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A Mozart concerto, Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" Suite, even a round of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," may all provide benefits for the person with Alzheimer's disease. A growing body of research suggests that music, like art, pets, and other creative forms of therapy, can stir emotions and memories, enhance enjoyment and self-esteem, and enrich the lives of people with dementia.
"Relaxation with the type of music that calms you down is very beneficial," says Dr. Ardash Kumar, a music therapy researcher at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida. "To promote a sense of calm and well-being, you can listen to your favorite soothing music when you eat, before you sleep, and when you want to relax. Like meditation and yoga, it can help us maintain our hormonal and emotional balance, even during periods of stress or disease."
Dr. Kumar and fellow researchers found that music provided lasting benefits to elderly men with Alzheimer's disease. The men were provided with music therapy for 30 to 40 minutes a day, five days a week, for a month. For weeks after joining in the musical program, the men showed less disruptive behavior, slept better, and became generally more active and cooperative.
One recent award-winning article called "Music, Memory and Alzheimer's Disease: Is Music Recognition Spared in Dementia, and How Can It Be Assessed?" recently published in the journal Medical Hypotheses, likewise points to benefits of music for people with dementia. Canadian psychologists gave tests of music appreciation to people with severe dementia and found that even in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease, when many people are unable to speak or communicate, people retained the ability to recognize musical tunes. One 84-year-old woman with severe Alzheimer's, for example, continued to sing old songs from her youth, and joined in whenever music was played to her. She twisted her face in disapproval when tunes were played wrongly, sometimes exclaiming "Oh, dear!"
The researchers reported that musical abilities seem to be located in areas of the brain generally unaffected by Alzheimer's disease and concluded that people with dementia would likely enjoy more music in their environments. They are interested in hearing from any members of the public who have noticed musical appreciation in friends or family members with Alzheimer's disease. You can e-mail your stories to Professor Jackie Duffin, duffinj@post.queensu.ca or Prof. Lola Cuddy, cuddyl@post.queensu.ca.
Music may be beneficial not just for those with Alzheimer's, but for those who care for them as well. British researchers reported that playing an excerpt of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" seemed to bolster attention in both healthy older adults and those with Alzheimer's disease. Music may even play a role in helping to ward off Alzheimer's. Researchers from the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University in Chicago found that retired orchestra musicians who had spent a lifetime of playing musical instruments were less likely to develop dementia in old age. The findings are consistent with others suggesting that cognitive stimulation, be it doing crossword puzzles, learning a new language, maintaining stimulating social relations, or playing a musical instrument, can help to keep the mind sharp as we age.
Music as Therapy
Nobody suggests that music can reverse the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, or take the place of a well-structured program of care-giving or medical treatment. Rather, music therapy may complement other forms of treatments. A familiar tune or old musical favorite may stir emotions and memories, prove soothing, and encourage social connections among those stressed by illness. It's no surprise that more and more nursing homes and hospitals include a music therapist on staff.
While people with Alzheimer's may lose the ability to speak or recognize loved ones as the disease takes its inexorable downward decline, many retain the ability to remember songs from long-ago childhoods. Singing a round of "Rock-a-bye Baby" may help to ease agitation, for example, during difficult times of the day, such as when the sun goes down or when moving from one room to another. Humming a few bars of "Home on the Range" may be comforting and reassuring to a person with Alzheimer's disease who may not even recognize the loved one standing in front of them.
Other tips for music and the person with Alzheimer's include:
– Pick songs or music that is familiar and enjoyable for the person with Alzheimer's disease.
Tapes, CDs, radio programs, even live music may be beneficial. But avoid music that may be too loud or interrupted by noisy commercials; too much stimulation can cause confusion and agitation.
-Turn off the TV, and close the door or curtains to avoid over-stimulation.
-Choose music to set the mood you're hoping to create: Quiet music may be suitable before bedtime, while soft but upbeat tunes may be appropriate for a special birthday celebration.
– Encourage those with Alzheimer's to clap or sing along or play a musical instrument.
-Supplement music with fond reminiscences and family photos.
The American Music Therapy Association, can provide a list of qualified professionals in your area. But don't be afraid to sing a song or hum along on your own.
By www.ALZinfo.org, The Alzheimer's Information Site. Reviewed by William J. Netzer, Ph.D., Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation at The Rockefeller University.
Julie Klotter: "Music & Alzheimer's: music therapy as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease." Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, April, 2001.
Cuddy LL, Duffin J: "Music, Memory and Alzheimer's Disease: Is music Recognition Spared in Dementia, and How Can It Be Assessed?" Medical Hypotheses, 2005; 64: 229-235.
Thompson RG, Moulin CJ, Hayre S, Jones RW: "Music enhances category fluency in healthy older adults and Alzheimer's disease patients." The Research Institute for the Care of the Elderly, Bath, UK. Exp Aging Res. 2005 Jan-Mar;31(1):91-9.
Grant MD, Brody JA: "Musical experience and dementia." Aging Clin Exp Res. 2004 Oct;16(5):403-5.
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The Last Laugh: A Novel
by Lynn Freed
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A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island
Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again--this time, their grandchildren. In order to escape, they decide to run away to Greece together for a year.
At first, settled on a glorious island, barefoot and contented, they think they've rediscovered the wheel. But then things begin to go awry. Dionysus, a local poet, takes up with Bess, at least until his wife gets wind of things. Dania, a therapist, is being stalked by one of her patients. And Ruth's ex-lover turns up out of the blue, closely followed by the man who lost Bess her fortune. It doesn't help when the children and grandchildren also start turning up whenever they feel like it. As Bess writes in one of Ruth's weekly "Granny a Go Go" columns, this is not an Enchanted April sort of year.
Lynn Freed's previous novels have received rave reviews everywhere from The New York Times Book Review ("Makes us laugh while packing, finally, a punch"), to the Los Angeles Times Book Review ("Deeply absorbing and ambitious . . . Astonishingly vivid"). In The Last Laugh she returns with a beautifully written and funny novel about money, sex, friendship, and the pleasures and perils of children.
