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"Phone is an enemy of creativity". Interview with Grammy-winner singer and song writer Corinne Bailey Rae
Creative people appreciate the value of being off the grid. A US rapper Kanye West famously tweeted that he got rid of his smartphone to have "air to create". British musician Ed Sheeran, according to some critics, has written his "best album ever yet" after taking a full digital detox.
So when representatives of Grammy-award winning British singer and songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae contacted me and said Corinne would like to record a podcast with me for her new album and talk about being in the moment, I instantly knew we'll have lots to talk about. We talked about the importance of listening to our inner selves, and how gadgets can prevent us from doing this. First Corinne interviewed me for her podcast and later I interviewed her for my book Homo Distractus.
Below is the extract from our conversation for my chapter about creativity and the value of unplugging for Homo Distractus.
Corinne, one phrase that stuck with me from your podcast was "Your heart speaks in whispers. You've got to listen". What did you mean by it?
Recovering from a loss of my first husband took me away from people and noise of everyday life. As I had lots of time on my own, I realized how many internal resource we have to repair ourselves, how much internal wisdom we have. And so when I started going out of that period, I wanted to keep listening to my inner voice, my intuition, to keep paying attention to people and whatever made me happy.
What helps you keep listening?
For me being in the moment is a key. In the creative world the highs are really high, but they can easily be disintegrated if we are not "drinking them" at the time. For example, if after a gig instead of talking to people I need to do something related to business, or post something on social media, I can just feel how this subtle feeling, creative spirit, is disappearing.
It's so difficult to be in the moment. I remember an episode, when I was really lucky to work with my hero Stevie Wonder, and when being in the same room with him, I had this thought at the back of my mind: "This would make an amazing photo!" This thought was taking me right out of the moment, and I don't want this to happen.
I once went to see Prince's concert, and he got lots of people on stage from the public to dance with him. And there was one who spent the whole 10 minutes she was on the stage begging someone from the public to throw her phone to her. She was not in the moment for any single second! Another example, at the inauguration of Obama, when he and Michelle were dancing, all invited guests were filming this dance with cameras. This is ridiculous, this was a national event, of course CNN was covering it, they surely wouldn't have got better quality on their mobiles than CNN. So what was the point?
This is the event that will never happen again! Every moment is unrepeatable. In pursue of trying to capture something in technology we miss on life itself. I'm keen not to miss on my own life.
What's your relationship with tech?
I do make rules for myself in terms of how to use technology, but I am also quite disorganized so I like to go with the flow. I do some social media to a small degree, but I am very conscious that for one good Instagram photo you need to take 15 shoots, and it takes you out of the moment. In private life, I always keep my phone on silent, just looking at it once in a while, and sometimes discover that it's ringing, so then I pick it up and it's a good coincidence. Of course, if I am shopping with my husband and we go to different parts of the supermarket, I'll keep it on.
And what about your friends, aren't they missing you?
I have a set up for friends that they just can come around to my house without calling me.
What about creative work? Are your devices around you when you create?
For creative work I definitely like to get lost in the moment. There's no way I could work with my phone near me, checking whether I have a new Instagram like, so lots of time my phone is just not in the same room. I just go to it as if it were an answering machine.
I don't want to constantly present my life as idealized and don't feel I have to be an ultraversion of myself. My brand is about a more natural presentation of myself anyways, so I feel a lot less pressure to keep up with the buzz, I guess I am lucky.
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What do you think of Ed Sheeran's decision to give up social media and phone? Is it what every creative person should do?
For me the main danger is not so much always being on, but constantly getting comments. 50 people may say "you look nice", but if there is just one odd or negative comment, it will stay with you. It's no good to hear too many positive things, either, but negative things told directly into your phone are difficult, phone just feels too private to me.
If you are a creative person, you should have time to develop whatever you are working on. I know many committed writers who are not on Twitter for this reason. You think of a funny thing you'd write now, but if you leak it out into the public space too early, it will take away the potency of the idea.
I've heard this from quite a few creative people when interviewing them for my book.
Contemporary artist Tracey Emin says that the phone is an enemy of creativity, and I tend to agree. It creates the interruption you don't need.
I would rather get out of the studio and see that I have missed 3 calls, rather than ask myself – what was I doing, was I recording something, when I got interrupted? Give up the idea you're missing out.
But aren't you missing out on something this way? Like, your friends could have told you they're meeting somewhere, and you didn't' see it.
Sometimes you will miss out on something, but sometimes you'll have a massive 3 hour chat with your friend, and if you were to move somewhere just because other friends were there, you would lose this opportunity. Not every choice has to be made. Sometimes you have just to be where you are, giving your attention to this particular person. Otherwise you are never really fully there.
So what do you think about technology and creativity?
Tech can be massive help to creativity, but you have to choose it. I consciously go online to do some research, but sometimes I notice: I have looked already on this website twice today, there isn't really anything new here. On my screen I have a reminder "Go outside" popping out, which helps. I also sometimes write down "next time I'll look at this or that". I can definitely be really sucked into browsing pages, like staying for hours on Pinterest.
So you have to keep being very aware, and conscious, whether you are you even enjoying your browsing? Am I really wanting to see what I am seeing, or am I doing it out of habit? So when I am thinking that I am not enjoying all these images, I just close it, and go outside.
This interview has been recorded for Anastasia's new book Homo Distractus: Fight for your choices and identity in the digital age. Grab your copy here.
Koreans film a show on digital addiction
Running Man show participants are trying to find their map using a paper map
Live coverage of Lee Sedol's Go game against computer sparked huge interest in the country
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With reportedly over 2 million people in South Korea considered to have an internet addiction (one of the highest numbers in the world), Koreans have finally started to notice the dangers of unbalanced use of devices. A number of popular TV entertainment shows are choosing to focus on the relationships between humans and technology.
On the 19th March 2016, Lee Sedol, a Korean champion in an ancient intellectual game of Go (or baduk), lost to the artificial intelligence program AlphaGo, produced by Google. The game that can last for several hours and has been likened to Chess in the West is one of the most popular ones in Korea, and Lee's setback was covered by the likes of Sky news and CNN.
In spite of his loss, Lee Sedol's popularity in Korea rose even more, especially amongst people who weren't originally a fan of the game. His loss became a talking point in many Korean shows, and became the inspiration for an episode on a very popular TV show Running Man, which focused on Man vs Machine and tried to show how overdependent we have become on our devices,
Low tech challenges
Running Man is a Korean variety show that has been on the air for almost six years and has become a household name. The cast meet weekly to film the show which follows the format of small missions that lead into a final mission. This time, producers chose to give the cast a variety of tasks that highlighted just how dependent its citizens are on technology.
