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EVIL UNITED
"Honored by Fire"
By Dark Starr
Based in Texas, these guys create some seriously extreme metal. This really rocks. I have to say that I'm not the biggest fan of that type of music, but this is pretty infectious. There are also only a couple moments where it suffers a bit from an overused formula. Beyond that, they change things up enough to keep interesting. Of course, several of the members of the band have some serious pedigrees, so that has to contribute to it. The band is made up of: singer Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Broken Teeth, Dangerous Toys), bassist Don Van Stavern (Riot, S.A.Slayer), drummer Shakes West (Murderdolls, Wednesday 13, Neurotica, Sebastian Bach), and guitarists T.C. Connally (PB/DC, Cult to Follow) and John Valenzuela (PB/DC, Urial, Mortician). That's a line up with decades of experience behind it....I know Don Van Stavern and Jason McMaster have been in Texas metal since the dawn of the 80's!
As far as highlights go, I actually prefer second track "Caesar" to the opener "Dead Can See"...both are fast and thrashy, but the vocals and riffs are more convincing in "Caesar". Much of the album follows the path of these first two songs, but there are some important detours. "Ghost Crushed" has more of a progressive feel to it, with a cool bass solo and some interesting tempo changes, while "Tomb Spawn" has a sound like Black Sabbath on steroids. Throughout the album, we get some small instrumentals like "Grave" and "The Cottage" that break things up a bit. The extreme metal gets very monolithic for me by the end of the disc, but if you're a fan of that approach, you could sure do a lot worse than Evil United.
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Joseph-Rene Vilatte (1854-1929): Some aspects of his life, work and succession By John Kersey
This work attempts to provide a compact and accessible scholarly re-evaluation of the life and work of Joseph-René Vilatte (Mar Timotheos), a towering figure in the Free Catholic movement. It... More > attempts to provide a general biographical study of Vilatte, and then to discuss some particular aspects of his succession, including the posthumous attacks on him. It offers answers to the reader who is perhaps curious as to why an intelligent and well-intentioned clergyman whose work brought comfort and hope to several hundred folk at the least has been so extensively vilified by those he once worked alongside. Published in association with the Western Orthodox University.< Less
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We are a Christian people by the grace of God, an emergent church from catholic tradition, and a contemporary expression of a mindful faith. We are a Free Catholic Church of individual Christians... More > and Missionary Jurisdictions who support catholic unity in a spirit of cooperation, acceptance, and love. We have come together through an intrinsic and expressive love for Christ, His Church, and the Sacraments. We are persuaded by the Holy Spirit to preach a Gospel message of liberation, inclusivity, justice, peace, and love - offering witness to God's love for all of creation by ordering our common and individual lives to the teachings and life of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. We offer another way to be catholic with a unique calling to: lead with love, celebrate the spirit, engage the mind, and cherish the soul.< Less
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An altar edition in black and white print (with smaller, italicized rubrics) of Archbishop Arnold Harris Mathew's Old Catholic Missal and Ritual.
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This is the Rule of our Order. A Rule is a measuring rod, a standard against which we check our progress, a map showing us the route toward our chosen goal. A Rule is not rules: the governance of... More > some bureaucracy, another person's program for our lives, laws and demands laid upon us from outside ourselves. Knowing the persons we want to be, knowing the life of love with others we want to give birth to, we joyfully accept this Rule as a tool for creating a right spirit within ourselves. In freedom we accept its restrictions, so we may grow in discipline; in love we accept its precepts, that we may bring healing to a lonely and troubled world; in hope we accept its call, "Ever onward, ever upward," to yet unknown regions of love and community.< Less
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Press Pass: Edwin McCain
July 13, 2011 12:18 AM by Leslie Poster
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With his 1998 single "I'll Be," Edwin McCain's soulful southern crooning pumped through radios across the country. The track has since become a radio play mainstay – as well as the emotional crux of countless wedding play lists and mix tapes – but the alt rocker is more than his most widely recognized single. Since releasing his first album, the independently released Nomadic Logic in 1991, McCain has recorded 10 albums and toured the country with his band.
Now two decades into his career, McCain is still recording, and having recently been signed to 429 Records, will release his next album, Mercy Bound on Aug. 30, a collaboration with fellow singer-songwriter Maia Sharp. McCain has been playing shows this summer to promote his upcoming album, giving audiences a taste of his new tracks, as well some of the beloved songs from the singer-songwriter's catalog. The tour will bring McCain to The Birchmere this Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
The News-Press spoke to McCain about recording his latest album, as well as the song that made him a household name.
LP: What inspired you to pursue this album, again collaborating with Maia Sharp?
EM: I just love her to death. My relationship with her has just been ongoing and I think she is underappreciated as a writer and as a performer. I just really love working with her. It makes it easy when you love who you are working with.
LP: What are the pros and cons of working with another musician?
EM: The relationship of two writers can be challenging but for us, it sort of forces the creativity to be better. For she and I both, the argument is always "prove it." This is why I think this is a good lyric to the song? Well, prove it, why is that a good lyric and why isn't there a better lyric. So we challenge each other to develop every idea to its fullest, and the reason why is that if you don't develop each idea to its greatest conclusion, then it's disrespectful to another writer who would have.
LP: You've been called the voice that launched a thousand weddings. How big a part of your musical legacy are those romantic ballads?
EM: I would say that that classification for me is a perfect example of interpretation being different than intention. The song "I'll Be" has been this huge wedding song for a long time, but when I wrote it, it wasn't intended that way. It was more of a Hail Mary prayer. It was something different for me and I think that's again a really beautiful thing that people can interpret music in the way that they need it to be, and it's not up to me to tell people how to interpret a song, but I say it all the time: It's like giving credit to the lightening rod for the lightening.
LP: Did you find your success with the song "I'll Be" opened doors for you, or did you find it limiting?
EM: Obviously it opened plenty of doors. It opened all the doors to the executives at the record companies, that was what we were lacking up until that point. It really did change everything for us as far as the way the label saw us, and it did hamstring us into a little bit of a category. I think everyone thought I was just uniquely a balladeer – but I'll take that any day and twice on Tuesdays. The song has been a gift because it still gets airplay all over the place and as a result we can travel and play and see people in the venues. It's been very … I can't even describe it; it's been an incredible blessing.
LP: What does the future have in store for Edwin McCain?
EM: If I could tell you that, boy, it would be amazing. I don't have any idea what the future holds for me. I never expected to be a father, and now I'm a father of three, and I love that. I've learned a lot, and I hope to keep learning and going and enjoying and just being a part of it. If someday the option to tour isn't there anymore, then I'll do something else, but so far so good.
Author: Leslie Poster


