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Rosemarie: How to balance Good and Bad in Life? | Sinnergy
Rosemarie has a racing mind. The Los Angeles-based, Puerto Rican-Dominican R&B artist let it all out in her anticipated debut EP "Sinnergy" (released August 14th).
The 9-track opus starts with some confessions she had to get off her chest. The 30 seconds soothing piano ballad stops to lead you into a tempo R&B. Welcome inside Rosemarie's mind. The verses of "Confessions" are spoken thoughts about her family members and what they had to go through. They pile up on top of each other to surround her.
A fine line
The chorus seems to give her a few seconds to breathe, but the pain is still here: "Now I look to the sky Think of all of my angels flying high I'm still here don't know why Gotta make it cause I'm still alive". Even though her cuts are deep, she can't afford to give up. She fought too hard so far, and she still has a purpose: "Told her to hold on a little while longer cause our dreams are getting closer We can see some real progression".
At this point, Rosemarie appears just like a tightrope walker. Her emotions might try to make her fall down, but she keeps on moving on with her head held high. She draws her strength from those the ones she lost. Keeping her balance isn't easy, and that's precisely the EP's theme.
"Personally, I have always struggled with balance, as do many others, and my life and work has mirrored that. The good, bad, light, dark. White lies, hidden truths. It's a line we all straddle at one point or another", says Rosemarie.
Even if Rosemarie is only 27 years old, she jokingly says she's an older lady. She considers she already lived several lives. She grew up with the feeling of having three homes: one in New York, another one in California, and then Florida. She used to move constantly between these different states. She also lived with her father in Porto Rico for some time. Makes it hard to be the 'new girl' anywhere you go.
Label your emotions
However, music has always been a part of her life. She considers it the constant that helped her evolve.
Rosemarie has never known a typical family structure. Her mom passed away when she was younger, and her stepmom and her dad also separated. The events and the moving around forced her to grow up quicker than other kids. She grew up in a cultural and musical melting pot, making her creative and curious. Music has emerged as a heart-warming landmark she was able to cling to.
It helped her feel better by listening to what she needed to hear at the time. That's why she hopes to do for others too.
"I want my music to be relatable. I want it to be able to connect with my listeners on a different level. A lot of the times I think it's hard to articulate certain feelings about particular situations, so when you find a song that does that for you, I think it's truly something magical."
To connect with someone, you have to be honest with yourself first. Thanks to "Sinnergy", Rosemarie finally can put words on her feelings: "I know I'm extreme I feel everything Or I don't feel nothing at all I'm just numb Then there are times I feel like I'm no longer capable of love No longer capable of trust No longer capable of us" ("Crossed").
Being aware of this in-between is a first step to get better and move forward. Rosemarie's story has been written on her skin since she was 14. Tattoos have been helpful, but she's ready to share her thoughts with the world now.
Stop believing everything is black or white
"Sinnergy" reminds you that your life can't be perfect all the time. You can't be perfect yourself. Perfection doesn't exist.
Rosemarie's debut EP is like a heartwarming statement: "Hey, we've been through some shit and it'll always be a part of us, but we're gonna get it together, okay?". We're not always responsible for the imbalance in our lives, but that doesn't mean it's a fatality. We're responsible for what we decide to do out of it.
Compromising is also a good way to sort out things. In "Henny Talk", Rosemarie knows a person hurt her, but she's willing to give another try to this relationship: "I know I should know better than to think it's working 'Cause what we share just don't compare to how you hurt me". "Henny Talk" might be about the danger of a co-dependency relationship. It can also be interpreted as a way to try and accept the other person with its good and its bad sides. Just like we try to accept ours.
"You lose, I lose" she sings in "Catch 22". A relationship isn't always about sunshine and butterflies, but you can work together to become a better person for yourself and for the ones you love. This duality is at the heart of this opus.
"A quote by Nelson Mandela resonated with me deeply, "I am not a saint unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying." That, in a nutshell, is what I thought prefaced this particular body of work perfectly.", explains Rosemarie.
Find a reason to keep going
She keeps on trying her best too: "I been practicing my patience" ("Saints & Sinner").
"Henny Talk" got that suave and seductive 90's R&B vibe. It's not about a new story in the making; it's a reunion. The musical atmosphere and the lyrics create a beautiful contrast; we can also hear it on the rest of the EP. The piano brings some waves of melancholia to this EP, but they eventually go away when R&B, soul, and rap are used to soften or clearly express her emotions.
Rosemarie used to post covers on her Instagram. Here is a portrait made by one of her fans.
Rosemarie accepted her good and her bad sides as part of herself. It led her to where she is today. Her family and especially her daughter are her roots and her driving force. "Love is my relation", as she recalls in "Saints & Sinner".
"Sinnergy" is definitely one of these opuses you can listen to remember you're human, and trying your best is good enough already.
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A full wave theory of high-harmonic fast wave absorption in high-beta plasmas (1998)
The effect of plasma flow, compressibility, and Landau damping on resistive wall modes (1999)
The resistive wall instability and critical flow velocity (2001)
The nonlinear dynamics of the modulational instability of drift waves and the associated zonal flows (2001)
A unified theory of gyrotron and peniotron interactions (1992)
Instability of the ion hybrid wave in the presence of superthermal alpha-particles (1997)
Enhanced coupling of the fast wave to electrons through mode conversion to the ion hybrid wave (1997)
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives [Dig. Serial] (1980)
Orientation of surfactants adsorbed on a hydrophobic surface (1993)
Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy of Surfactants Adsorbed at a Flat Hydrophobic Surface (1994)
Dynamics of reaction of [meso-tetrakis(2,6-dimethyl-3-sulfonatophenyl)porphinato]iron(III) hydrate with tert-butyl hydroperoxide in aqueous solution. II. Establishment of a mechanism that involves homolytic oxygen-oxygen bond breaking and one-electron oxidation of the iron(III) porphyrin (1989)
Biosynthesis of porphyrins and corrins. 1. Proton and carbon-13 NMR spectra of (hydroxymethyl)bilane and uroporphyrinogens I and III (1986)
Direct Observation of Counterions Bound to a Charged Surfactant Monolayer by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy (1994)
Early Observation of Antibiotic Action (1945)
Tyndall and Stefan's Radiation Law (1946)
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1 DAVIES, N. The Poles in Great Britain 1914-1919
in: Slavonic and East European review., Vol. 50, No. 118 (1972), p. 63
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4 Davies, N. Ciechanowski, J. M. "The Warsaw Rising of 1944" (Book Review)
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5 Davies, N. The Lithuanian Statute of 1529 (Book Review)
6 DAVIES, N. Stiller, J. (ed.) "Schrifttum, über Polen (ohne Posener Land), 1966-70" (Book Review)
7 DAVIES, J. N. P. The Development of 'Scientific' Medicine in the African Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara
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8 Davies, J. N. P. Informed Speculation on the Cause of Sleeping Sickness 1898-1903
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11 Davies, Peter N. JAPAN'S ECONOMY IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. Edited by Gianni Fodella (Book Review)
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12 Davies, P. N. THE INVISIBLE LINK: Japan's "Sogo Shosha" and the Organization of Trade. By M.Y. Yoshino and Thomas B. Lifson (Book Review)
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15 LANDGON-DAVIES, B. N. Novels with a Moral
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16 Lashmore-Davies, C. N. A full wave theory of high-harmonic fast wave absorption in high-beta plasmas
In: Physics of Plasmas. - [S.l.] : American Institute of Physics, ISSN 1089-7674, Vol. 5, No. 6 (1998), p. 2284-2290
A theory of fast wave absorption in a high-beta plasma is given. A reduced, second-order, ordinary differential equation has been used which includes all collisionless electron dissipation mechanisms and ion cyclotron damping over many harmonics. This is relevant to the high-harmonic fast wave... mehr
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17 Lashmore-Davies, C. N. The effect of plasma flow, compressibility, and Landau damping on resistive wall modes
In: Physics of Plasmas. - [S.l.] : American Institute of Physics, ISSN 1089-7674, Vol. 6, No. 10 (1999), p. 3990-4001
A uniform compressible plasma with a uniform flow along the magnetic field in the presence of a resistive wall is shown to be subject to two instabilities. For the first instability, the flow velocity is required to exceed the Alfvén speed, whereas for the second it need only exceed the sound... mehr
18 Lashmore-Davies, C. N. The resistive wall instability and critical flow velocity
In: Physics of Plasmas. - [S.l.] : American Institute of Physics, ISSN 1089-7674, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2001), p. 151-157
A cylindrical model with an equilibrium surface current and a uniform equilibrium plasma flow velocity parallel to the axis of the cylinder is used to investigate resistive wall instability. This system can be unstable to the ideal, external kink mode, which can be stabilized by the presence of a... mehr
19 Lashmore-Davies, C. N. The nonlinear dynamics of the modulational instability of drift waves and the associated zonal flows
The linear and nonlinear dynamics of zonal flows and their interactions with drift wave turbulence is considered in the simple but illuminating generalized Charney–Hasegawa–Mima model due to Smolyakov et al. [Phys. Plasmas 7, 1349 (2000)]. Two positive definite, exact, integral invariants... mehr
20 Lashmore-Davies, C. N. A unified theory of gyrotron and peniotron interactions
In: Physics of Fluids. - New York, NY : American Institute of Physics, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1992), p. 1047-1057
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Feds indict California man found with gun near Justice Kavanaugh's home
A federal grand jury has indicted a California man who was found with a gun, knife and pepper spray near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after telling police he was planning to kill the justice, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, Calif., was charged in a single-count indictment with attempting to murder a Justice of the United States.
Prosecutors say Roske traveled from California to the justice's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with the intent of killing Kavanaugh. Roske pulled up near the home in a taxi shortly after 1 a.m. on June 8 carrying a suitcase with a gun and ammunition, a tactical chest rig with pepper spray and a knife, and a flashlight, a laser, a thermal monocular and other burglary tools, according to court papers.
Federal officials have said Roske said he purchased the gun to kill Kavanaugh and also planned to kill himself. He was arrested by police in Montgomery County, Maryland, after he called 911 and told a police dispatcher he was near Kavanaugh's home and wanted to take his own life.
Simi Valley man threatens to kill Justice Kavanaugh
An investigation is underway after a Simi Valley man threatened to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Roske told police he was upset by a leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court is about to overrule Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case. He also said he was upset over the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, and believed Kavanaugh would vote to loosen gun control laws, according to prosecutors.
When he got out of the taxi, Roske was spotted by two U.S. Marshals who are part of round-the-clock security provided to the justices following the leak of the draft opinion last month. But Roske was only apprehended after he called 911 and said he was having suicidal thoughts and planned to kill Kavanaugh, having found the justice's address online. Roske was still on the phone when Montgomery County police arrived on the scene.
RELATED: Armed Simi Valley man threatened to kill Justice Kavanaugh over Roe v. Wade, Uvalde school massacre
Andrew Szekely, a federal public defender who is representing Roske, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the indictment. He previously declined to comment on the case after Roske's first court appearance, the day of his arrest.
The indictment comes one day after the House gave final approval to legislation that would allow around-the-clock security protection for families of Supreme Court justices.
The Senate passed the bill unanimously last month, but it languished in the House as Democrats sought to broaden the measure to include protection for families of court employees. Republicans ramped up pressure to pass the bill after Roske's arrest at Kavanaugh's house.
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Available photo-charging integrated device constructed with dye-sensitized solar cells and lithium-ion battery
Yi Di, *a Suping Jia,a Xiaoshuang Yan,b Junfei Liang a and Shengliang Hu *a
a School of Energy and Power Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, P. R. China
E-mail: diyuanyu@yeah.net, hsliang@yeah.net
b Wuhan institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
The development of self-chargeable lithium-ion batteries is of great significance for expanding the usable range of the lithium-ion battery and it has received intensive attention from numerous researchers. Solar cells can generate electricity from the sunlight and ensure sustainable access to electrical power for charging lithium-ion batteries. Herein, a photo-charging integrated device is constructed by combining four conventional dye-sensitized solar cells and a three-electrode hybrid lithium-ion battery, including a dye-sensitized TiO2 photo-anode, LiFePO4 electrode and metal lithium electrode. When the device is operated under solar illumination, DSSCs can match the charging voltage for the hybrid lithium-ion battery. The LiFePO4 electrode in the three-electrode device plays two roles, serving as a reversible redox agent for the regeneration of dye and as the cathode for lithium-ion batteries. The integrated device can effectively harvest solar energy and store it in situ within the hybrid lithium-ion battery through the photo-charging process. The proposed strategy is in favor of exploiting the small-sized, light-weight, self-chargeable battery and may have the potential to be employed as the power supply for miniaturized sensors and mobile devices.
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NJ05367K
New J. Chem., 2020, Advance Article
Y. Di, S. Jia, X. Yan, J. Liang and S. Hu, New J. Chem., 2020, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/C9NJ05367K
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The concept of creating and nurturing relationships is as vital in sales as it is in any other business. Sales is a people business. Recognizing the importance of client relationships is a crucial part of successful selling. You would be astounded to learn how infrequently sales people capitalize on this fundamental concept.
Did you know a typical business hears from only 4 percent of its dissatisfied customers. The other 96 percent just quietly go away and 91 percent will never come back. That represents a serious financial loss for companies whose people don't know how to treat customers, and a tremendous gain to those that do.
A typical dissatisfied customer will tell eight to ten people about his problem. One in five will tell twenty. It takes twelve positive service incidents to make up for one negative incident.
Seven out of ten complaining customers will do business with you again if you resolve the complaint in their favor. If you resolve it on the spot, 95 percent will do business with you again. On average, a satisfied complainer will tell five people about the problem and how it was satisfactorily resolved.
The average business spends six times more to attract new customers than it does to keep old ones. Yet customer loyalty is in most cases worth ten times the price of a single purchase.
One of the greatest keys to long-term business success can be summed up in three simple words: quality customer service. In today's service-oriented economy, developing relationships and providing excellent service is more than a competitive weapon—it's a survival skill. If you don't offer it, someone else will. Can you afford not to improve in it?


