman also displays on Twitter, will not change no matter the result at Loftus Road.
"How many times can Tony talk about being fully behind what we are trying to do?" asked Hughes.
"One game isn't going to change that. He is an honest guy and he is very open. He says it how it is.
"I was with him on Thursday and he was very upbeat. He is in great spirits. He is like the rest of us - the one overriding emotion is frustration.
"I think we all feel we are very close to gaining maximum points and moving up the table.
"We haven't even discussed my future. He understands what we're trying to do. He sees it first-hand.
"He was there at the game at Arsenal and he was really enthused about what we produced. That reassures him we're doing the right thing.
"Every time he comes here, he sees changes for the better and I think that excites him."
Hughes, who won only two of his final 11 games at City, insisted he is used to the speculation over his role.
"I had that for about 18 months then so we have had a couple of weeks of it here so it really doesn't phase me to be honest," said the Welshman.
But he added: "The difference here is that I have a great relationship with the owner and his shareholders and everyone connected with the club.
"I think that's refreshing because you have real quality lines of communication and dialogue on a daily basis. That's what I've got with Tony."
Hughes succeeded Neil Warnock in February and signed a whole new team over summer.
Back then, Fernandes told QPR fans to wait until November so the new players had a chance to properly gel.
Well, it's now November - a month which also sees games against Stoke and Southampton, before a visit to Manchester United on November 24.
With Harry Redknapp still ready, willing and available, QPR going three more games without a win would stretch even Fernandes' loyalty.
"A win against Reading would settle everyone down," Hughes agreed. "Once we get the first win, I am convinced we will go on a run of performances aligned with good results as well."
"Come on QPR! Just not tomorrow..."
By Daniel Cutts
Reading defender Kaspars Gorkss wants to heap more misery on old club QPR after admitting he was PLEASED to be bombed out of Loftus Road.
Latvian international Gorkss, 30, was part of Neil Warnock's Rangers team who were promoted to the Premier League in 2011.
The centre-back, who faces his former side for the first time tomorrow, believes the best thing to happen to him was to be sold by Warnock to Reading.
Gorkss said: "I was in no way angry or sad to leave QPR. There is some good to come out of every situation and it was a blessing in disguise to leave.
"I proved I could get promoted to the Premier League again and I am hoping to prove I can compete in this league. It was a great thing to happen.
"When I left QPR I felt I could have done a good job for them in the Premier League but that is football. It is just part of the game."
Gorkss made 121 appearances for Rangers over three-years and admits he would love to see Mark Hughes' side beat the drop along with Reading.
He added: "I would be upset if they went down, because I still have a lot of friends at QPR. I spent three years there and I grew to love it.
"I would be absolutely gutted if they are relegated. Hopefully I get a good reception by the fans and they remember me well."
Gorkss' Reading team-mate Mikele Leigertwood is also looking to put one over his old club after spending four years with the Hoops.
Leigertwood said: "It was difficult to leave QPR. I could have stayed and fought for my place but I wanted to come and play regular first team football.
"Reading was my first choice."
Royals' manager Brian McDermott will be without Turkey midfielder Jem Karacan, who faces six weeks out with knee ligament injury.


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During my MSc in Marine Biotechnology at the University of Stirling, I started to come into contact with the Scottish salmon industry as a result of my dissertation which was focused on improving lumpfish production. We collected samples at FAI Aultbae where I saw a fantastic system with magnets for deshelling artemia – the SEP-Art system from Benchmark Advanced Nutrition, or INVE as it's often still referred to in the industry!
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Errors in business processes result in poor data accuracy. This article proposes an architecture analysis method which utilises ArchiMate and the Probabilistic Relational Model formalism to model and analyse data accuracy. Since the resources available for architecture analysis are usually quite scarce, the method advocates interviews as the primary data collection technique. A case study demonstrates that the method yields correct data accuracy estimates and is more resource-efficient than a competing sampling-based data accuracy estimation method.