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice*
From the award-winning author Lynn Freed, who's been called a "literary star" by The New York Times Book Review, comes a hilarious and brilliant new novel about the riotous, passion-filled adventures of three women who thought they were past their prime.
To escape their griping grown children, husbands and lovers, and an abundance of grandchildren underfoot, three self-proclaimed "old bags," Dania, Ruth, and Bess, head for a quiet island on the Aegean Sea. They'll spend a year by the water--watching the sunset, eating grilled fish and fresh olives, sipping ouzo. They deserve it, they say. After all those years, the three women will finally have some peace.
Except that they can't. For one, Bess, a pampered, once-beautiful inheritress, falls swiftly into an affair with a poetry-writing taxi driver--who has, of course, a territorial wife. And Dania, a therapist, begins to receive an increasing number of cryptically menacing phone calls from a psychotic patient. An ex-lover of Ruth's shows up unexpectedly, right before one of Bess's does--and then the women's children arrive, with their own demanding children in tow. As the island quickly becomes crowded, the women's serene year in Greece devolves perilously, and uproariously, into something much more complicated.
With the wit of Maria Semple's Today Will Be Different and all the adventure of Deborah Moggach's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Lynn Freed's The Last Laugh is at once wildly funny and deeply perceptive, an exuberant story of friendship and pleasure, family and love.
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Up very betimes to our business at the office, there hiring of more fire-ships; and at it close all the morning. At noon home, and Sir W. Pen dined with us. By and by, after dinner, my wife out by coach to see her mother; and I in another, being afraid, at this busy time, to be seen with a woman in a coach, as if I were idle, towards The. Turner's; but met Sir W. Coventry's boy; and there in his letter find that the Dutch had made no motion since their taking Sheernesse; and the Duke of Albemarle writes that all is safe as to the great ships against any assault, the boom and chaine being so fortified; which put my heart into great joy.1
When I come to Sir W: Coventry's chamber, I find him abroad; but his clerk, Powell, do tell me that ill newes is come to Court of the Dutch breaking the Chaine at Chatham; which struck me to the heart. And to White Hall to hear the truth of it; and there, going up the back-stairs, I did hear some lacquies speaking of sad newes come to Court, saying, that hardly anybody in the Court but do look as if he cried, and would not go into the house for fear of being seen, but slunk out and got into a coach, and to The. Turner's to Sir W. Turner's, where I met Roger Pepys, newly come out of the country. He and I talked aside a little, he offering a match for Pall, one Barnes, of whom we shall talk more the next time. His father married a Pepys; in discourse, he told me further that his grandfather, my great grandfather, had 800l. per annum, in Queen Elizabeth's time, in the very town of Cottenham; and that we did certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland. More talk I had, and shall have more with him, but my mind is so sad and head full of this ill news that I cannot now set it down. A short visit here, my wife coming to me, and took leave of The., and so home, where all our hearts do now ake; for the newes is true, that the Dutch have broke the chaine and burned our ships, and particularly "The Royal Charles,"2 other particulars I know not, but most sad to be sure. And, the truth is, I do fear so much that the whole kingdom is undone, that I do this night resolve to study with my father and wife what to do with the little that I have in money by me, for I give [up] all the rest that I have in the King's hands, for Tangier, for lost. So God help us! and God knows what disorders we may fall into, and whether any violence on this office, or perhaps some severity on our persons, as being reckoned by the silly people, or perhaps may, by policy of State, be thought fit to be condemned by the King and Duke of York, and so put to trouble; though, God knows! I have, in my own person, done my full duty, I am sure. So having with much ado finished my business at the office, I home to consider with my father and wife of things, and then to supper and to bed with a heavy heart. The manner of my advising this night with my father was, I took him and my wife up to her chamber, and shut the door; and there told them the sad state of the times how we are like to be all undone; that I do fear some violence will be offered to this office, where all I have in the world is; and resolved upon sending it away — sometimes into the country — sometimes my father to lie in town, and have the gold with him at Sarah Giles's, and with that resolution went to bed full of fear and fright, hardly slept all night.
There had been correspondence with Pett respecting this chain in April and May. On the 10th May Pett wrote to the Navy Commissioners, "The chain is promised to be dispatched to-morrow, and all things are ready for fixing it." On the 11th June the Dutch "got twenty or twenty-two ships over the narrow part of the river at Chatham, where ships had been sunk; after two and a half hours' fighting one guard-ship after another was fired and blown up, and the enemy master of the chain" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1667, pp. 58, 87, 215). ↩
Vandervelde's drawings of the conflagration of the English fleet, made by him on the spot, are in the British Museum. — B. ↩
Tue 11 Jun 1667
"Van Ghent's squadron now advanced up the Medway on 12 June, attacking the English defences at the chain. First Unity was taken by Van Brakel by assault. Then the fireship Pro Patria under commander Jan Daniëlsz van Rijn broke through the chain (or sailed over it according to some historians, distrusting the more spectacular traditional version of events), the stages of which were soon after destroyed by Dutch engineers commanded by Rear-Admiral David Vlugh. She then destroyed the Matthias by fire. The fireships Catharina and Schiedam attacked the Charles V; the Catharina under commander Hendrik Hendriksz was sunk by the shore batteries but the Schiedam under commander Gerrit Andriesz Mak successfully set the Charles V alight; the crew was captured by Van Brakel. Royal Charles, with only thirty cannon aboard and abandoned by her skeleton crew when they saw the Matthias burn, was then captured by the Irishman Thomas Tobiasz, the flag captain of Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde, and carried off to the Netherlands despite an unfavourable tide. This was made possible by lowering her draught by bringing her into a slight tilt. The jack was struck while a trumpeter played "Joan's placket is torn". Only the Monmouth escaped. Seeing the disaster Monck ordered all sixteen remaining warships further up to be sunk off to prevent them from being captured, making for a total of about thirty ships deliberately sunk by the English themselves."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway#T…
Michael Robinson on 12 Jun 2010 • Link
" ... ill newes is come to Court of the Dutch breaking the Chaine at Chatham; which struck me to the heart ..."
Schellinks, Willem
The burning of the English fleet near Chatham, June 1667, during the second Anglo-Dutch war -- topo panorama -- oil
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.…
full engraved version -- showing Sheerness etc.
