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You who read me… are you certain you understand my language?
Although I've read far too little of it, magic realism has always appealed to me viscerally; Jorges Luis Borges is, if not a magic realist himself, certainly connected with magic realism. I am, as you'll have noticed, a world-builder by hobby; Borges is widely regarded as a patron saint of world-building, second only to Tolkien himself. It should be a surprise, then, even given my slovenly attitude to reading, that I didn't read anything by Borges until I was already at university. I only have one book of his, and this marks only my second read of it. Again, I'm not really sure why, as I know I enjoyed it last time.
Fictions is a collection of short stories, divided into two halves. At present, I only intend to review the first half, The Garden of Forking Paths, but I'm sure I'll return to the second half later. That I cannot summon the enthusiasm to read the entire collection in one go should not be seen as a criticism of Borges; although I'm willing and able to plough hurriedly through the thickest of multi-volume epics, I encounter a strange repulsion when attempting to read a collection of short fiction. Picking up each story feels like picking up an entire novel for the first time, which for me is a mighty task, however much I expect to enjoy the contents. It's remarkable I've even read this entire collection – probably one of only two short fiction collections of which this is true, though I own many other fine examples I have put down after a particular story with the honest but vain intent to revisit at a later time.
The Garden of Forking Paths contains (at least in this version) eight stories, none of them particularly long. The particular translation I have is one by Andrew Hurley, published in the Penguin Classics series – I assume that this translation is adequate, though the translation issue does of course enjoin us to give the original author a little more charity in our complaints.
The first story is the famous and beloved Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, almost an aquila for the world-building community – a rare story not only by us but about us. Unfortunately, time has not fallen on it kindly, and an early, foundational section about the language of Tlön feels truly painful – the sort of idea that might well have appealed to an early-20th-century European dilettante, but that is as transparently naïve to the modern reader as De Las Casas or Montagne discussing the noble savage. No noble savage here, but an alien, exciting savage. Borges may not be European in geography, but he speaks a European tongue, and this bias is uncomfortably clear in his exoticisation of, and miscomprehension of, what is fundamentally only the mundane sort of native language spoken by many of the pre-European inhabitants of his continent. These are the sorts of (obvious but ultimately nonsensical) linguistic ideas that appear instantly to every Indo-European child who embarks on language-creation, and it's unsettling to have a master like Borges take on the position of a neophyte. I am perhaps doubly cursed, as I am (have been?) also a philosophy student, as the next development, idealism, neither follows coherently from the linguistic fancy nor is particularly original or engaging – Borges himself makes reference to Schopenhauer and to Berkeley, and unsurprisingly I found that both Berkeley and Schopenhauer presented their ideas more convincingly, and intriguingly, than Borges can. I had a brief moment of delight when I found what looked like an early example of what we might call the Pratchett Principle, that belief shapes reality, only to find it was less creative than that – merely the belief that observation shapes reality*. The idea is put forward appealingly, even strikingly, but cannot hold the attention. The general topic of conworlding is gratifying but, for a conworlder, unexciting; the final twist is unconvincing (and better explored in some of his other stories), and the absolutely-final inversion is brilliant but unexplored. I felt constantly that I should be liking this story, but in fact felt only that a great writer was trying too hard to talk about things he knew too little of.
EDIT: Some days later, the obvious symbolic meaning has finally occured to me, and I am reminded yet again just what an idiot I am. That he should have hidden the meaning of the story in what is, essentially, a bare pun, did not occur to me – I was not even looking for a hidden meaning at all. What does this change in my opinion? Not as much as it might, for it seems to me that the symbolism is secondary to the discursion – an added barb to the wire. Undoubtedly, it adds a greater degree of pathos, and makes the structure seem better-judged, by casting the ending in a new light. Nonetheless, the symbolised is not really examined in any depth by this story, and none of what is examined is shown in an entirely new light. It improves, but does not rescue, the tale.
The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim is a lighter work, and in style benefits from it – it is all well within Borges' capabilities. That, frankly, is my complaint – it is no stretch at all. The story is the summary of a book that doesn't exist, following Borges' stated project of merely describing books to save himself the bother of writing them – justified by his own nature as 'a more reasonable, more inept, and more lazy man'. In this case, he succeeds in painting the idea of a great novel – a novel I should like to have written myself – but fails to justify this attempt. It is a description of a great novel, but neither the novel nor the description are astounding nor unique – many authors less famous than Borges could have written this just as (or almost as) well. Perhaps this is a personal bitterness speaking here: I find it very easy to narrate to myself, or even to others, the plots and themes of novels I intend to write some day, but rather more difficult to actually write those novels (witness my writing this because my own novel has stalled and I have not yet deduced the proper path through it). Perhaps I should just give up trying to write, and instead try selling summaries as short stories. It has often been remarked that there is no author like Borges – a cynical (and admittedly unfair) explanation might be that no author will ever again be able to get away with writing (or avoiding writing) like Borges. Do not misunderstand me – this was an enjoyable and interesting story. It just wasn't really worth reading – you may as well listen to your own future novels in your head, or, if you don't have any, go and read a real review of an actual great novel. There's plenty of them to choose from without making more. On the other hand, we should remember that perspective influences reading, and remember that this story did not originally appear as a story, but as an essay, posing as a genuine review (so genuine that, the myth runs, one of Borges' friends tried to buy the book reviewed). I unashamedly remember (read: am reminded by a note in the book, read accidentally while searching for the publication dates I mention below, and return back up here to innocently add this addendum to a paragraph I completed some time ago) this now, and this new perspective has completely changed my opinion of the work – the deceit, or show of deceit, in my opinion justifies what would otherwise be without any great purpose.
