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I figured the first thing I should do with this new version of my site is to give you a bit of information about me, so I'm copying over that Facebook note that went on a while ago!
1. I used to come to blows with my sister about who got to play the pink Power Ranger
2. I have no idea why electricity is dangerous despite many people's attempts to explain it to me
3. I was the very first Sixer of the Sprites in my Brownie pack
4. I had keyboard lessons for three years despite having a complete lack of rhythm and musical talent
5. I still can't spell rhythm without thinking of the "rhythm has your two hips moving" mnemonic
6. I still bear the scars (and giant lump on my head) of an unfortunate Hang Tough incident – Don't try to recreate anything you've seen on Gladiators
7. I still have all my old school books under my bed at home
8. I once won 50 Merit Points for my "close investigation of mud" on a school trip
9. If I could only eat one thing forever, it would be Café Rouge's garlic breadsticks
10. I'm fairly sure I only passed my driving test because I was wearing a low cut top
11. I won £80 at bingo when I was about 10 and all the old ladies looked really mad
12. I cheated in my Spanish GCSE oral until I got caught and they took my script away
13. I've still got a notebook somewhere in which me and Becky rewrote a load of pop songs in Year 8/9
14. I used to collect notebooks and still tend to come back with one wherever I go
15. I had Osgood-Schlatter disease in my knee
16. You wouldn't know it to look at me now, but when I was younger I did swimming, trampolining, gymnastics and badminton
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18. I've helped to build some kick-ass campfires in my time
19. I'd never had a curry until I came to Birmingham
20. I once met Cherie Blair in the toilets at the NIA
21. I broke my sister's bed whilst dancing to Ricky Martin's Shake Your Bon-Bon
22. I can't go anywhere without someone asking me "Is your hair naturally like that?" and have actually had my hair groped by a middle-aged woman who was walking past
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24. I didn't drink coffee until I tasted some really disgusting self-warming stuff my English teacher raved about and didn't drink tea until the Müllers started giving me really weak stuff
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REVIEW: Objects at Rest could afford to be anticlimactic, I suppose, because they always had this SERIES finale in their back pocket, and it's moving as all get-out. It's 20 years after the Earth Alliance has been founded, and so 20 years since Lorien told Sheridan he had 20 years to live. His reaction to all this is VERY Sheridan. The man who would not give a farewell speech when he left the station continues to avoid the tears by inviting all his old friends to dinner, having fun, then promptly leaving Minbar to die alone in space, calling it a "Sunday drive". Delenn, the consummate Minbari, engineers this for him, because she's forever in the service of others. But of course, both characters break down no matter how much strong a front they put up, and in a scene that visually might as well be the wedding we were denied - Sheridan in black, Delenn in white - tears are shed. Their love affair continues to be epic, symbolically linking each other to light, the image of a rising sun the last thing Sheridan thinks of, and Delenn's daily reminder of her husband. It's just beautiful. No matter how prepared she is for his departure, there is still deep grief there, as a simple shot of her in bed suddenly clutching at a pillow testifies to.
On his way to meet a destiny outlined long ago by Kosh, Sheridans stops by the station, on the eve of its decommission. Just empty sets now. And his last walk through its halls is quietly affecting. Zack is still there, just as he promised in Objects at Rest (a rare weak element of this finale though it's really the previous episode's error, him repeating the same words; it's all too on the nose). Sheridan won't see the station scuttled, but the rest of the cast will. After they've had the chance to get one last look around, JMS himself walks onto the set and shuts off the lights, an indulgence I will certainly accord him. And though it's technically anticlimactic to see the station destroyed just because it's outgrown its usefulness, when prophecies always led us to believe it would be the work of its enemies, it's definitely a great pay-off to the series, a huge, beautiful explosion with grand music, as every type of ship in the Alliance moves away. Gorgeous and moving.
Elsewhere, Sheridan has disappeared. He's been taken by the First Ones, on the Rim, and it's all very ambiguous, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Some things we're not meant to understand, and I'm glad to see a little of the mystery the Vorlons and Shadows usually brought with them back in the series. Sheridan's place as a mythical figure is thus assured - feels a lot like the end of the Lord of the Rings - and it mirrors Sinclair's own disappearance. I suppose in another reality, this is where Sinclair would have gone back to become Valen, I'm not sure. It's lovely how Ivanova gets the final speech, and it's a great summation, lovely to have her in the finale at all, thanks to really having been shot as part of Season 4. Between the opening scenes and the final montage, we get a sense of what's happened to these characters in the intervening years, and where they're going next. Ivanova has the success she always wanted and embarks on a new adventure as leader of the Rangers after becoming as pointless as her old station in Earthforce, and yet, she still has a thought for Marcus when absent friends are toasted. Vir has grown more hair and best of all, more grace, though Centauri decadence continues to impede his Empire's progress as evidenced by what can only be called sexual addiction. Maybe Zack can keep him in line (uhm, ok?). Garibaldi is, ironically, the best off, with a thriving business as a happy family. Franklin, his best friend after Sinclair was gone, is merely adjunct to this, but I'm not sure what else they could have done with the character. In these finale moments, where life continues, the episode shrugs off its funereal tone and allows itself a funky curtain call for the crew, and again, it's an indulgence we should permit. Babylon 5 isn't technically over (Crusade and some TV movies still to come), but its 5-year saga is, and it could hardly end on a more emotional and epic note.
REWATCHABILITY: High - Makes it all worth it. It's big, it's powerful, and it just hits all the right notes.
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The important thing, after all of this, is that we remember Boron.
It's the fifth element! No wonder psychics mention it all the time.
- October 29, 2014 at 6:02 AM
- Timothy S. Brannan said...
Very Epic. I mentioned at the start of this that Bab5 was not a show I watched. In fact I recall saying back then it was a cheap Trek knock-off.
I am pleased that you have proved me wrong.
Of course since then I have grown to respect JMS as a writer and even discovered some writing he had done before this that I admired, but never knew was him.
Great job on this. Really.
You have inspired me to do something similar over at my blog, but I just need to find the right show to do it with. oh. and the time to do it.
So what is next? Doctor Who RPG stats for all the characters and races? Or maybe Traveller?
- October 29, 2014 at 8:52 AM
Sheridan smiling and saying "well wouldja look at that" in his final moments is so perfect for him: the man can gaze upon the infinite, and rather than be struck silent by its majesty, he can delight in it.
I have to ding JMS for two things. One is the blowing up of B5 -- logistically it doesn't make sense to blow it up for being a navigational hazard, because a zillion shards and fragments would only make the problem worse (whereas an easy-to-spot single object in space would be super easy to navigate around).
The other thing is an anecdote about the filming of a scene in Delenn's / Sheridan's room. When they were setting up the shot, the camera guy called JMS over to the camera, at which point JMS announced that things had to stay exactly in the place they were in, because it so happened that a mirror was catching the intersection of a couple window lattices, in other words a cross. I don't know which I like less: the fact that JMS was using serendipity to throw heavy-handed symbolism into a scene, or the notion that there is anything Jesus-like about Sheridan. (Jesus was the perfect sacrifice because he was the only one of us who never sinned. Sheridan was a fair-minded soldier, commander, and diplomat who made personal sacrifices but also lived long enough to see his son grow to manhood and his alliance thrive.) If they were to do any symbolism here, I'd recommend the Fiver from "Watership Down", who lived long enough to see his descendants as numerous as the stars.
I shouldn't complain, though. To do so would dishonor the memory of Brony, who taught us that friendship is techno-magic.