(The dutch date is 'new style')
The apotheosis of Cornelis de Witt, with the raid on Chatham, June 1667, in the background
The exuberant figural Dutch baroque frame is something to behold, large version folds out from tab on left -- quite the equal of the marble decoration of the main hall of Amsterdam Town Hall, finished a only a few years prior and at the time considered the eighth wonder of the world.
Linda on 12 Jun 2010 • Link
Right in the middle of all this war urgency we have a flight into genealogy:
" . . . we did certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland."
Out of Scotland? At some point -- can't remember where -- Sam makes disparaging Johnsonesque remarks about the Scots.
Crowland (allegedly a medieval monk's misspelling of Croyland) is "a small but interesting town where Crowland Abbey was founded by King Ethelbald in 716 on an island in the fens where St. Guthlac made his home."
See also Wikipedia "Abbot of Crowland." But which abbot of this very long list of abbots came out of Scotland with the Pepys ancestor in tow, and when?
" ... the Dutch have broke the chaine and burned our ships, and particularly "The Royal Charles," ..."
Leyden, Jan van
The Dutch burning the English ships off Chatham; in the foreground (l) Dutch marines with sloped arms after disembarking.
Velde, Peter van de
The burning of the English fleet off Chatham, 20 June 1667: the seizure of the 'Royal Charles' shown in the center of the burning fleet.
Diest, Jeronymus van (II)
The seizure of the English flagship 'Royal Charles,' captured during the raid on Chatham, June 1667
Note the English 'red duster' shown flying upside down and from a broken standard below the Dutch flag on the stern. The painting was made for De Witt, see the inscription panel lower left.
The gilt and carved English Royal Arms from the 'counter' of the 'Royal Charles,' now collection Rijksmuseum.
Lockeman, Nicolaes
Presentation Commemorative Gold Covered Cup, made for De Ruyter,
polychrome enamel panorama showing the seizure of Sheerness etc.
The cup's elaborate velvet case;
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/public…
"So God help us! and God knows what disorders we may fall into, and whether any violence on this office, or perhaps some severity on our persons, as being reckoned by the silly people, or perhaps may, by policy of State, be thought fit to be condemned by the King and Duke of York, and so put to trouble; though, God knows! I have, in my own person, done my full duty, I am sure."
Silly people...As if the naval administration should bear any fault in this matter. Though of course if the Diary were to have fallen into the wrong hands just now...Or were Sam to have been caught spending his time visiting cousin The on a day like this, dear to us all as she is.
Silly people...Clever king. Interesting that Sam accepts that state policy may require his head rather than (at least right now before full-steam panic takes over) angrily blaming Charles for misgovernance.
Guess we ought someday to take a peek at the diary of some of BP's middle- and junior level management for these last few months in a few years. Probably not very different.
To be fair to Sam, it's not like he could run to Deptford, organize a fleet of fireboats, and make a do-or-die suicide run on the Dutch fleet (even if Coventry in fact seems to be trying to organize a fireboat fleet) . But it does seem he's a bit more concerned with saving his gold and hide than defending England or saving his beloved fleet. Again, to be fair, the Dutch aren't Napoleon, let alone Hitler. England isn't in real danger of full-scale armed invasion, despite some panicky notions.
It does seem amazing given the growing danger and the poor strategic situation for the bottled-up fleet for so long beforehand that Pett and the Naval Office had not set up a plan for at least scuttling the fleet before something like this could happen.
"Hewer? You say you and Hayter think you can save our heads...er, the State and quell public discontent? Before I flee for parts unknown but to readers of my Diary in some future era, how?"
"A campaign of public information, sir." "Directed public information, sir." Hayter chimes in.
"You see, we place these placards all over London and in every city, down to the smallest parish street corner."
"And print them in the London Gazette." Hayter notes.
"What...Placards?"
Hmmn...Sam eyes said placards in portfolio Hewer hands him.
"Dutch fall into strategic trap."
Hmmn...
"Just in case Sir Will Coventry's fireboats manage to sink a few on their retreat, sir." Hewer notes.
"It should read 'brilliant strategic trap'." Hayter frowns.
"Yes..." Hmmn...
"Treasonous ... rogues betray fleet."
"Hewer? '...'"
"Not fornicating rogues, sir. We left space to fill in the blank... Papists, Jews, Cromwellians, radicals..."
"Or just 'enemy'..." Hayter notes. Bit uncomfortable with the direction...Quakers obviously being somewhere along that list.
"Fleet experiences accident...Dutch promote lying claims of 'victory'."
"Hewer? 'Accident'...? How could we get away with that?"
"We just keep denying everything, sir. Ummn...That was the King's suggestion, sir."
"Dutch driven off with huge losses. Fleet intact."
"Hewer? Chatham's burning hulks have become England's premier tourist attraction."
"Amd would the government allow them to come if there really had been a disaster?" Hayter, shrewd look...Fading at Sam's glare... "Ummn, sir."
"Admiral Penn loses fleet."
"Say, I rather like this one."
"Uh, sir. The Admiral saw it and insisted that if the king orders it up, half of the posters must blane you."
"Lose this one."
"The Stuart administration: Just thank God nukes won't be invented for another 300 years."
"Nukes?"
"Dream I had about the future, sir." Hayter notes. "Apocalyptic weapons, madmen relying on instant mutual destruction to prevent war..."
Hmmn... "Too cerebral."
Hmmn... "Commissioner Pett fails to save fleet."
"Now this one..."
Pepyses from Scotland? Perhaps a legend.