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Speakers Profile - Mark Gerrard
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Mark comes from a strong Tongan decent sporting family consisting of his cousin and fellow Wallaby Wycliff Palu, and sister Mo'onia Gerrard who is an Australian Netballer. Mark was born and raised on Sydney northern beaches where he originally played Rugby League before switching to Union in his late teens, where after only a year of playing the code he was selected as a Australian Schoolboy representative in 1999. However even though Mark represents Australia he has not forgotten his Tongan heritage when he jumped at the chance recently to play for Tonga in a coronation match in front of the present King of Tonga.
Mark has 71 caps for the ACT Brumbies between 2003 and 2009. Mark was the glue which held their defense together over these seasons and has led to him representing the Australian Wallabies on eighteen occasions to date.
Mark then made the move to Japan to play for NTT Communications It was here that Mark helped NTT Communications to an undefeated 2009 season. This inevitably promoted NTT Communications to Japanese 1st Division for the first time in history.
Mark has an excellent long kicking game, and a side step which baffles all opponents, add this to his powerful running game and what you are left with is a devastating player.
At just 27 years of age Mark is at the peak of his career, and is looking to conquer Australian Rugby again as he signs with the Melbourne Rebels for the 2011-12 seasons. Mark is looking forward to earning his spot in the Wallaby side and to further develop his game under the coaching of Rod McQueen.
When Mark is not out on the pitch dancing around opponents, he can be found enjoying time with his wife Larisa and two children, son Markus and daughter Milana. Mark is currently completing his Diploma of Management and is a Chef in the hospitality industry, an industry that does not fall short of opportunities down in Melbourne.


