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Jüri Reimand

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Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Tartu, Estonia

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
MaRS Centre, West Tower
661 University Avenue, Suite 510
Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A3

Phone: (647) 260-7983
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Computational network biology of cancer

Cancer is driven by somatic changes in genomes that provide cells with evolutionary advantages. Many other factors contribute to the complexity of cancer, including diversity of cancers across anatomical sites, heterogeneity within individual tumours, and genetic and environmental factors. The activities of genes, transcripts, and proteins in many common cancer types are now comprehensively profiled in massive international efforts. We need to carefully analyse these complex datasets to better understand the basic biology of cancer and its driver mechanisms, treatment opportunities, and biomarkers.

The underlying goal of our research is to interpret the molecular profiles of cancer using pathway and network information (1). Pathways and networks represent a complementary body of knowledge derived from decades of research that helps us highlight the aspects of data that are more likely representative of the underlying biology. With this assumption in mind, we develop statistical algorithms and machine-learning methods to explain -omics data, discover cancer driver genes and predictive biomarkers, interpret cancer mutations, and infer master gene regulators of cellular processes.

  • Pathway enrichment analysis is a common technique used to interpret large gene lists from high-throughput experiments. We developed the g:Profiler web server (2) that detects representative biological processes and pathways in gene lists. We have often collaborated on pathway analysis, including in recent studies on brain cancer (3-5). Pathway and network information helps predict new functions to genes and characterise the biology and mechanisms active in the experiment.

  • Interpreting cancer mutations is a complex task as only few mutations are cancer drivers while most are functionally inactive passengers (6). We can improve driver discovery by focusing on mutations in small sites involved in interactions of networks, as these mutations are more likely important in cancer. We used this idea to build the mutation enrichment model ActiveDriver (7) that analyses mutations in protein sites of post-translational modifications (PTMs). PTMs such as phosphorylation are involved in cellular signalling and cancer pathways. We applied ActiveDriver in the TCGA pan-cancer project to characterise the mutational landscape of signalling networks and to detect known and candidate cancer driver genes (8,9). In another study, we analysed population-wide genome variation and found that PTM sites are strongly conserved among humans and enriched in germline disease variants, emphasizing their importance in physiology and predisposition to disease (10). We recently developed the machine learning method MIMP (11) that finds mutations that disrupt or create small sequence motifs in phosphorylation sites, potentially rewiring interactions in signalling networks. These network-driven approaches help us find cancer driver mutations but also propose how they function in cancer biology.

  • Gene regulatory networks of transcription factors (TFs) determine the expression of genes and thus control cellular processes and pathways. Abundant high-throughput data are available about gene expression, chromatin state, and binding sites of TFs in DNA. However accurately inferring target genes of TFs is a complex task as different types of data are often not in good agreement. Thus integrative analysis of complementary datasets helps improve reconstruction of gene regulatory networks. We have developed a data mining framework to discover gene co-expression networks from large collections of microarray datasets (12) and constructed a statistical model to predict master regulators of cellular processes from multivariate data (13,14). We are advancing these methods to decipher gene regulatory networks in hallmark processes of cancer.

List of Key Publications:

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  • Mutation Consequences and Pathway Analysis working group of the International Cancer Genome Consortium. (2015) Pathway and network analysis of cancer genomes. Nat Methods, 12, 615-621.

  • Reimand, J., Kull, M., Peterson, H., Hansen, J. and Vilo, J. (2007) g:Profiler--a web-based toolset for functional profiling of gene lists from large-scale experiments. Nucleic acids research, 35, W193-200.

  • Northcott, P.A., Shih, D.J., Peacock, J., Garzia, L., Morrissy, A.S., Zichner, T., Stutz, A.M., Korshunov, A., Reimand, J., Schumacher, S.E. et al. (2012) Subgroup-specific structural variation across 1,000 medulloblastoma genomes. Nature, 488, 49-56.

  • Huang, X., He, Y., Dubuc, A.M., Hashizume, R., Zhang, W., Reimand, J., Yang, H., Wang, T.A., Stehbens, S.J., Younger, S. et al. (2015) EAG2 potassium channel with evolutionarily conserved function as a brain tumor target. Nat Neurosci.

  • Meyer, M., Reimand, J., Lan, X., Head, R., Zhu, X., Kushida, M., Bayani, J., Pressey, J.C., Lionel, A.C., Clarke, I.D. et al. (2015) Single cell-derived clonal analysis of human glioblastoma links functional and genomic heterogeneity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 112, 851-856.

  • Gonzalez-Perez, A., Mustonen, V., Reva, B., Ritchie, G.R., Creixell, P., Karchin, R., Vazquez, M., Fink, J.L., Kassahn, K.S., Pearson, J.V. et al. (2013) Computational approaches to identify functional genetic variants in cancer genomes. Nat Methods, 10, 723-729.

  • Reimand, J. and Bader, G.D. (2013) Systematic analysis of somatic mutations in phosphorylation signaling predicts novel cancer drivers. Molecular systems biology, 9, 637.

  • Tamborero, D., Gonzalez-Perez, A., Perez-Llamas, C., Deu-Pons, J., Kandoth, C., Reimand, J., Lawrence, M.S., Getz, G., Bader, G.D., Ding, L. et al. (2013) Comprehensive identification of mutational cancer driver genes across 12 tumor types. Sci Rep, 3, 2650.

  • Reimand, J., Wagih, O. and Bader, G.D. (2013) The mutational landscape of phosphorylation signaling in cancer. Sci Rep, 3, 2651.

  • Reimand, J., Wagih, O. and Bader, G.D. (2015) Evolutionary constraint and disease associations of post-translational modification sites in human genomes. PLoS Genet, 11, e1004919.

  • Wagih, O., Reimand, J. and Bader, G.D. (2015) MIMP: predicting the impact of mutations on kinase-substrate phosphorylation. Nat Methods, 12, 531-533.

  • Adler, P., Kolde, R., Kull, M., Tkachenko, A., Peterson, H., Reimand, J. and Vilo, J. (2009) Mining for coexpression across hundreds of datasets using novel rank aggregation and visualization methods. Genome biology, 10, R139.

  • Reimand, J., Vaquerizas, J.M., Todd, A.E., Vilo, J. and Luscombe, N.M. (2010) Comprehensive reanalysis of transcription factor knockout expression data in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals many new targets. Nucleic acids research, 38, 4768-4777.

  • Reimand, J., Aun, A., Vilo, J., Vaquerizas, J.M., Sedman, J. and Luscombe, N.M. (2012) m:Explorer: multinomial regression models reveal positive and negative regulators of longevity in yeast quiescence. Genome biology, 13, R55.

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If you are not wearing your garment it's not working.

I was talking to a therapist recently who was having trouble convincing his patients to invest in compression garments.

In fact just recently I was talking to one of my old patients who had called to replace her Lymphedema sleeve. When I asked her where she had been getting her garments since she had been in therapy with me she confessed that she had been wearing the same sleeve for two years. Although that sleeve was in one piece, with a few holes and runs, it had stopped doing its job a long time ago.

As a result her arm had increased in size she was surprised the same size no longer fit. Her choices were to go to a larger sleeve or go back to therapy.