"Villein custom on Crowlands manor (fn. 50) allowed a widow to keep her husband's holding while she remained chaste and unmarried. Descent was by borough English. By 1323 the inheriting youngest son customarily allowed each unmarried sibling ½ a. in each arable field. Rising population and land shortage was also reflected in the price of land in the early 14th century and particularly in the sums paid to the abbot for licence to marry widows yet retain their holding, the single commonest form of succession to land. Land prices fell sharply in 1349 and remained low. The opportunities for peasants to buy land led to larger holdings: in the 15th and 16th centuries many consisted of full yardlands (fn. 51) and one of 60 a. of arable and 40 a. of meadow was recorded in the late 15th century. (fn. 52) Ultimately the most prominent of several prosperous peasant families were the Pepyses, established in the village by the 1320s, (fn. 53) who acquired the lease of the Crowlands demesne c. 1520. (fn. 54) A Pepys was worth £50 in Cottenham in 1522, when another resident was worth £100. (fn. 55) By the 1540s William Pepys styled himself gentleman, and he and his son John Pepys were active in the land market, (fn. 56) John buying a manor in Impington in 1579 (fn. 57) and at his death in 1589 endowing each of his five sons handsomely. (fn. 58) " http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?comp…
Michael L on 13 Jun 2010 • Link
A cute poem by Kipling regarding the Dutch in the Medway seems apt for the occasion: http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_dutchmedway.htm
" ... that his grandfather, my great grandfather, had 800l. per annum, in Queen Elizabeth's time, ... we did certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland. More talk I had, and shall have more with him, but my mind is so sad and head full of this ill news that I cannot now set it down. ..."
Apparently simple family lore, L&M footnote that Roger Pepys probably derived his information from 'Liber Talboti Pepys'(now untraced) a family commonplace book he had inherited from his father Talbot, d. 1666, probably drawn up by Talbot. As Terry F's citation makes clear what ever connection a William Pepys might have had with the Abbots of Crowland ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_of_Crowland , http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=352270 ), and Scotland, this was far from the beginning of the family story.
SP is presumably lapsing into this kind of mild fantasy as a relief from stress as one of his girlfriends is not available and immediately to hand to enable 'polyglot distractions.'
classicist on 13 Jun 2010 • Link
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has been closed for renovation for several years now; the five rooms still open display the chief glories of the vast collection. Among the Rembrandts and Vermeers is the stern panel of 'The Royal Charles'. The Dutch certainly haven't forgotten their victory.
@ Michael L -- the Kipling poem is truly right on the money, so much so that I wonder if Kipling read Pepys.
JWB on 13 Jun 2010 • Link
Kipling/Pepys:
"The study is a fascinating record of a writer and his work. It is just as Kipling left it, only tidier. ... The room contains his extensive library, an eclectic mix of works from poetry to Pepys, naval history to bee-keeping...."
http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/ppuk_discovering_…
2 links to Upnor Castle:
http://www.fortified-places.com/upnor.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upnor_Castle
(Just a thought that Upnor may have been in mind when Jamestown sited.)
cum salis grano on 13 Jun 2010 • Link
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
"IF you can keep your head when all about you
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise"
Yeah, yeah...Sam throws up hands at clerk's recitation of a work amazingly ahead of its time. "Just gimme my gold and lemme out of here! The Dutch are coming, you idiot!"
Australian Susan on 14 Jun 2010 • Link
Thank you very much, MR, for all the links to artworks - fascinating. I especially like that with the MM ones, you can magnify them in sections and really examine them. There's a lot going on in all of them.
I was rather surprised that the top left quadrant of the Red Ensign on the ships showed the Cross of St George - the English flag - and not the Union flag, although I saw one ship had the Union flag flying as well. Is this because it is the English Navy, rather than the British Navy?
"if you can keep your head whilst all about are losing theirs..."
.....maybe you have not appreciated the seriousness of the situation.
sorry, couldn't resist this old chestnut.
AS-One imagines that sole (British) survivor of the 1839 occupation force in Kabul mumbling that to himself (if it had been written at the time) as he rode for India.
Mary on 14 Jun 2010 • Link
the Union flag
At this date the Union flag flown in England would simply have shown the cross of St. George (England) superimposed over the cross of St. Andrew (Scotland). This version of the Union flag would not be recognised in Scotland until 1707.
@ Australian Susan
Thanks for the compliment, there is a very great deal 'going on' underneath the surface appearances of in these pictures as is true of all Dutch works of the period.
At this date the Red Ensign was strictly naval, use by merchant ships was permitted by proclamation in 1674. The cross of St. George in the upper left quadrant indicated the English Navy, or in terms of the proclamation, South British (the Royal Scots Navy, North British, separate till 1707, flew a red ensign with the saltier in the upper left.) From 1707 to 1801 the Union flag of 1606 was in the upper left quartile of the duster.
The union flag of 1606( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Flag#History )was flown only by the Naval vessels of both South and North Britain -- and flown only at the main top by a fleet admiral. One piece of flag symbolism in the Peter van de Velde, showing the seizure of the 'Royal Charles,' is that the Dutch flag is at the main mast while the British Union Flag is flying first at a level well beneath and second as a 'jack' on the bowsprit, a position which indicates 'distress' when a British Naval ship is underway.
" and then to supper and to bed with a heavy heart. The..."
L&M note that, from this point onwards, the end of this entry, together with many others in the next few weeks, are written in a smaller hand. Pepys [Spoiler: as is shown in the following day's entry] entrusted numerous papers including his journals to the safe-keeping of cousin Sarah and her husband for the duration. The entries covering the remainder of Dutch emergency and its aftermath must have been brought up to date later on.
Nix on 2 Jul 2010 • Link
Kipling's lost verse:
One dedicated servant
Would keep your fleet afloat,
But he is like your Highness --
A randy little goat.
So while the crews were starving,
A-wenching he would go.
His French wife told her family --
That's how the Dutchmen know!
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam links posted above by Michael Robinson have been reorganized. Try this link https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search
Search in Rijksstudio , e.g. on medway or june 1667
cyclops on 12 May 2017 • Link
Gertz - you should collect your bits of dialog into one document and post it on this site. I enjoy them as much as I do Sam's stuff.
Nate Lockwood on 3 Nov 2018 • Link
"The History Guy' has a short blog explaining the origins of the war, the audacious raid, and the consequences. He shows paintings, drawings, maps, layout of the shipyard, etc. and mentions Pepys. Here's the link:
https://youtu.be/yiLiTJ1Ofys
I wonder how long it will last.
"the Duke of Albemarle writes that all is safe as to the great ships against any assault, the boom and chaine being so fortified; which put my heart into great joy."