- October 29, 2014 at 9:05 AM
- Siskoid said...
Tim: Well, it's not over til it's over. I still have 4 TV movies and the Crusade spin-off. After that, it's back to Doctor Who to cover Season 8. After that? Still mulling things over. As for squeezing RPG-related posts out of it, I'll do my best. I wasn't really thinking in those terms, but there's a certain demand for it (I created a monster).
And do you mean to tell me you watched along these last 100some days? Wow, that's great. Happy you found something to like.
For my own sanity, I think I need my next daily project not to require 45 minutes of obligatory watching a day, though things like Battlestar Galactica (if only that didn't mean I'd have to watch the 1980 series) and Space 1999 are on my radar. The proposed animated DC Universe, which is mostly in 22-minute episodes beckons, but I'm not sure how I'd handle those, or if I even want to at this point... Anyway, I've got about a month to figure it out.
- October 29, 2014 at 9:16 AM
Do Five Second Films.
- October 29, 2014 at 9:57 AM
- LiamKav said...
I've tried to keep along as well as I can, and I now really appreciate your efforts in doing this, Trek etc. It's surprisingly hard dedicating yourself to 42 minutes of one TV show every single night, without pause. So if you were going to do something else, I'd be all for the DC Animated Universe, or at least the big hitters (Batman:TAS, Superman:TAS, Redesigned Batman:TAS, Justlice League, Justice League Unlimited.)
Aside from the points Anon#2 makes up there regarding the destruction of the station, you'd think there'd be a hell of a lot of historic interest in preserving the place that was the foundation of the Interstellar Alliance, as well as the HQ of the final fight against the Shadows. I'm pretty sure we haven't nuked all those poppy fields because they were a "hazard to navigation".
- Garibaldi and Sheridan's relationship doesn't quite work, as during season 5 they seemed to be fine with each other. Consequences of being filmed at the end of season 4, I guess.
- Likewise, I'm estatic to see Ivanova, but it does reinforce the whole thing about Lochley being a second-rate substitute. THESE are the people who fought in the Shadow War. THESE are the people who liberated Earth. THESE are the heroes.
- The Ranger couldn't deliver Zach's message just because he was somewhere else? Really? Good job, all powerful army of ninjas. Besides, would it have killed them to just send emails?
- I think the scene with Vir having naughty fun time is to show that the darkness has gone from Centauri Prime now. He can get up to naughty emperor-type things. Likewise, once something serious comes up he's all business.
- Poor Lyta. Again forgotten.
Bits of this episode that get me:
- The music. Oh god, the music. I believe it gets played during the salute scene in the prior episode, too. It's amazing.
- Sheridan and Delenn's goodbye, and the whole "Sunday Drive" thing. It could have easily been mawkish, and maybe it is a little, but it's allowed.
- The station blowing up. Granted, it makes no sense, but I can ignore all that because the whole scene is beautiful.
- Those end credits. Again, the music, but the whole "this is the first time you saw them, and this is the last" idea was great, and showed the history of the characters and the show.
- The shot at the end where Delenn is watching the sun, and Sheridan leans in to frame. Oh god, that shot. I'm almost tearing up just thinking about it.
This, "All Good Things" ("I should have done this a long time ago) and the Cheers finale also do similar things to me. Both this and AGT do the impressive trick of actually making proceeding episodes better in hindsight.
- October 29, 2014 at 10:38 AM
I've never really been the kind of person to blubber at tv or film (before Number 1 Son was born, anyway. Since then I've hilariously broken down at the drop of a hat, including for the entire first half of Man of Steel while in the cinema, which I assume was even more awkward for the poor bugger sitting next to me). Of the very few things to set me off, Sleeping in Light was one of them.
It was pretty cool to see Cradok in the comments yesterday also recall that the British broadcast was during New Year 1999. I taped the episode (TAPES REMEMBER THEM?), spending New Year's Eve with the two guys who remain my very best friends to this day. So I watched the finale the next day still slightly the worse for drink.
It's not surprising how emotionally effecting it was from the point of view of someone who'd followed the show for a number of years and was that invested in the characters and the story. I recall reading somewhere online (I forget where) that the Babylon 5 ending was the perfect example of the advantages of an episodic medium with a strict story arc, allowing characters and situations to develop over time. But of course it also shows something that very few other similar shows would be able to achieve, which is to stick the landing and offer a satisfying ending (for my money, and for completely different reasons and in an utterly different tone, the only other show to manage a similar feat for me is The Shield).
Here's a question though: Is the emotional punch only effective for fans, for people who have watched the show over a long time, with that investment already? Turns out, no. Because my sister happened to watch Sleeping in Light with me, having never seen a single episode of B5 before, and having little interest in SF, and she was blubbering right alongside me. JMS has his faults, but he is actually pretty good at what he does and when he nails it, he REALLY nails it.
Goodbye, Babylon 5. There will never be another. And quite right too.
- October 29, 2014 at 10:46 AM
- Siskoid said...
Liam: Don't forget Batman Beyond, AKA the one I own now but have never watched. I think that would be the whole point of sitting through all that again. (My twisted nature also would have me go completely INSANE and write-up all DC animation ever, from the Fleisher Superman cartoons, through the 60s, Super-Friends, etc. But just having written that down has cured me of the notion, I think.)
On Lochley and Lyta... It makes me think something happened to these characters and that they're no longer alive 20 years later. Lochley was a part of Crusade, a story never finished, so I guess she died or was lost. It seems Lyta did succeed in taking down the PsiCorps, but maybe paid the ultimate price or else "transcended" (if it's in some novel, then I wouldn't know). Either way, I think if Zack had been at the dinner, his toast would have gone to her.
On blowing up the station... If there's something I learned from doing New Who reviews, it's that some things don't make logical sense, but do make EMOTIONAL sense. The destruction of B5, though the mechanics of it are, for me as well, a cheat, does make sense emotionally. It's symbolic rather than an actual event.
Blubber on, friends.
- October 29, 2014 at 11:05 AM
- LiamKav said...
Oh yeah, Batman Beyond. I do like that show (It's Spider-Man being Batman, which is a great idea), and it's only two seasons and a movie. I'd probably slot it in between the "Gotham Knights" Batman season and Justice League.
Just thought of another finale that made me cry... the 10th Doctor regenerating. Yes, the goodbyes went on for ages, and the story before wasn't great. But play that music and have someone say "I don't want to go" and I fall to pieces.
Since then I've hilariously broken down at the drop of a hat, including for the entire first half of Man of Steel while in the cinema, which I assume was even more awkward for the poor bugger sitting next to me)
Man of Steel also wanted to make me cry, but for very different reasons. Angry reasons, mostly. Although that's an idea for a mini-project, Siskoid? Maybe trying into your "Reign of the Supermen", howsabout reviews of all the DC theatrical movies? Maybe just one a week rather than daily.
- October 29, 2014 at 11:11 AM
JMS teared up numerous times while writing this script, and after it was sent out the entire cast and crew came up with tears in their eyes to shake his hand and/or hug him. And then he had to keep his own emotions under control during the week of filming, on his first ever job as a director, knowing that if he broke down everyone else would too, and they would never get their momentum back.
He'd planned from the very start to have a cameo as the guy who turned the lights off for the last time, and that emotion in his eyes is not acting at all. He's since had another onscreen appearance in Thor as the guy who first discovers Mjolnir, and here is a word for word transcript of what went through my head watching that scene for the first time. "Wait, is that...no, it can't be...but it looks so much like him...I've got to look this up when I get home."
