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Bill Callahan the Family Man
With his first new album in six years, the deep voice of American solitude makes an unlikely case for domestic bliss.
Photos by Eli Durst
by Sam Sodomsky
After a weekend of storms, the sun is out, shining lazily through the windshield of Bill Callahan's Subaru Outback. He's slowly steering through Austin, Texas, the city he's called home for the past decade and a half. At 52, Callahan has long been revered as an archetype for strong, silent men—the kind who fixate on the inevitability of death, who express their lidded emotions via terse tales of rivers and highways, whose private lives seem allergic to our culture of oversharing. But on this April afternoon, he's unburdened, if a little tired.
Looking like a cool English teacher on summer break in a T-shirt, jeans, and a black hemp baseball cap, he confesses his fondness for Twitter ("I love reading people's sentences"), the American version of "The Office" ("I found it to be a very romantic show"), and Ariana Grande's recent hits ("Very self-referential—she's making a story of herself"). Occasionally, he rambles. At one point, the same guy who used to be so guarded that he'd only conduct interviews via fax unravels an Inception-style story-within-a-story that's essentially about his 4-year-old son, Bass, not wanting to go to school. "I don't want this interview to be all about my kid," he adds with a laugh. Then he pauses. "Well, that's up to me, I guess."
For all his disarming candidness, though, Bill Callahan the songwriter—patient, wise, observant, stoney—is not so different than Bill Callahan the hemp-hatted dad. In conversation, as with his records, cavernous pauses between thoughts are common, a sign of deeper focus, an excuse to lean in closer. And just like the wry jokes in his songs, his casual remarks can suddenly turn idiomatic. "It's one of mankind's greatest achievements, the car," he says in the driver's seat. "Every time I turn on the car, it's exciting to me—potential." Then he's quiet, eyes on the road.
As we make our way through Austin, Callahan keeps a running joke about the various places where we could stop to discuss Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, his luminous new record. He points out a construction site that used to be a Hooters, a golf course, a sauna. The sweat box seems like a good idea until he considers how it might feel to shed light on his creative process in a room where everyone else is trying to relax. "I'd feel like a douche," he deadpans. He settles on a coffee shop.
Across a recording career that's spanned more than three decades, Callahan has become known for his insular self-sufficiency. Since abandoning his Smog moniker in 2007 to record under his birth name, his music has grown more sparse and stoic, a series of country landscapes with a bold, well-traveled narrator just outside the frame. As his voice has grown deeper and stronger, his lyrics have aged gracefully along with it. At their best, his records suggest an ongoing investigation into why we're here, and what we're supposed to know before we leave. On his last album, 2013's languid Dream River, he presented a series of existential quandaries with zenlike resolve, as if he had been chosen to consult a higher power and bring back answers for the rest of us. "Is life a ride to ride?" he sang. "Or a story to shape and confide?/Or chaos neatly denied?"
It's been nearly six years since he raised those questions, a veritable eternity in his prolific career. Since his earliest self-released tapes in the late '80s—noisy, fragmented works of outsider art that bear no resemblance to his recent material—Callahan has maintained a ceaseless pace, never taking more than two years between records. This devotion has served as a guiding light through his body of work, which ranks among the wisest and most consistent among his generation of American songwriters.
"Music was all I had to do to feel like I was being a worthwhile human," he says, looking back. "Then some things came along and made music not number one anymore… or, at least, put it in a three-way-tie for number one."
In 2014, Callahan married Hanly Banks, a documentarian and therapist who directed his 2012 tour film Apocalypse. Bass arrived the following year. The family moved briefly to Santa Barbara, California, but Callahan found himself overwhelmed by the new surroundings and unable to focus. "When a cat walks into a room, it has to look all around and make sure it's safe before it can curl up and go to sleep," he explains. "I'm the same way."
They moved back to Austin, and Callahan's songs started flowing again. Where his last few albums unfurled painstakingly, like serene novellas, Shepherd is more like a scrapbook, filled with memories, sketches, jokes. The songs are shorter, and the guy singing them seems somehow closer—a byproduct of the album's all-acoustic setting, and Callahan's newly direct approach to writing. It's what he calls a "real-life record."
Callahan tells me he's trying to be "more of an open book" in general, and many of these songs seem jarringly domestic coming from one of modern folk music's most elusive wanderers. Throughout Shepherd, he uses the lowest, oakiest reaches of his baritone to acknowledge the renovators working on his home, or to briefly summarize a scene from "Sesame Street," or to say things like, "I got married/To my wife/She's lovely."
As Callahan and I wander through a public park where he often takes his son to play, he speaks frankly about his romantic conversion. "Love is the answer to pretty much everything," he says after deliberation, as if he's genuinely considering the myriad questions it could solve. "If we can just love each other's complete and utter humanness, that's what everything boils down to, really."
Callahan still speaks with veritable hearts in his eyes about his honeymoon in Kauai, Hawaii, which he calls the "best place on Earth," and he rhapsodizes about his imagined responsibility to "bang the drum for marriage." He even tries to cajole me into popping the question to my girlfriend in New York right then and there. "Come to Jesus," he drawls. "I'm gonna get you to propose—on the phone!"
Passing a small garden, he stops to admire a bunch of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush flowers. "Usually they come once a season, but it's been so hot and cold here that they keep coming back," he says. "It's a new spring every couple weeks, and they bloom again." We stop by a pond where three turtles are lined up statuesque on a log, and Callahan talks about wanting to spend more time around the house, tending his own garden. "I'd like to have a backyard full of watermelons," he says.
Domestic life was something Callahan didn't anticipate, something that occurred with the intensity of hard rain. "I had never really believed in 'the one,' I just thought you find someone that seems pretty good and you try to make it work," he says. "But now I believe in that. It's not a cakewalk, but it just feels like it's supposed to be, and you'll do anything to keep it going, because you need it."
Callahan has sung about love before, and some of his past relationships—with fellow indie artists like Joanna Newsom, Chan Marshall, and Cynthia Dall—have been among the few (relatively) public aspects of his personal life out there. His writing on the subject has ranged from bleak to darkly humorous, up through his more open-ended and mystical observations. "Well, I could tell you about the river," he sang to a partner on 2007's Woke on a Whaleheart, "or we could just get in."
The love songs on Shepherd delight in a different kind of intimacy. I point out how surprising the setting of the new record is at first, hearing him tell stories confined to small spaces, with the wilderness far in the distance. He nods. "There's a lot about 'the house' on the record. Kids need a house. They love routine."
After his son was born, Callahan was unsure where fatherhood fit into his life as a musician. He considered abandoning his career to be a full-time dad. "It's a worthwhile thing you can do with your life, no shame in that," he says. "But then I realized that the old me that made music had to stay alive, or else I would die."
Having a child meant there would be less music in the house—with a guitar in his hands, the focus was away from his son, and that wouldn't fly. Same goes for meditating, a strict practice he had to fit into pared down pockets of his day, like when he would sit on a yoga ball and bounce his son to sleep. "It was a big shakeup," he says of his new roles as father and husband. To illustrate the balance, he holds his hands out and asks, "How do I hold all these things?"
Nowadays it's a little easier to manage. He tells me that Bass can sing along to the beginning of Shepherd's "The Ballad of the Hulk," a hushed and ambling song that uses actor Bill Bixby's 1978 portrayal of the comic book character as an archetype for all kinds of inwardly destructive men, somewhere mid-transformation. Callahan also mentions how his son occasionally wanders over to his dad's work shed to play some drums or harmonica. When I ask if he ever considered including Bass' musical handiwork on the album, Callahan responds firmly: "No one wants to hear that."
A lyric from the new record, in a song called "Son of the Sea," reads, "The house is full of life; life is change." "I don't know very many records that are about being happily married and having a kid," Callahan tells me, citing Carly Simon as a source of inspiration for Shepherd. "I just wanted to prove that your life doesn't end if you settle down."
In the last few months, Callahan has started keeping a dream journal, and 80 percent of the entries take place in airplanes or airports. "On an airplane, you get a cross section of humanity," he says. Another long pause. "In sweatpants." Both his last album and this new one include songs about air travel, but where Dream River's "Small Plane" dealt with two people learning to take off with each other, Shepherd's "747" extends far beyond, envisioning heaven as a place from which our souls are delivered at birth. The song itself seems to follow this journey. "We turned darkness into morning," he repeats. "And we turned belief into evening." When I mention that it's hard to imagine him writing such a joyous reverie at any other point in his career, he reminds me that it's all part of the same story: "But the song is also about death."
As his new album was taking shape over the last few years, Callahan continued performing live, drawing on material from throughout his catalog. It marked the first time he played live without new music to showcase so, to keep himself interested, he began adding covers to the set. One of them was a standard he learned from the foundational folk group the Carter Family called "Lonesome Valley." Its lyrics are simple, revolving around a refrain—"Everybody's gotta walk the lonesome valley"—and listing individual family members as examples. The song appears near the end of Shepherd and includes gently reassuring backing vocals from his wife. Explaining his decision to include the cover, he says, "Because that song deals with family and family dying, it just seemed like... good roots."
The hardest laugh I hear from Callahan all day comes when I ask if he was close with his father, who, along with his mother, worked for the National Security Agency. "Um, no," he eventually replies. "A few years ago he told me, 'I didn't really care about any of you kids. I was just focused on myself and my career.' It was a hard thing to hear so directly. At least he was being honest."
As a new dad, Callahan has been thinking of his own childhood, and what he wants to do differently. "Probably because I had a kid so late in my life, my parenting skills are not reactionary—I'm not really trying to prove anything to my dad." He laughs. "I make my decisions more just from common sense." His philosophy is contained in "Tugboats and Tumbleweeds," the new album's penultimate song, which offers advice from father to son. Among the wisdom: Solitude can be illuminating, as can wandering, just as long as you don't mislead someone you love. To prove his point, the song ends with his pledge of commitment: "You're my tugboat," he sings sweetly.
While Shepherd is largely an ode to stability, it's also a study in impermanence. In May 2018, Callahan's mother died of cancer. She and his father had moved from Wisconsin to Austin after Bass' birth. "I knew it would be very difficult to oversee their old age from so far away," he says. "So I was like, 'Why don't you just come here... and die.'" He laughs at the bluntness. "I didn't say the 'die' part. But that's what happened."
Callahan stayed by his mother's side through her decline. "I had never really sat with someone in their last few months, weeks, days, seeing the life slipping away from them," he says. "But it makes sense when you see it. It's like, 'OK. This is beautiful and it's supposed to be happening.' It's also awful."
On "Circles," one of Shepherd's purest and most peaceful songs, Callahan sings, "I made a circle, I guess/When I folded her hands across her chest." The album also contains more oblique references to the consequences of death—the hollow feeling it leaves, the gaps in knowledge that haunt us. On a song called "Angela," he intones, "Like motel curtains, we never really met."
Surrounded by young families enjoying the weather around Lake Austin, Callahan reflects on his relationship with his mother. "I never understood her," he admits. "And I didn't ever feel like she was being honest or expressing her feelings my whole life. As she was getting older, I begged her: Show your children who you are, because we want to know before you die. She couldn't do it. So now she's still just an unfinished person for me." He rubs his eyes and his spirit seems to lighten, as if suddenly struck with a pleasant memory. "We only have this time, each of us, 70 or 80 years, if we're lucky. What's the point of hiding?" Then, a long silence he doesn't need to fill.
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Q: Including the actual length scale of the image in processing microscopic images Following the wonderful methodologies provided in this post, I have learned how to process microscopic images of the types shown below in order to analyze them. When it comes to analysing the size distribution of the particles, the images always have a scale indicator, which give the actual scale of the image. By default, when we measure the size distribution e.g. using ComponentMeasurements, everything is measured in pixels. My question is:

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*Is there a way to incorporate/detect in Mathematica the actual given length-scale of the image? (in example below $500 nm$ for the shown spacing), that is, to convert pixels to $nm$ (or $nm^2$ for area). Example given below (source):

To detect the particles, I've adopted the following approach learned from Niki Estner's previous answer:
img = Import["https://i.stack.imgur.com/ryzmV.jpg"]
ridges = RidgeFilter[-img, 1];
distRidges =
  DistanceTransform@ColorNegate@MorphologicalBinarize[ridges];
distMax = MaxDetect[distRidges, 1];
morph = WatershedComponents[ridges, distMax, Method -> "Basins"];
comp = ComponentMeasurements[{img, morph}, {"Centroid", "Neighbors"}];

edges = Dilation[EdgeDetect[Image[morph], 1, .001], 0.5];
edgeOverlay =
 Show[img, SetAlphaChannel[ColorReplace[edges, White -> Red], edges]]

yielding the following detection result:

and to extract the particle sizes in order to estimate the size distribution histogram, I've used the "Area" property in ComponentMeasurements as follows:
sizesls = {};
areaInPixels = ComponentMeasurements[morph, {"Area"}];
For[i = 1, i <= Length[areaInPixels], i++,
  eltmp = areaInPixels[[i]][[2]];
  AppendTo[sizesls, eltmp[[1]]];
  ];
Histogram[sizels]

but the size distribution is obtained in pixels, as opposed to using the actual scale of the image in $nm$ as indicated in the original image. From the source of the image, the indicated expected mean particle size is $60 nm.$

A: First of all, I would exclude the scale from the "particle search algorithm", like this:
imgWithScale = Import["https://i.stack.imgur.com/ryzmV.jpg"];
img = ImageTake[imgWithScale, 280]

(followed by the same steps you used above).
Then I would extract the nm/pixel scale:
scaleArea = ImageTake[imgWithScale, {-20, -15}]
whitePixels = PixelValuePositions[Binarize[scaleArea], 1];
{left, right} = MinMax[whitePixels[[All, 1]]];
nmPerPx = 500./(right - left)

(Note that I'm using Part array access ([[All, ...) instead For loops to extract specific elements from a nested list. This is almost always shorter, faster and more readable. Never use For in Mathematica)
Next, I'm not sure the Area is the best measure of particle size. Your particles are mostly ciruclar, so we can try a few others:
measurements = {"EquivalentDiskRadius", "MeanCentroidDistance",
   "Length", "CaliperLength", "BoundingDiskRadius", "MeanIntensity"};
(* MeanIntensity is dimensionless, the other ones are lengths,
   i.e scaled by nmPerPx^1 *)
scale = nmPerPx^{1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0};
(* only count particles that aren't clipped by an image border, with
   condition #AdjacentBorderCount == 0 & *)
comp = ComponentMeasurements[{img, morph}, measurements, #AdjacentBorderCount == 0 &];
Multicolumn[
 MapThread[
  Histogram[#1, PlotLabel -> #2, ImageSize -> 300] & , {scale*
    Transpose[comp[[All, 2]]], measurements}]]

(I've used EquivalentDiskRadius, the radius of a disk with the same area, so it's easier to compare with the other lengths.)
It seems that Length and CaliperLength are much better estimates for the particle size, because they are less dependent on occlusion.
We can also easily see that there's a correlation between intensity (i.e. depth) and size:
compare = {4, 6};
ListPlot[comp[[All, 2, compare]],
 AxesLabel -> measurements[[compare]]]

