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Philip Morris and Altria want to merge
A DECADE ago Altria, which makes Marlboros, spun off its non-American business, Philip Morris International (PMI). The split was driven partly by Altria's share price, which had been languishing below the sum of its parts, but also by regulatory hounding of Big Tobacco over its role in causing cancer. When British American Tobacco made a bid for Reynolds American, maker of Camels, in 2016, Bonnie Herzog, an analyst at Wells Fargo, a bank, urged PMI to reunite with its former parent. It took longer than expected. But on August 27th the two said they were in talks to merge. Their combined market value just before the announcement was $210bn.
Ms Herzog still thinks the merger makes sense, given the benefits of scale and geographical reach in what she calls the "global arms race" for "reduced-risk" products, which use fewer harmful chemicals. Last year Altria spent $12.8bn on 35% of Juul Labs, a maker of popular high-nicotine vaporisers. It paid $1.8bn for 45% of Cronos Group, a cannabis company from Canada (which, along with some American states, has legalised pot). PMI has spent $6bn since 2008 to develop IQOS, a smoke-free device which heats tobacco and is expected to represent 40% of its sales by 2025, up from 14% last year. In April it won approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell IQOS in America, starting next month (under an existing licensing agreement with Altria).
Worldwide cigarette sales fell by 4.5% in 2018, to $714bn, and may continue to decline. The FDA's proposed rules on nicotine content, to make smokes "minimally addictive", could cut profits of American tobacco firms by half, say analysts at Morgan Stanley, a bank. By contrast, e-cigarette revenues may grow by more than 8% annually over the next five years, from $11bn today, according to Mordor Intelligence, a research firm.
For all that, merging with Altria may expose PMI to regulatory risks from Juul, whose controversial devices are a worrying hit with teenagers. Altria could also be a drag on PMI's profitability, which has exceeded its parent's since the split. PMI's share price fell by 7.8% on the news. The deal may yet go up in smoke.
This post was originally posted at https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/28/philip-morris-and-altria-want-to-merge.
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> > It's an important subsystem that's broken.
Partially. I'd like to find a new maintainer for lpr.
I don't run lpr here anymore, so I cannot test it.
And nobody bothered to send me a patch or to maintain the package.
> the FQDN is compared with the hostname, which always fails.
> [This was originally meant as security fix].
> queried in the usual way (AFAIR); I reverted lpr in the end to 5.9-11.
comparing. In some places this seems to be done.
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Every so often, you'll see a film or a novel that purports to be based upon true events. Recent examples include the Don Shirley biography Green Book and the Freddie Mercury story in Bohemian Rhapsody. But how much can we trust the version of events portrayed?
Life writing often involves considering difficult questions about the subject matter. Is it ethical to repeat an anecdote told in private? Can details be left out of the story to improve clarity for the reader? When is it right to use people's real names?
The answer to these questions will vary depending on the situation. In a historical piece where the people involved are all dead, the writer is unlikely to run into ethical problems.
But if the subject is still living and perhaps still active in their field, they might be entitled to take legal action. Here is an introduction to the laws regarding libel and slander.
One notable publication was Spycatcher by the former MI5 agent Peter Wright, in which he alleged the head of his organisation during his career was a Soviet spy. The book was ultimately cleared for publication a year later.
2019-03-05 2019-03-04 biography, ethics, fiction, libel, Life Writing, memoir, slander, story, truthLeave a comment
I'm Sorry, But…
Almost every writer who wants to be published will have to face rejection somewhere along the line. Perhaps it's not what they're looking for at that time; maybe they liked it, but other work was of a higher standard.
Last week, though, I was in the position when I had to turn down an offer. I have a friend – let's call her Alice – who runs community engagement activities for a historic trust. This time, she was running an event for people aged 60 and over to share their memories for a children's' book. Unfortunately, one of the participants had fallen ill, but she had an unusual story of World War II that deserved to be told.
Wounded soldier (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Alice furnished me with the important points. I considered the offer for six days, but I found it impossible to shape a poem or a story around the facts I was given.
The difficulty with biography is that when you don't know the individual personally, it's necessary to conduct a lot of research. There was a Middle Eastern leader some years ago who would carry out an hour of research for every minute he planned to spend with a visitor; inconveniently, my own research has not turned up this guy's name.
I need to stress that this wasn't Alice's shortcoming, but from the information I was given, I felt I'd be unable to do justice to her story. So I made the decision to decline the offer, but not before referring Alice to a tutor friend who teaches life writing. I do hope the participant's story can be told in a suitable manner.
Of course, if there'd been no requirement to tell a true story, I could easily have taken the available facts and fictionalised the rest. It would have been very different, but probably rather compelling.
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On 4 December 1956, an extraordinary coincidence happened. Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash all happened to drop by Sun Record Studios in Memphis, which resulted in an impromptu jam session. The engineer had the foresight to record the session, and it's now a celebrated event among rock 'n' roll fans.
On Wednesday of last week, I experienced a similar such meeting. I arrived 15 minutes early for a particular class, but nobody else had arrived after a five-minute wait. I then doubted myself and thought I should perhaps be in another class on the other side of the campus. I immediately headed there.
I had to excuse myself through hundreds of other students, coming the other way, aware that time was ticking away rapidly. When I reached the entrance, I happened to meet Classmate A and explained the situation. As we made our way through the crowds, we met Classmate B by chance and brought him with us. As we approached our destination, we happened to see Classmate C, who joined our small group.
Had you written either of these situations into a novel, the reader might have some difficulty suspending their disbelief. In short, coincidences don't work particularly well in fiction, even though they happen all the time in real life. It's related to the broader deus ex machina, when a seemingly unsolvable problem is abruptly resolved by some unexpected intervention.
One way to help the reader maintain that disbelief is to set a few parameters. This could be as simple as dropping a few hints earlier in the story. To demonstrate this, let's break down my classroom anecdote.
My three classmates and I knew we could only be in one of two particular classrooms, so Classmate D had gone to the second room first, since she was just as unsure as me. And although the rooms were at opposite sides of the campus, there is a main thoroughfare that most students would use to travel from one to the other. So the crowds were not a hindrance to the four of us meeting, rather they were subconsciously leading us to each other.
If I included this incident in a fictional story with that background detail worked into it – Show, don't tell, said Elmore Leonard – it's more likely that the reader would see the meeting as quite a reasonable coincidence. It might even be possible to deconstruct the Million Dollar Quartet in a similar fashion. For a start, the label's owner had brought along Jerry Lee Lewis as an instrumentalist for Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash later wrote that he had already planned to see Perkins' recording session that day.