Don't sacrifice proper care for a few dollars!Believe me when I tell you that I am tight with the pennies myself. I feel that a few little holes in a shirt gives it character but I know that there are some things that you can’t skimp on. It just doesn’t make sense.

My mother would have called it “penny poor & pound foolish" (she was from Yorkshire). Wouldn’t it make better sense to throw a garment in the washing machine and have some nice clean ones in the drawer ready to put on. Lets put it in perspective. What other personal item of clothing would you buy one of and have to machine wash it every night so you could wear it the next day?

Wearing the same one every day is OK but hand washing is ineffective in bringing back the garments stretch. The bottom line is that although compression garments are expensive, we pay for many more expensive non-medical items without a second thought.

Good compression garments control edema, prevent wounds and infections, and improve blood flow. A meal at a restaurant may cost as much and may improve your spirits, but not your overall well being!

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Sometimes when I am asleep I have nice dreams, of smoked Salmon on a bagel or the smell of Boofer’s tail. As I open my eyes all warm and cosy a smell assaults my nose. It’s the Wizzle. She’s stuck her arse in my face again. In those moments between awake and sleep I forget I am forced to live with an idiot lilac point who is scared of envelopes.

She crossed the line last week. She played with MY Bug. She knows that this toy is MINE. I have spent months breaking the bug’s will. Months of carefully designed torture techniques; and she comes in and “pats” it around. For such insolence I attacked her while she slept. But the furless ones chastised ME! I gave them evils but they still cooed over the simple one. Still at 3am on Sunday morning I asserted my dominance over the bug, furless ones and Wimble. I announced the catching of the bug at the top of my lungs. The furless Mum yelled “Sharlie you nut job it’s the middle of the night”.

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Saturday, June 20, 2015

My Week in Instagram (Week #134)M

It's always a good week, when you're offered a job, you accept, and then sign the paperwork, get fingerprinted, and then jabbed with a needle (to make sure you don't have tuberculosis).

I can now officially enjoy my summer vacation.

Of course, the week started off on a CUTE note, when I had
the chance to help three quail chicks get home to their parents.

So tiny!!!

I'm assuming (and hoping) that Mom and Dad were in those
bushes somewhere, waiting for their babies.

Wild hare, though I prefer to call them wabbits.

UGH. Why do I even run in the summer time when we have
racer snakes, king snakes (that's this one) and...eep...rattlers
in this area?

Pretty colors

Mom got her beads out to make doo-dads for the garden.

They're meant to keep the birds from eating her flowers.

Millie, getting some love from Dad.

Tired baby. She's doing better, though!

That book was really good, by the way.

Not making fun--just bemused that this lady covered all gym
equipment with big garbage bags before using.

A day or two later, Mom ate those red ones right off the vine.

All correct, without looking at my book, just using my brain.

Coming soon to a Meg's Fancies near you! : P

Getting some garden time.

When you are friends with music educators.

Mom hosted Mexican train on Tuesday.

Papers signed!

The district office for my new school is located at what used
to be McClellan Air Force Base, so I went to the Aerospace
Museum afterwards.

It's not a huge museum, but it's VERY well-done and I spent
more than an hour wandering around taking pictures.

I was glad they touched on women, and, in another part of the
museum, the Tuskegee Airmen.

Model of a rocket engine.

The little guy in red had just yelled, "MOM! I FOUND THE
BOMB HOLE!!!" leaving his friends amazed, while he ran
off to his next big discovery. Cute. : )

"How, when and where the USAF obtained it remains classified."

F-14 "Tomcat" -- like in Top Gun.

The business end of the F-14

"Happy Landings Flyboy." : )

They have a small memorial rose garden, which is very nice.

USAF Brat, retired.

One ugly airplane. All those bulges house radar equipment.

Of COURSE I went in!

This particular plane served in D-Day.

This type of helicopter, used for rescue missions in Vietnam,
is nicknamed the Jolly Green Giant.

My paper-signing appointment was early, so I went to the gym
after my museum trip.

Mom learned how to do fondant decorating. Dad and I got to
benefit from her education.

Can you spot the cat?

I think she's gained an ounce or two back. She seems better
hydrated, and she's got a bit of her sassiness back. We go
back to Dr. Ann this week, so hoping the doc is happy!

I'd rather remember these names than the one of the racist
asshole who killed them. He's a homegrown terrorist, that's
all there is to it.

I got to a point in my day where I was falling asleep over this
stuff--but I really do find it interesting.

Met Sarah for dinner and a drink. We chose a place in Roseville
called Ginger's because it's dog-friendly and she had to have
her dog with her.

This is why I Instagram. : P

Me and my girl...

This is what you get when you buy imitation M&Ms at Whole
Foods. They were pretty good, though.

More creativity.
Friday night goodness.

I did some reminiscing in a couple of old scrapbooks.

In 1992, Mom and I went to NYC with a group from my 8th
grade class. Within ten years, these buildings would be gone.

Mom boiled some chicken, so I gave Millie some of the stock.
She loves it. She loves actual chicken meat even more.

It was a Jane Austen kind of day. Later, I watched Sense
and Sensibility.

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Wednesday, November 24, 2004

respect to eminem for 'mosh.' someone like me finds it all too easy to scorn the soft political alliances forged between celebrities and fans - from Dylan to Bono via Lennon and Geldoff, I've scorned 'em all in equal measure in a properly grumpy rhino manner. the 'mosh' video, however, directed by guerilla news network's Ian Inaba, seems to me to have emerged from a genuinely angry conviction that - I admit - surprised me. it pulls no punches and names names - and it isn't in the slightest way patronising. it gets fairly close, I would have thought, to being indictable under the Patriot Act for fomenting revolution - certainly, if this had been made out from under the megabucks ramifications of his celebrity, it would have been, although even the monkeys henchmen must have been able to calculate just how stupid that would make them look.
now, mr mathers, all that's lacking to turn you into an icon for the new left is to go that extra mile down the liberal path and recognise that faggots might be niggas, too.

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New Unbreakable video out now!!

DSC04456Hello friends,

This week I released my latest video, Unbreakable. I had almost decided not to do any more videos for songs from the Unbreakable album, but then I realized, I must do a video for the song Unbreakable as it was the song that changed so many things for me.  It was the first song I wrote that had other people stop and take notice of me as a songwriter. Because of it I attracted many talented musicians to play with me and many other opportunities came along with that.

As many of you know, this song stemmed from the difficult ending of a powerful relationship. I didn’t want the relationship to end, but knew it must. The break up brought me to my knees and slowed me down enough that I could write this song and for that I will be forever grateful.

The video features Lucky Pete on the fiddle, David Flack on guitar (David helped fund my upcoming album and chose the perk of being in one of my music videos). Behind the scenes was the insightful Michael Borlace and the ever helpful Nick Lim shot the video (on an iPhone!) and did most of the editing.

I hope you enjoy it. CLICK HERE to watch, like and show you care: share 🙂

And, as reminder to my west end friends and fans, Thursday Dec 3rd I’ll be playing at The Tennessee and I’d love to have you there. Show starts at 9pm with the fun loving Jim Amar. My set is at 10pm and Peter’s set with his other band(gasp!) Redlight Ranch is at 11pm. It promises to be a fun night and will only set you back $6.00 at the door! CLICK HERE to rsvp.