If you want to explore the correlation further, you can use LocatorPane and Dynamic to see which component is where interactively:
nfIdx = Nearest[comp[[All, 2, compare]] -> comp[[All, 1]]];
nf = Nearest[comp[[All, 2, compare]]];
pt = comp[[1, 2, compare]];

Row[{
  LocatorPane[Dynamic[pt],
   Dynamic[ListPlot[comp[[All, 2, compare]],
     AxesLabel -> measurements[[compare]], GridLines -> nf[pt],
     ImageSize -> 500]]],
  Dynamic[
   HighlightImage[img,
    ColorNegate[Binarize[Image[(morph - nfIdx[pt][[1]])^2], 0]],
    ImageSize -> 400], TrackedSymbols :> {pt}]}]

A: You could extract the conversion factor in a semi-automated way.
imgcrop = ImageTake[img, {-20, -15}, {-150, -1}]

bars = MorphologicalComponents[imgcrop, .1];
Image@bars

The x-coordinates of the centroids of the bars are then
xcoords = ComponentMeasurements[bars, "Centroid"][[All, 2, 1]]
  (* {0.5, 16., 31.8, 47.0556, 63., 79., 95., 110., 126., 142.} *)

And the mean difference between x-coordinates of successive bars is
Mean[Differences[xcoords]]
  (* 15.7222 *)

The conversion factor in nanometers/pixel is (assuming I'm reading the scale right and each space between the ticks is 500 nm)
nmPerPixel = 500/Mean[Differences[xcoords]]
  (* 31.8021 *)

Then, from your image analysis, the areas in pixels are
areaPixels =
  Flatten[ComponentMeasurements[morph, {"Area"}][[All, 2]]];

And the areas converted to square nanometers
areaSqNanometers = nmPerPixel^2 areaPixels;
Histogram[areaSqNanometers]

A: First you need to find scaling coefficient from your *.jpg by using Coordinate Tools. Place cursor on first tick of scale, horizontal coordinate is 234, last tick corresponds to 391. So, scaling coefficient is hscale=500./(391-234). Assumimg that area has a shape of circle, Histogram command can be simplified to
 areaInPixels[[All, 2]] // Flatten // hscale Sqrt[4 #/\[Pi]] & // Histogram

which gives this distribution of sizes. Mean size is about 60 nm.

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Drop in proportion of A-levels awarded top grades
By Press Association
Published: 04:31 EST, 15 August 2019 | Updated: 06:11 EST, 15 August 2019
The proportion of A-level entries awarded an A grade or higher has fallen to the lowest for more than a decade, national figures show.
Girls narrowly clawed back the lead from boys in terms of A* and A grades, although boys still outperformed their female classmates in the highest result.
For the first time, there were more entries for A-level science subjects from girls than from boys.
The shift comes after a major push in recent years to encourage girls to study science and maths-based subjects.
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Spanish has become the most popular foreign language at A-level, overtaking French for the first time.
The figures, published by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), cover A-level entries from students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Around 300,000 students are receiving their results today.
In total, 25.5% of UK entries were awarded an A or A* grade this summer, the lowest proportion since 2007 when it was 25.3%.
A* grades were introduced in 2010. Before this, the highest result was an A.
Students celebrate their A-level results at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham (Jacob King/PA)
Girls are back in front in terms of top grades, with 25.5% of entries handed at least an A, compared with 25.4% of boys – a gap of 0.1 percentage points.
But on A* grades alone, boys performed better, with 8.2% of entries getting the highest result, compared with 7.5% of girls' entries.
Girls are now more likely in general to take a science A-level than boys, the data shows.
For biology, chemistry and physics A-levels, there were 84,111 entries from girls this year, compared with 83,133 from boys.
The change has been driven by more girls than boys taking biology and chemistry.
But boys are still significantly more likely to take physics, with more than three times as many entries than their female counterparts (30,159 compared with 8,799).
In languages, there were 8,625 entries for Spanish A-level and 8,355 for French.
French has seen a decline in recent years, while Spanish has been increasing in popularity.
Dr Philip Wright, JCQ director general, said: "This year's pass rates are stable across all A-levels and it is particularly encouraging to see the rise in young women being inspired to take science A-levels.
"For the very first time, female entries have overtaken male entries in science."
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Ahead of results day, grade boundaries for two of England's biggest exam boards, Edexcel and OCR, were leaked.
The documents showed that students needed to score just over half marks in A-level maths to win an A grade this summer.
Grade boundaries for Edexcel's maths A-level show students who gained 165 out of a possible maximum of 300 marks (55%) will be awarded an A.
Separate documents show that those who took OCR's A-level maths will get an A if they achieved 54% across all papers – a total of 161 out of 300.
Last year, 184 marks (61%) were needed for an A grade in Edexcel's maths A-level, while for OCR the required mark was 197 (66%).
The figures relate to overall grade boundaries for new specification maths A-levels.
Practically all A-level courses have been reformed, with maths one of the last to be overhauled as part of a major revamp in England.
This summer is the first time grades for new specification A-level maths are being awarded to the vast majority of students.
The leaked documents also give grade boundaries for other A-level qualifications offered by Edexcel and OCR, and there are some differences between the two.
For example, 69% (208 out of 300) in an Edexcel English literature A-level achieves an A grade, while students taking the subject with OCR require 177 marks out of 200 (89%).
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Eugenio Rodrigo Ruiz Orozco (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 5 de abril de 1947) es un político mexicano, miembro del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Ha sido presidente municipal de Guadalajara, senador por Jalisco y candidato a gobernador de dicho estado.

Biografía
Es profesor egresado de la Escuela Normal de Jalisco y licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad de Guadalajara, institución en la que también ejerció como docente. Miembro activo del PRI desde 1963, ha sido miembro fundador del Instituto de Administración Pública de Jalisco y ejercido como notario público.

De 1971 a 1973 fue regidor al Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara presidido por Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri y de 1974 a 1977 fue diputado a la XLVII Legislatura del Congreso del Estado de Jalisco por el distrito 7 local. En las elecciones de 1985 fue candidato del PRI a presidente municipal de Guadalajara, siendo elegido, ejerció el cargo en el periodo constitucional del 1 de enero de 1986 al 31 de diciembre de 1988.

En 1994 fue elegido senador por Jalisco en segunda fórmula para las legislaturas LVI y LVII que debían concluir en 2000. Sin embargo, quince días después de iniciado su periodo en el Senado, solicitó y obtuvo licencia para ser postulado candidato del PRI a Gobernador de Jalisco en las elecciones de 1995.

El proceso electoral de ese año se vio dominado por las consecuencias de la crisis económica de 1994 —también denominada como el «error de diciembre»— y de las explosiones de Guadalajara de 1992, de los que sectores de la sociedad señalaban responsabilidades del PRI en las mismas, en parte debido a ello, Eugenio Ruiz Orozco resultó derrotado en dichas elecciones, logrando el triunfo su contrincante del PAN, Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez.  Tres esto, Ruiz Orozco se reincorporó a su curul en el Senado el 3 de marzo de 1995.

El 13 de septiembre de 1999 se separó nuevamente de la senaduría para asumir como vocal ejecutivo del Fondo de la Vivienda del Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (FOVISSSTE) por nombramiento del presidente Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, permaneciendo en el cargo hasta el fin de ése gobierno, en diciembre de 2000. Tras ello, se dedicó a su ejercicio como notario público.

El 28 de mayo de 2013 fue nombrado presidente del Atlas Fútbol Club.