On his very first shot as a director, JMS forgot to say "Action," and spent a few seconds wondering why no one was moving until his AD (Doug Wise, of The Fall of Centauri Prime) reminded him of that little detail. I like to think that lightened the mood a little.
Bruce Boxleitner was a major trooper for his last scene, where he had to stare straight into an extremely powerful light several times before the shot got in the can (JMS kept telling him they could do it in post, but he insisted that wouldn't look real enough).
For the final walk off the station, all the actors were told to simply do whatever they felt was right for the characters. Hence Vir gives his wave, Zack looks around with strong emotion, Franklin pats Garibaldi's shoulder, and Garibaldi swipes a shot glass.
The one bit added to the episode from when it was shot at the end of season 4 was the freezeframe shots of the whole crew. After they all had their own cameos in Objects at Rest, JMS decided to give people a way to pick out who was who.
The most powerful part for me is easily the final looks at the characters contrasting where they started and ended. Like I said at the beginning, at the time this show was made you just didn't see this kind of character development on TV, and this little section is a perfect homage to how well it can work and a call to other shows to do it. And look at the state of TV now, with long-reaching story arcs as far as the eye can see.
There are two bits in the episode that make it harder to watch now. Zack limping on his prosthetic leg, after Jeff Conaway ended up in a wheelchair (and not quite making it 20 years after the show's end) due to his painkiller addiction. And that dinner party, which was recreated with several cast and crew members to send off the dying Andreas Katsulas.
Speaking of, Richard Biggs came up to JMS to ask why Franklin didn't get any kind of big final scene, when G'Kar got two. JMS replied that he saw Franklin as the kind of person who would just disappear one day without warning, while G'Kar would make a big production out of it. Now compare that to the way both actors actually died. Ouch.
At the end of the script volumes, JMS states that he had an ulterior motive to publishing them, and his stories about them: to show any aspiring storytellers out there exactly what they may be getting into, both the high points and the low. He ends by saying he looks forward to seeing what we come up with. And that was certainly the case for me. I recently landed a contract to publish my first novel, a sci-fi story called The Place Beyond, which should be coming out within the next couple years, and which B5 was a huge influence on. And for that, I truly can't thank him enough.
- October 29, 2014 at 11:13 AM
I would've been happy with blowing up B5; I object only to the unreasonable reason for doing it. A better idea (after 20 seconds of thought): B5 had fallen into disuse and disrepair, and the Alliance wanted to give it a proper send-off rather than watch it slowly fall apart. That would be symbolic as well as practical, where B5 had completed its purpose.
- October 29, 2014 at 11:18 AM
- Siskoid said...
Liam: Believe it or not, I've thought of doing "All DC live action" from the old serials I could find to the latest crop of shows. Not that I have complete access too all of that, and it would mean watching things like Superboy and Smallville.
If we're talking finales that made me cry, there are a great many because I'm a big crybaby. The 11th Doctor's regen was more affecting than 10's, though the full episodes preceding both were rubbish. Off the top of my head, I can't contain my grief with Chuck, TNG, BSG, the Larry Sanders Show, Coupling, probably lots more.
- October 29, 2014 at 11:23 AM
- Siskoid said...
Wow Ryan, keep us in the loop on that novel!
- October 29, 2014 at 11:28 AM
Been waiting to post this until it wouldn't spoil anything. Enjoy B5 in song form, far funnier than any of the "humor" JMS tried to insert into the series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpMAubwfQg
- October 29, 2014 at 11:37 AM
- Siskoid said...
Hahaha, that's great! B5NL FTW
- October 29, 2014 at 2:33 PM
- Green Luthor said...
The "navigation hazard" reasoning may not make much sense, but as a way to close out the show, it works pretty well. (Plus, I can't even hear the score from that scene without welling up, so... well done, JMS.) And, really, if that's the worst problem with the episode, I'd say it did pretty good.
And congratulations to Ryan Lohner! I've also read the writeups you did on the Agony Booth, so it's nice to see you make good, and I hope the book does well.
- October 29, 2014 at 2:38 PM
- Timothy S. Brannan said...
Yes! I read every single post. I didn't always have something to say because I have no background in B5 to be honest.
But I enjoyed every bit.
I was wondering if you were watching every day.
The DC Animated universe, all the way back to Fleischer, would take you a long time.
- October 29, 2014 at 4:19 PM
I could talk about the fourth and final question that's asked, about the snazzy new White Star, the stories about how Pat Tallman and Jason Carter on an episode they don't even appear in, or any of a hundred other things about the episode.
But instead, I'll just listen to the soundtrack and sob to myself a bit.
- October 29, 2014 at 4:56 PM
- LiamKav said...
Regarding your actual review:
" Some things we're not meant to understand, and I'm glad to see a little of the mystery the Vorlons and Shadows usually brought with them back in the series"
In hindsight, this is why I think season 5 feels a bit empty compared to earlier seasons. Remember back to season 1, when Catherine Sakai found the Walkers at Sigma 957. G'Kar rescued her (to our surprise), and then gave a lovely speech: "They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe-- that we have not yet explained everything." There is magic in the universe, unanswered questions. By season 5, a lot of that magic has gone. The universe seems a duller place.
Likewise, the dinner scene reminded me how much I'd missed the bits in seasons 1 and 2 where the command staff would eat together, or they'd be going to a party thrown by one of the ambassadors. Dramatic conversations are fine, and we were told that these guys were friends, but they didn't seem quite as like it in season 5.
- October 30, 2014 at 8:28 PM
- LiamKav said...
I always forget it when I do a list of my favourite final episodes, so I thought I'd correct that and also add "Goodbyeee", the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth to All Good Things, Sleeping in Light and One for the Road.
- November 12, 2014 at 8:02 PM
- LiamKav said...
Okay, I've just rewatched it, wondering if it would affect me the same way it did all those years ago, especially as I held it together during Objects at Rest.
No. No, I didn't hold it together.
Good god what a beautiful episode. There are so many minutes that get to me, some of which I said above, but the toasts to abscent friends, the scene of Sheridan and Delenn saying goodbye, Sheridan's actual death, everyone saying goodbye to the station, and especially (especially) that shot at the end where Delenn is looking at the sunrise and Sheridan leans in next to her.
Over the course of the series I grew to really love Christopher Franke's music, and it made me more and more annoyed that the Trek composers were forced to do the bland wallpaper music that was apparently forced upon them. There are 3 music queues in particular that are my personal favourites... The season 3 title sequence music, the piece that plays when Sheridan and Lorien are talking at the end of "Whatever happened to Mr Garibaldi", and the music that plays over the stations destruction in this episode.
Still, one nitpick... Sheridan was president for 15 years? And was succeeded by his wife? I'm guessing that they don't have term limites in the IA. Or rules against nepotism.
Still, that music, those end credits... I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch Call to Arms or Crusade. I don't want to spoil the memories of the show ending here.
- November 20, 2014 at 6:19 PM
- LiamKav said...
You say that the destruction is a cheat, because phophecies have always led us to believe it would be it's enemies that destroyed it. I think the series was actually quite clever, here. Sinclair sees the destruction all the way back in Signs and Portents, and it's the same as we see here... a single shuttle leaving, followed by an explosion (on the Lurker's Guide JMS says that "who is on the shuttle is?" is "an excellent question". I guess the answer is either "JMS himself", or "the command staff", depending on who left when). Later episodes juxtapose that destruction with other flash fowards, like in War Without End. But it was always standalone. The station did end in fire.