Identify the parameters to help the reader believe those coincedences.
This blog has been available at http://www.gavincameron.me.uk since it began last year. But from today, if you type http://www.gavincameron.scot into your browser, it's no coincidence you'll also end up here.
2014-09-29 2017-09-30 anecdote, blogging, coincidence, fiction, Life Writing, million dollar quartet, plot, prose, writing1 Comment
Alt.Format.
Last year, I joined a Life Writing class at the University of Dundee. One week, the tutor asked us to make mood boards to represent the themes of our writing. I didn't look forward to this at all. As I've mentioned in previous entries, I'm not naturally gifted in visual expression.
But having consulted an artist for advice, I acquired materials from a nearby recycling plant, and pieces gradually fell into place. This task led to a short exhibition at the University where most of the class displayed their boards, with explanatory text and a personal story alongside each one.
My mood board came to be titled Bubble Memory, constructed of a 35mm slide holder with buttons and other found materials in each pocket. The photograph shows how it was displayed in the exhibition, which closed on Friday of last week, although we are in talks to extend it. Despite my initial dread, I was pleased with the all-round results.
This is not the first time I've experimented with alternative formats. Text-based artist Gerry O'Brien was also a member of the Life Writing class, and submitted a piece of homework on a thumb drive. It contained a PowerPoint presentation that told the story of meeting a man from Honduras in text, interspersed with photographs. The presentation runs automatically at a slow savoury pace, allowing the viewer to absorb every detail.
Inspired by this, another class member created a similar project, speaking about the dolls she makes and collects. And inspired by both their achievements, I converted an existing poem of mine into the format, but with no pictures and no audio. The text is displayed to the reader at approximately the speed I would speak it, but there is freedom on their part to imagine the emphasis and inflections.
I started experimenting with formats a couple of years ago when I took part in the Sketchbook Project at Brooklyn Art Library. I broke down one of my short stories into fragments of one or two sentences, then converted each fragment to a QR code. This is a square barcode that can be read by many mobile devices. When it's scanned, the device shows the fragment of text.
I then glued each of these codes into the sketchbook in the right order to tell the story, and sent it back to the Library. It was then scanned and placed online, while the original sketchbook was taken on a tour around America. This is the finished sketchbook. The following year, I submitted an apology for the artwork in that first book.
I don't think I will ever move completely away from text on paper, but the occasional piece in another format or another medium can engage the reader in a different way. I'll leave you with the story of the world's first hypertext novels, a form that would be challenging to reproduce on paper.
2014-08-18 2014-08-17 alternative, art, fiction, format, hypertext, Life Writing, medium, mood board, PowerPoint, sketchbook, writing1 Comment
Tabletpunk.
Nothing marks out a generation more than the slang it uses.
If we concentrate on right now, February 2014, you'll hear people say they've, "taken a selfie," or say, "because," followed by a single word rather than an explanation. Back fifteen years, and it wasn't unusual to, "tape that programme," or answer the phone with, "WASSU-U-UP?"
So when writing a piece that's going to hang around for a while, most notably a novel, it's a good idea to decide whether you want to incorporate the slang of the day to make it a period piece, or create a more timeless tale by using more generic terms.
I recently wrote a story where a major plot element is a pager. This immediately sets it in the 1980s, and I felt safe using the term data bank to describe the device's storage, rather than the more modern memory. I tried not to overload the piece with dated words, but I did allow myself a yuppie, as the pager's owner described himself.
But while the eighties is over and we know what it was like, writing a story set in the future is different. One day, selfie and because _____ will be as embarrassing as fab and groovy. For my first novel, where the action takes place in the 2500s, I used, for instance, sound system rather than iPod or even MP3 player. I decided not to try predicting the future term, and write something a little more bland, as would distract from what I was trying to say.
There is an elegant solution to this problem, and those of you who write steampunk know what I'm talking about. This genre imagines modern or relatively recent technology as people in the 19th century might have seen it. There are many literary examples of this, but an accessible non-literary one is the TV series Warehouse 13.
Which leads me to wonder if there'll be a genre of the future where writers of the 2110s envision their everyday gadgets as we in the 2010s might have viewed them. This decade's most popular invention is probably the touchscreen computer. So, a hundred years in advance, I'm going to label this predicted genre as tabletpunk.
I'd like to be around to see the look on some geek's face when they unearth this entry.
2014-02-07 because, blogging, Book, fiction, future, Life Writing, novel, past, plot, predictions, present, selfie, slang, steampunk, tabletpunk, tape, wassup, writing3 Comments
The C-Word.
I've seen Chris Brookmyre twice already, and tonight was my third time. I'm a big fan of his work after All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye, and most recently, a signed copy of Flesh Wounds. Tonight, he was promoting Bedlam, which also has his autograph.
Brookmyre does not fit the stereotype of the introverted author, much like the late Iain Banks, whom I had the privilege of seeing twice. Rather, Brookmyre takes centre stage and spills out anecdotes full of swearing. He's so well known for it that he's now been forced to apologise in advance. Indeed, the first time I saw the guy, he read out an e-mail he'd received by a previous organiser, effectively banning him from appearing several years ago.
Tonight, he brought along a guest. Barry Phillips started a parody blog of a local footballer and found it attracted the attention of readers around the world. Now he's written a book called The Tartan Special One about a 17-year-old who is snapped up by Dundee FC. I don't follow the game, and I didn't buy a copy tonight, but it still appeals to me so I might so do in the future.
I've started back at two writing classes: a short course in fiction run by published author Zöe Venditozzi, and Level 2 of the Life Writing course at the University of Dundee. A couple of new people have joined us, one of them from Life Writing, and she says she's having trouble thinking of ideas for passages in the five- to ten-minute exercises we're given in class.
By coincidence, I was discussing this issue with one of the other short course stalwarts earlier the same evening. We realised we're so used to thinking on our feet that we don't even hesitate over it any more. But when we began in 2011, it would be tiring trying to think of stories.
Most of our Life Writing class knew each other from Level 1, and we really bonded over this week's homework, which was to write a summary of our life, then pick one part and make it into a vignette. The ideas for this class also come to me rather quickly, and I can sometimes think of one before I'm on the bus home.
Finally, I didn't realise until tonight that there's a reminder feature on WordPress. If you want to post at least once a week, or once a month, it'll send you an e-mail.
2014-01-22 all fun and games, Barry Phillips, Bedlam, blogging, Book, Christopher Brookmyre, fiction, flesh wounds, Life Writing, memoir, Tartan Special One, writing, zöe venditozziLeave a comment
The Shock of The New.