Véase también
Elecciones estatales de Jalisco de 1995

Referencias

Alumnado de la Universidad de Guadalajara
Miembros del Partido Revolucionario Institucional
Políticos de Jalisco
Presidentes municipales de Guadalajara
Senadores de las LVI y LVII Legislaturas de México

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The actress has spoken about upcoming struggles for her character Sophie Webster.
Brooke Vincent has said her Coronation Street character Sophie Webster is in for a heartbreaking struggle in the soap.
The actress has revealed things will only get worse for her on-screen mother Sally, who faces further violence in prison.
Vincent said efforts to free the wrongly imprisoned character will be thwarted by a lack of evidence as frustration with the police investigation builds.
She has said Sophie Webster will be strained by the struggle to save her mother from the pains of prison.
Vincent said: "Sophie's desperate to get her mum out of prison, she can see how vulnerable she is, let's face it Sally's really not cut out for prison life.
Vincent has said the family will go to desperate lengths to free Sally and her character will be caught up in the increasingly daring plans.


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REVIEW: Karrin Allyson – By Request
July 18, 2009 December 13, 2017 by BG, posted in Boomers, Jazz, Music, Nostalgia, Retirement, Review, Seniors
Receiving a new album to review from an artist I've reviewed before — and liked a lot — is sort of like running into an old friend. I'm happy to see someone I've enjoyed spending time with in the past, and at the same time I'm wondering what they've been up to lately.
Karrin Allyson, the Grammy-nominated singer and pianist whose Imagina, Songs Of Brasil was one of 2008's best albums, is keeping busy in the best possible way. Her newest, By Request — The Best Of Karrin Allyson, is now out on the Concord Jazz label and will almost certainly continue her string of Top Ten charted albums. It also again serves notice that she's one of the brightest gems in the respected label's treasure chest of stars.
Although her newest brings her album count to an even dozen — all with Concord — it actually contains a baker's dozen tracks, and every one of the thirteen is as tasty as anything you'll find on your favorite bakery's shelves. But it is a "best of" collection, so the singer's dedicated followers will find a lot of duplicates here. On the other hand, her choices for inclusion on the album were largely guided by requests from her fans (hence the title) so those followers will be happy to hear that she's taken their advice. And the one new track on the album, the previously unreleased "Next Time Around (Soultrane)," is a nice bonus too.
It's just one of the numerous good listens here, including several of my favorite standards. One of the best is "What's New," a song that found new life a couple of decades ago as the title cut of Linda Ronstadt's classic retro album. Allyson not only matches the vocal talent of Ronstadt, but also shows off her keyboard skills. The song also features some nice solos from Bob Berg's sax, although he gets a little funky at times.
Another elderly song that never grows old with me is Cole Porter's "Night And Day," and she does just fine with it. It was one of my favorites, along Ray Noble's "Cherokee," a song that I remember most as a driving big band hit for Charlie Barnet. Allyson's version starts with a deceptively soft and lyrical interlude that builds to a wild finish, and along the way we experience everything from Allyson's scat singing to Kim Park's astonishing alto sax.
I'd urge interested music lovers to follow the link for sounds samples, because there's lots more to like here. An outstanding collection from a singer and pianist at the peak of her career. Highly recommended.
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I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years—a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. . . .
Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence. . . .
In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world.
I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. . . .
I assure myself that . . . a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted. . . .


Perhaps the biggest trend in health information technology today is the movement away from traditional picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) and cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) to enterprise imaging and data management systems. This migration is important, because it will fundamentally change how clinicians have been accessing images and patient information for the past 20 years.
The basic idea of enterprise imaging is to take all data (which includes images, waveforms, reports and other patient data) and amalgamate it into one place, instead of the current system of data residing in numerous, disconnected departmental data silos. With the introduction of vendor neutral archives (VNAs) and cloud-based (or Web-based) digital archives, data from all departments can be put into one pot and accessed using a universal viewer. This enables the data to be managed by the healthcare system's information technology (IT) staff, rather than individual departments or radiology. Content management software is used to sort the data so it can be pulled out of the system and sent to where it needs to go. Using this model, a patient's electronic medical record (EMR) can include embedded links to reports and images from all specialty departments in one location by interfacing with the central archive. VNAs also help overcome many of the issues with interoperability between various departments and software vendors' systems that plague most hospitals.
Radiology has traditionally been the gatekeeper of imaging, with images residing in a siloed radiology PACS. However, as healthcare becomes more digitized and nearly all specialties now generate images and reports that need to be archived electronically and made accessible via EMRs, the traditional radiology PACS is becoming just one cog in a much larger healthcare machine. Specialties such as cardiology, orthopedics, oncology, women's health and pathology now generate vast numbers of imaging files on their own, giving rise to specialty PACS. However, the need to connect these multiple, disparate systems into one electronic patient record has proven a major difficulty for all healthcare systems that have attempted it. Despite the advent of IHE (integrating the healthcare enterprise) profiles to make healthcare software for various vendors more compatible, there are just too many variables to ensure the smooth flow of data from point A to point B across an enterprise. VNAs help enable connectivity in a healthcare enterprise, similar to the Internet enabling connectivity between millions of people globally who are using different operating platforms.
The VNA platform also can serve as a disaster recovery system or the backbone of a health information exchange (HIE).
Healthcare reforms under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) demands all healthcare IT systems interoperate to improve efficiency. The law also calls for leveraging IT to transform healthcare from a volume-based to a quality-based reimbursement system. With the expanded use of EMRs demanded as a component of the ACA, the federal government has established Meaningful Use (MU) criteria that must be met to ensure full Medicare reimbursement for services provided. VNAs allow for the improved level of interoperability MU demands now and into the future.
Stage 2 MU requirements call for remote viewing systems to allow referring physicians or others access a patient's EMR to view images and reports from various departments. It calls for the integration of patient access to health information and images via patient portals to increase patient engagement. This may play a larger role in the future, as patients with chronic conditions like diabetes and heart failure will be asked to take a more active role in their healthcare with remote monitoring programs. Clinical decision support and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) are now being required to improve patient safety, eliminate illegible written orders, record all orders in one location, reduce redundant tests and to justify use of expensive tests or imaging exams. VNAs also can help enable remote access to patient data using mobile devices, such as tablets by physicians on rounds, anywhere in the hospital, on the road or at home. This may lead to a reduced reliance on workstations in fixed locations, allowing greater workflow efficiency and improved patient communication and education.
Many healthcare executives have yet to define the requirements for enterprise imaging or VNA benefits and costs in a manner that justifies the investment, said Jef Williams, chief operating officer at Ascendian Healthcare Consulting. He explained many provider organizations have delayed efforts to the next budget cycle simply due to the lack of a viable, compelling business case. This can be the result of many different factors including long-term existing contracts, sacred cow systems, opportunity costs and exorbitant costs of starting up EMR. Organizations that value preparedness and creativity, however, are finding plenty of ways to find a positive ROI and business case for this effort, Williams said.
The business objectives for pursuing a long-term, future-minded medical image-object management platforms should be very clear either as a consideration for a single-standing hospital or an integrated delivery network (IDN). Williams said facilities should plan for mergers and acquisitions, modernization, PACS replacement, centralization, support simplification, increased user (referrer and patient) satisfaction and greater integration with EHR and HIE solutions. "The business case effectively choreographs strategic objectives with the investment abilities of an organization to execute across people, process, organizational change and technology," Williams said.
• Other strategic and organizational considerations.
Facilities that create a business case for enterprise imaging will have a comprehensive roadmap to develop and drive objectives and codify costs and timelines, Williams said. The evaluation and subsequent business case also should provide a complete picture of how a VNA solution would drive clinical integration, enterprise-wide image management, reduced costs over time and image access and sharing in a unified context.
Imaging Strategy: Simply purchasing and starting up a VNA will likely not provide enough opportunity to reduce costs nor provide the type of environment that will bring the value needed for positioning for growth, expansion or changing paradigms. Image and object management systems need to meet the coming challenges of enterprise interoperability (no matter where the image was captured). They need to account for non-DICOM file types and accommodate existing hardware and data center environments without creating disruption or incurring additional costs. These components are required for a detailed and informed long-term strategy. Simply buying to keep up with the industry is no longer a viable business decision. Those who succeed will understand the importance of market leadership, capabilities and differentiation. While some of this can be difficult to quantify in true dollars, each must be considered and monetized in a manner that meets the demands and values of the organization.
Market Awareness: Knowing the market options takes considerably more effort than ever before. Historically large vendors with multi-layered sales forces managed the market proactively. Most buyers could expect a visit regularly from account and sales managers providing cut sheets, demos, lunch and learns, and even customer events at large association events such as RSNA, HIMSS, AHRA, RBMA, SIIM, AHIMA and MGMA. For reasons related to both market forces and legislation and policy, those days are now gone. But an even more important shift has occurred. Much of the leading technology is being created and marketed from smaller firms and there are many viable options outside the "big iron" companies. This means there is much more effort required in knowing the industry. Yet a full discovery effort must be completed for a fully informed business case. This means looking at the options in all areas of image-management including viewers, VNAs, workflow engines, advanced visualization, voice recognition and reporting, as well as the many subspecialty solutions and widgets. This may require site visits, booth visits, on-site demos and a codified selection process (RFI, RFQ, RFO, RFP) as the sales forces in these emerging solutions are smaller and less funded for providing market-wide initiatives around education.
The One-third Rule: Unfortunately there is an axiom as old as the healthcare industry: When implementing a new healthcare solution … one-third will succeed, one-third will muddle through with some return on investment and one-third will fail miserably. Armed with a business case and the quantitative and qualitative components inherent for this enterprise solution, there is a much better chance of making the case and finding yourself and your organization in the successful third.