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Addressing Authority: some concluding thoughts
Posted on November 30, 2016 by Brodie Waddell
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Petitions and supplications have been flying thick and fast over the past month. Contributors to the Addressing Authority Online Symposium have spotted them asking for permission to print a broadsheet about conjoined twins in sixteenth-century Nuremberg, decrying Charles I's religious policy in seventeenth-century Scotland, and seeking a tax exception in eighteenth-century London. On twitter, they could be found claiming that mariners had been forced into cannibalism and that their complaints were justified by the example of Queen Esther. One was even seen petitioning 'to the Petitioners' during the Popish Plot scare of 1680.
It would be silly to try to sum up all the brilliant contributions by both the authors and commenters over the course of the symposium. However, I will take the opportunity to try to briefly highlight three issues that came up in the papers and discussion that I hadn't properly considered before. Continue reading →
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Petitions, Information and Governance in 15th and Early 16th-Century Sforza Milan
This post in our Addressing Authority Online Symposium comes from Giacomo Giudici, who recently completed his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, as part of the ERC funded project 'ARCHIves – a History of Archives in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy'. Here he shows how petitions could be an engine for pre-modern governance, providing a precious source of information to the Milanese authorities.
The Sforza are the dynasty that ruled Milan and its duchy continuously from 1450 to 1499, and then, only intermittently, between 1500 and 1535.[1] Like all the rulers of the time, they relied on petitions to administer their dominion. In the Sforzesco archive, located in Milan, hundreds and hundreds of original petitions are to be found mingled with other documents in two huge collections, called Comuni (literally "Towns") and Famiglie ("Families"), created from scratch by nineteenth-century archivists. Previous scholars have, therefore, focused their attention on these collections.[2]
Milan, c.1470
However, historians have ignored another source displaying petitions: the Registri delle missive, chancery copybooks in which the outgoing Sforza correspondence with subjects (peripheral officers, subject communities, individual subjects) was registered. The reason of this lacuna is simple. In the copybooks, the petitions are hidden in plain sight. Ducal letters originating from the receipt of a petition mention it briefly at some point, usually at the beginning – for example: "We have received a petition from the agents of the men of our land of Pizzighettone (…) we order you to (…)".[3] It is easy to miss the tiny note, or to think that little can be done with it. Are we sure this is true, though?
Original petitions – or those reproduced in registers in their entirety – are, of course, mines of historical evidence. They lend themselves to the most diverse research perspectives: political history, social history, the history of justice, but also linguistics and, more generally, anthropology. Yet, in the case of our copybooks, we get the chance to observe petitions in a bigger picture. We can grasp how, and how heavily, petitions featured in the communication flows between the centre and the peripheries of the duchy of Milan – the character and function of such communication flows being veritable "shapers" of polities and politics, just like new social media set the tone and contents of today's political debate.[4] In other words, even though in the Registri delle missive we lose the strict contents and wording of the petitions sent to the Sforza, we crucially gain a systemic perspective on their use. Continue reading →
Supplications and Civic Rule in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg
Our next post for the Addressing Authority Online Symposium comes from Hannah Murphy, a Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. Here she shows how early modern rulers could turn supplications into tools of governance by using the expectation of petitioning to monitor the activities of their subjects.
On 26 July 1550, the printer and painter Steffan Hamer was thrown in Nuremberg's dreaded city jail, "because he had printed wonder-books without permission and against his oath."[i] Although he was only incarcerated for two days (he was released on the 28th and had his tools returned to him), Hamer's career never recovered. In September he was refused permission to print a broadsheet of conjoined twins, and had to watch the lucrative sale go to a competitor. [ii] A year later, on 28 August, 1551, he was refused permission to print a figure of dancing children.[iii] On 25 September, 1551, he was allowed to print a portrait of the siege of Magdeburg, as long he refrained from adding his name.[iv] On 26 March 1552, he was refused permission to publish the 'three suns and rainbow' which had appeared over Antdorf.[v] Nuremberg's council granted permission for something to be printed on average twice a week; but Hamer never again received permission. He disappeared from the city minutes and from Germany's printing history without a trace.
Steffan Hamer had broken no written law in the way that we might understand it today. Rather, his silent transgression and punishment was indicative of a quiet development in Nuremberg's city politics, one present only in the accumulated volumes of the council's meetings, and the format in which they were recorded: the growth of supplications as a hidden tool in the management of people. His punishment was the result of his failure to seek permission from Nuremberg's council, and his continued fall from grace demonstrates the city's reliance on petitions as a mechanism of information-gathering and control.
If petitions, in the way that they are often understood, were directed upwards, my work looks at the way in which they could also 'reach down'. I work on early modern Nuremberg, where the practical act of petitioning in person was a ubiquitous part of civic government. What I have found, by looking at the archives of the city council, is that most city decisions were made in response to a petition. The city relied on citizens bringing requests to them, not just in order to enforce rules, but also as a means of information-gathering, literally to find out what rules needed enforcing in the first place.
Printed petitions and formal supplications are often linked to the origins of democracy, and other entries in this symposium show how writing petitions could empower subjects in many different ways. But in the face-to-face system of government that characterized early modern German cities, petitions were also a kind of governance. They permit us an insight into the kind of political practices that rulers engaged in when they governed, practices which I think often had to do with information and control and which weren't necessarily articulated in political treatises, or even in written codes of law.
Nuremberg. Michael Wohlgemut & Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, View of Nuremberg, in Hartmann Schedel, Weltchronik. (Nuremberg Chronicle), Nuremberg. Anton Koberger, 1493 (Wikipedia Commons)
Early modern Nuremberg was one of the richest and most important cities in Europe. Jean Bodin called it 'the best ordered' of all Germany's cities. Nuremberg was a 'free city', a self-governing city-state within the Holy Roman Empire. That meant that the thirty-two members of its most powerful governing body, its 'Inner Council', were responsible for a population of around 25,000. Every day, these men made their way to the town hall, where they met and made decisions. How they came to those decisions, however, is difficult to find out. The practice of politics was shrouded in secrecy. As William Smith, an Englishman who had lived for many years in Nuremberg lamented: 'For that the noble and worthy senators of this cittie, are very jealouse, and will not suffer any description either of their cittie or countries."[vi]
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'Thair is na offence to supplicat': Presbyterian petitioning in early modern Scotland
Our next post for the Addressing Authority Online Symposium has been written by Laura Stewart of the University of York. She brings to our attention the important role of petitions in the mobilisation of opinion against King Charles I's religious policies in Scotland, but also point to the problems of identifying the extent of popular participation and suggests that petitioning did not inevitably lead to a more open or 'democratic' mode of politics.
Scholars of early modern England have made a strong case for the significance of petitioning as one of the means by which new political associations and practices came into being. Petitions had long been seen as a legitimate political tool but, according to David Zaret, it was the combination of this practice with the move into print that mattered. Printed petitions were nothing less than the harbinger of 'public opinion' and, hence, modern democratic politics.
Although Zaret's work has generated fruitful debate, his thesis has been heavily critiqued by historians. The likes of Jason Peacey, amongst others, have sited petitioning amongst a far wider range of other practices and media, not all of which aimed 'to publicize a case in the public sphere'. For Peacey, petitions were part of a process in which a wider cross-section of society was able not only to engage more fully and deeply with parliamentary politics, but also to appropriate such practices for its own uses. The key issue here is less whether such activity furthered the emergence of a 'public sphere' – some of it clearly did not – than the ways in which print technology facilitated widening participation in politics.[1]
Peacey's shift of emphasis is useful to historians of those parts of Europe in which precious few signs of the emergence of Zaret's 'democratic culture' can be found prior to the eighteenth century. Scotland is one of those places. In an important book on the debates surrounding the Union of 1707, Karin Bowie argued that it was only in the closing moments of the seventeenth century that the conditions for the emergence of 'public opinion' finally obtained in Scotland. Petitioning generated debate throughout society and 'set new precedents for the engagement of public opinion'.[2] This may well have been the case, but it raises questions about earlier periods.
There may not have been either 'public opinion' or a 'public sphere' before 1699, but – following Peacey – I would like to suggest that petitions offer other ways of thinking about subtle, yet important, developments in the nature of political participation during the era of the Scottish Revolution. Continue reading →
Petitions and the Duality of Structure: Lobbying in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Atlantic
Our next post in the Addressing Authority Online Symposium comes from Joris van den Tol of Leiden University. Here he shows how networks of individuals involved in the Dutch Atlantic trade used petitions to lobby metropolitan institutions and perhaps contributed to the formation of a 'public sphere'.
'We all know that a monopoly is the most odious thing in the world and the most harmful practice of all', wrote the directors of the Amsterdam chamber of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) in January 1637.[1] This is an interesting standpoint for a group at that moment enjoying the exclusive trading rights to and from the Company's colonies in the Atlantic. So, why did the Amsterdam chamber decide to advocate giving up the WIC monopoly in the Atlantic? Who or what influenced their decision? How did individuals lobby both the Company and the highest political levels for their own interest in regard to free trade, religious freedom, authority, military assistance, or other issues? Moreover, why did these interest groups decide to lobby – as opposed to fighting the Company in court for example?
The history of the Dutch in the Atlantic in the seventeenth century used to be a story of a Company chartered in 1621 that was institutionally weaker than its competitors or its East Indian counterpart (VOC) and thus deservedly fell behind, lost large parts of its colonial possessions, and went bankrupt in 1674.[2] However, more recent work has shown that the Dutch Atlantic was built on loosely organized personal networks rather than centralized metropolitan institutions.[3] These networks were self-organized, often pluri-religious, multi-ethnic, and cross-cultural, but more importantly had intersecting interests.[4] Moreover, they cooperated pro-actively to try to influence the structures, institutions, and policy that shaped their world.
There was a duality of structure between the individuals and the structure; the structures at the same time enabled and limited the actions of the agents, as well as being comprised of the actions from the agents. This process of structuration is what I call lobbying, and indicates a hermeneutic relationship between the agents and the institutions.[5] Lobbying removes the impetus for historical actions in the Dutch Atlantic from the Company or the 'state' and puts it in the hands of individuals and organized interests.
Lobbying by petition
Lobbying happened in two ways: direct, with the aim of convincing the political mandataries[6]; and outside, with the aim of pressuring the political mandataries through public opinion.[7] Direct lobbying can be studied through petitions, correspondence, presentations, journals and social capital.[8] Outside lobbying is studied through petition drives and pamphlets.[9] Petitions have been largely neglected in Dutch historiography – both in relation to the Atlantic and as a means of studying lobbying.[10] A study of the mechanisms of lobbying treats all of the different sources not just as repositories of historical facts, but analyses the function that these objects had for the individuals that created them. Continue reading →
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'Prostrate before your most merciful feet': A Venetian secretary's plea for clemency, 1614
This post in our Addressing Authority Online Symposium comes from Fabio Antonini, who recently completed his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, as part of the ERC funded project 'ARCHIves – a History of Archives in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy'. He examines a single illuminating document from seventeenth-century Italy to show how a skilled writer could craft a powerful petition, and what this can tell us about the secretive men who controlled the flow of information in the Venetian Republic.
There were few figures more important to the legislative and diplomatic activity of the early modern Republic of Venice than the secretaries of the city's chancery. Operating within a vast and complex bureaucratic hierarchy, these were the scribes, archival assistants and international correspondents who drove the Republic's substantial information networks, both within the city and across the continent. From an individual perspective, however, written traces of their careers and professional activity are often hard to come by amongst the Venetian state papers; the deliberately faceless and anonymous representation of the Republic's various councils meant that the voice of the individual secretary is far more muted than in other prominent examples across early modern Europe.[1]
One of the rare occasions in which the secretaries of the Republic were allowed a personal voice, however, was in the petitions and supplications addressed to their paymasters – the highly secretive executive body known as the Council of Ten – which now reside in the Venetian State Archives. Many of these petitions, in which the secretaries give a detailed narrative of their careers and activities in order to demonstrate their years of service to the state, were often submitted in the hope of salary increases, promotions within the ranks of the chancery, or even favourable treatment for their children as they too embarked upon the secretarial career path.
Vendramin's petition in the Venetian State Archives, 1614
In some cases, however, the stakes were significantly higher. Whilst looking through these semi-autobiographical records as part of my research into the history of the Venetian chancery,[2] I came across a particularly poignant and revealing example of the importance of petition writing for the livelihoods of Venice's early modern secretaries. This particular petition was submitted by a former secretary of the Senate – the third highest ranking within the hierarchy of the chancery – Giacomo Vendramin, who in 1612 had been accused of revealing state secrets whilst serving the Venetian ambassador in Florence. Vendramin was ordered back to Venice to face trial, and was subsequently sentenced to two years imprisonment.[3]
In some respects, Vendramin had got off lightly. The revelation of state secrets – whether through design or negligence – had long been an extremely serious offence for those entrusted with compiling and registering government records. In one famous case in 1542, for example, an unfortunate secretary was publically strung up between the columns of Saint Mark's Square after having been caught in the act of selling secret papers to an Ottoman spy.[4]
'Exhorting and Persuading': Petitions, rhetorical strategies and the burning of Tiverton
The next post in our Addressing Authority Online Symposium comes from Rebecca Tomlin, postdoctoral researcher at CRASSH, University of Cambridge. Here she examines responses to fires which burnt down much of the town of Tiverton in 1598 and 1612, showing how pamphlet descriptions contrasted with the petitions for aid that were recorded in official documents.
In 1598, when he reported on the recent disastrous fire in Devon, the writer of the pamphlet The True lamentable discourse of the burning of Teuerton told a story of terrible panic and distress that the fire had caused among the town's inhabitants.[1] The fire, which started when two elderly women tried to use straw to cook themselves pancakes because they had no wood, spread rapidly through the prosperous market town, killing some one hundred people, destroying four hundred houses and property valued at £300,000 and £400,000. [2] The town was left without resources to shelter and feed its displaced inhabitants, who were also suffering what we would now describe as shock, and were left wandering on the outskirts of the town 'more like Spirits and Ghostes then liuing creatures'(B2r). The writer emphasises the sensory qualities of the fire, particularly the noises and sights of the burning town and its aftermath to evoke horror in the reader, or listener; this is surely a pamphlet intended to be read aloud in terrible tones to a pitying audience. The disaster is blamed on Tiverton's own 'unmercifulnesse, & small regard of the poore, which were dayly seene to dye and perish in their streetes for lacke of reliefe' (B2r) while the escape from the fire of twenty poor men's cottages and the town's alms houses is taken as proof of God's providential intervention and intent.
Unfortunately for Tiverton, it was revisited by fire in 1612. Another pamphlet was printed, which also incorporated a dramatic woodcut illustration of the attempts to fight the fire and a retelling of the story of the 1598 burning. The day of the 1612 fire, August 5th, was a holiday ordered by King James to celebrate his preservation from the Gowrie conspiracy. In Tiverton, an un-named dyer did not observe the holiday and put his boy in charge of the furnace so that they could continue to work. But the boy, eager to finish early so that he could join in with the holiday, stoked the fire too high and quickly lost control. This time the fire burned 300 houses, and some £50,000 worth of goods and animals were destroyed. Only the free school, the alms houses and some poor cottages were spared.
Wofull newes from the west parts England, Being the lamentable burning of the towne of Teuerton (1612) borrows much of its descriptive text from the 1598 account.[3] Further sensational descriptions are added, including some in terms which link the fire to the Gowrie conspirators; it is 'a flame of confusion, a flame of subuersion, a spoyling flame (A4r). The fire is personified with intent: 'a commanding Tyrant' (A4v) which has 'commanding power' and 'made conquest' (B3v). As in 1598, the fire was interpreted as sign of God's displeasure, in this case at the breaking of the Sabbath, and as a warning to other communities. In 1617 Thomas Beard included the story of the town in Devon that had twice suffered God's displeasure in his The thunderbolt of Gods Wrath, adding that it was punished for rejecting a godly preacher and profaning the Sabbath.[4] The story of Tiverton and its two fires became an exemplary moral tale throughout the seventeenth century, used for example by a preacher taking his examples from Beard, and for a broadsheet compilation of the the 'theatre of God's judgement' stories.[5]
What does all of this have to do with petitioning? Well, taking the two fires together we have a rare case where we can directly compare pamphlets and petitions which represent different ways of writing about the same disaster. The differences between the modes of writing in these different forms draw attention to the social and economic concerns of the petitions for large charitable collections made in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Continue reading →
Addressing authority during the English Civil Wars: the petitions of 'delinquent' widows
The next piece in our Addressing Authority Online Symposium has been authored by Hannah Worthen, completing her doctorate at University of Leicester and The National Archives. She argues here that war widows' petitions cleverly used established stereotypes about humility and poverty to press their cases, while also sometimes boldly asserting their political autonomy from their late 'delinquent' husbands.
In July 1645, a few months before Charles I surrendered to the Scots at Newark and brought the first Civil War to a close, Elizabeth Warner sent a petition to the Parliamentary Committee for Compounding with Delinquents. This committee had been set up to manage the confiscated estates of Royalists and to allow them to regain their estates for a fine. Elizabeth's offence was that she had been discovered to have been sending letters to the wife of Colonel Thomas Blagge who was then governor at Wallingford House: a garrison being held for the King.
Elizabeth asserted in her petitions that the letters were sent to 'her antient & intimate friend' and that 'there past no thing but Civill Complem[en]ts' in them. Despite this, she was suspected for a Royalist and her estate was seized by the sequestrators. In the final part of her petition she wrote she 'submissively begs' that 'she may be freed of this Brand'.[1] Elizabeth was just one of many widows who were 'branded' with delinquency because of their own actions or the actions of their husbands. They used the petition in order to lobby Parliament for the return of their lands. Continue reading →
'2000 Wives': Women Petitioning on Barbary Captivity, 1626-1638
Our next post in the Addressing Authority Online Symposium has been written by Judith Hudson, an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. She looks here at how women used collective petitioning to push the English government into action in the early seventeenth-century.
In March 1626, the Duke of Buckingham, Admiral of the Fleet, was presented with the 'humble petition of the distressed wives of almost 2,000 poor Mariners now remaining most miserable captives in Sally in Barbary'.[1] The wives, with their 'multitude of poor Infants', requested that Buckingham intercede with the King for their husbands. Throughout the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, English sailors in the Mediterranean, together with residents of coastal villages, were captured by North African and Ottoman Turk corsairs and sold as slaves in the markets of Algiers, Sallee, and other so-called 'Barbary' ports. The experience of captivity became a collective one at this time, shared with the nation via testimony, sermons, and drama. Numerous petitions seeking justice for the captives were laid before the Crown and Parliament by their local officials, their employers and priests. The 1626 petition, however, was the first time that the wives of the captives would speak out. For the next twelve years 'distressed wives' were to petition on a regular and organised basis.
Redemptionist Friars arriving to ransom captives: Pierre Dan, Histoire de Barbarie et de ses Corsaires (1637)
Women had petitioned before as individuals, however a large group engaged in organised intervention seems to be something new. In this post, which builds on an initial investigation by Nabil Matar, I'd like to suggest that the 1626 petition represents the start of a progression of collective female petitioning – women as a self-defined political lobby – that has usually been considered to begin in the years immediately preceding the Civil War.[2] The 'Civil War' petitions, which include a diverse range of texts, from pro-Royalist petitions in 1642 to the Leveller petitions for the release of Lilburne and others, are frequently constructed as the corollary of a specific interlude of 'female potentiality', occasioned by the Civil War and by the rise of sectarian groups. This is coded specifically as a new and radical engagement. [3] However, well over a decade earlier, wives of 'Turkish' captives had organised themselves into petitioning groups to considerable effect. Was the Civil War really a unique catalyst, or can we see a similar dynamic in the Barbary texts of the 1620s? Continue reading →
The London Lives Petitions Project: What can you do with 10,000 18th-century petitions?
Posted on November 9, 2016 by Brodie Waddell
Our next post in the Addressing Authority Online Symposium has been written by Sharon Howard, an early modern historian and a project manager at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. Here she shows how use of a digital 'macroscope' can both reveal the changing nature of local petitioning in eighteenth-century London and make these documents more easily available to anyone with an interest in this important set of sources.
Last year at the Voices of the People symposium, Brodie Waddell argued the importance of amplifying the voices of the people through digitisation and online access. This, along with another symposium post by Jonathan Healey on petitions, got me thinking about the petitions addressed to magistrates in the voluminous records of eighteenth-century London and Middlesex Sessions of the Peace, which were digitised several years ago by the London Lives project.
Although already digital, these petitions have been difficult to access within the London Lives website because of the sheer size and variety of the Sessions Papers. I didn't even know how many petitions there might be (other than "a lot"). The result of this musing was a plan to discover and extract every identifiable petition in the Sessions Papers, and make the resulting metadata and text corpus available as open data (more information can be found via the London Lives Petitions project website).
So: what can you do with 10,000 petitions? Here's just one, a personal favourite, from Ester Cutler to the Middlesex Sessions in 1715:
Worthy gentellmen of the Court your humble petishnor Ester Cutler begs Consederacion being a Weddow Woman & nothing to live apon but what she can gitt out of Selling a few herbs so that she humbly desiers to be taken of that tax of paying to the poor your
humble petishenor
Ester Cutler
Ester and her petition offer much of compelling interest to me: she presents herself as a lone, poor, working woman, but a ratepayer, not (yet) a pauper. She could write, but far from fluently, and her spelling is idiosyncratic to say the least. I know that this petition is unusual: it's rare for petitioners to write their own petitions and it's missing much of the usual conventions and formalities. But just how unusual is it? Continue reading →