Even although I've had stories published, I'm very keen to keep expanding my horizons. DamyantiWrites made this very point in her recent entry Do You Swim Free?, where she discusses authors who are happy to sit on the well-worn cushions of their comfort zone, rehashing the same ideas for years.
To this end, I've joined a Life Writing (LW) class at the University of Dundee. Thus far, the vast majority of my scribing has been about fictional characters in fictional situations, but LW is all about the self: memoirs of a specific event you experienced, an autobiography of your entire life, or a biography of someone else's.
In last week's class, we wrote a passage about a recent holiday; in my case a boat trip up the River Forth in Edinburgh. Part of our homework involved rewriting the passage using reference material such as photographs, maps and articles. The next class is on Tuesday, when we'll be discussing the LW we have enjoyed and/or disliked.
I hope to expand my horizons in other ways too, such as poetry, and the performance type in particular; I intend to come back to that subject in the future. I've also written a stage play and I'm kicking about an idea for a screenplay.
There are authors who can carry off taking the same path over and over again. Read almost anything by Agatha Christie and it follows a familiar pattern where everyone ends up in the drawing room while Poirot or Miss Marple whittles them down to reveal the murderer. And I dislike Dan Brown's style, but looking past that, he is another good example. Historical facts, symbolic minutiae and conspiracies spill out onto every page of every book, and the public lap it up.
I really yearn to pull something unexpected out of the bag. P D James is one author who did just that. For years, she penned detective books, then at the age of 72, wrote the science fiction novel Children of Men. And Roald Dahl is famous for his children's books, but additionally wrote macabre short stories for adults, and the script for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice. That's like Cliff Richard releasing a hip-hop album.
To that end, I'll attempt to wring every possible benefit out of the LW course, and not just from the teaching in class. Being a student allows me into the university library, where I'm writing this, and into the cheap campus bar. And that means it's easier to take Ernest Hemingway's slightly dubious advice to, "Write drunk, edit sober."
But I'll need to squeeze it all in before December, when the course ends and I'll lose these privileges.
2013-10-14 2013-10-14 Agatha Christie, autobiography, biography, Cliff Richard, Dan Brown, Ernest Hemingway, Life Writing, Marple, memoir, Miss Marple, novel, P D James, performance, poetry, Roald Dahl, University of Dundee, writing1 Comment

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Instilling a sense of unity and belonging.
Kristin's uniform is a constant reminder to our students that they are a part of a proud tradition. Students are expected to maintain a high standard of dress and grooming in school, when travelling to and from Kristin and when representing Kristin at any function.
The Uniform Shop is open Monday - Friday from 8am until 4pm during term time. It is located in the Junior School, behind the Courier Bay.
We are pleased to announce that from Term 2 2019, the white t shirts, white shirts and blouses are being phased out and replaced by a bespoke unisex checked shirt. The new shirt is designed to be worn "open-neck" without a tie for daily wear and worn over the waistband rather than tucked in. However, ties may still be required for certain formal community events. Ties will also remain an optional item for those wearing a check shirt who wish to wear them.
The white shirts and blouses are designed to be worn with a tie, the shirt tucked into the waistband with a navy regulation belt, and the blouse over the waistband or under the pinafore, and this expectation will remain for those wearing these shirts.
There is a transition period for this change to happen. Every student must be in the new shirts by the start of 2021.
Makeup and coloured nail polish are not permitted.
Summer - Black leather sandals without socks, or shoes and regulation socks. NB no black sneakers.
– Black Zita or Molly shoes (only available from the Kristin Retail Shop) with regulation navy ankle socks, or black leather lace-up school shoes with regulation navy ankle socks or black roman or Birkenstock Milano or Bali sandals without socks. Sports shoes or Chuck Taylor style shoes are not permitted.
– Black Zita or Molly shoes (only available from the Kristin retail shop) with black tights (Senior School girls) or regulation navy ankle socks (Middle and Senior School girls) or black leather lace-up school shoes with black tights or regulation navy ankle socks. Sports shoes or Chuck Taylor style shoes are not permitted.
– Black leather lace-up school shoes with regulation navy long socks or black Roman or Safari or Birkenstock Milano sandals without socks. Sports shoes or Chuck Taylor style shoes are not permitted.
– Black leather lace-up school shoes with regulation navy long socks. Sports shoes or Chuck Taylor style shoes are not permitted.


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Procrastination is the enemy of the writer. But she is also your friend.
When you're at school, the adults insist that you write, so you do it even when you don't want to. But once you leave school and there's no one looking over your shoulder, you have to find a way to make yourself do it. You have to find your own motivation, because otherwise you will spend far too much time chatting with Little Miss Procrastination. You will spend lots of time talking about being a writer, and not enough getting on with it and actually doing it. If you want to write well, and make a living out it, you must find ways to push yourself, like the grown-ups did to you when you were at school. Exactly the same methods apply when someone else is teaching you, and when you are teaching yourself. Set yourself time limits or targets; define your goals; make yourself stick at it, even when you don't want to. Reward yourself if you do well. Sit down and write, because you can only get better at it by actually doing it. What are you even doing, reading this?
But wait just a moment … don't forget the second part of the lesson. Procrastination is not necessarily a negative. She is also your friend. Blogging is procrastination. So is Facebook. And Twitter. And that writing forum you visit when you're bored. So is gardening. And tidying. And emptying the cupboards for a Spring clean. Little Miss Procrastination is also useful, because she gives you mulling over time, sifting ideas time and having experiences time. Remember that you do an awful lot of writing, and marketing, when you faff about online (it's just that nobody is paying you for it). Don't be afraid to think for a long time: let your ideas find their own form, rather than imposing one on them because you got fed up with waiting. Meet up with your friend, but if her name is Little Miss Procrastination, just remember to send her home before she becomes your enemy.


A number of variables can have a potential impact on business communications. Different points of view, different agendas and different communication styles can all impact the nature of communication. Communicating across cultures presents even more challenges. Whether operating in the global marketplace or communicating with culturally diverse employees, customers and suppliers, companies that understand the implications of cross-cultural business communication can build more-effective relationships and use that knowledge to their competitive advantage.
Language is the most obvious challenge to effective cross-cultural communication. Translations can introduce errors and create misunderstandings. Some words, called false cognates, look and sound similar in different languages but have different meanings. A good example is the word "compromise," which means agreeing to a middle ground in English, but in Spanish means making a commitment. Not knowing the difference can create problems in business negotiations if one party thinks she is agreeing to negotiate while the other thinks he has won his position.