Missions such as making the members navigate themselves around the city without the use of a GPS caused a panic within cast members, in which several members exclaimed that they have never even used a map before in their lives. Interestingly, this issue was seen to not be generational, as oldest member Ji SukJin, who is 50 years old, had the most problems navigating himself around Seoul.
Other tasks included trying to win a match against a robotic arm in a game of balloon popping, and playing against a high tech computer in a popular Korean word association game, which in many ways resembled Lee Sedol's match against the AlphaGo.
They resisted, but then enjoyed it
The challenges were initially detested by most of the members, comedian Kim Junho even exclaimed that he felt like a stress test lab rat.
However, over the course of the week, the cast began to notice that actually spending time with each other, and without technology coming literally in-between them, helped them to appreciate the value of one another, and loved ones, gaining relationships over convenience, and experiences that were analog - not digital.
In later episodes after that particular mission was over, some of the members even stated that they did try and reduce their usage of smart phones when they could. Overall, this particular episode did well, and the program even extended the mission to female comedians, when the show later expanded.
Running Man is not the first Korean show to highlight the issue of tech dependency. In late 2012, entertainment show The Human Condition challenged a group of comedians to live for one week without the use of smartphones, the Internet and television for their pilot episode, in a sort of social experiment.
With Korean rehabilitation clinics for Internet and gaming addiction on the rise, and with 1 in 4 teenagers diagnosed with Internet addiction attending these clinics, it is extremely important and beneficial that these major entertainment companies continue to tackle this issue from the source, and continue to showcase the effects of Internet dependency in a light hearted manner that allows conversation to begin.
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Extreme Networks has announced additions to its Extreme Partner Network (EPN) partner program that includes enhancements around cloud and cloud managed services.
Under the announcement, EPN gets a cloud specialization program, which includes new incentives for selling Extreme's ExtremeCloud offering. According to Gordon Mackintosh, senior director of worldwide partner program and sales business development at Extreme, the specialization is targeted at partners who want to resell cloud managed networking but aren't quite there yet.
The program also sees the addition of a new cloud managed services program, which provides incentives and rewards for building managed services around ExtremeCloud, as well as allows channel partners to white label ExtremeCloud.
According to Gordon Martin, president of Extreme MSP partner Peak UpTime, these changes are the jolt needed for Extreme's silver and non-level partners, which were the only EPN partner tier to see a decline (10 percent) in business in FY16.
"This entire industry is going through a transformation. It's moving to a cloud managed environment. Think of this as Extreme, including their product, having to go through a transformation while all their partners are going through a transformation. So it's really is a challenging time," he told Channelnomics.
Meanwhile, as a higher level partner who is already delivering cloud as a managed service, Martin says there is strong appeal in being able to white label Extreme's cloud offering.
"With white labeling my brand awareness [grows], I drive value for Peak UpTime and I drive value for Extreme," Martin said.
In addition to cloud and managed services, following the recent close of its acquisition of Zebra Technologies' WLAN business, Extreme's announcement today includes the expansion of its solution set to include Zebra technology, while Extreme mobility solutions are now available to all EPN reseller partners, including those who came through the Zebra acquisition.
Mackintosh says that before the acquisition, Extreme had about 30 partners specialized in wireless and that 290 join them through the Zebra buy. The executive claims there is very little business overlap between Extreme partners and those who came from Zebra. He expects Extreme partners to predominantly stay in their core verticals and eventually move into additional verticals enabled by Zebra technology "over time".
Martin agreed that there is a "natural synergy" in the vertical markets Extreme and Zebra traditionally specialize in.
Mackintosh, meanwhile, says he's seeing many wired Extreme partners and WLAN Zebra partners collaborating.
"Extreme partners are selling the switching, and the Zebra partners are selling the wireless.
Quite a few of the Zebra partners have said 'I usually just pass this out to whomever. I'd love to partner with someone from [Extreme's channel] that can do the wired infrastructure', and then they'll sell the wireless," he explained.
And while Mackintosh says wireless installations are "more complex" than switching, he told Channelnomics that a year from now, he'd like to see an equal balance between partners selling wireless versus wired instead of the 80/20 split Extreme's channel has now.
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By Alex Yarborough, Orlando Contributor
Friday, December 8, 2017 @ 1:02 PM
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The spirit of true metal is alive and well through the blood, sweat and determination of Australian juggernaut NIGHT LEGION, a new "super group" comprised of metal veterans: Stu Marshall (DEATH DEALER, BLASTED TO STATIC) – guitar, Vo Simpson (DARKER HALF) – vocals, Glenn Williams (DUNGEON) - bass and drummer Clay T (BLASTED TO STATIC).
The opening track, "Into The Night", sets the tone forthwith, shattering the silence with Marshall's brilliant guitar riff and Simpson's soaring howl. What a great opening track! The title track, "Night Legion", boasts a tale of unity that will get you singing along and banging your head. Marshall lays down a short and tasty solo on the song.
"Enter The Storm" offers more melody with the groove, while the battle-themed "The Warrior" will give you a chance to try and hit some high notes with Vo Simpson. Williams' bass work on this song (and the rest of the album) is fantastic. "This Time" opens with a zesty solo that turns into a fat riff that propels the song throughout. "Hell Below" is one of my favorite tracks on the album, featuring Clay T's robust double bass drumming. The chorus and solo of this song are real treats. Check out the video for the song on KNAC.COM right HERE.
The constellation and space exploration-themed "The Eye Of Hydra" features another enormous riff, right from the start, and another great solo. "As Flames Scorch The Ground" analyzes life from the point of view of artificial intelligence. This is probably Simpson's most impressive vocal performance on the album, and the rest of the band is on fire as well! Guest solos are provided on the track by Tsuyoshi Ikedo (UNVEIL RAZE) and Vo Simpson. Album closer, "Titan", is the longest song on the album. The track begins with a quote by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, and the song is essentially an anthem to Aurelius and his legacy. Ross The Boss (MANOWAR, DEATH DEALER) and Pete Lesperance (HAREM SCAREM) contribute notable solos to this track.
Refreshingly, the fat has been completely trimmed from this album. There is no bullshit, no wasted moments, no beating around the bush. NIGHT LEGION gets right to the point, from the get-go. There are no ballads and no epics to be found on Night Legion. There are simply nine unpretentious up-tempo melodic power metal songs here to help motivate you. Stu Marshall has done it again. His guitar work and songwriting are once again flavorful and commanding. If you are a fan of his other bands DEATH DEALER, DUNGEON, and EMPIRES OF EDEN, you are going to absolutely love this album. Dusan Markovic contributes my favorite album cover of the year as well. Night Legion is available now from Massacre Records!
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Gorgeous colors on those peaches, they look so inviting and real !
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Го́луэй (, ) — графство на западе Ирландии. Административный центр и крупнейший город — Голуэй. Население 250 653 человек (3-е место среди графств Республики Ирландия; данные 2011 г.). Площадь территории 6149 км² (2-е место). В области Коннемара находится один из четырёх районов Ирландии, где по данным 2007 г. большая часть населения (свыше 67 %) использует в быту ирландский язык, т. н. Гэлтахт категории «A».