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This article is a short summary of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
ゼルダの伝説 夢をみる島
Zeruda no Densetsu: Yume o Miru Shima
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is the fourth entry in The Legend of Zelda series, released in 1993 for the Game Boy, and is the first game in the series to be released for a portable console.
A Game Boy Color enhanced version of the game, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX was also released.
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A Game Boy fantasy adventure like no other!
Nintendo's fantasy adventure hero, Link of Hyrule, returns in this new quest...Link's Awakening. Link's newest challenge is set on the mysterious Koholint Island, a place where dreams and reality collide. As a castaway, Link must find a way to escape from the island and return to his beloved homeland of Hyrule.
But it won't be as easy as chartering a boat. The island's inhabitants have no knowledge of the outside world. One creature, a talking Owl, may know the solution to Link's dilema, but first Link must tackle eight dungeons full of treacherous monsters and tricky traps. His goal: find the eight Instruments of the Sirens and awaken the omnipotent Wind Fish which rules the island.
Link will battle new enemies and make new friends in one of the most in-depth fantasy adventures for the Game Boy yet!
A battery-backed memory will save up to three games so you never have to start your journey empty-handed.
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After defeating Ganon and saving Hyrule, Link sets out on a quest to make himself stronger by training across the world. After completing his training, Link is sailing back to Hyrule when a powerful storm breaks out, destroying his boat and knocking him out at sea.
Link washes ashore on an island, where he is found and nursed back to health by two of the locals, Marin and Tarin. When he wakes up, they explain that he is on Koholint Island. As Link sets out to retrieve his equipment, he meets an owl, who tells him that the giant egg on the top of the island's mountain contains the sleeping Wind Fish, and that only he can awaken it, as the Wind Fish is the only way Link will be able to leave the island. Thus, Link sets out on a quest to find the Instruments of the Sirens and wake up the Wind Fish.
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Game Boy (Player's Choice) 1996 A re-release of the original game, as part of the Player's Choice line of games.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Game Boy Color JP/NA: 1998
EU/AUS: 1999 A Game Boy Color port of the original game, with color functionality and other added features.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Nintendo Switch WW: 2019 A remake of the original game.
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Udo Schöbel (* 1961 in Stuttgart) ist ein deutscher Musiker, Songwriter, Musikproduzent und Cartoonist.