Hugs and mushy stuff!

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March (Book One) - Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, John Robert Lewis

Although Dr. King played in inspirational role in young John Lewis' life, his story was more than being Dr. King's sidekick. I think Lewis' story is one of similar stories from the time and place - young people restless for change while also respecting their elders' feelings and opinions. Book one in the trilogy begins not at the beginning of Lewis' life, but at the beginning of President Obama's first term in office; throughout the story, Lewis is getting ready for the inauguration and retelling his story (and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement) to two young visitors' who stopped by his office on their way to the inauguration. I learned so much about Lewis and his role in the Nashville lunch counter protests. And I really liked and appreciated that Lewis mentioned women that he worked with for the cause (for example, Diane Nash), rather than making it a sausage fest. Lewis also names other lesser-known CRM workers such as Jim Lawson and Z. Alexander Looby. This book ends with the beginnings of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

The art was black and white and the layout was easy to follow. I did find some of the dialog hard to read due to differing fonts that were unintelligible (for a reason that relates to the story).  I only had one problem reading this book - the fact that I did not have books two and three on hand to continue the story. Looks like I will be doing some library requests tonight :D 5 stars.

The most important part (for me) was this quote, spoken by young Lewis:

On April 5th, those empty streets brought an offer from the mayor's committee. It proposed a system of "partial integration"-- which was the same to us as partial segregation. But it was supported by two black committee members -- Fisk President Wright, and T.S.U. President W.S. Davis. This felt like a betrayal, and was more evidence of the differences between our generations. We saw that evidence the next time Thurgood Marshall spoke at Fisk. "Look, once you've been arrested, you've made your point,' he said. Thurgood Marshall was a good man, but listening to him speak convinced me, more than ever, that our revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.


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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

A lovely girl showed up

Inspired by the Documented Life Project I decided to create a girl on bookpaper. I started by drawing her in pencil and then applying liquitex clear gesso over her to make it non porous. Then I gave her color with my prismacolor watercolor pencils. I finished her off with my Letraset aquamarkers. I am sooo pleased with the result. I see many more in the near future LOL. Here she is.

And here is another part of the spread which is in my small dylusions journal.

The background was done with scraps of underpaper, paperbag studio stamps on bookpaper, self made foamstamps and acrylic paint. I am really very happy with the result.

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Jem'Hadar fighters (also referred to as attack ships or attack fighters) were a small class of starship in use by the Dominion in the 2370s decade. They were the backbone of the Dominion fleet and fulfilled a variety of roles from scouting or patrol duties, to leading assault forces.

Despite being small, these attack ships ere fast and maneuverable as well as were able to inflict damage on enemies larger than what could be expected from vessels of this size.[2] These ships were small, agile attack ships typically employed in groups of three, or occasionally as part of larger fleets. (ST reference: Starship Spotter) Jem'Hadar Attack Ships were small vessels that operated in a similar manner as Escorts or Destroyers.[3]

They were capable of operations in a planetary atmosphere and were able to land and take off from a planet's surface but were not designed to perform battle maneuvers while in a planet's atmosphere. (DS9 episodes: "The Jem'Hadar", "Hippocratic Oath", "The Ship", "Penumbra")

Tactical systemsEdit

The primary weapons of the fighters were powerful phased polaron beam which were produced from emitters located on the nose of the vessels. During the initial engagements between the Dominion and the Federation in the 2370s, the fighters weapons were easily able to penetrate the shields of Federation starships. (DS9 episodes: "The Jem'Hadar", "Call to Arms")

Other systemsEdit

As well as possessing advanced transporter technology that allowed transport through the shields of Federation starships, an advanced deflector also allowed the ships to be immune to the effects of a tractor beam. (DS9 episode: "The Jem'Hadar")

These starships were so common that they became the staple of the Dominion fleets.[4] They were designed with the single minded goal of military conquest and defeating any threat. Their role as the enforcer of Dominion policy had seen them being deployed against a number of species native to the Gamma Quadrant. Thus, they were responsible for bringing such races under the rule of the Founders. (Decipher RPG module: Starships)

Jem'Hadar fighters were the first Dominion vessels encountered by the Federation when a trio of the vessels attacked and destroyed the USS Odyssey shortly after first contact in the year 2370. (DS9 episode: "The Jem'Hadar")

Over the next few years fighters engaged with Alpha Quadrant forces on numerous occasions and fought along side larger Dominion vessels throughout the Dominion War. (DS9 episode: "What You Leave Behind", et al.)

Following the war Dominion forces returned back through the Bajoran wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant.

After the Dominion War, inconclusive evidence suggested that a number of rogue Jem'Hadar attack ships operated in the Badlands region. However, the true nature of their presence was unknown as it was undetermined whether their crews operated to continue the conflict or had simply embarked on a campaign of piracy. Some had suggested that Ferengi arms merchants had assembled a working such starship from salvaged parts but this remained unproven. (Decipher RPG module: Starships)

Just months later in April of 2376 a trio of rogue fighters returned to the Alpha Quadrant to attack Deep Space 9. They destroyed the USS Aldebaran before being destroyed themselves. (DS9 novel: Avatar, Book One)

By 2409, a number of these vessels had been discovered adrift and abandoned in the Alpha Quadrant. These attack ships were found by Starfleet and the Klingon Defense Force who acquired the derelicts for study. Such fighters were always found in prime condition as well as undamaged but registered an unusually high level of neutrino signatures and with their systems offline. The Dominion was contacted from Qo'noS and Deep Space 9 to determine whether they held any interest in retrieving these ships, but no response was received.[5]

Known vesselsEdit

Starship classes of the Dominion
By name Jakar DominionEmblem
By type Jem'Hadar battlecruiserJem'Hadar battleshipJem'Hadar dreadnought carrierJem'Hadar fighter (attack ship)Jem'Hadar fighter (25th century)Jem'Hadar heavy escortJem'Hadar heavy escort carrierJem'Hadar recon shipJem'Hadar strike cruiserJem'Hadar strike shipJem'Hadar super carrierJem'Hadar warship
By foreign designation Starfleet classification 232

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Jerusalem of Gold

One of the most well-known Israeli songs ever is Yerushalayim shel Zahav, Jerusalem of Gold. Naomi Shemer wrote the song and it was originally sung by Shuli Natan at a song festival in Jerusalem a few weeks before the Six-Day War. An interview with Shuli Natan about the song can be found here. Here is […]

Jerusalem Customs

Reading for Jerusalem Day: David Golinkin, “Jerusalem in Jewish law and Custom: A Preliminary Typology” (here) An expanded version of this article can be found in Lee Levine, ed., Jerusalem: its Centrality to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Continuum Press, New York, 1999, pp. 408-423.