Decisions concerning IT systems are often made without adequate decision-support. This has led to unnecessary IT costs and failures to realize business benefits. The present thesis presents a framework for analysis of four information systems properties relevant to IT decision-making. The work is founded on enterprise architecture, a model-based IT and business management discipline. Based on the existing ArchiMate framework, a new enterprise architecture framework has been developed and implemented in a software tool. The framework supports modeling and analysis of data accuracy, service performance, service availability and application usage. To analyze data accuracy, data flows are modeled, the service availability analysis uses fault tree analysis, the performance analysis employs queuing networks and the application usage analysis combines the Technology Acceptance Model and Task-Technology Fit model. The accuracy of the framework's estimates was empirically tested. Data accuracy and service performance were evaluated in studies at the same power utility. Service availability was tested in multiple studies at banks and power utilities. Data was collected through interviews with system development or maintenance staff. The application usage model was tested in the maintenance management domain. Here, data was collected by means of a survey answered by 55 respondents from three power utilities, one manufacturing company and one nuclear power plant. The service availability studies provided estimates that were accurate within a few hours of logged yearly downtime. The data accuracy estimate was correct within a percentage point when compared to a sample of data objects. Deviations for four out of five service performance estimates were within 15 % from measured values. The application usage analysis explained a high degree of variation in application usage when applied to the maintenance management domain. During the studies of data accuracy, service performance and service availability, records were kept concerning the required modeling and analysis effort. The estimates were obtained with a total effort of about 20 man-hours per estimate. In summary the framework should be useful for IT decision-makers requiring fairly accurate, but not too expensive, estimates of the four properties.


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Draymond Green: Teams trying to 'punk' Warriors
Draymond Green says that NBA teams this season are being more physical with the Golden State Warriors, a team that features a starting lineup with four NBA-All performers from last season with the addition of Kevin Durant.
Green did not single out a particular player while making his comments, which he made after the Warriors beat the Phoenix Suns 106–100 on Sunday.
"Teams are trying to punk us, [but] it's fine," Green said, according to ESPN. "We're not going to get punked."
Golden State has won two in a row since a season-opening blowout loss to the San Antonio Spurs.
Durant, who is averaging 31.3 points, 10.3 rebounds and 4.7 assists in three games, says that he has not heard more chatter from opposing players this season.
"They're going to come at us physically," Durant said. "We took it tonight. That team was pressuring us to try to get us out of our stuff. We kept moving, we had a nice pace, we got stops and ran and got good looks all night. You can talk all you want. You still got to play."
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- EPOS systems are a necessary expense, but all too often businesses invest in cheaper, sub-par technology which cause problems later down the line. Following the release of his ultimate guide to getting your system right, Nigel Bogle, founder and CEO of Lakeland Computers, shares his top five things to consider before you invest
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Electronic Point Of Sale: Your till, basically. The funnel through which most of your bricks and mortar shop transactions will flow through. This is also the tool which will enable you to improve customer service and shopping experience. Timed promotions, integrated customer loyalty schemes, intelligent vouchers, gift cards, discount cards, account transactions. These are all bits of functionality which will allow you to sell more whilst making sure your customers' expectations of value and experience are met.
Whether you have integrated weighing at your checkout or simply at your serve-over counters, this is an area where quality matters. Make sure you look to tried and tested industry experts and get something which is genuinely linked to your back office system, otherwise you'll spend years of your life making simple price changes in multiple places needlessly.
There are lots of options available now, with most credit/debit cards being chip and pin enabled and an absolute essential consideration for retailers in the food space. Think about your likely or actual average basket spend. If it's under £30 then contactless should also be a serious consideration for customer convenience. Couple this with a solution that is fully integrated with your tills and you'll be on your way to getting your customers through the checkout faster.
Think of all that money tied up in stock. Where's it going? What's selling? What's not? How is your margin being affected by waste? If you don't keep an eye on this, chances are you'll be losing a lot of money.
Coupled with point 4. Get clear on what's happening in your business by running some key reports regularly to keep abreast of areas that need attention. What do you sell most of? Are your suppliers earning their keep on your shelves? Are your departmental margins where they ought to be? A good reporting tool is an essential requirement. If you can also avail of operational support to help you interpret the figures then so much the better.