People have been waiting for the release of Tom Clancy's The Division for a very, very long time. The game was announced years ago during E3 2013, showing off only fancy cinematics on its premise and a short snippet of gameplay to give us a taste of what we could expect. Since that E3 conference, we've received almost no information about the game apart from brief snippets of gameplay that Ubisoft allowed us to see at subsequent E3 gatherings.
Today, however, Xbox One owners finally have a chance to dive right into The Division first hand. Those who signed up for closed beta access should check their email for an invite to the beta, as invite waves have already been sent out. It's also important to note that those who have pre-ordered the game are guaranteed a spot in the beta, and should have their code already.
The beta launched at 4am EST this morning to an enthusiastic response from the community, already providing players a rather populated New York City to wander through in search of loot. The beta version of the game has blocked off many portions of the map, cut out most of the story missions, and even limited its options for character creation, so people who end up enjoying the beta can make an informed decision about purchasing the game without having it spoiled for them.
Featuring RPG elements in a third person shooter gameplay style, The Division offers an experience to players that can't really be found anywhere else, save for possibly Destiny. The Division features open world, high stakes PvP in which you can hunt down other players in order to take the loot that they've collected for yourself. For those who may be bored with the current climate of console shooters, or who enjoyed the concept of games like DayZ and H1Z1 but didn't have a PC powerful enough to run them, The Division is, even in its limited form, easily proving to be a contender in the fight for your attention during the coming season's span of game releases.
If you don't feel like spending any money currently, keep in mind that some websites (like Amazon) won't charge you for your pre order until the game actually ships on March 8th, so there's nothing stopping you from pre-ordering the game that way and cancelling it later if the beta doesn't quite catch your fancy.
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A Toms River man is facing a number of offenses after leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident in Middlesex County that resulted in a utility worker landing in the hospital with serious injuries.
Middlesex County Acting Prosecutor Christopher L.C. Kuberiet and Metuchen Police Chief David Irizarry announced that 18-year old Paddy Flynn of Toms River has been arrested and charged in the hit and run which took place in the Borough on Monday morning.
Flynn is being charged with aggravated assault in the second degree, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in serious bodily injury in the third degree and various motor vehicle summonses.
Investigators say that around 9:01 am Monday Flynn was driving a white Ford F 250 pickup truck and struck a utility worker in the crosswalk at the intersection of Middlesex Avenue and Grove Avenue and then fled the scene.
The 51-year old utility worker from Whippany, New Jersey who was struck in the hit and run remains in critical condition this afternoon.
Police began their investigation Monday looking for the driver of a white pick up truck seen near the incident.
That driver contacted authorities and was turned out to be a witness.
They were able to help police identify the hit-and-run driver, Paddy Flynn.
Flynn is scheduled for his initial court appearance via video Tuesday in New Brunswick Superior Court.
The investigation is active and continuing.
Anyone with information is asked to call Sergeant Belluscio of the Metuchen Police Department at (732) 632-8500, or Detective Berman of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office (732) 745-4328.
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Wed Jan 9
Mary Lucier (I Am Sitting in a Room, slide projector, stopwatches)
Luke Stewart (bass, electronics) / Miriam Parker (dance) / Patrick Cain (video)
Bob Bellerue (amplified and acoustic percussion, feedback)
Leila Bordreuil (cello)
David Wesley Sutton (LXV) (electronics)
Charmaine Lee (voice) + id m theft able (voice, objects)
Kieran Morris (electronics)
Screening of Milford Graves Full Mantis, directed by Jake Meginsky
Susie Ibarra (drums), Brian Chase (drums)
Sat Jan 12 *Tickets sold out. Standing room tickets are available.
Stephen Vitiello and Taylor Deupree (electronics)
Dorit Chrysler (theremin) / Lary 7 (visuals)
Nadav Assor (video, tunneling)
The New York Theremin Society workshops and performances. RSVP required.
Each night in the Media Room: Eric LoPresti, Center-Surround
Center-Surround is a two-channel video which uses martial arts to reframe the problem of nuclear weapons on an intimate personal scale. Philosopher Timothy Morton calls nuclear weapons a 'hyperobject' -- a phenomenon so immense and irreversible that it is impossible to fully comprehend. Center-Surround juxtaposes video of sparring aikido practitioners with animation listing the name and date of each of the 2056 nuclear explosions in history, starting with the first atomic test in 1945, up to the most recent tests in North Korea. Using martial artists rhythmically throwing each other to the ground as a metaphor for the nuclear arms race, Center-Surround invites viewers to feel, in a small way, these terrifying weapons, not as abstraction or cinematic fiction, but as complex interactions between real human beings.
Eric LoPresti makes artwork about deserts, nuclear weapons and color. His paintings and digital works juxtapose abstract elements with representations of the vast landscapes of the American west, tracking cultural representations of conflict and beauty within our transforming ecology. Following in the painterly tradition of the apocalyptic sublime, LoPresti explores how our lives are shaped by trauma and aesthetics. LoPresti holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. SuperBloom, a solo show of his work, is currently on view at New Mexico State University.
www.ericlopresti.com
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This event is being broadcast live on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York's Upper Hudson Valley and streamed online at wavefarm.org/listen
Wednesday, Jan 9
Mary Lucier will perform the original slide version of her Polaroid Image Series, begun in 1969 as a collaboration with Alvin Lucier, based on his composition I am sitting in a room. By means of similar copying process, an original black and white Polaroid photograph was reproduced through a Polaroid copier numerous times, each subsequent photograph becoming itself a copy of the one before it. Slight errors in alignment, accumulation of dust, and the simple interaction of light and optics produced an ever-changing landscape in which the original image was completely transformed. The resulting image series is projected as slides, simultaneously with the original 23-minute audio work. In honor of its 50th anniversary, the work will be shown in the same manner as its premiere at the Guggenheim in 1970.
Luke Stewart, Miriam Parker and Patrick Cain will present Live is the Medium, an audiovisual performance that amplifies the moment of improvisation through the interaction of the performers with speakers and projectors. Stewart plays the acoustic bass through an amplifier to engage with sonic feedback, while Cain uses camera and projector feedback in a parallel visual process. Parker creates another visual statement with movement, connecting the body with the higher concept of abstraction. By changing his position in relation to the speaker, Stewart can shape the feedback that the amplifier produces, thus creating a dialog between performer and speaker. Similarly, with Parker and Stewart in the middle of the visual feedback apparatus, Cain's video offers the audience a perspective on improvisation that shifts in real time.
Bob Bellerue's Piano Scramble is an improvised work for piano soundboard, percussion, and electronics. Rooted in the multi-level feedback systems at play in his long-running Damned Piano project, Scramble mixes in an armful of metal bowls, cymbals, cans and other objects as resonators and percussive elements, to create a site-specific sonic array that harnesses the gallery's acoustics with a wide dynamic range.
Mary Lucier began working in video in the 1970s, after first exploring sculpture, performance and photography. Early works, such as Dawn Burn (1975) and Bird's Eye(1978), are empirical records of the optical effects of light on the camera's eye. Aiming a laser directly at the camera or pointing a lens at the sun, she burned the vidicon tube in real time, inscribing it with calligraphic abstractions of light. In addition to installations, she has also produced video dance works with choreographer Elizabeth Streb, exploring relationships of the human figure, sculptural movement, and landscape. Among her many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Grant, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Lucier has had solo exhibitions at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, LACMA, Dallas Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, and MoMA.
Luke Stewart's ensembles include experimental jazz trio Heart of the Ghost, Low Ways Quartet, and experimental rock duo Blacks' Myths. As a solo artist, his interests are in compiling a series of improvisational sound structures for Upright Bass and Amplifier, utilizing the resonant qualities of the instrument to explore real-time harmonic and melodic possibilities. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, and many other venues. Luke also performs in Ancestral Duo, Irreversible Entanglements featuring Moor Mother, James Brandon Lewis Trio, Heroes are Gang Leaders, and other notable collaborations. He has been featured at numerous festivals, including the Vision Festival, Ende Tymes Festival, Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, and High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music.
Miriam Parker uses sound, paint, light, movement, video projection and sculpture/installation to create media- and performance-based works. Parker's practice, in both performance and film, emerges from her understanding of the body in relationship to objects and space. Conceptually, Parker focuses on the permeability of identity and our capacity to adorn ourselves with ideas as a way of identification. Her work has been greatly influenced by her connection to free jazz tradition, and her study of Buddhism, phenomenology, and kinesthetic empathy. Miriam has been developing work as a solo artist, and in collaboration with visual artist Jo Wood-Brown under the working name of InnerCity Projects. She currently works as a performer in collaboration with Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks.
Patrick Cain is a multimedia artist working at the fringes of low-tech interventions and constructions. Visual interests include webcam microscopic inspections of textures and auto focus failures, as well as rudimentary feedback exercises. Sonically, Cain is one half of experimental band Model Home (with Nappy Nappa) which works with ancient and misused electronics including home built synthesizers and modified tape machines, as well as vocal performance.
https://vimeo.com/patrickcain
Bob Bellerue is a noise composer, experimental musician, and creative technician. His electronic sound work is focused on resonant feedback systems, using amplified instruments/ objects/ spaces/ circuits in combination with electronics and Supercollider programming. Bob's work has been presented at The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Cafe Oto, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Roulette, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and many other venues and festivals. His discography includes dozens of releases on various labels, including his own Anarchymoon Recordings and Sleepy Hollow Editions. He curates and produces the Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation (currently in its 8th edition).
http://bobbellerue.net
id m theft able performs within and without the realms of noise, avant-improvisation, sound poetry, performance, etc. using voice, found objects, electronics, and whatever else is available. He has given hundreds of performances across four continents in various settings.
www.idmtheftable.bandcamp.com
Charmaine Lee is a New York based vocalist. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification and microphones to augment and distort the human voice. She has performed with leading improvisers Nate Wooley, id m theft able, and Joe Morris, and maintains ongoing collaborations with contemporaries Conrad Tao, Zach Rowden, Lester St. Louis, Leila Bordreuil, and Ben Bennett. She has performed at venues such as ISSUE Project Room, the Lincoln Center, Roulette, The Kitchen, and the Stone. Charmaine is a member of the Editorial Board of Sound American. As a composer, she has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and has a forthcoming commission with Spektral Quartet (2018). Her music has been released on Anticausal Systems.
www.charmaineleemusic.com
Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist, composer and sound artist from France. She accesses concepts as diverse as jazz, contemporary classical, noise, and experimental traditions but adheres to none of them. Her work has been described as "steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities." Driven by a fierce interest in pure sound and inherent texture, Leila challenges conventional cello practice through extreme extended techniques and amplification methods. Her composed works frequently incorporate sound-spatialization by way of site-specific pieces and multichannel installations.
In 2018, she received composer commissions from the French Embassy at Lincoln Center, Issue Project Room, the French Alliance, The Kitchen and LAMPO (Chicago). Current projects include duos with Bill Nace, Tamio Shiraishi, Julia Santoli, and Zach Rowden, as well as a string trio with Joanna Mattrey and Sean Ali. In recent years, Leila has performed at some fancy places like the Whitney Museum, but mostly in basements and DIY venues throughout the U.S. and Europe.
leilabordreuil.com
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Better known under the project LXV, US producer David Wesley Sutton also presents work under his own name which is equal parts INA-GRM intricacy and unstable basement electronics through which Sutton manipulates antecedently unknown synthesis techniques into sublime spiritual landscapes. In his work Sutton spatially arranges processed voices, digital fragments and fractured synthesized and sampled media into sound environments which have been described as:
''Sleek jagged contraptions, reflect virtual utopianism... Sonics with a tangibly and refreshingly different grain- cold, clear, uncompromising and pretty exquisite'' -- (Adam Harper, WIRE Magazine). "Concisely and evocative, as opposed to materiality... perfectly complementary exploration of the spirit-mind" (Sonia Garcia, Noisey)
Kieran Morris is a New York based musician working with electronics and recorded sound. More often presenting work as Negation, his output is rooted in the noise tradition and driven by specific concepts or urges. Current efforts are marked by attention to improvised phrasing, densities of both sound and silence, and the practice of listening.
www.soundcloud.com/negationnyc
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SCREENING OF MILFORD GRAVES FULL MANTIS
Milford Graves Full Mantis, directed by Jake Meginsky and co-directed by Neil Young, is a portrait of renowned percussionist Milford Graves, exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. Graves has performed internationally since 1964, both as a soloist and in ensembles with such legends as Albert Ayler, Giuseppi Logan and Sonny Sharrock. He is widely considered to be a founding pioneer of avant-garde jazz, and he remains one of the most influential living figures in the evolution of the form. The film draws the viewer through the artist's lush garden and ornate home, into the martial arts dojo in his backyard and the laboratory in his basement - all of this just blocks from where he grew up in the housing projects of South Jamaica, Queens.
https://www.fullmantis.com/
The duo of Susie Ibarra and Brian Chase brings together two drummers expanding the vocabulary and artistic range of their instrument. Influences range from world folk traditions to the contemporary avant-garde; as a result, drums and percussion receive new treatment in expressing rhythm, texture, and mood. For their set together, Susie and Brian will perform a series of intertwined solos and duets. This concert program is very special as it brings together a lineage of teacher and student. Milford Graves was a principal teacher for Susie Ibarra, and Susie Ibarra was a principal teacher for Brian Chase. The relationship of teacher and student at this level is one that is everlasting.
Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra creates music that explores rhythm, indigenous music, sound installation, interactive art, and acoustic /electronic instrumentation. Ibarra is a Yamaha, Paiste and Vic Firth Drum Artist. She is a 2014 TED Senior Fellow, and in 2017 was named one of the Best Percussionists in Downbeats Critics Poll. Ibarra's work in 2017-18 includes Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms, commissioned by Asia Society in partnership with Pioneer Works; Perception, an album recorded with DreamTime Ensemble on Decibel Collective; and a commission for Kronos String Quartet in partnership with Carnegie Hall. Ibarra has performed with luminaries such as Pauline Oliveros, NEA heritage artist Danongan Kalanduyan, John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, Tania Léon, Ikue Mori, Yusef Komunyakaa, Yuka Honda, Sylvie Courvoisier, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, YoshimiO, Tarek Atoui, Trisha Brown, Derek Bailey, Marc Ribot, Jennifer Choi, Craig Taborn, Mali singer songwriter Mamadou Kelley and Hamdcha Sufi Group of Fez, Morocco.
susieibarra.com
Brian Chase is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn. His diverse range of work includes that with Grammy nominated rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the community of the New York experimental music scene, and his solo project, Drums and Drones. Performances have taken him across the world and throughout NYC to such notable venues as the Sydney Opera House, UK's Reading and Leeds Festivals, Toronto's X Avant Festival, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Stone, among many more. Recorded works include several with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, three full lengths with Drums and Drones, and countless more as an ensemble member and supporting musician. Regular collaborators on the improvised music scene include Zeena Parkins, Anthony Coleman, Catherine Sikora, Jeremiah Cymerman, and Chris Cochrane. In June 2018, Brian launched his own record label, Chaikin Records. The label's first release was Drums and Drones: Decade, a triple album and 144 page book culminating the first ten years of the Drums and Drones project.
www.chasebrian.com
Stephen Vitiello and Taylor Deupree create rich, quiet, textural soundscapes with modular synthesizers, electric guitar, field recordings and keyboards. This performance marks the release of Fridman Variations, a vinyl co-produced with the gallery on Deupree's 12k label, the lead track of which was recorded at New Ear 2018 in our previous home at 287 Spring Street.
Dorit Chrysler weaves layers of microtonal Theremin loops with analog tracks and live vocals, creating cinematic soundscapes.
Nadav Assor's Tunneling is an audio-visual-sculptural forensic investigation / tutorial, in which the artist digs a multilayered, projected tunnel in the walls of the performance space, revealing real and imagined substructures, materials and memories.
Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. CD releases have been published by New Albion Records, Sub Rosa, 12k and Room 40. His sound installations and multi-channel works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. Exhibitions include a site-specific work for NYC's High Line, "Soundings: A Contemporary Score," at the Museum of Modern Art; the 2002 Whitney Biennial; and the 2006 Biennial of Sydney. Over the last 25 years, Vitiello has collaborated with such artists and musicians as Pauline Oliveros, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Taylor Deupree, Joan Jonas, Julie Mehretu and Steve Roden. Vitiello has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "Fine Arts," a Creative Capital grant for "Emerging Fields" and an Alpert/Ucross Award for Music.
http://www.stephenvitiello.com/
Taylor Deupree's recordings, rich with abstract atmospherics, have appeared on numerous record labels, and well as in site-specific installations at such institutions as the ICC (Tokyo, Japan) and the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (Yamaguchi, Japan). He has collaborated with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Stephan Mathieu, Stephen Vitiello, Christopher Willits, Kenneth Kirschner, Frank Bretschneider, Richard Chartier, Savvas Ysatis, Tetsu Inoue and others. In 1997 he founded the record label 12k, which has released over 100 recordings by some of the most accomplished musicians and modern sound artists of our time. His music today emphasizes a hybrid of natural sounds and technological mediation. It's marked by a deep attention to stillness, and by his passion for the studio as a recording instrument .
http://www.taylordeupree.com
Dorit Chrysler has performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, is featured on the soundtrack of the HBO documentary Going Clear, and has just completed the soundtrack for a TV Crime Series. Her works have been commissioned by MoMA, the Venice Biennale and The French Cultural Ministry. She is the founder of The New York Theremin Society and "Dame Electric", a festival dedicated to female Pioneers in Analog Music. She co-produced the ten piece Theremin Orchestra Performance at the LA Disney Hall and has collaborated with Carsten Nicolai, Cluster, Jesper Just, Anders Trentemoeller, Elliot Sharp and Phillippe Quesne. Chrysler has performed at the Lincoln Center, Palais Tokyo, the Louisiana Museum, Coachella, Roskilde, Cern, Konzerthaus Vienna and MMCA Seoul, among many other international venues.
http://www.doritchrysler.com/
For more than three decades, sound artist, photographer and filmmaker Lary 7's decidedly eclectic work had taken many forms – from music to visual art to performance and beyond. He is fascinated with arcane machinery, mechanical and analogue, and recycling and reconfiguring scavenged and defunct equipment into something inspired and new.
Nadav Assor lives and works in Providence, RI. Assor's work takes on systems of technological mediation that are frequently military-industrial in origin, from eye-tracking cameras to drones to telepresence-robots. Low-fi versions of these are critically repurposed as a means for creating communities, intimate human dialog and visceral audio-visual-tactile experiences. Assor's videos, installations and performances have been featured in Arsenal Berlin, the Oberhausen Film Festival, Video Vortex XI at Kochi-Muziris, India, Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Edith-Russ Haus Oldenburg, Transmediale Festival Berlin, the Soundwave Biennial San Francisco, Residency Unlimited NYC, Julie M Gallery Toronto + Tel Aviv and more. He is Associate Professor at Connecticut College and a 2019-2020 Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
www.nadassor.net
THE NEW YORK THEREMIN SOCIETY
The NYTS teams up with Fridman Gallery for a round of Master Classes and Concerts as part of New Ear Festival. RSVP.
At the evening concert, eight Thereminists will present new works and explorations, continuing the experimental Theremin Lab that started in 2006 at Issue Project Room when the NY Theremin Society was founded. Featuring Performances by: Gabriel and Rachael Guma, Matt Dallow, Charles Hobbs, Cornelius Loy, Dorit Chrysler, and The Thereminoes.
https://www.nythereminsociety.org/theremin-lab-1/