There are cultural differences in gift-giving, using business cards and protocol during business meetings. Some objects considered thoughtful gifts in one culture are inappropriate or even taboo in others. Giving a clock to a Chinese person means you are wishing him death, and a gift of knives and scissors represents severing of a relationship. There are rules for exchanging business cards. The Chinese exchange business cards with two hands as a sign of respect and expect cards to be translated. Many hierarchical cultures follow strict protocol at meetings and defer to the highest-ranking members during discussions.
Some cultures have different attitudes toward time. American businesspeople expect meetings to begin on time and frown upon tardiness, while some Latin American countries are more relaxed: Meetings often start late and deadlines shift with ease. Americans interpret this non-verbal communication as lack of respect or unprofessional behavior. Time zones present other communication challenges when conducting business on opposite sides of the world. American businesses begin their work day while other countries may be just waking up or going to bed.
Different religions and beliefs can create communication challenges in business. Managers can find it difficult to schedule meetings and coordinate training and team activities with some employees who practice their faith by praying several times a day. Conservative cultures may make it difficult for women to communicate as equal members of a team or to participate fully in business meetings.
Training programs that teach the value of diversity can help employees understand the variables and obstacles to effective communication and help strengthen work teams. This training can also reinforce the customer-service function in a business by raising employee awareness and understanding of cross-cultural communication challenges.


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Construction of the biggest cruise ship ever delayed by pandemic
Gene Sloan
The debut of what is expected to be the largest cruise ship ever built has been delayed.
Citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Royal Caribbean this week said its newest Oasis Class ship, Wonder of the Seas, would no longer begin operations in China in 2021. The line didn't give a new timetable for the rollout of the vessel.
"The construction of (Wonder of the Seas) was delayed due to the impact (on) the shipyard operation," the line said in a statement posted in Chinese on its Chinese website, according to a translation. "However, we look forward to the arrival of (Wonder of the Seas) after the epidemic has been brought under control as soon as possible."
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Wonder of the Seas has been under construction at the giant Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France, since April 2019. The shipyard has experience work delays in recent months due to coronavirus-related quarantines.
Royal Caribbean's announcement comes just two weeks after the line said the November debut of another, smaller new vessel it has on order, the 4,198-passenger Odyssey of the Seas, had been postponed by six months. Odyssey of the Seas is now scheduled to arrive in April 2021.
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Wonder of the Seas will a sister to world's biggest cruise ship Symphony of the Seas. (Photo courtesy of Royal Caribbean)
In that case, the line also cited shipyard delays as the reason.
Royal Caribbean is joining a growing list of cruise lines pushing back new ship arrivals in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Princess Cruises, Carnival Cruise Line and Crystal Cruises also have announced significant delays to the debut of new ships.
The coronavirus pandemic also has prompted startup line Virgin Voyages to push back its inaugural season of voyages until at least October.
Wonder of the Seas will be the fifth vessel in Royal Caribbean's groundbreaking Oasis Class series of ships, which are more than 20% bigger than any other cruise ships afloat.
Related: Is cruising done until 2021? This line thinks so
The four existing Oasis Class vessels include the 228,081-ton Symphony of the Seas — the current size leader in the cruise world. Eighteen decks high and nearly 1,200 feet long, it can hold up to 6,680 passengers at maximum occupancy.
The vessel and its sisters resemble megaresorts on land with dozens of restaurants and bars, Broadway-style entertainment, casinos and lots of deck-top attractions. Symphony of the Seas has three pool areas, giant waterslides, rock climbing walls, surfing simulators, a miniature golf course and even an ice-skating rink.
While Royal Caribbean has been coy as to just how big Wonder of the Seas will be, a top executive at Royal Caribbean last year hinted to The Points Guy that the newcomer (and another Oasis Class ship on order for 2023) are likely to set new size records.
"It's certainly a moniker that Royal Caribbean owns," Royal Caribbean's vice president for product development, Laura Hodges-Bethge, told TPG. "When you look at Symphony, it was, I don't know, a couple metric tons [bigger than its predecessor]?" For these new ships, she said, "I can't imagine that wouldn't be the same thing."
Every Oasis Class ship that has rolled out has been a little bigger than the last.
Planning a cruise for the coming year? These stories will help:
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Gene Sloan has written about cruising for more than 25 years and for many years oversaw USA TODAY's award-winning cruise site, USA TODAY Cruises. He's sailed on more than 150 ships.


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Polish Shakespeare Online: Maja Kleczewska's "Macbeth"
Written by Konrad Zielinski | 8th May 2020 | Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review
Judyta Paradzińska and Michał Majnicz in "Macbeth" dir. by Maja Kleczewska. Photo by John Haynes.
L. P. Hartley's much-recycled observation that 'the past is a foreign country' seems an oddly befitting introduction to Opole-based Kochanowski Theatre's 2004 production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. In numerous regions, theatre is in a state of limbo, with live performance being an eerie memory of a different world. This world can now be glimpsed at through recordings and archives resurging online. Shakespeare's Globe provides one such window, offering – amongst their features – a collection of international performances showcased during the 2012 Globe to Globe Festival. The digital explosion of content related to the bard is becoming a phenomenon that is sure to generate further discussions.
Being a first-generation migrant living in the UK, I take it as an opportunity to reconnect with stages that ignited my thespian interests. Also, to review my perspective on Shakespeare. For the past decade, it has been shaped predominantly by glossy offerings of London and Stratford-upon-Avon. It's a risky approach to this particular Macbeth (or, indeed, Makbet). Director Maja Kleczewska declared at the time that she takes scripts as raw materials and points of departure for explorations of specific themes. She's not interested in scholarly approaches and production of museum-piece theatre. As a result, her work is often met with polarised responses among the critical circles in Poland and confronted with accusations of textual barbarism as well as disloyalty to her source material.
The period between 2004 and 2011 in Poland saw at least twenty other productions of Shakespeare's Scottish Play, among them by Grzegorz Jarzyna and Andrzej Wajda – already internationally renowned auteurs. Both these productions, focusing on the theatre of war, tied the drama with the conflict in Iraq and still appeared topical in 2012 while bolstering some of the grandest names among Polish thesps. Jarzyna's production also featured the same summer in Edinburgh. Yet it's Kleczewska's understated production, which focused on the domestic dimension of the tragedy that came to London as part of the Globe's celebration of the World Shakespeare Festival.
