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by Neville Davies

Icehouse In Other Ventures

"I can easily become bored."

This statement has been attributed to Iva Davies by a number of his interviewers on a number of occasions. It has usually been made in a context of explanation of his frequent essays, either individually or with Icehouse in whole or part, into various ventures apart from the straight production of rock music. In fact, the explanation often seems to have been made defensively in the face of many members of the popular music industry with a fixed belief that the role of successful rock musicians is the constant repetition, in the same form, of the sort of product which earned their initial success.

Whether or not, Iva Davies is simply too versatile and naturally exploratory to be harnessed to the one last forever. The relatively narrow medium of writing, recording and performing rock songs was insufficient mental stimulus for him to continue contributing to the world of music at the level established by the brilliant Icehouse debut album of 1980. Hence, Icehouse, and Iva Davies in particular, have never been loathe to allow the constant flow of rock albums to be interrupted by other interesting ventures.

Music and Machines

The ironic outcome of most of these interruptions is that, in the longer and broader term, they have made significant contributions to the rock music, not only of Icehouse, but of many other practitioners. This was never more so than in the propensity of Icehouse to explore, experiment with and use the full range of new machinery for producing musical sound. Not that Icehouse members have been inventors of this technology, but they have always kept in the forefront of the Australian industry in its application and modification to practical use.

This commenced with Iva Davies' employment of the latest synthesizers and rhythm composers to write and record the music for the Primitive Man album in 1982. This lead into his acquisition of a Fairlight computer and its use in music composition, recording and, to some extent, in supplementing live performance. The Fairlight inevitably lead into the use of a further range of computer interfaced musical instruments and the ultimate integration of these with personal computer based software. Icehouse kept abreast of all these developments. This was assisted by the recruitment to the band, in 1984, of Simon Lloyd with his great interest and skill in computer usage.

Just Musical Instruments

To Iva Davies all these innovative technologies are just another sort of musical instrument, whether the medium of playing it is the breath, the fingers or a computer keyboard. From an early age, all musical instruments are said to have been a great source of fascination to him. As a child, he tried all instruments of all types that the school band and orchestra could make available, so it is not surprising that, in his subsequent career, he has demonstrated such capacity to come to terms with any new methods of creating musical sound. His own comments in reference to his use of the Fairlight Computer fully express his attitude to modern musical technology:

"As far as I am concerned, all instruments are machines — the product of some kind of technology. Even when there were only two sticks, it was an actual invention, the latest technology.

"All composers all the way through history have always written on or used whatever happened to be just invented. When Mozart was writing he had strings and French horns, and oboes and flutes, but when Beethoven was writing which was only 50 or so years later — he had trombones and clarinets, because they had just been invented. When Wagner wrote, he had the tuba and a whole bunch of percussion that hadn't been used before.

"I see the Fairlight in the same way. It's just another instrument. Whether it's a computer or not doesn't really concern me very much. I'm not actually into computers and stuff — so to me it's not any different to a guitar."

But Where's the Humanity?

As with all technological innovation, the advent of new methods of making musical sound has always been greeted with its share of critics decrying the replacement of the "human element" by a machine. Icehouse, at times, has been involved in this criticism for its use of mechanically produced musical sound, but has neither relented on its course of keeping up with technological advance, nor abandoned the use of the more established and traditional means of making music.

From the outset Iva Davies has held the view that music is a product of human imagination. Thus, the more tools available for making musical sounds and the easier their use is, the freer the rein given to the expression of musical ideas. As long ago as 1982, he made this point in these words:

"I don't have any fear of machines limiting my imagination because in fact they make it easier. I can't play drums, no way in the world, I just don't have the physical coordination, but I can think drums and I can think drums a lot better than a lot of drummers. If the machines can cope with delivering what my imagination has, there's no reason on earth why I can't have the same effect as any drummer."

As for the human element, the comment "Machines can express a musical idea more precisely than any human, but the ideas still have to be sought," seems to provide an answer.

Instant Filmscore

The first use of the Fairlight computer in the Icehouse context represents a further deviation by Iva Davies from the straight and narrow path of rock music. This was his composition of the musical score for the first full-length feature film to be directed by video clip wizard, Russell Mulcahy.

Mulcahy had already produced video clips for three Icehouse songs and, so, was well aware of Iva's musical ability. The film, a story centred on a giant carnivorous feral pig wreaking havoc in the Australian outback, was entitled Razorback and has become well known in cinema, video and television since its premiere at the State Theatre, Sydney on 18th April, 1984.

The Fairlight was well adapted to the task of producing the atmospheric music to match the supernatural story and the startling and horrific images filmed under Mulcahy's direction. Iva Davies closetted himself in his home studio for an intensive course of learning the ins and outs of the computer and then settled to the job of composing the score in quick time. Just how quick is demonstrated by his own account:

"Normally a score can take months and you can't hear what you've been writing until you get into the studio with the orchestra.

"Any changes that have to be made then involve further time and expense.

"The first 26 minutes of the film were recorded in a day and a half. Twenty three minutes of The Year of Living Dangerously, by contrast, took three and a half months to record."

Although the film was not an outstanding box office success, the musical score was well received and was included among the nominations gained by Razorback at the Australian Film Industry Awards in October, 1984. A selection of music from the soundtrack was released on a 12" LP by EMI and has received steady airplay over the years since the film was first screened. In fact, in 1986, the music from Razorback received the award for the Most Performed Australasian Music for Film at the annual A.P.R.A. Music Awards.

Iva on the Loose

The only other ventures entered by Iva Davies outside the context of Icehouse have been in the field of rock music. None of these has been of a major nature or of long duration, because priorities, particularly in regard to rock music, have had to favour the band.

The first of these emerged later in 1984 when Iva was the one Australian among a number of rock musicians to receive an invitation from Japanese rock star, Yukihiro Takahashi, to participate in the production and promotion of his latest solo album.

The second was a brief foray into record production for other bands, when, in 1986, he produced a couple of the tracks of an album by Scribble.

Turning Japanese

Yukihiro Takahashi, formerly drummer for the famous Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra, is a major rock star in his own right in Japan, and has released a number of solo albums. In fact, by 1984, such albums were becoming a highly anticipated annual event.

Iva commenced his association with Yukihiro Takahashi with the pressure production of a new song for the album. His description of this episode is a startling commentary on the Japanese way of doing things:

"I literally got off the plane and was confronted with 'Hi! I'm Yuki. We are going to write songs.' It was intimidating because I didn't know what he expected that I was like. Then the interpreter said, 'Yuki says it would be a great idea if you wrote lyrics.' 'What sort of thing does he want?' I asked. 'Something you can dance to. Not too serious.' ' O.K.' I said, 'Let's call it "Walking to the Beat".' I went and wrote and sang three lines. Then we went out to dinner and over dinner the interpreter said, 'Yuki thinks it would be a good idea if you finished the rest of the lyrics tonight.' So I stayed up all night writing reams and reams of lyrics. I sang it twice convinced that it was only a guide vocal... but it's my vocal on the record. That was all in the course of three days."

