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Warpaint – Roundhouse, Camden (Live Review)

Anyone with a penchant for the ethereal dank of dark Indie rock will know about Warpaint. The four piece has spent the last decade making sure we know about them, and this week their brief period in the UK culminated with a sold out show at Camden’s Roundhouse. The stage foretold the presence of a spectacle, lit with a stormy blue and filled with trees draped in lights; it was a fairy tale forest patiently waiting for its fairies to arrive.

When they do they are, as ever, gothic gods of their platform; clad in heavy boots and black clothing appearing out of the blue and fog with an uncontainable drama about them. Lead vocalist Theresa Wayman, perches in the gloom with her dark fringe hanging heavy over her eyes, and Emily Kokal (co-lead vocalist and guitarist) hazy, verging on psychedelic talks in near whispers out into the crowd. Tonight is about mood and the foursome aren’t afraid create an atmosphere.

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The hum of ‘Bees’ begins with Stella Mozgawa’s catchy beats filling the room and the low throb of Jenny Lee Lindberg’s much loved Rickenbacker bass. Spectral far away vocals tumble out one after the other and bleed into ‘Intro’ before ‘Keep It Healthy,’ as one long piece of music. Lindberg takes the centre stage quietly shuffling around with her base as she hypnotically throws her head through the air and her crown of white blonde hair disturbs the smoke around her.

Jenny lee lindberg

Despite the four having had a busy year hot footing it between studios and countries on account of the release of their new album Head’s Up the set is a mixture of old and new with a good few classic Warpaint staples. ‘Undertow,’ ‘Beetles’ and ‘Elephants’ all arrive in their ethereal beauty, as crisp and refined as ever.

In true Warpaint style the melody is never a cushion for the vocals to fall on to, rather the two blur into one another and transform into indistinguishable soundscapes that leave you with a growing anaesthesia and an urge to close your eyes and walk into the music. Their voices, which seem to deliberately shift in and out of tune, sit somewhere between a heady church choir and hungry cats, which makes listening at times uncomfortable. However, it’s not out of embarrassment or disdain but, with the unexpected key changes, lifts you out of your musical intoxication and forces you to dance. Their voices are ghostly, particularly in such a large venue, and have an otherworldly strangeness about them. The vocals are equally as creepingly ominous as their lyrics and bizarrely soothing. Every mismatched key change and odd note is harmonised spectacularly with the low and minor instrumentals, leaving you dangling over the edge in anticipation of the next turn. It almost feels accidental but is of course utterly contrived, the quartet know exactly what they’re doing and they’re doing it with a finesse that is unmatched by their peers.

The set haunts you, rather like a dark gothic poem; quietly unsettling but impossible to remove yourself from and the venue itself certainly adds to that experience. The Roundhouse is a Colosseum; grandiose in appearance, with high metal pillars that stretch up to a wooden ceiling. The blue stage lighting cast around the pillars and the enchanting sound of Wayman and Kokal’s obscure voices ricochet around the circular walls, the echo is unnerving and chimerical, perhaps reminiscent of the choir boy harmonies of Fleet Foxes or the Cocteau Twins. Everything about the place suits Warpaint down to the ground from its crypt like arches to its dark walls; building and band seemingly mirroring each other in their inky oddity to create something atypical to your standard gig setting.

Amidst those inky atmospheric vibrations, the group are playful on their stage intermittently pausing to smile and joke with one another, sometimes completely ignoring the audience all together to pull faces in the gloom. In a way it shouldn’t really work in a live show, but it does. It’s endearing to watch a group of artists so perfectly attuned to one another’s musical abilities and personalities interacting in such a way. The audience at times find themselves laughing along without any clue as to what their joke might be. Every now and then Emily does check in to say hello or make helpful suggestions. “If you want to do stage dive or whatever at any point we’ll fully support you!” she hollers out in her hazy Oregon accent. Disappointingly no one goes in for the offer, likely on account of the heavy set security staff that guard the stage, like Smaug and his treasure, but nonetheless it was nice to know that Warpaint wouldn’t turn down a bit of audience participation if it came their way. They are, however, a very inclusive band, on and off the stage; they swap instruments between themselves, all share in the writing, vocals and, at times, dueting on drums which takes an monumental level of skill to get right and not sound like a cacophony of noise.

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Off the stage Warpaint began on MySpace with a small but die-hard fan base who were really the driving force behind their label and their progression. With the arrival of the newest album there has been divided opinion on the band’s evolutionary process, and this controversy was certainly felt when Kokal declared  “Let’s do some of this new shit then.”

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The set continued with ’New Song’ which sharply shifted the dreamy lullaby rock into a poppy electro rhythm. When the track made its first appearance earlier this year it caused a flurry of split indignation amongst the more hard-core of Warpaint’s fan base, and when you take a look at their back catalogue it’s easy to see why it caused such a stir. ‘New song’ was a bit of a bizarre turn in Warpaint’s evolutionary process. They have spent a good twelve years playing with their sound but the bulk of it has stuck to a recognisable formula that is quintessentially ‘Warpainty.’ ‘New Song’, however, bends that prism giving us something that moves away from the dark fairy tale whimsy that we know so well. There is something distinctly saccharine about it which clearly leaves the Roundhouse crowd split. A portion of the turn out bursting into dance and the other solemnly folding their arms and looking crossly up at Kokal. Rarely do you see such artistic licence so spectacularly revoked by the few.

In reality though ‘New Song’ is a great listen. It’s different and lends itself to something lighter than we’ve seen before, with a catchy ear worm of a hook that hangs about your brain all day and a far less brooding melody. It’s almost sickly sweet in comparison but still has that air of hazy whimsy that marks it with that classic Warpaint sound.

“New shit” aside, no one else does the grungy, murky arty-rock-gothic thing like the Warpaint gang. The overarching celestial vocals of Emily and Theresa prove once again to be remarkably seductive. Coupled with Lindberg’s artful, head thrashing bass and Mozgawa’s ferocious percussion the band leave their residual mark on the Roundhouse. The set is ultimately a perfect concoction of old and new, ‘Love is to Die’ and ‘Disco//Very’ standing out as the end of set highlights of their back catalogue. ‘Love is to Die’ in particular left a resonance with the crowd; foggy and sobering it has a depth to it that it is difficult to place; when trying to categorise it you find yourself saying “grim” and staring off into the distance. As somber as it is, ‘Love is to Die’ is Warpaint heroin; velvety and injectable in its deliciousness. The beauty of the track is something that you want to hold on to.

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Warpaint sit in the space between stirring yet soothing, yet they instinctively know a frequency shift will make a residual impact on an audience long after the show. A shattering three song encore, including the springy synth led ‘Biggy’, gave us all ‘a little room to sway’, while an extended spur of the moment ‘Krimson’ crescendo saw Kokal and Mozgawa rolling cymbal fills over one another, teasing the end of the song but never letting it happen. It did have to end somewhere though, and as Kokal looked for the O.K. nod from Mozgawa, she lifted her drumstick into the air and launched it out into a sea of a thousand flailing hands before exiting, leaving behind a buzz that will bounce around those Roundhouse walls for days to come.

All photos by Thistle Prince.

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23 January, 2006

Sylvie and Bruno

He thought he saw an Argument
That proved he was the Pope:
He looked again, and found it was
A Bar of Mottled Soap.
'A fact so dread,' he faintly said,
'Extinguishes all hope!'
I've just finished Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno (1889-93), the first novel I've read for the first time in about two years. Everyone knows Alice in Wonderland—but how many have come across the work that Carroll considered his masterpiece? It was panned by contemporary critics and saw little 20th-century interest, although it contains many of the same elements as Alice: nonsense poetry, hallucinogenic realities, wordplay and logicplay, an idealized heroine. . . even Harry Furniss' illustrations resemble Tenniel's work for Alice.