The plot is known well enough and mostly preserved. The staging opens with Macbeth (Michał Majnicz) and Banquo (Przemysław Kozłowski) reclining in armchairs. At the same time, a surtitled introduction outlines how the two men recoup their strengths, following successful war efforts. Liberties with the playtext quickly become apparent through bold editorial choices dropping famous lines or even whole scenes. This Macbeth is no bloodied man, but – much like his comrade – a bandaged up and tracksuited slob. Judyta Paradzińska's Lady Macbeth is consumed by depression and appears on stage wrapped in a blanket. She perches on his chair's armrest seeking intimacy but gets no interest from her husband. He seems to be more preoccupied with his mobile phone and treats her as a nuisance.
Here, the Weird Sisters (Andrzej Jakubczyk, Maciej Namysło, Ewa Wyszomirska) come to Macbeth's household, in cheap plastic bags bearing gifts and hard liquor. Banquo's remark 'you should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so' is taken to the extreme. Designer Katarzyna Borkowska sees them dressed as harlots and drag queens. Their prophecies progress from assured pronouncements to guess-work and wish-fulfillment fantasies. Their fluid identities contrast starkly with the rigidly masculine characters of reposing soldiers. This interplay is further amplified; Macbeth is gifted a copy of Leonard Zagórski's novel Facet (pl. Bloke). The tribute points to a now largely forgotten but once celebrated author of late 1980's pulps. This gift is telling in many ways. Foremostly it hints at masculinity being a subject of interrogation. It's also an intertextual allusion to a protagonist, who – as a product of a system (in Zagórki's case: totalitarian Poland) – becomes ruthless through his growing consumerist appetite.
The Weird Sisters: Andrzej Jakubczyk, Ewa Wyszomirska, Maciej Namysło. Photo by Magdalena Sztandara.
Much like Zagórski's characters, the inhabitants of the kingdom presented on stage come across as relics of a bygone era, struggling to adapt to a post-transformation reality. The scene of King Duncan's (Grzegorz Minkiewicz) arrival with his courtiers with bold strokes paints a landscape of the realm he rules. His dominion is one of the suburban mobs, with himself as capo di tutti capi among small-town gangsters. His entrance immediately posits him as a lecherous abuser as he assaults one of the witches, who remain on stage throughout most of this production. The Sisters themselves are oddly liminal figures, who switch between boundaries of the fictional world and provide a cabaret-like framing and lip-sync extravaganzas which complement the unraveling plot.
Cabaret aesthetics are quite prevalent in Polish adaptations of Shakespeare (to name Małgorzata Bogajewska's 2008 Hamlet at the Horzyca Theatre in Toruń or Paweł Miśkiewicz's 2018 The Temptest at Warsaw's National Theatre as just a couple). Kleczewska seems to deploy them not as a sensual provocation, but as a counterpoint to escalating violence (as signaled by the inclusion of Liza Minelli's Mein Herr) and an instance of directorial tricksterism. At the Globe, with an almost bare stage as a backdrop and no lightning design, these musical interludes come across as ostensibly and deliberately amateurish, with their clunky choreography and catchpenny garments. This world is far removed from refined performance and sophisticated tableaus; it's one of the fools stumbling in cheap and cringey discos.
The choice of music in these scenes – ranging from Jennifer Lopez's Let's Get Loud and Michael Jackson's Billy Jean, through Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang (always liked with episodes showing murder) to Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive – builds a narrative of recycled clichés. As familiar reference points, they require no engagement and, in consequence, act as a perception filter. Such techniques may suggest these are characters whose experience is mediated through popular culture, which serves as their primary reference point. This notion is mirrored in the composition of individual scenes. They often end abruptly, as if cutting away to the next segment in a manner resembling film editing, again hinting at a prism through which reality is observed. Kleczewska's later production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Krakow, 2006) made extensive use of film and video. This Macbeth relies on bodily presence alone to deliver its critique.
Bodies – specifically male bodies – are always on display. Either clothed in tacky apparel and gaudy gold chains or semi-nude, they remain uncomfortable to watch. When Duncan arrives at the Macbeths' household, he holds a prisoner whose only face and groin area are covered. After bestowing titles on Macbeth and declaring Malcolm (Dominik Bąk) as his successor, the soon to be murdered king calls for a celebration, which quickly turns into a rave. The doomed ruler performs a striptease. His aged and obese body, through simulation of a sensual dance directed at the lady of the house, is stigmatized as grotesque. It leaves Lady Macbeth with an expression of disgust. Like most men in this mise-en-scène, his physique bears no resemblance to commonly beheld ideals of beauty.
Grzegorz Minkiewicz and Dominik Bąk in Macbeth dir. by Maja Kleczewska. Photo by John Haynes.
Within a patriarchal and homosocial framework, male bodies need not be objects of desire. They achieve carnal pleasure through exercising power. Young Malcolm's baggy suit may imply he's yet to have grown into his full form. Taking after others, he adapts an abusive attitude towards women (as illustrated by his strangling of one of the Sisters for amusement). In the eyes of his milieu, he appears a worthy inheritor, one that will preserve the inequitable legacy of his elders. Analogically Macbeth, effete and impotent before his coronation, as monarch finds sexual prowess. After seeing the ghost of Banquo, he reasserts his bravery and virility ('I dare: / Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, / The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; / Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves / Shall never tremble'). Lady Macbeth, now with child, watches as her husband attempts to prove this by forcing a Sister to fellate him. The same witch declared her love for Banquo in the opening scene. The scene constitutes a masculine display of conquest.
Thus, regicide becomes a rite of passage towards sexual maturity, positioning violence as an intrinsically unfeminine domain. It's an assertation somewhat complicated by the portrayal of Lady Macbeth. Paradzińska's heroine entices Macbeth to slay Duncan and seize the throne. Yet, she later claims it would have been impossible for her to take his life herself due to the king's resemblance to her father. When her husband fails to slay the guards, it is she who eliminates possible witnesses. It appears only men allow gender to delineate the boundaries of their actions, or have their status define them. Paradzińska renders a character who's transgressions are not motivated by mere ambition. She shows a protagonist filled with frustration and resentment, desperately seeking agency — her Lady Macbeth rebels against an order that relegates her towards margins.
The heroine takes no pleasure in violence; she does what needs doing. Conversely, her accomplice revels in bestiality and covetously licks blood off his lady's hands. During the coronation scene (the crown being a pair of sequinned loafers), the carmine canvas of his black suit hints at newfound vampirism. In a reddish-brown dress and a neck wrapped in pearls, his wife becomes Countess Báthory to his Lord Ruthven. Still, her tired leaning on side-pillars and repeated clutching of her pregnant belly intimate she is growing weary of slaughter and seeks domestic bliss. Yet Macbeth, as ruler, internalizes the fearful clinging to power of his predecessors and upholds their oppressive ways of governance, again side-lining his spouse. The actress's towering performance places the ascending queen as a focal point of the tragedy, with all other elements of the narrative gravitating towards her. This dynamic results in an almost Jamesian portrait of a lady in blood.
