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Procol bits in Vivian Stanshall's biography

From Ginger Geezer by Lucian Randall and Chris Welch

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About Stanshall's writing collaboration with Keith Reid [pages 176-177]

At home, rattling around a house full of Bonzo props and weirdness on his own, Vivian thought up some more schemes to divert himself. He went up to town to play darts with the Melody Maker team, playing a side fielded by the Strawbs. He turned up dressed as a dart, wearing dart flights on his trousers, a spiked helmet and declaring he would play by lowering his head and running at the board. The Strawbs entirely failed to be amused by this, or by the state-of-the-art equipment Vivian had constructed to foil their efforts, such as shaped wire coat hangers which he claimed were sights to improve his aim.

He found a more appreciative audience when Procol Harum, best known for the hit A Whiter Shade of Pale, asked him to support them on their farewell tour [sic] of Britain in January and February 1976. He put a band together, called Vivarium, but billed as Vivaria. It featured Bubbles White on guitar, Dick Parry on tenor sax, and Pete Moss on bass and piano. It was not a rock band. 'No, I wouldn't say that: an illustrative band,' said Vivian. 'Played a few oldies.' He also wrote a song with Harum's lyricist, Keith Reid, which took its inspiration from one of Vivian's many newspaper cuttings, this one concerning an unfortunate family named the Browns.
The paperback cover

Vivian and Keith 'knocked up a song about the Browns that my gang and his gang could thrash through'. Although Vivian rarely took a song directly from his Book of Madness cuttings, the tragic tale of the Browns had him guffawing out loud as he read it to Procol's writer. Vivian was sufficiently amused by the story to keep hold of the article and read it to visitors later in the year. With the drama that only a local paper can supply, the couple next door to the Browns are quoted: 'We'd been getting on quite well with the Browns. After our lavatory became completely blocked, I called the council. They were around in next to no time in their lorry. They went into No 40, our house, and inserted their biggest pump into our convenience.

'"One of the council operatives switched it on. There was a tremendous rumble. Janet, my five-year-old, thought it was thunder. The rumble was followed by a tremendous whoosh. I nipped upstairs and flushed the convenience. It was working perfectly. No sooner had the operatives vanished when I saw June Brown from No. 42 coming up the garden path. She was hysterical. Apparently, when the pump began to work, instead of sucking, it blew, and the whole of Mrs Brown's bedroom suite was covered with effluvia."' Vivian thought the choice of 'effluvia' to describe the devastating substance was particularly amusing. The paper goes on to record the reaction of the Browns themselves: "The council are to blame," said Bob Brown. "We are camping out at June's parents. Our house is ruined. It's everywhere. The ceilings are in danger of collapsing, the lavatory pan has blown into the spare bedroom and the TV is all clogged up."' The result of this was a number performed live - The Browns. An apt title indeed. Vivian also performed other tracks and an accompanying set with his own band.

[Read a Procol / Stanshall setlist from this tour, and see other non-Procol collaborations of Keith Reid's]

Stanshall wreaks havoc with BJ's drums [pages 177-179]

The tour followed the pattern Vivian set when he played with Grimms. He hit a peak around the second or third show and by the time they played their last night in Oxford, the anxiety of performing, compounded by drink and Valium and made worse by the emotional fallout of his split with Monica [his first wife], overcame him. Disaster struck at a gig in Birmingham on 28 February [sic ... should be January?]. His band were doing the old stuck-record routine which had been such a winner in the Bonzos. While they mimed, he was supposed to leap off the stage and kick it, and the band would jump forward into the song again. That night, he'd been wandering around the stage in a long nightshirt and sandals.

'I jumped off the stage for a gag; he said, 'and they had carpets.' Vivian slipped on the carpet, tore a ligament and dislocated his left leg. To make matters worse, he earlier 'told the bloke on the spot [light], whatever I do - because I like jumping off and running into the audience - whatever you do, follow me. So I put my arms around the bloke in the front row and went, "Ohhhhh, ohhh, ohhh!" Poor man. With the spot beaming down ...'

'The audience thought it was wonderful; recalls Pete Moss. 'Then I realized he really had hurt himself. We stopped playing.' Vivian's saxophonist Dick Parry called out, 'Is there a doctor in the house?' Once more, the audience cheered at the crazy humour of this Bonzo man. 'We got him back up on stage and finished the night; explains Pete, 'but he was in a terrible state' He told Vivian to check himself into the Royal Free Hospital when he was still in pain the next morning. Two days went by and Pete did not hear from him.

Eventually there was the usual, chatty telephone call. 'Hi, amigo,' breezed Vivian. 'I've sorted this whole thing out. I've had acupuncture.' How exactly this was supposed to help a severely damaged shin was unclear. Pete was exasperated. 'No, you've got to go to a hospital,' he insisted. 'This is the last night of the tour. Everybody is coming to see you.' But that only put more pressure on Vivian.

'I'm coming down to see you,' he told Pete. 'There's only one problem. I can't walk.' Pete told him to improvise - get a broom for a crutch or something.

'That's a good idea, amigo. I'll see you later.' Grabbing an axe, Vivian beetled down to the bottom of his garden and chopped down a tree - there was the instant crutch, albeit not quite what Pete had in mind. With a football boot and sock on one end, he hobbled off in the general direction of Pete's place in Ossulton Way. But he got the house wrong. The door he knocked on was opened by a sixty year-old Jewish lady who was somewhat alarmed to be greeted by a wild-eyed giant reeking of rum, wearing octagonal glasses, a knotted red beard and a nightshirt covered in moons and stars.

The figure, leaning on a big crutch made out of a tree with a football boot on the end, roared, 'Where's Pete?' His bellow induced a scream of terror, at which point Vivian collapsed on top of the unfortunate woman. Somehow he managed to get up and stagger off, while she was left in a heap. Across Ossulton Way was the house of Dean Ford, lead singer with the Marmalade. He saw the whole thing and was doubled up, crying with laughter. When Vivian eventually turned up, Pete promptly confiscated the bottle his friend was clutching and refused to accede to his demands for its return on their arrival at the gig. 'I knew he was going to blow it.' At the venue, Vivian simply paid someone else 10 pounds to get him a bottle of whisky. With time to explore the venue, Vivian discovered there was a trapdoor in the stage. Immediately, he decided he wanted to come up through the hatch rather than come in from one of the wings. He promptly stumped up another bribe for someone to let him try it. When show time came, the band could not find him and eventually started The Intro and the Outro without their star. This went on for some minutes and Moss began desperately shouting at the roadies: 'Where is he?'
How Procol Harum looked on stage during this tour

'He's coming, he's coming' He was. A hole in the floor appeared beside Pete, as the trapdoor swung open and up shot Vivian Stanshall on to the stage, complete with improvised tree-crutch. And facing the wrong way. 'Where am?' he boomed. 'Turn round, Vivian' hissed Pete. The singer tripped over his crutch with the football boot and crashed into Procol Harum's drums, completely demolishing the entire kit, half of which fell into the orchestra pit. 'He never really got anything right that night,' adds Pete, 'and it was the last tour we ever did.'