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Blessed John Duns Scotus – A Christmas Theology of Love
By David Torkington
31 December AD 2017
My school report was so bad that my eldest brother was commissioned with the task of teaching me to read. But when he could not even manage to teach me how to read the Beano, he resigned his commission and commended me to St Jude of hopeless cases. But even St Jude failed. It seems that in those days it was not only in school but in heaven too, that dyslexia was unheard of. St Anthony was the only real friend that I had. Most people who now know about dyslexia still do not realise how it affects your short-term memory. That is where St Anthony came in. He might not have known much about dyslexia, but he was able to find the things that I was always losing. It was through him that I found St Francis of Assisi who may not have been dyslexic, but on his own admission, he had little more than an elementary school education.
As so often with people who have little education, they can often see complex truths far more simply than those befuddled with too much knowledge, especially if they have access to the wisdom that is not taught in schools. St. Francis is a case in point; the moment he experienced God's love reaching out to him as he prayed before the Cross in the little Church of San Damiano, he immediately saw what he must do. If God is full of love and only wishes to give this love to others, then Francis decided to spend the rest of his life trying to receive it and handing it on to others. What else could possibly be more worthwhile? That is why he spent so much time in prayer receiving more and more of God's love suffusing his own, enabling him to return what he had received in kind. This was how he received profound insights about God and about his plan for us that few had seen in quite the same way before or since.
Everyone is a Brother and Sister to Each Other
The Greek philosopher, Plato, said that the world is a prison. Shakespeare said that all the world is a stage, and the men and women merely players and a President of the United States said that all the world was a marketplace, and the men and women merely buyers and sellers. But for St Francis of Assisi, all the world was a friary, and everyone and everything within it were, therefore, brothers and sisters to one another. It is not just Brother Francis and Sister Clare then, but Brother Sun and Sister Moon, Brother Wolf and Sister Lamb, Sister Flower and Brother Tree, Brother Fire and Sister Water, for the whole of creation is a brotherhood and sisterhood with a common Father in whose embrace all were created from the beginning. Pope Saint John Paul II named St. Francis the patron saint "of those who promote ecology" in 1979. After all, if you believe that water is your sister you do not pour petrochemical waste into her. You do not fill her with garbage and effluent either, nor with every conceivable plastic, that man has made in the last fifty years or more. If the trees are our brothers, then you do not fell them in their millions for money, making hundreds of thousands homeless, destroying their food and habitat and endangering the ecology of the whole world.
Francis Love For Everyone and Everything
As the story of Francis unfolds further, it is full of his love for his brothers and sisters, the birds, the animals, the trees and the plants and even inanimate things who listened to him and obeyed him, beginning with the birds of Cannara and Bevagna who listened to him preaching when nobody else would! When he tells the swallows to remain silent at Alviano so that his listeners can hear what he is saying, they obey him. When he asks the falcon to wake him in the night for prayer, it does so, and when he orders the man-eating wolf to stop attacking the villagers of Gubbio, it obeys. But most of all it is full of his love for Brother Jesus who emptied himself of everything to enter into the world that was created through him, and in him, just so that he could enter into us.
Brother Jesus
In the first chapter of St John's Gospel, we are given the world-shaking news that God's Son, whom he calls The Word, in whom and through whom all things were created in the beginning, is now made flesh in the person of Jesus Christ. He is now not only Brother Jesus in whom all things were created, but the supreme King of that Creation, who has come to rule over all by releasing into it the love that he experienced from eternity, flowing between him and his Father. Defying gravity that pulls all things down, this love would raise all things up and into Christ the King. Then, through him, back from where he had originally come, to the place where God had originally conceived us, as the place of our final destiny to experience the love beyond measure and to all eternity. I used the phrase 'where God had originally conceived us' because for Francis and his later followers, the very moment when God conceived his plan to share his inmost life and love with us, was the moment when Mary was conceived. If his Word was to be made flesh to bring this about, then he would need to have a mother. Nor did God conceive that this mother would be anything other than an Immaculate Mother for she was to give birth to and to nurture his Immaculate Son.
Blessed John Duns Scotus
The most important of the later followers of St. Francis, who developed his vision in his own unique theology was Blessed John Duns Scotus who was beatified by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1993. As his name suggests he was a Scotsman whose family originally came from the town of Duns in the Scottish Borders a few decades after St Francis had died. He argued that the very moment God freely decided that the Word would be made flesh, then that very decision included a human mother; how else would he be made flesh? As Scotus put it – If God wills an end he must will the means. This was obviously before creation had taken place in space and time, so his mother would have been conceived perfectly in every way, as the mother of the Word to be made flesh, or if you like, Immaculate. She would be totally free from the sin contracted later by human beings. When sin did eventually stain humankind, God made sure that the human Mother of his human Son remained exactly as he had originally intended, as he had originally conceived her, otherwise his plan would be in jeopardy. It was inconceivable for a woman warped by sin and selfishness to give birth to and bring up a perfect man destined to be the King of all creation. And besides, should God's plan be thwarted or changed because of the sinful behaviours of human beings?
Champion of the Immaculate Conception
It was for these reasons amongst others, that at the beginning of the fourteenth century Scotus was the greatest champion of the Immaculate Conception. He was furthermore in the minority, sometimes of one, as he defended this doctrine against all comers most particularly against the Thomists. For they had all been brought up to believe that original sin affected all mankind including Our Lady. Many bitter battles were fought over this doctrine until it was finally defined De fide by the Church in 1854. Four years later when a French peasant girl, called Bernadette, asked the beautiful lady who appeared to her, who she was, she replied, "Je suis l'Immaculée Conception."
God's Plan- Christ Was Coming Anyway
Although Scotus was a student at Paris only a few decades after Thomas Aquinas, he differed from him in this. From all eternity, eons before and quite independent of man's fall from grace, God's plan was to create all things in the 'Word', and then the 'Word' would be made flesh as his masterwork, to be the King of Creation – Christ the King. He would rule with a love powerful enough to penetrate everyone and draw them up into his mystical body. There, in, with and through him, they would be caught up in the life and love that endlessly surges to and fro between the Father and the Son.
There was only one thing that could sabotage this plan. Just as God had freely chosen to love in order to share his life with others, these others would have to be made free to choose to love him in return. However, as their failure was not part of God's initial plan, it did not stop Christ coming because he was coming anyway. Unlike his contemporaries then, it was quite unthinkable for Scotus to countenance for a moment that God's sublime plan conceived for others to share in his own glory, should be scrapped because of the behavior of creatures made from 'the slime of the earth'. We may well have been taught at school that Christ came because Adam had committed an infinite sin in being disobedient to God, but this is a theory that Scotus rejects. He rejected it because it makes God's plan dependent on human sinfulness. To St Francis and to John Duns Scotus this idea was quite inconceivable.
The Love takes Us Up Into Christ the King
Although Scotus developed a whole new theology to explain the simple vision of St Francis, St Francis had something far more important to do. He wanted to show people the love of God in such a way that it could move their hearts and help them to generate the love that could take them up into Christ their King. That is why he built the first Crib at Greccio a little town in the Rieti Valley. It was to move peoples' hearts and stain their minds and their memories with the incredible truth of just how much God loves us, to come amongst us as a helpless baby in a wooden crib, to fill us with his love and joy that can transform us as it transformed St Francis into the man his contemporaries called, 'the Second Christ'. It is often forgotten that Christ was a man full of joy, and that is why he said to his disciples at the Last Supper that he wanted to share the joy that filled him, with them (John 15:11-12). While St Francis was preaching at the first Crib, the little statue that he lifted out of the manger came alive and he came alive with an infectious joy that filled the whole congregation, sending them away in a state of ecstatic joy. If only every day was Christmas day, it could do for us what it did for St Francis and his listeners on that holy night.
An Infectious Inner Joy
It was his inner joy that drew the first disciples to Jesus and then drew others to them as this infectious inner joy won the hearts and minds of a pagan world and turned it into a Christian world. The message of this Christmas and every Christmas is that given open and welcoming hearts, we too can all be filled with the joy that animated Jesus, his first disciples and Francis and his followers, to do what they all did in their day. What they did was to proclaim loud and clear, not so much by what they said, but by the joy that radiated out of them, that Christ is not dead, but alive and well in all who would receive him. Then, at last, Christ the King can begin again, through us, to transform our modern pagan world as he once transformed the ancient pagan world, into his Kingdom of love, of joy, and of justice and peace; to become a friary where we can be like, and act like, brothers and sisters to each other in the One who is the All in All, who first chose to become a helpless baby in a wooden crib, in the little town of Bethlehem, two thousand years ago.
David Torkington's book 'Wisdom from Franciscan Italy' has never received less than five-star reviews on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. It can be recommended as a must read over the Christmas holiday to see the central mysteries of our faith as never seen in quite the same way before.
Blessed John Duns Scotus, David Torkington, dyslexia, Ecology, St. Francis, The Immaculate Conception
David Torkington
David Torkington is a Spiritual Theologian, Author and Speaker, who specializes in Prayer, Christian Spirituality and Mystical Theology. He was educated at the Franciscan Study Centre, England, and the National Catholic Radio and Television Centre, Hatch End, London where he was later appointed to the post of Dean of Studies. He was extra mural lecturer in Mystical Theology at the Dominican University in Rome (The Angelicum). His personal spirituality is predominantly Franciscan, and his Mystical Theology Carmelite. He has sold over 300,000 books in more than twelve different languages. His personal conviction is that there is only one way forward for the serious searcher who wishes to be transformed into Christ in this life, and that is, in the words of St Teresa of Avila, "There is only one way to perfection and that is to pray. If anyone points in another direction then they are deceiving you." David's website is http://www.davidtorkington.com His three most recent books are 'Wisdom from the Christian Mystics - How to Pray the Christian Way', in which he describes the daily mystical spirituality given by Christ to the early Church. 'Wisdom from the Western Isles – The Making of a Mystic' teaches the reader how to pray, from the very beginning to what St Teresa of Avila calls the Mystical Marriage. and 'Wisdom from Franciscan Italy – The Primacy of Love' shows how the essence of Christian spirituality is restored by St Francis. The Catholic Truth Society have published 'Prayer Made Simple' (March 2018).
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Driift launches in Australia & New Zealand
The pioneering UK-based livestream business hires Paul "Sloanie" Sloan (Supersonic Enterprises/ Billions Australia) to produce and promote shows in both countries
In just three months since launch Driift has already sold more than 100,000 tickets at online events for Nick Cave, Biffy Clyro, Dermot Kennedy, Laura Marling, Lianne La Havas, James Bay & Sleaford Mods
This weekend (November 7th) will see two huge new Driift-produced shows with performances from Kylie Minogue & Niall Horan - adding at least a further 125,000 tickets to that tally.
Driift, the pioneering UK-based livestream business behind groundbreaking ticketed online events for artists including Nick Cave and Laura Marling, has announced its first international expansion with the launch of operations in Australia and New Zealand.
Headed by legendary Perth-based promoter Paul "Sloanie" Sloan (Supersonic Enterprises / Billions Australia), the move will see Driift produce a range of shows for Australian and New Zealand artists in unique and iconic venues across both countries.
The first of these shows will be announced in coming weeks.
Formally opening for business in August 2020, Driift was co-founded by Ric Salmon and Brian Message of ATC Management (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, Faithless, Katie Melua) and has already gained a market-leading reputation for its groundbreaking pay-per-view online events - selling more than 100,000 tickets globally to one-off performances by Nick Cave, Biffy Clyro, Dermot Kennedy, Laura Marling, Lianne La Havas, James Bay and Sleaford Mods.
This weekend (November 7th), Driift will present two more high-profile shows, with Kylie Minogue streaming her immersive INFINITE DISCO and Niall Horan performing live from London's Royal Albert Hall. Global sales for these two shows have already surpassed 125,000 tickets.
Tickets for Kylie can be purchased through DICE here.
Tickets for Niall Horan can be purchased through Ticketmaster here.
Established as a highly collaborative and agnostic business, Driift has to date partnered with a wide range of companies including CAA, DICE, Universe/Ticketmaster, YouTube, Pulse Films and Jackshoot, as well as numerous management companies.
Alongside ATC Management, Beggars Group are founding investors and shareholders in Driift.
Ric Salmon, CEO Driift:
"In what's been a tough year, the growth of paid-for livestreaming has provided our industry with one of its few shoots of optimism. At Driift, we believe this is a format with enormous untapped potential, and one where the pandemic has unlocked previously unforeseen demand for unique, one-off, artist-led events.
"That demand has been strongly evident across Australia and New Zealand, which made expanding our operations Down Under an obvious step. With Nick and Kylie, Driift has already worked with two iconic Australians, and by bringing the experience of Sloanie onto the team we look forward to working with many more over the coming weeks and months. There's some exciting announcements ahead."
Paul Sloan:
"In this weird year I've been horrified by the amount of artists dropping their pants, literally and financially, by offering free, poorly produced livestreams in their underwear. What the industry needs now is another mechanism other than live performance to ensure artists and all their connected industry partners can still connect with fans and survive in a world where physical shows are just so uncertain and unreliable.
"I was so relieved to see Driift enter the market and to solve this problem with a model that honours the music and the art, and that is artist centric, with strong creative direction and high production values. I hate things that ignore the fact we are in a business about feelings, so am very proud to be involved with Driift as an enterprise that leans towards the artists, respects the music and delivers worthwhile and memorable streaming experiences.
"I think this curated approach will become one of the primary tools the artists and industry use to navigate us through these dark times - and beyond. I'm looking forward to seeing some great stuff happen with this great team."