It's the same misdirection that's been in the opening titles since the beginning... Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. And why was that? Because it succeeded. It brought the galaxy together. There was never another, because there was no need for another.
Finally, why is Zack dressed like an original series Romulan in his final scene with Vir?
- November 20, 2014 at 7:10 PM
- LiamKav said...
Something else I just noticed about the credits (sorry, just watched the end of the episode again. Still got to me): no-one has any titles. It's not "Security Chief Zack Allen", or "Commander/General Susan Ivanova", or even "Dr Richard Franklin". It's just "Richard Franklin", "Susan Ivanova", and "John Sheridan". At the end, it's not about their roles... it's about them as people.
I watched the deleted scenes. One of them happens when Sheridan is walking around the deserted station. He picks up some rubbish off of the floor and puts it in the bin. Apparently, JMS wrote something on that piece of paper to get a secret onto the show. Him and Boxleitner have never said what it is.
There is one part of the deleted scenes I wish they could have kept: we pan more around Ivanova's office, and in addition to her Starfury helmet being on display (which implies she never gets to use it any more), hanging in the middle of the wall we see that she has Marcus's pike.
- November 20, 2014 at 8:57 PM
- Siskoid said...
No you're right, not a cheat in that sense. I can't even call it an anticlimax, it's just a different kind of climax.
- November 20, 2014 at 9:32 PM


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Kremlin to analyse Winter Olympics ban after Russia doping scandal
The Kremlin needs to analyse the International Olympic Committee's ruling banning Russia and its sports officials from the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games before making any decisions regarding the country's participation, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin has said.
Dmitry Peskov said "we need to put emotions aside" and "make a serious analysis" of the ruling before taking any steps. He also said Russia "still needs to answer some questions" from the IOC.
Asked if the Russian officials who have been barred from attending the Olympics would be penalised or sacked, Mr Peskov insisted that is not a priority and that "protecting the interests of our athletes" is more important.
Earlier, Russian politicians blamed local sports officials for not doing enough to stop the IOC ruling.
The Olympic body's lead investigator concluded that members of the Russian government concocted a doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Games.
The Kremlin has vehemently denied running a state-sponsored doping programme, and state media on Wednesday dismissed the ban as part of a plot to hurt Russia.
Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the Russian parliament's upper house, said the ruling is "clearly part of the West's policy to restrain Russia" but insisted that local sports officials are to blame and "ought to bear personal responsibility" for letting it happen.
Vladimir Poletayev, deputy chairman of the committee on procedures at the Federation Council, went even further.
"All our sports officials, including the Russian Olympic Committee, ought to be personally accountable for the ban on Russia and ought to step down," he said in comments carried by the RIA Novosti news agency.


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Tolstoy's Phoenix
Cloth Text – $77.00ISBN 978-0-8101-1621-4
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Publication Date
December 1998
Page Count
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Tolstoy's Phoenix
From Method to Meaning in War and Peace
By examining Tolstoy's techniques and analyzing the structure of War and Peace, essayist George R. Clay offers a fresh perspective and jargon-free analysis of one of the world's greatest novels. Beginning with Tolstoy's strategies, devices, and structural elements, Clay moves beyond previous approaches and reveals the novel's larger thematic concerns, showing how all the pieces fit into an overall pattern that he calls the phoenix design.
"Excellent. . . . It moves marvelously. I like the careful discriminations [Clay] makes, the examples [he] chooses, and the way [he] keeps moving toward ever-greater subtlety." --Sven Birkerts


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Let's clear the fog. At least four traits often associated with narcissism, wittingly or unwittingly, cause confusion instead. That's because these four traits have nothing to do with narcissism on their own or either indicators of codependency rather than narcissism, or only
They lead to costly errors that mask the real narcissists, perhaps also fall into their schemes, for example, to hide by blame-shifting the label to a partner they are smearing. Many therapists are at risk of being bamboozled, unprepared by their many years of training to identify a narcissist in counseling contexts.
Even worse, victims of narcissistic abuse are prone to blame themselves for a narcissist's wrongs, and narcissists are skilled at instilling self-blame thought patterns in their targets. It's common for codependents to worry, thinking they may be narcissists when reading an article on the internet, or being accused by an abusive partner! These patterns can keep them stuck in prison-like mindsets, spinning their wheels, looking to change a list of faults the narcissist identified — or avoiding actions that would support them to heal and break free.
The traits below make identifying the "real" narcissist in a couple relationship a guessing game, not unlike the popular game show, To Tell the Truth, where panelists had to guess which contestant was telling the truth, and which were imposters.
The fact is, narcissists put a lot of energy into muddling the truth, more specifically, the truth regarding who and what is really 'normal' for humans in relationships, and who and what behaviors are most reflective of serious mental disturbances, hands down, persons and actions seeking to demoralize and dehumanize their own and others' lives and relationships.
The narcissist works hard, for example, to hide the real 'craziness' of the lies they tell — to prop up illusions of false-self that is all-powerful, entitled to act with impunity — and to pin "emotional craziness" on their partner.
Convoluting the truth is part of their game plan. It helps them hide and work under the radar.
For these reasons, clearing the fog is critical.
The terms narcissist or sociopath are best reserved for those that meet the DSM criteria for narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) — or its more extreme manifestation, antisocial personality disorder (APD) also known a psychopathology or sociopathology.
These lie on a continuum based on the threat or risk of harm to others. On one end, the NPD poses risks for violence that is subtle, albeit traumatizing, in the form of emotional and mental abuse and harassment; on the other, the APD is a criminal mind, again in varying degrees, feels no remorse for acts of domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, in extreme cases, death, that are physical in nature.
The real narcissist is a character disordered person. They do not feel or act human — indeed, they feel disgust for those that do! That's what makes narcissism is a love deficit. A narcissist is willfully divorced from his true-self, or human core drives to form meaningful empathy-based, social relationships, out of disgust for them as weakness, scorn. In his thought-disordered worldview, he associates empathy with those who are inferior, stupid, crazy — and potentially dangerous competitors, "deserving" to be hurt, exploited, enslaved. He is proud of the lies and illusions he spins, his con-artistry skills in general, and lusts to rob his partner of a sense of worth, sanity, dignity, agency, peace of mind — believing this makes his superiority dazzle.
So what are the four traits that make identifying narcissism a guessing game?
1. Seeking attention or admiration of others.
First, it must be said that seeking attention is a normal human striving, as is wanting to be admired or successful. When narcissists seek attention and admiration, they do so in distinct ways aligned with their hidden, or open motive to make others feel bad, ashamed, small, invisible, irrelevant and the like.
How absurd to label high achievers, or spotlight seekers as narcissists. How convenient that, more often than not, it is women who are nonconforming to gender roles that are labeled narcissists because they are "too" independent, financially successful, loud, outspoken, obsessed with their looks or clothes, and so on.
Just because we do not like a person, or we find them annoying, upsetting, needy, or over the top flashy in what they wear or the emotions they express, does not make them a narcissist.
To want attention, to feel esteem, and the like, in and of themselves are universal emotion-drives. They're connected to our overarching human drive to matter and meaningfully connect and contribute. In early childhood, these needs are as critical to our survival as physical needs for oxygen or water; they continue to be essential to our health and well being throughout life.
All human beings are hardwired with a drive for happiness, and ideally, we learn healthy rather than addictive ways to feel pleasure.