[BJ's drums were downstage left, of course. Read an illustrated review of a Procol / Stanshall gig]

On the road with Keith Reid and the Hells' Angels [page 179]

The musicians drove back in a coach down the M1. They stopped off at a Blue Boar service station and went into the restaurant. As if they had been waiting just for them on cue, a gang of Hells' Angels were lounging around. Five musicians went in, including Keith Reid. The gang only had to look at Vivian to find all the excuse they needed to start trouble. And Vivian, ever keen to play the macho man, never even needed an excuse. He leapt on to a table. 'Come on,' he yelled, 'I'll take on the lot of you!' Even the band's driver, no pint-sized wimp, was shouting, 'Get down from there!' They all bolted for the coach, with the Angels in hot pursuit and Vivian shouting to his friend, 'Come on Pete - you and me!'

About Southend, cradle of Procol Harum, where Stanshall grew up [pages 2 - 3]

It was in a Great British seaside resort that Vivian spent most of his childhood. Southend-on-Sea is a cheeky, presumptuous sort of place. For a start, it is some thirty-five miles to the east of London, rather than south. It is situated on the Thames Estuary; not quite the sea. It does have a famous funfair called the Kursaal and a mile-and-a-quarter pier, the world's longest. Gaily festooning the seafront are the famous illuminations, signalling Southend's status as an alternative to the drab, city streets of the capital. It certainly performed this function for many deprived London families in the 1950s. After a slow and tedious journey by steam train, thousands of eager holiday-makers spilled out of the station and headed for the front in search of dodgem cars, slot machines, deckchairs, hot dogs, jellied eels, cockles, tea and a game of bingo. The highlight was a trip on the pier railway or a heart-stopping ride on the water chute at the Kursaal.
Viv, in less-than-ostentations mode (thanks, Bill)

London kids thought of 'Sarfend' as a sort of paradise, a Never-Never Land where time stood still and everyone lived on a diet of sweets, candy and hot doughnuts. It was difficult to imagine anyone actually living and working in such a pleasurable environment.

The small but busy town grew into an urban sprawl during the post-war years. In the process it merged with its older neighbours like Leigh-on-Sea. In this cluttered coastal conurbation Vivian Stanshall grew up in the 1950s with his mother, father and younger brother. Leigh-on-Sea isn't quite the romantic artist's birthplace that Dublin, Paris or New York are, though actor Steven Berkoff was attracted to the area, featuring the mighty Kursaal amusement park in his early autobiographical play, East, as a place of escape and excitement. For a youngster who lived in the town all year round, it was the soulless 'Concreton' alluded to in Vivian's later tales of Sir Henry Rawlinson. If nothing else, the years there inculcated in Vivian a love of seafood, English seaside resorts and Cockney slang, habits and tastes.

Leigh-on-Sea was actually the remnants of an old fishing and smuggling village, which was well established when upstart Southend was still a hamlet. It was a place where you could still find cockle boats and sheds, sailors' inns and clapboard cottages ...

Growing up in Southend [page 14]

Southend-on-Sea was an adventure playground outside work and school hours. It was where a youngster could roam the streets as a teddy boy. In the mid-1950s, British boys and girls thrilled to the new sounds from the States, together with the paraphernalia of being a teenager: B-movies, horror comics, pop records and trendy fashions. Where once they had jived to Ted Heath and his Orchestra, they now learned to rock'n'roll to Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and Little Richard. Aged just eleven when rock'n'roll first broke ... [Stanshall, born 1943] ... was too young to be in with the gangs. He bought his first pop records instead: Rock with the Caveman by Tommy Steele and Giannina Mia by Gracie Fields.

English kids adopted the clothes, slang and violent habits of teddy boys, taking their name from the Edwardian styles that became fashionable at the start of the decade: drape jackets with velvet collars and thick-soled shoes nicknamed brothel creepers. On the back cover of Stanshall's 1981 album Teddy Boys Don't Knit, there is a black-and-white snapshot of him as a youngster, sitting sprawled with his mates on a bench in the street. They loaf in the maliciously indolent way that only teenage boys can, under a Southend police noticeboard. A 'Keep Britain Tidy' poster depicts a huge finger pointing directly at Stanshall's head. Clad in blue suede shoes and drainpipe jeans and sporting a Tony Curtis hairstyle, he sits and grins, sporting the kind of expression that members of the officer class might have interpreted as dumb insolence.

Thanks, Lucian

More Procol History in Print
Procol / Stanshall setlist
Review of a Procol / Stanshall gig
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3 stars After Peter Gabriel's departure and a certain disappointment with the vocal section of previous Genesis album, "A Trick Of The Tail", I must confess that I lost totally the interest in purchasing this output when it comes to our shops, once upon a time in 1977. Later I had the opportunity, through borrowed vinyl discs to hear "Wind & Wuthering" entirely or partially and I confess again that it didn't impress me. Another chance for "W&W" appeared when, in the 90s, I exchanged my old vinyl collection (keeping only some sentimental biscuits) for brand new CDs but for Genesis I started with "Trespass" and finished with "The Lamb" having gotten "ATotT" only recently. I never minded about "Wind & Wuthering".

Well, considering the amount of garbage (all genres and styles, all countries) that has been produced in the last 25 years I solved to revisit some works that I left behind because I thought they did not fill my quality control and I felt surprised how many of them could please me - in fact, I also discovered that my "quality control" was a terrible and presumptuous mistake that avoided me to be less demanding and musically happier for so many years.

Getting and hearing "Wind & Wuthering" with the sandals of humility was really an enjoyable experience. I realized that this particular work is kind and agreeable, perfectly audible, especially in those days when you want to listen to something more common, usual, and plainer. The work as a whole is well balanced but the musical level is a step behind their previous album - there's a true sensation that the car is almost losing its breaking power just in the top of the slope. Instrumentation is fine but some lack of emotion may be clearly perceived however here and there band members are able to show their tremendous skill and they do it greatly. Again and again, the vocal solos are my problem; Phil Collins isn't definitely a singer and front man shaped in the same furnace from where his predecessor came. Collins goes reasonably in the soft and slow parts but when the tune requires bold and exquisite vocals he fails.

About the tracks, 'Eleventh Earl of Mars" is a fair song, keeping Genesis tradition of neat openers while in the other point 'Afterglow' does well its finishing job. Album core is appreciable, all songs are pleasant but the most noticeable, probably the strongest is 'Blood on the rooftops', a gem that deserves to be aligned together with some Gabriel's era peaks - a great moment indeed. Other songs are correct and hearable, no skipping action recommended.

The resulting feeling is that "Wind And Wuthering" is a typical album to be purchased within a second batch after those truly essential hence good but non-essential. Final rating: 3.

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Solid Material, Not Always on Topic  Nov 18, 2005
When I picked up this book, I had high hopes for the material. I'm an ordained Lutheran pastor (ELCA) and in my seminary days, a notoriously clever professor did a January course called "Lutheran spirituality." On day one we were all told we failed for taking a course with such a name. No such thing as Spirituality for a Christian, he said: we are enfleshed, so we would study "Lutheran carnality." The author of our book is not Lutheran, but shares this same understanding of Jesus as an enfleshed person, and approaches "worldliness" in a way that is refreshing and rare among Christianity in America today.

The beginning chapters lay out what is meant by "the pleasures" and establishes our discussion.

The third chapter starts off our list well, with one of my favorite topics, Jesus and wine. I'm a home vintner, so I am a bit biased. Excellent chapter.