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Musikalisch sozialisiert zwischen Punk und Reggae, begann Schöbel früh eigene Songs zu schreiben. Mit ekstatischen Bühnenshows gelangte er Mitte der 1980er Jahre in Stuttgart zu lokalem Ruhm. Seitdem gründete er verschiedene Bands, arbeitet noch heute mit nationalen und internationalen Künstlern zusammen, macht Filmmusik für Erwachsene und Kinder und arbeitet außerdem als Cartoonist. Seit 2002 lebt er mit seiner Frau in Berlin und betreibt dort neben Aktivitäten in Projekten die Wiege des guten Geschmacks, einen Galerie- und Veranstaltungsraum in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Seine ersten Bands, damals noch ansässig in Stuttgart, hießen Karl Anton and the Heartbreakers (punkiger Rock 'n' Roll), The Cleanin Women (60ties-Girlgroup, Beat) und The Hipshots (Soul). Von Karl Anton and the Heartbreakers übrig geblieben ist die Kunstfigur Karl Anton, genannt "der welterste Cartoon-Popstar". Über diese virtuelle Figur richtete sich Udo Schöbel Anfang der 1990er Jahre im damals noch als Neuland zu bezeichnenden Internet an seine Fans.

Mit der Band Cleanin Woman schrieb Schöbel den Titelsong zum Film Riff (Regie: Rolf S. Wolkenstein), der 1986 bundesweit im ZDF-Kleines Fernsehspiel ausgestrahlt wurde. Mit den Hipshots trat er am 27. Juli 1986 als Supportband von Rod Stewart im Fußballstadion von Marbella auf. 1986 gründete er mit G.A.W. die Homeboys, die sich nach dem Einstieg von Elin Doka als drittes Bandmitglied in Sexangels umtauften. Anfang der 90er Jahre erfolgten die ersten Plattenveröffentlichungen beider Bands. Parallel tourte Udo Schöbel in diesen Jahren mit der Comedygruppe Shy Guys (1988–1996), mit denen er bis zu 150 Auftritte jährlich im In- und Ausland absolvierte.

Im Jahr 2000, nach seinem Umzug nach Berlin, gründete Schöbel zusammen mit Marcus Vetter die Elektro-Pop-Band VetterSchöbel. 2002 wurde aus ihr das Pop-Trio Minibeatclub. Die Mitglieder sind heute Lea Büser, Udo Schöbel und Peter Wehrmann, der 2008 Marcus Vetter als Bandmitglied ablöste. Den Musikstil der Band nennt Udo Schöbel "Minibeat" und bezeichnet damit einen Sound, der auf einer freiwillig reduzierten Bandbesetzung (Human Beatbox, Gitarre und Gesang) basiert. So entsteht der typische Stil der Band zwischen Elektro-Chanson und Casio-Punk.