Apart from moments when we are in triggered states of mind and body, most healthy human beings feel happy when giving others attention, and want to make loved ones feel admired. In fact, we may feel as much pleasure, or more, when making others feel loved and valued, recognized and appreciated.
The "mirror neuron" feature of the human brain works to reflect back the same molecules of emotion we feel for others to ourselves, and vise versa. Studies show, for example, the body releases the same feel-good hormones, regardless whether we receive or give attention or act of kindness, and also when we observe these acts taking place between others!
To the extent persons feel scorn and hatred for others, their bodies release the same mix of bad-feeling hormones in their bloodstream. (It's why forgiving and letting go is something we do for our own health!)
The problem with narcissists or sociopaths is that their pleasure-inducing pathways are cross-wired! For them, hating, feeling scorn, dominating others to make them feel small, is a primary pleasure. Based on the associations they've formed in their brain, they love to hate, and love to be hated, and keeps them in states of misery and self-loathing, their false-self egos extremely fragile. It's not only impossible to please them, but the more others work hard to please them, the more punitive and abusive they get, craving more and more of the drug that keeps them sick.
They derive pleasure from making others feel bad. That's their drug. It makes sense that they'd feel no remorse for hurting others. To them, it's evidence of their superiority, it's what entitles them to hoard pleasure, and to treat others as they please, to act with impunity.
Thus narcissists don't just seek admiration, they do so in ways that seek to attack and take down another's sense of worth, to smear or ruin their reputation, to turn others against them, to isolate or set them up to look bad or crazy in public, and so on.
And they don't just seek attention; they do so as part of long term plan to block another from their sources of attention or value, i.e., texting incessantly, with intent to "ruin" a partner's plans, or their reputation at work, or time with family or friends. Or, they may have a pattern of accusing their partner, i.e., of infidelity, just to steal the focus of attention, to watch them squirm, to spin their wheels, getting worked up, desperately trying to defend themselves or pro fess their loyalty and admiration!
For a narcissist, getting away with making a partner feel bad, and then blaming them for it … is success, proving their prowess and superiority.
In other words, for them, it's not about admiration or attention in human terms! It's a pattern of behaviors, and an underlying strategy, to drain the life energy from another, to steal their sources of pleasure, and make them as miserable and bitter and feel like "nothing" inside (which mirrors self-inflicted inner world of a narcissist).
These distinctions need to be made. Otherwise, it's not narcissism.
Trying to understand narcissism from a human vantage point is what keeps all of us in a fog. It's what narcissist aim to do. Let's stay smart, awake, not fall into their traps.
Narcissists and psychopaths are skilled at lies and illusions. They are good at blame-shifting their wrongs onto others, and this is how they hide … in plain sight! Let's remain aware of this to not collude inadvertently with narcissists and sociopaths.
2. Selfish demands and angry outbursts.
Angry outbursts are unhealthy ways of expressing anger, to be sure. They harm us as individuals and our relationships. If outbursts include disparaging labels and put downs, it's abusive. In many cases, it requires treatment.
Anger however is also critical human emotion. At healthy levels, a low level of release of cortisol in the bloodstream, moves us to take action, makes it possible to stand up for ourselves, to advocate for what we most value or another person. It's an emotion that lets us know when something we want or need feels blocked. It's a signal for us to take action, to realize what we want, our goals, big and small, our dreams, aspirations (and ideally to do so in healthy ways).
On the other hand, angry outbursts are learned defenses. They occur when we get triggered, and the body's survival system automatically activates habitual defense strategies to express our pain, hurt and disappointment, in ways that make us feel less vulnerable. They are often ways we learned to cope with stress, suppress anger, or other ineffective ways, i.e., depression, to regulate fear and other painful emotions, such as hurt and disappointment, in formative years.
There are several reasons why associating anger outbursts with narcissism is problematic.
First and foremost, anger is the emotion that narcissists most attack the expression of in their partner, more often, through the use of gaslighting.
That is because it is connected to our universal, emotion-drive for agency. Absent a connection to our emotion of anger, it's easier to take over the thoughts, feelings, wants and sense of purpose of another human being!
It's no coincidence that anger is (still!) socially taboo for women. Both men and women are socialized from childhood, for example, to believe that "good" women should not express anger, and should only want to please others, be selfless, and not have wants of their own. This is still a widespread belief, as is the belief that, in contrast, it's natural for men to express anger, but socially taboo for them to express pain and hurt.
This gender role socialization explains why narcissism occurs far more frequently in men than women.
Anger outbursts should not be used to identify narcissism. This plays right into the game plan of narcissists and psychopaths to hide and blame-shift the label to someone their victimizing.
Second, a narcissist's anger outbursts are distinct in that they serve a specific intent to terrorize another into a state of silence and submission. The narcissist displays the outbursts at random, not just when they are triggered. Step by step, the outbursts serve to instill fear, to get a partner to give up complaints, certain wants or plans, and to tremble at the thought of saying or doing what may trigger another angry outburst.
Narcissists and psychopaths see it as their "job" to train a partner, as one would a pet, to silence themselves, never question or complain, to feel voiceless, invisible, to be seen and not heard, talk only when asked, and so on.
Third, narcissists may or may not be outwardly demanding — and may or may not display angry outbursts!
Overt narcissists are more easy to spot in this regard as they dramatize their demands, disappointments, anger, and may even proudly display in public, along with no remorse for hurting or humiliating a partner.
In contrast, covert narcissists can be difficult to detect. Though both use tactics to set a partner up to do things, say things, etc., that make her look "crazy," or that she'll later hate herself for, in contrast, a covert narcissist likes to be seen as a laid back, fun-loving, easy to get along with, and selfless good-guy.
Covert narcissists takes pride in keeping the power they wield hidden, rarely if ever displaying outbursts of anger or rage, and set up his partner instead to look like the "selfish," "controlling" and demanding one.
Having studied his partner carefully, a covert narcissist uses passive aggressive tactics, for example, to resist her every attempt to influence by stonewalling her. Literally, this means to act like an immovable wall; and that's how it feels to try to get a covert narcissist to collaborate with one of her request, especially in public when others are around.
The truth is, we live in a society where there is a lot of trauma, conceivably, much a result of these dehumanizing might-makes-right norms that hide narcissism, and romanticize or eroticize dominance. For generations most all parents have been expected to use fear, shame, guilt and other punitive tactics to socialize children. Some of them were narcissists; others innocent colluders who went along out of fear. Most were duped into thinking these punitive norms for men and women, and human relationships, are biological imperatives (or god ordained).
It's vital to understand that behaviors traumatizes and dehumanize the capacity of human beings to connect with self and other … can be regarded as biological norms! There is nothing normal about the inhumane practices of dominance as a practice to obtain unquestioned obedience.
Anger is a critical emotion, one that moves us to stand up for themselves, to correct injustices and, or to create a better for all, one in which all are treated with dignity. To silence a human being's anger at any age — in this case half the population — is perhaps the most cruel things one can do. It's a form of hate propaganda, and thought control, now perfected by scientific studies. Narcissists and psychopaths know this.
While the architects of harsh social norms are likely narcissists, the majority are bystanders that are duped, traumatized and ensnared to go along with the lies, traps and illusions. The problem does not lie with one gender or another. The problem lies with social norms that stifle the expression of the full range of human emotions, and do so using punitive, traumatizing tactics, known for thousands of years. Most of us have or have had difficulty with emotions of anger and fear. Not because there is something wrong with us, rather because we learned to express our pain by instilling other's with shame, guilt and fear. We came by these honestly, however, these tactics are still regarded as valuable in socializing children!