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HISTORICAL INFORMATION » ART & ARCHITECTURE » SCULPTURE
More Art from E-288
Source: The Village Crier Vol. 9 No. 50, December 29, 1977
On Friday, December 16, Leon Lederman and his colleaques on Experiment 288 presented to Fermilab their latest artistic 'experimental artifact' -- a charred chunk of metal.
The new gift is the chrome-plated remains of a high current copper magnet shunt. It overheated, melted, and caused a fire damaging electrical circuitry in the Proton Center experimental area last summer. The fire interrupted the discovery of the new heavy particle, the Upsilon, found by the E-288 group.
In 1975, the E-288 group presented to the lab a very interesting block of glass. The block was designed to detect high energy electrons in the proton center pit but due to a mistake in its heat treatment it developed a beautiful pattern of internal fractures.
Lederman pointed out that the successes of experiments at Fermilab are duly recorded on the pages of scientific journals, but the failures, which can be even more spectacular, are not properly honored.
Laboratory Director R. R. Wilson received the gift for Fermilab. He noted that although he has seen experimental physics evolve a great deal during his career, the vaguaries of experiments remain amazingly similar and amusing.
1977: Magnet shunt. Photo by Nadezhda Shemyakina, September 30, 2003. (1 of 2)
1975: Glass block. Photo by Nadezhda Shemyakina, September 30, 2003. (2 of 2)


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Chillicothe Municipal Court
Theft — Lance C. Shewalter, 29, of 345 Fairway Ave., guilty, fined $200 and court costs, sentenced to two years of probation and seven days in Ross County Jail, barred from entering Wal-Mart in Chillicothe.
Open container — Glenn B. Winfield, 57, of 333 E. Main St., guilty, fined $25 and court costs.
Open container — Russell S. Harley, 39, homeless, guilty, ordered to pay fine and court costs.
Open container — Jeffery A. Bode, 43, of 333 E. Main St., guilty, ordered to pay fine and court costs.
Two counts of theft — Jennifer M. Vititoe, 35, of 14996 Pleasant Valley Road, guilty, fined $350 and court costs, sentenced to two years of probation and 10 days in Ross County Jail, three days credit given for time served., barred from entering Wal-Mart in Chillicothe.
Theft — Kenneth E. Vititoe, 35, of 14996 Pleasant Valley Road, Lot 1, guilty, fined $200 and court costs, sentenced to two years of probation and five days in Ross County Jail, barred from entering Wal-Mart in Chillicothe.
Assault — William P. Harmon, 48, of 333 E. Main St., guilty, sentenced to two years of probation and 18 days in Ross County Jail, ordered to not contact victim.
Open container — Roger P. Cadwallader, 36, of 42 Warner Ave., guilty, fined $25 and court costs.
Two counts of aggravated menacing, criminal mischief — Stanley W. Mitchell, 30, of 2843 Ohio 207, Court 2, Lot 22, charges 1 and 2 dismissed with prejudice in consideration of plea to charge 3, guilty, fined $100 and court costs, sentenced to one year of probation and one day in Ross County Jail, ordered to complete 21 hours of community service work, ordered to not contact victims.
Domestic violence, assault, possessing drug abuse instruments — Kyle A. Smith, 25, of last known address 243 Delanoe Ave., Apt. 8, case dismissed with prejudice because victim refused to testify and State had no further evidence.
Two counts of operating a vehicle impaired, marked lanes violation — Tracy L. Helms, 46, of Columbus, guilty to one count of operating a vehicle impaired, remaining charges dismissed with prejudice, guilty, fined $375 and court costs, sentenced to one year of probation and one day in Ross County Jail, ordered to complete driver intervention program and alcohol and substance abuse counseling, driver's license suspended 180 days, subject to random testing.
Theft — Shannon N. Dunlap, 28, of 1106 Sherman Park, case dismissed without prejudice.
Complicity to theft — Jennifer L. Hutchinson, 19, of 705 Lincoln Park, guilty, fined $250 and court costs, sentenced to one year of probation, ordered to complete 35 hours of community service work, ordered to complete shoplifting counseling.
Theft — Ashley M. Hall, 25, of 647 Massie Run Road, Bainbridge, guilty, fined $250 and court costs, sentenced to one year of probation, ordered to complete shoplifting counseling and 35 hours of community service work, barred from entering Sears Stores.
Possessing drug abuse instruments — Megan Clary, 35, of 168 Burbridge Ave., guilty, fined $100 and court costs, sentenced to two years of probation and seven days in Ross County Jail, ordered to complete alcohol and substance abuse counseling, driver's license suspended 180 days, subject to random testing.
Disorderly conduct-fighting — Bryan McClarren, 26, of 377½ E. Second St., guilty, fined $50 and court costs, sentenced to one year of probation and one day in Ross County Jail, ordered to not contact victim.
Domestic violence — Rick Martin, 55, of 523 Eastern Ave., case dismissed without prejudice because witness' appearance could not be secured; July 25.
Disorderly conduct-intoxication — Dustin B. Wilson, 39, of 701 Washington Ave., guilty, ordered to pay fine and court costs.
Disorderly conduct-intoxication — Kaleb Campbell, 25, of 503 W. Second St., guilty, fined $50 and court costs.
Operating a vehicle impaired, headlight violation — Keith R. Young, 59, of 46 Cox Road, case dismissed without prejudice because State was unable to proceed on motion to suppress.
Operating a vehicle impaired, failure to yield from private drive — Steven E. Russell, 47, of 2442 Liberty Hill Road, case dismissed without prejudice because State was unable to move forward on motion to suppress.
Disorderly conduct-fighting — Christina L. Keeton, 39, of 1355 Western Ave., Apt. 14, not guilty.