Happy Birthday Bob-Like a Rolling Stone

Today is Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, so below is a video of Dylan singing one of his most famous songs, Like a Rolling Stone. I also included a few of the dozens of covers of the song done by other artists. For those who really want to read up on the song and its influence, […]

Becoming the People of the Talmud

Talya Fishman’s book Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures has been published. From the publisher’s web site: What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and […]

Religious Israeli Women Sing Gospel

Mika Karni (bio on Hebrew Wikipedia) is a popular Israeli singer who has recently become involved with teaching music to groups of Israeli religious women. Below are two videos. The first is from this article about the religious music school Mizmor. The second (in Hebrew) is from this Ynet article about a female a cappela […]

New York City’s Public Smoking Ban and Jewish Law

New York City’s law that bans smoking in parks and pedestrian plazas goes into affect tomorrow. See this post at the blog Jewish and American Law for a discussion of the law from the perspective of Jewish law.

The Talmud and Foreign Policy

On Sanhedrin 17b there is a discussion about the עיר הנידחת (“an idolatrous city”) that was to be destroyed. The Talmud addresses how many cities can be destroyed within a specific time period and geographic area. One of the reasons given for limiting the number of cities was to minimize the desolation of the Land […]

The God Who Hates Lies

A new book from David Hartman, The God Who Hates Lies. In this deeply personal look at the struggle between commitment to Jewish religious tradition and personal morality, Dr. David Hartman, the world’s leading Modern Orthodox Jewish theologian, probes the deepest questions at the heart of what it means to be a human being and […]

Christian Missionaries in Israel-1963

MK, a reader of this blog, was able to fill in some background about the letter from American Jewish leaders that I posted here. On September 10, 1963 there were a number of violent demonstrations against Christian missionaries in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. The demonstrations resulted in damaged and destroyed property and over one […]

Richman on the Sherman Act & Rabbinic Cartels

From the Legal Theory Blog: Barak D. Richman (Duke University – School of Law) has posted Saving the First Amendment from Itself: Relief from the Sherman Act Against the Rabbinic Cartels on SSRN. Here is the abstract: America’s rabbis currently structure their employment market with rules that flagrantly violate the Sherman Act. The consequences of […]

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Israeli Celebs and the Shabbat

NRG has an article (Heb) about Israeli celebrities who observe and sanctify Shabbat in different ways. I think that there are two important take aways from the article. The first is that religious observance and identity in Israel is much richer and complex than is understood by most Diaspora Jews. The second is that the rabbi who is interviewed in the article is Rabbi Galia Sadan, the rabbi of the Beit Daniel Center for Progressive Judaism. A Reform rabbi being interviewed about celebs observing Shabbat…some good news about religion in Israel is always welcome.

Here are some quotes from the article.

Ninet Tayeb:

I think that if I wasn’t observing (שומרת) Shabbat and she wasn’t protecting (שומרת) me, for a long time I would have already been in a different place…Simply one day [at age 14] I decided that I want to give God something in return…I began with it, and I didn’t find any reason to stop. I don’t define myself in any way as religious, but I observe Shabbat with all of its laws. I don’t travel and I don’t perform, I make Shabbat as it should be.

Rotem Zisman:

 I come from a totally secular family, but there was something inside of me, just like if two parents who don’t know how to play an instrument have a piano prodigy. Six years ago I lived on Shenkin Street and I have a Ger Hasidic neighbor who never spoke with me. One day I asked her if she knows if Selichot are recited in the neighborhood synagogue, because at the time everybody was going to Selichot, this was very in and trendy. After a few hours she got back to me and said that the Gerlitzky family, the neighbors, are inviting me for Shabbat. I said, ‘Let’s do it.’ (Ya’alah).

I was hosted by them and I loved all of the togetherness, the preparations for Shabbat, that they sit and laugh all of the Shabbat. This was a different atmosphere that separates the thoughts from the weekday. Afterwards I understood that every Shabbat they host many people, and many have on account of them become religious, including Gili Sasson and also the second one from ‘Hafuch.’ Also Rama Borstein, who just received an Ofir award, does the same thing.

Riff Cohen:

Shabbat is the day of the week on which I do my maximum. Let’s say that I bought a new shirt, when am I going to where it? To some bar on a weekday? No, I am going to wear it on Shabbat, because for Shabbat I am going to set aside the pretty things. I have a lipstick that I just use on Shabbat, and Shabbat plates, and glasses, on Shabbat I am at the top of my game.

A hat tip for the article goes to Avi Mayer on Twitter. If you are interesting in keeping up on what’s happening in Israel, Avi’s twitter account is a must.

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    “I think that there are two important take aways from the article.”

    Hmmmm. You have here a female writer, interviewing four celebrities, all female, and then interviewing a Reform Rabbi, yet again female. Six individuals, every one female. Definitely a take away somewhere . . . .

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6 Historical Heads Stolen From Their Graves

F.W. Murnau isn’t having a very good week. At least, his skull isn’t. Neither are the managers at the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery outside Berlin, where, on Monday, officials discovered that someone had broken into the Murnau family plot, opened up the famed film director’s iron coffin, and made off with his head.

It's not the first time someone has broken into Murnau's tomb, which cemetery managers say was desecrated in the 1970s and back in February. Police are investigating the crime, but despite tabloid speculation about occult involvement, the motive is murky. Cemetery manager Olaf Ihlefeldt told the Washington Post: “There was a candle … A photo session or a celebration or whatever in the night. It really isn’t clear.”

The incident could almost be a scene out of Murnau’s best-known film, Nosferatu, a 1922 German expressionist retelling of the Dracula story (it also includes one of the most memorable uses of fake nails in film history). Murnau went on to make other films before dying in a car accident in California in 1931, but it’s the looming Count Orlok as played by Max Schreck, his shadow slinking across the wall, that sticks in everybody’s mind.

Yet Murnau is far from the only celebrity to be relieved of his head after death. Throughout the past few centuries, an assortment of famous people have seen their graves robbed by trophy-seekers, souvenir hunters, mad scientists, and other plunderers. In some ways, it's an ancient story: in traditional societies, headhunting was often a way of harnessing another person's spiritual power, and European societies engaged in their own head-hunting to fill the halls of museums.

But as Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius notes, when it comes to the heads of dead celebrities, the motive may be an extreme version of the drive to collect other celebrity ephemera: “To touch a bit of someone’s greatness, to possess something that radiates with the aura of a legend: this is what drives us to collect autographs, memorabilia, vials of Elvis Presley’s sweat.”

While heads go missing from a variety of contexts (museum cabinets, the tops of flagpoles, people’s houses), the ones listed below have all been dug out of their famous owners’ graves. If there is an afterlife, perhaps the ghosts of these men can provide F.W. Murnau some comfort.

1. Joseph Haydn

Whatever you think about your friends, you probably don’t expect them to steal your skull. But Haydn had the misfortune (or fortune, depending on your point of view) to be friends with an accountant, music lover, and phrenologist named Joseph Carl Rosenbaum. The phrenology Rosenbaum studied insisted that a person’s innermost being could be divined from the bumps on his or her skull, and the craze for this kind of skull-reading spread throughout Europe and America in the 18th and 19th century. Some phrenologists believed in the existence of an "organ of tune," which was said to protrude above the eye and be a clear sign of musical genius. Phrenologists said they had noticed the telling bump in portraits of Mozart and Beethoven, as well as Haydn himself.