If you think I'm being too harsh on Borges, know that I too was disappointed by my reactions. I remember being far more impressed last time – and in Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, we can see why. This story is, in my opinion, genius, and explains why editors let him get away with fluff like the preceding story. It's easy to think of this as a simple gimmick, but this time Borges actually pursues his ideas, and performs the sort of Copernican moment that he attempted, and in my opinion failed, in Tlön. Pierre Menard ought to be compulsory reading not only in literature classes but also in philosophy – a clearer and more persuasive blow for post-Enlightenment perspectives than a dozen tomes of Derrida (though I acknowledge a risk that a trained Continental philosopher may find the story derivative and barren – even here, however, the early date of the story should be noted).
The Circular Ruins can, like many of these stories, be read as a plain fantasy – a ghost story, I think – or symbolically, with the symbolism of course being debateable. Unfortunately, the tale is slight, and showcases a particular flaw of Borges – these short, scant stories can establish symbolic meanings between two planes of reality, but do not have enough emotional weight to really say anything about either, except in the broadest, most philosophical, least interesting terms. Ruins does not detract from this collection – it's an interesting enough little read – but nor does it really add much, and is not in itself a reason to read the book, in my opinion.
I have little to say of The Lottery in Babylon – again, Borges seems to try too hard. His established default mode is to take some idea, not too far from the mundane, and follow it into what appears fantastical or absurd, until his descriptions are redolent with the double-natures of dreams and laden with intimations of revelation, and alienation. In Lottery, however, this mode is followed lazily – the pursuit is half-hearted and unconvincing, and the inevitable 'oooh, isn't it weeiiiiird' passages feel un-earned. Rather than eroding the barrier between real and irreal, it feels as though Borges has simply run at the barrier, checked that nobody is looking, and slipped around the side.** Nor is anything in Lottery so striking or exotic as to outshine this poor construction.
Like Al-Mu'tasim (and arguably Menard), A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain is meta-fiction – it describes stories rather than being a story. It is more varied, more exotic, than the earlier story, and hence more immediately approachable – but it is shallower, and less affecting. All the works of Quain described seem to hammer at a single point – which is, essentially, the poststructuralist application of perspectivism to literature. Again and again we are shown (as we are in Menard) that our interpretation of a text depends on our perspective; 'readers', as Quain says, are extinct, and we are all 'writers' now. Fine; but I am reminded of my reading of Dhalgren, in that I do feel an urge to shout "yes, OK, I know that, but what do you have to say that's new?". Come on, Quain! "the aesthetic act must contain some element of surprise, shock, astonishment – and… being astonished by rote is difficult". Now, we must pause, and check again the date – Menard is from 1939, and Quain from 1941. Truth and Method still lies twenty years in the future; Derrida and post-structuralism, even further. I don't know enough about the history of (particularly continental) philosophy to say how ground-breaking Borges was at the time, but even if he was not entirely original (and let's not forget that he was half a century after Nietzsche and Dilthey) he was at least at the forefront of the wave (a difference from Dhalgren, which is a more affective and complex account, but written once the wave had passed). Surely we should credit him for that?
Well, yes, we should – but we should also be careful to look at what we are valuing when we give that credit. If we value that shock, that astonishment, that derives from something new, we are valuing something that is held hostage by the passing of time. This book predicts the wave, and so seems stale, familiar; that book walks out into the water by itself, and stands alone for centuries, a lighthouse that illuminates the shore. These vicissitudes of subsequent fashion have nothing to do with the work itself – or do they? If Quain is right, and we are all writers now, we cannot think of the story as we read it (or, we might say, the story as we rewrite it, renew it) as being identical with the story as a historical artefact, the story as written on that day or night long decades ago, pinned between the pages of an original copy. That copy is meaningless, because it can never be read – we are always reading our own story, because we've all read different introductory chapters. If that copy has become damaged, the ink washed away by the leak from a roof, it is no more unreadable. It does not exist ideally in the aether, without a reader, without a context, to be talked about unproblematically through the generations. All we can read is the story as it stands today. So if we give extra credit or demerit for some fact of historical interest ("did you know, when this was first read, the readers had not read anything like it?"), we are not marking this to the account of the story itself, the story as the living, breathing thing with which we interact (by which, we might fancifully suggest, we are temporarily inhabited as by a narrative loa), but as a historical artefact. I think that Herbert Quain expresses it well when he says that "I belong not to art but to the history of art" – and sometimes it does feel that, through no fault of his own, the value of Borges may be relegated to his place in the history of art. No fault of his own? Not so – the more an artist grasps for the present moment, they more vulnerable they are to the new colours cast on them when the light changes with the season – as much when they seek to exceed that moment as when they seek to imitate it. By putting such emphasis on ideas, Borges helps us to devalue his work in its role as art, as nothing is more dustily historical than an old idea. Whether Borges would be displeased by this is hard to say – Quain himself both rejects the fate (by regarding history as the lowest of subjects) and accepts it (by intentionally seeking the new and the shocking, inescapably trapping himself in his moment) – and given that Borges credits one of his own stories to Quain it is tempting to see one as the eidolon of the other. Frankly, I don't much care either way – all I can talk about is my own view, and I would think it sad (though not dishonourable) if Borges were to be consigned entirely to history.