The production has Lady Macbeth commit suicide after losing the child; violence breeds violence, not happy endings. The words 'I have almost forgot the taste of fears' become the last to be uttered by Macbeth in this rendition, clipping the famous soliloquy. The mise-en-scène jumps to the cruel king being buried under a pile of bodies wearing 'Birnam Forest' t-shirts as if the remainder of the play was broadcasted in fast-forward. The closing pageant sees Gaynor's I Will Survive interrupted mid-refrain as though someone hit the off button on a remote. The hit song, typically an anthem of empowerment and liberation, resounds more like a smokescreen concealing the rise of a new tyrant than a celebration of a villain's demise. Kleczewska's Makbet does not see life as a player strutting and fretting upon the stage, instead of appearing to echo Guy Debord's views on life being entombed in a pyramid of representations. In a mediatized society of the spectacle, these images cease to reference anything but themselves, indeed signifying nothing.
Experiencing this performance might not be pleasant, nor is it meant to be. Maja Kleczewska assembled a manifestly unpoetic universe, devoid of sophistication and permeated by vulgarity. But by building it layer upon layer from scraps of what's local and particular (the small-town criminal underworld of post-transformation Poland) and what's appropriated (western popular culture), Kochanowski Theatre's Makbet can be strikingly relevant when viewed after 16 years of its inception. Showing a network of thugs and despots scrambling for power, it compellingly resonates with the contemporary political scene of Central and East-Central Europe. Power, obtained, legitimized, and sustained through abuse, operating behind a shroud of sequins and glitter, cannot overcome its fascistic context. It can only be derailed by acts of resistance, i.e., ones expressed through art. Kleczewska's proposition, in transforming a renaissance classic, encourages critical engagement with the past and the present – insisting that if Shakespeare is still our contemporary, it's because we make him so.
Left: Michał Majnicz and Judyta Paradzińska in Macbeth dir. by Maja Kleczewska. Photo by John Haynes.
Translated into Polish by Antoni Libera
Directed by Maja Kleczewska
Performed by The Jan Kochanowski Theatre Company (Opole, Poland) at Shakespeare's Globe (London, United Kingdom) as part of the 2012 Globe to Globe Festival
Stage and Costume Design by Katarzyna Borkowska
Directed for the Screen by Ian Russell
Available to view at globeplayer.tv
This post was written by Konrad Zielinski.
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Q: Click-Once connection closed because no user-agent specified Can't find any relevant answer to this particular issue which concern click-once deployement for a vb.net application.
My hosting provider block any connection with blanck user-agent since a few month. And so :
DÉTAILS DE L'ERREUR
Les erreurs suivantes ont été détectées au cours de cette opération.
* [08/05/2018 21:51:11] System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (sous-type inconnu)
    - Échec du téléchargement de http://www.**********/E-Planning.exe.manifest.
    - Source : System.Deployment
    - Trace de la pile :
        à System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
        à System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadAllFiles()
        à System.Deployment.Application.FileDownloader.Download(SubscriptionState subState, X509Certificate2 clientCertificate)
        à System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadManifestAsRawFile(Uri& sourceUri, String targetPath, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation)
        à System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadApplicationManifest(AssemblyManifest deploymentManifest, String targetDir, Uri deploymentUri, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, Uri& appSourceUri, String& appManifestPath)
        à System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.DownloadApplication(SubscriptionState subState, ActivationDescription actDesc, Int64 transactionId, TempDirectory& downloadTemp)
        à System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.InstallApplication(SubscriptionState& subState, ActivationDescription actDesc)
        à System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl, Uri& deploymentUri)
        à System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivationWithRetry(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
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            à System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
            à System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivationWithRetry(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings, String& errorPageUrl)
            à System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
        --- Exception interne ---
        System.Net.WebException
        - La connexion sous-jacente a été fermée : La connexion a été interrompue de manière inattendue.
        - Source : System
        - Trace de la pile :
            à System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
            à System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)

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Install is not possible. Update is not possible.
I've also tried to use Squirrel.Windows, but the sames error happens and anyway it makes my app crash all the time.
I could subscribe to another hosting provider but it will only work until they block blank user-agent connection too. I would better like to find a proper solution.
Is there a way to add a user-agent to this WebRequest ?
Thanks for your reading.

A: Finally I found a way with Squirrel, adding custom WebClient with specified User-Agent.

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Q: R to Python: separate a column (in dataframe) into several columns in dataframes I'm having a small issue. I need to split a column (data) into multiple columns.
Original column
0     3.0
1     3.0
2     3.0
3     3.0
4     3.0
5     2.0
6     3.0
7     3.0
...   ...
15    3.0
dtype: float64

I need to get an output as follows:
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    3    3    3    3
[2,]    3    2    3    3
[3,]    3    3    3    3
[4,]    3    3    3    3

Using R, I used: max_u <- matrix(max_u, nrow = 4)
But I'm trying to find an equivalent way to do it in Python.

A: Solution is:
max_u = max_u.reshape(-1,4)


SAMBA+ 4.8.8 has just been released by SerNet. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu are available now.
SAMBA+ packages and all later versions are available as software subscription. They can be purchased at the SAMBA+ shop, detailed information and prices are listed at https://shop.samba.plus. The subscriptions are managed at our platform OPOSSO (https://oposso.samba.plus). Users can activate their subscriptions here and manage access credentials. The new SAMBA+ packages are included in existing subscriptions.
Samba developers from SerNet gave talks at his year's SDC - Storage Developer Conference (September 24 to 27, 2018 in Santa Clara, California/USA). Video recordings from the conference are available on YouTube now.
Stefan Metzmacher: "Samba SMB-Direct Status Update"
Ralph Böhme: "Implementing Persistent Handles in Samba"
Volker Lendecke: "Clustered Samba Scalability Improvements"
SerNet provides new sets of SAMBA+ 4.9.3, 4.8.7 and 4.7.12 packages. The packages are available for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu.
The recent security releases introduced a regression bug which affects the Samba DNS server. The DNS server limits the number of records in an answer to 20 records. This can break the functionality in setups with more than 20 Domain Controllers. The new packages solve this issue. Please update affected systems.
These packages also introduce one novelty: As of now, SAMBA+ is also available for Oracle Linux!