Rosenbaum decided he wanted Haydn's head before the composer was even in his grave, and bribed the gravedigger to deliver the skull a few nights after Haydn's death. The accountant kept it in his house for years, in a black case adorned with a golden lyre. The theft was discovered a decade later, when the Austrian prince who had employed Haydn decided to rebury him in a more lavish tomb, but the wily Rosenbaum handed over a series of fake skulls while keeping the real one for himself. Haydn's true skull didn't join the rest of his remains until 1954, 45 years after the composer's first burial.

2. Mozart

For a few decades at the start of the 20th century, you could see a skull labeled as Mozart’s on display at the International Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Although its provenance has never been rigorously fact-checked, the story goes that the skull had been stolen from Mozart’s grave by the sexton at his cemetery 10 years after the composer died.

Like most not-super-rich Europeans of his day, Mozart was buried in a common grave. And like most graves of the time, his was eventually cleared to make way for new bodies. Supposedly the gravedigger at this particular cemetery, St. Marx’s in Vienna, was a music lover who made a note of where Mozart’s body was buried. And when the grave was cleared in 1801, he took it as a souvenir.

The skull was later passed around among various Viennese before landing in the hands of famed anatomist Joseph Hyrtl, who attached a red label describing its origin to the top of the cranium. Hyrtl may also have been the one who added a note on the skull’s right temporal bone: musa vetat mori (the muse prevents death)—a poignant line from Horace.

In 1902, the skull was donated to the Mozarteum (it's not immediately clear by whom), but it was removed from display in the 1950s on the grounds that tastes had changed and that it had never been conclusively identified as Mozart’s. Some say it also spooked museum-goers by occasionally emitting eerie strains of music.

In the late 1980s, forensic anthropologist Dr. Pierre-François Puech of France’s Museum of Man examined the skull and noted that its details matched contemporary portraits of the composer. The skull also showed marks from a fall that may have hastened Mozart’s death, according to Puech. However, in 2006 scientists hired by Austrian state television to do DNA testing on the item failed to find a match with some of Mozart’s dead relatives. The problem wasn’t just matching Mozart to his family—DNA from the supposed family members showed that not all of his relatives were actually flesh and blood. In other words, someone was sleeping around. The Mozarteum still has the skull, but don’t expect to see it being displayed any time soon.

3. Marquis de Sade

The Marquis de Sade spent the final years of his life confined to an asylum in Charenton, France (if you've ever read his works, you'll understand why). One of the doctors who attended him, L.J. Ramon, wrote that he often used to see Sade walking alone in the asylum: "As I passed I would bow and he would respond with that chill courtesy which excludes any thought of entering into conversation … the only impression he produced on me was that of a haughty, morose elderly gentleman.”

Sade's will asked for him to be buried amongst the trees of his estate at Malmaison, and for acorns to be scattered over his grave, so "the traces of my grave will vanish from the face of the earth as I like to think memory of me will be effaced from men’s mind."

But Ramon was also a phrenologist, and when Sade's body was later exhumed during renovations at the asylum, Ramon took the skull for a little head-bump analysis. In the ridges and valleys of bone, he found evidence of “goodwill . . . no ferocity . . . no aggressive drives . . . no excess in erotic impulses.” All in all, Ramon concluded that the skull was “in every way similar to that of a father of the church.”

Not long after writing those words, Ramon was visited by one of the founders of phrenology, Johann Spurzheim, who persuaded Ramon to hand over Sade's skull to him. Spurzheim died with the skull still in his collection, and it's since been lost to history, as has the rest of Sade's body. However, at least one biographer has written that casts of Sade's skull were later used as a phrenological teaching tool to illustrate the characteristics of benevolence and religious faith.

4. Geronimo

In 2009, the descendants of the Apache chief Geronimo sued Skull and Bones, Yale's notorious secret society, claiming that the members of the group had robbed their ancestor's grave in 1918 and had been keeping his skull in a glass case at their headquarters. The lawsuit aligned with whispers that had long circulated around campus, and while there's little hard-and-fast proof of the theft, in 2005 the historian Marc Wortman discovered an 1918 letter written from one Bonesman to another and describing "the skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill."

Neither of the correspondents were anywhere near Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where Geronimo died a prisoner of war in 1909, so the letter isn’t entirely damning. But it shows that a Bonesman at the time at least believed such a theft had occurred. The writer Alexandra Robbins has documented other evidence in support of the theft, including a 1918 logbook which describes Skull and Bones members using an ax to "pry open the iron door" of the Apache leader's tomb. One of the perpetrators mentioned in the logbook is Bonesman Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of the presidents. However, Wortman has noted that there’s no iron door on Geronimo’s grave—in fact, in 1918, it wasn’t even marked. He believes it’s more likely Bush and his cronies robbed someone else’s grave.

The lawsuit was later dismissed on technical grounds, and Skull and Bones representatives have dismissed the story as a hoax. But Geronimo’s skull is just one of the macabre remnants said to be housed inside the club’s “tomb” at Yale—according to Robbins and others, the society is also reported to have Pancho Villa's skull, Martin Van Buren's skull, and a skeleton they believe to be Madame de Pompadour.

5. Beethoven

Most of Beethoven is still below ground, but several large chunks of his skull were removed from the rest of him in the mid-19th century. The theft wasn’t noticed until 1888, when Beethoven and cemetery-mate Franz Schubert were exhumed from a graveyard in northwest Vienna and moved to the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna’s central cemetery, as part of an effort to consolidate the city’s burial grounds.

The culprit has never been caught, but William Meredith, director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University, thinks that a physician friend of Beethoven’s, Gerhard von Breuning, may have taken them in 1863. Back then, Beethoven and Schubert were exhumed so they could be reburied in more secure coffins (grave-robbers were a persistent threat in the 19th century). The composer’s skull stayed above ground for nine days of tests and measurements, and according to Meredith, von Breuning was the only one left alone with the skull. As a friend of Beethoven’s who once visited him so often the composer nicknamed him “trouser buttons” (because Bruening stuck to him the way a button does to clothing), he may not have been able to resist slipping a memento or two into his pocket.

After a torturous journey that involves Goethe and the Nazis (for the full, remarkable story, see Russell Martin’s book Beethoven's Hair), the skull fragments made their way to America, where DNA testing against strands of Beethoven's curls in 2005 proved a match. At last check, the fragments were still in California.

6. Goya

The painter Francisco Goya died in 1828 of a stroke during a visit to France. In 1899, the Spanish government got permission to rebury him in Madrid, but when the Spanish consul assigned to France opened his grave in Bordeaux, he found two skeletons inside. Even worse, there was only one skull.

The decomposition had advanced far enough that the consul was unable to tell which body the skull had once perched atop. He sent a telegraph to Madrid: “Goya skeleton without a head. Please instruct me.” The ministry cabled back, “Send Goya, with or without head.” Since it seemed impossible to tell what was what, the consul had all of the remains dug up and buried together at Madrid's Church of San Antonio de la Florida, whose frescoes Goya had painted. Notably, the cupola fresco depicts Saint Anthony raising a man from the dead.