Chapter four is out of focus. Using the classic phrase "wine women and song" as a basis for discussion, the chapter on women does not fit in this book. It is a fine collection of material about Jesus' out-of-the-box attitude toward women. It is important material for any Christian to study. It's just not right for this book. This is a book about Jesus and worldly pleasures, and the format sets up the expectation of a sexist objectification of women. While that is reversed by the discussion of Jesus' egalitarianism, what is lost in the shuffle is a chapter relevant to the title of the book. As an awkward afterthought, the author suddenly remembers the theme and says "he reveled in the pleasure of their company." This was the easy way out. How about a chapter on the speculation over Jesus being married? The fact that he is called Rabbi would infer a married man, yet no mention of his marital status is mentioned. We assume that means he was single. A first century Jew would assume that meant he was married. Being single would be strange enough to have been mentioned. And if he was, why would that make him less than what he was? Why is a later third century attitude toward sex and the doctrine of original sin our lens on which we view Jesus? Nothing about being married and remaining faithful in marriage would have made him inherently sinful, holding with most Christian orthodoxy that he was without sin. My point is that this chapter could have been about the serious question of sexuality, but instead a fine chapter from another book was put in its place.

Chapter five has good material, but again, gets way off focus. The central thesis is that Jesus was no dour puritan, singing and dancing are part of celebrating the kingdom. A good admonition is offered against those Christian traditions who have lost the ability to celebrate. However, much of the chapter is dedicated to an Old Testament history of music, as well as a crash course in Western music which is wholly unnecessary for this book. This is where my main critique of the book is levied. There's nothing I would disagree with, it's simply a case of trying to hard to fit the theme. This book would have been a fine journal article, but in attempting to make it into a book, too many side routes are taken.

Chapter six on health is a solid chapter, and gets more into the ramifications for believers, of Jesus' actions. The restoration to health and wholeness for those touched by Jesus were not just physical, but restored the "unclean" to community. Discussion on how this translates to our healing ministries is appreciated. But once again,. the author gets off track with a a real stretch on the "pleasure of scientific learning." While I agree with the author's assessment of how the science-faith discussion is playing out in current culture, I don't see it as part of THIS book.

Love, chapter seven, addresses the various forms of love in Biblical Greek. A good discussion on how Jesus affirms them all.

Chapter eight, "the good life" is more in depth reflection on the theme of the book. And yet, while the author continually affirms the idea that Jesus did not need money for the good life, he would have to readily admit the picture here is severely biased to the tastes of educated upper middle class intellectuals with leisure time. Classical music, fine wine, literature, and come on now, golf?

The final chapter is a fine essay on our modern pleasures and what Jesus might think of them.

Overall, my suspicion was that this book had started as a paper or journal article, and was expanded to a book. The acknowledgements bear that out. I find the material in the book well worth reading, but not always central to the theme. The beginning and end say it all. Each chapter of "evidence" has a varied level of convincing power or even data to work with. It's not surprising the author gets off topic, it's easy to do in chapters where there isn't much to say directly on topic.

I have seen no other book with even a similar title in current press, and I would encourage people to read this in spite of my editorial misgivings.

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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.

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Pages   68
Est. Packaging Dimensions:   Length: 0.25" Width: 5.25" Height: 7.75"
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Publisher   Lectorum Publications
Age  7-9
ISBN  1930332491
ISBN13  9781930332492

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Mary Pope Osborne Mary Pope Osborne is the author of the bestselling Magic Tree House series. She has also written many acclaimed retellings of myths, folktales, and works of historical fiction.

Growing Up

I grew up in the military. By the time I was fifteen I had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. Moving was never traumatic for me, partly, I think, because I had very close and loving relationships with my parents, my twin brother, my younger brother, and my older sister.

When my dad retired to a small city in North Carolina, I still craved the adventure and changing scenery of our military life. Miraculously, one day I found these things, literally only a block away — at the local community theater. From then on, I spent nearly every waking hour after school there, either acting or working backstage. When I stepped from the sunny street into that musty-smelling, dark little theater, all things seemed possible.

From College to New York City

I went on to study drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In my junior year, I discovered an even greater realm of adventure and changing scenery: the world of mythology and comparative religion. So I became a religion major and learned as much as I could about other cultures.

After graduating from college in the early 1970s, I lived an intensely varied life. For a while I camped in a cave on the island of Crete. Then I joined up with a small band of European young people heading to “The East.” We traveled overland in a caravan of rickety vans through sixteen Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal. We nearly lost our lives, first in an earthquake in northern Afghanistan and then a riot in Kabul. My trip came to an abrupt halt in Kathmandu when I got blood poisoning. During the two weeks I spent in a missionary hospital there, I read all of the Tolkien trilogy. I would sleep, read, and look out the windows at the Himalayas. To this day, my journey to “The East” is tangled up in my mind with Frodo’s adventures. After I returned home and recovered from my illness, I promptly headed back into the real world. I worked as a window dresser in Carmel, California, as a medical assistant in Monterey, California, and as a Russian travel consultant in Washington, D.C. One night in Washington I attended the opening of a musical about Jesse James. From the balcony I fell in love with Will Osborne, the actor/musician playing Jesse. I loved his boots and his white cowboy hat; I loved how he sang and strummed the guitar. A year later, in New York City, we were married.

Thereafter, when I wasn’t on the road with Will, I worked as a waitress in Greenwich Village, taught acting classes in a nursing home in the Bronx, was a bartender in Broadway theaters, and had a job as an assistant editor for a children’s magazine.

I Begin to Write

Then one day, out of the blue, I began writing a story about an eleven-year-old girl in the South. The girl was a lot like me, and many of the incidents in the story were similar to happenings in my childhood. The first draft was crudely written, but it must have communicated something to an editor, because shortly after I finished, it became a young adult novel called Run, Run as Fast as You Can. Finally I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.

Now more than thirty years and a hundred books later, I feel I’m one of the most fortunate people on earth. I’ve written picture books, biographies, mysteries, novels, retellings of Greek mythology, Norse mythology, medieval stories, mermaid tales, and American tall tales. I’ve written a book on the world religions and a series based on Homer’s Odyssey. But the most fun I’ve ever had in my writing life has been taking journeys through time in the Magic Tree House.

I’ve now published 45 Magic Tree House fiction books. (My husband and my sister Natalie Pope Boyce write the wonderful non-fiction companion books) I’ve recently traveled with Jack and Annie to meet Mozart in Vienna, Louis Armstrong in New Orleans, Lady Gregory in Ireland, and Charles Dickens in Victorian, England.

The latest book, #45 A Crazy Days with Cobras, involves a journey to India four hundreds years ago. Will Jack and Annie survive an encounter with a ruthless emperor, a rogue elephant, and two deadly cobras? Yes, because I wanted to write book #46, Dogs in the Dead of Night, about their journey to help St. Bernard dogs rescue people in the Alps. Will Jack and Annie survive the avalanche that buries them? Yes! Because now I want to go meet Abraham Lincoln with them!

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

Mary Pope Osborne currently resides in New York New York, in the state of Connecticut.

Mary Pope Osborne has published or released items in the following series...
  1. Casa del Arbol (Paperback)
  2. Casa del Arbol (Pb)
  3. Dear America (Reissues)
  4. Magic Tree House
  5. Magic Tree House Fact Tracker
  6. Magic Tree House Research Guides
  7. Magic Tree House Research Guides (Pb)
  8. Magic Tree House Research Guides (Unnumbered Paperback)
  9. Merlin Missions (Paperback)
  10. Random House Book Of...
  11. Stepping Stone Books
  12. Tales from the Odyssey (Paperback)

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Monday 12th July, 2010

Dear Mariann
I get up to all sorts of no good when I’m away from home. One persona is that I’m cute and carefree. My other is more fetish. Which one should dominate on Facebook?