L&M: Albemarle's news was in Coventry's letter to the Board (of this date): two ships had been sunk outside the boom across the Medway; the Unity had brrn stationed there and batteries set up at either enc.
L&M: Albemarle's news was in Coventry's letter to the Board (of this date): two ships had been sunk outside the boom across the Medway; the Unity had been stationed there and batteries set up at either end.
"we did certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland."
L&M footnote that Roger Pepys probably derived his information from 'Liber Talboti Pepys'(now untraced) a family commonplace book he had inherited from his father Talbot, d. 1666, probably drawn up by Talbot. Among the excerpts from it that survive in print, are: 'William Pepys died at Cottenham 10 Hen. VIII [sic] was brought up by the Abbot of Crowland in Huntingdon, and he was born in Dunbar in Scotland, a gentleman whom the said Abbot fif make his bayliffe of all his lands in Cambridgeshire...'. But this was certainly not the beginning of the family story. The Pepyses are to be traced as villains in Cottenham in the thirteenth century, and from at least 1290, members of the family had held office in the service of the Benedictine house of Crowland. See F. M. Page, Estates of Crowland Abbey, esp. pp. 71-2. Dr. Page suggests that a younger branch of the family may have returned to Cottenham from Scotland in the reign of Henry VIII, There was a Benedictine house at Coldingham, south of Dunbar. Pepys's nephew and heir, John Jackson, made inquiries iin 1707 about the possible Scottish ancestry of both the Pepyses and the Jacksons: PL, Jackson MSS, 10 (b).
"burned our ships, and particularly "The Royal Charles,""
L&M: The Royal Charles was captured, not burnt, and was towed away in triumph on the 14th.
"So having with much ado finished my business at the office"
L&M: There is a letter from Pepys and Batten to Coventry (about fireships) headed '12 June, 3/4 past 9 at night' in Longleat, Coventry MSS, f. 325r.
Meanwhile, back at the Palace, later this evening:
"On one occasion, when owing to the burning of his fleet at Chatham and the successful retirement of the Dutch, the King was especially depressed, [John Maitland, 2nd Earl of] Lauderdale adopted the role of a seventeenth-century Herodias. Dressing himself in a woman's petticoat, he danced before his monarch with such vigour — if not grace — as successfully to chase away the royal melancholy."
[Lauderdale was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II from 1660 until 1673. Presumably he was the "Gentleman on Duty" for the month of June 1667.]
FROM: A Group of Scottish Women
By Harry Graham
Methuen & Company, 1908 - Scotland - page 65
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"True is it that we have seen better days." -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) – As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII).
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In Accepting Anxiety Part 2, we see Virgil confessing to the others that he feels like Thomas is better off without him and that he's making Thomas's life miserable.
Virgil: I actually think you were right to not want me around. I've always aimed to protect you, but lately...it feels like I've been keeping you from doing anything.
The Moving On two-parter. The first part starts with Thomas and the rest of the Sides going to Patton's room to reminisce on all the nice memories from his past in order to distract himself from the hurt he feels in the present. The second part starts after Logan leaves the room and Virgil starts having a panic attack, forcing Thomas to address the problem. He recalls moments when he and his ex were sad and confused and angry, and eventually had to acknowledge that weren't able to have each other in their lives. And despite all that, Thomas admits (you can hear it in his voice that he's actively tearing up) that he never stopped loving him. It ends with no concise explanation on how to actually deal with a break-up, because there isn't one. Then we get a montage of Thomas sort of gliding through scenes from the relationship, an instrumental version of "The Things We Used to Share" playing in the background, until he arrives in his bedroom and lies down alone in the bed. It's one emotional ride, to say the least.
In "Learning New Things About Ourselves", Virgil confesses how his life had been before Accepting Anxiety, especially how he was pretending all the time to be mean to bring Thomas' guard up, and how he lo... cared for the others all of the time, so all the bad remarks they made on him were deeply hurting him all of the time, but he chose to sacrifice himself and take it all because he thought that was what he had to do for Thomas' own good. That makes Virgil's moved smile in "Accepting Anxiety" much more powerful in hindsight because it was the first time all of them honestly made good remarks on him and treated him as a friend, including Roman.
Thomas's dilemma in "Selfishness v. Selflessness" is pretty sad as he has to deal with the fact that Deceit is a part of him for a reason and that he is capable of lying. This line he says to Patton is sure to break hearts.
Thomas: I don't want to be a bad person.
The moment in "Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts" when Virgil finally confesses to Thomas that he used to be a Dark Side is literally full of tears, both in and out of universe. First Virgil's face of slight horror to Thomas' reaction when he says it, then how he almost starts crying after seeing Thomas' silent face of shock and slight disappointment over the news and has to sink down quickly, presumably to go to cry alone in his room. Thomas said in a public live stream that the way he portrayed Virgil in that moment had the same energy as someone "coming out" of the closet. The hints of tears, as he said were real because he felt a really strong, powerful emotion while delivering that line.
Patton screaming "I… DON'T… KNOW!" when faced with one too many moral dilemmas in "Putting Others First," finally reaching his breaking point as his own rigid moral code proves to be quite flawed in itself — and clearly not good for Thomas.
In fact, this breakdown seems to have started in Selfishness vs. Selflessness, when Patton outright told Thomas that he didn't know if he was a "naturally honest person." This is notable because Patton doesn't seem to make a moral judgement of Thomas being good or bad due to Deceit's presence, and he only continued due to Thomas's request. Had Patton been given time and space to process the information he'd suddenly become aware of, rather than having to regress into black-or-white morality in order to continue the court case and reassure Thomas, the following episodes may have turned out very differently.
When both Deceit's and Patton's HP counters get reduced to zero, and the names both change into "Thomas' mental health".
As Thomas and Patton seem to get more and more on board with Janus' points at the end, Roman gets increasingly scared and annoyed. Until Janus finally reveals his name and this happens:
Janus: [raising his hand with his glove off] My name is Janus.
[Thomas and Patton give him a little smile]
Roman: [snorts] Janus? [laughs] What are you, a middle school librarian? [Janus looks at Roman, lowering his hand slowly with a face of huge hurt] It's a stupid name.