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The Long, Strange Journey of Buffalo Bill's Corpse
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You probably know William Frederick Cody, a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, as the long-haired Wild West icon who turned the frontier experience into rip-roarin’ entertainment. But the story of Buffalo Bill’s body and its many burials is almost as outrageous as the man himself.

When Cody died of kidney failure in January 1917, his body ended up on a mountain outside of Denver, Colorado—a counterintuitive choice given his close ties to the town in Wyoming that bore his last name. Cody, Wyoming was founded in the 1890s with help from Buffalo Bill, who employed many of its residents and was responsible for its tourism business. It might seem natural that he’d be buried in the place he’d invested so much in, but he wasn’t. And that’s where the controversy began.

Though Cody spent much of his time in the town named after him, he also loved Colorado. After leaving his family in Kansas when he was just 11 to work with wagon trains throughout the West, he headed to Colorado for the first time as a 13-year-old wannabe gold prospector. During his short time in the area, he chased the glittery fortunes promised by Colorado’s 1859 gold rush. Even after leaving the territory, his traveling vaudeville show, which brought a glamorous taste of Wild West life to people all over the United States, took him back often. Later in life, he frequently visited Denver, where his sister lived. He died there, too—after telling his wife he wanted to be buried on Lookout Mountain.

The mountain, located in Golden, Colorado, has a commanding view of the Great Plains, where Buffalo Bill experienced many of his Wild West adventures. It was also a place to contemplate the giant herds of buffalo that once roamed the West, and from whom Cody took his nickname. (Denver still maintains a small herd of buffalo—direct descendants of original American bison—near the mountain.)

But weather almost thwarted Cody’s burial plans. Since he died in January, the road to Lookout Mountain was impassable and his preferred burial site frozen solid. For a while, his body lay in state in the Colorado Capitol building. Governors and famous friends eulogized Cody in an elaborate funeral service. Then his body was placed in a carriage that moved solemnly through the streets of Denver, where thousands showed up to say goodbye. Afterwards, his body was kept in cold storage at a Denver mortuary while his family waited for the weather to change.

Meanwhile, Colorado and Wyoming started a heated feud over one of America’s most famous men. Wyoming claimed that Cody should be buried there, citing an early draft of his will that said he intended to be buried near Cody. Colorado cried foul, since Cody’s last will left the burial location up to his widow, who chose Lookout Mountain. Rumors even began to circulate that a delegation from Wyoming had stolen Cody’s body from the mortuary and replaced it with that of a local vagrant.

In part to stop the rumor mill, Cody was finally buried in an open casket on Lookout Mountain in June 1917. Twenty-five thousand people went to the mountaintop to bid him farewell before he was interred. To prevent theft, the bronze casket was sealed in another, tamper-proof case, then enclosed in concrete and iron.

Pennies on Buffalo Bill's grave
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Yet his rocky grave was anything but safe. In the 1920s, Cody’s niece, Mary Jester Allen, began to claim that Denver had conspired to tamper with Cody’s will. In response, Cody’s foster son, Johnny Baker, disinterred the body and had it reburied at the same site under tons of concrete to prevent potential theft [PDF]. (Allen also founded a museum in Wyoming to compete with a Colorado-based museum founded by Baker.)

The saga wasn’t over yet. In 1948, the Cody, Wyoming American Legion offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who could disinter the body and return it to Wyoming. In response, the Colorado National Guard stationed officers to keep watch over the grave.

Since then, the tussle over the remains has calmed down. Despite a few ripples—like a jokey debate in the Wyoming legislature about stealing the body in 2006—Buffalo Bill still remains in the grave. If you believe the official story, that is. In Cody, Wyoming, rumor has it that he never made it into that cement-covered tomb after all—proponents claim he was buried on Cedar Mountain, where he originally asked to be interred.

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Exhumation Confirms Gravesite of World's Fair Killer H.H. Holmes
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It’s a sordid true crime tale that has few peers. By 1893, the year of the Chicago World’s Fair, a man named H.H. Holmes had converted a sprawling property into an amusement house of murder, filled with secret passages, gas chambers, ovens, and the bodies of young women who made the mistake of booking a room.

Holmes eventually confessed to over two dozen murders and was sentenced to death by hanging in 1896. His body was tossed into a plot at Holy Cross Cemetery near Philadelphia. But ever since then, there has been speculation that Holmes somehow cheated death and may not have been buried there at all. Those rumors can now officially be laid to rest as researchers have confirmed that the remains buried at Holmes's gravesite do in fact belong to the serial killer, according to the AP.

In May, NBC Chicago 5 reported that two of Holmes’s great-grandchildren had persuaded a Pennsylvania court to allow the inspection of their relative’s body in the hope that DNA testing would settle the issue of whether Holmes faked his own death once and for all.

According to newspaper accounts of the era, Holmes requested that his coffin be laid over cement, then topped off with more of the same. That led to a belief that Holmes had somehow eluded his appointment with the noose by offering bribes to law enforcement and had his tomb sealed to prevent any investigation into the matter. Other accounts, including one from the Chicago Tribune on May 8, 1896, appeared certain it was Holmes (real name: Herman Webster Mudgett) who was hung by his neck.

The definitive answer came with assistance from the University of Pennsylvania's Anthropology Department, which agreed to assist Holmes's descendants. The results of that testing were confirmed earlier this week on the series finale of American Ripper, a History Channel series that documented the exhumation and the scientists' search for the truth.

University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Samantha Cox, who was part of the team, said it was a difficult job. Even though his body had decomposed, because of Holmes's very specific burial requests, his clothes were almost perfectly intact, as was his ever-present mustache.

“It stank,” Cox said. “Once it gets to that point we can’t do anything with it. We can’t test it, can’t get any DNA out of it.” Instead, Cox and her colleagues had to use Holmes's teeth to identify him.

[h/t AP]

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The Beginning of the End. -Pulp Redux, Alicia's book, the 'Museum of Forgotten Things".

I have been deep in the darkest depths of the studio for some time now finalising the piece for Alicia's book, "The museum of forgotten things'. Suffice to say I think the rest of the Pulp Redux collaborator's probably think I have forgotten all about it! Not true dear ones! It has taken a long time to finalise this piece. It is quite large and required such a lot of detail. Of course if you have jumped over from the Pulp Redux blog you will know all about the before part of the story. If you haven't here's a quick wrap up for you...

The main charachter is Hester who has recently died. She found out her husband was having an affair years ago and murdered him in an arson incident. After the murder Hester finds she is pregnant to her deceased husband and gives birth to a son, Thomas who dies in infancy. After this Hester embarks on an affair with Hans, the affair peters out and Hester has a child, Charlotte whom she gives up thinking she will have a better life this way.
There you are that's the short version, LOL! Breathe!!! LOL!

Okay so now you are up to speed. The question is Kim, what are you going to do to wrap up this story?

(Good question by the way!)

It seems to me that the tragedies here are compounding throughout as each participant's pieces unfold.

Secrets by their very nature eat away at us.
We are consumed by them, both in wanting to know them, then being horrified by that knowledge at the same time.

But, in the end, the thrill of the secret is in the sharing.

Wise words indeed.

And so I have created the book of secrets.