From Wren in reply to post #271 Under the Influence

Neither. How ghastly. Watch out for a higher proportioned disinterest in what you’re doing. Nobody likes a swelled head grandstander.

As one who has had first-hand experience of the rather (predictable) offhand displays of cute n carefree vs fetish Profile displays I would advise not becoming a try-too-hard. At one moment a gaping neckline and eroticised Status Update, the next as interspersed with sensible shoes and a Ms Shy attitude will only have the effect of attracting the most boneheaded of interest. Perhaps a reexamination of your tastes as they stand in their extremes for I fear that you are not really up to either ‘persona’.  Instead, I encourage you to develop another profile – one that is completely personally satisfying, and less confusing as well.

Generally speaking though, on Facebook, you can do what you want. I’m just thinking of preserving your dignity and exhaustive state of mind/s.

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Photography Tips

Digital Photography Tips That Are Effective and Easy

Digital Photography Tips That Are Easy and EffectiveAlong with are just starting out in portrait digital photography, or maybe you’ve been within it for a long time now. However much experience you’ve got, we all of enjoy figuring out more plus all understand getting more portrait digital photography tips. You will learn similarities and even differences amongst taking shots with show and using photography as a technique to get images. Along with the technology now available, the end result will look virtually identical, if not an identical, using picture or electric technology. Editing program is a factor that everyone the master of a photographic camera should contemplate. The prices consist of free software that’s included considering the camera, to expert editing software than fee hundreds or tons. By utilizing editing software system, you will be able to vastly help the look of the photos. Some products offer touch button style corrections that can adjust a large number of issues once. More qualified software enables you do make all of your current corrections physically. Whether you choose make pic corrections working with editing program is your choice, and is based on your higher level of experience together with interest. It does not matter which software you decide, you will discover a huge selection of photo digital portrait photography tips online to help with your system.

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Photography Tips For Beginners – A Simple Guide

Photography Tips For Beginners - A Simple GuidePhotography is among the most well-known pastimes at present. It allows visitors to make panorama and exceptional moments timeless. With a particular click, you might capture interesting memories you give to those you love and pals. It might be so greater when you make your pictures seeing that grand as they possibly can. To help you, here will be some novice photography strategies that most people can test!

The initial tip is almost always to move nearer to the area. It can be good that will shot the niche from numerous angles. Different attitudes create several results together with feel into the photograph. Start capturing well away then gradually transfer to closer. Shoot the niche as close to possibly get to make the audience love every aspect.

The secondly tip is to generally be alert. You will not ever know as soon as baby could smile or as soon as butterfly rest to the flower. For this reason, you will most likely always be informed. Make an individual’s senses simply because strong as humanly possible in buy to record moments which happen inside of a blink connected with an eye. You simply have to continuously photograph. You can care about the images taken soon after.

The lastly tip is to generate a photograph just like you are earning a show. You should enable it to be to the condition to shoot the perfect pictures you may take. You will edit them all later making sure that they are usually great in addition to representative of your idea you must convey in order to others. Such as, you might crop released some features of the pictures for which you think are usually irrelevant. You may as well make use of different techniques for instance the rule for thirds.

The tip could be to carefully opt for the part to help you shoot. If you’d like to shoot some church, you want to take a picture without the need for car, consumers or conductor lines. Yet, there could be times while you will go through difficulty throughout really focusing about them. For a majority of these situations, you really need to think swift and consider how you might shoot the niche.

Black and White Photography Tips

Black and White Photography TipsIf you can be among the many people so, who love all the artistic look of the monochrome photos, but really are reticent approximately trying your pictures, you may then be helped because of a few written agreement digital taking photographs tips. The subsequent advice is built to help reduce quality, firmness, and overall benefit of your golf swings.

Typically, while taking color choice photographs, it can be wise to make sure you shoot along with the lowest achievable ISO. While taking grayscale shots, this is very important, too. A more significant ISO can lead to a grainy effect identified as noise. Please remember if a small amount of noise is genital herpes virus treatments are just after, this is easily inserted usually in the editing action. Removing excessive noise for editing, on the other hand, is no easy really make a difference.

If you prefer to shoot excellent pictures, the perfect conditions are days gone by that are usually often considered as unsuitable regarding color picture taking, including dark overcast months. If you will find a low degree light together with contrast, these are generally great factors for grayscale photography. Consequently, if you will usually snap in colors, but discover you to be hampered via the weather, try some none colored documents shots.

Probably unsurprisingly, the principles of article are similar for a lot of photographs. On the other hand, there is certainly one self evident difference to remember and this really is that inside monochrome picas, you cannot really use color choice to contribute the audience’s eye. For that reason, you have to use textures, shapes and additionally tones to accomplish this for everyone. It normally takes a tiny practice in advance of this will become second nature in your direction, but it will be well priced continuing to take. A superior tip may be to pay particular care about highlights and also shadows which will become parts of your image.

If the entire feature is accessible on the camera, you might like to consider choosing RAW and not JPEG, mainly because it provides a great deal more flexibility with the editing section. If an individual’s camera fails to allow LIVE or you love not to try it, then go by shooting within color and also convert a person’s pictures to non colored documents in any editing stage.

Fireworks Photography Tips

Fireworks Photography TipsAt the time you photograph fireworks, it is important that people set your own camera to somewhat of a slow shutter accelerate. Since poor shutter speeds shall be in desire, you will also need to ensure great camera help support. This wills grantee that the photos taken will result looking regular and clean.

No suspect, one the easiest way to make sure camera stability is to try using a tripod. Yet, if to recognize a stunning a tripod, you could opt so that you can brace oneself against an important building, or simply a forest. Otherwise, you have your camera added wall. In case you use DSLRs, feel free to use the shutter give off cable or maybe self-timer characteristic. Using all of these 2 selections will discharge the shutter with very little camera get rid of.

Don’t apply flash when ever in hope to photography fireworks. Flash isn’t going to help record fireworks well away. Nonetheless, flash helps lit content; be the item objects and also people with the foreground. An excellent example from this is when ever photographers email portraits by means of fireworks given that the background; they will use splash to provide light for their design.

Fireworks photography is just special pictures genre where you must be courageous and get on the entire world of information settings. Both one’s own lens target and exposure ought to be set that will manual. Adjust a focus ring in order that it is established to infinity place emphasis. The sign for infinity is related to the quantity eight shapes, except to be turned sideways. A great majority with lenses need distance sizes imprinted over to them.

One thing so that you can do may be to experiment utilizing long shutter rates. This comes with a shutter speed which can be anywhere around 1 following and of sixteen seconds, related to ISO 100. The shutter speed which can be suitable varies pc amount with ambient light and also amount connected with fireworks in your sky.

Digital Photography Tips and Hints

Digital-Photography-Tips-and-HintsIt is very crucial to be aware of any photo digital portrait photography tips and hints. Some folks can basically take fantastic photographs free of really wanting, but most of us need whatever help we could get to earn our shots look qualified. It can happen daunting to reflect which you could, quite easily accept board most of the professional photographers photo digital portrait photography tips plus hints to show your photos into those from a pro. To be honest, you may well and it won’t take a lot.

If you may take an image of several as a good portrait, don’t just cause them to become face typically the camera and additionally hope to find the best. Try to cause them to become look at a single another, or get you to give one other a ‘playful’ kiss relating to the cheek. Linked to apply to make sure you family pictures one of the greatest digital picture taking tips plus hints is almost always to have amongst the parents swinging the youngster above the head within the playful process. Or try parents to support the child’s hand simply because they walk in your direction. These points and suggestions will make certain that the photography appears natural and definitely will produce great results.