Физико-географическая характеристика

Географическое положение
Графство Голуэй расположено на западе Ирландии на берегу Атлантического океана. Береговая линия сильно изрезана глубокими бухтами и заливами, а склоны — обрывисты и круты. Регион занимает часть полуострова Коннемара и долину между реками Клэр и Шаннон. Также в его состав входят несколько населенных островов, в том числе Аранские острова (Инишмор, Инишман и Инишир).

Голуэй соседствует с графством Мэйо на северо-западе; Роскоммон — на северо-востоке, Оффали — на юго-востоке, с Северным Типперэри — на юге, а также Клэр — на юго-западе.

Климат
Климат Голуэя — умеренно-морской, с характерными мягкими зимами, прохладным летом и отсутствием резких перепадов температур. Средняя максимальная температура в январе — 8 °C, в июле — 20 °C. Самые солнечные месяцы — июнь и июль.

Флора и фауна
Коннемара представляет собой болотистую местность с достаточно скудной растительностью, представленную преимущественно вересками, камышом и пушицей. В равниной же части графства преобладают луговые травы.

Помимо тюленей, обитающих в прибрежных водах, и изредка заплывающих сюда китов, на территории региона насчитывается около десятка видов млекопитающих, в их числе барсук, выдра, заяц и т. д.

История
Первые люди появились на территории, которая относится к современному графству Голуэй около 7 тыс. лет назад. До наших дней дошли следы пребывания здесь человека в виде древних стоянок (около 5 тыс. лет назад), мегалитов (4 тыс. лет назад), находок бронзовых изделий (2,5 тыс. лет назад).