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Advertising Your Business on TV
Is it still useful? Well, that depends on your industry
By Daniel Kidd
Is TV advertising still useful for your industry?
To see which industries TV advertising is still useful for, you only need to watch the ad breaks in your favourite shows. Although these will vary depending on the content, and the time of day you're watching, you'll most likely see the following products: FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods), for example shampoo and yoghurt; financial services products, such as loans and mortgages; and big ticket items, like cars and furniture.
With the advent of on-demand content and products such as Tivo and Sky+, viewing habits are changing, which means that advertising is becoming less powerful, particularly among a younger audience. However, if your product or service is aimed at a fairly mature audience, with more traditional viewing habits, you may still find TV advertising to be effective.
Advertising on cable TV
In the UK, cable TV is primarily provided by Virgin Media. Channels available via cable include all the digital terrestrial channels along with pay TV channels, such as Sky Sports and Discovery Channel.
Advertising on these pay TV channels can be very worthwhile compared to other mediums because it's generally cheaper than advertising on terrestrial channels and the demographic of the audience is usually much narrower. This means advertisements can be much more targeted and effective. It could also be cheaper than advertising in some print magazines or on nationwide billboards.
However, compared to advertising online, cable TV can be considerably more expensive.
How regularly should TV ad content be changed?
How regularly you should change your TV ad's content will depend on a variety of factors. To decide on this, you need to ensure you're tracking your advert's performance in depth. Monitor how much revenue your ad is bringing in over time. If it seems like a lot initially and eventually decreases significantly, it's probably time to change your content. If you don't notice more interest initially, give it some time to see if there's a trickle effect, and if not, you should change your ad completely. If your ad seems to consistently bring you custom, you should wait longer to update it.


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Apple warns of risks from German law to open up mobile payments
Apple said on Friday moves in Germany to force it to open up its Apple Pay mobile payments system to rivals could hurt data protection and the security of financial information, Trend with reference to Reuters reports.
A German parliamentary committee unexpectedly voted in a late-night session on Wednesday to force the tech giant to open up Apple Pay to rival providers in Germany.
This came in the form of an amendment to an anti-money laundering law that was adopted late on Thursday by the full parliament and is set to come into effect early next year.
The legislation, which did not name Apple specifically, will force operators of electronic money infrastructure to offer access to rivals for a reasonable fee.
The law highlights growing desire in Germany for tighter regulation of U.S. technology companies.
Apple Pay, which lets people pay with their iPhones, is a fast growing area of the company's business, one which threatens to undermine traditional banks' long-standing dominance of retail payment systems.
"We are surprised at how suddenly this legislation was introduced," Apple said on Friday. "We fear that the draft law could be harmful to user friendliness, data protection and the security of financial information."
A person close to the government coalition said Chancellor Angela Merkel's office had pushed for the committee to withdraw the amendment.
"It's quite unusual for the Chancellor's office to try and stop something in the last minute," said Jens Zimmermann, a senior lawmaker from the Social Democrats (SPD), junior coalition partners to Merkel's conservatives.
"It would be astonishing if they let themselves be reined back by an American company," he added. "We want fair competition between payment providers."
Merkel: participants of Berlin summit agree on comprehensive plan for Libyan settlement
World 19 January 23:54
Europe 19 January 19:00
Eastern Libyan forces commander Haftar arrives in Berlin for summit
Other News 19 January 03:55
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L'année 1831 a été marquée, en philosophie, par les événements suivants :

Publications

Naissances
 31 juillet ( dans le calendrier grégorien) : Helena Blavatsky, créatrice de la « théosophie », morte en 1891.

Décès
 14 novembre : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosophe allemand, né en 1770, mort à 61 ans.
 16 novembre : Carl von Clausewitz, théoricien militaire prussien, né en 1780, mort à 51 ans.

Voir aussi
 1831 en littérature

1831 en littérature
1831
XIXe siècle en philosophie


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Home Columnists On The Beat So...Where Are They Now?
Chattanooga is a wonderful place to live. People have a whole country full of choices divided into 50 states, further divided into thousands of municipalities…and a few hundred thousand people have chosen this one. I applaud them for this, and am proud (yes, proud) to number myself among them.
That said, Chattanooga also has a few problems, and I'm not just talking about pollen and the incoming humidity season that will weigh down upon us like a pending pregnancy test.
Twelve shootings in seven days…and of those twelve, one resulted in the death of a 17-year-old and two of the victims were pregnant. Pregnant!
10 a.m. 3 p.m. 1 a.m. Saturday night or Tuesday afternoon, there is no rhyme or reason, and above all, no regard for consequences. For God's sake, there was a shooting during a press conference about the shootings.
What's happened? Theories and speculation abound, but I am inclined to think that this complete failure in civilized behavior may at least in part be the result of the success in anti-cop "activism" that has permeated the country for the last year-plus. I know…that's crazy, but bear with me here.
Scant months ago, the space above this city was filled with a cacophony of voices populated by those so desperate for an argument against police that they would latch on to any reason a police officer was forced to fire his or her weapon and declare it an "injustice," regardless of facts, when the losing end of the shooting was a person of color (so long as that color is black, I mean).
Protest marches with up to eleven participants were conducted; fundraisers were held for the victim's family.
Flash forward to April now, when there are twelve people of color shot in a seven-day period by other people of color in every case so far…and the "Voices of Justice" are curiously silent.
Yes, I am aware that these lives are only a point of focus for activism when they involve police interaction, which was not the case these last few weeks. But how can you state that you are an advocate for justice, and specifically wanting "to address gang violence in our city through the elimination of root causes of violence—not through the mass incarceration of our youth" when you ignore gang violence unfolding in the same community in unprecedented levels when you know it will guarantee police intervention? You can raise a torch for something even superficially as ridiculous a cause as the incident with Javario Eagle…but go Cold War-silent now of all times?
Chattanooga didn't suddenly import dozens of fearless gang members. Chattanooga had no "Ferguson-like" flashpoint that sparked this violence. But Chattanooga does have a vocal minority that advocates police as being the criminals and the criminals as being victims (even when those "victims" are attacking children and cops with a knife and a gun). Chattanooga now has gang members telling police officers to their face they are outgunned and they can't be stopped despite no "Baltimore-like" pattern of abuse. Coincidence?
No "anti-violence" marches. No "fundraising" is being promoted. And a strong police response is a foregone conclusion, yet…crickets from the peanut gallery.
Now that you're seeing the results of undercutting the only group that's actually trying to do something about this violence, why don't you take a break and ask a new question in these communities: When your kids are walking to school or playing in the yard…who are you afraid of? The police—or the gang members they're trying to stop?
Protest the Protesters, people. I believe the time for distractions is over.