1997 schrieb und produzierte Schöbel er mit Thomas D den Song Frisör für dessen Soloalbum Solo. Er wurde als Single veröffentlicht und kam im selben Jahr unter die Top 100 der deutschen Single-Charts. 1998 begleitete er das Comedyduo Badesalz mit seinem Bandprojekt Gummisoul auf ihrer Open-Air-Tour. 1999 produzierte Ralf Goldkind (Produzent von Lucilectric) den ersten Minibeat-Song Klebstoff. 2001 komponierte er den von Dirk Bach gesungenen Hit Wir sind die Maus zum 30. Geburtstag der Sendung mit der Maus. 2001 erschien das erste Minibeatclub-Album Erste Hilfe. Im Jahre 2003 wurde der Minibeatclub die offizielle Showband der Kurt Krömer Show. Die DVD The best of die Kurt Krömer Show mit einem Minibeatclub-Feature erschien 2005 und erreichte Goldstatus. Ein Jahr später veröffentlichte der Minibeatclub die von Moses Schneider  produzierte CD Einfach gut.

Nach zahlreichen Kompositionen, unter anderem für die Sendung mit der Maus, komponierte und produzierte er 2010 die Kikaninchen-CD Dibedibedab! Die zweite Kikaninchen-CD Wir tanzen, spielen, singen Lieder folgte 2012, die dritte CD mit dem Titel Die Welt ist bunt sowie das Hörspiel Mein Geschichtenkissen im Jahr 2015. Der Song Dibedibedab ist mit über 23 Millionen Klicks bei YouTube einer der größten Hits für Kinder. Die Kikaninchen-DVD Wir spielen jeden Tag ist vom Bundesverband der Musikindustrie anhand der Verkaufszahlen mit Platin und die zweite DVD Ich mache gerne quatsch mit Gold ausgezeichnet worden. Im Mai 2014 erschien das Kinder-Musikalbum Wackeldackel Hitparade. Hierfür schuf er die Figur Körperklaus als Hauptfigur und Protagonist. Neben der Komposition der Lieder und der musikalischen Umsetzung stammt hier auch das gesamte visuelle Erscheinungsbild aus Schöbels Feder.

Der TV-Start der Körperklaus-Mini-Serie in der vom WDR für den KIKA produzierten Sendung mit dem Elefanten war am 13. Juli 2016. Die ersten fünf Filme für die Magazin-Sendung (zu Songs der Körperklaus-CD Wackeldackel Hitparade) waren Der Schuhplattlertanz, Milkshake, Manekineko, Körperklauslied und Ich bin einfach gut.

2017 gewann er mit der radioeins-Radioshow den Deutschen Radiopreis in der Kategorie "Beste Sendung" als musikalischer Leiter der Sendung mit Peter Wehrmann und P.R. Kantate als der "Minibeatclub".

Anlässlich des 60-jährigen Jubiläums des Sandmännchens (2019), sowie der Figur Pittiplatsch (2022), komponierte er die Musik für insgesamt 26 Folgen der gleichnamigen Serie sowie für das Hörspiel. Hinzu kamen das  Pittiplatsch Geburtstagslied sowie drei weitere Songs für die Folge Pittiplatsch-der Gesangswettbewerb. 2020 produzierte er mit dem Chart-Hit-Produzenten Krutsch ein Kikaninchen-Lieder-Remix-Album, das 2021 unter dem Titel Partymix bei Universal veröffentlicht wurde. Außerdem erschien in diesem Jahr ein zweiter Kikaninchen-Tonie Die Mischung macht's mit von ihm geschriebenen und produzierten Liedern. Schon im Jahr 2017 war das Hörspiel-Tonie Geschichtenkissen veröffentlicht worden, bei dem er für Produktion, Regie und Musik verantwortlich war.

Für den internationalen Kinofilm Karlchen – das große Geburtstagsabenteuer (Originaltitel: Best Birthday Ever) aus dem Jahr 2022, eine Verfilmung der Kinderbücher aus der "Karlchen"-Reihe von Rotraut Susanne Berner, komponierte und textete er die Songs.

Gemeinsam mit Thomas D und dem WDR Funkhaus Orchester spielte er im Oktober 2022 die Songs Frisör und Rückenwind unter der Leitung von Frank Strobel live im Radio.

Diskografie

Alben
 1990: Cleanin' Women: You make my heat BEAT faster – Vinyl (no music)
 1992: Homeboys: No Way – Vinyl (blue flame)
 1993: Sexangels: Innocent again (Deshima/BMG Rights Management)
 1994: Cleanin' Women: We All Should Look So Good – Vinyl (no music)
 1996: Cleanin' Women: A Big Slice of Live (no music)
 2001: mit Dirk Bach: Wir sind die Maus (BMG Rights Management)
 2002: VetterSchöbel: Erste Hilfe – Minibeat-Debüt-CD (miniBEATrecords)
 2003: German-Connection – Sampler mit 2raumwohnung, wir sind Helden, Vetterschöbel etc.
 2004: Cleanin' Women: Everlastin' Summer – Live (miniBEATrecords)
 2006: miniBEATclub: Einfach Gut (miniBEATrecords, pauls garage)
 2010: Kikaninchen-CD: Dibedibedab! (Universal Music Group)
 2012: Kikaninchen-CD: Wir tanzen, spielen, singen Lieder (Universal Music Group)
 2014: Wackeldackel Hitparade (Universal Music Group)
 2015: Kikaninchen-CD: Die Welt ist bunt (Universal Music Group)
 2015: Kikaninchen Hörspiel-CD: Mein Geschichtenkissen! (Universal Music Group)
 2017: Kikaninchen-CD: Die Mischung macht's (Universal Music Group)
 2017: Kikaninchen-Tonie: Mein Geschichtenkissen (Oetinger)
 2020: Kikaninchen-Tonie: Die Mischung macht's
 2021: Kikaninchen: Party-Mix (Universal Music Group)
 2021: Kareltje – Beste Verjaardag Oit

Singles
 1998: Thomas D: Frisör (Four Music)
 2017: Körperklaus: Einfach gut (Universal Music Group)
 2020: Kikaninchen: Party-Diskokugelmix (Universal Music Group)
 2021: Kikaninchen: Weihnachtszauber & Weihnachtsbäckerin
 2022: Händewaschlied & Gesund und munter
 2022: Der Bestimmer  & Trotzlied
 2022: Karlchen – Das große Geburtstagsabenteuer – EP, 6 Songs
 2022: Kwaak Waak Kwakerde – Reggae
 2022: Kalles Födersedags Äventyr – EP, 6 Songs
 2022: Karaltje – De Beste Verjaardag Ooit – EP, 7 Songs

Filmografie

Sendung mit der Maus
 2001: Wir sind die Maus, gesungen von Dirk Bach, zum 30. Geburtstag der Sendung mit der Maus
 2001: Wenn die Maus kommt
 2001: So sehn wir aus

Sendung mit der Maus "Lachgeschichten"
 1997: 10 kleine Saftorangen
 1998: Hungriges Brötchen
 1998: Selma, das Schaf
 1999: Im Badezimmer
 2000: Im Sandkasten
 2001: In der Kommode
 2002: Der Fadenmann (auf dem Nähtisch)
 2003: Der Käferjunge
 2005: Bohnentwist
 2009: GemüseTango
 2010: Kritze Kratze
 2013: Peter Claus
 2013: Gute Nacht Carola
 2016: Er kam mit der Couch
 2019: Wanda Walfisch

Sendung mit der Maus "Sachgeschichten"
 2000: Badewanne
 2001: Geheimsprachen
 2005: Puppendoktor

Sendung mit dem Elefanten
 2016: Körperklaus Schuhplattlerta
 2016: Körperklaus Milkshake
 2016: Körperklaus Manekineko
 2016: Körperklaus Einfach Gut
 2016: Körperklaus Körperklaus

Animationsfilme
 1991: Mr. Chocolate meets Mrs. Milk
 1995: Yankale
 1999: Karl-Anton (Mini-Serie)
 2000: Big Cat, Little cat
 2004: Die kleine Monsterin
 2008: Ted Sieger's Molly Monster
 2022: Troll stinkt

Realfilm
 1991: Der letzte Sommer
 1998: Hilda Humphrey
 2000: Lost Killers
 2007: Die Aufschneider