Touring Japanese

Iva wrote "Walking to the Beat" in a brief stopover in Tokyo at the beginning of September 1984 on his way to Europe to join the rest of Icehouse for a promotional tour for the Sidewalk album. He returned to Japan some six weeks later as a member of the supergroup of international invitees formed by Takahashi to tour Japan.

During this six week period the album entitled Wild and Moody and including the track "Walking to the Beat" had been finalised and released and the tour was for its promotion. Besides Yukihiro Takahashi himself as lead vocalist, the band consisted of Steve Jansen (of the group Japan) on drums, a New York bass player named Rodney Drummer, two Japanese instrumentalists named Sawamura and Hajame from the Japanese group Plastics, and Iva Davies as lead guitarist.

Iva found this role rather ironic as he had not been playing lead guitar for some considerable time. Bob Kretschmer had taken over this role with Icehouse some two years earlier. So, perhaps it was something of a balancing up when, three years later, Takahashi asked for another song, and both Iva and Bob went to Japan to write it.

Icehouse Goes to the Ballet

The most significant venture outside the realms of rock music resulted from the collaboration of Icehouse and the Sydney Dance Company in the creation and staging of the ballet Boxes.

Artistic Director Graeme Murphy had already established a strong reputation for enterprise and originality in the works presented by the Sydney Dance Company. It was a further step in this progress for him to mix the talents of a rock group and those of his dancers in a matrix of his own inspired choreography.

Murphy, Iva Davies and Bob Kretschmer conferred during the earlier months of 1985 and laid down the underlying concept and general ground rules for the ballet. Then, while Graeme Murphy pursued other activities overseas, the two Icehouse musicians set to the task of developing a scenario and composing the music.

When Murphy returned some weeks later, these two items awaited him, together with the formidable job of matching the choreography to the hour-long piece and translating the whole onto the stage.

Murphy claimed this to be a much less onerous task than it might seem, because of the assistance given by the disciplined musical score. This, in turn, was doubtless aided by Iva Davies transferring his film score composition experience in matching music and action, to the exercise of providing music for dance.

The result, as described by Graeme Murphy, was more than adequate for his purposes:

"He's given me a score that is so strong, that is so precise... This scene has this, and this is that person's theme, that's their motif that comes back at the point — it's almost like having a road map to work with. He's worked the storyline into the music the way I want to integrate the dancers and the musicians."

Boxes within Boxes

The essential theme of the ballet concerns the psychological barriers or compartments with which human societies tend to enclose themselves, and the possibility of individuals or groups of people transcending them into wider, brighter worlds.

Graeme Murphy's words again describe it:

"It is basically about being brave enough to get out of the box that you've been put into by society, or by yourself, or by peers, or by pressure.

"It's about those people who are brave enough to get out and those people who want to get out and those people who don't want to get out. You're pretty compartmentalised and it can be comfortable and there are few of us, so few in our society, that say, 'Okay, there's something I see that I want to aspire to...'

"It's about the boxes within boxes within boxes. It's also about the fact that sometimes when you've got to where you're going you realise you are just in another box."

A Giant Video Clip

Boxes opened at the Sydney Opera House Opera Theatre on November 7th, 1985.

The action takes place within and above a large square scaffolding structure (the box) mounted on the revolving stage. The box houses an amorphous group of dancers called "the Insiders," while another group, "the Outsiders," composed of the musicians and other, more distinctively clad dancers occupy a platform topping the scaffolding walls.

As the ballet develops, some individuals begin to emerge from the throng of Insiders and lead the interchanges with the seemingly superior creatures above. The whole of the action is punctuated by spectacular lighting effects (designed by John Drummond Montgomery) and accompanied by the music of Icehouse performed on stage by Iva Davies, Bob Kretschmer and guest Japanese drummer/percussionist Masaki Tanazawa.

The Icehouse musicians, as members of the group of Outsiders, provide an integral part of the dramatic action of the ballet. In one striking example of this, Iva Davies descends into the box in a circle of light and engages in an interplay of dance and song with leading ballerina Janet Vernon, performing the role of one of the outstanding Insiders. This integration of musical performance and theatrical action tended to identify the ballet with the medium of music video clips, even if on a somewhat larger scale.

Something out of the Box

Although Boxes was hailed as the theatrical event of the year, there were some interesting variations to the general reaction of acclaim. This ballet was such a mixed media production, such a combination of so many and varied forms of expression, that it posed some distinct reviewing problems, especially to critics with specialist knowledge in one particular form.

The dance purists found difficulty in accepting the possible subjugation of the dance to the many spectacular mechanical and lighting effects and the unusual musical score. They generally opted for the safer ground of the pas de deux "Shimmering," a delightful pure dance piece which occupied the earlier part of the programme.

The music for Boxes defied easy classification. Because it was provided by Icehouse, it was assumed by many from the outset that it would be quite definite rock music. When in the event, this expectation was not met, even the rock music critics found difficulty in deciding how to respond to it or, even, describe it. Many attempted, with one review even referring to the "score of heavy metal rock music," hardly an appropriate description for any Icehouse music. Perhaps the most accurate description of the Boxes music was given by Tim Toni in the Sydney Morning Herald, in stating that "it bravely runs a course through the largely uncharted waters of technological avant garde, occasionally pulling into the safe port of pop."

Notwithstanding the few misgivings of some of the specialists, those who were able to see and enjoy Boxes for what it really was — an innovative, spectacular piece of theatre employing an unusual combination of visual and audio effects — were loud in their praise and acceptance.

Packaged for Perpetuity

There has only been one short season of the ballet Boxes, that at the Sydney Opera House in 1985. The difficulties of staging and the other commitments of the participants prevented an extension of performances to other locations. The filming of the Sydney production by the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the release of this as a commercial video was, therefore, a very fortunate move. As a result, Boxes has been, and will be in the future, viewed by television audiences both in Australia and overseas.

As to whether Icehouse will perform Boxes again or whether any more ballet involvements will eventuate, only the future will tell. As one rock music critic's review of Boxes says, it may well be a case of:

"Win or lose, lose or win, Iva Davies will keep going off on these tangents. So what's next?"

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Optical telescopes of unprecedented size, high resolution optical arrays having large number of telescopes and more performant auxiliary instrumentations will be built by strongly applying the concept of active optics. Taking apart developments of adaptative optics relative to seeing compensation, the meaning of "active optics" must be considered as having at least three different senses i) maintaining, in situ, the best figure of the telescope optics during astronomical observations, ii) figuring highly aspheric optics and/or unaxisymmetric optics, and iii) modifying, in situ, the optical figure parameters as, for instance, the asphericity of a Cassegrain mirror for a better field optimization with respect to various focal instruments. This paper discusses some thoughts on these questions and presents some results and astronomical applications.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Diatribes and Lamentations..... now what?