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Is patent really important to all business people?
Firstly, it is now a universal consensus that innovation is the key to business success. All successful world class companies hold large number of patents. For instance, during the period between January 1995 and mid-February 2001, Microsoft has obtained approx 1,475 U.S. patents, Toyota 820, and Sony 859 . Companies that do not innovate lose out in market competition quickly. And if you invest to innovate, you should protect your innovation by patents as far as possible.
Secondly, failure to handle patents issues in your business could cost serious legal liability with astronomical financial consequence. In 1990 Kodak was ordered to pay USD925 million in damages to Polaroid for making and selling products that infringed Polaroid's patents. Legal fees cost Kodak an additional US$100 million. Kodak was also forced to shut down its US$1.5 billion manufacturing plant, lay off 700 workers, and spend nearly US$500 million to buy back the 16 infringing articles it had sold to consumers. It is important to note that you may infringe a patent not only by making a patent product, but also selling and even using it.
Patent is relevant to retail business!
Innovation is also the key to success in the retail business. The most successful personal computer seller in the world, Dell Computer, built their success on innovation of their built-to-order direct sales model. As of February 2001, it holds approximately 582 patents related to its business.
Another good illustration is a patent on retail method held by Walker Asset Management (an associate company with Priceline.com) and licensed to KFC: Upselling (US Patent No. US06119099). For example, an KFC customer paying US$2.7 for chicken and macaroni may forego his change (for US$0.3) in exchange for a cup of Coke. Since its use, this method significantly increased the revenue of KFC.
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Richmond, Virginia artist Saint Vinci remix his hit single "Duck Sauce" featuring one of the hottest artist out right now DaBaby and Phresher. DaBaby is best known for the single "Suge", the lead single off his debut album, Baby on Baby. The song has had over 100 million streams on Spotify and peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Phresher best known for the singles "Wait a Minute" featuring Remy Ma and "Right Now" featuring Cardi B. Watch out for Saint Vinci with his swag and smooth flow he will go far in the entertainment industry. First Time Phresher and DaBaby on a song together. Coming off of a high profile feature alongside Eminem and 2Chainz on Eminem's "Chloraseptic" remix, Phresher, who also has records with; Cardi B, Busta Rhymes, Joey Bada$$, Fetty and Remy Ma has worked with the most sharp-witted veterans in the game. Going for airplay now, Phresher brings an electric, high octane, vibe to Saint Vinci and DaBaby's emerging single "Duck Sauce".
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We are created to be loved and to love. With the ascension of Jesus, our Lord and Savior, God hears a human voice in Heaven. God longs to hear your voice in His home. Our Father's love urges us to share with others the hope we have in Jesus.
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We no longer have to look up to see Jesus; He calls us to look within to find Him.
The God's supernatural power enables us to do what is otherwise impossible: forgive those who have wronged us.
Jesus prayed for the strength to forgive. He knew that authentic forgiveness is a powerful act, linked with mercy, charity, and set in motion through Love.
Jesus embodied this and asks us to do the same.
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Jesus tells us that love IS your business.
The four expressions of love: Patience, humility, generosity and kindness.
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Pick-Me-Up Fortune Cookie Messages
Looking at the mirror today, I found some more gray hair sprouting left and right. Then, my bifocal seemed to be out of focus. Sigh! The signs of youth are eluding me. Didn't I write about accepting what we cannot change? Time to walk my talk!
I wrote the following messages to encourage all baby boomers as we live life to the full with defiant optimism. Enjoy your fortune cookies!
- Fear can paralyze your judgment and cause you to misplace your priorities on secondary matters rather than what's primary.
- Believe in your dream, pursue it wholeheartedly and live it to the fullest.
- Life is full of hope. Every ending leads to a new beginning.
- Your brain continues to flourish rather than weaken in the second half of life.
- Make it your goal to stay physically strong, mentally sound, emotionally stable, and spiritually grounded.