SAMBA+ 4.9.3, 4.8.7 and 4.7.12 packages have just been released by SerNet. These are important security releases, please update affected systems as soon as possible. The packages are available for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu.
Samba 4.9.3 addresses all CVEs listed above. Samba 4.8.7 and 4.7.12 addresses all except CVE-2018-16852 and CVE-2018-16857.
SAMBA+ 4.9.2 has just been released by SerNet. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu are available now.
These packages address a lot of issues, which are listed in the Samba 4.9.2 release history.
SerNet's Samba newsletter informs you about all important developments and events with its main focus on new packages.
Buy and manage software subscriptions. SAMBA+ subscriptions are available for one, two and three years at the SAMBA+ shop.


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From initial artwork and pack design, to commercial packaging and serialization
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Supporting clients in developing their serialization strategies to GS1 standards
Pediatric solutions from development to commercialization
Specializing in solid, oral dosage forms; Almac provide expert Pharmaceutical Drug Product Development Solutions supporting early & late phase clinical trials.
Almac Diagnostic Services is a stratified medicine company specializing in biomarker driven clinical trials. Our diagnostic experience spans oncology, immunology, CNS and infective diseases.
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Almac Successfully Moves its Clinical Technologies Business Unit into New North American Headquarters
Almac announced today that its Clinical Technologies division has successfully moved into the Almac Group's new North American Headquarters. After groundbreaking of the 40-acre site in Souderton, PA on 23 July 2008, the drug development firm has now completed the first phase of relocating employees from three Almac business units to the new 240,000 square feet state-of-the-art integrated drug development facility.
On 11 October, Almac's technology business unit joined employees from Almac's analytical testing and clinical supplies units as occupants at the North American Headquarters. Over the course of the next two months, Almac will transition the remainder of its clinical supplies operations currently located in Audubon, PA, into the integrated drug development facility in Souderton, PA.
The transition of the technologies business into Almac's new North American Headquarters was carefully planned and executed. Over the course of the past few months, Almac successfully relocated and tested all of its new and existing technologies and systems in the new locale to make certain that there were no disruptions to client studies during the transition into the North American Headquarters.
Jim Murphy, President of Almac's clinical technologies business unit, comments on the flawless move of the business from Yardley, PA, to its new location in Souderton, PA. Murphy: "Our IT, Quality Assurance, senior management team, and other key personnel worked in unison to ensure that all of our systems were tested and met the highest standards before we moved into the new facility. The transition team's meticulous planning enabled us to avoid any downtime on client studies outside of our normal maintenance windows. I am delighted to announce that everything went as planned with this perfectly executed transition."
The move of three Almac business units to a new North American Headquarters is part of the Almac Group's integrated services solutions strategy. The new facility was planned to deliver a full-service, integrated drug supply management and technology solution to biopharmaceutical clients.
Joseph Bedford, Ph.D., Director of Marketing at Almac's Clinical Technologies business unit comments: "The biopharmaceutical industry is making great strides to streamline drug development and bring efficiencies to clinical trials. Our new North American Headquarters allows Almac to deliver an integrated clinical supplies, analytical testing, and clinical technologies offering to sponsors that is unparalleled in our industry. Working with integrated teams of drug supply management and technology specialists at Almac, our clients will benefit from the combined insights of experienced professionals who deliver efficiencies in the clinical supplies chain that no other firm can match."
Almac's Clinical Technologies business unit began work on Monday, October 11th at the new facility after a celebration on Sunday, during which employees unpacked their work items and were treated to lunch with families and friends of Almac. By Monday morning, it was business-as-usual at Almac, with Clinical Technologies professionals managing hundreds of live studies for clients.
Joseph Bedford, PhD
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E: clinicaltechnologies@almacgroup.com
W: www.almacgroup.com
About Almac Group
The Almac Group comprises of five closely integrated divisions offering a broad range of services from R&D, biomarker discovery and development, API manufacture, formulation development, clinical trial supply and IXRS technology (IVRS/IWRS), to commercial-scale manufacture. Almac provides services to more than 600 companies, including all the world leaders in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors.
The company employs over 2,800 individuals and is headquartered in Craigavon, Northern Ireland. US operations are based in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and California. Almac has officially gained full possession of its new $120m North American Headquarters which started in July 2008 and employees will relocate during the fall.
Almac's Clinical Technologies division specializes in interactive technology and service solutions to increase the quality and efficiency of the clinical trial process. Our solutions include Interactive Voice and Web Response Systems (IXRS™) for patient randomization, tracking and clinical supply management, electronic-patient-reported-outcomes (ePRO) data collection, and Web drug reconciliation. Almac's technologies have been deployed in over 1500 clinical trials, incorporating over 1.5 million patients in over 80 countries, and more than 60 languages.
For more information about the Almac Group, please visit www.almacgroup.com or e-mail info@almacgroup.com. For a virtual tour of Almac's North American Headquarters, please visit www.findpharmony.com.
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The phenomenon of evolution is something I would like to refer to when I talk about conversion of interfaces into websites. With time, technology has evolved into a juggernaut of a field with a wide variety of groundbreaking advancements such as the conversion from sketch to HTML.
What is sketch app? Sketch is an iOS drawing app that enables those developers who possess a high level of aptitude and skill so that they can come up with the best outcomes using the user-friendly and easy to use features that this app offers. It's a spinoff, a better alternative to Photoshop as it offers professional interfaces, icons and appealing websites of a higher level. Why people prefer this conversion is simply because it is a better way to cut costs to make profit and have a meaningful outcome. Now let's talk about a few living examples in today's world that implement this conversion.
A renowned name that offers the best sketch to HTML conversion services based in New York, USA. HTMLPro has great team of professional front-end developers who can convert any design/PSD/sketch into pixel perfect, SEO semantic and responsive HTML markup. Their code standard is proven and high QA checks. The very able and competent employees ensure 100% client satisfaction through completion on time. They comprise of highly skilled individuals who operate on a W3C standard code. Customer support and satisfaction is a top priority here and so far it fits the billing! They are a safe bet because they offer features such as clean coding, high-end functionality, complete security and guaranteed satisfaction. Starting from $99 for inner page and $199 for home page. Their turnaround time as quick as 1 day along with 16 hours of support during GMT and US EST hours.
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Welcome to the Faith Action Network Kenosha!
Thank you for your desire to serve in one accord as the Body of Christ!
As a follow-up to a very successful meeting on April 2nd, please read through the following for next steps, detailed information, and how to get started.
Experienced leaders will assist you getting started on the ground in your newly adopted neighborhood and provide vests, pickers, bags, food items, printed materials, etc.