The reason for its unpopularity, I suspect, is its uneasy position between the first soupçons of Modernism and the vestiges of high Victorian sentimentalism. And it is revoltingly sentimental; in one scene, the eponymous heroine stumbles on a dead hare:
"Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries."

"Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child.

"Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And GOD meant your life to be so beautiful!"

Sometimes, but always keeping her face hidden on the ground, she would reach out one little hand, to stroke the poor dead thing, and then once more bury her face in her hands, and sob as if her heart would break.
A modern, cynical reader such as myself is transfixed by such a passage: we might as well be watching sub-Saharan mating-rituals, so alien is this type of writing to today's mind. In fact, the entire book serves as a safari of late Victorian mores and anxieties: a fixation upon the innocence of children, a morbid obsession with death, the encroachment of scientific atheism on the Anglican Church, the niceties of formal etiquette, a Christian faith centred around charity and love, mockery of pompous academics, theological doubt, the post-Romantic fascination with the English countryside (itself a yearning for Edenic paradise and second childhood, thus related to the first item here), a fierce ethical conflict between stoicism and florid emotionality, socialism among the bourgeois, deep curiosity about the human mind, the light wit of genteel society, and a delight in petty magics and folk-belief. It is no coincidence that contemporary works included The Time Machine, Flatland, The Golden Bough, A Picture of Dorian Gray, William James' Principles of Psychology, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Three Men in a Boat, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Uprose that Pig and rushed, full whack,
Against the ruined Pump:
Rolled over like an empty sack,
And settled down upon his back,
While all his bones at once went "Crack!"
It was a fatal jump.
The nonsense-poems are among the darker parts of the book, very often treating death, bitter japery and failures of communication, stylised often to the point of apparent meaninglessness. These elements cut across the book's narrative rhythms, subverting its ponderous pace with all the charm of its titular sprites. The plot weaves back and forth between a mocked England and a world of pure fantasy, between antimacassar melodrama and dream-sequences, cutting rather suddenly and without warning—the very first line, in fact, begins in mid-sentence, anticipating Finnegans Wake.

And yet the novel is filled with the most powerful sense of desperation: its human characters are saved from misery, anxiety and death only by the intervention, the grace, of its heroes, the fairy-children Sylvie and Bruno, whose abiding love for mankind provides the sole impetus for the light which pervades the climax of each half. But this spiritual and physical light never quite drowns out the mortal darkness that encompasses the rest of the narrator's world. The spectre of Atheism is only half snuffed-out by the end; doubt has been irrevocably established.

Further pieces—on nymphets and taste, thought-experiments, and nonsense-language in Sylvie and Bruno.

Meanwhile, John Anderson aka. "Goofy" comments, favourably.

Mr. Waggish said...

See also John Crowley's "Little, Big," which makes use of Sylvie and Bruno in somewhat heterodox fashion.

Conrad H. Roth said...

Ah, I haven't read it, though the name is familiar.

Uke Xensen said...

I'm not sure which edition you read. The Dover edition contains only the first part. At Mercury House we published the whole thing. My introduction to that edition is on-line here

Conrad H. Roth said...

I started with the Dover, then I realised that there wasn't a second volume and switched to the Mercury House edition. I'm very glad you made the text available, though I didn't like the modern illustrations and would like to have seen Furniss' work for 'Sylvie and Bruno Concluded'. Interesting site, BTW: you seem to have had your fingers in many pies.

Kenny said...

I'm surprised you didn't mention Gosse's Father and Son.

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India commits to 116 new projects in Afghanistan

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India commits to 116 new projects in Afghanistan

The Indian government has stepped up its development partnership with Afghanistan by committing to 116 new projects in 31 provinces.

The announcement was made during the bilateral talks between Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani and his Indian counterpart Suhma Swaraj on Tuesday.

This comes three weeks after US President Donal Trump called on India to do more in Afghanistan on “economic assistance and development”.

The projects range from drinking water supply to low cost housing, roads and polyclinics.

“Today, building upon our economic and development cooperation, we jointly agreed to embark on a New Development Partnership in keeping with the priorities of Afghanistan. 116 new High Impact Development Projects will be jointly implemented that will bring socio-economic and infrastructure development, especially in the suburban and rural communities in 31 provinces of Afghanistan,” the Indian Express quotes External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

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29 October 2008

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Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand confirms his status as Chess World Champion. Congratulations to the master from a little Patzer!

How the times are changing: 13 years ago I watched a game of the match between Kasparov and Anand on the top floor of one of the World Trade Center towers in New York. It was a terrific game, match, and venue. Kasparov, arguably the greatest players of all times, won a beautiful attacking game (game 10) with a prepared line and from there on dominated the match. And now? The towers aren't there anymore, Kasparov withdrew from tournament chess, and Anand is the champion. And he defeated Kramnik - the one who finally beat Kasparov - quite easily and with great opening preparation.

This could be the beginning of a new golden era for chess. The confusing times with two world champions seem definitely over. And new parts of the world enter the stage: Anand's win will further boost chess in India, China is also coming on strongly, and the magnificient Magnus Carlsen promises excitement for European chess fans. Some sponsors would be needed, though. There were times when Swiss banks such as Credit Suisse sponsored our great strategy game. Lately, they seemed to prefer gambling. Maybe times are changing in this respect as well...

26 October 2008

Watch Heat

Following the recommendation of Michael Tobis, I watched the PBS broadcast "Heat" online. It really was good, and I can only recommend it to anyone interested in the climate change issue. This is indeed an excellent piece of journalism. It's amazing how good the public media in the US often are, compared to the crap that the private stations are producing most of the time. It reminds me of my time in New York, when I used to listen to National Public Radio in my car. It was the only station that had good information and no advertising - I loved it.

Maybe the best piece of "Heat" for me was part 4, about coal, or "clean coal" as the industry likes to call it today. I particularly liked a statement of Jeffrey Ball from the Wall Street Journal: "I think there is a reality check going on about carbon capture and storage right now." Yes indeed, some of the potential solutions to the climate problem do need a good reality check. If I find the time, I'd like to come back to such issues again...

21 October 2008

India Flying High

Climate change, peak oil, financial meltdown, US elections - all interesting topics, but the eyes of the chess fan these days are directed to Bonn, Germany, where the Indian world champion Anand defends his title against the former Russian world champion Kramnik.

Yesterday, Anand won for the second time with the black pieces in a sharp line of the Queen's Gambit - an amazing performance. So Anand is on a good way to win the match and end the Russian dominance in chess. And India is flying high not only with their scheduled moon mission ...

19 October 2008

Viscount Monckton's Rebuttal of my Rebuttal

The 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is a well known and entertaining figure in the climate change blogsphere. For example, Deltoid has an entire category on this self-proclaimed climate expert. Obviously, the Viscount has published a lot of controversial texts (NOT scientific, peer-reviewed papers, though) on the climate change issue. The one that I am most interested in is of course his rebuttal of my rebuttal of the Khilyuk and Chilingar piece in Environmental Geology, published on the SPPI website.

As Deltoid has rightfully pointed out, defending Khilyuk and Chilingar is not exactly a proof of being a true climate expert. But of course, Christopher Monckton has other credentials, such as being an aristocrat and having served as an advisor to Margaret Thatcher, Baroness herself. Quite impressive, indeed. Ok, as a Swiss I have to admit that I have no real sense for the British love of such titles, as in our country we happily got rid of foreign lords some 700 years ago. But that's another story...

So did the honorable Viscount provide a convincing rejection of my arguments? Not really, it seems to me. In his rebuttal, he shows an amazing unwillingness to discuss the issues in any detail or with any precision. He rather adds to the confusion that Khilyuk and Chilingar have initiated. Some examples:

When I tried to explain that Khilyuk and Chilingar's statement about the insignificant (less than 0.1 °C) warming caused by humanity's energy production was misleading, because the warming is not due to direct heating by energy use but to the indirect effect of CO2, Monckton just claims that the 0.1 °C are not that far from the scientific consensus, completely missing the point.