Other recognized photography tips as well as hints are to have your ‘subjects’ right out of the somewhat lusterless studio plus use distinct and purely natural settings. If they’ve got a pet cat or dog, get these to hold this or can include it on the photograph. If and when they have merely passed the driving permit, get the property to stand facing their car because of their new certificate. If you might be like people and really savor taking pictures while you are on holiday getaway or vacationing, you will probably wonder how you can make these expert landscape snap shots. There are actually some very easy and quick ways to achieve this.

First, relax and take a closer examine what you can be about to try a photography of prior to when you take your picture. The most impressive digital taking pictures tips as well as hints are to consider the designs. If this is a bright violet lake towards a green sky, then there are too considerably blue! Wait just some time, or keep returning when sunlight is on the verge of set plus snap an image of your sunset with the blue sea.

Getting to Know the Basics Of Photography Tips

Getting to Know the Basics Of Photography TipsWant to discover beginning your practice with portrait digital photography, but are not aware how? There are several more Photography Suggestions to get one started. Photographs Tip # 1: What equipment would you like to get up and running? The rights off the bat you choose to do when at the start as a fabulous photographer is normally doing great equipment determine. What version of things will you choose to do photography for a hobby or even professionally? For everybody who is just beginning and working on photography to be a hobby, you don’t need to have much.

Photographs Tip # 2: Getting to recognize Your Camcorder. With just basic fundamentals you may get started just in minutes. I recommend you look at manual that were included with your camera as you start taking portraits. Some dig cams are not even user-friendly which enables it to be hard. Generally remember when you are beginning, you have available the instant settings your camera supplies. The vehicle settings are typically on a fabulous dial within the upper right-hand side on your camera of all consumers based upon cameras.

Photographs Tip #3: Appropriate take picas of? When beginning your journey, it is definitely good practice for taking photos with things home. I imply using many objects, with the help of different measurement, color and also shape. I’ve even done yard revenues and found interesting decorative accents, antiques, out of date books, dolls, and a lot more. Fruit is furthermore an uncomplicated subject because you will discover so numerous varieties plus colors. After a decent magnitude of objects to train with, make an effort making many nice schemes. Once that you are satisfied, setup any camera even on a tripod and hand-held can be okay at the same time.

Photography Idea #4: Lamps your theme. Picas make sure you could have good lighting effects. There is without a doubt nothing worse yet than getting a family photo in order to have dark areas on take pride of place faces, and / or dark destinations under its eyes via improper lighting style. If there is a basic shopper camera, typically the flash is just not that robust and normally only will work for nearer images. Your adobe flash may are better in dimly lit settings, but in the day most standard built-in flashes will not be capable about removing dark areas from above 7 base away. How to avoid significant shadows is to be familiar with the time if you may be shooting exterior.

Photographs Tip #5: Completely focus is critical to fine photography. Or perhaps seen a photograph that might have been really terrific, but this focus appeared to be all drastically wrong? Bad focus is very common plus sometimes absolutely ignored. You would possibly not know this approach but taking care of the perfect subject at a photo may well dramatically switch the emotion in the photo. Remember when you are getting in a position fire your current camera, stop and carefully consider what that you are actually wishing to capture.

Family Photography Tips

Family Photography TipsJust in relation to every household wants a good quality portrait associated with themselves gradually. Taking excellent family pictures presents an awesome opportunity for you to capture typically the intimate marriages between all members of your family.

Most almost daily the portrait comprises of the instant family in between two and even six individuals. Here are really a few Photo digital portrait photography Tips make use of when one shoot your following family photos session.

1. Get them to Comfortable

It can be difficult to build great words and phrases on people when men and women are straining to keep your a several pose. It’s vital that you make sure you pose your family in a fashion that will supply you with the best chance to capture their utmost side.

2. Watch any Composition

Part for the challenge involving family portraits is always to compose a shot in a manner that will attract the customer into and about the photograph inside a pleasing manner. Pose loved ones in triangles. The organic flow in the portrait will likely then allows that viewer to work out each relative in a simple and progressing manner.

3. Implementing Props

Using a massive wing-backed seat with mother or your dad sitting on the chair and all of those other family paid members posed near it makes a fantastic shot. Employing park benches, bushes, rocks, fireplaces, stools and the soil or floor are usually good ideas that may help you capture who unique golf shot. Don’t fret to work with your creativeness and creative imagination!

4. Dressing Matching

This have to be discussed prior to when the family blast is to occur. It could save you lots of headache if the whole family members are dressed up in complimenting patterns and tones. Strips, polka dots, clashing different shades and published clothing can supply you with a disconcerting as well as uneasy feel towards a photo. You should produce an image that may convey the actual harmony and even love between family and attract the viewer towards faces; not come to be distracted simply by clothing that may be outlandish or perhaps clashing.

5. See the Lighting fixtures

If you can be shooting within the studio, be sure to have ones lights arrange to allow every individuals face that should be clearly spotted. Although dark areas can contribute intensity in addition to interest, be sure it is normally balanced adequately. Taking home photos external can present an entirely new range of challenges.

Shooting within the golden hour for the day (sixty minutes before sunshine goes lower) can be an option that gives you wonderful lamps conditions. Again, it will be of perfect importance that most of family member’s faces are clearly spotted.

Taking friends and family portraits may well present many very intriguing challenges. Anyone, as the entire photographer, is able to capture stomach muscles will better character as well as intimacy for the family model. It will take work along with practice to make a stunning portrait intended to become loved ones memory for quite a while.

Baby Photography Tips

Baby Photography TipsDocumenting the child’s phases, growth as well as development is becoming even popular through infant photography. Once simply the domain from the well away, or used only every couple of years for really special events, many households are actually opting to possess their kid’s portraits used professionally on an infinitely more frequent foundation.

More and much more people tend to be realizing which baby as well as toddler pictures are priceless for emotional reasons and also to also record the quick growth from the child. The kid will develop, but the actual photos can last forever.

Increasingly more fields are opening in infant portraiture. Many partners are beginning their kid’s portraiture profile before they’ve even already been born. The actual demand with regard to tasteful expecting couple pictures and the infant belly are about the increase. Do an excellent job with one of these couples and will also be definitely obtaining called to document the actual baby’s milestones.

Professional photography enthusiasts capture from everyday naughtiness towards the total innocence of the newborn kid “the actual rewards exist. No issue how irritating working children might be. But, you need to do need the best equipment “a great DSLR, expensive equipment, and the tripod “to begin with. Because with no right equipment you do not have a wish of finding as an expert photographer not to mention manage to produce the outcomes clients anticipate.

However to produce those wonderful photos you will have to have the right equipment. At the minimum, a high quality DSLR, tripod, expensive, and shutter discharge. Without these types of, you may have a remote possibility of snapping the amount of shots the customer is anticipating, and it will likely be difficult for those parents to consider you seriously if you don’t present using the expected photo taking equipment.

Photographing children can be hugely rewarding, but additionally requires lots of patience and very fast reflexes. If you don’t care with regard to children whatsoever, and are from the impatient range, perhaps you need to seek another avenue associated with photography. Parents are going to be very quick to get on the truth that you aren’t even remotely thinking about their small darling.

If you want to complete anything using the photos you’ve taken, besides sell these phones the parents you will have to have the actual parents indication releases. No parent really wants to see the youngster on the rear of the actual bus in the event that they did not give their own permission.