Recently, I have had the immense fortune of being able to travel and experience some great places while on tour. For this I feel extremely lucky and try not to take it for granted. The unfortunate thing is that upon returning to Nashville, the city becomes all the more lackluster and, to be honest, it kinda gets me down. Now, I have had mixed emotions about Nashville since moving here, but I have always tried to find the good qualities, and to really be happy. And I feel like I've been successful; I am truly happy. But I don't really think Nashville itself has a lot to do with it.

I do have a great house, an amazing wife and a sweet fucking gig with some really wonderful guys (which I realize, of course, is something that happened for me because I live in Nashville.) But when we travel to cities throughout the country, I see so much of what Nashville lacks. Cities half of Nashville's size have twice the culture, be it music, food or all around cool-ass vibe. Granted, it is very easy to get into the mindset of "the grass is always greener" and I know some of that is playing a part. But let me just throw some rather unsettling statistics about Nashville your way that continue to haunt me.

# of baptist churches: 374
# of buddhist temples: 1
# of Professional sports teams: 2 (talk about a culture crusher... people don't realize how horrible these are for a city!)
major cultural export: commercial country music
# of Vegetarian restaurants: 3
# of real jazz venues: 0 (F. Scotts is a fancy-pants restaurant with lame-ass cocktail "jazz." I mean, come on....)
# of head shops: 0. Seriously, zero

Major Universities:
Vanderbilt - private, highly expensive, highly conservative
Belmont - private, largest christian university in Tennessee
David Lipscomb - private, heavy christian affiliation
Tennessee State University - poorly funded state school predominantly for African-Americans (surprise, surprise!)

(I could go on and on.....)

So, yeah I know, bitch bitch bitch, right? I shouldn't complain when I have it so good, right? What it boils down to is that this city, in general, does not resonate with me at all. However, there are some really kick-ass things here and there that keep me excited and hopeful, which I guess leads me to my final quandary.

Sometimes I fantasize about Ellen and I possibly moving somewhere else. I of course, have some cities in mind, but even those have their major drawbacks (i.e. Austin totally kicks ass, .... but its in Texas, ouch! And Seattle is fucking great, .... but 9 months of cloud and drizzle ain't my bag.) Obviously no place is perfect and ultimately, its rare that people find that they live in a place that really suits them. They have to make it work. So, if I'm going to live in Nashville, I gotta find a way to make it work.

So, in my usual way, I got inspired to figure out ways to help Nashville change for the better. I got excited again about being a part of a minority group of people who are pushing hard to get Nashville on track to becoming a truly great city. I thought perhaps, is this my calling? Part of my 'personal myth' as Joseph Campbell might say?

But then I remembered a conversation I had with my friend Faith who lives in San Francisco (obviously another amazing city.) I explained this sense of empowerment in being part of a small group of people who are progressively minded, appreciate culture, etc.... amidst a bunch of bullshit. And yes, it does have its appeal. But ultimately, it gets to be exhausting. She says she felt the same way living in Tennessee, but now that she lives in S.F. she's so happy to be surrounded by an environment that really does suit her. She's not looking back and can't imagine being anywhere else.

I guess its just that when I drive around Nashville, there are so many little things that can get to me, that annoy the piss out of me (most of it, I think, is because Nashville IS in the south, and the south, lets be honest, is about as slow and backwards as the products of incest that sprinkle its rural areas (which are many!) Granted, the city IS changing, ever so slowly.... but I'm a naturally impatient person, so its hard.

I ask myself.... and anyone else who empathizes: Is it worth it? Is it worth the energy and hope and angst to try to help change an entire community, or is that in itself a futile endeavor? In a lot of ways I don't even believe in trying to change people or places. But if I'm going live here, I have to do something. I want to live by the words of Ghandi: "Be the change you see in the world." But, I guess I'm just frustrated and don't know which direction to put my energy. Maybe I can be satisfied to be living my life the way I am and try desperately to ignore my environment. But right now, that seems like a lackluster way to go. I guess I could also just stop my bitching and appreciate every moment of life as a wondrous gift. But where's the fun in that? :)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Tonight Show

Since Jamison has not deemed this worthy news to post:

Raul Malo (AND Jamison Sevits) to perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 11, 2009

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Saturday, 30 June 2012

Denali Memories

I've been thinking a lot about Denali (Mt. McKinley) these days.

Friends of mine are holidaying in Alaska right now and posting lots of photos on Facebook.  They're obviously having a great time!

We've also recently heard from Brian, one of the friends who summited with us on our 1993 Denali trip. He's taken on the monumental task of scanning all his slides! He's into the 1990's now and emailed us a few photos for a trip down memory lane.

Andrew and I did our first trip to Denali in 1990. At the time, we claimed it was our one "trip of a lifetime" -- which is laughable now considering all the climbing expeditions we've done since. It's also humorous to think how naive we were! We went from training climbs around the Icefields & Mt. Athabasca area where the crevasses are relatively small, to suddenly being on a glacier where the crevasses were the size you could fit a car or small house in. A warm spring that year meant avalanches were coming down 24 hours a day. The route we were trying was on the East Buttress -- definitely not the standard route -- and we didn't see another person once we left our base camp. To say we were overwhelmed during this first trip is somewhat of an understatement.

In 1993 we gathered a couple more friends to go with us and climbed the West Buttress which is the route the majority of Denali climbers take. As the saying goes, even that's "not just a walk in the park!" But we made it and had a beautiful clear summit day.

Here's just a few photos that have been scanned for various slide shows over the years.
After a training climb on Mt. Andromeda . . . This photo made the back of the MEC catalogue.

View of Denali from Talkeetna. It is a BIG mountain!

High point on the East Buttress. You can see our camp near the top of the photo.
We turned back due to avalanche hazard.
We have learned to travel lighter these days!
A "Loo With a View" at the 14,000 ft camp on the West Buttress. Looking at Mt. Foraker.
Brian Shack and Andrew McKinlay -- just a little storm.
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Suspects Arrested in Garden Patch Invasion

This is the post I wrote recently for the Garden Patch blog. I can't take credit for all the humour as it followed a good brainstorming session while we were weeding. It got lots of "likes" and comments on the SPS Facebook page and lots of "retweets" on twitter!

On Tuesday, June 19, at approximately 6:30 p.m. the Saskatoon Police Service was called out to the scene of a garden invasion.
Information from neighbors indicated this situation had been developing for two weeks. When police arrived at scene the victims (Beet, Radish, Onion, Carrot and Garlic) were surrounded by the suspects.
After a one-hour standoff several suspects were apprehended by members of the elite Arrested Development Team.  Long Skinny Green Weed, Round Leaf Weed and many of their cousins will be making their first court appearance in the morning.
There was one person by the name of Gardener also located at scene who had been taken hostage by the Weeds. Due to exhaustion and a sore back Gardener was transported to hospital but is expected to make a full recovery.
It is believed that Mother Nature was aiding and abetting the suspects by supplying them with rain. In addition, information has been received that more of the Weed family may be coming into the city. Further investigation will be done by the Arrested Development Team and it is anticipated that more arrests will be forthcoming.
Anyone with information about this crime is requested to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-STOP-WEEDS.