Able to stand on it's own as a piece but also well able to join with the rest of the participants pieces here, a book structure.

(What can I say, I love books!)

Some sneaky peeks from the inside.

Ladies white lace gloves. What do they keep hidden?

A tragic tale of a family doomed by the guilt and secrets that they keep.

But what happened to everyone, I hear you ask? Hester, and the child Charlotte.

As for the tale, well as you peruse the texture images from the piece I will tell you a little about it.

You see Hester gave up the child to her younger sister Iva who raised her as her own, but renamed the child Anna. (Remember that Hester was survived by her sister and a niece Anna?)

But of course it all went horribly wrong.

Anna (Charlotte) grows up well loved and happy, never suspecting her aunt is her mother and her mother is really her aunt.

She follows the family tradition and becomes a seamstress.

Meets a wonderfully handsome young man and they marry.

They have a child, Anne, but soon after Charlotte's husband is killed in the first world war.

Life continues but Hester becomes consumed in her later life by what will later be revealed as guilt and rage, but for the present is thought to be old age memory loss.

On Hesters death, Anna, (Charlotte) and Iva are clearing out Hester's papers and Hester's secrets are revealed.

And so...

Anna, or Charlotte as she now discovers herself to be, is enraged by the secrecy. Unable to come to terms with the lies and deceit she takes her own life, drowning herself in a local river. Filled with grief, Iva confesses all to Anne who is ignorant of the whole mess. Saddened by the loss of her mother through suicide and the stunning news of Hester's secrets and her murder of Richard, Anne decides to leave and start her life anew. Somewhere where she can forget all the pain and secretive lies of the past. She constructs the book of secrets and donates all the pieces of the puzzle to the Museum of Forgotten Things, finding in the museum's title an apt place to lay to rest the pieces of the lives she is leaving behind.

And there it is folks. I should say that the piece here is part of an art quilt. Measuring 34" x 22" in size the piece detaches completely from the book base if preferred and can be hung complete on a wall as is if Alicia would like to. Now I guess you can all see why it has taken so long to complete. Constructed of three layers of cloth and a mix of both machine and hand stitching it has been a mammoth task to finish in any sort of reasonable timetable, but here it is complete at last, my needle population decimated as I have literally worn out about 8 handsewing needles in it's construction, yikes!

I would love to show you it all in detail of course but that's all you get for now. All the last pieces of the Pulp Redux collaboration will be shown together in an online exhibition in the near future. We will of course give you those details later as they become available and you will be able to view all the last pieces of each book in full at that time.
But for now that's it for the museum of forgotten things.

I hope Alicia enjoys the piece. It will be winging it's way home in the next week dear one!

I should add here that this collaboration has been an absolute joy. For me the prurpose of joining in was to both better aquaint myself with each of the participants, each and everyone of which I was already a fan of their work, and also to push myself. To tackle new mediums, ideas and make them work within the limitations of the structures provided. To boldly go where I had never been before...

Okay I digress, but you get the picture.

I must say the collaboration has in everyway lived up to those original aims and expectations. I have indeed pushed myself way... way, out of my comfort zone. Had to tackle completely new ideas to integrate a piece or problem solve the how the heck am I going to get that idea over thought. I would strongly recommend the process to anyone. Go into it with your eyes open. It will be harder and challenge you more than you ever thought, but the rewards...

Would I leap in again, especially so soon after just completing this one... you betcha!

In a heartbeat.

The bonds of friendship I have gained, and the insight into my own artistic abilities, creativity and concepts have been the singularly most insightful process I have ever had the priviledge to be a part of. Yup, as I said ... in a heatbeat. Thank you girls for the bestest and most creative fun ever. Mwah!

Soon there will be more exciting things to show you as I delve into some projects which have had to take a backward step in recent months.
Stay tuned.
Also don't forget to visit Seth's blog, The Altered Page for all the latest goss from his new editions of the pulse, which I am happy to say I have again taken part in. It is such fun to find out what everyone is up to, thinking, participating in. I love interactive sites like his and he does such a colossal amount of work to collate it all and get it out there to everyone. If you haven't popped in to join in the fun, where have you been?

That's it. I'm off! See you all again soon with more fun and games!
(Well, at least the latest doings here anyway)!

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Svetlana said...

Great details as allways. I can't wait for all pages to be published.

Lucky Dip Lisa said...

Lucky Dip Lisa said...

Oh!! It worked!! YAY!! I have been having so much trouble with blogs lately. Couldn't sign in over on the pulp redux blog :(

Anyway...I have to say WOW! Your piece is extraordinary, wonderful, delicate, emotive, awesome!

Charlotte drowned herself? How sad! I really do feel sad I kid you not! But I LOVE what you did and it's a nice twist!

I'd do this again too, in a heart beat. Such a wonderful experience, so rewarding in art/skills and friendships. Absolutely the best part of last year and I'm glad we took longer than we thought!

Thanks for being part of this Kim.xx

artymess said...

lovely work ......x

Debrina said...

A marvellous tribute to an amazing journey, Kim. It is true, every word you say,for me too. This Pulp Redux collab has pushed me creatively further than anything before and really made me stretch out. I have sewn, glued, painted, collaged, and blogged like never before. Finally, I feel like you are all the very best of friends too: a friendship that has been touched and forged by the bonds of trust, compassion, inspiration and creativity. RIP Pulp Redux, Long Live friendship!

alteredbits said...

oh my god, miss kim, i don't even know where to begin! the story is magnificent and emotional and touching, and the work is beyond words! i cannot believe how much you put into this and i am excited, giddy, thankful and touched beyond words. i cannot wait to have this in my hands, to be able to touch it and see every little detail in person. you have beyond outdone yourself and from the bottom of my heart i thank you.

all that you've said about the collaboration rings true for me too, miss kim! it was such a huge honor to work with all of you lovely ladies and it was a wonderful growing experience too, artistically speaking. you are a gem, lady, and i adore you!

guess what i'm doing today? i am shuffling some art in my studio out into my hall to bare a 32" x 22" space of wall for something i expect to receive soon. i am just in awe that you created something so big -- you weren't kidding when you said it was huge, were you!? wowz! yeps, i'm making room for it now because i'm excited beyond words, lady! (and then i'm finishing lisa's book so i can send it off to her -- i've been SLOW!) and THEN finishing your extra accompanying piece that i haven't yet completed (but started). fun times!

where is your book now? i've gotten confused. did you get it back?

loves to you, gorgeous, sweet friend!! xx

alteredbits said...

p.s. i've been having mad blogger issues too. today was the first time i was able to post on our pulp blog in several weeks due to errors and received about 9 emails about others who were unable to comment too. you all should switch to wordpress. :)

rivergardenstudio said...

This story has me totally enthralled! Your work on this amazing project is magical, and I can hardly wait to see the final project unveiled! roxanne

Lisa said...

this is fantastic!! I absolutely love all the details and handwork that you've done here..such intricacies all around and what a clever format...kudos.. your piece is exploding with creativity!
btw, i am still nowhere near finished Lisa's book so you are farther ahead than you think!