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B.A. Sociology/Literature, Ramapo College of NJ
Licensed N.J. Realtor, 25 years
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Kathy O'Keefe, a Corporate Coach at Mercedes-Benz, has lived in Ringwood for 22 years and has witnessed firsthand a great many changes within the community since she first settled here with her husband, Chris Schwab, and their three daughters. "I believe the Council should work to develop a long-term plan that helps address vacant retail properties and property values that aren't rebounding as quickly as neighboring communities," says O'Keefe, who worked in real estate for 12 years before beginning her current position. "I keep hearing about the Highlands Act and how it prevents development, but what about the existing businesses? Why do we have so many empty storefronts? We need to attract new businesses in order to create more jobs for our young people."
O'Keefe, whose three daughters went through the Ringwood school system, is dedicated to a quality education for our children. "When people buy a home, the local school district is a significant factor in their decision making," says O'Keefe. "It's important that the Council supports the Borough's Board of Education and holds the state of New Jersey accountable when it comes to school funding. The current funding formula under Chris Christie isn't working. Quality schools shouldn't equal higher property taxes."
Working hand in hand with members of the community is a priority of Kathy's, as she seeks to strengthen the Borough's relationships with all members of the community. "If elected," O'Keefe says, "I will keep an open mind, focus on the facts when seeking solutions, and treat all Ringwood citizens with respect."
Kathy would love to hear from you. If you have questions or would like to discuss the issues that matter most to you, feel free to email her at kathy@ringdems.org.