Weblinks
 Udo Schöbels Website
 Minibeatclub Website
 Udo Schöbels Kunstfigur "Karl-Anton"
 Udo Schöbels Kunstfigur für Kinder "Körperklaus"

 Udo Schöbel im Deutschland Radio Kultur
 Kurzbiografie von Udo Schöbel

Einzelnachweise

Musiker (Berlin)
Songwriter
Musikproduzent
Cartoonist (Deutschland)
Deutscher
Geboren 1961
Mann

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When William Staub died two years ago in Clifton, New Jersey, where he had lived for more than seventy years, it was only a certain eclectic class of people across the country that mourned his passing. So if you never heard of William Staub, don't feel that something is lacking in your education. In spite of the revolution he helped to create in the world of physical fitness, Mr. Staub never became a household name.
published nearly two dozen books on the subject, popularized the term aerobics, and founded a number of companies in Texas dedicated to helping people get fit and stay that way.
In the late 1960's, when Mr. Staub was in his early 50's, Besco was thriving. Mr. Staub, although a disciplined person in his own habits, nevertheless wasn't much of a fitness buff. That all changed when he picked up a book by Dr. Cooper entitled Aerobics.
So Mr. Staub took up running, and pretty soon he could do his eight-minute miles. But at some times of the year the weather in Clifton, New Jersey, can be downright inhospitable. The average low temperature between November and March ranges from 19 degrees to 34 degrees, and most months of the year the average rainfall is over four inches. Summer with its high temps and sweltering humidity is no bargain. So Mr. Staub set his mind to creating a device, the treadmill, that would allow people to exercise without ever stepping foot outside their homes.
By the 1960's exercise treadmills were common in doctor's offices, but they were very costly. With much encouragement from Dr. Cooper, Mr. Staub set about making one that would be commercially viable, i.e., inexpensive enough for the average person to purchase. He founded a company called Aerobics, and while his employees at Besco were making their company's products, William Staub was in the other half of the facility trying to turn a collection of pulleys and belts and whatnot into a treadmill. His prototype consisted of 40 steel rollers covered by an orange belt, a gray cover over the motor, and orange dials to determine time and speed. He called it the Pacemaster.
Mr. Staub and his son began marketing the device at trade shows and elsewhere, and eventually it caught on. In the interval between then and now, one internet source estimates that 83 million of a number of different brands have been sold. "I don't think he thought it was going to be quite as big as it was," Gerald Staub said. Today's treadmills are glitzier with a lot of bells and whistles that Mr. Staub's plane Jane original didn't have. I was on one on a cruise ship a month or so ago that had a heart rate monitor, a gear for creating hills, a flat panel TV, a plug in for a bunch of channels of music, and much more.
Mr. Staub's passing was noted in daily papers large and small across the country, but it was also reported, with noticeable affection, in specialized publications that cater to the nation's running and aerobics enthusiasts.


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De slag bij Tarraco vond plaats halverwege 422 in de Romeinse provincie Hispania Tarraconensis (Spanje)  bij de stad Tarraco. Hier bevocht het Romeinse leger onder bevel van generaal Flavius Castinus de Vandalen die aangevoerd werden door hun koning Gunderik.

De Vandalen, die enkele jaren daarvoor flink afgestraft waren door Visigotische milities van het Romeinse leger, verlieten omstreeks 420 het bergachtige Gallicië en trokken door Hispania Lusitania richting Baetica in het zuiden. In Baetica kregen de (Vandalen) steeds meer vaste voet, waar zij een reële bedreiging betekenden voor de vrede in de rest van Spanje.

Om adequaat een einde te kunnen maken aan het Vandaalse gevaar moest het leger in Spanje versterkt worden. In Africa kreeg generaal Bonifatius opdracht van keizer Honorius  zich met zijn legermacht bij het leger van dux Castinus te voegen. Dezelfde opdracht kreeg de Visigotische koning Theodorik I in Gallië.

De campagne van Castinus was vanaf het begin onfortuinlijk. Volgens kroniekschrijver Hydatius leidde "zijn hooghartige en onbekwame bevelvoering" tot een ruzie tussen hem en de militaire tribune Bonifatius. Bonifacius verliet abrupt de expeditie met zijn troepen.

Bij Tarraco, het huidige Tarragona, raakten de legers met elkaar slaags. De Romeinen hadden naast het vertrek van Bonifatius te maken met desertie van hun Visigotische bondgenoten en werden werden volkomen verslagen door  de Vandalen die daarmee de onbetwiste meesters van Hispania werden. Pas de komst van de Visigoten in 426 naar Spanje zou aan deze situatie weer een einde maken.

Romeinse veldslag


Cosmetic Cupcake: Groomy toiletry bags review + giveaway!
Groomy toiletry bags review + giveaway!
Happy 2012 ladies! I hope you all had a fantastic New Year =) I don't know about you but I LOVE toiletry and makeup bags. I love organisational products (hence so many polish storage posts haha!) and I'm always on the lookout for new and improved ways to cart my beauty products around. So I was delighted when the lovely folks at Groomy offered me the chance to review some products. They very kindly sent me the very cute Carousel toiletry bag set to try out.
Groomy travel products range from large makeup bags to tiny makeup pouches and come in three cute designs - Woodland, Carousel and Babushka collections. The designs are just SO ADORABLE!! They are just the type of designs I would be drawn to if I were to come across them in-store. Besides toiletry bags, Groomy also make some lovely handmade items such as hair ties and shower caps.
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When Groomy very kindly sent me over the toiletry bag set to try out they also sent me some products to hold a little giveaway for my lovely readers!! I was hoping to have this as a Christmas giveaway but ran out of time so instead it's a new years giveaway =) What better way to kick off the new year!
There will be THREE lucky winners! Each winner will receive a Carousel beauty tool wallet and Carousel hair tie.
How to enter: Simply be a public follower of Cosmetic Cupcake via GFC and leave me a comment below with your GFC name and email address. You can earn an extra entry by tweeting about my giveaway with link to this post. Don't forget to @cosmeticcupcake and leave the tweet link in your comment!
The products featured in this post were sent to me for consideration but this in no way influenced my review in any way. As always, my reviews are my 100% honest opinion. The products for the giveaway were also provided by the PR company. My Disclosure Policy can be viewed here.
Looks like a nice package.
The bags are so adorable!
Happy new year 'Chelle! Do count me in please!These look too cute! I follow you with GFC and my email is freeeedz at yahoo dot com!
These look really nice, not to mention how convenient they must be. Thank you for the giveaway and Happy New Year!
So cute I really love the hair tie.
Wow..this is cool!! Would love to win this.
love the bag!! also the design look so cute!
The carousel pattern on these toiletry bags are soo pretty!
this is su coute and handy!!
Happy New Year! The Carousel design is too cute!
Thanks for starting this year so nicely!
Ohhh! This is so cute!
Hola!! un premio muy encantador, participo!!
Gracias por la oportunidad! Besos!!
very cute print. Love to see it in person.
I'm a GFC follower Lilpil.
And you already know my email..
I just stumbled across your blog when I was looking for nail polish storage options and I just love it. This giveaway is really cute!
Can't believe I almost missed this giveaway!
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Despite having won 10 consecutive matches since taking charge at Manchester City, manager Pep Guardiola says he is not thinking about the Premier League title yet. Instead he tries to focus on winning every game at a time. The Citizens have won all six Premier League fixtures so far and built up a four-point lead at the top of the table over second-placed Tottenham.
"I didn't think about what might happen at the start of the season," Guardiola said after Saturday's 3-1 win at Swansea City. "We just focused on pre-season, and then we took a lot of confidence from our Champions League qualifying games, and then it's been game by game. Now we are thinking of Celtic, and then it will be Tottenham and that's how we'll go forward. And at the end of the season, we will see how our levels were and whether we were better than our rivals or not."
City forward Raheem Sterling seems to agree with his manager: "We have to just keep humble and keep working hard. We have to remind ourselves it is only September - the season has a lot left in it. We have to take it game by game. I know that sounds boring, but that's the way it is. It is early to say what we are going to be doing, but we want to be champions. We are gunning for titles, and we need to keep our heads down and keep going step by step."
Manchester City are 8/13 at Bet365 to win the Premier League title this season.
Thinking or not it's what people discuss after having only wins since the start of the season.
I understand Guardiola wants to be concentrated just on the next game not wanting to look too further ahead in time than the next few games but they are definitely the N1 title contenders and I'm not sure there will be title race at all if City continue winning like this.