Saturday, 9 June 2012

The Garden Patch

This year the Saskatoon Food Bank asked businesses/organizations to help with the Garden Patch -- a big vacant piece of land on 2nd Avenue on which they've grown lots and lots of food for their clients the past few years. Given my association with the Food Bank via the Food Basket Challenge last year, I was contacted to see if the Saskatoon Police Service would be interested in being involved.

Yikes! I do NOT have a green thumb! It's all I can do to keep a couple hardy house plants alive. Even my dear sweet mother-in-law (God rest her soul) gave me a little plant sign that says "Grow Damn It!"

Hoping for the best, I sent out an email "Calling All SPS Green Thumbs!" and the call was answered. Team "Arrested Development" was born.

Lots of hands make quick work and last Tuesday night we got our little plot of garden planted. It was a lot of fun with awesome co-workers and family members. My first lesson -- how to plant seeds. In a couple weeks my second lesson -- how to tell weeds from the real thing!

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February 12, 2015

This a response from Clare Berry, the Inclusion Manager at Valence Primary School, that details the initial impacts of the Barking Games. We highly recommend and applaud Becontree Leisure Centre because of their fine facility and committed staff. They are prime examples of people changing primary student’s lives and giving them more confidence than they ever thought they had. Read below and see what we mean. Enjoy!

Dear Felix

I am the Inclusion Manager at Valence Primary School. I feel compelled to write to you and Thank you for the funded swimming places we have this term. I have the privilege of taking one group of children who are identified as vulnerable pupils because of their family circumstances.

What a difference the swimming sessions have made. The group consists of children who because of their circumstances have very little emotional resilience and self belief. Some had never been swimming before and in a couple of cases I have had to buy them kit myself. In the 5 weeks the children have been attending I have seen a huge impact on their swimming ability and their emotional well being.

Today in particular two girls who were petrified of the water swam for the first time! They were so proud of themselves and it took some persuading to get them out of the pool! ( I was close to tears) They were so excited to have achieved and could not wait to return to school to share their success with their teachers.

Thank you so much for the places. My colleagues and I will keep you up to date with the success of the places so that you can continue to share in the legacy of your funded places.

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The Chiefs reportedly signed Bennie Logan, which likely means Dontari Poe is not coming back
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The Kansas City Chiefs would have loved to bring defensive tackle Dontari Poe back in free agency, but another signing, defensive tackle Bennie Logan, likely signals the end of that hope.

According to Terez A. Paylor of the Kansas City Star, the Chiefs are signing Logan, which likely means there is little chance Poe comes back according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.

Originally a third-round selection by the Philadelphia Eagles out of LSU in 2013, Logan is a tenured veteran. In four years, he started 51 games for the Eagles, tallying 167 total tackles and 5.5 sacks. He’s not the kind of impact player Poe has been at times for the Chiefs, but he’s no slouch in the middle, either.

Speaking of Poe, he visited the Indianapolis Colts recently and is headed to Atlanta to visit the Falcons. He’s also been linked to the Jacksonville Jaguars and is reportedly interested in potentially signing a one-year deal himself so he can re-enter free agency in 2018.

Either way, Poe likely priced himself out of a return to Kansas City, where he’s played since 2012 as a first-round pick out of Memphis.

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Members of the Service who have gone the extra mile in helping to deliver our vision and a first-class service, who have shown continual commitment to their colleagues and communities or demonstrated great courage during adversity, can also be put forward.

Visit to place a nomination or call 01785 898579 or 01785 898979 to request a hard copy of the form. Alternatively email or

The deadline for nominations is March 20 2015 and the awards ceremony will be held in the County Showground’s Ingestre Suite on June 23.

The remaining eight categories are put forward internally, with one of the awards being presented to an external organisation which has assisted the Service through its contribution to fire safety. They include:

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Murder for Two

Nov 17 to Dec 18
Book and Lyrics by Kellen Blair
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Ingenious! A snazzy double-act that spins out a comic mystery animated by funny, deftly turned songs. - The New York Times

Murder for Two runs
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A fateful night. A surprise party. A great American novelist is killed…fatally. A small town policeman with dreams of making detective jumps at the chance to prove his sleuthing skills and find the killer before the real detective arrives! Murder for Two is a perfect blend of music, mayhem, and murder with a twist - one actor investigates the crime, the other plays (all) the suspects, and did we mention, they both play piano! A witty and winking homage to old-fashioned murder mysteries.

Marcus - Mark Schenfisch**
The Suspects - Teddy Warren*

*Member, Actors Equity Association **Equity Membership Candidate

Production Staff:

Director - Lindy Heath Davis
Musical Director/Choreographer - Lindy Heath Davis
Set Design - Ryan McBride
Lighting Design - Aaron Johansen
Costume Design - Johna Sewell
Sound Design - Dana Schultes
Production Stage Manager - Jessica Pettit
Assistant Stage Manager - Flower Avila

About the Author:

Kellen Blair is the Drama Desk nominated co-creator of Murder for Two (off Broadway: Second Stage Theatre and New World Stages. World premiere: Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Kellen and co-writer Joe Kinosian are the recipients of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical Work in Chicago (2011) and the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers / Lorenz Hart Award (2013). Their work has been showcased on Broadway, the Kennedy Center, and theaters across the country. Kellen is excited to be developing a new musical farce with Joe titled The More Things Change; he’s also working with Broadway composer Larry Grossman on a new show called Scrooge in Love. Updates, videos, song demos, and sheet music can be found at A huge thank you to the most supportive family ever!

Joe Kinosian is the co-recipient of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award recognizing Murder for Two as Best New Musical following its record-breaking run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Joe was also nominated for Best Actor as The Suspects. Murder for Two had its Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage Uptown, going on to a year-long run at New World Stages. Joe’s work with Kellen Blair has been showcased at The Kennedy Center, The York Theater, and on Broadway at the Theatre World Awards. Joe received the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and the Harrington Award from the BMI Workshop. Joe also appeared in Dirty Blonde with Emily Skinner (Hangar Theater) and the NYC premiere of Dear Edwina Off-Broadway.


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Ground drainage is removing unnecessary liquids by using receptive ditches, subsurface porcelain tile drains, top to bottom drain pipes, or by means of the development of dikes and moving water from embanked fields.it can be commonly used not only in agriculture but probably through the forestry community, city and business development, the exploration business, the building of hobby amenities, and in addition the company of adventure areas.

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Korolev transferred wounded from the evacuation of Brigia during Operation Strike Fear to the EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate Redemption.

The transfer was interrupted by the arrival of the Imperial Nebulon-B frigate Warspite which began launching TIEs. The actions of Red Squadron, and particularly Keyan Farlander, protected the transfer and all Rebel ships escaped into hyperspace.