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Tetrahydrocannabinol of THC is de belangrijkste psychoactieve stof in cannabis.

Geschiedenis
THC werd in 1964 voor het eerst geïsoleerd door Raphael Mechoulam en Yechiel Gaoni van het Weizmann Instituut in Rehovot (Israël). In cannabis zijn daarnaast meer dan 113 andere cannabinoïden geïdentificeerd, de rol en het belang van veel van deze verbindingen is nog niet of nauwelijks opgehelderd.

Toxicologische (en medicinale) eigenschappen van Δ9-THC zijn vooral onderzocht bij muizen en ratten, vanwege hun relatief korte levensduur en gemakkelijke behandelbaarheid. De uitkomsten van onderzoeken zijn vaak redelijk op zichzelf staand en spreken elkaar soms zelfs ronduit tegen. Vooralsnog is er nog geen allesomvattende theorie over de werking van THC op onder andere de hersenen, die alle bevindingen weet te verklaren.
De controle op THC als stof wordt over de gehele wereld steeds minder, gezien er steeds meer bekend wordt over de medicinale eigenschappen. Het gebruik van wiet en hasj wordt al jaren gedoogd en kon In Nederland als eerste land als niet-geregistreerd gebruik op doktersrecept worden verkregen (medicinale wiet, of mediwiet). Synthetische THC (dronabinol) wordt verkocht als palliatief medicijn in pilvorm onder de naam Marinol.

Werking
De effecten worden opgewekt doordat THC de werking van de neurotransmitter anandamide nabootst. Zo hecht THC zich aan een receptor, die bekendstaat als de cannabinoïdereceptor. Omdat cannabinoïden van nature niet voorkomen in het menselijk lichaam, begon de zoektocht naar de endogene stof van deze receptor (de stof die zich normaal gesproken bindt aan de receptor), hetgeen heeft geleid tot de ontdekking van anandamide, een endocannabinoïde en onderdeel van het endocannabinoïde-systeem. Deze stof is tevens een klein bestanddeel van cacao en dus chocolade. Onderzoek naar de verspreiding van receptoren in de hersenen verklaart waarom de kans op toxificatie ten gevolge van het gebruik van THC zo laag is (of waarom de LD50 van de stof zo groot is): gedeelten van de hersenen, die vitale functies zoals cellulaire ademhaling controleren, hebben niet zo veel receptoren, dus het effect is hier zeer gering, zelfs bij doses groter dan wat onder normale omstandigheden kan worden ingenomen.

Structuur en reactiviteit
Δ9-THC bindt aan de cannabinoïdreceptor en bootst daarmee de werking na van anandamide. Δ9-THC heeft vooralsnog geen bekende chemische reactiviteit en kan daardoor celprocessen alleen ontregelen op receptorniveau.