As a result, there are a lot of persons who are hurting; and hurt people hurt people. They trigger and upset us. Decades of research indicates most every family is impacted by dysfunctional dynamics and communication patterns.
3. Saying you are a narcissist.
This one is easy. If you worry or have doubts about whether you're the narcissist in your relationship, you are not a contender! This disqualifies you. In fact, to the extent you question whether you're the narcissist, the opposite is true; you likely need healing from codependency, perhaps also narcissistic abuse syndrome.
So why the confusion on who is or isn't?
In large part, the confusion is related to the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, or NPI. According to the authors, Robert Raskin and Calvin Hall, this inventory was developed in 1979 solely to measure "subclinical" or "normal expressions of narcissism"; more specifically the inventory sought to measure "personality" traits of how assertive, confident, daring, adventurous, and achievement- or success-oriented one is — aiding social psychological research on the personality trait of narcissism as "excessive self love."
The authors themselves note that the inventory is not an assessment of NPD. But even a glance at the items on the inventory itself speaks for itself. Based on the inventory, one is a narcissist to the extent they are assertive, confident, and, or achievement-oriented person.
According to one Handbook on Narcissism, for example, the NPI confounds narcissism with simple self-esteem and contains numerous items that are not narcissistic qualities.
This inventory has made it easier for NPD and APD partners to hide, and to blame-shift the label of "narcissism" onto their victims, act as trolls on the internet, etc.
Researchers continue to study this inventory though a casual glance at the list of items on the inventory speaks for itself. One study, by researchers at Ohio State University, claimed it just takes one question to identify a narcissist, and that was just to ask them, on a scale of 1 to 7, how much they agree with the statement, "I am a narcissist"!
Essentially, there is no measure for narcissism! Practitioners must rely on the criteria provided in the DSM to diagnose disorders, as they do with most other disorders.
Even if a self-inventory were developed, considering the traits of a narcissist or sociopath, and their skill in lies and illusions, it would be a futile effort.
4. Using the oxymoron term of "healthy narcissism."
It is incorrect, and misleading to refer to core human strivings as "healthy narcissism." It's an oxymoron, a figure of speech in which two contradictory terms are put together. It's well meaning at best to use this terminology, and several well intended authors and researchers do so.
The NPI itself may be responsible for some or most of this confusion. By using vague language, such as "normal expressions of narcissism," and labeling itself as a "Narcissistic Personality Inventory," the NPI has wittingly or unwittingly done a disservice.
Witting or unwitting, the effects of this terminology are not helpful, in that it:
- Enables narcissists to hide and orchestrate confusion and blame-shifting the label.
- Dilutes the seriousness narcissism, and its impact on family members.
- Makes narcissism appear "normal" — rather than the serious pathology it is.
- Allows narcissists to define abuse as love in the form of eroticized and romanticzed dominance, thus to snare prey by "love bombing" them.
To clear the fog, it's important to see this term as an oxymoron. It's like saying heaven is hell, or war is peace. Let's keep the terms healthy and narcissism separate.
Healthy persons are not narcissists; they may have problems, mental health issues, but they are human because they want seek to feel human!
Narcissists and psychopaths are unhealthy because they hate and pretend they are above feeling "human"!
Whereas all human beings are wired with healthy, universal core emotion-drives, narcissism is serious pathology in which a once normal human being in early childhood experienced, and witnessed, dehumanizing trauma and shaming, to the point where he learned to hate, suppress, and regard his core human "true self" as inferior, disgusting weakness — and to prop up his fragile, wounded ego with a false-self instead.
Genuine love and valuing oneself and life is inseparable from loving others. To the extent we esteem others, we esteem ourselves.
A narcissist does not love themselves. They live with self-loathing, which is self-inflicted. The mirror neurons of the human brain make it impossible to regard others with hatred, scorn, to want to make them suffer and feel bad, without producing the same psycho-emotional states of mind and body in orders. Period.
To matter is a core need, one that is as critical to human health and well being as physical needs for water and oxygen! To want attention and to be esteemed, to believe in yourself and stay determined to realize your dreams, to meaningfully connect and contribute, all of these are core emotion-drives, part of the overarching drive to matter.
I began to write on the topic of narcissism a few years back, hoping to add some clarity, when it became apparent that this confusion made it easier for both well-meaning authors on the internet, and narcissistic trolls alike, to mislabel women as narcissists.
After all, women were likely to be the ones stereotyped as "selfish" and "demanding" if they were confident, assertive or success-oriented; and stereotyped as "in love with themselves" for looking into mirrors, being anxious about how they look, obsessed with clothes, and so on. The new wave of women starting with the 1960s into the 1970s were now thinking about setting goals, playing leadership roles, aspiring to be financial independent, and so on.
Narcissists and psychopaths know how effective it is to use shaming labels, such as controlling, selfish, demanding, emasculating, etc., to get women to do what they want. Even today, most women go out of their way to avoid being tagged with one of these, and overcompensate by working hard to be seen as nice instead. For women, the labels are the equivalent to labels used to shame men to conform to masculinity norms, such as girly, weak, gay, and the like. In either case, it's inhumane to shame men or women to conform to inhumane and arbitrary standards.
In sum, NPDs and APDs are adept at projecting, accusing, shifting blame (for what they do!) onto their partners! And the same applies to narcissist trolls on the internet!
Some are suffering from mental health issues. Most of them, however, are not narcissists. And it is incorrect, totally, to refer to traits that are universal emotion-drives as "healthy narcissism"! This adds confusion and wittingly or unwittingly aid narcissists in blame-shifting the label of narcissism onto a partner, more often women.
This labels of narcissist or sociopath, in other words, should not be taken lightly! Conceivably the traumatizing effects of living with an NPD or APD may spawn many or most of the other mental health and personality disorders listed in the DSM. Hurt people hurt people. And to be sure, the same dysfunctional family dynamics that breed narcissism also breed codependency. In the words of family therapist Virginia Satir (1916 – 1988) who called for a "new way" of viewing the world apart from dominance and submission:
"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family." ~ VIRGINIA SATIR
Notably, Satir's working model for healing couple and family relationships was so remarkably effective in promoting rapid change at her live trainings, that her use of language as a healing tool (along with another giant, psychiatrist and clinical hypnotherapist Milton Erickson's), were focus of extensive studies that led to the development of NLP, or neurolinguistic programming.


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The City of Midland Releases It's Crash Analysis – What Gets The #1 Spot?
The City of Midland Police Department released it's 2013 analysis for crashes and you might be surprised to see the number one reason.
We all know we have our share of bad drivers and as it turns out, it's tempers and being in a hurry that are causing most of the accidents, followed closely by 'driver inattention', or as it's more commonly known: Texting while driving.
The Midland Police Department's crash analysis results from the third quarter of 2013 show that driver behavior was the most prominent factor in accidents happening across Midland in the months of July through September.
The top three contribution factors to crashes during these months were:
• Following too closely – 174 crashes
• Driver inattention – 156 crashes
• Failure to control speed – 104 crashes
I'll feature some tail-gaters in my 'Braking Bad' video, but for now here are the first two:


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Skinny Cow and Friends
Balrothery NS, Balbriggan, 3rd Class, 8th May 2019
Skinny Cow woke up from a dream. He was sleeping in the field. He was dreaming about going on a journey with his friends to the moon.