Manage the Facebook page, email reminders, etc.
Help you in any way that you need. This ministry has everything you need to get started.
What programs/ministries do you have in place that we can refer people to?
What future events are you planning that the network can help you with and tell people about?
When and where are your services, including worship services?
Who is your main point of contact and best way to reach this person?
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In the Apology, Socrates states that death "either is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as we are told, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another." In either case, Socrates asserts, not only is death something that should not be feared, but it is precisely that in relation to which life must be lived. In other words, our existence and the manner in which we choose to conduct our lives is defined by and inextricably linked to our beliefs, values, and expectations regarding the inevitability of our finitude and/or the possibility of some form of existence after death.
Although we cannot yet know with certainty which of the two possibilities claimed by Socrates is correct, there have been those who have seemingly crossed the threshold of death and yet somehow returned to relate their experiences. What are we to make of these growing episodes of Near-Death Experiences? Are they simply artifacts produced by the dying brain, or do they reveal some preservation of, or change in, the nature of consciousness, as some in the scientific community have begun to claim? And what does this evolving scientific insight mean not only for our conception of death but also for the value and utility of our actions during life?
Often NDEs evoke life-altering effects upon those who have experienced them. In many cases, individuals adopt an entirely different outlook on their lives. Why is it that such brief experiences have evoked such a fundamental shift in their behaviors and perspectives? How might we engage these experiences to develop a better understanding of the nature of moral cognition, values, and actions?
In this light, the second part of this symposium addresses the question of how our understanding of the concepts of life and death may affect our moral sensibility, decisions, and actions. In short, it engages scientific and humanistic focus upon the ways in which human finitude can, and perhaps should, impact moral character, values, and conduct in the rich and varied fabric of differing situations, societies, and cultures.
James Giordano, PhD, Director, Center for Neurotechnology Studies; Senior Research Associate, Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics, Oxford University.
Jeffrey Long, MD, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at TGMC; Founder, Near Death Experience Research Foundation, Houma, Louisiana.
Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, Fellow, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York; Honorary Research Fellow, Univ. of Southampton, UK.


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This alphabetical listing of M minerals include synonyms of accepted mineral names, pronunciation of that name, name origins, and locality information.
NAME ORIGIN: Named after Satoshi Matsubara, specialist for strontium minerals in the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Vittorio Matteucci (1862-1909), Director of the Vesuvius Laboratory, Vesuvius, Italy.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Matthew Forster Heddle (1828-1897), Scottish mineralogist.
NAME ORIGIN: Margaret Mary Matula (1925- ), Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA, who supplied some of the first specimens.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Gani Mavlyanov (1910-1988), Uzbek geologist and seismologist.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Sir Maurice Alan Edgar Mawby (1904-1977), for his contribution to the Australian mining industry.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer.
NAME ORIGIN: Named after its locality. LOCALITY: Near the village of Maying, about 230 km NNE of Beijing, People's Republic of China.
NAME ORIGIN: Named as the Na-dominat analogue of mazzite(-K).
NAME ORIGIN: Named for the locality. LOCALITY: Mbobo Mkulu cave, Nelspruit district, South Africa.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for James Franklin McAllister (1911-2000), geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA, who collected the originally described material.
NAME ORIGIN: For the mine at the type locality. LOCALITY: McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, USA.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for David A. McAuslan, exploration manager, Shell Canada Resources LTD., who discovered the locality. LOCALITY: East Kemptville tin mine, Yarmouth County, NS, Canada.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Alexander Robert McBirney (1924-), Volcanologist, University of Oregon, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for R. B. McConnell (1903-1986), British geologist.
NAME ORIGIN: In honor of the late Dean McCrillis and his son, Philip.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for J. J. McGovern (1915-), Franklin miner and mineral collector.
NAME ORIGIN: Named after Vincent E. McKelvey, 1916-1985), director of the U.S. Geological Survey.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Hugh E. McKinstry (1896-1961), U. S. Economic geologist.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Elizabeth McNear, mineralogist and crystallographer, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Dr. Francesco Meda (1926-1977), an amateur mineralogist from Turin, Italy.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Dr. Olaf Medenbach (1949-) of the University of Bochum, Germany.
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek for large and cyclical, with reference to the large ringlike groups of silica tetrahedra in the structure.
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek for "black" and "to be burned" in allusion to the fact that some specimens blacken on heating. Low temperature form.
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek for "black" and "to be burned" in allusion to the fact that some specimens blacken on heating. High temperature form.
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek for "black" and antimony (STIBium) in its composition.
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek black and to melt or glass, for the black bead formed under the blowpipe.
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek, Melano, "dark" and the composition.
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek melas, "black."
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek, meli - "honey" and lithos - "stone."
NAME ORIGIN: Named from the Greek for "honey" and "to appear" in allusion to the color.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Melkov (1911-1991), Russian mineralogist.
NAME ORIGIN: Named in honor of Marcello Mellini, Full Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Siena, in recognition of his contributions to the development of the study of meteorites in Italy.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for the locality. LOCALITY: Melones and Stanislaus mine, Carson hill, Calaveras County, California, USA.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Joseph Melon (1898-1991), Institute of Mineralogy, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
NAME ORIGIN: Named after its locality. LOCALITY: Mendip Hills, Somersetshire, England.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for H. Mendoza Avila, Mexican geologist, who found the mineral.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for the locality. LOCALITY: "San Juan, near Mendoza" [probably meaning Mendoza Province; the original occurrence appears lost.], Argintina.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Giuseppi Meneghini (1811-1889) of Pisa, Italy who first observed the mineral.
NAME ORIGIN: Presumably named for the locality. LOCALITY: China, location not mentioned.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Yurii P. Men'shikov (1934-) of the Geological Institute of the Kola Science Center, Apatity, Russia.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Giuseppe Mercalli (1850-1914), Italian Geologist, director of the Vesuvius Observatory.
NAME ORIGIN: Named after its locality. LOCALITY: Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, England, U.K.
NAME ORIGIN: For Dr. Kurt Mereiter (1945- ), Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Hans Merensky (1871-1952), who was intrumental in the discovery of the "Reef" also named for him.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Stefano Merlino (1938-), Professor of Crystallography, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for Craig M. Merrihue (?-1965), meteoriticist, of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
NAME ORIGIN: Named after George Perkins Merrill (1854-1929), meteorite specialist at U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA.
NAME ORIGIN: Named for John B. Mertie (1888-1980), geologist, U.S. Geological Survey.
NAME ORIGIN: From the Greek mesos - "middle."