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Chinese dissident artist's supporters contribute millions of yuans to help him avoid jail term.
The Chinese government has imposed a massive tax bill for alleged tax evasion on a dissident artist, which many argue is politically motivated.
Thousands of Ai Weiwei's supporters have mobilised to help him cover the 15m yuan ($2.4m) bill and avoid a jail term, a development the government did not expect.
They contributed over $5.3m yuan ($830,000) in just 48 hours later.


What Is CRISPR/CAS9 And How Does It Work?
CRISPR stands for "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats". CAS9 stands for "CRISPR Associated Protein 9".
As you can probably guess, it has to do with repeats and the associated protein.
gRNA: This is the guide RNA which directs ("guides") the Cas9 enzyme to the part of the genome being altered.
CRISPR/CAS9 is as system found within bacteria and involved in the immune system defense. Bacteria use this tactic to cut up the DNA of invading pathogens that attack them.
CRISPR/CAS9 uses this natural bacterial response to do similar things in DNA. In particular, it is used to change DNA in an organism by cutting up the DNA in the same manner that bacteria use it to attack viruses.
CRISPR/CAS9 can go in and change specific areas in anything: food, animals, and even people.
The technology can alter the genome by removing, adding, or altering sections of a DNA sequence (where the four bases are concerned: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), or thymine (T).
CRISPR/CAS9 has the capabilities of aiding in biomedical research, treating genetic diseases, and altering negative genome traits. Further research will likely make this a leading tool for our species, regardless of whether that is a good or bad thing.
Currently, it is the simplest, most precise method of manipulating the genetic sequence. In addition, with further research, it is only getting more and more efficient.
Cas9 is the splicer. It is used by bacteria to destroy harmful viruses, and is commonly referred to as the "scissors" within CRISPR/CAS9. CRISPR just tells Cas9 where to cut.
What happens is we find a target for our Cas9, then we guide them to the exact location to "cut" the DNA. When DNA is cut, the cell immediately attempts to repair the break using anything it can find. That's when we put in the new gene we want to insert.
We can change a G to an A, or a T to a C. Or remove them entirely. Or add others.
How Do We Get The Gene In?
As the DNA is attempting to repair itself, we have a few options.
The DNA itself will do the rest. It will be permanently affixed into the DNA strand via the natural repair mechanism mentioned above.
This is a helpful video for visualization purposes. It makes it a lot easier to understand the intricate workings of something that appears so miniscule.
A huge implication of CRISPR/CAS9 is germline edits.
This is because any changes made in germline cells will be passed on from generation to generation down the line.
This means permanent changes in genetic lineages could become an inevitability.
On one bright side, germline edits are currently illegal in many countries. Most of the countries that have the capabilities to use CRISPR/CAS9 to its fullest have already banned them.
Labs around the world are working with CRISPR/CAS9 to test out how it can be used for livestock, plants, and early genetic testing in mice. It's even being used in human embryos (designer babies, anyone?). Additionally, it has shown potential for treating medical conditions that have a genetic component such as cancer or hepatitis B.
The human variants are strictly regulated, but it's still uneasy. We are trying to recreate, or permanently change, the basis of what makes us individualist humans.
CRISPR will not be used in humans routinely for many years. But the possibility for dramatic change is evident, and likely to be arriving sooner than we think.
CRISPR/CAS9 has the potential for benefits, but the risks are extreme if taken too far. It can even be used to edit other harmful agents, potentially increasing the risk of bioterror significantly.
Keep your eyes on this tech going forward. It will likely be a big player in the years ahead.


A research team at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reports that patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who were treated with a gene therapy protocol began making antibodies that reacted against their own leukemia cells.
The study will be published on line the week of February 11-15 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Researchers led by Thomas J. Kipps, M.D., Ph.D., inserted a gene with the potential to activate an immune response – a gene therapy protocol developed at UCSD – into six patients with CLL, the most common form of adult leukemia. Several of the patients started making antibodies that reacted against their own leukemia cells. When tested in the lab, the antibodies also reacted with the leukemia cells of other patients with the disease.
The patients were shown to make antibodies reactive with a leukemia-associated antigen – a protein made by leukemia cells that can stimulate the body's immune system to produce antibodies – called ROR1. This antigen appears to be found only on the cell surface of the leukemia cells, but not on normal cells, and serves as a receptor that binds to a ligand called Wnt5a, which activates a pathway important for the survival of the leukemia cells.
"The Wnt5a ligand interacts with ROR1 to enhance leukemia-cell survival. Antibodies that react with ROR1 can interfere with this survival signal and might also specifically target the leukemia cells for destruction," Kipps said.
He also noted that because the ROR1 antigen is found only on leukemia cells, it could be developed as a very specific marker to monitor for the continued presence of leukemia cells after treatment or for identifying leukemia cells in patients with early disease, when the cancer otherwise might not be detected. It also provides a much more specific target for antibody therapy.
Antibodies that target ROR1 would be unlike currently used antibodies, which bind antigens found not only on leukemia cells, but also on normal cells. Because they can destroy normal cells, the antibodies currently used to treat patients with this leukemia can cause side-effects and weaken the immune system.


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P02.191. A pruritic, psoriasiform rash in an 82 year old patient: clues to diagnosing atypical celiac disease
J Yang1 and
M Kogan1
© Yang and Kogan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
Perivascular Infiltrate
Celiac Sprue
Geriatric Clinic
Celiac disease is a common autoimmune disease that is under-diagnosed. Challenges in its diagnosis are due to the frequent presentations of silent celiac disease, without overt diarrhea, and the perceived rarity of the disease despite recent studies showing that its prevalence approaches 1% of the United States population. Published studies have shown that the diagnosis of celiac sprue is frequently delayed, even with typical symptoms. Atypical and "silent" diseases are the most common presentations for gluten-sensitive enteropathy as less than 50% of patients present with the classic diarrhea-predominant disease.
We present the case of an 82 year old African American man who presented as a new patient from our dermatology department after he had undergone evaluation and treatment for an extensive, chronic, pruritic, psoriasiform rash that started from his upper chest and back and covered over 70% of his body. He had undergone a skin biopsy that revealed superficial perivascular infiltrate of lymphocytes, numerous eosinophils, and rare plasma cells. He was treated for presumptive psoriasis with a high-potency topical corticosteroid without benefit. Thrombocytopenia on his labs prompted a referral to the Geriatric clinic to establish care and undergo evaluation for his abnormal labs. His wife reported that the patient was forgetful, had mild weight loss, and occasional constipation. His labs were significant for thrombocytopenia without anemia, eosinophilia, hypoalbuminemia, severe Vitamin D deficiency, and borderline B12 levels.
His celiac panel was positive and a gluten-free diet was prescribed. His follow-up appointment two months later revealed marked improvement of the rash, as well as resolution of his thrombocytopenia and hypertension.
This case highlights the challenges in diagnosing celiac disease in the elderly. Targeted screening for celiac sprue is critical to diagnosing this treatable disease, reversing debilitating morbidity, and preventing neoplastic consequences.
George Washington Center for Integrative Medicine, Washington, D.C., USA


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FPCI Virtual Public Lecture on Key Foreign Policy Issues That Await the Biden Administration with Ambassador Robert Blake
On Friday, 8 January 2021 FPCI held a virtual public lecture on "Key Foreign Policy Issues That Await the Biden Administration" with Ambassador Robert Blake, an American career diplomat with 31 years experience serving in the State Department and Former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia. H.E. Robert Blake addressed key foreign policy issues that the US will tackle under the Biden presidency, spanning from the U.S.-China relations, the state of play with Iran and the Middle East, the role of Southeast Asia in the geopolitical chessboard, and many more.
The year 2020 marked an all-time low for the so-called leader of the free world. Extenuating domestic situation due to poor management of the pandemic coupled with social unrest has earned America the title of "the sick man of democracies," so lamented by American professor John Delury.
For the United States, 2021 brings about a set of new hopes, opportunities, and also challenges. The White House will welcome a new administration come January 20th and the world is paying close attention. Indeed, the COVID-19 global pandemic has certainly shifted the dynamics of the world order and global affairs, but the United States under the leadership of President-elect Joe Biden could very well turn the tide against a declining multilateralism and an increasingly protectionist international atmosphere to a whole new direction.
Therefore: will the world see a restoration of U.S. global leadership? Can the world still consider America as a reliable and dependable partner? Which foreign policy issues will the Biden administration prioritize? What does it mean for Southeast Asia and how should the region respond?
Transcript of Discussion – Key Foreign Policy Issues that Await the Biden AdministrationDownload