Synthese
Er zijn verschillende isomeren van het cannabinoïd THC. Type A en Type B komen van nature voor in de hars van Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica en Cannabis ruderalis, de drie hennepsoorten die bruikbaar zijn voor de productie van marihuana. Type C komt van nature niet voor en kan alleen synthetisch bereid worden. De synthese van THC type C wordt veel uitgevoerd, omdat THC type C een 500 keer sterkere werking heeft dan THC types A en B. Er zijn twee methoden om THC te synthetiseren:

Methode 1
 De basis van THC ligt hier in 1,3,5-trichloorbenzeen. In het oplosmiddel bis(2-methoxyethyl)ether (diglyme) wordt door methanolyse 1-chloor-3,5-dimethoxybenzeen gevormd.
 Het gevormde 1-chloor-3,5-dimethoxybenzeen reageert met Mg2+ tot een Grignard-reagens. Hierna vindt een Grignard-reactie plaats in het oplosmiddel tetrahydrofuraan. Het product dat daarbij ontstaat, wordt daarna gehydrolyseerd door toevoeging van zwavelzuur. Hierbij wordt een aminegroep omgezet in een ketongroep en ontstaat 3,5-dimethoxyfenyl-(n-butyl)-keton.
 Dit product wordt gereduceerd, waarbij de ketongroep via een alcoholgroep naar een waterstofatoom wordt omgezet.
 Het ontstane product, 3,5-trimethoxy-fenyl-(alkyl), wordt gedemethyleerd. Hierbij worden 2 alcoholgroepen gevormd, en ontstaat er 5-(alkyl)-resorcinol.
 5-(alkyl)-resorcinol wordt gecondenseerd en omgezet in de verschillende isomeren van tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

Methode 2
 De basis van THC ligt hier in 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoëzuur. Deze wordt gemethyleerd met dimethylsulfaat. Hiertoe worden eerst de OH-groepen aan de aromatische ring gedeprotoneerd door NaOH, waarna de methylgroepen van het dimethylsulfaat een binding aangaan met de oxide-ionen aan de aromatische ring.
 Het ontstane 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoëzuur zal reageren met fosforpentachloride, waarbij 3,4,5-trimethoxy-benzoylchloride wordt gevormd.
 Vervolgens wordt dit met behulp van ammoniumhydroxide en petroleumether omgezet tot 3,4,5-trimethoxy-benzamide. Het ammoniumatoom is nucleofiel, en valt aan op het elektrofiele koolstofatoom. Het chloride zal door een herschikking van de elektronen loslaten.
 3,4,5-trimethoxy-benzamide ondergaat een Grignard-reactie met magnesium-1-broombutaan. Hierbij ontstaat 3,4,5-dimethoxy-fenyl-(n-butyl)-keton.
 Dit product ondergaat een directe reductie, waarbij het keton via een alcoholgroep gereduceerd wordt tot een waterstofatoom.
 Het nu ontstane 3,5-trimethoxy-(fenyl)-alkyl ondergaat demethylering, waarbij de methylgroep van de methylether aan de aromatische ring wordt omgezet in een alcohol. Ook wordt de methoxygroep verwijderd, waardoor 5-(alkyl)-resorcinol ontstaat.
 Dit ondergaat condensatie om uiteindelijk tot THC te worden omgezet.

Werkingsmechanisme
THC komt het lichaam meestal binnen via de luchtwegen, waardoor het snel geabsorbeerd wordt en de hersenen snel bereikt. THC werkt, samen met de endogene neurotransmitter anandamide, in op de cannabinoïdereceptoren in de hersenen. Deze receptoren bevinden zich in de basale ganglia, de hippocampus, het cerebellum en in lage concentraties in de hersenstam. Uit wetenschappelijke studies is gebleken dat THC een grote affiniteit heeft voor de cannabinoïde receptoren in de basale ganglia en het cerebellum, en een middelmatige affiniteit voor de receptoren in de hippocampus en de hersenstam.
De cannabinoïde receptoren in de hersenen zijn de zogenaamde CB1-receptoren, G-eiwit-gekoppelde receptoren, gevestigd op axonuiteinden in het centraal zenuwstelsel. Wanneer THC aan deze receptoren bindt, worden ze geactiveerd, waardoor de IP3 pathway op gang gebracht wordt. Hierdoor wordt de intracellulaire afgifte van calcium verhoogd. Het calciumpotentiaal wordt hierdoor minder, en dus wordt de influx van calcium door de voltage afhankelijke calciumkanalen in zenuwcellen geremd. Er kan minder prikkelgeleiding plaatsvinden, waardoor de afgifte van een aantal neurotransmitters, waaronder gamma-aminoboterzuur (GABA), in het centraal zenuwstelsel zal afnemen.

Metabolisme
Het cannabinoïde THC is erg lipofiel, en daarmee een goed substraat voor cytochroom-P-450-enzymen, via welke route het metabolisme dan ook geschiedt. THC wordt opgeslagen in vetweefsel van de organen en heeft daardoor een hoge halfwaardetijd. Omdat het zich opslaat in vetweefsel, zullen infrequente gebruikers met een hoog metabolisme hun lichaam eerder vrijmaken van THC dan frequente gebruikers met een laag metabolisme.
Er zijn zo'n 100 metabolieten van THC bekend. De eerste stap in het metabolisme van THC is de hydroxylatie op de C-11-positie door cytochroom P-450 2C9.
Na deze hyroxylatiestap treedt een oxidatie op, waarbij Δ9-THC-11-oic acid ontstaat, het THC-metaboliet dat het meest wordt geëxcerneerd, geconjugeerd met glucuronzuur.
Naast deze, meest voorkomende, manier van metaboliseren, kan er nog een tal van andere metabolische transformaties optreden, waarbij hydroxyzuren, dihydroxyzuren, diols en triols ontstaan. In de fase I-metabolieten worden epoxiden en reducties van de dubbele binding aangetroffen. In fase II-metabolieten tref je conjugaten met glucuronzuur, langeketenvetzuren en glucose aan. De 11-hydroxymetabolieten van Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol zijn even actief, en soms actiever dan het THC zelf.

Excretie
THC en zijn metabolieten worden voor een groot deel uitgescheiden in de urine, voornamelijk als Δ9 -THC-11-oic acid. Tevens geschiedt een groot deel van de THC-excretie via de feces. De halfwaardetijd van THC is gemeten aan de hand van de urine-excretie en bedraagt 24,9 – 35,3 uur. Overigens geschiedt de excretie van THC ook via de moedermelk. Hoewel er geen schadelijke effecten in embryo's zijn aangetoond, wordt het toch afgeraden THC te gebruiken tijdens de zwangerschap.

Therapeutische effecten

In vier onderzoeken is uitgewezen dat Δ9-THC een nuttig medicijn kan zijn bij multiple sclerose. Er is gekeken naar: zenuwpijn, chronische pijn met MS als oorzaak, algemene symptomen van MS en naar de pijn die veroorzaakt wordt door de plexus brachialis. Uit alle vier de onderzoeken blijkt dat er een significante vermindering is van de symptomen. Patiënten die een mix kregen van THC en cannabidol, bleken veel minder last te hebben van pijn en spasme.

Het wordt in sommige landen voorgeschreven onder de naam Dronabinol, de INN- of USP (United States Pharmacopeia)-benaming (en de DAC-aanduiding, Duits Arznei Codex) voor Δ9-THC in een zuiverheid van minimaal 95%. Het wordt gebruikt als symptoombestrijding bij onder andere misselijkheid en braken.

Patiënten die chemotherapie ondergaan kunnen effectief THC gebruiken, zowel oraal als door roken, om minder misselijk te zijn en om minder over te hoeven geven. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat THC lichtelijk beter werkt dan andere middelen tegen overgeven en misselijkheid. Patiënten bleken voor cannabinoïden te kiezen als steun tijdens toekomstige chemotherapieën.
Hiv-patiënten verliezen vaak veel gewicht ten gevolge van anorexie. Een bijwerking van THC is dat het een eetlust opwekt, ook wel bekend als de vreetkick. Door deze vreetkick kan de anorexie tenietgedaan worden. Hetzelfde geldt voor de anorexie/cachexie ten gevolge van kanker. Verder kan het symptomen verlichten bij slaap- en angststoornissen, waaronder posttraumatische stress-stoornissen. Ook blijkt het gebruik van THC de oogdruk te verminderen.

In België en Nederland is het niet als geneesmiddel geregistreerd. Wel wordt in Nederland op experimentele basis THC, in de vorm van cannabis, voorgeschreven aan patiënten met MS. Cannabis die door de apotheek wordt verstrekt, wordt wel 'mediwiet' (medicinale wiet) genoemd.

Toxiciteit in planten
THC wordt door de cannabisplant aangemaakt als bescherming tegen herbivoren. Tevens heeft THC een hoge UV-B absorptie, waarvan gedacht wordt dat dit de plant beschermt tegen UV-straling.

Toxiciteit en effecten in dieren
Anandamide, de neurotransmitter waarvan THC de agonist is, kan in weinig tot geen gevallen ontwenningsverschijnselen en fysieke afhankelijkheid veroorzaken in ratten. Zowel bij kort- als bij langdurige blootstelling aan THC, laten ratten een reversibele afname zien in de functie van het werkgeheugen. Tevens is in ratten aangetoond dat THC voor de terugval zorgt van cocaïnegebruik en het zelfgebruik van methamfetamine. Ook blijken jonge ratten eerder heroïne te gebruiken, wanneer ze onder stress gezet worden na behandeling met THC ten opzichte van jonge ratten onder stress die niet met THC behandeld zijn.