Of The Library of Babel… I have very little to say. It stands with Tlön and Lottery as another journey-of-a-thought fantasy. Unlike those stories, its concept and construction are genius, and beautiful too – at once a wholly fantastical thought-experiment and a soft symbology of human beauty and folly. I don't think it could be improved.
Finally, there is the story of The Garden of Forking Paths itself, which represents something of a change in tone from the rest of the collection – as it features an actual character. Two stories are combined in one – a simple but effective puzzle-story about a spy, and a long discursion into the nature of time. The former is truly pleasing, though its conclusion is rushed and simplistic; the latter feels sadly familiar from the intersection of Library and Quain – the collection would have benefited from putting this story before those, I think. The combination itself, the twist, is audacious and surprisingly pleasing, given how easy it would have been for such an authorial conceit to be obnoxious.
Regarding the demi-collection as a whole – I have made note of my own scores for it, but I shall wait until I have finished the second half, when I'll give my over-all view of the collection.
EDIT: second half of the review up here
*A suggestion: the Pratchett Principle is a cargo-cult extension of Protagoras' belief that all beliefs are true. From this, we leap, with the addition of causality, to the idea that things are true because they are believed, and that if they were not believed they would not be true – and we have the world of Discworld (and many others). Borges, on the other hand, chooses to extend Berkeley, which is less impressive as it has been mostly done by Berkeley already. Tlön, we might say, is merely Berkeley's world without his god – an interesting thought, but one only hinted at by Borges.
**I'm reminded of beautiful description (by Nagel, iirc?) of our attempts to deal with scepticism. He divided the approaches into the heroic, the tragic, and the oblivious. We stand and observe our destination, kept from us by a gigantic chasm. The tragic philosopher walks to the edge and weeps that he cannot cross; the heroic philosopher takes a great long run-up and leaps out across, and into, the abyss, to his doom; the oblivious philosopher walks with determination to the edge, turns to put the chasm at his back, and declares to those who watch him that he has succeeded, and is now on the other side – the writer suggests the infamous example of Moore's hands for this last category. I think perhaps something could be said of the delimning of the real: realists dig a chasm; magic realists try to fill it in again; Borges at his best builds the sort of solid, slender bridge that gets us to the other side but fills us with vertigo in the process; but at his worst, he sometimes seems to simply come to the chasm and turn his back.


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This thesis investigates how variations in the oxygen isotopic composition of lake waters in northern Fennoscandia are recorded in lake sediment archives, especially diatoms, and how these variations can be used to infer past changes in climate and atmospheric circulation. Results from analyses of the oxygen isotopic composition of lake water samples (δ18Olakew) collected between 2001 and 2006 show that δ18O of northern Fennoscandian lakes is mainly controlled by the isotopic composition of the precipitation (δ18Op). Changes in local δ18Op depend on variations in ambient air temperature and changes in atmospheric circulation that lead to changes in moisture source, vapour transport efficiency, or winter to summer precipitation distribution. This study demonstrates that the amount of isotopic variation in lake water δ18O is determined by a combination of the original δ18Olakew, the amount and timing of the snowmelt, the amount of seasonally specific precipitation and groundwater, any evaporation effects, and lake water residence time. The fact that the same isotope shifts have been detected in various δ18Olakew proxies, derived from hydrologically different lakes, suggests that these records reflect regional atmospheric circulation changes. The results indicate that diatom biogenic silica isotope (δ18Odiatom) records can provide important information about changes in atmospheric circulation that can help explain temperature and precipitation changes during the Holocene. The reconstructed long-term Holocene decreasing δ18Op trend was likely forced by a shift from strong zonal westerly airflow (relatively high δ18Op) in the early Holocene to a more meridional flow pattern (relatively low δ18Op). The large δ18Olakew depletion recorded in the δ18O records around ca. 500 cal yr BP (AD 1450) may be due to a shift to more intense meridional airflow over northern Fennoscandia resulting in an increasing proportion of winter precipitation from the north or southeast. This climate shift probably marks the onset of the so-called Little Ice Age in this region.
Lakes in sub-Arctic regions have the potential of retaining many different aspects of water isotope composition in their sediments which can be used for palaeoclimate reconstruction. It is therefore important to understand the modern isotope hydrology of these lakes. Here we discuss the significance of variations in water isotope composition of a series of lakes located in north-west Swedish Lapland. Climate in this region is forced by changes in the North Atlantic which renders it an interesting area for climate reconstructions. We compare δ18Olake and δ2Hlake collected between 2001 and 2006 and show that the lakes in this sub-Arctic region are currently mainly recharged by shallow groundwater and precipitation which undergoes little subsequent evaporation, and that the d18O and δ2H composition of input to the majority of the lakes varies on a seasonal basis between winter precipitation (and spring thaw) and summer precipitation. Seasonal variations in the isotopic composition of the lake waters are larger in lakes with short residence times (<6 months), which react faster to seasonal changes in the precipitation, compared to lakes with longer residence times (>6 months), which retain an isotopic signal closer to that of annual mean precipitation. Lake waters also show a range of isotope values between sites due to catchment elevation and timing of snow melt. The lake water data collected in this study was supported by isotope data from lake waters, streams and ground waters from1995 to 2000 reported in other studies.