Skinny Cow and Skinny Horse were making an instruction manual of how to build a rocket ship.
"Follow the instructions," said Skinny Cow.


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'The Avengers' join forces with fans at Comic-Con
HollywoodNews.com: How do you combust a crowd of comic book geeks?
Assemble the future cast of the 2012 film "The Avengers" on stage. And that's exactly what happened yesterday at San Diego's Comic-Con before 6,000 fans.
Footage was shown of the upcoming marvel films "Captain America" and "Thor," respectively directed by Joe Johnston and Kenneth Branagh.
"Captain America" is a '40s period myth with Chris Evans as the title character and Huge Weaving as Red Skull. "Thor" follows a Norse hero played by Chris Hemsworth.
Both films, due out next summer from Paramount, lead up to "Avengers" following the "Iron Man" films as well as "The Incredible Hulk."
After the footage rolled, Robert Downey Jr. called the upcoming cast members from "Avengers" on stage for a photo op including Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Hemsworth and Evans.
Joss Whedon will helm the film and exclaimed to the crowd, "I have had a dream all my life and it was not this good. I am going to blow it. I'm very nervous and need your love"
Variety as well as a number of other trade and fan sites had the news.
(Caption L-R: Robert Downey Jr., Clark Gregg, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Director Joss Whedon, Producer and Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige from the motion picture THE AVENGERS)
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At St. Joseph's University Medical Center, we are committed to providing quality geriatric care to older adults. Our geriatric team consists of Board-certified geriatric physicians, a geriatric Advanced Practice Nurse, a wound care management Advanced Practice Nurse, case managers/social workers for when the time comes for sub acute or long term placement such as St.Vincent's Nursing Home in Cedar Grove, and a staff nutritionist, who assesses each patient's eating habits to manage nutrition according to a patient's caloric needs.
As a designated Nursing Improving Care for Health System Elders (NICHE) site, we pride ourselves on providing a comprehensive program that fosters system wide improvements in the care of older adults. Our RN staff is educated on how to care for the elderly adult and is given NICHE updates yearly. By following a Relationship-Based Model of Care, our staff involves a patient's family in caring for the patient when they return home.
Patients with Dementia and Alzheimer's have access on the unit to a SNOZELIN Multi-Sensory Room. This room is used to help calm the patient using multi-sensory devices that incorporate lights, sounds, motion, and aromatherapy.
Geriatric patients at St. Joseph's University Medical Center enjoy dining with others for breakfast and lunch. Encouraging geriatric patients to move from room to room assists in daily exercise which benefits Alzheimer patients.
Our staff is dedicated to making our patients feel as comfortable as possible with such things as activity bags with playing cards and puzzles, newly renovated patient rooms which include murals painted on the inside of the unit's entrance doors, and new Hill Rom Versa care beds for all patient rooms, positioning the bed as close as possible to the floor.


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Monday, January 19, 2009 The kids danced in the kitchen while I made dinner. We really like the fun songs by Laurie Berkner. "We're not perfect, no we're not. We're not perfect, but we've got what we've got. We do our very best. We do our very best. We do our very best each day. Cause we're not perfect and we hope you like us that way." Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Yes, a historic day today. The inauguration of the United States' first African-American President. I can't say that I'm particular fond of Barrack Obama or the things he's planning to do and I wish he was a little more like say, President David Palmer (from 24), but it is a historic day. I'm not into politics and sometimes the future of our country and the people worry me sometimes. But there is one thing I can learn from ... [Read More]
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Welcome to Rohnert Park Optometric Center!
Rohnert Park Optometric Center has served the Sonoma County community for over 20 years.
Our goal is to provide personalized and thorough eye and vision care to each of our patients in a caring environment. We continually strive to provide the highest quality, leading edge eyewear technology so you can enjoy the best vision possible. We are committed to continuing education and continuous improvement in quality through technological advancements.
If you are looking for friendly, professional, personalized service, please call us or stop by. We look forward to providing you and your family with excellent eye care for life!
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Position Of Sun on Celestial Sphere at Input Universal Time
by R C Chakraborty, July 11, 2015, Pages 57 – 67.
(This is Sec. 3, pp 57 – 67, of Orbital Mechanics – Model & Simulation Software (OM-MSS), Sec 1 to 10, pp 1 – 402.)
Sun is a star at the center of our Solar System. Although stars are fixed relative to each other, but Sun moves relative to stars.
Sun follows a circular path on the celestial sphere, once a year. This path is known as the 'Ecliptic', representing the plane of the Earth's orbit.
The Inclination of the Earth's equator to the Ecliptic (or earth's rotation axis to a perpendicular on ecliptic) is called Obliquity of the ecliptic.
The Obliquity of the ecliptic is currently 23.4392794383 deg with respect to the celestial equator, at standard epoch J2000 .
The position of any point on the Celestial Sphere is given with reference to the equator or the ecliptic.
The Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the Sun. Therefore the distance from Earth to Sun is not same at all points on the orbit.
(a) Find Julian day of interest corresponding to the input Universal Time;
(b) Find Corresponding Ecliptic coordinates : Mean anomaly of the Sun, Mean longitude of the Sun, Ecliptic longitude of the Sun,
Ecliptic latitude of the Sun is always nearly zero, Distance of the Sun from the Earth in astronomical units, Obliquity of the ecliptic
(c) Find Corresponding Equatorial coordinates : Right ascension, Declination.
In addition to these Ecliptic and Equatorial coordinates, computed many other parameters related to Sun's Position on Celestial Sphere.
The Position of Sun on Celestial Sphere is represented by computing following parameters :
1. Semi-major axis (SMA), 2. Mean movement per day (n sun), 3. Mean distance (As),
4. Mean anomaly (m sun), 5. True anomaly (T sun), 6. Eccentric anomaly (E sun),
7. Right ascension (Alpha), 8. Declination (Delta), 9. Mean longitude (Lmean),
10. Ecliptic longitude (Lsun), 11. Nodal elongation (U sun), 12. Argument of perigee (W sun),
14. Obliquity of ecliptic (Epcylone), 14. Mean dist (d_sun), 15. Radial distance (Rs).
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PEL received a large order from Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) for supply of Pneumatic Masts for the prestigious Battlefield Surveillance System (BSS) program of the Indian Army. The delivery is slated to be completed by March 2016 and production is in full swing at the Noida facility.
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) was established at Bangalore, India, by the Government of India under the Ministry of Defence in 1954 to meet the specialised electronic needs of the Indian defence services. Over the years, it has grown into a multi-product, multi-technology, multi-unit company servicing the needs of customers in diverse fields in India and abroad. BEL is among an elite group of public sector undertakings which have been conferred the Navratna status by the Government of India.
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My name's Kerry aka Fluffy, I'm mummy to two beautiful girls Little Squidge and Puddle. Together we run Fluffy & Squidge making handmade crochet clothing we also have a blog that runs alongside documenting our adventures which we're never short of ?
So this week has been real nappy week Wohooo! anyone who knows me knows how much I adore my real nappies, my friends all say that I have OND (obsessive nappy disorder) if anybody mentioned real nappies near me you couldn't hide the look of horror on Mr Squidge's face as I squealed like a giddy child and promptly started an hour long speech on how amazing real nappies are.
From the moment I found out I was pregnant with Little Squidge I knew the one thing that I wanted to do was use reusable nappies, even though lots of people said I wouldn't stick it out and they'd give me a month at most!