Baby photography is really a competitive industry. However, only probably the most original shots will be used. If you’re wanting to make use of the customer’s photos with regard to commercial purposes you’ll want them indication a discharge form just before displaying or even submitting the actual photos for just about any other objective. Baby photography is really a commercially satisfying avenue, but to achieve success the photographer should be skillful, individual, creative as well as knowledgeable.

Interesting Photography Tips

Interesting Photography TipsAny kind of photography enthusiast would prosper to maintain their eye and ear open with regard to photography ideas. While many people just seem to get on the techniques of getting great pictures, others may always make use of some suggestions and tricks to assist them consider their photos from lusterless to fab. It might appear a little bit overwhelming to consider that you could apply all of the little so-called secrets and techniques that expert photographers utilize, but the truth is, even a few basic pictures tips might help turn your own photos in to something really worth bragging regarding.

Should you choose portraits like a hobby, make sure to be creative inside your poses as well as settings. Whilst good pictures tips include keeping points simple, you need to do need in order to dress points up a little when positing pictures. For example, if you are going to do the portrait of the couple, don’t just ask them to sitting as well as facing the actual camera. Try obtaining a profile because they look at one another or the playful pose as you kisses the actual other’s cheek. Family pictures also mean focusing on your presents and configurations. Again, prevent having all of them just seated and dealing with the digital camera. Try having among the parents swinging the kid above his / her head, or dad and mom holding the actual child’s hand because they walk ahead.

Other photography strategies for portraits include getting away from the lusterless studio as well as using various settings. When the subject includes a beloved dog, go outside and can include the pet within the portrait. Whether it’s someone which just obtained their license, pose them before a vehicle.

Photography Strategies for Landscapes

Should you enjoy capturing when you’re on holiday or vacationing, you might wonder how you can spruce upward those scenery pictures. There are several very fast and simple ways to get this done.

First, keep the eyes about the colors within the picture. Should you snap an image of the lake towards an azure sky, that’s a great deal of azure! It may be better to hold back until sunset once the color from the sun breaks or cracks up everything blue. Good photography strategies for landscapes and every other type associated with picture include being conscious of how exactly the same color will translate on the photo, it doesn’t matter how breathtaking it might be in individual. If you are considering autumn leaves, avoid an image of just a lot of trees all in the same elevation. Again, it might be just the jumble of all of the same colors. You may prosper to change your angle to get a slope or a part of a field within the picture in order to break up everything color.

Fundamental Photography Ideas

Remember to test different angles together with your photos. Move your primary subject towards the right or left in purchase to split up the monotony of the straight chance. Be conscious of the illumination around your own subject too; try this from at the rear of, above, or below to get the greatest pose as well as shot.


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When one falls off that metaphorical saddle, one must get back up and ride again.

That’s precisely the philosophy for Lightning coach Jon Cooper and his staff, with the saddle being a costly mistake and ice time being the ride he wants players to get back on again.

“You don’t want to sit here and say, ‘Go get to the end of the bench’ and have a pity party for him,” Cooper said. “‘Get back out there and help try to get us that goal back.’ That’s how we do things. You can’t hang your head about this.’’

That response came after the defensive-zone turnover committed by Radko Gudas late in Tuesday’s 3-2 loss in Toronto. Gudas tried to spin and send a pass to defensive partner Matt Carle, but he was stripped of the puck by Tyler Bozak. The turnover led to James van Riemsdyk’s wining goal seconds later.

But instead of the old-school approach of getting into a player’s face and putting him on the bench, Cooper or an assistant offers a quick word and throws him right back on the ice. That’s exactly what happened on Tuesday, as Gudas was on the ice for the faceoff after Toronto’s go-ahead goal.

“When mistakes like that happen, your confidence goes down and he’s like, ‘Don’t worry about it. Play your game and you’re back out there,’ ” Gudas said.

“It’s obviously a big confidence-builder. It gets you right back up.’’

The same approach happened earlier in the game. Trying to get the puck into the offensive zone, defenseman Mark Barberio’s pass was intercepted by Toronto center Nazem Kadri just outside the blue line. Kadri raced into the Lightning zone and fired a long wrist shot over the shoulder of goaltender Ben Bishop for a 1-0 lead early in the second period.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Pawtucket man who police say streamed himself live as he rocketed down Route 6 at more than 114 mph before crashing into a dump truck pleaded not guilty before Judge Joseph P. Ippolito Jr. in District Court, Providence, Tuesday morning.

Onasi Olio-Rojas, 20, was referred to the public defender, and his case was continued for a pretrial conference on Jan. 24, according to Craig N. Berke, a spokesman for the state judiciary. Olio-Rojas also waived having a jury decide his case, Berke said.

Olio-Rojas is charged with reckless driving and driving with a suspended license. Shortly after the crash, state police Capt. John Allen said that Olio-Rojas was headed east on Route 6 at about 11:25 a.m. Nov. 30, when he lost control of a Honda Civic and hit the dump truck as it joined the highway from an entrance ramp at Dean Street.

A Facebook Live video, taken by a person with the same name as Olio-Rojas, shows a driver weaving in and out of traffic at speeds exceeding 100 mph. The video ends abruptly at the scene of the crash, and was broadcast at the same time as the crash.


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At a recent press event, David Rutter, producer of FIFA, took a pack of journalists through some of the improvements and changes his team at EA Sports are making for FIFA 12’s career mode. This is what we discovered.

For the second year running, EA Sports has made improving career mode one of its main priorities. The work the studio began last year with FIFA 11 – authentic news and transfer engines, better competition structures – is being built on and refined to create a much higher level of immersion and a greater sense of realism.

For starters, the media coverage is now much more comprehensive. Your news feed will produce updates throughout the season on all sorts of news topics, including player availability, player happiness, club expectations, etc. These updates help to produce a deeper simulation for managers, but more importantly, they tie in with the overall managerial gameplay.

For example, media reporting is heightened when a star player is injured. Rutter used Mark Van Bommel to demonstrate this in action. In his presentation, Van Bommell picked up an injury during a simulation of the first friendly of the season. The physio comes to you to tell you that he needs rest, forcing him to miss the next game, which Milan go on to lose. The media pick up on this and their report is then pushed to your news feed the following day.

When Van Bommel shakes off the worst part of the injury, the press speculate as to whether he will play in the next game. You have the choice to leave him out or to play him – he’s sitting in the reserves, so all you have to do is add him to your team. In this scenario, Van Bommel is picked and Milan win the next match, so the media give you recognition for taking that risk. It worked this time but you wouldn’t be so praise-worthy had Van Bommel picked up another injury and Milan lost. So, this is an example of the media being used to add a risk/reward set-up to career mode.

Players will now come to you with more issues. We’ve seen examples of Jens Lehmann coming to tell you that he’s considering retiring at the end of the season, partly because he’s not getting a game. Another example would be a player complaining about being left out of the team for the previous game. This tells you that you have an unhappy player on your books; their low morale will also adversely affect their performances; and finally, it will alert other clubs to his availability if the news reaches the press.

Players are now aggressive in negotiations. They will come to you with demands, forcing you to either succumb to their wishes or start thinking about life without them. This should be fine as long as you’re winning and your chairman is happy; after all, he has the power to fire you if you don’t meet expectations. Speaking of expectations, before the season begins, you get an in-depth look at your club’s expectations and where your chairman sees the club. You will also read interviews from players, learning what their thoughts are for the coming year.