Waters from high altitude alpine lakes are mainly recharged by meteoric water. Because of seasonal variations in precipitation and temperature, and relatively short hydraulic residence times, most high altitude lakes have lake water isotopic compositions (δ18Olake) that fluctuate due to seasonality in water balance processes. Input from snowmelt, in particular, has a significant role in determining lake water d18O. Here we compare two high resolution δ18Odiatom records from lake sediments in the Swedish Scandes with instrumental data from the last century obtained from nearby meteorological stations. The time period AD 1900 to AD 1990 is characterized by an increase in winter precipitation and high winter/summer precipitation ratios and this is recorded in δ18Odiatom as decreasing trends. Lowest δ18Odiatom values and highest amount of winter precipitation are found around AD 1990 when the winter North Atlantic Oscillation index was above +2. We conclude that for the last 150 years the main factor affecting the δ18Odiatom signal in these sub-Arctic high altitude lakes with short residence times has been changes in amount of winter precipitation and that δ18Odiatom derived from high altitude lakes in the Swedish Scandes can be used as a winter precipitation proxy.
We use a pro-glacial oxygen isotope record of diatom silica (δ18Odiatom) and a sedimentary proxy for glacier flutuations to determine centennial-millennial scale climate change during the last 5000 yeras in northern Sweden. We show that the lake water isotopic composition åredominantly reflects the isotopic composition of the precipitation. Superimposed on a general depletion trend of 3.5‰ over the past 5000 years we found that the isotopic composition of precipitation became depleted (> 1‰ excursions) during four occasions centered at 4400, 3000, 2000 and, after 1200 cal yr BP. Climate simultaneously sustained a positive glacier mass balance, taht caused the catchment glacier to advance. A peristan cgange in the atmopheric circulation pattern could potentially have caused the registered chnages in the δ18Odiatom because different air masses hold characteristics δ18O signatures of their precipitation. The glacier mass balance primarily responds to the influence of summer temperature on ablation. We suggest that the most likely cause for the recorded chnages in both these proxies is a steadily increasing but fluctuating dominance of colder and δ18O depleted air masses from the north/northeast during the past 5000 years. Theδ18Odiatom depletion and glacier events all occur at times of relative ice-rafted-debris maxima in the North Atlanic, consistent with cold conditions and changes in surface wind directions. Our results confirm that changes towards a predominace of north/northeasterly winds occured at these time intervals.
The first high-resolution record of climate variation based on the oxygen and carbon isotope composition of authigenic carbonate for northern Scandinavia is presented. Modern lake-water isotope data indicate that controls on its oxygen and hydrogen (δ18Ow and δDw) composition are unlikely to be evaporation or temperature, and its variations must therefore reflect changes in, or at the source of, precipitation. Substantial and persistent changes of the isotopic composition of the precipitation are required to change the mean annual isotope composition of lake surface water. For this reason we argue that the recorded changes were significant and that the recurrence of such changes would greatly affect future regional climate conditions in the North Atlantic region. Oxygen isotope (δ18O) minima occurring at ~ 200, 500, 1300, 1600 and at 2900 cal. yr BP all coincide with major peaks in North Atlantic ice rafted debris deposition. We suggest that the depletion events in δ18O cycles recorded in several lakes in northern Swedish Lapland are caused by the same climatic shifts as those noted in the North Atlantic marine records. This is because changes of atmospheric circulation pattern and the lower ocean and atmospheric temperatures associated with the IRD events help to explain why 18O depletion of precipitation occurred during these events. Our findings indicate that the recorded changes in North Atlantic ice drift and surface hydrography are coupled to changes in atmospheric circulation.
This study present past changes in lake water oxygen isotope composition (δ18Olakew) calculated from diatom oxygen isotope composition (δ18Odiatom) from two lake sediment records. The two sediment sequences (9500 and 2800 years) are from open-basin lakes, although with different hydrologies, and are located close to a meteorological station in Naimakka, Northern Fennoscandia. The isotope composition of lake waters was analysed to determine the modern regional hydrological setting. Our results show that changes in the isotope composition of precipitation (δ18Op) is the primary forcing mechanism decreasing or increasing the δ18Olakew values in both lakes. Changes in the isotope signals are interpreted as reflecting regional variations in atmospheric circulation and climatic seasonality. δ18Odiatom from Lake Keitjoru, covering the last 9500 years, shows a depletion trend of 1.3‰ from c. 8000 until around 1500 cal yr BP. This decrease is thought to be due to a long term decrease in the influence of a zonal airflow (strong westerlies, relatively high δ18Op) over Fennoscandia in favor of an increasing proportion of colder meridional airflow (weak westerlies, lower δ18Op) from the north. A synchronous shift to lower δ18O values was recorded in Lake Keitjoru and lake Oikojärvi around 700-600 cal yr BP (~AD 1250-1350), a time when European climate deteriorated into the "Little Ice Age". We argue that a circulation pattern dominated by meridional airflow, with reduced westerlies over Northern Fennoscandia and high amounts of winter precipitation from southeast or north, replaced a zonal atmospheric circulation pattern at this time. The δ18Odiatom minima c. 400 and 50 cal yr BP (~AD 1550 and AD 1900) is likely also a response to shifts in circulation, which is also seen in lower summer temperatures at that time recorded in tree-rings and from pollen data. The fact that the same isotope shifts have been detected in δ18O records from hydrological different lakes lends support to our conclusion that these records reflect variations in atmospheric circulation pattern.