A simulation based on guarding the corvette would later be part of the New Republic's training program. When Wedge Antilles reformed Rogue Squadron, this test was used as one of the benchmarks for candidates to enter the squadron.

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On the day marking Haleigh Cummings' sixth birthday, authorities said the 17-year-old woman who last saw the Putnam County kindergartner is the primary focus of their investigation.

Physical evidence contradicts where Misty Cummings -- then Misty Croslin -- told detectives she was when the girl vanished, according to a news release Monday from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. In what are their most detailed comments so far, investigators also said Haleigh's biological parents are not considered suspects in the six-month disappearance.

"It's about time," Greenwood said about the decision to provide more detail about where the investigation is headed. "We really need the truth, we need to know what happened that night." Cummings, who was 16 when Haleigh vanished and has since married her father, "has failed to provide any sort of detailed accounting of the hours during the late evening and early morning of Haleigh's disappearance," according to the statement Monday.

"Furthermore, physical evidence at the scene contradicts Misty's sketchy account of her evening activities," the statement said.

She was living with Ronald Cummings and two of his children in Satsuma and was the one who called the Sheriff's Office after 3 a.m. on Feb. 10 to report Haleigh missing. Cummings had come home from a late shift at a Palatka plant about the time the call was made.

"She either won't or can't account for what she was doing," Greenwood said.

She has told investigators she was alone with the children that night.

"She is the person who has to know what happened," he said.

Authorities will not say what evidence contradicts what they were told in interviews, but Greenwood said there was no sign of forced entry to the mobile home where Haleigh disappeared.

He said it is also clear that Haleigh was not prone to wander off in the middle of the night.

Detectives have interviewed the couple and Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield, who has been estranged from Cummings for several years. Cummings has custody of Haleigh and their son Ronald Cummings Jr.

Detectives have conducted 138 formal interviews and hundreds of informal ones, according to the department. Greenwood would not say how many hours or how many times Misty Cummings was interviewed. She told the Times-Union she recalled one early interview lasting as long as eight hours.

Ronald Cummings' mother said she does not believe her daughter-in-law has misled investigators. Misty Croslin has a seventh-grade education, Teresa Neves said and should not be able to fool interrogators that have included FBI agents.

"She feels they are not being fair to her," Neves said Monday.

Neves said she was glad suspicion was lifted from her son and that detectives should continue to interview anyone who they believe holds information that will help the case, including her daughter-in-law.

"I say more power to them," Neves said. "Anybody who can actually be tied to this they ought to bring in and keep them until they get the answers."

Orlando lawyer Mark NeJame, who has worked on the high-profile Caylee Anthony case, said Monday he has met with Neves and the Cummings family to work on focusing public attention on Haleigh. NeJame also has worked with EquuSearch, a search group that specializes in missing children and was involved with both the Anthony and Cummings cases.

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ATUA's Author Interview Series – Erin Grace

Today I have the pleasure of hosting author Erin Grace on ATUA.  Erin and I met in Japan where we attended Waseda University in 2003. We've been friends ever since.  I want to thank her for accepting to be the first of this series and to take time to answer my question in the midst of a family emergency.

The details of the giveaway will follow the interview.

The Indefatigable Wright Brothers is your first book, but I know for a fact that you always have stories brewing in your head. Where did you get the inspiration for this one?

I’m a very curious person, so I find myself reading a lot of weird Wikipedia articles. One day a few years ago, I was reading the Wikipedia article about psychopathy. The Cleckley checklist that I quote in the book was listed there, and after I read it, I thought, “Holy shit, I’m a psychopath.” After a few seconds my mind came back to me, and I realized that I’m probably not a psychopath (because a real psychopath wouldn’t have any kind of emotional reaction to that revelation), but the idea of a person becoming convinced of it on weak evidence really interested me. That’s how “Wright Brothers” got started.

Painter Chuck Close Once said, "Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just shows up and gets to work." How do you "get to work?" Do you have any ritual or specific requirements to get the juices flowing?

I set a specific time to write – usually in the evening after dinner – and a specific amount of time or a specific number of words that I want to reach. Then I put on my headphones with some music that seems right for the scene or the character, open the file on my computer, and force the words out. Having my own “headspace” with music is the most important for me – I can work almost anywhere as long as I have the right music and sound-cancelling headphones. When the going gets really tough, I set small word goals with rewards (a glass of wine for 500 words, 10 minutes of TV for a thousand) to push myself the rest of the way.

Close is very right: you can’t just sit and stare at the screen thinking, “Goodness, I wish I could think of something!” Writing isn’t about being Rapunzel and waiting for Inspiration to gallop in on its snow white charger to save you. It’s about being Frodo, slogging through wet, cold, dirt, blood, fear, and anguish to reach something magnificent. It’s not glamorous, but when you get to the top, the view is incomparable.

Are you working on a new story at the moment?

Yes! It’s a short story about the Japanese firebombing of the U.S. West Coast during World War II. I’ve never been good at short stories, so I thought I’d take it on as a challenge – no more than 5 pages! (For someone accustomed to 100+ pages, this was a serious constraint.) I’ve finished the first draft, and now I’m letting it “gestate” before I move on to the rewrite. My next project is going to a murder mystery in the British manor house style – another personal challenge. I haven’t started because I’m still working out some kinds with the puzzle, but it’s going to happen soon!

One of the people you dedicated your book to is Stephen King. Is there a story behind this?

When I was 10 or so, Stephen King was my favorite author. Although I had a hard time grasping his themes and didn’t usually follow the “adult” scenes, I loved the imagery and the way he put words together to sound so visceral and terrifying. I wrote him a letter to tell him how much I loved his books, and asked if he had any advice on writing. I didn’t expect much, but what I got was beyond what I had hoped for: a small green notecard that assured me Mr. King had read my letter even though he couldn’t respond personally, and a very fat stack of photocopied pages that appeared to contain every single magazine article in which Mr. King had given advice on writing. This was before Google, obviously, so this was a wealth of advice that would have taken me years to pull together on my own. I was floored that he would treat some dumb girl from Kansas with that kind of respect. I already loved to write, but I redoubled my efforts, knowing that Mr. King was rooting for me. I swore that if I ever published a book, the very first one would be dedicated to him, since he was the one who told me in no uncertain terms that I could do it.

What has writing The Indefatigable Wright Brothers taught you about the creative process?

The biggest thing is that sometimes you need to do something dramatic to make your characters scramble. There’s a pivotal scene (I’m sure you’ll know which one if you read the book) in which everything changes for Jeremiah overnight. That scene came out of desperation – I’d been slogging through the writing for days, the characters were unmotivated, and I just wanted to chuck the manuscript out of the window. I initially wrote the scene because I needed something to shake things up a little, so I jumped at the most absurd option I could think of and I wound up loving it. But even if I hadn’t loved it, throwing that scene at the book would still have been important. Seeing how the characters react is an important part of learning who they are, which is an important part of writing about them. Also, writing is almost always a thankless, stressful process that makes you want to explode the planet with your mind. Since you can’t do it in real life, it’s relaxing and rejuvenating to blow up your characters’ world instead.