I spent hours pouring over the internet reading about the different brands and the different types after finally settling on a brand I ordered my nappies and by the time that they arrived the seed was sown I was truly hooked, I didn't even have a baby yet! Who cares though pretty nappies ?
Little Squidge arrived 2 weeks early weighing 5lbs 8oz and baby Puddle arrived 4 weeks early weighing a tiny 5lbs, they both went straight into my tiny nappies and they were a great fit just looking at their tiny squidgy bottoms filled my heart with such joy.
Everything was going well until I hit my first bump getting clothes to fit, I quickly realised that clothing on the high street was really hit and miss with a cloth bummed baby. I would struggle to find trousers that were comfy on the bottom without being too tight, I'd have to size up and then they ended up being huge on the waist with super long legs which tend to look silly on my tiny girls.
Then we started using other brands our favourite being Piccalilly their clothing is cut for cloth so is perfect for big bums especially now Puddle is on the move! We love them so much we have recently become brand ambassadors for them.
When looking for clothing for cloth bums it needs to be soft fabric that's got plenty of room without looking like you've dressed your baby in a sack, if the clothing is too tight you end up with compression leaks which of course no one wants.
There needs to be enough stretch and movement in the fabric so that Puddle can move around at ease, we used to find especially with Dungarees that within moments of putting them on her they'd be huge gaping holes between the legs where the popper's had come undone.
I also wanted clothes that had bold prints and bright colours, neither of my girls are particularly girly girls so pink frills are a no go here, Little Squidge much prefers her superhero costumes if it's got a cape she's sold.
In short if Puddle can move around and cause havoc whilst looking comfy then we're onto a winner these comfy reversible Dungarees and stripy romper from Piccalilly's new summer range are perfect, they tick all the boxes and will see Puddle right through the summer months ?
So there we have it, what to look for when your looking for clothing to fit a cute squishy cloth bummed baby. We absolutely love our Piccalilly clothes they are perfect for any cloth bummed adventurer. The fun prints and comfy material means they always stand out from the crowd were never short of compliments when we're out rocking our Piccalilly.
Guest blog post by Kerry Durrant from Fluffy & Squidge


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Brenntag names Markus Klähn as new CEO of North America
Brenntag, the global market leader in chemical distribution, announces that Markus Klähn, President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Brenntag North America is appointed to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Brenntag North America. In this position he succeeds William Fidler, Member of the Management Board of Brenntag AG and responsible for the regions North America and Latin America. Markus Klähn will continue to report to William Fidler.
Markus Klähn joined Brenntag in 1994. After various positions at corporate headquarters of Brenntag Group he became Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Brenntag Latin America, Inc. in 2004. In 2007 he became President of Brenntag Northeast, Inc. and overtook operational responsibility for Brenntag North America in 2011 as COO. In February 2013 he was appointed President of Brenntag North America, Inc.
Brenntag Group's Chief Executive Officer Steven Holland: "I'm delighted to announce the appointment of Markus as CEO for Brenntag in North America. With a proven track record of commercial and financial leadership he brings the experience and expertise to continue the success of Brenntag North America and will ensure that we expand our growth in this important region."
About Brenntag:
Brenntag is the global market leader in full-line chemical distribution. Linking chemical manufacturers and chemical users, Brenntag provides business-to-business distribution solutions for industrial and specialty chemicals globally. With over 10,000 products and a world-class supplier base, Brenntag offers one-stop-shop solutions to more than 170,000 customers. The value-added services include just-in-time delivery, product mixing, formulation, repackaging, inventory management, drum return handling as well as extensive technical support. Headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, the company operates a global network with more than 450 locations in over 70 countries. In 2012 the company realized global sales of EUR 9.7 billion (USD 12.5 billion) with nearly 13,000 employees.


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Higher ambient temperatures in poultry housing have an influence on birds' behavior, physiology and immune system, making them more susceptible to endotoxins with negative consequences on welfare and performance. Heat stress costs the U.S. poultry industry alone it thought to cost approximately US$128-165 million each year.
Heat stress impairs gut barrier function
In a healthy bird, tight junction proteins seal the spaces between intestinal epithelial cells, ensuring an intact gut barrier that helps to prevent pathogens or toxins from entering the blood stream (Figure 1a). However, during heat stress, tight junction proteins can be disrupted (Figure 1b) which allows pathogens or toxins to enter the circulatory system.
Heat stress increases a bird's gut permeability by two-fold, work conducted at the BIOMIN Research Center confirms.
Twenty-eight day old birds were either kept at thermoneutral conditions (23°C) or at heat stress conditions (36°C) for 10 hours. A marker molecule (FITC-Dextran) was administered orally and later measured in the blood to assess gut permeability. The gut permeability of the heat stressed animals doubled compared to that of birds in thermoneutral conditions.
Endotoxins harm broilers and laying hens
Endotoxins, also known as lipopolysaccharides (LPS), are part of the outer membrane of the cell wall of Gram-negative bacteria (e.g. E. coli, Salmonella). LPS are released from bacterial cell walls by shedding or through bacterial lysis. There are many natural sources of endotoxins including air, dust, food, water, and feces, but the major source is the gastrointestinal tract.
Poultry are exposed to LPS throughout their lives. In healthy birds, the intestinal and other epitheliums such as skin or lungs, represent an effective barrier that prevents the passage of LPS into the bloodstream. Once there, however, endotoxins can elicit strong immune responses, weakening birds' immune systems and impairing performance. Severely pronounced immune response can lead to septic shock.
LPS raise intestinal immune response during heat stress
A study was conducted at the BIOMIN Research Center to assess the influence of endotoxins on inflammation response of the intestine in heat-stressed birds.
The combination of heat stress and LPS led to an increase of the expression of various genes related to heat stress and inflammation (Table 1). The expression of heat shock protein (HSP70) was increased up to 90-fold when the oral dose of LPS was applied. In addition, the cytokines interleukin 1beta and interleukin 6 –all indicative of inflammatory processes— showed a more prominent effect when both stressors were present.
|Heat shock protein
|Interleukin 1beta
|Interleukin 6
< 5 fold increase
> 5 fold increase
> 50-fold increase
*Red indicates a significant increase compared to the negative control
Need for endotoxin control
The presence of endotoxins can cause birds to waste energy on activation of the immune system, leaving less energy available for growth and performance. This underscores the importance of proper endotoxin risk management. Table 2 highlights several ways to reduce the impact of heat stress and endotoxin contamination. When combined with good farm practice and the reduction of other stressors such as heat stress or mycotoxin contamination, the threat of endotoxins on bird performance can be eliminated.
|Corrective action
|Adapt diet to birds' needs according to production status (e.g. switch to corn-based diet instead of rye-wheat-barley diet
|Implement stress reduction measures (e.g. temperature control, welfare enhancement)
|Verify hygiene management e.g. reduce dust, ensure proper and regular cleaning of barns
|Enhance liver support and strengthen gut permeability through feed additives that provide bioprotection
|Apply a mycotoxin binder with demonstrated ability to capture endotoxins
|Reduce or eliminate the subtherapeutic use of antibiotics
|Heat stress
|Provide adequate ventilation for number of birds housed
|Reduce stocking densities
|Insulate sheds sufficiently to avoid solar heat gain
|Position fans to optimize wind speed an air circulation
|Use evaporative cooling pads or atomizing nozzle
|Maintain water-electrolyte balance
|Vitamin supplementation
|Apply a phytogenic feed additive to reduce the effects of heat stress
This article originally appeared in Poultry International.


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