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Opening Sequence (2005/5:34)
For years, This American Life has entranced NPR listeners the way few radio shows can. Ira Glass's one hour program has grown far beyond cult following, inspiring Americans from Maine to Marina Del Rey to set aside a piece of their hectic Saturday afternoons for storytelling in the old-fashioned sense. And now Showtime has taken the brave step of trying to transpose this radio show to television screens across the country, essentially transforming an audio adventure into the visual realm.
When Ira and his director Chris Wilcha had shot the pilot for this show, they knew that its introduction would have to be precise: it would have to give viewers an idea of the show they were about to watch; it would have to compel them to watch it; but most importantly, it had to emote to viewers they were about to witness something unlike anything they'd ever seen before ... yet something profoundly personal. To achieve this complexity in the brevity of a show intro, Ira and Chris went straight to Brand New School.
In every episode of the upcoming series, TAL will share the stories of three unrelated Americans. Each tale, however, will ride a singular theme that will interweave its way through the three disparate journeys. And in the introduction, not only do you have to project three short stories, but the viewer has to discern the theme that ties them all together. For the first episode, that theme was "Reality Check" — as in those momentous events that bring one face-to-face with themselves. These moments might be banal, terminally uninteresting to anyone outside the protagonist, but they will always change the course of this person's life.
That's a lot to squeeze into an introduction, a nebulous sentiment that could easily be lost in translation. BNS New York Creative Director Jens Gehlhaar recognized the challenge immediately: "When we discussed the open with Chris and Ira, it became clear quickly that we could not achieve anything approaching cinematic immersion with the budget at hand. So I proposed creating six minutes of visuals by shooting talent on green screen on digital stills using a motor drive — it's cheaper than film, and creates richer images than video. The fact that you would only get short bursts of action also solved the problem that re-enactments are typically really annoying, especially when done with non-actors. That technique makes the images more stylized, more abstract, more didactic, and less immersive."
Although BNS's technical prowess certainly allowed them to achieve what was thought financially impossible, it was not the most important contribution the team brought to the table. Proficiency and experience aside, it was their artistic fundamentals that proved indispensable to the project. "They showed an enormous sensitivity to what we wanted," says Glass of his interaction with BNS. "It's a documentary, so the power comes from the fact that it is real people. But it's also a drama we were making, so certain moments had to play as such — taking moments for things to register, etc. They anticipated it, they understood, and they responded to the material the same way we
did — naturally. There was no energy wasted in translating for the graphics geeks."
Simply watching the introduction shows how on-point BNS was in its transposition of verbal tale to visual representation. "We've all been great fans of the show, sincerely, so we were all very excited for the project," adds Gehlhaar. "And we're quite proud of the results." Together with fellow BNS NY Director Sean Doherty, the team fulfilled TAL's hopes beyond expectation. "We feel very lucky, they were ideal collaborators," commends Glass in his assessment of BNS. "Not only did they have great taste as artists, and could deliver like artists, but they also knew every trick in the book."
Ira Glass knows how to tell a story. In a short time, he has risen to become one of public radio's favorite voices of Americana. So to hear his unwavering praise for Brand New School's work is testament not only to their technical ability, but more importantly it is validation of their artistic virtuosity. Together, they created something wonderful and unique, and hopefully if the pilot works they'll have many more future projects. And then, This American Life can have a long and inspiring life of its own.
Client: This American Life, Chicago/New York
Design & Post Production: Brand New School, New York
Creative Director/Designer: Jens Gehlhaar
Art Director: Sean Dougherty
Designers: Sarah Ancalmo, Chace Hartmann
Animator: Blake Huber
Rotoscopers: Chris Smith, Jesse Casey
Producer: Mark Groeschner
Production Company: This American Life, New York
Creator/Host: Ira Glass
Director: Chris Wilcha
Director of Photography: Adam Beckman
Editor: Jenny Golden
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3. In the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ - As God's son Jesus was both human and divine.
6. The Ordinances of the Church - (1) Water Baptism by Immersion after repenting of one's sins and receiving Christ's gift of salvation, (2) Holy Communion (the Lord's Supper) as a symbolic remembrance of Christ's suffering and death for our salvation.
7. The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is for everyone and empowers believers for witnessing and effective service, just as it did in New Testament times.
8. The Initial Physical Evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is 'Speaking in Tongues,' as experienced on the Day of Pentecost and referenced throughout Acts and the Epistles.
11. The Ministry - A divinely called and scripturally ordained leadership ministry serves the Church.
13. The Blessed Hope - When Jesus Raptures His church prior to His return to earth.
14. The Millennial Reign of Christ - when Jesus returns with His saints to reign on earth for one thousand years.
16. New Heavens and a New Earth - that Christ is preparing for all people, of all time, who have accepted Him.