What is the one advice you would like to share with aspiring writers and creators?

Don’t let your first draft get you down. Or your second, or your third. Earnest Hemmingway said that the first draft of anything is shit, but he failed to mention that many of the subsequent drafts are only minor improvements. Keep retooling and reworking, pounding out the dents and the kinks, then break out the sand paper in finer and finer grits until it shines. And make sure that you give yourself time between each rewrite to step back and ignore it for awhile so that you maintain perspective. Finally, if you reach the publishing stage, remember that Gaiman’s Law is a normal part of the writing experience: “if there’s one typo [in a book you just wrote], it will be on the page that your new book falls open to the first time you pick it up.”

Our next featured guest will not be a writer but an entrepreneur who quit her stable day job to fulfill her dream of becoming a full-time yoga teacher and massotherapist; what question would you like to ask her?

How, and how long, did you prepare to leave your job; did you have any support from friends and family; and how ass-clenchingly scary was it to begin despite the preparation and support?

Erin Grace is a freelance writer from Salem, Oregon. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Japanese Culture that mostly gathers dust. Her favorite color is green, her favorite ice cream is vanilla, her favorite book is Invisible Monsters. She wants desperately to re-meet Chuck Palahniuk to apologize for that little misunderstanding in Powell’s.

For a chance to win a digital copy of The Indefatigable Wright Brothers, leave a question for Erin in the comment section.  The best question will determine the winner (Erin gets to choose.)  You can also earn brownie points by becoming a follower of ATUA or by following me on twitter.  For the latter, make sure to let me know by tweeting #TIBWGIVEAWAY.  You have until Tuesday June 18th 11:59 ET to enter.  The name of the winner, along with the answers to all the questions, will be posted on Thursday June 20th.

Good luck!

  1. How long did it take you to write the book? I mean, some people have book finished within few months, but some books take ages to finish.
    Also, did you self publish the book or did you find a good publisher?

    That's probably it :) Nice post! I'm a new follower. If you'd have time, please stop by my blog
    I always like to chat with new people there! :)

  2. Thank you for your comment Maria. Erin will answer all the questions on Thursday. Good luck!

  3. Did your studies in Japan help you create or inspire you at all for your new short story?

    Do you speak any Japanese?

    How long did it take you before you realized you really were not a psychopath?

    Who other than Stephen King were your inspirations?

    What inspired your newest book?

    Sorry, I'm just really curious. it was a good interview.


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SBS 2011: Can’t connect to the remote computer because no certificate was configured

Posted by SteveHardie | On: May 23 2012

When connecting to Windows SBS 2011 Remote Web Access, the following error appears when trying to connect to a remote computer.

can’t connect to the remote computer because no certificate was configured

Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because no certificate was configured to use at the
Remote Desktop Gateway server. Contact your network administrator for assistance.

You need to repair the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) service in the the RD Gateway Manager management console.

By default, SBS 2011 does not have the RD Gateway Manager management console enabled, The following command will properly install the RD Gateway Manager management console:

dism /online /Enable-Feature:Gateway-UI

Run this command from an elevated command prompt.

Then follow these steps

  1. Open the Remote Desktop Gateway Manager from Administrative Tools > Remote Desktop Services.
  2. Right-click your server name and choose properties.
  3. Select the SSL Certificate tab.
  4. Click the Import Certificate… button.
  5. Choose your trusted certificate and click Import.
  6. Click Ok.

RD Gateway Manager - SSL Certificate

note: you may need to assign a different certificate, then reassign the desired certificate to force RD Gateway Manager to take effect

See Also:
How to Install Your Existing Certificate into SBS Essentials

  1. TomAce says:

    You’re a lifesaver! Had this problem, followed the easy steps, and I’m up and running in RD! 😀 Thanks!

  2. Worked great. In my case the RDP gateway manager was already installed so all I had to do was import the certificate.
    I installed a new certificate weeks ago and everything worked perfectly. Then when I did a routine reboot after some windows updates and I received this message.

  3. Brilliant – fix worked perfectly.

    Thanks very much for posting.

  4. Cheers Steve. Good fix

  5. Great fix, has worked for me on a couple of servers.

    (some require a reboot after the desktop manager is installed)

    Thanks for posting!!!

  6. Thanks. This helped me out.

  7. Worked for us too. Thanks. Nice one.

  8. Chad Hensley says:

    Thank you very much. This fixed our issue as well.

  9. Ram says:

    Thank you. This fix worked smoothly.

  10. Marc says:

    Steve, this is a great fix. I don’t understand why Microsoft can’t make it this clear.

  11. Steve says:

    Worked, thanks from one Steve to another!

  12. SYB says:

    Thanks it resolved my problem

  13. Jonathan says:

    thanks a bunch!! worked like a champ!

  14. Surya says:

    this fixed my issue , Thanks Steve

  15. Laurence says:

    cheers – worked a treat.

  16. Steve says:

    I know this post is a couple of years old, but I just ran into this issue. I already have a certificate for mail on the SBS 2011 server. Do I use that one? Or do I need an additional cert?

  17. Steve says:

    OK, nevermind. I got it. I tried using a self-signed cert and it broke everything. When I went and specified the existing cert, everything un-broke and it’s working great. Thanks for the post… this was very helpful.

  18. ray says:

    HI Steve, I have a client, having problem with rd, when they login to rd, the session disappear.

  19. Frank says:

    Thank you so much!

  20. pradosh says:

    Thank you Steve – this worked perfectly for me!

  21. chris says:

    Excellent! Worked like a champ. Thank you so much.

  22. Chuck says:

    Worked great with additional step of clicking IIS configuration as well.

  23. Chip says:

    Thanks for this
    I had been looking all through RDS for the cert page and didn’t realize that Gateway wasn’t automatically installed with SBS 2011

  24. Merlin says:

    Thanks so much for this fix! It works on Server 2012 Essentials as well.