Here we use lake sediment studies from Sweden to illustrate how Holocene-aged oxygen isotope records from lakes located in different hydrological settings, can provide information about climate change. In particular changes in precipitation, atmospheric circulation and water balance. We highlight the importance of understanding the present lake hydrology, and the relationship between climate variables and the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation (d18Op)and lake waters (d18Olakewater) for interpretation of the oxygen isotopic record from the sediments (d18O). Both precipitation reconstructions from northern Sweden and water balance reconstructions from south and central Sweden show that the atmospheric circulation changed from zonal to a more meridional airflow over the Holocene. Superimposed on this Holocene trend are δ18Op minima resembling intervals of the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), thus suggesting that the climate of Northern Europe is strongly influenced by atmospheric and oceanic circulation changes over the North Atlantic.


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NeuroSearch A/S – H1 report 2018
30 August 2018
Below please find the H1 report 2018. The full report is available in the enclosed PDF file.
NeuroSearch posted an operating loss of DKK 2.8 million in H1 2018 (H2 2017: a loss of DKK 2.3 million).
NeuroSearch posted a net loss of DKK 3.0 million in H1 2018 (H1 2017: a net loss of DKK 2.5 million).
At 30 June 2018, cash and cash equivalents totalled DKK 70.4 million (30 June 2017: DKK 65.9 million).
Company update
On 15 May 2018 (company announcement no. 9-18), NeuroSearch entered into an agreement with, among others, Teva Pharmaceutical International GmbH (Teva), to release Teva from all outstanding obligations pursuant to the agreement from 2012 concerning the transfer of NeuroSearch's rights in and to Pridopidine. According to the agreement now entered into, in the event that Teva prior to 31 October 2018 enters into an agreement with an identified third party relating to the sale and transfer of Teva's rights in and to Pridopidine, then NeuroSearch will receive a cash payment of USD 450,000 (DKK 2.7 million). This agreement follows from Teva's decision not to develop Pridopidine further following the failure by Pridopidine to meet its primary endpoints in Huntington's Disease in a Phase II trial conducted by Teva, and potential interest in the asset by an identified third party.
In May and June, Nordic Transport Group Holding A/S ("NTG Holding") and Gefion Group Investments A/S ("Gefion") announced takeover offers to the shareholders of NeuroSearch (announcements 10-18, 11-18 and 12-18). The final outcome hereof is described in the section on events after the balance sheet date.
As of 31 December 2017, NeuroSearch calculated the value of its unrecognised tax loss carry forwards in the parent company at approximately DKK 1,714 million, and deductible timing differences at approximately DKK 77 million, or a total of approximately DKK 1,791 million. Under certain conditions, a potential buyer of NeuroSearch may be able to utilise the unrecognised tax assets in full or in part.
Financial outlook for 2018
On the basis of realised and expected costs in connection with NTG Holding's and Gefion's takeover offers and winding-up and transfer costs and costs for maintaining NeuroSearch's stock exchange listing etc. until the end of 2018, the operating loss is estimated to be approximately DKK 5 million without completion of the agreement with Teva. Provided the agreement with Teva is finally completed, the financial performance will improve by USD 450,000.
Events after the balance sheet date
On 2 July 2018 (announcement no. 14-18), the Board of Directors of NeuroSearch published its statement relating to the two takeover offers from Gefion and NTG Holding, respectively.
On 9 August 2018 (announcement no. 15-18), Gefion announced that the acceptances of their conditional, voluntary takeover offer to the shareholders of NeuroSearch had been counted, and on the basis of the final counting of acceptances Gefion's offer had lapsed.
On 13 August 2018 (announcement no. 17-18), NTG Holding announced the final results of its takeover offer. On the basis of the final calculation of received acceptances, NTG Holding had received acceptances representing 17.83 percent of the share capital and voting rights in NeuroSearch. Together with NTG Holding's existing shareholding in NeuroSearch, after settlement of its offer NTG Holding held 5,534,028 shares corresponding to 22.54 percent of the entire share capital and all voting rights in NeuroSearch. The trading day for settlement of NTG Holding's offer was 16 August 2018.
On 23 August 2018 (announcement no. 21-18), the Board of Directors convened an extraordinary general meeting in order to elect new board members. The extraordinary general meeting will take place on Friday, 14 September 2018 at 11 a.m. at Kromann Reumert, Sundkrogsgade 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø.
Karin Garre Allan Andersen
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Allan Andersen, CEO, mobile+45 4016 3864
About NeuroSearch
NeuroSearch A/S (NEUR) is listed on NASDAQ Copenhagen A/S.


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US airline stocks were lower on Friday, with the exception of Allegiant. US Airways fell 2.4% despite reporting a record May load factor and a stronger RASM performance than the previous month.