Janus: [hurt and angry, there are hints of tears in his human eye] Oh, Roman, thank God you don't have a mustache! [Roman's smile drops immediately] Otherwise, between you and Remus, I wouldn't know who the Evil Twin is!
[Roman scoffs, speechless, then he looks at Thomas and Patton and notices their faces of sad disappointment]
Roman: [slight face of horror and disbelief] Are you guys seriously going to take his side?
Thomas: [mumbling] No, I...
Roman: [hand on his chest in disbelief] Over me!?
Patton: [also mumbling] Well, he...
Roman: Thomas!
[Thomas looks at Roman. Roman makes a pause, then puts his hand on his chest, feeling betrayed and in pain]
Roman: I thought I was your hero.
Thomas: You are!
[Roman looks at Janus for confirmation. Janus nods with a weak smile of assurance, trying to tell him that Thomas is telling the truth. Roman instead reads that Thomas is lying]
Roman: [scoffs in disbelief] Wow!
[Roman quickly puts his hand on his nose, desperately trying to fight tears]
Roman: I can't believe this!
[Janus' little smile drops, and he shows a slight face of Oh, Crap!, realizing Roman misunderstood him]
Roman: [yelling] Did you forget that he's evil!? You're not...! [fighting tears again] You're not supposed to be! You're supposed to be good! You can't...!
Patton: Roman!
[Roman looks at Patton, his face with a grimace of anger and pain]
Patton: [soft voice of assurance] Everything's gonna be okay, kiddo.
[Roman's lips tremble in pain, he's on the verge of sobbing]
Patton: We love you.
Roman: [not believing him, with a low voice, looking down avoiding everyone's look] Right...
[Roman sinks down and Thomas, Patton and Janus look at the empty place in shock and pain]
Thomas Sanders
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Victorious Plum
FRANK KEATING Spectator readers Alan Magid and Timothy Straker were quick on the draw (Letters, 25 August, 8 September) to champion Mike by PG. Wodehouse in a matey reproach to Robert Stewart's assertion in his review of Baseball Haiku (Books, 18 August) that there had never been a significant cricket novel. Their testimonywould have cheered not only Wodehouse himself but another notable scribbler. In his autobiography The Infernal Grove, Malcolm Muggeridge tells how he introduced Plum to George Orwell in a Paris restaurant in 1944, tut the two of them just talked cricket'. (Orwell had enjoyed the game at Eton.) Wodehouse said he considered his best book, by a distance, to be Mike — "the ring of ball on bat, the green of the pitch, the white of the flannels, the cheers of the crowd" — at which to my intense surprise Orwell enthusiastically agreed.'
Mike Jackson first appeared as a serial in The Captain Magazine in 1907. In his Wodehouse at the Wicket (Hutchinson, 1997), devoted Plum-ite scholar Murray Hedgcock elaborates: 'The original title "Jackson Junior" was changed when the tale appeared in 1909 in book form to the more familiar Mike. This incorporated the second Mike story, published in The Captain from April, 1908, as "The Lost Lambs". By 1953, the two were published separately once again, this time as Mike at Wtykyn and Mike and Psmith.' In whatever form, the story of Mike Jackson — in many respects Mike Atherton to a T, I reckon — the upright schoolboy bat deprived of his anticipated place at Cambridge because his father's finances had fallen away, is an authentic adult novel. As Timothy Straker's Speccie letter points out, for Wrykyn College read Malvern, for the batting-family Jackson read Worcestershire's turn-of-the-century Fosters; Mike was in print only three years after R.E. 'Tip' Foster, third of the cricketing brothers, scored 278 for England at Sydney.
Schoolboy novels (Frank Richards, Ian Hay and co) are wizard-prang and all very well — Greyfriars or St Jim's winning with a last-ball wicket or sixer — but they don't count here. Nor does E.W. Hornung's Raffles yarns, or Dorothy L. Sayers's Wimsey; nor Conan Doyle's marvellous short story `Spedague's Dropper'; nor genuine novels decorated gaily with a bit of cricket for summery sundappled diversion — Dickens's Dingley Dell vs All Muggleton, for instance, or the village match in L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between; J.C. Masterman's amusing cricket mind-game in Fate Cannot Harm Me; or the forever-acclaimed classic chapter by A.G. MacDonell in England, Their England. Most richly rewarding one-off 'pastoral', I suppose, remains Hugh de Selincourt's The Cricket Match. But all are exclusively rural and comic in character. Perhaps 'real' top-level cricket offers more drama than fiction ever can?
Mike's closest rival could beA Season in Sinji by that appealingly singular Northamptonshire writer J.L. Carr, in which a cricket match enlivens the steamy, sweltering somnolence of a wartime RAF base in West Africa. I looked up the 1967 review in The Cricketer by the onliest Alan Gibson: 'He forces his analogies and strains his language to show that life is just a game of cricket, which is neither more nor less true than that life is just a bowl of cherries... Mr Carr is very strong on breasts and lavatories, mandatory in the modern novel. Just as I was beginning to get interested in the bosoms, there was a piece about cricket; and just as I was getting interested in the cricket, back came the bosoms, and the dirt, and the violence.'
Orwell was right: Plum takes the palm.


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SCOTT, George, a Representative from Columbia and Montour Counties; born, February 21, 1814 in Pennsylvania; farmer; president, Pennsylvania Agricultural Society; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1853 and 1854 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1855 term; elected, Canal Commissioner (1856); president, Columbia County Democratic Convention (1857); reelected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1869 and 1870 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1871 term; railroad contractor; elected, associate judge, Columbia County; died, April 10, 1876 in Hazelton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, Catawissa, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
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Updated samba packages that fix several security issues and provide several bug fixes and an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and the related Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, which allow PC-compatible machines to share files, printers, and various information.
Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting CVE-2018-1139 and CVE-2018-1050. Upstream acknowledges Vivek Das (Red Hat) as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1139.
Red Hat strongly recommends upgrading to these updated packages.