Uit onderzoek blijkt dat toediening van THC in ratten een antioxiderende werking heeft, en het neurodegeneratief proces in de ziekte van Alzheimer remt. In muizen remt THC de groei van bepaalde typen tumoren (Lewis long adenocarcinoma en Friend leukemia virus-induced splenomegaly), waardoor de levensduur van de muizen verlengd wordt. Op een andere vorm van leukemie (L1210 murine) bleek THC echter geen positief effect te hebben.

Andere gunstige effecten van lage concentraties THC blijken een vermindering in aderverkalking in muizen en een lager gemiddeld gewicht in muizen en ratten ten opzichte van controlegroepen.

Bij zowel de muizen als de ratten werd hyperactiviteit geconstateerd, vlak na de orale inname van THC. De frequentie van hyperactieve uitbarsting hangt samen met de dosis.

Toxiciteit en effecten bij mensen
Dagelijks cannabisgebruik kan bij mensen op de lange termijn leiden tot tijdelijke schade aan het brein, wat zou resulteren in onder andere geheugenverlies en een verminderde leercapaciteit. Deze gevolgen zijn echter tijdelijk en verdwijnen een week na het laatste gebruik. Beschreven langetermijneffecten van THC zijn onder andere het uitlokken van psychoses als manie en zelfs schizofrenie. De cannaboïdreceptor wordt niet in elk deel van de hersenen evenveel tot expressie gebracht: De hoogste concentraties bevinden zich in de basale ganglia, het cerebellum en de hippocampus. Deze laatste is een cruciaal onderdeel van het langetermijngeheugen. Een verminderde geheugencapaciteit als gevolg van (langdurige) blootstelling aan Δ9-THC lijkt dan ook een logisch effect te zijn. Een chemisch toxicologisch effect van Δ9-THC is vooralsnog niet aangetoond: THC lijkt op anandamide. De effecten van THC worden dan ook vooral veroorzaakt door de binding van THC aan de cannabinoïdreceptor.

Risico's
Andere studies tonen een variëteit aan negatieve effecten aan bij langdurig gebruik, onder andere geheugenverlies, depressiviteit en verlies aan motivatie. De vermeende langetermijneffecten van THC-gebruik zijn momenteel  de inzet van een nieuwe discussie over cannabis-gebruik in Nederland. Door het in de loop der jaren sterk verhoogde THC-gehalte in nederwiet was er rond 2005 enige discussie om het op de lijst van harddrugs op te nemen. Anno 2011 wordt deze discussie hervat voor nederwiet met een THC-gehalte van meer dan 15 procent.

Cannabisgebruik en schizofrenie
Mensen die lijden aan schizofrenie gebruiken vaak middelen als alcohol, tabak en cannabis als een vorm van zelfmedicatie. Het gebruik van cannabis zou bijvoorbeeld (althans bij een aantal patiënten) een tekort aan dopamine in de frontale hersenen kunnen compenseren.
Onderzoekers zien een antipsychotisch effect bij schizofrene gebruikers van wiet met een laag THC gehalte en een hoog cannabidiol gehalte.

Epidemiologische studies (zie literatuur) laten echter zien dat cannabisgebruik onder jongeren ook beschouwd kan worden als een onafhankelijke risicofactor voor latere ontwikkeling van schizofrenie. Een meta-analyse van een groot aantal studies door Moore e.a. in het gezaghebbende Engelse tijdschrift The Lancet stelt dat het risico op een psychose globaal 40% hoger ligt bij cannabisgebruikers, waarbij het risico toeneemt bij hogere doseringen. Mogelijk versterkt een langdurig en frequent gebruik van cannabis een reeds aanwezige genetische aanleg voor deze ziekte.

Volgens Jellinek is cannabisgebruik verantwoordelijk voor een toename van 6 tot 10% van schizofrenie. In Nederland verdubbelde in de periode 1990-1998 het aantal mannen met schizofrenie. De correlatie van schizofrenie bij eeneiige tweelingen is circa 40%, hetgeen een sterk genetisch bepaalde causaliteit aangeeft.

Standaard
Tot dusver bestaan er nog geen standaardeenheden voor cannabis, die mensen bewust zouden kunnen maken van de concentraties THC in het product. Een invoering daarvan zou de behandelingen en resultaten in verband met de geestelijke gezondheid van gebruikers kunnen helpen verbeteren. Standaardeenheden zoals die al vele jaren gemeengoed zijn voor alcohol zijn nog nooit overgenomen in gezondheidsrichtlijnen voor cannabis.

Onderzoekers suggereren dat er meer moet worden gedaan om gebruikers bewust te maken van de dosis THC als belangrijkste psychoactieve component. THC-concentraties in cannabis zouden afgelopen decennium in Europa zijn verdubbeld. In landen waar cannabis legaal wordt verkocht, zoals Canada, zou het aantal standaardeenheden dat een product bevat gemakkelijk kunnen worden vermeld op de bestaande labels op productverpakkingen. Invoering van een dergelijk systeem zou ook positieve gevolgen kunnen hebben in landen waar cannabis illegaal is.

Een internationaal overeen te komen systeem zou een praktische richtlijn kunnen opleveren voor consumenten en artsen. Indien de gezondheidseffecten van cannabis dosisafhankelijk zijn, kunnen risico's worden omgebogen. De invoering van een eenheidssysteem zou zowel gebruikers als zorgverleners helpen, door daarmee duidelijkere informatie te verstrekken over de soorten cannabisproducten die ze consumeren en hun sterkte, en zo een kader te ontwikkelen teneinde mensen te helpen cannabis veiliger te gebruiken. Het huidige gebrek aan informatie verhoogt het risico op schade voor de consument. Een verbetering hierin zou mogelijke gezondheidsrisico's zoals verslaving of psychose kunnen minimaliseren.

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ManageFlitter was a web-based application that assists Twitter users gain insight into their Twitter account. ManageFlitter provides a set of tools that allows Twitter users to effectively curate, prune and grow their Twitter account. In addition, ManageFlitter provides an easy way for users to integrate their Google+ account with their Twitter account.

History
ManageFlitter was developed by Sydney-based digital agency Melon Media as an internal side project for Melon Media's Founder Kevin Garber when he wanted a tool to help him identify who wasn't following him back on his Twitter account. ManageFlitter was subsequently spun out of Melon Media and ManageFlitter is now a separate company.  A free version of ManageFlitter was launched in February 2010 and a commercial "Pro" version of ManageFlitter was launched in February 2011. October 2011 saw the release of a "Business" version of ManageFlitter that included multi-account management and other enhanced features.

Originally the service was called "ManageTwitter". The name was subsequently changed to "ManageFlitter" to avoid infringing on the Twitter trademark.

During April 2010, there was some controversy when Twitter alleged ManageFlitter was violating Twitter's API Terms of Service. ManageFlitter and Twitter managed to reach a compromise and ManageFlitter has been able to operate continuously since then.

ManageFlitter allows Twitter users to identify who don't follow them or lack other desirable traits and subsequently unfollow them.  ManageFlitter users can analyse their Twitter account data in a variety of ways with ManageFlitter. ManageFlitter also assists Twitter users in scheduling Tweets for specified times and assists a team in managing a Twitter account's @ replies in an effective manner. As of September 2014 over 2.5 million Twitter users had used ManageFlitter.

Business
ManageFlitter's headquarters are in Sydney Australia. ManageFlitter's chief executive officer and Co-founder is Kevin Garber and its chief technology officer and Co-founder is James Peter. ManageFlitter's business model is a freemium model which allows users to use the service for free but provides them with the option of upgrading to gain access to premium features.

As of September 2014, ManageFlitter has received no external funding.

Reception
ManageFlitter was awarded 39th place in the Australian Anthill SMART100 2011 awards  and was awarded 17th place in the Readers' Choice category of these awards.

In March 2012, ManageFlitter was announced as a finalist  in the Shorty Awards in the "apps" category.

In September 2014, ManageFlitter was named a finalist  in the Premier's NSW Export Awards  in the Information & Communication Technology category.