US Airways reported mainline revenue passenger miles (RPMs) for May-2011 were 5.6 billion, up 7.4% year-on-year. Mainline capacity rose 4.4%, resulting in a record mainline passenger load factor of 85.2%, up 2.3 ppts on May-2010.
US Airways' May consolidated (mainline and Express) passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM) increased approximately 11% against the same period last year, following a 6% increase in Apr-2011.
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Assume a supine position on the floor and flex the hips and knees and place the heels on a box placing the hands behind or at the sides ofthe head (to hold its weight only) or fold the arms across the chest or abdomen.Curl the torso until the upper back is off of the floor and maintain a tucked or neutral head and neck position. Keep the feet, buttocks, and lower backstationary at all times. After completing the crunch, allow the torso to uncurl back down to the starting position
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The Darlington-based company is one of just nine legal firms across the country to have made it onto the shortlist in the Excellence in Private Client Practice category of The Law Society Excellence Awards 2015.
Latimer Hinks impressed judges including Court of Protection senior judge Denzil Lush and Julia Abrey, partner in international commercial law firm Withers Worldwide and Gill Steel, owner and director of the LawSkills consultancy.
It is the first time the firm has entered The Law Society awards, which are designed to "celebrate brilliance in the legal profession.
Latimer Hinks CEO Anne Elliott said: "We're excited even to make the shortlist, particularly as its the first time we have entered The Law Society awards.
"Our private client work is incredibly important to us here at Latimer Hinks. We help our clients with some of the most pressing and emotive issues in their lives from buying a home to planning for retirement, drawing up a will to deciding who will take over the family business.
"Many of our clients are families which Latimer Hinks have helped for generations, so we really get to know them and build up relationships. Thats the way we have always liked to work and being shortlisted is testament to that philosophy as well as providing recognition of the strength of our team.
The Private Client Practice category, which is new this year, was launched to celebrate excellence and outstanding achievement in private client work. Judges were looking for exceptional teams or firms who excel within the wide range of areas that make up private client practice.
Those shortlisted had to demonstrate evidence of the capacity and technical expertise needed to undertake complex and demanding private client issues as well as showing their dedication to achieving complete client satisfaction.
A Law Society spokesperson said: "We have had a great calibre of applications this year and judging them was no mean feat. Congratulations to all our finalists.
Winners will be announced at a black-tie awards ceremony on October 22 at Londons Hilton Park Lane Hotel.


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The USS Arizona Memorial is a site that honours the lives of the 1,177 sailors and marines who lost their lives in the attack that took place on Oahu Island at Pearl Harbor during World War II.
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Filing his candidacy papers Friday prior to the deadline, Bill Zinn, of Spencer, is the final candidate to file for Clay County's Dec. 11 special election. Zinn will compete against Republican candidate Kevin Brown and Independent candidate Art Hamrick on the special election ballot to determine who will replace former supervisor Joe Skow on the Clay County Board of Supervisors...
Surviving the Holidays: Help and hope to navigate the Christmas season
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ARNOLDS PARK — Wondering how you will survive the weeks surrounding Thanksgiving and Christmas? Are you dreading these holidays, knowing that everything has changed and that happy memories from past years can't be recreated? On Nov. 17, a Surviving the Holidays two-hour seminar will begin at 1 p.m. at the Okoboji Bible Conference grounds in Arnolds Park...
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For those away from family, seeking fellowship or just looking for a good meal, a pair of area organization's are hosting Thanksgiving meals for the public next week. From 5:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, senior students in the Sacred Heart Disciples Ways program are hosting a community meal at the Grand Avenue Community Outreach as part of the Season of Giving effort. ...
SFD battles trailer court blaze
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The trailer court located at 317 W. 18th St. in Spencer was the site of a fire which destroyed one mobile home and damaged at least two adjacent mobile homes and one nearby vehicle. The Spencer Fire Department, Spencer Police Department and Spencer Hospital responded to the fire call at approximately 3 p.m. Thursday, with SFD personnel remaining on site past 6:30 p.m...
Dancing with the local stars starts Nov. 16-17
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Seven couples of "local stars" have practiced their best moves and found their finest clothing and dancing shoes, readying themselves for two nights of "Dancing with the Local Stars," which begins Friday and continues Saturday inside the Clay County Fair and Events Center ballroom...
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Charlie Biederman
Charlie Biederman (November 11, 1918 – February 22, 1995) was a musher in Alaska best known for being the last surviving dog sled mail carrier in the United States.[1][2] Charlie was born in Alaska as the son of Ed Biederman, a musher born in Bohemia who immigrated to the United States in 1874 and also delivered the mail via dog sled. The date of Charlie's birth is unclear, but contemporary U.S. Censuses indicate it likely was around 1919.[3] Charlie had four siblings. Charlie was raised in Eagle, Alaska, but lived in an isolated cabin on the Yukon River for most of his life. From an early age, he assisted his father and brother in their winter deliveries of the mail to isolated cabins in central Alaska. In winter, the family lived in Eagle and ran the mail route between that town and Circle, another small settlement approximately 158 miles (254 km) downriver. In the summer, the family lived at their Yukon River cabin, harvesting fish for subsistence and boarding the dogs of fellow mushers.[4] In 1938, the family were underbid for the main contract for mail delivery in the area by a bush pilot. Ed Biederman retired shortly afterward and died in 1945. The final dog sled mail route was replaced in 1963.[5] That final route was from Gambell to Savoonga and was run by Chester Noongwook.[6] In January 1995, he donated the mail-delivery sled he used to the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., where it hangs today.[7] One month after making the delivery, he died on February 22, 1995.[2]
Today, the cabin that served as Charlie Biederman's home for most of his life is a hospitality stop of the Yukon Quest, a 1,000-mile sled dog race between Whitehorse, Yukon, and Fairbanks, Alaska.