Транспорт

Достопримечательности
 Замок Атенрай
 Замок Фиддон
 Камень Туруа

Примечания

Ссылки
 Galway County Council
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There are two concert DVDs of Andr� Rieu in Vienna available.
�Andr� Rieu Live in Vienna� Is a 135-minute concert filmed on the square in front of Vienna's imperial Hofburg Palace. Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra and Choir are accompanied by the Ballet of the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna debutantes from the Elmayer Dance School, the Platinum Tenors, the sopranos Dagmar Koller, Carmen Monarcha, Carla Maffioletti, Mirusia Louwerse and Suzan Erens, and the interpreter of the traditional Viennese song, Karl Moik.
�And the Waltz goes On: Vienna, City of My Dreams� features 2 1/2 hours of music performed by Andr� Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra. The highlight of the concert is Rieu�s world premier performance of the waltz "And the Waltz Goes On" with the composer, Sir Anthony Hopkins, in attendance.
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Balašicha (rusky: Балашиха, výslovnost ) je město v Rusku, v Moskevské oblasti. Město se nachází asi 25 km východně od centra Moskvy. Žije zde 215 353 obyvatel (2010). Status města obdržela Balašicha v roce 1928. V roce 2015 došlo ke sloučení měst Balašicha a Železnodorožnyj - původní Balašicha měla před sloučením 261 000 obyvatel a Železnodorožnyj 152 000 obyvatel. V současnosti má Balašicha cca 424 000 obyvatel.

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Lauren McLaughlin Cycles Back to Jack & Jill
Late last week, I went out to Brooklyn to chat with Lauren McLaughlin about her two YA novels, Cycler and (Re)Cycler, which are about a teenage girl, Jill McTeague, who instead of getting a period transforms for several days every month into a boy, who has established a separate identity for himself as "Jack" despite (or maybe beacuse of) the efforts of Jill and her parents to keep him contained. I started out by asking McLaughlin about the ways in which, after essentially behaving as pure unreconstructed id in the first novel, Jack begins to develop a more nuanced personality in (Re)Cycler…
It's fairly easy to interpret the two novels as an extended allegory about teens struggling with queer identity in general and trans identity in particular, but McLaughlin observes that many other teen readers could identify with Jill's turmoil in the first novel, as she's fundamentally "a girl who is desperately trying to hide a secret" about herself that causes her shame and, like any adolescent, "[she's] not complete yet. She's still in the process of inventing herself." She admits, though, that Jack was her favorite character to write; with Cycler especially, "Jill, as the main point of view character, was harder for me to know. It took several drafts before I felt like I understood her."
Could that mean, I suggested, that if she were to return to the characters, later novels could bring Jack even further into the foreground than (Re)Cycler? It's a tricky question, she said, and not just because it would mean tampering with the biological link to Jill's monthly cycle that defines their relationship. She's given the various possibilities a lot of thought, and it's an almost "existential" problem: "If I were to combine them into one character," she offered, pondering one option, "does that mean that one of them is no longer part of the story? Or could they become somebody else entirely?"
I also wondered if McLaughlin was a Ranma 1/2 fan, but she swears she's never seen it. "People have been asking me about it more and more, though," she said. "I really need to catch up with it at some point."
(By the way, this was the penultimate stop on a week-long blog tour for McLaughlin; if you want to read more, be sure to check out some of her other appearances.)
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The Tree Of Life (2011)
Posted by Oliver Hackett-Watson in Art
Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn, Terrence Malick
The tree of life was both written and directed by Terrence Malick, staring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. This film follows one man's thoughts as he is now a grown man looking back on his life, his relationships with his brothers and parents and his view of the world from a young age.
This film is utterly bizarre and took me by surprise. Admittedly I did watch this film quite a while ago, however it has taken me a while to think about it and consider one simple thing. Did I actually enjoy this film ? the answer to that is I simply do not know. By far this is the weirdest film I have ever seen, though it baffles the mind it enriches the eye and the brain as an extensive art piece. I neither dislike or like this piece of cinema.
It's profound and yet in some places hard to watch and in others a pleasure to be seen, I watched this film because in interviews with great directors such as Chris Nolan and others, they talk about Malick's style. That you go be less than 1 minute into a film and know that Malick has made it. I now understand this, this film is majestic, beautiful and graceful and yet it's unlike anything I have ever seen.
I did find this a struggle to watch, not that it was a bad film or anything like that, but only because it's such a huge departure from the films that I'm used to seeing.
The imagery and messages in this film are in the hundreds as every scene or every moment in this seems to be sending out multiple thoughts and expressions to the watching audience. The phrase poetry in motion comes to mind here, as this is exactly what the film is, it's poetry it's art. Though I am very unlikely to sit down and watch this film again I would say that people should watch this, I watched this by myself and remember feeling this weird sensation that no other film has left me with before. If you are a huge fan of art and love the idea of walking around exhibitions for hours on end then this film is probably more directed at you.
Those of you who have seen Malick's previous work of Badlands and so forth, don't let this encourage you to watch this film. This is nothing like Badlands at all, this is something else entirely. This is something incredibly hard to describe and leaves you with a feeling that no other film had left me with before.
Brad Pitt, is as always incredibly talented in this film has he is normally. He plays the strict father teaching his sons the ways of life. He plays the role well of a man of that time, though his scenes seem to be in one part of the film altogether before the art takes over.
Indeed this kind of film should be used in school as pieces to examine and dissect for hours on end, as this is what the film is full of imagery and art and interpretation to the highest order.
Now the Overall rating that I usually give these films is a part for this film that I have struggled to rate. I did not dislike this film, yet I found it a struggle to watch to the end, hopefully I am not alone with this feeling. So after thinking long and hard about this I have decided to open this to whom ever decides to read it. Those of you who are hopefully reading my words and thoughts who have seen this film please comment and in the comment rate the film as for once in my life I have seen a film that im unsure of what rating to give it.
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When Alice Waters talks about improving school lunch, she doesn't just mean making the chicken nuggets more nutritious. She wants to see a table set, maybe with flowers. She wants children to have enough time to have conversations as they eat.
Sadly, schools barely have enough money for books, teachers, and basic security. Then again, a tasteful spray of organzas and lilacs pairs nicely with Pizza Fridays.
UC Berkeley structural engineer professor Abolhassan Astaneh has some urgent words for the Bay Area. Specifically, he's calling for the shut down of the Bay Bridge. Now. Soon. Just do it, he says.