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Messages from those lost on Sept. 11
Petition opposing office park redevelopment gets a second chance
Only in print: Local woman's book records afterlife contact with victims of Sept. 11
Kate King, Staff Writer
1of3Bonnie McEneaney stands by a painting by LeRoy Neiman of her husband playing lacrosse in the den of her home in New Canaan, Conn. on Monday August 23, 2010. McEneaney has written a book, titled Messages, about premonitions or signs that she says 9/11 victims have sent their still-living family from beyond, her husband, Eamon, was killed in the WTC.Dru NadlerShow MoreShow Less
2of3Bonnie McEneaney at home in New Canaan, Conn. on Monday August 23, 2010. McEneaney has written a book, titled Messages, about premonitions or signs that she says 9/11 victims have sent their still-living family from beyond, her husband, Eamon, was killed in the WTC.Dru NadlerShow MoreShow Less
NEW CANAAN -- In the days after Sept. 11, Bonnie McEneaney's house was filled with people and the sound of the television as they watched and waited for any news about her missing husband, Eamon McEneaney, who worked on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower. Overwhelmed, she stepped outside the door of her home in New Canaan and called out his name.
"Eamon, where are you?" Bonnie McEneaney yelled into the air. It was a day or two after the attacks, and there had been no word from her husband, a senior vice president at the bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald.
Then, even though he had perished in the terrorist strikes that killed close to 3,000 people, McEneaney said her husband spoke to her. She described the experience in her newly released book "Messages: Signs, Visits and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11."
"Everything around me was still -- not a ripple in the air," McEneaney wrote. "Then, all of a sudden, somewhere above me, I heard the beginning of a rush of a gust of new wind building up in intensity ... I could see the wind! It created such a strong pattern through the leaves and the trees that it was easy to follow ... Then, just as suddenly as it started, it stopped ... I knew my question had been answered. `He's gone,' I thought. `It's over.' "
McEneaney said she believes the gust of wind was a sign that her husband had been killed in the attacks, a benevolent gesture from beyond that released her from her painful, desperate hope that he had somehow survived.
"Was it God, was it my husband, was it something else?" McEneaney said. "I don't know, I just know it was more than just the wind blowing."
That afternoon was the first of several moments, which she described as "spiritual experiences" that connected her to her husband after his death. In the aftermath of Sept. 11 McEneaney discovered, through talking with other family members of people who had died that day, that she was not alone.
Another wife of a Cantor Fitzgerald employee reported that the lights in her house blinked erratically after her husband's death, and that the fixture in the kitchen even twinkled three times in response to her daughter's demand: "Daddy, if it's you, blink three times." The 4-year-old daughter of another Sept. 11 widow could identify by first and last name all of her father's coworkers, even some she had never met, because they often visited her, like invisible friends, and told her knock-knock jokes. After hearing several of these stories, McEneaney decided to write "Messages."
"The spiritual side of life is something that I think everybody needs at one point or another," she said from her home in New Canaan last month. "When you face your darkest hours, what else do you have?"
McEneaney is not the first person to have delved into the unexplainable world of supernatural communication. But her perspective as a 9/11 widow offers a new perspective and emotional aspect to the idea that we can connect with our loved ones after they have died. Once a skeptic of this concept, McEneaney's experiences after losing her husband and similar accounts she heard from other family members inspired her to quit her job at a large financial company and work full time on "Messages."
"It was a huge risk, but I think sometimes in life you are faced with decisions that are almost made for you," McEneaney said. "I really felt compelled that I just had to do it. I have four children so obviously it took some time to make the decision but it's a decision that I don't regret."
The main purpose of writing "Messages" was to offer people a new way of dealing with their grief, McEneaney said. For many people she interviewed, the spiritual connections they established with their mothers, fathers or children who had been killed in the attacks helped them immensely during the healing process, she said.
"I realized the extent to which these experiences helped people with their emotional healing and growth and it was really quite amazing," McEneaney said. "If this book and other stories that I'm collecting help people, give people strength when they're navigating their challenges in life, then what's more meaningful than that?"
McEneaney said the book took five years to complete and that she spent hundreds of hours interviewing family members of people who had been killed on Sept. 11. Some people said they heard or saw their loved ones after their death, or had been visited by them in a dream. Many people reported having received messages or signs from the person they lost through intermediaries, such as psychics, birds or butterflies.
One of the people McEneaney interviewed was Vicki Davis, an Episcopal priest who worked at St. Mark's Church in New Canaan for six years. Davis, who now works at an Episcopal day school in Manhattan, said she connected through a dream with a friend who, she would later discover, had been among the victims from the World Trade Center.
"Sometime in the aftermath of 9/11, I had a very vivid dream of being in this place where there was an elevator and all this chaos and people going in the elevator and stepping off into this nothingness," Davis said by phone from her home in Fairfield. "There was a lot of dust and it was very chaotic and upsetting."
Then, through the dust, a friend from college who she hadn't seen in a long time came up to her.
"He just gave me a hug and said goodbye and then he went off into this chaos," Davis said. "When I woke up I was kind of puzzled by it. I really hadn't thought about him in quite awhile."
Weeks later, Davis read a biography written about her friend in the New York Times. It was only then that she learned he had died on Sept. 11.
"As soon as I read it I realized that that's what that dream was," she said. "He left and said goodbye to me."
Supernatural experiences like this are completely compatible with religious faith and observation, Davis said.
"For me it is all about God and God's presence with us all the time and ways in which we can be in tune with that presence and mindful of it," she said. "To me these kinds of experiences leave me feeling awestruck and sort of humbled and just aware of the largeness of God."
While Davis said she didn't know that her friend had been killed when she dreamed about him, many of the people written about in "Messages" were in the throes of mourning when they experienced something supernatural. Psychotherapist Daniel Schechter, who worked extensively with families of Sept. 11 victims following the attacks, said that it is difficult but critical to maintain a firm grasp on reality when grieving. Schechter, along with several colleagues from the Columbia University Parent-Infant Program, volunteered at the Family Disaster Relief Center on the Piers following Sept. 11. He is co-author of the book "September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds."
"I think that to fantasize that one is in contact with that lost loved one in one's mind and heart can be strengthening and enlivening," Schechter wrote in an e-mail from Switzerland, where he is now living and working. "If it becomes all-encompassing, obsessive and not recognized as a fantasy that is based on past experiences with the lost individual, then it can interfere with a person's day-to-day functioning."
Deidre Lewin, senior director of Family Centers programs in Fairfield County, was less worried about the effects of paranormal communication during the grieving process. Lewin, who was living in Manhattan in 2001, worked with many families of Sept. 11 victims following the attacks.
"I don't know if it's possible for people to send messages," she said. "What I do know is that people who have had someone very close to them die do have those experiences. They usually find them very comforting. There is nothing right or wrong with the experience."
Many people interviewed in "Messages" reported being able to connect with the people they had lost with the help of psychics. Two of the psychics written about in the book were Suzanne Krupp and Mary Browne, who each gave dozens of readings for families of people killed in Sept. 11. Both women agreed that any communication between the living and dead must be limited in scope and not interfere with the ability to live in the present.
"The first reading is really important and after that they've basically told you what they want," Krupp said. "After that you have to have faith."
Browne, who lives close to ground zero in Manhattan and estimates she gave readings to between 30 and 40 families of Sept. 11 victims following the attacks, said the spiritual element surrounding the terrorist attacks was different than anything she had ever experienced in her 30 years as a practicing psychic.
"I think that for anyone who loses someone that they loved in a shocking way or if there was no warning it leaves terrible loss, anger, grief, sadness and loneliness," Browne said. "And if you add the shock and way that people died in 9/11, it had an even more powerful loss. It sets up a very strong force or vibrations of sadness."
But what about the non-believers? McEneaney said she could understand how some people find it hard to believe that it is possible to receive messages from people we have lost. She herself has doubted, from time to time over the past nine years, that these spiritual experiences are really possible. However, "Messages" was not written to convince or persuade anyone, she said.
"Number one, this book was not written to convert skeptics," McEneaney said. "That's really very important. This book is just a series of stories from people who want to share them and hope they will be helpful to some of us."
A lot has changed since McEneaney stood outside where she said she felt her husband's presence through the wind. Her two older children are in college, the two youngest twins are sophomores in high school. She has given up her job in finance to write "Messages" and serve as a board member for the charity group Voices of Sept. 11. Her house is now on the market. She will stay in New Canaan, but wants to move closer to the center of town. Through it all, she believes her husband has been present, helping her along.
"I'm completely convinced there's more than this," McEneaney said. "Even for people who say this is all nonsense, how sad it would be if this is all that we have. I just can't even imagine that."
Contact staff writer Kate King at 203-964-2263.


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Utilitarianism keeps the structure of the essay for two reasons. One because it is the topic mentioned in the question first, so by starting the paragraphs with Util means you are always keeping the question in mind. Secondly I advise you to stick with the same topic at the start of your paragraphs to avoid adding further complications (one paragraph starting with Utilitarianism another starting with Kant etc. just sounds messy). So even if the topic is not specified in the question (such as Q3) I recommend you structure your essays using the themes from one topic.
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A recent blog post on the Daily Nurse highlights the different ways nursing students, medical students and residents are being taught good bedside manner "right alongside teaching CPR and how to use stethoscopes." This training, says the Daily Nurse post, builds clinicians' communications skills and offers real-life experience. Some programs are incorporating unique approaches, like humor and improv. Others are utilizing "virtual visit"-like technology not only to help students gain experience and but also develop their "webside manner," a skill set that's evolving with the emergence of telemedicine.
Citing a 2009 Emory University study that determined "medical professionals who [had] been working in the field for years could be re-inspired to be more humanistic," the Daily Nurse believes continuing education programs do hold promise. We think so, too, of course. As we teach physical exam skills not only to our own faculty, residents and students but also to many educators from around the world (see our annual symposium), we see firsthand how interactions at the bedside help clinicians practice better medicine.