By the way, there recently was an interesting paper in AGU's journal Eos, where the direct warming resulting from releasing the energy of fossil fuels and other non-renewables was extrapolated into the future to show that it represents an ultimate limit to our ever-growing energy use. Of course, it is more than questionable whether such an enormous growth of fossil fuel use is at all possible, but it is an interesting conclusion nevertheless. Even if there was no peak oil and no greenhouse effect, the simple energy balance will eventually put an ultimate limit to growth. Unfortunately, we will see the other limits closing in much earlier, I suppose.

But back to Monckton. He also challenges my statement about the very small global mean insolation changes due to variations of Earth's orbital parameters, by asking how then the large glacial - interglacial temperature changes could be explained. Of course, it is the point of the Milankovitch theory that changes in the latitudinal distribution of insolation can drive glacial cycles even in the absence of changes in the total mean irradiation, but this argument seems to be too subtle for Monckton as well as Khilyuk and Chilingar.

Next, Monckton suggests that the indeed surprising current pause in the rise of methane in the atmosphere is linked to a recent stabilization of tectonic activity - apparently backing Khilyuk and Chilingar's claim that volcanism rather than human emissions is the cause of the rise in greenhouse gases. Interesting point, but where is the evidence that tectonic activity has changed over the past centuries or even just decades? Is there any scientific reference for this?

Monckton also does not like my argument that it may be misleading to compare the total CO2 degassing over Earth's history with the anthropogenic release over the past 250 years or so. Again, the argument that the time scale matters seems too subtle.

Similarly, Monckton just stirs up the confusion about the role of the ocean's warming in causing the atmospheric CO2 increase. Of course, Henry's law requires that a warming ocean release CO2. However, if at the same time the CO2 partial pressure in the atmosphere (due to fossil fuel combustion) increases even more strongly than that in the water (due to warming), the net effect is still an uptake of CO2 by the ocean, as has been observed for the 20th century.

Monckton seems to like simple arguments, even if they are demonstrably wrong. He also prefers the simplistic temperature history of the past 1000 years shown by Khilyuk and Chilingar over the much more detailed records of other authors (not only the much criticized hockey stick of Mann et al., by the way).

Unfortunately, reality is not always simple. And sometimes not the way we would like it to be. Even a Viscount of Brenchley cannot change this.

15 October 2008

No News on Twin Papers

I was motivated to start this blog by my outrage about the duplicate publication of a nonsensical climate skeptical paper, which in one version was disguised as a response to a rebuttal of mine on an earlier, similarly strange paper. As I mentioned back then, I took what I think are appropriate steps: I informed the editors of the two involved journals about this rather obvious scientific misconduct (if not the nonsense in the paper, then definitely its recycling).

So what has happened? Nothing! Apparently the editors of the two involved journals (Energy Sources and Environmental Geology) are not interested in the case, or at least not inclined to inform me about any steps they may take. Well, I somehow expected this, because, as I pointed out before, the editorial boards of these journals do not seem to be impartial on the issue. I'm just wondering what to do next....

04 October 2008

Politicizing Climate Science

I got the news about Richard Lindzen's new, hmm, let's call it pamphlet on the state of climate science via Lubos Motl and Michael Tobis. Interesting indeed.

One of the main messages of the treatise is that climate science has been politicized and hence is not able to provide answers anymore. Well, surely Lindzen's pamphlet does its best in politicizing climate science. Another thread of the paper is that skeptical opinions are systematically suppressed in the literature. As I have pointed out in my last post, this claim is typical for bogus science. But ok, it surely is difficult to publish something that contradicts established theory. So the claim may in some cases be founded, but if it grows into some large scale conspiracy theory, it becomes suspicious. As a general rule, I am very skeptical about conspiracy theories.

Michael Tobis criticized one gross misstatement in what he calls the Lindzen Diatribe, but suggested that others may find more grotesque mischaracterizations. Well, I think I found a number of points that are worth discussing.

One point in Lindzen's text that I found distorted was his account of the "correction" of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) paleotemperatures. I have a quite different memory of the story, in which I was to some extent involved by determining noble gas temperatures (NGTs) from groundwater that played a certain role. It is true that there was some conflicting evidence, but it was more of a problem between different paleotemperature proxies (oceanic foraminifera versus continental snowline, NGTs, etc.) than between model and data. The data available in the 1990s indicated that tropical LGM sea surface temperatures (SSTs) were about as warm as today (the CLIMAP result), but continents and high elevations were some 5 °C colder. Could that be? That's where the models came in and - hardly surprising - they said no, it was not possible. So it was essentially inconsistent data and some of the proxies had to be wrong. It seems that new evaluations of the oceanic proxies come up with cooler LGM SSTs, which more or less solves the problem. This is normal scientific progress and in no way needed to save the greenhouse paradigm.

A basic theory put forward by Lindzen is that science fosters fear to secure funding. Well, politicians on all sides, including environmental activisists, certainly use this tactics sometimes to gain votes. But scientists? I know of many examples where science actually tries to fight exaggerated public fears, e.g. nuclear energy, genetic engineering, or the recent LHC-micro-black-holes panic. The argument that fear is the basis for funding science simply does not convince me at all.

Another critique of Lindzen is that science has deteriorated by moving from theory to simulation and modeling. I completely disagree: Numerical solution of complex equations is simply the logical way forward once your basic theory is known (which is the case in atmospheric and ocean dynamics) but you want actual solutions of the equations. The reason that modeling has become so large is simply that ever better computers have made this possible, a tool that was not available to scientists in the good old times conjured by Lindzen. An example of the power of numerical modeling is weather prediction, where models using the same core physics as climate models have achieved tremendous progress. Just remind yourself of how the tracks of this year's hurricanes have been predicted accurately many days in advance. This would not have been possible by theory alone, without numerically solving the equations.

Professional scientific societies are all politicized and infiltrated by environmentalists, according to Lindzen. This is why they require impressive presences in Washington. But what about the many non-US scientific societies which all support the global warming theory (see Coby's list, for example)? Are they all affected by the same virus? Global conspiracy in science, I suppose. See my remark above about conspiracy theories.

A funny detail is how Lindzen uses a workshop invitation by an IPCC organizing committee as a proof for political bias. I may be completely blinded, but I can't see anything suspicious in the document, which Lindzen adds as appendix 1. What's wrong with listing some of the topics that should be discussed at the workshop? I don't get it.


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Almost closed at the Commandant time cinemas have opened their doors, lined up at the box office queue. Noise, shouting, anger – all in time to pick up the tickets booked via the internet, or at least something, even the most extreme. And I tell you, Maleficent charms worth it.

I’ve heard that the film without Angelina would not have acted at all. Angelina – it really is Maleficent. As Audrey Tautou – Amelie or Vivien Leigh – is Scarlett.

Looked at from another angle, to be on the other side of evil – it is always interesting. After all “evil” negative nobody is born. These become. So for someone, we become because of this someone. And the story of Maleficent such touch and sharp (like a blade to the heart), that the whole film imponiruesh only to her. As an example, evil queens Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron – each in his “Snow White …”. Satisfaction of retribution for wrongs absorbed with Maleficent as much as Elsa in “Cold Heart.”

And the story itself began so different from “Sleeping Beauty”, I thought it was a brand new trailer for the tale. And that’s just need to see a movie about a mysterious Elfiki with eagle’s wings, branches, playing dolls. “And the name of that girl …” – I held my breath even sure not to miss the name – “Maleficent!”. Hmmm. I admit, confused. Although, really, the girl is malefisentskie horns.