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Q: Android - Extra large images placed in res/drawable-xhdpi aren't showing on tablet emulator, why? My app seems to be working on different sized screens well, apart from the tablet sized screens.
The way I have worked, is using a relative layout, which has lots of images. The images then have different sizes put in the folders, which will be picked up depending on which images the phone use ( depending on size )
The folders I use are:
drawable-hdpi
drawable-mdpi
drawable-ldpi
^ These were already added when I created the project in eclipse.
I read, and added drawable-xhdpi with the expectation that the larger screens would use this.
I then put the images in, and my layout looked tiny on the android 3.0 emulator.
So, I then put a mark on one of the images in xhdpi, and found that the tablet emulator isn't actually using this images.
Any ideas why?
Does something need to go in the manifest?

A: xhdpi is "extra high DPI" (e.g. the Galaxy Nexus, small screen, big resolution), most tablets do not fit in this category. You're probably looking for drawable-xlarge.

A: This can sometimes happen with 'compatability mode'
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screen-compat-mode.html
You can declare that you support these extra large screens like this:
 <supports-screens android:xlargeScreens="true" />

or try declaring that you target SDK version 13, this will turn compatibility mode off. however this has other side-effects
 <uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="13" />

It's all documented in the above link

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Richard Gere injured, shooting put off for six weeks
London, Sep 3, Actor Richard Gere has dislocated his shoulder while filming a fight scene for "The Double", causing production to be put on hold for six weeks.
Gere insisted on doing the fight scene with the British actor Tamer Hassan for "The Double".
Hassan says that his illustrious co-star, who turned 61 this week, should, however, be given top marks for his pluck, reports telegraph.co.uk.
"We had been rehearsing for four weeks every night and Richard was great, but he had a problem with his shoulder," said Hassan, who is 19 years Gere's junior.
"I said, 'Look, Richard, just slip in where you can.' But, oh, no, not Richard, he went: 'I want to do it.' He did it and dislocated his shoulder."
Hassan, who made the headlines earlier this year when he became involved in a real-life fight with his fellow hard-man actor Vinnie Jones, says that, even now, Gere is not prepared to call in the services of a stunt man.
"So the production has closed down for six weeks because of Richard's shoulder and I just got told on Monday that he is going to come back and do it himself again. So fair play to him, and he looks as beautiful as he always did."
Most actors at least like to give the impression that they do their own stunts. A notable exception is Sir Roger Moore, who, refreshingly, made no bones about sitting out his action sequences in the James Bond films.
When his stunt double Martin Grace died earlier this year, Sir Roger, 82, said: "He was the bravest man I've ever known."