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The official Twitter account for the LAPD then directed him to the detectives' line, nonetheless Kevin claims that he already contacted the amount and the choice went to voicemail. "Is there a better, more direct number I can call? Hate to be an alarmist but this out-of-towner is now blocks from where we live," Kevin explains.
The particular person moreover appears to have threatened Kevin and his family on Instagram, which was confirmed in screenshots shared by the comedian.
E! Info reached out to LAPD for comment, nonetheless they talked about that they'd no knowledge proper now.


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As Internet of Things invades the enterprise, companies need to revamp their approach to protecting data because the old ways aren't going to get the job done. Not in a world of 25 billion or more IoT devices connected to the Internet by 2020, as Gartner predicts.
So, what are the new challenges that IoT will present?
The biggest change IoT brings is a new scale to an organization's data protection strategy, both in terms of diversity of devices and volume of data that is generated, according to Basil Hashem, senior director of mobile strategy at VMware.


We live in a world of sorely in need of more personal connection, where mobile devices have taken society by storm. Distracted and disconnected, our eyes are increasingly glued to screens, while attention spans plummet and groups of people share space but barely interact. By focusing on genuine connections and basic human interaction, you can produce more compelling, powerful images, and I want to share some of my tips on how to do this.
Let's imagine you are working with a subject on a simple portrait or headshot, and you have a limited amount of time to photograph this person. You have limited time to break down any walls, get through any of the subject's insecurities, and create something with maximum impact.
Start with a simple conversation. What things do you have in common with this person? I always try to learn as much as I can about someone before photographing them, and I focus on starting a real conversation with them. It's important to really listen to what they have to say, and show genuine interest. You will be surprised how much someone will open up when they have a captive audience.
People really tend to gush about their interests, whether it's a beloved hobby or even their children. Focus on having a natural curiosity about others, and get them talking about what they love. Building rapport with your subject is an art, and there are plenty of ways to go about it. However, when you get it right, the results are stunning.
It's easy to spot the difference between a real expression and a stiff, forced smile. By breaking down the walls that exist, you'll create more authentic images. These genuine exchanges and the pursuit of authentic connections with the subject are the key to getting there.
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Coast Shelter is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing specialist homelessness services and support programs on the NSW Central Coast.
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We are a registered Community Housing Provider operating crisis accommodation refuges across the region for people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, or experiencing domestic and family violence.
We continue to progress our mission to end homelessness and domestic and family violence on the NSW Central Coast by providing people with a safe place to call home, food and clothing, and access to personal support services.
serving the central coast for over 25 years
From humble beginnings, Coast Shelter has grown into an organisation tackling the issues of homelessness, family and domestic violence, and poverty across the NSW Central Coast. Over almost 25 years, we have grown from one refuge in Gosford into a community housing provider with ten specialist homelessness services.
tackling homelessness, domestic and family violence
Today, we deliver a number of services designed to tackle the issues of homelessness, domestic and family violence and poverty. Each year we provide close to 60,000 overnight beds across our specialist accommodation services and 76 outreach properties. Nearly 700 men, young people, and women with accompanying children access our services. Our Community Centre continues to help the most vulnerable people in our Community by providing free meals and access to financial, medical and personal support services.
committed to helping people when needed most
Coast Shelter is committed to helping people when they need help the most and we thank our generous corporate partners, donors, funding bodies, staff and volunteers for their ongoing support and commitment to ending homelessness on the NSW Central Coast.
Our vision is to end homelessness and domestic and family violence on the NSW Central Coast.
Our mission is to deliver locally designed, innovative solutions to homelessness, domestic and family violence, and poverty to achieve immediate and lasting change.
Four core values drive our work. Trust, Respect, Innovation and Connection.
We are honest, collaborative, responsive, and accountable in everything we do. We believe everyone has the right to a safe, healthier future.
We listen, and we are accepting of others' differences, cultures, and personal needs.
We are creative, adaptive, and explore new ideas to solve challenges
We develop, value and maintain strong connections with the people we support, our colleagues, and the communities we work in.
Coast Shelter employs staff across the Central Coast. We have a diverse, skills-based Board and Executive team with expertise across government, community and commercial sectors.
Our Board members are responsible for the overall business, management and direction of Coast Shelter. The Board are committed to best practice in governance and accountability.
Margaret Portass
Commonwealth Registered Marriage Celebrant/Justice of the Peace, Certificate IV in Business, Certificate IV in Celebrancy; Certificate IV in Community Services (Information Referral & Advice); Advanced Secretarial Diploma.
Margaret has been a Director of Coast Shelter since March 2008 and President since November 2018. Margaret's career has encompassed executive secretarial, hospitality, financial management, welfare, aged care, and community services from 2003 to 2017. She has managed various programs through the Federal Department of Human Services, including: Participation Support Officer – Young Parents Program Wyong LGA; Program Support Manager - Community Program Hunter & Central Coast; Program Support Manager – Rural & Remote Program North NSW Zone; and as Service Centre Manager & Team Leader across many Central Coast and mid-North Coast sites.
These days, Margaret is an accomplished marriage celebrant and President of Coast Shelter. Margaret prides herself on and encompasses her passion to live her life through honesty, integrity, being empathic and caring for others.
Kian Safaei
B Pod, LLB, Grad. Dip Practice of Laws and Migration Agent Grad. Cert.
Kian has been a volunteer at the Coast Shelter Community Centre for the last 14 years and a Director of Coast Shelter since 2015. Kian migrated to Australia in 1993 and has been in private practice as a podiatrist. In 2003, she became a registered migration agent and was admitted as a lawyer to the Supreme Court in 2004.
Kian has worked since 2003 as a migration agent in her own consultancy firm and was with Drake and Associates as an employed solicitor from 2013 to 2017.
Kian has held multiple roles during her career, including Chair of Professional Conduct and Ethics Committee of Podiatry Association NSW and ACT (A Pod A), Board Director of A Pod A and it's Vice President since 2017, Community Relations Commission Community Advisor, NSW Police Cultural Advisor, circuit presenter on cultural and religious issues since 2001, Policy Director of Women Lawyers and their liaising officer to Young Lawyers NSW, to name a few.