Disney unpredictable surprises and more. The appearance of crow in devotional life witch, custom kiss salvation and the idea of the emergence removal spells – all this is surprising. And at the same time admire his consistency. As if all pazzliki laid in place. Only gift the third (green) fairies left hanging in the air. Rather, flew to the same place blew three fairies Maleficent.

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UAlbany Grad, Film Director, Makes Literary Debut

Jun 4, 2017

A University at Albany grad who has directed three successful short films is dabbling in the literary world.

Osaretin Oghomwen is a staunch advocate of women's empowerment and the roles women are taking on today.

High school experiences helped shape her unique perspective.  "I always was really artistic and writing was really natural for me. Actually I was 15 when I caught the filmmaking bug. And so I feel like my entire life has been like a balance between pursuing scientific interests and also wanting to satisfy my artistic self."

Her 2012 short film “Infatuation” was followed by “Goodbye, Apathy” in 2013 and  2015’s “Date Me Not.” All were critically acclaimed.

Goodbye, Apathy excerpt by Osaretin Oghomwen on Vimeo.

And like most people, Oghomwen would write things, here and there, save clippings and photographs, in what she admits was a very random fashion.   "My freshman year was spent at a Pennsylvania school, and I wanted to make my first short film and I was trying to think of creative ways to fundraise. I wanted to create like this confessional that I could sell and raise funds for the film. I actually met somebody randomly at a grocery store that gave me the money for my short film, it was really coincidental and I didn't have a need to fundraise for my film anymore. But the idea of creating a compilation of secrets and confessionals really stuck with me. So I spent the next six years just compiling intimate things and secrets that I considered to be my own perspectives on things, like my own egocentric and provocative viewpoints on things."

Building on her personal outlook and growing attraction to the women's empowerment movement, Oghomwen decided it was time to share her views in book form.    "I am celebrating and uplifting women and I am presenting my argument of why I feel like women are a superior gender. Presenting the advantages I see in my gender and praising my own gender, which I've gotten a lot of hate and intense feelings for. A lot of people don't appreciate my viewpoints on that, especially with some men that I have shared with. I just feel like because women have not really been involved in the type of violent ways that men have, so that is one of the arguments I make for why we are more advantageous as a gender."

The 26-year old graduated from UAlbany in 2013. She currently resides in Queens, New York.

With gender, Oghomwen tackles racial issues and popourri of social topics.  "So it was originally called 'The Motley Expose' and motley because it is a little bit assorted and random in its layout. A year or two ago I decided to call it 'l'etoiler,' which is derived from the French word 'L'etoile' and 'L'etoile' means 'star.'L'etoile is my favorite word in the human language."

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

hurricane sandy!!!

It's been a week of preparation for both Hailey and Philip with this hurricane hitting their areas.  We got an email from Hailey's mission on Friday letting us know that they were preparing all the missionaries with emergency kits, making sure they had plenty of food in their apartments, telling them all the safety procedures, etc.  Then we got pretty much the same email from Philip's mission yesterday.  Then, of course, we watch the weather channel and see the big circle of storm right over Hailey!  It's hard to know something like that is happening and not be able to be there for your kids!  But we have really been blessed with peace knowing Heavenly Father will take care of His missionaries!  Last night we got another email from Philip's mission saying at that point it wasn't looking like it would be quite as bad as they had anticipated, but they were still taking every precaution to be safe.  Then this afternoon we got word from Hailey's mission that all is well.  DC was hit pretty good, 400,000 people were without power in the area, but none of the missionaries lost their power!  It's great to be on the Lord's team, isn't it?!  Philip was able to write his email on Monday.  Hailey usually writes on Wednesday or Thursday, so I'm hoping we hear from her in a day or two.  I'm excited to hear their stories!!!

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Hi family,

We heard about the storm.  We were told to get a bunch of food and water in case something bad happens. They gave us a list to get at the store, and we got it all, so we should be fine...unless our building collapses!  We were told that the storm will be pretty bad here, but I don't know what to believe.  People say that it will be a way bad storm, and others say it won't be that bad, so we'll just see.

Halloween is on Wednesday.  I don't think we're supposed to go out and do anything, so we are just going to the Benson's (the senior couple in our area).  We are going to watch movies and stuff.  It should be fun.

Well, I guess that's all I have to write this week, so I will talk to you later,

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

catching up!!!

Ok it has been quite awhile!  My computer has had a virus that we have been struggling to take care of.  I think we're good now, so time to update!  I will condense all the letters I've missed into 1 letter.  I'm not incredibly creative, but hopefully this will distinguish between Hailey and Philip's letters.

Reminder of addresses:

Sister Hailey Wankier
Washington DC North Mission
11700 Falls Rd
Potomac, MD  20854-2823

Elder Philip Wankier
New York Utica Mission
PO Box 149
Whitesboro, NY  13492-0149

Hello Family!
Conference was AWESOME!  You should've been at the visitor center when President Monson announce the age change.  Every single sister gasped and got super excited and we are all just so happy about the news.  It'll be so good!  It's been a real testimony to me that the Lord needs more missionaries and that even though it's not required for sisters to serve, He needs them too!  It's so exciting, all the youth programs will be centered around missionary work.  The Lord is expecting so much out of the youth now and not only the youth, but everyone.  Elder Oaks' talk was amazing also.  A lot of times the parents just aren't stepping up and Elder Oaks called them out.  It was awesome!  That talk will shake a lot of people.  Elder Holland was awesome too!  Oh, that hit me so hard.  I LOVE IT!!

Well, I was transferred.  My new companion is Sister Welch.  She is a visitor center trainer, so we'll be at the visitor center more often.  our area is Kentlens.  It's where the President lives and the Assistants serve.  It'll be great.  The ward seems great and I'm excited to get to know everyone here.

We've got a couple teenage investigators.  I love it.  But it's hard because not all of them can see the need in their life, but they're willing to learn.  I love the youth though, so I don't mind at all.  I love it.  They are so fun to teach.  I can just be myself and be excited and they don't think I'm stupid...well they might, but that's okay!  Well, love you all, the church is true.  The visitor center is under construction and it's going to be awesome when it's finished.
Love, Sister Wankier

*pictures coming!

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Sundays are pretty good here but I have to say my favorite days here are Wednesdays.  That's my pday so I get to hang out with just regular clothes on.    I hope everything is good there.  Things are really good here.  I just got done playing basketball.  It was way fun.  I think I'm ready to be done; I'm just getting to the point where I want to be done at the MTC and get out to New York.  I got my travel plans today.  I leave at about 1:00 am.  So I'm going to need to stay up late that night.  Dang!  Well, I guess the next time I will write will probably be in New York or on the way there.  Talk to you later.  Love Philip

-in new york-
Hi everyone!  The flight was good and yes I am really tired still.  The MTC was a lot of fun and I still kinda wish I was there.  I am in a place called Ogdensburg.  It's not a big city but I guess it's an ok size.  My new companion's name is Elder Wilkins.  He is a pretty nice guy.  Towards the end of the MTC I just wanted to leave, but now I miss it.  I didn't realize how great it was until I left.  Same with my branch from the MTC.  We all slept over in the mission home where President and Sister Worthlin live and watched Mormon Messages, studied, and hung out the rest of the day.  We got there at about 2:30 in the afternoon and stayed the night there.  It was awesome.  The next day we went to a little bit of training and right as we got to the church they gave us our new companions.  I got really close to my district from the MTC, so it was sad to say goodbye.  One person that was in my district there is still in it now though.  His name is Elder Koga.  He was one of my favorites so that's good.  Everything is good now.  It's just getting used to everything.  Conference was really good.  I still have trouble staying awake, but from what I saw was good.