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A physician is a person who practices medicine. See that article for more information on what physicians do in their practices; this article focuses on physician training and regulation.
In the United States, the term physician is traditional and commonly used. In Britain, Australia, Pakistan and India, the term doctor is more common as physician refers to specialists in internal medicine.
Because of the extensive training requirements, physicians are traditionally considered to be members of a learned profession.
1 Training
1.1 United Kingdom
2 Regulation
See also: medical school and medical residency.
Medicine in the UK is an undergraduate subject. Students can begin training after leaving the school at 18 years of age. Medical school training lasts either five or six years, depending on the institution, and combines academic and practical training. Junior doctors then enter a vocational training phase. In the UK a doctor's training normally follows this path:
Degree level preclinical - Doctors must study medicine in university or medical school for two to three years "preclinical" (meaning little patient contact). However following recommendations by the British Medical Association (BMA) many universities are following a "Problem-based learning" approach, which stresses basing the studies around actual patient cases.
Clinical - This time is spent in a teaching hospital and typically lasts two or three years. After this is completed the student doctor is awarded a Bachelor of Medicine (BM or MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BCh or BS). An honorary prefix of "Dr" is now entitled to be used, although it is not recognised in the academic sense of the word (see Doctorate). Doctors who graduated overseas have to pass the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board test (PLAB) to be eligible for further postgraduate training and jobs in UK.
The Foundation Programme - Due to recent changes in the training of junior doctors, newly qualified doctors enter a two year Foundation Programme, where they train in a variety of different specialities. These must include training in General Medicine and General Surgery but can also include other fields such as Paediatrics or General Practice.
Following completion of the Foundation Programme a doctor can choose to specialise in one field. All routes involve further assessment and examinations. The majority in the UK work in the community as General Practitioners (GPs), who are the first port of call for patients. They diagnose illness and refer patients for further examination by specialists if necessary. The majority of patients are managed by their GP without the need for further referral.
Hospital doctors are promoted after sitting relevant postgraduate exams within their chosen specialty (e.g. Member of the Royal College of Physicians MRCP, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons [MRCS]) and a competitive interview selection process from SHO to Specialist Registrar and eventually Consultant on completion of the CCST (Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training), which is the highest level in a specialty team (with the exception of university-linked professors). The competition is great for those who wish to attain consultant level and many now complete higher degrees in research such as a Doctorate of Medicine (MD) which is a thesis-based award based on at least two years full-time research or PhD which involves at least three years of full-time research. The time taken to get from graduation from medical school to becoming a Consultant varies from speciality to speciality but can be anything from 7 to 10 years, or longer in some specialities.
In the United States and countries following the U.S. method, the path to a medical degree is somewhat different.
Admissions: Admission into medical school requires either three years of undergraduate study or a four-year post-secondary bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, depending on medical institution. Most require that the applicant have attained a bachelor's degree prior to matriculation. Admissions criteria include overall performance in the undergraduate years and performance in a group of courses specifically required by U.S. medical schools, the score on the Medical College Admissions Test (a national standardized test), application essays, letters of recommendation (number varies, but at least 1 from science faculty and 1 from non-science faculty), and interview(s). The list of courses required are as follows:
biology (1 year)
general chemistry (1 year)
organic chemistry (1 year)
physics (1 year)
calculus or sometimes statistics (1 year)
English composition (1 year)
sometimes behavior science and/or biochemistry (1 semester)
Note:These subjects are studied part time, so several can be completed in one year.
Medical School: Once admitted to medical school, it takes four years to earn a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree. The course of study is divided into two roughly equal parts. Preclinical study generally comprises the first two years and consists of classroom and laboratory instruction in core subjects such as anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, microbiology, pathology, and neurosciences. Once the student successfully completes preclinical training, he or she moves on to the clinical portion. This usually occupies the final two years of medical school and takes place almost exclusively on the wards of a teaching hospital or, occasionally, with community physicians. The students observe and take part in the care of actual patients under the supervision of residents and attending physicians. Rotations on clinical services such as internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, and psychiatry are the foundation of this curriculum, but many specialty electives may be chosen as well. Upon completion of medical school, the student earns the title of doctor, but cannot practice independently until completing further training. Also, several universities across the U.S. admit high school students to both their undergraduate colleges and the medical schools simultaneously; students attend a single seven-year or eight-year integrated program consisting of three or four years of an undergraduate curriculum and four years of medical school curriculum, culminating in both a bachelor's and M.D. degree.
Internship: During the last year of medical school, students apply for postgraduate residencies in their chosen field of specialization. These are more or less competitive depending upon the desirability of the specialty, prestige of the program, and the number of applicants relative to the number of available positions. All but a few positions are granted via a national computer match which pairs an applicant's preference with the programs' preference for applicants. The first year of any residency is known as "internship". Completion of this year is the minimum training requirement for obtaining a license to practice medicine in the U.S.
Residency: Each of the specialties in medicine has established its own curriculum, which defines the length and content of residency training necessary to practice in that specialty. Programs range from three years after medical school for internal medicine to five years for surgery to eight or nine for neurosurgery. This does not include research years that may last from 1 year up to a completion of a Ph.D. Each specialty incorporates an internship year to satisfy the requirements of licensure. All specialties hold a board exam (either written or written and oral) at the completion of training in order to confer "Board Certification" in that specialty.