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Most people tend to do A' Chralaig (A-HALEK) (1120 metres) and Mullach Fraoch Choire (MOACH-HOOVE-HOYER) (1102 metres) together and head back down the glen to the car park. Due to the relative simplicity of this hike I decided to incorporate a third munro and a corbett, Ciste Dhubh (KEESHTE-DOO) (979 metres) and Am Bathach (AM BARRACH) (798 metres), on my way back. This involved a slight detour and a tough slog but the views were well worth the extra hassle.
Clear days on the summits will provide you with spectacular views over Loch Cluanie to the south, Glen Affric to the north, and the neighbouring munros to the east and west. The location of these peaks is great for a weekend's climbing because there are 21 munros to choose from; all of which are in close proximity.
If you have already checked out my South Glen Shiel Ridge article then you'll know that you're in the same area. The road from Invermoriston to the Isle of Skye is surrounded by towering munros on either side almost all the way along. Several of these can be completed on the same day.
According to the official map of the counties of Scotland, you are actually starting the hike in the southern tip of Ross and Cromarty, although you will venture into Inverness-Shire as the day goes on.
If you're coming from Inverness, follow the A82 for 28 miles (45km) to Invermoriston. Here you'll take a right turn onto the A887 which is the road heading towards the Isle of Skye. The Cluanie Inn is located 25 miles (40km) along this road and the day's starting point is in a big lay-by just under a mile before the Inn. It's a big lay-by on your right-hand side and its just along the road from here where you'll start the ascent of A' Chralaig and Mullach Fraoch Choire.
If you're coming from the south then just follow the A82 all the way north until you reach Invermoriston. Afterwards, the same directions apply.
For this route your vehicle can be left in the lay-by, the starting path is a couple of hundred yards down the road and the end point comes out at around the same place.
For the exact location check out the map at the end of this post.
I'm only classing this as a 'hard' hike due to the inclusion of Ciste Dhubh at the end. If I had only done A' Chralaig and Mullach Fraoch Choire, then this would definitely be more in the easy-moderate range.
The hardest part of the first 2 munros is the steep, grassy slope directly by the roadside which is relentless and feels like it never ends. After this initial section, it's plain sailing along to A' Chralaig and gets even easier as you head over the ridge to Mullach Fraoch Choire.
Now, if you do choose to add on Ciste Dhubh at the end then this is where things get tough. The proper, defined trail up to the summit is actually from the roadside and over the Corbett, Am Bathach. Because you're coming at it from the relatively untouched eastern side, there is no real path and the ascent is a long and arduous slog over mossy terrain. This took a good hour but, in my opinion, the views on top are the day's most rewarding. If you're lucky, you may also spot a herd or two of deer grazing on the eastern flanks.
I would only recommend tackling Ciste Dhubh if you have a lot of hiking experience and are in good physical condition. If you just fancy the first 2 munros then it's a much more relaxing and straightforward hike.
If you do lots of hiking and consider yourself in good shape then 6 – 8 hours for all 3 munros is more than achievable. If you're just starting off and haven't done much hiking then I would aim for around 8 – 9 hours.
If you plan on just doing the first 2 peaks then the faster hiker will take around 4 – 5 hours. If you're slower then 6 – 7 hours is more realistic.
Like for most munros in this area, your best option is undoubtedly the Cluanie Inn which is in close proximity to the start and end of the hike. There's also the Shielbridge Caravan Park and Campsite which is 11 miles (17.7km) past the Cluanie Inn and is the best option for campers.
You can, of course, choose to do wild-camping anywhere you like! For this, I would recommend that you keep a close eye on the weather and bring all the appropriate gear.
From the lay-by, the starting point is about 200 yards west along the road (going away from the Cluanie Inn). There's a defined path rising up to your left which you'll follow for a matter of seconds before turning off to your right onto a much boggier and steeper footpath. This is to be followed all the way up to the top of the ridge. You can't really go wrong here, it's simply a case of following the trail which goes directly up for the most part, with the occasional section changing into a zigzag to make the ascent slightly easier.
This is a hard slog and undoubtedly the most difficult part of the first two munros. You'll be pleased to know that the worst is behind you when you reach the top of the ridge. As you climb, looking back every ten minutes or so, you should be able to see your car down by the roadside gradually getting smaller and smaller. The views of the South Glen Shiel Ridge across the road, and of Loch Cluanie itself, get vaster the higher you get.
Once you reach the top of the initial steep climb, you'll see the ridge gently rising up ahead of you. This allows for a much easier walk as the ridge bumps its way up to the top. It then heads northwest (a sharp left) and all the way along to A' Chralaig's giant summit cairn. To date, it's the biggest cairn I've seen on top of a munro, a good 2.5 – 3 metres in height.
I was unfortunate enough to be engulfed by a huge cloud when I reached the summit so couldn't really see anything at all. On a clear day, however, you'll get great views of your surroundings as well as the whole of Loch Cluanie to the south.
After enjoying your first munro of the day, briefly follow the ridge straight ahead before a rocky section which involves quite a steep descent. Take care here and simply follow the path. The joining ridge across to Mullach Fraoch Choire is visible straight ahead. There are several slabs and pointy rocks all the way across which makes it look quite daunting from afar. On approach, however, the path becomes clearer and very simple to follow across the ridge. Just take care on a couple of the extremely rocky sections. There are clear bypasses going around some of the tougher sections which may involve a bit of scrambling but nothing too severe.
Not long after the brief scramble is the summit of Mullach Fraoch Choire. Again, you'll be greeted with some outstanding views; most of them straight ahead looking over to the munros of Glen Affric. You can also enjoy looking back over the ridge you have just traversed, the distances looking much longer than the easy walk suggested.
You now need to head back along the rocky ridge until you reach a clearly marked path going down to your right. There's a tiny cairn here as an indicator.
Take care as you descend down the steep, scree-covered slope.
You now have two options: head back to the car park by bearing left through the boggy glen or cut straight across the glen over to the base of Ciste Dhubh. It's an unmissable mountain with its green slopes and pointy peak.
If you choose the former then the return is pretty self-explanatory. Follow the boggy path until you reach a marked track which leads all the way back to the main road.
If you choose the latter then read on!
Like I already mentioned, the ascent up Ciste Dhubh is undoubtedly the toughest of the day. Follow the grassy descent after the scree slopes, taking care to stay left of the river, for just over a mile (1.6km). This is a tedious walk and it feels very slow as you see the pointy summit of Ciste Dhubh slowly getting larger right in front of you.
Cross the river at the base of the munro and choose where looks best to start the climb. I took a relatively straight route all the way up to the basin just below the summit. You can maybe make it slightly easier for yourself if you bear right and follow the ridge up to the summit, but this may mean quite a long detour.
Going straight up the side is a long, slow, boggy slog. The gruelling ascent can maybe be compensated for by the epic surrounding countryside and feeling of complete isolation.
As you continue to slog up, keep your eyes peeled for herds of deer, and your ears pricked for roaring stags, especially in autumn.
Once you get to the basin, the final climb lies just ahead. Again, it's just a case of following the mountain up towards the summit. If occasionally glance behind you, you'll be able to see the peak of Mullach Fraoch Choire and its ridge. At this point, it will probably feel like a distant memory!
There are grassy slopes around the small cairn on top which serve as great resting spots to catch your breath and take in the wonderful scenery.
The descent back to the car park is relatively straightforward. On a clear day, you can almost see the entire route back to the car from the peak of Ciste Dhubh. Follow the path along and down the narrow ridge. Soon afterwards you'll start to drop quite dramatically over some quite rocky and boggy terrain.
Reaching the bottom of the initial steep drop, you have two options. You can either follow the glen all the way down to your right or you can go up and over the corbett, Am Bathach.
My plan was to take the glen down because I was quite exhausted at this point but, not long before, I met 2 hikers who both recommended that I go up and over the corbett. Although it may not look this way at first, it's actually quicker and you avoid some extremely swampy terrain.
I followed their advice and, even though it pretty much finished me off, it did turn out to be a dry route back to the car. It's a simple case of following the path over the corbett and straight back down the other side, with the main road right at the mountain's foot. From here, it's another 2-minute walk back to the car.
A' Chralaig and Mullach Fraoch Choire are 2 of the easier munros with, excluding the initial steep climb, a relatively easy hike covering both the peaks.
If you're fit and do lots of hiking, or just an extremely determined munro bagger, then Ciste Dhubh is a great add-on. The hike over to it and up the east side is certainly difficult, but the staggering views make it more than worth it.
Great write up! Detailed and entertaining to read.
Cheers lad! I'm keeping well up to date with your travels 😉 El Salvador at the moment?
I am new to hiking and found this article fascinating. I really liked how detailed and honest the review was. I also really liked the views from each of the peaks.
My question to you is that my family don't like hiking and if I was to go on this hike are there any activities in the towns that you mentioned that are child friendly? Or do you know of any family hikes that we could do? Thank you.
If you are a family with young children, or who just aren't keen hikers, then I wouldn't recommend these peaks to start off with. Everywhere around the Highlands of Scotland is child-friendly. Everywhere caters to children and the country is a fantastic place for a family holiday.
If you are specifically looking for more family friendly hikes then check out my articles about the Ben Wyvis walk and hiking around Loch Ness.
Wow! I will be traveling in Estonia soon, so the article on Tallinn initially caught my eye. Once I finished it I started reading all the other tidbits, and realized what a great website this is. The way you describe the various destinations makes me wish I had updated my passport sooner. Thank you for the knowledge, and the awesome to-do list for my trip!
Thanks a lot for your comment, Clay!
Tallinn is a beautiful city and there is plenty there to keep you busy. How long will you be going for?


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Thai Durian Packaging Once Again Tests Positive for SARS-CoV-2
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On Oct. 5, the Zhengyang County Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the Chinese city of Zhumadian, Henan province, issued a health warning regarding imported Thai Bazhang durians after random nucleic acid testing of imported fruit turned up a positive result for SARS-CoV-2 on the outer packaging of imported Bazhang durians (a type of Puangmanee durian) in the city of Yuncheng in Shanxi province. Some durians from the same batch had been transported to markets in Zhumadian for sale, with one crate of eight durians from the batch ending up in Zhengyang County.
Local authorities traced the potentially contaminated durians to a certain Xiyonghong supermarket in Zhengyang County in Zhumadian, where they had been delivered via a wholesaler at 6 p.m. on Sept. 30. At the time of the investigations, some of the durians had already been sold.
The Zhengyang County Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated that it had immediately carried out extensive inspections and testing of the surroundings and personnel who may have come into contact with the durians in question and all tests had returned negative results. The affected supermarket was temporarily closed in order to conduct appropriate isolation and disinfection measures.
The incident was a repeat of a similar occurrence earlier this year — on Aug. 14, another batch of imported Thai durian packaging tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the city of Ganzhou in China's Jiangxi province. Four days after the news surfaced, Thai Minister of Commerce Jurin Laksanawisit announced that China had not declared a ban on the import of durians from Thailand, nor issued a warning to any of Thailand's durian exporters. As of now, a ban has still not been announced, but more rigorous testing measures were introduced for imported foodstuffs, especially fruit. With a second instance of contaminated packaging in the space of two months, it remains unknown whether Chinese customs authorities will look to implement stricter measures for Thai durians.
China's General Administration of Customs previously issued a guide on official procedures in the event that traces of SARS-CoV-2 are found on fruit packaging. The guide states that the first and second times the virus is detected, import applications will be suspended for one week; if the virus is detected a third time, imports will be suspended for four weeks.
China's Pingxiang Railway Port Reopens to Thai Fruit
Malaysia's Durian Export Value Doubles Over 5 Years
China To Boost COVID Safety Measures for Thai Longans and Durians


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Paavo Nurmis stadion är en multiarena i Åbo i Finland. Den används för fotboll och friidrott. Arenan tar 13 000 åskådare och är uppkallad efter den finländske friidrottaren Paavo Nurmi, född i Åbo.  Arenan ligger i Åbo idrottspark på Samppalinnaberget.

Arenan invigdes den 13 juni 1997.

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