- Although your body will wear out and your mind may gradually regress, your spirit will never grow old. Each day puts you one day closer to your eternal destiny.
- Not knowing your calling on earth is like having lived in a house filled with unopened gifts.
- Everyone seems to hold a seed of passion inside his/her soul.
- Living life to the fullest is about releasing that seed of passion, giving it life and cultivating it to its full bloom.
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Step aboard the Maritimo M54 and you will notice the wide walk around decks and enlarged cockpit with bi-fold doors which brings the saloon closer than ever. The aft galley design incorporates a full-size fridge and a well-appointed pantry, ideal for easy entertaining.
Incorporating a full beam master suite with an abundance of storage in drawers, hanging lockers and underneath the master bed. The mezzanine level above the master has lockers, drawers, a full-length mirror and vanity, ensuring ultimate convenience for all occasions. Your guests are comfortably accommodated in a forward guest suite, bunks to starboard and a day head easily accessed by both areas.
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Systemic sclerosis, also known as scleroderma, is an autoimmune disease which affects many organs and organ systems such as the skin, blood vessels, muscles, lung, heart etc. This chronic illness features with diffuse fibrosis and accompanying degenerative changes. The condition predominantly affects women and usually starts in the 3rd to 5th decade of life.
Causes of Systemic Sclerosis
Systemic sclerosis is closely related to immunologic mechanisms and it is also considered a hereditary disease. The condition may develop as a consequence of exposure to vinyl chloride, bleomycin, pentazocine, epoxy and aromatic hydrocarbons.
The main characteristics of the condition are connected with vascular damage and activation of fibroblasts. There is excessive production of collagen and extracellular proteins which eventually leads to symptoms and signs of the disease. The severity of the condition depends on the affected organ and the extent of damage caused by excessive production of collagen fibers.Clinical Characteristics of Systemic SclerosisPatients initially develop symptoms and signs of Raynaud's syndrome and serious swelling of the distal extremities. The skin of the fingers starts thickening. Swelling of the skin is symmetric. The affected skin eventually becomes taut and shiny and its color changes. Patients suffering from systemic sclerosis develop telangiectasias, subcutaneous calcifications and trophic ulcers. There is also pain located in many joints (polyarthralgia). Depending on the affected organ or organ system patients report different symptoms. Some of them complain about problems with the gastrointestinal tract while others have problems with the respiratory tract, joints, heart, kidneys etc.Therapy for Systemic Sclerosis
There are several treatments for systemic sclerosis. The doctor chooses the most convenient one according to complexity of symptoms and the affected organs.
Patients complaining about itchy skin can benefit from camphor and menthol, topical emollients, psoralen UV-A (PUVA) treatment or UVA-1 phototherapy. Patients suffering from calcifications are treated surgically( prolonged recovery time). In case of Raynaud's syndrome patients are initially suggested to avoid exposure to cold temperatures and are supposed to wear loose-fitting clothes and, if necessary, gloves and warm socks. Medicamentous treatment for Raynaud's syndrome include calcium channel blockers, vasodilating drugs, intravenous prostaglandins and prostacyclin analogs. Aspirin may be also prescribed.
In case the condition has caused damage to the kidneys the doctor may opt for ACE inhibitors while gastrointestinal symptoms and signs can be brought under control with proton pump inhibitors and H2 blockers. Patients with respiratory symptoms and signs require calcium channel blockers, prostaglandins and cyclophosphamide. Myositis caused by systemic sclerosis is treated with corticosteroids.
Immunomodulatory agents commonly prescribed in severe forms of the disease include corticosteroids, methotrexate, chlorambucil, Cyclosporine, tacrolimus, thalidomide, low-dose intravenous cyclophosphamide and statins. And finally, antifibrotic agents are currently evaluated as treatment option for systemic sclerosis. They include D-penicillinamine, interferon alfa and interferon gamma.
- www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/stem-cell-transplant-severe-scleroderma-improves-survival-quality-life
- www.nhs.uk/conditions/scleroderma/
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