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Re: Shires in NC

Poster: blackbow@sprynet.com

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Sherry Hintze <chhintze@bmd.clis.com> wrote:
>Poster: Sherry Hintze <chhintze@bmd.clis.com>
>Lord Jonathon Blackbow writes, in part:
>> That's why I know Sacred Stone,
>>     Nottinghill Coill, Black Diamond, Caer Mear, Windmaster's Hill, and
>>     Hidden Mountain, and I don't really think about Crannog Mor, Seareach,
>>     and Hindscroft.  They're just not VISIBLE.
>>And before the Hindscroft and Crannog Mor and Seareach people get on
>>     my case for calling them less visible, remember; I spent four years in
>>     Crannog Mor and I saw it all happen.  This isn't just coming from me;
>>     this is coming from listening to the Crannog Mor populace and seeing
>>     what happened to Hindscroft after they broke away from Sacred Stone.
>>     (And not even knowing about Wilmington in the first place!)
>Um, do names like Cathanar and Raven's Cove ring a bell?  At all?  Talk
>about out of sight, out of mind!!!

See what I mean?  I've HEARD of Raven's Cove.  Almost went to the event Katriona
described.  Didn't quite make it for some reason.

I've only recently heard of Cathanar in such a way as to remember anything
significant about it.

>More food for thought.....
>Lady Katriona of NorthWoods
>Seneschal, the THRIVING Shire of Cathanar (30 strong and growing....)
>Just read your post about turnips - it really IS that kind of vicious cycle:
>no one knows us; no one comes to our events; no one gets to know us.  We've
>got to get out more!

Katriona mentioned that there were more shires than baronies now; I don't doubt
it!  But you can tell how much impact they've had...

I remember when Crannog Mor was the ONLY shire in Atlantia and everybody thought
they were NUTS for staying a shire...

Moving on,

Ld. Jonathan Blackbow
House O'Shannon
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Technological leapfrogging: Why rich countries lag behind in FinTech adoption

Here is a German version of this article.

The results of a study recently published by the consulting firm EY revealed that China and India have the highest adoption of FinTech services among its online population out of 20 countries. 69 percent of China’s and 52 percent of India’s digitally active citizens have used at least 2 FinTech services over the past 6 months. The statistic clearly shows a tendency towards a higher FinTech adoption in emerging countries compared to developed countries.

The notion of that the richest countries lag behind in regards to FinTech has been confirmed a few days ago by the Swiss watchmaker Swatch, when the company presented the second generation of its contactless payment solution. Unlike the predecessor, “Swatch Pay” will exclusively be launched in China, at least for now, and won’t be available in Swatch’s home country or elsewhere in Europe. According to a spokesperson cited by the Swiss business paper Handelszeitung, the reason for the decision are the “old-fashioned banks and credit card providers”. Continue Reading

How incumbents can disrupt themselves to remain competitive

A couple of days ago I compared the rise of the 2 peer-to-peer payment apps Venmo (U.S.-based) and Swish (Sweden-based). I noted in my post that Swish, which is owned by the leading Swedish banks, is a rare case in which incumbents succeeded in “disrupting” themselves.

After I had written my article, I came to think a bit more about the success of Swish, which according to my estimates has a market penetration of more than 50 % among Swedish adults. I happened to have an electrician at my apartment who helped me to install a new stove. After the work was done, I paid him through Swish (his company uses the business/retail offering that was recently launched by Swish). He told me that Swish is great and that he also uses the service in his private life, e.g. to send money to his son. He looked like about 50 years old. It’s only an anecdote but it shows the user penetration past the usual early adopter groups of teens and tech savvy people.

At first, the story of Swish might not appear to be very relevant to people outside of Sweden, since it is not available abroad. However, if you look closer, it provides some valuable insights for companies, industries and organizations that are trying to adapt to the digital age. The success of Swish should serve as best practices for how incumbents can reinvent and disrupt themselves. Here are some of the lessions I find noteworthy: Continue Reading

Spotting the Butterfly effect in Fintech

Most of you are familiar with the Butterfly effect, the phenomenon describing how a tiny event or change today can have much larger consequences tomorrow. In most cases, the Butterfly effect is hard to spot while it is unfolding, since at the time of the initial event, nobody pays attention. However, when it comes to upcoming technology, one might be able to catch the Butterfly effect in its early stages. FinTech, or more specifically, the rise of mobile money apps, looks to be one of these occasions.

To illustrate what I mean, I will compare the rise of two rapidly growing peer-to-peer (p2p) payment apps, one in the U.S., and one in Sweden.

Let’s start with the U.S.. There, the p2p money app Venmo is getting increasingly popular with teens and older people for splitting payments, paying small debts and conducting commerce transactions. Continue Reading

Let’s hope that Number26 can stir up Europe’s complacent banking sector

Most traditional banks have failed to create exciting e-banking and mobile banking solutions. Because of that I was very interested when Number26, a new “mobile first” banking startup from Berlin, announced its upcoming launch last year. I covered the news in German and made sure to sign up for early access. Very recently, the company opened its closed beta period for customers in Germany and Austria – and I received my invite code by mail.

So what’s my first impression? Well, Number26 for sure presents itself as a full-flegded banking account including all the major features which are needed for that purpose. The service claims to offer “Europe’s most modern bank account”. Especially thanks to the intuitive and easy to use mobile app, this could be the truth already in this early stage. Of course the traditional banks’ failure to delight customers means the bar is not very high.

Feature's that should be common in every banking app - but aren't.

Feature’s that should be common in every banking app – but aren’t.

What makes Number26 stand out is a combination of the state-of-the-art look & feel and usability optimized for smartphone usage, analytics features to help customers manage their finances, as well as the cost structure. Currently neither the banking account nor the MasterCard debit card come with any fees. ATM withdrawals are free (except ATM-imposed fees), and there is no foreign transaction fee. These conditions make the service especially attractive for travelers. I actually opened my account while in the U.S., which felt kinda cool. It’s the first bank account I ever opened while not being physically present in the bank’s country.

The process of opening a banking account can be completed online. Number26 uses the services of another quite young startup, IDnow, which allows for identity verification via Webcam. I had to show my national ID or passport and answer some questions. After that my registration was completed. The overall procedure took about 10 minutes.

I expect Number26 to have an impact on the banking landscape in Germany and Europe – the latter assuming that the Berlin-based startup will expand to the rest of the continent. In Germany, the only serious competitor I am aware of is DKB, which has similar customer-friendly terms, but comes across as more conservative. So there is lots of room for Number26 to grow and to capture the hearts of tech-savvy mobile users.

One challenge that Number26 will face is the European Union’s plan to cap interchange fees for card payments. The startup’s current revenue model is based on a commission it receives from MasterCard each time a Number26 customer pays somewhere with the card. If the E.U. forces banks and MasterCard to dramatically cut the fees that retailers pay to them for card transactions, then MasterCard will have to cut or completely cancel the commission it offers card resellers such as Number26. The actual implementation of the fee cap could still be many months away. But when it happens, the company will have to come up with new revenue streams. Apart from that there of course is no guarantee yet that the commission alone is sufficient to create a profitable banking endeavor anyway.

Nevertheless, right now Number26 is a very welcome addition to the rusty European banking sector. Let’s see if the company can stir up this industry.


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