President Wirthlin said that we do get to go visit the church sites the last week of our mission.  We also get to go to the Palmyra temple.  So that's something to be excited for.  I found out too, that we have a meeting next month that is a training meeting, but my companion said that it's pretty much a MTC branch reunion.  We all get to have lunch and talk, and of course have a meeting.  I will be here for about 18 weeks.  It's my first area, and I'm being trained, so I have to be here longer.  I feel like I've been getting separation anxiety.  I have never been away from my ipod and music for so long in my life.  I believe that's what made me truly happy in life -- maybe not!  That's what I think though.  In the past when I have been able to pop those headphones in my ear, those were some of the happiest times of my life (next to my family :) )  To me my ipod is the equivalent to a girlfriend.  It's a hard relationship though!  Life is good!  I'll talk to you guys next week.  Philip

*pictures coming!


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Next Ford F-150 Unlikely to Be All Aluminum

Aluminum clearly is poised for spectacular growth in automotive, but despite its advantages, price and volume limitations still rule it out as the primary material for the next F-150, the highest-volume vehicle sold in the U.S.

It’s not often an automotive materials story becomes big news, but reports the next-generation Ford F-150 fullsize pickup truck, expected in 2014, will be aluminum-intensive has had the rumor mill churning for months.

There has been much speculation and anxiety in the blogosphere as to whether macho pickup buyers will accept a truck that uses aluminum in place of steel and weighs hundreds of pounds less. Some F-150 loyalists worry tough new fuel-economy regulations will force engineers to build wimpy trucks that can’t haul a trailer full of cotton candy.

Ford officials aren’t talking, but all the hand-wringing is unwarranted. WardsAuto first broke the story Jan. 3, about six months before other publications put the issue into the spotlight. The current F-150 already has an aluminum hood, the next-generation is expected to have aluminum fenders, doors and perhaps some other bits, but knowledgeable sources say crucial parts such as the truck frame and bed will continue to be made from steel.

That still represents some engineering daring on Ford’s part, but there is a big difference between adding some aluminum body panels (and maybe a tailgate) to a vehicle that already has aluminum powertrain, driveline and suspension parts, and a truck that is “all-aluminum.” This distinction has been lost in much of the discussion.

Clearly, corporate average fuel economy rules requiring auto makers to almost double fuel efficiency by 2025 are creating an opportunity for lightweight materials.

Thanks to fuel and emissions rules, Roland Harings, global automotive vice president for Novelis, the world’s largest producer of aluminum automotive sheet, sees demand for his product growing in North America, Europe and Asia at a compound annual rate of 25% (in poundage) for the next five years.

Novelis and other major aluminum producers such as Alcoa are investing hundreds of millions in production capacity to meet growing demand for a wide variety of parts.

Plus, many of the old production obstacles for aluminum are being removed. Harings declines to comment on the next-generation F-150, but he says stamping and fabricating parts in high volumes no longer is the challenge it used to be. He points to aluminum doors for BMW 5-Series and 7-Series cars currently being produced at the rate of 6,000 to 7,000 units per day.

And the number of true all-aluminum vehicles featuring bodies-in-white made from the material indeed is growing. The ’13 Range Rover is the industry’s latest showcase. Claimed to be the world’s first SUV with an all-aluminum unibody structure, Range Rover says the new truck’s body is 39% lighter than the outgoing model, providing a weight savings of up to 926-lbs. (420 kg). The U.S.-spec version will be an impressive 700 lbs. (318 kg) lighter.

The new Mercedes SL also features an all-aluminum body-in-white. Aluminum industry sources promise many more all-aluminum vehicles are coming.

Earlier this year, Randall Scheps, Alcoa’s marketing director of automotive sheet tells WardsAuto that in five years, aluminum body-in-white vehicles selling 200,000 units a year are a possibility.

Aluminum clearly is poised for spectacular growth in automotive, but despite its advantages, price and volume limitations still rule it out as the primary material for the next F-150, the highest-volume vehicle sold in the U.S.

Industry sources say U.S. auto makers typically pay $2.00 per pound for aluminum, compared with $0.30 to $0.50 per pound for steel. Cost is a major concern when selling a big vehicle like a fullsize pickup that starts at just $23,000. It’s less of an issue for Range Rover. Its two current ’12 models start at $60,000 and $80,000. The Mercedes SL starts at more than $106,000.

Volumes are equally disparate. Ford sold 385,439 light-duty F-150s through August, according to WardsAuto data. The current ’12 Range Rover saw U.S. sales of 5,490 Range Rover models, plus an additional 9,949 sales of its less pricey Sport models through August. Mercedes has sold 2,628 SL roadsters so far this year.

Ford may indeed make an all-aluminum F-150 someday, but don’t expect to see one in 2014.

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ICPBBE 2017 : 19th International Conference on Personalized Biomedicine and Biomedical Engineering

Durban, South Africa
January 12 - 13, 2017

Conference Code: 17ZA01ICPBBE

International Research Conference Aims and Objectives

The ICPBBE 2017: 19th International Conference on Personalized Biomedicine and Biomedical Engineering aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Personalized Biomedicine and Biomedical Engineering. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Personalized Biomedicine and Biomedical Engineering.

Call for Contributions

All honorable authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Personalized Biomedicine and Biomedical Engineering are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials.WASET

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All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The peer-reviewed conference proceedings are indexed in the International Science Index (ISI), Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Zenedo, OpenAIRE, BASE, WorldCAT, Sherpa/RoMEO, and other index databases. Impact Factor Indicators.

Special Journal Issues

ICPBBE 2017 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Personalized Biomedicine and Biomedical Engineering. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly. Selected full-text papers will be published online free of charge.

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Abstracts/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline   November 30, 2016
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection   December 5, 2016
Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission & Early Bird Registration Deadline   December 10, 2016
Conference Dates   January 12 - 13, 2017

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Please refer to the Paper Submission GUIDE before submitting your paper.

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1) Evaluation of the MCFLIRT Correction Algorithm in Head Motion from Resting State fMRI Data
V. Sacca, A. Sarica, F. Novellino, S. Barone, T. Tallarico, E. Filippelli, A. Granata, P. Valentino, A. Quattrone
2) Trabecular Bone Radiograph Characterization Using Fractal, Multifractal Analysis and SVM Classifier
I. Slim, H. Akkari, A. Ben Abdallah, I. Bhouri, M. Hedi Bedoui
3) Generation of Electro-Encephalography Readiness Potentials by Intention
Seokbeen Lim, Gilwon Yoon
4) Computational Study of Blood Flow Analysis for Coronary Artery Disease
Radhe Tado, Ashish B. Deoghare, K. M. Pandey
5) Optimal ECG Sampling Frequency for Multiscale Entropy-Based HRV
Manjit Singh
6) A Dose Distribution Approach Using Monte Carlo Simulation in Dosimetric Accuracy Calculation for Treating the Lung Tumor
Md Abdullah Al Mashud, M. Tariquzzaman, M. Jahangir Alam, Tapan Kumar Godder, M. Mahbubur Rahman
7) Mathematical Description of Functional Motion and Application as a Feeding Mode for General Purpose Assistive Robots
Martin Leroux, Sylvain Brisebois
8) Comparative Evaluation of Accuracy of Selected Machine Learning Classification Techniques for Diagnosis of Cancer: A Data Mining Approach
Rajvir Kaur, Jeewani Anupama Ginige
9) A Pre-Assessment Questionnaire to Identify Healthcare Professionals’ Perception on Information Technology Implementation
Y. Atilgan Şengül
10) Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using a Combination of Images Processing and Brain Signals
E. Irankhah, M. Zarif, E. Mazrooei Rad, K. Ghandehari
11) Basic Research for Electroretinogram Moving the Center of the Multifocal Hexagonal Stimulus Array
Naoto Suzuki
12) Identification of Disease Causing DNA Motifs in Human DNA Using Clustering Approach
G. Tamilpavai, C. Vishnuppriya
13) Microfluidic Plasmonic Bio-Sensing of Exosomes by Using a Gold Nano-Island Platform
Srinivas Bathini, Duraichelvan Raju, Simona Badilescu, Muthukumaran Packirisamy
14) Diagnosis of Diabetes Using Computer Methods: Soft Computing Methods for Diabetes Detection Using Iris
Piyush Samant, Ravinder Agarwal
15) Effect of Aging on the Second Law Efficiency, Exergy Destruction and Entropy Generation in the Skeletal Muscles during Exercise
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Denver Attorney Suspended From SCOTUS Bar

Today's Order List from the U.S. Supreme Court, in addition to one grant of a writ of certiori,* a few GVRs (grant, vacate and remand orders where an appellate court decision where a writ of certiori was granted in another case on the same issue is returned to the appellate court for reconsideration in light of the new U.S. Supreme Court precedent), and a mind numbing list of matters in which relief was denied, including this entry:

Robert T. McAllister, of Denver, Colorado, is suspended from
the practice of law in this Court and a rule will issue,
returnable within 40 days, requiring him to show cause why he
should not be disbarred from the practice of law in this Court.