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31 Dec 2013

Flavour of the Evolution 2013

Angelo Agathangelou: By far the most popular posts this year have been the series of reviews of my pal serial modder genius Lukasz Fikus's extraordinary Lampizator supreme reference Hi Fi equipment. Guess those topics aren't pissing against the wind like the issue of equality for men and boys and as I said, there's no time for good music like a revolution.
World First: Lampizator 'BIG SIX' DAC - "The best sound we can possibly make" + "Make Mozart Not Nukes!" Lampizator GM 70 SE Amplifier
(Also check out AKALA's excellent new album below.)
The following stories are in no particular order and there were many more very popular posts, but I have chosen a few readers favorites that seemed to capture the flavour of 2013, a year that saw great strides in the men's movement in which I have participated for over a decade and an apparent expansion of the general awakening. There were many popular financial posts but I'm marking them down as boring and a positive broad acknowledgement of the Banksters for what they are, enough said. Also some great moments from the cypherpunks
Click the titles to read/watch the full stories.
I have a dream - The COCK Fairy

"A Structuraly Misandrist Society." UCL Debate: Feminism Is Sexist

Propaganda is the New Empiricism

The Trends to Watch For in 2014

Government overreach, economic stagnation & civil discontent

Bring Feminazi Karen Smith To Justice! + Misandry: Losing Face, the SPLC Resorts To Mass Censorship

When Risk Is Separated From Gain, The System Is Doomed

By Charles Hugh Smith: If the gambler has no feedback from his bets because the casino reimburses his losses, then he will continue gambling wildly and losing spectacularly.
Risk is an ever-present characteristic of life; it cannot be eliminated, it can only be masked or hedged. We know this intuitively, yet we blithely accept official assurances that risk can be eliminated by the monetary machinations of the Federal Reserve, the Central Bank of China, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank.
To confuse masking risk with the elimination risk is the acme of hubris and the perfect setup for disaster. In my view, the global central bank response has been directed at masking risk and presenting this as the "solution" that has sent risk back to its lair, defeated. But cloaking risk does not eliminate it; official obfuscation merely pushes risk beneath the surface where it accumulates unseen.
Once the built-up risk reaches criticality, it explodes in "unforeseen" volatility that is often triggered by a seemingly unimportant event.

Empire Kaput, Crypto-Currencies 2014! - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with Barb Jacobson

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss whether or not 2014 will be one of economic and financial fallout from the 2013 Year of Bitcoin and Snowden. They look at Paul Krugman's claim that Bitcoin is evil because it's not backed by men with guns and the latest in the financial fallout from Snowden's NSA revelations in terms of contractual demands that data never enter the US.

Heroic Boycott of Apartheid Israel Universities Angers Zionazi Lawmakers

"If you want peace and democracy, I will support you. If you want formal Apartheid, we will not support you. If you want to support racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing, we will oppose you." Nelson Mandela.

Two New York legislators say they will introduce a bill to strip state aid from universities that take part in a recent movement to boycott Israeli academic centers.
UK BANNED Press TV: State Sen. Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat, and Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat who is also a former member of the Jewish Defense League that was classified as a “terrorist group” by the FBI in 2001, say they want to cut off state aid to universities affiliated with the American Studies Association’s movement to boycott Israeli institutions.

MHRA: My New Year’s Resolution for 2014

"When it comes to dealing with self-elected but non-functional directors of matters in which they will not share in the work, I pledge to tell you to fuck off with a little more courtesy than I did in 2013."
By I rarely use AVfM any more for personal style blog posts. It just seems inappropriate, as though AVFM is no longer just mine. And it isn’t. This corner of the internet as my personal blog yielded to a movement a long time ago.
I am still going to ask your indulgence as I take a selfish trip into the personal.
It is a time of resolutions for many and I am no exception. As I look back on the last year and examine myself, looking at the (many) things I could do to make changes for the better, one of the things that strikes me as the most glaring is composure.

War Loving Christian Hypocrisy - Resource Based Economy Self Defense + The Battle to Steal Your Money

Stefan Molyneux: War loving Christian hypocrisy, health is the result of healthy practices, loving friends vs. loving romantic partners, arguments from analogy, your history is an excuse for nothing, and the resource based economy as self-defense.

OMFG!!! UK Man Of The Year and The Hairy Goat Legged Queen - The BBC Sucks O Cocks News + Why Do Americans Love War Criminals?

The artist taxi driver

Sun ‘Flips Upside Down’ While Reversing Magnetic Poles

RT: The sun has undergone a “complete field reversal,” with its north and south poles changing places as it marks the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24.
A reversal of the sun's magnetic field is, literally, a big event,” NASA’s Dr. Tony Phillips said in a statement issued on the space agency’s website.

How Faith Poisons Everything

By carlos morales: An exposé on the evils of faith. Faith is a short-term comfort that is antithetical towards reason and evidence. Faith begins the loosening up of self-directed fate, and the shifting of the locus of control by removing your ability to decipher truth from fiction and placing that responsibility unto someone else. It is a belief in an authority rather than an acknowledging of facts - faith is what gets us totalitarian ideas, it's what leads to dictatorial mandates based on the whims of some other authority. Faith is in direct opposition to freedom.

How The NSA Hacks Your iPhone and The Great Firewall Of Earth

Following up on the latest stunning revelations released yesterday by German Spiegel which exposed the spy agency's 50 page catalog of "backdoor penetration techniques", today during a speech given by Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror) at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, a new bombshell emerged: specifically the complete and detailed description of how the NSA bugs, remotely, your iPhone. The way the NSA accomplishes this is using software known as Dropout Jeep, which it describes as follows: "DROPOUT JEEP is a software implant for the Apple iPhone that utilizes modular mission applications to provide specific SIGINT functionality. This functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted."


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Barney Space Adventures in Manila

What more exciting for kids than to see Barney in a show, live!

My elder daughter grew up loving Barney and it goes the same with the younger one. Their adoration of Barney can easily be seen with all the VCDs and DVDs we have at home. It is from Barney they both learned the magic words, “Please” and “Thank You”. It was Barney and Mommy here of course who taught them the song “I Love You, You Love Me”. We have seen recorded Barney show in DVD format but not a live one yet. My elder daughter got to experience Disney On Ice show few years back and so as got the chance to see Dora The Explorer’s show at the Aliw Theater too. Now that there’s two of them, and both saw the ad for Barney Space Adventure show here in Manila, they both wanted to go! Having seen shows like this before, I already have an idea on how much a ticket would cost. I will definitely have to save up for me to get a ticket … I mean, tickets for the 3 of us. Minus the husband – knowing him, he’s not going to join us for sure. I have searched the net for the ticket cost and the details of the show itself as well. Here’s what I have got:

The show will be held at the ALIW Theater at the CCP Complex in Pasay City. The show will run from April 26 to April 29. If I will have to get 3 tickets for the “Price Zone 3”, I should prepare almost 5K. I still have enough time though and if this show will make my kids so happy, I will give it to them. I am sure that for these little kids, this is a once in a lifetime experience.

For more info, head on to TICKETWORLD.


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 - St. Gianna Molla

Click on the logos to visit the Diocesan Vocational pages.

"Quo Vadis" means "Where are you going?" and its members are young men in high school who desire to grow in faithful discipleship and personal holiness to be better able to discover their own vocation invitation from our Lord, whatever that might be.

''FIAT' is a Latin word for 'Let it be done'. It was Mary's response to the angel Gabriel when she was asked to become the mother of Jesus. 'Let it be done unto me according to Your Will' refers to Mary's 'Yes' to God. The members of FIAT are young women in high school who desire to grow in faithful discipleship by modeling their personal holiness on that of our Lady. By doing so they hope to be better able to discover their own vocation invitation from our Lord, whatever that might be and make their own "fiat" or "yes" to Him.