- ^ Balzar, p. 170
- ^ a b Cox, Melanie. "Obituaries of Alaska's pioneers, A–D". USGenWeb Project. April 5, 1997. Accessed March 11, 2009.
- ^ Ancestry.com. "Charlie Biederman", Ancestry.com. Accessed March 11, 2009.
- ^ HABS, p. 5
- ^ Killick, p. 225
- ^ Ward W. Wells Collection. "Dog team carrying last mail between Gambell and Savoonga by dogs", Alaska's Digital Archives. Accessed March 11, 2009.
- ^ National Postal Museum. "Alaskan dog sled", Arago.si.edu. March 20, 2006. In February, 1995, He served as the Honorary Race Marshall for the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, but was unable to attend the race start due to deteriorating health conditions. He died at Denali Center, Fairbanks, Alaska one day prior to the First Musher, Frank Turner crossing the finish line in Fairbanks. Accessed March 11, 2009.
- Balzar, John. Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race. Henry Holt and Co, January 2000. pp. 169–170.
- Historic American Buildings Survey. "Ed Biederman Fish Camp" (PDF), National Park Service. Accessed March 11, 2009.
- Killick, Adam. Racing the White Silence: On the Trail of the Yukon Quest. Penguin Global, May 2005. pp. 225–226


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Sometimes I find myself aimlessly checking my email account. Nothing. Checking facebook. Nothing new. Checking friends' blogs. Perusing. Then realizing, I am meant to blog myself. So what am I waiting for?
Waiting for inspiration? Waiting until I have something brilliant to say? Waiting to see if the angst will subside and the humour will rise?
So, with nothing particular to say I will blither (blother?) on.
I went camping this weekend. I was having a very low day on Friday, and finding myself in the bathtub (again) I heard Brian come home.
Me: (pathetically) Do you want to go camping?
Him: (hesitantly) Ya, we can do that.
So, an hour later, there we were at our favourite spot. Of course it is less favourite in the spring and summer because there are lots of campers, and all the ocean front spots are taken by the new reservation rules. Never - the - less, there we were.
My dear husband got it into his head that heading to the nearest town/bar to watch the hockey game would be fun. Fun? I grumbled, thinking, how fun will a noisy, crowded Friday night bar be. Well, as it turned out, alot! So we had fun, and then headed back for a campfire before bed.
As often happens when I am 'low' we got into a bit of a squabble around that campfire. After 35 years together our squabbles seem to often centre around certain themes. This was the 'we can never plan anything' theme. It's true. We can't. Yet, it seemed hopeless to discuss it so late when I was already feeling so vulnerable.
So, off to bed in my cozy camper. And the day dawned, the birds were out enmasse and coffee around the morning campfire was perfect and comforting.
We invited some friends up for dinner and a campfire and headed to town to buy steaks. (Well, the husband was in charge of the steaks as I headed to the wool store to cheer myself up!).
Thy day threatened rain and sun throughout, but by the time our friends arrived the fire was going and the steaks ready to cook. It was a lovely evening. They are newish friends, but very good company, and the four of us are able to talk and laugh comfortably. That is a very good thing.
This morning the sky was blue, the birds were out, and the coffee was delicious as we sat on the edge of the beach.
Home by 12:30, a fabulous shower, and now awaiting the next canucks game. Due to my severely failing eyesight I can't actually 'see', the game, but I knit, and cheer as I listen to the announcers and all their endless stats.
Tomorrow we will start to pack for our trip out east. I can't wait to see our girl - all grown up and graduating from university.
Tomorrow I will start to fret about the packing, and the travelling, but once I am on the plane it will all be fine. It always is.
So, you see? Nothing spectacular here. This is my life. Not spectacular, but comfortable, and comforting.
Oh, and also, by the way, for those of you reading this, for those of you in my life - thank you. Thank you for your friendship, your teasing, your laughter, and your conversation. Even if it is occasional, or 'only' on facebook. It's important to me. This feeling of connection is important.
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Denis Lawson, whose career has spanned television, film and theatre, including Local Hero, Holby City, Sensitive Skin, Bleak House, Marchlands and Criminal Justice says: "I'm delighted to be joining Amanda, Alun and Dennis on New Tricks. I've long admired the show and love its ability to be warm, humorous and gritty simultaneously. I'm really looking forward to being part of it."
Executive Producer Richard Burrell says: "Casting a new member of the UCOS team was always going to be an exciting challenge and we are absolutely thrilled that the brilliant Denis Lawson is joining us. Denis brings warmth, wit and charm to the character Steve McAllister and is a very welcome addition to the New Tricks family."
With ratings peaking at an impressive 9.7 million, 36% share, the last series of New Tricks comprehensively dominated its slot. The ninth 10-part series of New Tricks is currently filming at Pinewood Studios and on location in London for transmission on BBC One later this year.