Mr. MacAllister, a high profile criminal defense attorney, was disbarred based upon a stipulation reached in June of 2011 from Colorado's state court bar for converting client funds. He acknowledged converting the funds, most of which had been frozen pursuant to a court order. The news account suggests that he was excellent at his job as a criminal defense attorney, a career in which he had thirty years of experience, but succumbed to temptation after facing financial ruin from unrelated business deals gone bad in the wake of the financial crisis (the parallel case of Tom Martino's bankruptcy comes to mind).

Disbarment is pretty much an automatic consequence for that offense (indeed, disbarment is the norm even when client funds are intentionally borrowed and returned without the knowledge of the client and without harm to the client arising), absent the most extreme mitigating circumstances, or a complete lack of intent that is promptly correctly when discovered.

Each federal court has its own list of lawyers admitted to practice before it that is separate from that of the state courts which have primary responsibility for admission to the practice of law. Reciprocal discipline in on federal court jurisdiction based upon a state bar membership sanction is routine, but not instantaneous.

* See below.

Certiorari Granted On International Copyright Issue

The issue in the case where certiorari was granted, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is:

How do Section 602(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, which prohibits the importation of a work without the authority of the copyright’s owner, and Section 109(a) of the Copyright Act, which allows the owner of a copy “lawfully made under this title” to sell or otherwise dispose of the copy without the copyright owner’s permission, apply to a copy that was made and legally acquired abroad and then imported into the United States?

FWIW, I suspect that the Supreme Court will hold that Section 602(a)(1) trumps Section 109(a). This was the holding the divided three judge panel in the Second Circuit, from this case was appealed held and the 9th Circuit has also previously held in Omega S.A. v. Costco Wholesale Corp., 541 F.3d 982 (9th Cir. 2008), aff'd by an evenly divided Court, Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S.A., ___ U.S. ___, 131 S.Ct. 565, 178 L.Ed.2d 470 (2010). The U.S. Supreme Court probably decided to grant certiori in the absence of the circuit split in this case because Justice Ginsberg specifically identified the fact pattern presented in this case as an open question in a concurring opinion in Quality King Distrib., Inc. v. L'anza Research Int'l Inc., 523 U.S. 135, 118 S.Ct. 1125 L.Ed.2d 254 (1998), which addressed similar issues. The somewhat unsettled state of U.S. law on this point has been used as a defense to willful infringement penalties for this kind of alleged copyright violation in other cases.

While I am a sharp critic of U.S. intellectual property laws in many respects, on the grounds that its protections are far too expansive, impairs free speech considerations, and should be based upon principles of unjust enrichment rather than the metaphor of property rights, this is not one of the rules of copyright law that is obviously broken. The holding of the 2nd and 9th Circuits appears to reflect Congressional intent in this situation. It is hard to imagine what other rule related to importation that Congress could have sensibly meant in this context.

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Target :- Energetic youth from round the world gathered together to learn Indian culture ,food ,yoga and bring friendship and learn each other culture. Duration : 2 weeks Project Background:- India is always been famous for its culture ,tradition,language and food cuisine . Different culture ,dress code ,language and cooking style made the country like a continent ! While volunteering in this camps youth can have chance to interact with the East Indian ( Bengali ) culture and food . Volunteers and local family together exchange the culture and cook food . Volunteers would have a chance to learn Indian yoga & meditation basic lesion in this camp.Youth volunteers have golden chance to know about the ethnic heritage of East Indian cuisine and tradition . It would a great fun filled time for groups. Activities:- In this camp volunteers from round the world would have chance to exchange culture,language,food etc. Special attraction for this camp would be Yoga & Meditation lesson , local cooking lesson, local language class. It would be fun fill entertainment camp where Indian family and international youth can have a platform to each other culture and life style. Camp would take place in the suburb call Madhyamgram which is just 8 km from Kolkata Airport .Transportation, electricity,shopping places are all around.Nearest rail and bus station is with in 2 km .Life is very simple and peaceful around. Field service Work Hour: 2 hr./day ( Monday to Friday early morning) Work shop: 2 hrs per day ( afternoon) Example Daily Schedule: Wake up early morning: 6 am Breakfast: 6:30 am ( required to prepared by own) Project hour : As per project In charge. Lunch at 1:30-2 p.m late afternoon: 3 - 5pm, workshop time for volunteers Dinner : 7 pm ( volunteers required help themselves in serving ,washing ) After 8 pm exit door would be closed.No one allowed to go out or come in the accommodation after 8 pm everyday including weekends. 9:30 bed time ** Please remember that programme schedule or project site can be changed or altered by the Project In-charge if required and all volunteers are requested to cooperate with our local members and partners. All schedule should be followed and mandatory for everyone to participate and contribute **
Accommodation: Dormitory basis in host family/school building as per available on arrival ( on cot with mattress/on floor with mattress, 4-30 volunteers in one room) shared accommodation (normally male & female separate room). You will get accommodation till 6 pm on the last day of your camp.We are unable to provide you any accommodation before or after these dates. Please arrange your own accommodation in case of early arrival or late departure .You are requested to meet our representative at the meeting place on exact time given above. If you arrive early then you can have your stay in any of the different hotels available nearby Airport, within 2 -3 km .on the road popularly called as V.I.P road. You are requested to take any cab to check in any of these hotels. If you arrive at earlier night then you are requested to stay inside the airport terminal and meet at the next morning with our representative at 12 noon. Food: You will get 3 times local veg food from host family/guest house as per available on arrival. Please do not expect any kind of special dishes (veg/non veg) or cold drinks or special living room or air conditioned room during your term. You are requested to get ready for a simple and challenging life.
Kolkata( itself is a great tourist place with its historical value ) is well connected with many famous and attractive tourist places during weekends  .... *puri ( the famous Hindu religious place and sea beach ) *Digha ( sea beach )*Bodh Gaya ( Famous Buddhist temple ) *varanashi ( famous Hindu temple and Ganges ) *shantiniketan ( one of the university established by great Nobel laureate Sri Rabindranath Tagor) *Bishnupur ( ancient Bengali history, tera cotta ( clay made item ) ,sari etc. Any of these places can be covered during weekends by train by self organise !! ********************* organised Package trip at the end of the camp can be organised by professionals...... * Taj Mahal ,Jaipur,Delhi etc. trip can also organise for the interested groups against extra cost ( minimum 2 person) * weekends exciting city ( kolkata ) and around trip can also be organised against extra cost. ...................
Loca We need energetic your volunteer with open mind and ready to get their hand dirty. You need to be strong and flexible. India is a beautiful country but challenging for some people . Local culture,people are interesting but weather is hot and humid in summer ,so get ready to explore an amazing country with full of surprises . Due to big cultural differences some volunteer might face cultural shock! Our request to all New comers please read about India and Indian culture as much as possible before you apply for the project. If you got any queries ask anytime. These are the documents we need on arrival :- *Passport copy *VISA copy *Photograph( recent colour copy) *Parents permission letter if you are below 18 years. *Living cost INR 12500/head /camp(2 weeks) ( payment on arrival by cash ) *you should not have any criminal records. What to bring: You can follow traditional packing lists, but here are several items that would be particularly helpful for this volunteer experience: A bed sheet malaria medication flashlight umbrella mosquito repellent with DEET sunscreen alarm clock OR watch with alarm clock journal sleeping bag Any games or craft items like Origami would be great for the kids Rain coat Snacks from your country for kids, host family and volunteers Music/ dress / special souvenir from your country Medicine and first aid supplies for emergency personal use Any special games or study material for kindergarten standard kids Clothing: - fibrous (ex: linen or cotton or anything that is COOL and dries fast in natural sun) - for women, bring conservative clothing that covers the shoulders (ex: shirts with capped sleeves) NO shorts, bikinis, sleeveless clothes outside your own bed room (strictly). sandals head covering (bandanas, hat) towel that dries FAST. Mosquito net, Toilet paper, Soap and shampoo for personal use.
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Check out Part 1 here: Plyometric jumps: Shock tactics part 1