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Unraveling Internalization Signals

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Science's STKE  04 Nov 2003:
Vol. 2003, Issue 207, pp. tw429-TW429
DOI: 10.1126/stke.2003.207.tw429

Du et al. investigated the possibility that neuronal activity could influence internalization of neurotrophin-receptor complexes, a process required for some aspects of neurotrophin signaling, and discovered an unexpected link between calcium, receptor tyrosine kinase activity, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-TrkB receptor complex internalization. Neuronal activity can promote the efficacy with which BDNF affects neuronal survival, synaptic efficacy, and synaptic plasticity, which provides a possible mechanism for selective activity-dependent enhancement of particular neuronal pathways. Du et al. used fluorescent imaging of biotinylated BDNF, quantification of radiolabeled BDNF on cell surface and the amount internalized, and Western analysis of TrkB in combination with electrical field stimulation to show that stimulus protocols associated with production of long-term potentiation promoted internalization of BDNF and TrkB in cultured hippocampal neurons. The authors used electrical stimulation of cells undergoing pharmacological blockade of voltage-dependent calcium channels or N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors, or in medium made without calcium, to show that activity-dependent internalization of BDNF and TrkB depended on calcium influx. BDNF stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of TrkB, and electrical stimulation enhanced BDNF-dependent TrkB phosphorylation, an enhancement that depended on calcium influx. Pharmacological blockade of BDNF-dependent TrkB internalization did not affect activity-dependent enhancement of TrkB phosphorylation, whereas inhibition of TrkB kinase activity, either pharmacologically or with a dominant-negative TrkB mutant, blocked receptor internalization. Thus, neuronal activity appears to enhance BDNF-TrkB internalization through calcium-dependent stimulation of TrkB tyrosine phosphorylation.

J. Du, L. Feng, E. Zaitsev, H.-S. Je, X.-W. Liu, B. Lu, Regulation of TrkB receptor tyrosine kinase and its internalization by neuronal activity and Ca2+ influx. J. Cell Biol. 163, 385-395 (2003). [Abstract] [Full Text]

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09/06/12 9:50 PM ET

New La Russa book reveals World Series strategy

During a visit to the MLB.com studios in New York to read an exclusive 904-word excerpt of Chapter 22 in his own upcoming book, "One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season," Tony La Russa revealed a hidden world of strategy during the historic 2011 World Series Game 6 drama.

It includes a classy but challenging directive by Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt, communicated via general manager John Mozeliak, to have the manager prepare and repeatedly remind his players and coaches to step out for immediate on-field recognition of Busch Stadium fans upon any Rangers clinching moment. It elaborates on what La Russa now considers the Rangers' underestimation of David Freese's opposite-field power and the batter's simple ability to quickly set his front foot, two executions that resulted in a hit for the ages.

The book, penned with veteran St. Louis baseball writer Rick Hummel, will be released Sept. 25 by HarperCollins, and it will be available in the MLB.com Shop. It represents the first memoir by La Russa, who ranks third all-time in managerial wins. He retired after the Cardinals' 11th World Series title. This is the first of three exclusive video excerpts being posted by MLB.com between now and that release.

"That afternoon, before the game had started, Mo had come to my office," La Russa writes. "He'd told me that our owner, Mr. DeWitt, wanted to be sure that if we lost the game, the players took a few minutes to go out on the field, even while the other team was celebrating, to thank the fans. The official presentation of the trophy would take about ten minutes to set up, so we wouldn't be doing anything to detract from a Rangers celebration. Of course, that was the right thing to do, both the salute to the fans and Mo's coming to mention it to me. I appreciated the reminder, and went back to my business.

"As their closer, Neftali Feliz, took his warm-up tosses, I got on the phone to remind [then-bullpen coach Derek] Lilliquist to give the guys left in the bullpen the heads-up about thanking the fans. I told him not to say anything until there were two outs and it looked like we were going to get beat, and then tell the relievers who were left to come down to the dugout to join their teammates. I went around to tell the guys in the dugout who either had played in the game or were not eligible to play in the Series. I said, 'We've got a real shot here, but we need to corral the guys and step out for a minute to salute the fans.'"

The whole matter of crowd contingency would become a theme during Chapter 22, as La Russa would do a balancing act of living in the moment as a manager while having to remind his crew to be prepared to give a loser's salute. One of the biggest reasons reminders were needed was what happened when Feliz got two outs in the bottom of the ninth and then put the Rangers within one strike of their first title, getting a 1-2 count on Freese.

"I hoped that David would get his front foot set sooner," La Russa writes. "On the swinging strike (two) he hadn't. David Freese then did what many people don't think is possible. He made me smile. ...

"When Freese extended his hands and stepped slightly toward the outside corner, setting that front foot, he hit Feliz's fastball on a line drive. The sound of the contact was so pure, but as the ball reached its peak and then started into its downward flight, like everyone else in Busch Stadium I would assume, I wondered if what I'd thought at first might be a walk-off home run was going to turn into an out. [Right fielder Nelson] Cruz went back on it hard, but the ball went back even more quickly. If he gloved it, he was a World Series hero for the ages. If he didn't, we were still in this thing.

"Hitting hard off the wall, the ball caromed back far enough that if Cruz hadn't had the presence of mind to get back after it hard, we might have seen another first: an inside-the-park walk-off home run. I stood there clapping my hands, smiling and marveling at the determination in this whole scene. Here again, I felt a bit of an advantage. I didn't think the Rangers had a good read on Freese's opposite field power and how his ball would carry that way. If they had, Cruz might have been positioned deeper. If Cruz had recognized it, he might have broken back more quickly. Whether human nature factored into this at all, them being one strike away, I can't say."

"One Last Strike" will offer amazing insight into the journey that led to the Redbirds' title, as La Russa opens up about the devastating injuries, bullpen woes, crucial games and the guys who made it all possible. He also looks broadly with introspection at his entire body of work, and he explains his counterintuitive belief in process over result, present moments over statistics, and team unity over individual talent. La Russa writes candidly about his decision to retire.

"I wanted to write this book because there's a story that answers the question I got asked at the end of last season: How did you club win the world championship, especially when you had to come from so far behind?" La Russa said. "This is the first time I went back and realized everything the club went through and overcame to be the champion -- big, big difference looking back instead of looking forward."

Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. Read and join other baseball fans on his MLB.com community blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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House Endorses New Primary Election Date

Carol Daniel

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The House Elections Committee endorses legislation that moves Missouri’s primary elections to June from the current first month in August in even-numbered years.

The bill would take effect in 2016, meaning the primary date in that year would be June 21, instead of Aug. 9.

The bill’s sponsor says earlier primaries would give candidates more time to compete for November’s general election. But some House members argue that lawmakers would have to campaign more aggressively during the legislative session, which runs through mid-May.

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