Fellowship: Certain highly specialized fields require formal training beyond residency. Examples of these are cardiology, endocrinology, oncology after internal medicine; cardiothoracic surgery, pediatric surgery, surgical oncology after general surgery to name just a few. There are many others for each field of study. The training programs for these fields are known as fellowships and their participants are "Fellows" to denote that they already have completed a residency and are "Board Eligible" or "Board Certified" in their basic specialty. Fellowships range in length from one to three years and are granted by application to the individual program or sub-specialty organizing board.
Attendings and Consultants: The physician or surgeon who has completed his or her residency and possibly fellowship training and is in the practice of their specialty is known as an Attending or Consultant. These are the physicians who may independently care for patients and are the final arbiters of care. They are responsible for all care decisions and may bill for their services.
However, medicine is an extremely diverse profession with many options available. Some doctors work in pharmaceutical research, occupational medicine (within a company), public health medicine (working for the general health of a population in an area), or join the armed forces.
In France, a doctor's training is performed in public university hospital, called Centre hospitalier universitaire or CHU; it consists in:
the first year is common with the dentists and the midwives; the rank at the final examination determines in which branch the student can go on; it is called "PCEM1" (premier cycle des études médicales, first cycle of medical studies) or "P1";
the second year is called "PCEM2" and is dedicated to the fundamental sciences (or propédeutique, propaedeutics): anatomy, human physiology, biochemistry, bacteriology, statistics...
Second cycle
The first year is called "DCEM1" (deuxième cycle des études médicales, second cycle of medical studies), and is also dédicated to the study of propaedeutics
The second, third and fourth years (DCEM2-4) are called externat, and are dedicated to the study of clinical medicine; they end with a classifying examination, the rank determines in which speciality (the general medicine is one of them) the student can make an internat: the first graduate can choose speciality, and at the rank n, the graduate must choose amongst the places left; the graduate also gets a Certificat de synthèse clinique et thérapeutique (certificate of clinical and therapeutical synthesis).
The internat is two years and a half (general medicine) or four years (specialist) of initial professional experience under the responsibility of a senior; the interne can prescribe, replacements of liberal phsicians can be made, and usually the student works in an hospital.
This ends with a doctorate, a research work which most of times consist in a statistical study of cases to propose a care strategy of a specific affection (in an epidemiological, diagnostical, or therapeutical point of view). A specialist also gets a DES (diplôme d'études spécialisées, diploma for specialised studies). The initial training thus consist in eight years and a half for a general practitioner, and ten years for a specialist (including a surgeon).
In most jurisdictions, physicians need government permission to practise. This is known as licensing in the United States, as colegiation in Spain, as ishi menkyo in Japan, as approbation in Germany, and as registration in Australia and the United Kingdom. In France, civilian physicians must be a member of the Order of physicians to practice medicine. In some countries, including the United Kingdom, the profession regulates itself, with the government affirming the regulating body's authority (in the UK the General Medical Council [GMC]).
Regulating authorities will revoke permission to practice in cases of malpractice or serious misconduct.
Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools, who enter USA have to pass USMLE step 1 and 2 ECFMG old nameand (http://ecfmg.org/) do a residency program to qualify for a state license. After graduating from medical school, American physicians usually take a standardized exam which enables them to obtain a certificate to practice from the appropriate state agency. All American states have an agency which is usually called the "Medical Board," although there are alternate names such as "Board of Medicine," "Board of Medical Examiners," "Board of Medical Licensure," "Board of Healing Arts," etc. Australian states usually have a "Medical Board," while Canadian provinces usually have a "College of Physicians and Surgeons."
In the United States, as a result of the war on drugs, pharmaceuticals are strictly regulated at the federal level by the Food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration. All practicing American physicians who intend to prescribe controlled substances must obtain a number from the DEA, and that DEA number must appear on all their prescriptions. Use of the DEA number enables dispensing pharmacists or the DEA to ensure that a physician is not dispensing potentially addictive or harmful drugs, such as opiates or stimulants, in contravention to accepted standards of care.
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Tree lit at St. Louis' Ritz Park in support of small businesses
by: Mallory Thomas
ST. LOUIS – It's a busy weekend full of people out shopping for Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. Around 100 people came out at Ritz Park for the annual tree lighting event to support Small Business Saturday.
The annual event was filled with caroling, dancing, and donated hot chocolate and s'mores from local business.
"We've been welcomed by the community in a huge way over the past several years and we want to continue to give back in the same way," said David Bailey. The event also helps drive business into local shops along Grand.
"It's important to support all businesses not just retail today but our restaurants, and our services. We have Orpheum cleaners. They've been here and are one of the oldest businesses in our district. So it's all small businesses to support. Services, retail, and restaurants," said Rachel Witt with the South Grand Community Improvement District.
American Express founded Small Business Saturday back in 2010 to celebrate locally owned businesses and their impact on the community around them.
"We have a lot of not just small, but almost micro-businesses on this street. But this restaurant here is one of eight restaurants that we own, and we have about 180 employees across the city," said Bailey.
David Bailey with Baileys' Restaurants said every dollar spent at a locally owned business drives the revenue in our community.
"We really appreciate it when people shop local and when people eat local. That's our tagline at Rooster cause we buy our eggs and our meats and things like that all locally as well. So it's kind of a network of small businesses that you're supporting when you come to a restaurant like ours," said Bailey.
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I would definitely like to see this, and I can see it being a very useful feature.
I can see the value added in this, in an old-style Upcoming.org way [before Yahoo! gulped them down and spat out Andy Baio]: having these advertisers help us get a knowledgebase on what artists are playing where and when. That will help those of us who routinely add bootleg recordings to the database: we would have a demonstrable fact to tie it to.
Bonus points if the ads come with machine tags like Upcoming's current ones do for easy hooks into MB.
For example, I would kill for MB to have a handle on things like Waterdeep's Touring Graveyard. For a site that purports to be a music encyclopedia, that seems like a win-win.
After all, you take Amazon kickbacks … how would this be any different?