Many coaches want to know how many drop jump sets and ground contacts should be incorporated into a session…

Adding resistance to drop jumps

Drop jumps can be performed more obviously with the athlete wearing a weighted vest or carrying dumbbells or with a barbell/Powerbag across their shoulders. Less obvious is the use of resistance bands that are designed to increase the reactivity of the transition into the concentric part of the jump. Malaysian researchers, although using the counter movement jump (CMJ) for analysis, produced some very interesting results, which could be translated to the drop jump. The CMJ requires the athlete to lower (absorb more when compared to a drop jump) and extend their legs in order to jump for height.

Fifteen trained males performed three types of CMJ: one used no added downward tensile force and the other two downward tensile forces equivalent to 20% and 30% of the performers’ body mass. So, how did the researchers add this downward tensile force? The athletes flexed their thighs in preparation for the jump (the ‘counter movement’ part), whilst attached to an elasticised-type harness which increased resistance as indicated, on leaping upwards the harness was released. (Thus they were pulled down into the jump using the elastic properties of bands). The researchers discovered with CMJ against 30% resistance, the maximal concentric vertical ground reaction force was increased by 6.34%, power output by 23.21% and jump height by 9.52%.

The very positive results of this innovative study have some very interesting applications for the drop jump. It’s possible that jumps from a height that is seen to develop strength (1.50m according to Verkhoshansky) could have their reactivity enhanced by the use of downward tensile force – thus closing the gap between developing strength and maximum strength in one drop jump. Likewise jumps from a lower platform-height (optimised between 50-75cm) could have their reactivity speed super-enhanced by the use of this training methodology.

So what about the reverse scenario – adding resistance?

Verkhoshansky carried out a number of experiments and concluded that adding resistance did not improve jump performance. Specifically adding resistance decreased the height of the jump on landing and slowed reactivity, compared to un-loaded jumps – more on this when we consider jumping angle.

Jumping Angles

Another variable that can affect the specific outcome of drop jumping is the angle of the subsequent jump/jumps after landing i.e. whether it’s for height, or distance or a combination of the two. Spanish researchers looked at previous drop jump research that considered jump angle as well as extra resistance and the effects this had on sprinters. Twenty-six studies were included in the research and after analysis and it was discovered specifically in terms of improving sprint performance and drop jumps that, “….. To optimise sprint enhancement, the combination of different types of plyometrics and the use of training programmes that incorporate greater horizontal acceleration (i.e. sprint specific plyometrics), jumps with a horizontal displacement would be recommended.”

Additionally and corroborating the works of Verkhoshansky, no benefit was to be found from adding resistance to plyometric exercises. Thus the take-home value for sports coach and athlete alike is to carefully analyse their sport and develop a programme of drop jumps (and other plyometric exercises) that have as close a resemblance as possible to the key jump and movement patterns involved in their sport. Suitable drop jumps for developing sprint speed, for example, could involve jumping from a 50-75cm platform to land on one leg and perform two hop or three bounds and so. Another innovative drill would be to land on two feet and then immediately sprint 15m. The athlete must absorb the landing (quickly remember) and then move one foot forward extremely rapidly to sprint away. This drill requires a lot of mental effort and taxes the central nervous system (CNS) in particular – of which more later.

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Training Volume

Many coaches want to know how many drop jump sets and ground contacts should be incorporated into a session. There is no simple answer to this one, as the training maturity of the athlete, their experience and the time in the training year will all impact on this decision. However, perhaps the key consideration – once the athlete is able to perform the plyometric exercise (whatever it is) with optimum technique – is quality. As has been stressed if reaction time begins to slow as indicated by a decreasing vertical or horizontal distance achieved or perhaps more pertinently by an increase in ground contact time, then the session is best truncated.

Training at sub-optimal speeds will elicit overtime sub-optimal transference into the athlete’s sport. It’s probably the case that a ‘less is more’ approach should be adopted when it comes to drop jumps. The CNS acts as a control centre for the body with much debate raging over how much of it functions at the conscious or subconscious level. In terms of sports training it relays and interprets signals, stresses and responses from around the body and this includes the shock forces associated with drop jumps and other plyometric exercises. If CNS fatigue is allowed to build up – in one session or over a training period and in particular a competitive period, then the ‘drain’ on the CNS can be deleterious to sports performance.

How is this so?

The athlete may be unable to react as quickly as he would when performing a drop jump, for example and this could lead to a declining beneficial yield in terms of adaption form the activity into performance (in extreme cases it could also lead to over-training and injury). Spanish researchers discovered as indicated that a less is more approach may be the most successful drop jump training approach. Their research involved 3 different drop jump volumes – 1 day, 2 days and 4 days a week. Maximal strength, vertical jump and sprint performance were evaluated as outcomes of these programmes. The 1- day-a-week group performed 420 jumps in total, the 2-days-a-week group, 840 jumps and the 4-days-a-week group, 1680 jumps.

There was also a control group and the survey lasted 7 weeks. Three different drop heights were used for the drop jumps – 20, 40 and 60cm (heights that would elicit a greater speed component than strength one). Maximal strength (1 repetition maximum [1RM] and maximal isometric strength), vertical height in counter-movement jumps and drop jumps and 20m sprint time tests were carried out before and after the 7 weeks of plyometric training. It was discovered that the 2-day-a-week protocol produced similar enhancements in jumping performance, but with greater training efficiency (approximately 12% and 0.014% per jump) compared the 4-days-a-week, training frequency (approximately 18% and 0.011% per jump).

In addition, similar enhancements in 20m-sprint time, jumping contact times and maximal strength were observed in both 2-day and 1-day-a-week groups compared with the high training frequency group. Thus, in a time-crunched training programme the benefits to be gained by performing more drop jump sessions, rather than fewer seem limited. The drop jump offers both athletes and coaches a great training tool. However, for athletic performance to be optimised through its use a number of crucial variables must be carefully considered. Understanding optimum drop-height is particularly crucial as is the avoidance of adding additional loading. Equally important ground contact times must be optimised and take-off angles utilised that replicate as closely as possible the sport that the athlete is training for. Drain on the CNS must be monitored and in the light of this, a more circumspect approach over their use rather than a judicious one would seem prudent.

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On April 19, the U.S. Department of State released its 36th annual "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," which provides official commentary on the current state of human rights in 199 different countries and regions. On April 21, the State Information Center of China released its 2012 "Human Rights Record of the United States," which examined human rights issues using detailed data and facts.