All this carries on to the field; so, when the season begins the commentary team will discuss their thoughts on your club’s chances. It adds more layers to the experience – going beyond the single layer present in FIFA 11.

There have been big changes to the transfer system. “You gets hints and tips to help you avoid paying over the odds”, says Rutter. Basically, you now have much more information to help you make the right decisions. You will be alerted to a player’s valuation and wages – for example, Luca Modric is worth 27m and is on 100k per year – and your chairman will give advice on the best approach.

You can go in low-ball and work your way up slowly until you reach a deal, but this approach is risky because the other AI are being alerted to your interest and they may try to steal the player from under your nose. That’s not fun but it’s part of being a manager. With regards to transfers, you can also see what other clubs are doing, who’s sad and happy, and who’s listed.

“Transfer deadline day has been blown wide open this year”, says Rutter: “What we’ve done is increased the fidelity of transfer activity in that last 24 hours of the transfer window.” You now have a countdown timer for the day, and you have multiple opportunities to get your business done. You’ll get to see what’s happening at your club and at other clubs, and you even have a counter which adds up how much you’ve spent. It looks very Sky Sports News on a deadline day, and as the counter winds down you see all the news coming in.

FIFA 12 will also boast a decent scouting system. You can send scouts away to look for youth players around the world and they’ll come back with suggestions. It’s not completely accurate though – some player attributes will be hidden by a fog-of-war so you will only have a vague idea of his ability. You can send more scouts to watch him, and this will give you a clearer picture but it will also give other clubs an opportunity to get in there to steal him. That’s the risk/reward system at play again.

The idea for FIFA 12 this year is simply to make it much more engaging and rewarding. Rutter says it’s “more about squad management rather than just mindless advancing and looking to buy and sell players.” Essetially, EA Sports are welcoming some of the features that we’ve become accustomed to seeing in other managerial sims such as Football Manager.

FIFA 12 isn’t going to match the level of depth that Football Manager has, but from our short time on it, it’s certainly more immersive than FIFA 11. It no longer feels like we’re mindlessly pressing through to the next game, and tt’s now much closer to that full-on Sky Sports News style coverage that EA Sports clearly crave. It’s had that on the pitch for a while, but now it’s getting closer to having it off the pitch as well.

Nevertheless, as is always the case with career modes, we really need to play a season before we can judge. Will the same news pop up all the time? How much depth does it really have? Will it really affect my gameplay that much? These are just a few of the things we’ve yet to discover.


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M. E. Silva A , C. Letelier B , P. F. Dalmazo B , M. A. Niño B and M. H. Ratto B

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Llamas require a copulation stimulus to elicit an LH surge that subsequently leads to induced ovulation. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone has been used to induce ovulation in llamas; however, results have been variable because of the different analogues and doses in previous studies (Bravo PW et al. 1992 Biol. Reprod. 47, 884-888; Ratto M et al. 2006 Anim. Reprod. Sci. 91, 299-306). Additionally, the effect of different doses and types of GnRH analogues on CL formation and function has not been described in detail. The purpose of the present study was to conduct a dose response trial to examine the effect of a synthetic analogue of GnRH, gonadorelin acetate (Ovalyse®, Pfizer, Santiago, Chile) on ovulation and CL formation in llamas. Nonpregnant and nonlactating adult llamas (range 4-8 years) weighing 90 to 130 kg were examined once daily by transrectal ultrasonography using a B mode scanner with a 7.5-MHz linear-array transducer (Aloka® SSD 500, International Clinics, Santiago, Chile). Llamas with a follicle ≥8 mm in diameter that had grown for 3 consecutive days were assigned randomly to be given an i.m. administration of gonadorelin at a dose of 1) 50 μg (n = 5); 2) 25 μg (n = 8); 3) 12.5 μg (n = 9); 4) 6.25 μg (n = 8), or 5) i.m. administration of 0.5 mL of PBS as a negative control group (n = 5). Llamas were examined by ultrasonography every 12 h from treatment (Day 0) to ovulation and thereafter on Day 8 to determine CL formation. Ovulation was defined as the sudden disappearance of a large follicle ≥8 mm that was detected during the previous examination and was confirmed by subsequent CL formation on Day 8. Ovulation rate was analyzed by chi-square analysis. Follicle diameter (at the time of treatment), interval from treatment to ovulation, and CL diameter on Day 8 were analyzed using one-way ANOVA. Mean ± SD diameter of preovulatory follicle did not differ (P = 0.4) among groups (11 ± 1.6, 10.6 ± 1.5, 11.5 ± 1.9, 11.7 ± 1.9, and 9.8 ± 2.9 mm for 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 μg of gonadorelin and 0.5 mL PBS, respectively). The proportions of ovulated llamas did not differ (P = 0.1) among GnRH-treated groups (100, 62.5, 77.7, and 62.5% for 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 μg of gonadorelin, respectively) but they did differ (P < 0.01) from the control group (0%). Also, the interval from treatment to ovulation in those ovulated females ranged from 36 to 48 h and it did not differ (P = 0.6) among groups. Corpus luteum diameter on Day 8 (12.2 ± 1.8, 10.2 ± 1.1, 11.7 ± 2.2, and 11.3 ± 1.8 for 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 μg of gonadorelin, respectively) did not differ (P = 0.3) among groups. In conclusion, the minimal dose of gonadorelin used in this study (1/8 dose) was as equally effective as the highest dose to induce ovulation in llamas without compromising CL formation.

The study was supported by Proyecto FONDECYT 11080141, Convenio de Desempeño en Investigacion (2007 DGI-CDA-04), Universidad Catolica de Temuco, and College of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile.

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For instance, the site quotes a source who says Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara announced the film and its release date before there was ever a script or creative direction in place, putting all of the pressure on Ayer.

 "[Ayer] wrote the script in like, six weeks, and they just went...It's not just that you've told the public the movie is coming, you've made huge deals around the world with huge branding partners, with merchandise partners. It's a really big deal to move a tentpole date."

Tsujihara was apparently dumbfounded by the mediocre response to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and took action by interjecting "more fun" into the movie during those reshoots we heard so much about. The thing is, Ayer was still working on his cut, which was grittier and more serious, causing a mish-mash of tones that I would say definitely found its way into the final product. To assist in making sure the film matched the tone of the teaser everybody loved, Tsujihara hired Trailer Park, the company that edited the teaser footage.

So it seems that Tsujihara was working opposed to Ayer at almost every turn, but they found some common ground after testing both versions of the film with audiences. Still, this isn't the way a successful franchise is built. While I hate to use the Fantastic Four comparison because that movie was an utter failure that Suicide Squad definitely isn't, these behind-the-scenes struggles do have an impact. We've seen it too many times to count. When so much money is thrown around you expect studio's to be involved in the creative process, but they should be smart enough to know when to step back and trust in the filmmakers to do their jobs.

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Wednesday, 22 February 2017

That Particular Song

I find music very much related to nostalgia. I have experienced it several times. You are having a regular day, busy with your work. Suddenly, a song plays on the radio and that takes you back to a different time, in a different place in the blinking of eyes. For the next 5 minutes, you are not in this world. And when the song ends, you realize the tremendous emotional impact it just had on you.

"Nostalgia is a seductive liar."~ George Ball

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Monday, 13 February 2017

Celebration of literature at the Kolkata Literary Meet

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longing, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”~F.Scott.Fitzgerald

Being a bibliophile and an ardent literature lover, I wait for the #TataSteelKalam Kolkata Literary Meet every year to listen to my favorite authors, discover new books and attend interesting sessions. This year, the Kolkata Literary Meet was a 5 day literary festival from 25th January to 29th January at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The festival was inaugurated by acclaimed novelist, Anita Desai.