Sounds like a relevant, non-spammy and (hopefully) non-invasive way to add value to the site. Both in financial terms and benefit to end users.
Any particular reason for the choice of rotating providers, rather than simply combining results? I expect some providers will serve different locales better and/or have wider datasets and there might be greater benefit in combining results on an equal playing field.
I see no point in this. I don't use MusicBrainz for concert listings, I use last.fm for that. MusicBrainz is for helping me get my tunes tagged correctly, and that's basically it. If you make money on concert listings, then great, but it's not the reason I use (and contribute) to the site. But maybe people use this for different reasons. If I want to learn about bands, I go to allmusic.com. If I want to share what I listen to, or hear about upcoming concerts in my area, I go to last.fm. To get my music collection in a pristine state of tagged bliss, I go to musicbrainz.org.
But, as I said, if it brings in some extra coin, and doesn't have any impact on the core functionality, I have no complaints about it.
"In your area" implies the collection of geographical data for users. A slew of questions to consider: Will this collection be optional? Will concert data still be shown in cases where geo data isn't specified by the user? Would logged-in users be able to opt out of concert listings (and what would be the default)? How about not-logged-in users?
Of course you get to be some sort of arbitrator between listings providers and MB users; *most* data providers would (I assume) want their data to be shown most of the time, thus the more you appease MB users (by giving the *option* of seeing such data), the less you please the providers.
Final thought: I wonder how the data collection would be done. In-request fetch by mb_server from provider? Data feed from provider to mb, so mb_server does local data lookup? Or maybe something js-based within the browser (here be cross-domain JS dragons).
I wouldn't use it myself, but very happy for you to go ahead if it helps with the revenue side.
MusicBrainz is always the Music Metadata Service in the background. So it will help, when all related data is merged together and could be recieved between different information services. That means Last.fm's concert information should be backended to MB, Allmusic's reviews and band description should be backended to MB etc.
So that I can access als these information comfortly from one client, e.g. Songbird (they did this aggregation in a certain kind already on the client side). I don't really understand how think about making money to provide an embedded concert service in MB? You are a community-driven service!
I don't see a good motivator to add this to MB, especially not if there is no financial reason to do so. The majority of users of MB are either trying to tag their music or heavy editors interested in productivity and accuracy. This just sounds like it will mess up the already complex interface and potentially put pressure on the MB team to meet the needs of a paying advertiser rather than be focussed on the needs of the community who drive MB's data quality, and the needs of paying live data feed users.
Essentially, take a cue from early Google ads approach – low-impact, not high-impact; if this is implemented, it should be done as a service for users, not as a way to derive revenue from them (reasonable to charge listings providers something to cover the overhead of adding and maintaining this feature, though).
I think Alex has it pretty much right on, although I'd probably say only concerts for the exact artist on an artist page – I wouldn't go down the road of "related" concerts (unless there was an opt-in).
There is always the danger of extra feature requests and development time coming in (can I make a list of my favorite artists, and see concerts from them whenever I log in?), but I'm sure MB can manage this in a smart way (mostly by saying no).
we have concerts on Last.fm already.
I'm not in favour of this feature either. As others noted, this site is mainly for providing metadata for music. This information is something I'd go to Last.fm for. Also, the list of links on Artist pages is getting cluttered already, and this won't improve things.
I think of Musicbrainz as a Repository/Database so if this data was the first stage of the data being pulled into Musicbrainz itself that would be useful but if it is purely something being advertised then it does not seem useful.
I find it very unlikely that the service as explained could actually be done well, it would have to have to cover most artists to be useful, and then how does it decide how far I would be willing to travel, and then do I just get the same concerts listed on every page or do they relate to what I'm looking at. For it to have any chance of being useful would require some development effort, I would prefer dev effort to be on something else.
So then the argument is that it brings in revenue – how much revenue are we taking about I suspect not alot. If the main reason is revenue there are other probably other alternatives you could follow such as links to other music purchase sites like is done for amazon.
The fact that three concert listing providers have contacted MB is just recognition that Musicbrainz would be a valuable resource for them not the other way round, don't feel pressurised because of the attention !
I don't mind having a concert listing on artist page, as long as it doesn't impact the site usability and take much space.
Like some other users, I don't really see the benefit in this. Having the concert information as part of artist pages or something like that seems too static a way to handle it; sites like last.fm (I'm assuming there are others) already bring information about nearby concerts to your own calendar, so will the users need this kind of service? If it requires developing additional functionality, it would also mean additional work hours for those developers.
Of course, having the concert information support the metadata aspect of MusicBrainz would be nice; collaboration with someone like setlist.fm might benefit both parties by providing them with "correct" artist/track names and additional data, as well as providing MB with information that could be used at least with live bootlegs.
In my opinion this can be a useful addition if implemented properly. For an open project like MB any kind of promotion will be bad, but on the bright side if the concert data can be assembled, it will be of great help.
I'm more interested in past concerts than current ones (Grateful Dead effect). So if information like date+time/venue/setlist for concerts are getting listed on MB overtime, it's a good thing. On the other hand if it's only ad from concert promoters by doing geoip filtering, it's not worth the effort.
Alex Dupuy's comment above has says pretty much everything.
This need to be implemented on the Artists pages.
It would be good if all live, radio, TV performances were standardised. Especially useful for people who record live gigs and want to have them tagged with consistency.
How about some further integration with Discogs marketplace, as previously mentioned.
Or even better, with the Discogs site fullstop, by getting them to reverse link back from release/artist pages to MB's same pages.
I think it would be nice to have concert archive (could link to releases).
Upcoming concerts wouldn't be very useful for MB (already lastfm and news isn't really related to database / historic approach of MB).
BUT those providers you speak about would be interested in showing upcoming concert and keeping archive of concert would need great amount of dev on MB side (a new entity to manage).
So I don't think this would be seuch a great improvement this way.
But I wouldn't be against it.
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