In comparing U.S. commentary about human rights in other countries with its own domestic human rights situation, it is easy to see how U.S. beliefs about human rights are narrow-minded and have led to serious negative effects.

First, the U.S. has focused too much on libertarian ideals, while simultaneously ignoring the impact of individual liberty on the rights of other citizens. The growing number of citizens with firearms, for instance, has caused almost 100,000 deaths each year. In 2012, for example, the number of casualties that resulted from a school shooting in Oakland, California and similar incidents shocked the world. However, the issue of gun control in the U.S. still has difficulty making any substantial progress. In two different cases, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that local and state gun control laws were unconstitutional.

Second, the one-sided emphasis on civil and political rights has ignored the protection of economic, social and cultural rights. The U.S. government has yet to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which has already been signed by 160 countries throughout the world. In the U.S., almost 46 million people are living below the federal poverty level, and almost 9 million people are unemployed. The U.S. is also one of the few developed Western nations that does not provide universal health coverage for its citizens.

Third, this one-sided emphasis on rights also ignores real issues. In the 2012 U.S. presidential election, for example, several Asian-American voters encountered obstacles to voting and were subjected to discrimination. The special rapporteur for the U.N. Human Rights Council accused the U.S. of failing to ensure that African-Americans and Latino-Americans were able to fully exercise their right to vote. Likewise, current African-American unemployment rates are twice as high as those of whites, African-American median household income is less than 60 percent of the equivalent income of whites, and African-American poverty rates are three times as high as those of white people. American women's wages are only 77 percent of those of men, black women make 62 percent of what black men make and Latino women only make 54 percent of what Latino men make. The Muslim population accounts for less than 1 percent of the total U.S. population, but 14 percent of religious discrimination suits involve Muslims, making up 25 percent of workplace religious discrimination. An online film that insulted the prophet of Islam has also triggered a wave of Muslim protests throughout the world.

Fourth, the U.S. maintains a double standard with its viewpoints on human rights while bashing the human rights of citizens of other countries. After the end of the Cold War, for instance, the U.S. became the country to have declared the most wars. U.S. troops in Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries have caused countless deaths of innocent civilians, not including the number of corpses burned or religious desecrations. In Iraq, after prominent U.S. usage of white phosphorous bombs and uranium during the Iraq War, infant birth defect rates have increased substantially. The U.S also refused to comply with the provisions of the Geneva Conventions in reference to the rights of prisoners of war, and it continues to hold 171 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay without trial, torturing them by a variety of methods. The U.S. military also has a track record of raping local women, which has triggered anti-U.S. protests.

Finally, the U.S. accepts as the sole criterion only its own standards and systems for the protection of human rights, ignoring the economic, political, social and cultural differences that exist in other countries. This shows a lack of respect for other countries' freedom of choice in protecting human rights. Thanks to its leadership role in the international community, the U.S. is able to throw unwarranted accusations at the human rights situations of other countries but refuses to join U.N. organizations like the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, among others. In 2012, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution for development rights, and the U.S. was the only country to vote against it.

The U.S. government's intolerant view toward human rights not only makes its citizens blind to their own domestic human rights situation, but also leads it to arrogantly critique human rights in other countries, with disastrous consequences to the state of international human rights.


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The Partnership is based at Wayland House, which it was able to secure with European funding as a community asset in 2005. This serves as a hub for the local community where you can access support services such as Breckland Council, as well as start-up office spaces for small businesses, meeting and training rooms, the Tourist Information Centre and the increasingly popular Dragonfly Gallery.

Over the years, the Wayland Partnership has won recognition for its work – from Action for Market Towns, EDP Norfolk, the Countryside Agency, the East of England Development Agency, the Carnegie Trust, the Diocese and Pride in Breckland. In 2011 the Partnership was awarded the Social Enterprise Mark for our work combining enterprise with social benefit.

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March 29, 2012

Well, this has certainly been a really hard two weeks for our family.
I have had to pick up one of my kids from school this week, I think the sadness of loosing two little kids that we have all been dreaming about for the last 6 months, was making her feel physically sick.  The kids are heartbroken, and I wonder for them how easy it is to deal with.  As adults we discuss this all the time, so I know for kids it must be harder to process.

Grief hits you at strange times too, I was talking about the boys with a good friend who took me out for coffee all morning and was ok, but as soon as I mentioned it to one of the kids teachers I burst out crying.  Slightly embarrassing!

There are those who possibly wonder why this is so hard....we only spent a week with them, they are not biological, and we haven't seen them for 5 months.  Having children in general is an idea, or dream that grows in your heart, not just your belly.  The journey itself to adoption is just like a pregnancy, but in some ways having done both, adoption is a very emotional journey because you meet the child and then have all this time in the middle to plan and dream for that particular child, knowing you are at the mercy of 'the process'.

We have been so grateful for all the love and support we have had, but it is really sad to really believe they are gone.  Transitioning in our minds from being their parents (having just named them for court) to, we will never see them again or know what their future will be.  Going from, we would have been seeing them in a few weeks to never seeing them is so hard to wrap your mind and heart around.

I know we will get there xx

March 24, 2012

Part of our Dream is Over

Instead of news that we are traveling back to see our boys and go to court, we have had news that they have been adopted by another family.

I won't post all the details publicly as somethings are quite sensitive in the adoption process, but I will do my best to give the main details of our devastating news.

When we returned from our first trip to meet the twins we were in love!  They were happy, easy to amuse children who we felt would fit right in with our family.
I was a bit concerned that they started being heavily advertised, more than usual, and put on to a list called the "Train of Hope", which until last week we had no idea what that really meant.  A group of families from around Russia signed up for this "train of Hope" and travelled to Vladivostok this week to meet children who were put onto that list.  'Our' boys have now been adopted by a family who participated in this.

 I am happy for kids that now have found their families of course, but I am devastated that out of all the orphans in Vladivostok, why did the boys have to be put on to a list when we had signed to adopt them.

Our kids are very sad, lots of tears.

So where to from here:
We will have to now wait for a new referral, hopefully it won't be too long.
When we started this process it was two trips to Russia, now because of this we are looking at four trips total.  I do hate the feeling of starting again.

Thanks for all the love that has been poured out for our family so far, it has helped us a lot.

March 13, 2012

Very Grateful

I would just like to say a HUGE thank you to the couple of people who have given
Money to help with our journey to bring these Little boys home.
Some of the funds have been put in to an adoption bank account so wont
show up on the "chip in" counter, but last week we had about $1900 nzd given.
One family are missionaries, so really not made of money themselves,
but really wanted to help.

I fell really grateful, that people are so with us in this huge, scary, wonderful, adventure, we are on.
I have had lots of other people help in other ways which is just as wonderful.
My lovely hairdresser charges me silly prices to help, and pays for my coffee when we go out!
The lawyer we use to get all the stack of documents notarized has been amazing,
given the amount of times we have been to him.  Usually it is $80 for a one page
and the last couple of visits have been about 20 pages each, and he has charged
me only $75 for the bundle!!
I have other stories of similar stories,  and at this point every little bit helps.

March 9, 2012

It is starting to feel a little closer

This is just a short update to let you know that our court documents were submitted to the Russian court on Tuesday 6th March.  So we are hoping that we will have a court date really soon.

What does all this mean in the process:
Well, as soon as we have our court date, we will be able to travel back to Russia to visit the boys, have an 8 doctor medical, and finally go to court to ask the judge to allow us to be the parents of these two wee boys.

Once we are approved to adopt them, we will come back home, and return 30 days later to pick them up. They are not allowed to leave the orphanage until the 30 day appeal period is up, and then we can get them both passports to travel back to New Zealand.

This waiting, waiting, waiting is really hard!  I hope we get a timeframe soon, so they can put us out of our misery.  We just want to bring them home.