The literary sessions were hosted at the two venues of Victoria Memorial Hall – Son-et-Lumiere and Western Quadrangle. Some of the sessions of Tata Steel Kalam also took place at the Calcutta Club. Over 130 celebrated authors, filmmakers and thinkers from various countries assembled at the literary festival to share their thoughts and views.

I went to the Kolkata Literary Meet three days and attended some enriching sessions. On January 26th, I was fortunate to attend one of my favorite authors, Ruskin Bond’s session “Thrills and Spills” where Ruskin Bond discussed why hills are the perfect setting for murders and mystery. It was a great experience when Ruskin Bond read one of the stories from his latest book “Death under the deodars”.

It was an amazing session, especially when the audience was given the chance to ask him questions. I asked him about one of his short stories, “The Night train at Deoli” and was overjoyed when he answered me. After his session, the audience was told that Ruskin Bond would be signing books at the author’s lounge. Finally, I got the opportunity to have a signed copy and meet my favorite author personally.

On January 27th, I attended the session “Acts of Faith” where Javed Akhtar, Tabish Khair, Mudar Patherya and Shazia Omar discussed about the challenges of Islamophobia, stereotypes and radicalization. It was a very enriching session and I especially loved hearing Javed Akhtar whose views were refined and powerful.

Then, I attended the next session “Pink and the power of No” where  Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Andrea Tariang and Ritesh Shah spoke about the importance of the movie “Pink”. They were in conversation with author, Kunal Basu. It was a very engaging session where the audience asked plenty of questions to the director about the movie and the change it brought in the mindset of people.

I also went to the festival on the final day, 29th January. I attended the Children’s Literary Meet Special with Indian sports’ golden boy, Abhinav Bindra and Joybeer Dutta Gupta. The Olympic gold medalist in shooting talked about his journey, his failures and success. It was very motivating when he spoke about the importance of dreams in the life of every person. He said that hard work and persistence are the only way to success. When someone from the audience asked him about the role of his parents, he said that his parents supported and encouraged him whenever he had failures and felt like giving up.

I enjoyed the session “Make up your mind” where Nandana Sen and Nabaneeta Dev Sen read poetry from their latest book “Make up your mind”. The award winning poet, Nabaneeta Dev Sen spoke about Nandana’s translations of her poetry. It was a sheer treat to see the mother and daughter bond on poetry. Overall, I had a great time at the #TataSteelKalam Kolkata Literary Festival. At the end of the festival, my literary appetite is well satiated with new books to read.

It is wonderful to see that Tata recognizes the role of literature and is contributing so much to secure the literature culture in Kolkata. The Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet brings the literary stalwarts from all corners of the world. It gives people a forum to speak their mind and interact with the authors. It encourages the lovers of literature to explore the world of ideas and words without any hesitation. The people of Kolkata look forward to the Kolkata Literary Meet every winter as it gives them the chance to rediscover or rather “readiscover” books.

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Sunday, 12 February 2017

The Dried Rose

The dried, dark rose
Concealed within the pages of my diary
Whispers countless words
On a full moon night
When the heart is soaked in love
And chained by memories.

Those are the words
That were left unsaid
Like an unsolved puzzle,
An incomplete play,
Or a beautiful portrait
Left half-colored midway.
You perhaps wanted me to solve it,
But I was no master at the craft
I was too naive for mind games.

Dawn arrives with a new hope
The neglected, dried rose
Sigh at an incomplete story;
I quietly close the diary
Unchain my heart from the memories
And get back to reality.

-Purba Chakraborty

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Tuesday, 7 February 2017

One crazy, adventurous Trip with your BFFs

Best friends. Adventures. Travelling. Laughter. Heart to heart conversations.
And you get memories of a lifetime.

Out of the several unticked things in my never-ending bucket list, a crazy, adventurous trip with my best friend before getting married tops the list. My best friend, Priyam and I have been discussing it for the last two years, but unfortunately, it didn't happen yet. Work deadlines, family and other issues keep popping whenever we make a plan. And it gets postponed.

Last weekend, I came across the popular web series called "The Trip" in YouTube. It is a super fun, coming of age story of four girls who go on a road trip from Delhi to Thailand. As one of the girls in their group, Ananya is about to tie the knot, the girls plan a crazy bachelorette road trip. Ever since I watched Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, I have always yearned to see something like "The Trip" in which a group of girl best friends embark on a journey.

It is a fun, adventurous and emotional roller coaster ride. I watched the eight episodes back to back uploaded so far in the last weekend and have become addicted to this web series. I can't wait for Episode 9 which will be uploaded on Thursday.

The best thing was that I found both me and my close friends in these four girls- Shonali, the free-spirited musician (played by Lisa Haydon), Nazia, the firecracker, absolutely bindaas and aspiring journalist (played by Mallika Dua), Ananya, the sweet and adorable bride-to-be (played by Shweta Tripathi) and Sanjana, the introvert yogi with a rule-book (played by Sapna Pabbi). The four characters are extremely relatable. Check out the trailer. I am sure every girl will love it.

I am enjoying the web series so much that I compelled my closest friends, Priyam and Triyas to watch it. The actual idea is to influence them so that they agree to go on a trip this year, come what may. Because this phase of our life won't come back once we are married.

Therefore, an adventurous trip with my bestie or BFFs means a lot to me. It is the most important thing on my bucket list and I wish to tick it off, finally this year.

I have traveled with my friends in college excursion. I have traveled solo. I have traveled with family. But I am sure nothing can be better than traveling with your BFFs and making countless memories that you can cherish throughout your life.

Have you ever gone for an adventurous trip with your BFFs? How was the experience? I would love to know.
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Saturday, 4 February 2017

Guest author in The Love for Colors, releasing on Valentine's

Since 2014, there is a similar pattern in my life during Valentine's day. Are you wondering what? Well, it is a book release, which I enjoy the most being an author. Whether an anthology or my solo book, Valentine's Day is the time of a new release. Last year, my collection of poems, The Heart Listens to No One was released on Valentine's Day and this year, the anthology Shades of Life 2: The Love for Colors is releasing.

I was a part of Shades of Life that released last year, Holi. My short story Silent Offering is a part of the book. One day, when Sarav, the editor of the book invited me to be the guest author of The Love for colors, I was exhilarated. I asked him on which color I should write and he told me to write a poem blending the theme of colors and love.

I associated each color of the rainbow with a girl's memories of a true love affair that is beyond physical separation. That is how my poem Epoch of our love was born which is now a part of Shades of Life 2 ~ the love for colors.

I feel proud to be a part of this book because it is a very unique anthology. The authors have chosen a particular color and penned a story/poem that symbolizes the color. When the contest for this book was going on, the Shades of life Team uploaded a color chart so that the authors can work on their poem/story keeping in mind what the particular color symbolizes.

I started reading the book yesterday and I am really enjoying the different flavors of the colors. I already read the poems and stories under the section Black and Grey. I am sure you will also enjoy exploring the various colors in the form of intriguing stories and soulful poems.

Right now with the book and certificate in my hand, I feel extremely happy to be the guest author of this beautiful book which will release around Feb 14 this year. I will await your feedback on the book and review on my poem. Order your copy from the link below or gift it to your Valentine, if he/she loves reading.

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