New Tricks is made by Wall to Wall Television (part of Shed Media Group), executive produced by Richard Burrell for Wall to Wall and Polly Hill for BBC One. New Tricks was recommissioned by Danny Cohen, Controller, BBC One and Ben Stephenson, Controller BBC Drama Commissioning.
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Todd Miller. The Whacker. That toe-headed grom with an appetite for the big leagues. He went from a 36th Street grom to world tour charger. From 54th Street shredder to Bud Tour kingpin. One of his biggest victories was winning the 1991 Cold Water Classic in Santa Cruz, and his biggest victory to date is being the father of the next generation Miller, his son Taj, who along with his pop took out their divisions in this year's City of Newport Beach Championships. We caught up with the Whacker, and here's what he had to say….
Ghetto Juice: What was it like transitioning from a touring pro surfer on the WCT to the civilian life like you have today? Were you thinking you'd just come back to Newport and work for one of your sponsors?
Todd Miller: Danny Kwock was my mentor and he saw me losing my inspiration to compete and he offered me the team manager position at Quiksilver. He was like it's time to go to the University of QS and it was a great learning experience. I now work at a company called Nameplate that produces stickers and point of purchase items and it's great because most of my clients are my friends from the action sports world!
GJ: Tell me about how you got into surfing and what it was like back then?
TM: I grew up surfing 36th Street in Newport and I really looked up to Robbie Todd and Paul Ebel back then. They were the older guys surfing out there and it was really cool.
GJ: Do you remember your first surf contest?
TM: Not really, but I remember I loved the feeling of competing, and once I did it I was hooked.
GJ: What were some of your best memories from the time you spent on the ASP WCT?
TM: First would be beating Kelly in France man-on-man—that is no easy task. The guy is a freak to be doing it almost 20 years later and still winning! Others would be some of the free surf sessions all over the world with the best guys out. Great memories!
GJ: I remember you sort of gave up shortboarding for a while in the early 2000s. What was that all about? Had you lost the passion for throwing buckets? How did you get back into shortboarding again and what did that period of riding longboards do for you mentally?
TM: I got fat and my shortboards weren't floating me very well so I guess I got into longboarding because of that. I think after you make something your life and then don't have to do it professionally anymore your motivation changes.
GJ: Your company "F54" was one of the hottest surf companies coming up in the early 2000s. You ran it for several years then let it go. What happened?
TM: I did F54 for about eight years and had a blast. I brought on a partner Ted Wueste and he was a really cool guy and helped the company a lot. We licensed it off in 2010 to a big company and a year later they didn't want to move forward with it. We were going into a recession and that didn't help anything. I learned lots and I am very thankful for all the support everyone gave me and all the cool people I met!
GJ: You went to Newport Harbor High School, right? Were surfers considered the cool kids? Did you like school? How were your grades?
TM: Newport Harbor was a fun school. There was a cool group of guys that all surfed together and we kind of did our own thing. I wasn't much of a school guy and I definitely regret that. School is very important and I always tell my son Taj that very thing. My grades were average and that's another thing I wish I could change for the better.
GJ: You and Richie Collins are pretty much the only surfers from Newport to make the ASP World Tour. What possessed you guys to make the world stage? And why don't more surfers from Newport make the world tour?
TM: It was good to have someone like Richie to watch surf everyday because he was one of the best. I don't think I was ever the best surfer, but I knew that whatever I did I was going to overachieve because I was so competitive. Danny Kwock always said it best: "When you are a skinny alley cat you win and when you are a big fat cat you lose." I don't feel like the guys in Newport are hungry enough. You need the "do-or-die attitude." A guy like Droid should be on the tour with the Kolohe's but he has a different act. I like that he is not "cookie cutter" and he is his own person and he shreds!
GJ: Today you're back on a short board, and you're still throwing major hacks in the water. What joys do you get out of surfing these days?
TM: I'm in the best shape of my life and that really helps because nowadays you might miss a few weeks of surfing and being in shape you feel like you don't miss a beat. I don't really enjoy competing as much as I used to, but I like to surf the two contests Newport puts on every year.
GJ: I remember when you were in that one Quiksilver ad of you when you were a toe headed grom, you had the broken wrist and you were quoted as saying, "I love being a young pro because the bigger the come the harder they fall." That was brash but a few years later you would be on the world tour. What was your mind-state back in those days? You were gnarly!!
TM: I heard Reggie Miller say something one time and it kind of stuck to me. It didn't matter what he was going to do in life he was so competitive that he would be successful in anything he did. Not comparing myself to Reggie, but on a smaller scale that's how I felt. I just had a very strong competitive drive.
GJ: Do you think we'll see a surfer from Newport make the world tour anytime soon? Or has the Newport-Mesa crew lost that certain brash attitude that got you and Richie and the world tour to begin with? What type of mental state does someone need to not just be "sponsored and get your photo in the mag" but to actually get on tour?
TM: I sure would love to see all of them make it. Droid should be on there already, but when he's ready he will be there. Colin rode for me at F54 when he was a grom and he is a great kid and I love him and his family and it would make me really proud to see him make it! He surfs well enough and he just needs to believe that he belongs with the top guys. Meah is still young but I'm sure she will be there eventually because she rips.
GJ: Anything you want to add?
TM: Thanks to my mom for believing in my surfing when I was a grom!
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