Bob Pryke
Bob has been a Director of Coast Shelter since 2016. He has enjoyed a successful career over a 40-year period in education, most of which was performed here on the Central Coast.
Bob was the founding member of the Rotary Club of Gosford City and is also a co-founder, teacher and consultant at ET Australia Secondary College – a college that provides a safe and positive learning environment in which students can master the academic skills necessary for employment and future studies.
Diana Hanks
Bachelor of Arts, Dip Education.
Diana has been a Director of Coast Shelter since 2018. Diana is a former educator with extensive experience working as a school principal, executive, and as a classroom teacher.
These roles were fulfilled for the NSW Department of Education and Communities.
Diana was a founding member and President of Gosford City Rotary Club. During Diana's career she was responsible for establishing the Aboriginal Early Childhood Interagency to support Aboriginal families needing to gain speedy access to support services for children starting school. Diana was also responsible for organising conferences and workshops designed for educators to effectively interact with children prior to starting school, school educators and interagency staff members. Diana also fulfilled a role as project co-ordinator for FNSW and ACYFS. This initiative was throughout the Central Coast, focusing on collaboration with all schools with a special interest in students transitioning to Kindergarten and to High School.
Claire Braund
Claire is a social entrepreneur and businesswoman based on the NSW Central Coast. She co-founded Women on Boards in Australia in 2006 and in the UK in 2012, following a career in journalism and public relations. She is an experienced Non-Executive Director on small businesses and large not-for-profit organisations and has significant expertise on Board governance in many other sectors.
Claire currently serves on the boards of the global and Australian Women on Boards entities and on the Board of the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music, where she chairs the building and premises committees.
A highly respected facilitator and speaker on a range of topics in the area of Board governance, equity and diversity, Claire is an informed and entertaining MC and presenter and well known for her courage, conviction, compassion and confidence. She is someone who looks for new ideas and opportunities in all she does.
In 2011, Claire became a Churchill Fellow for her research into gender balance on boards in Norway, France and the UK. She is also a graduate of the Benevolent Society's Sydney Social Leadership Program, which has led to a lifelong interest in affordable housing and related social issues, particularly those impacting women and children.
"Coast Shelter is committed to helping the most vulnerable in our community when they need our help most."– Michael Starr, CEO. The Executive team is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Coast Shelter.
Michael Starr – CEO
Michael has held leadership roles in the not-for-profit and philanthropic sectors for over ten years, with a particular focus on early intervention services for young people, social enterprises, employment, training and family accommodation services.
Michael and the Executive team are responsible for the day-to-day management of all Coast Shelter operations and ensuring our work reflects Coast Shelter's values of trust, respect, innovation and connection. Michael is passionate about the continual improvement of personalised services with impact to the most vulnerable people in our Central Coast community to help break the cycle of poverty and homelessness to enable people to live independent, healthy lives.
Mark Trevaskis – Operations Manager Client Services
Mark is a qualified Social Worker and has worked in the community sector for more than 25 years. Having held senior management roles over the past ten years, he holds significant experience and knowledge in child protection, disability, housing and out-of-home care.
As Operations Manager, Mark's core responsibilities include leading the client services team as well as supporting the CEO and other key members of the Executive team to deliver positive outcomes for our community.
Jason Brown – People & Culture Manager
Jason is driven by a passion to make a difference in the community he grew up in and is drawn to Coast Shelter to develop a culture that drives social change and positive outcomes for the vulnerable members of the Central Coast community.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Business and is a lifelong human resources practitioner, with over ten years' experience working within the government and not-for-profit sector. Jason holds a deep passion for building organisational capability within a culture of performance and accountability, underpinned by Coast Shelter's core values.
Jason has worked across and been responsible for all aspects of human resource functions including organisational development, talent acquisition, industrial relations and safety.
Jason Haynes – Finance Manager
Bachelor of Commerce, Member of Chartered Accountants ANZ
Jason is the Finance Manager and Corporate Secretary for Coast Shelter, where he continues to help the organisation grow as a leading specialist homelessness service on the Central Coast.
Jason is responsible for the financial and taxation systems, accounting technology, debtor and creditor systems, financial acquittals and reporting financial strategy and budgeting to the Board of Directors for Coast Shelter.
Jason commenced his accounting career within the public sector as a graduate in 2011 before moving to Coast Shelter in early 2019. As a Central Coast local, Jason is a passionate supporter of the vison and mission of Coast Shelter and, combined with his financial and accounting experience, he devotes all his energy to drive growth and develop new opportunities.
On a personal level, Jason can be caught spending time on the slopes of Perisher and enjoying an active social life with family and friends.
Krissy Stapleton – Marketing and Communications Manager
Krissy's background is in youth and social work as well as project coordination. Krissy has worked in the not-for-profit sector for over ten years, focusing on vulnerable and disadvantaged children, young people and communities.
Krissy is currently working as the Marketing and Communications Manager at Coast Shelter, where she is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of Coast Shelter's marketing strategies, public relations and stakeholder communications. Krissy also covers Coast Shelter fundraising and connecting with the wider community.
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Shandong Saikesaisi Biological Technology Co., Ltd.
Shandong Saikesaisi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is located in the Biomedical Industrial Park in the High-tech Zone of Jinan City. The company was established in 2003 with a registered capital of 200 million yuan and covers an area of 30,000 square meters. Currently has 400 million yuan in assets, more than 600 employees. The company has a strong and innovative R&D team, with more than 100 R&D personnel including postdoctoral, doctoral, and graduate students. The company has more than 30 national invention patents and is a national high-tech enterprise specializing in R&D, production, sales and service of polymer and biomaterial implanted medical device products.
The company is aiming at the frontier areas of the world, keeping pace with the development of high-end medical devices at home and abroad, relying on two innovative platforms: "Shandong Province In vivo Implantable Materials Engineering and Technology Research Center" and "Shandong Enterprise Technology Center". The company is currently researching and developing and has launched domestically. There are more than 50 high-tech products with leading international standards. The products currently on the market mainly include state-of-the-art new products, Septim®; the second in the world after Arista, the first domestic starch hemostatic product instantane®; the second domestically-listed non-adhesive liquid following ONYX. Embolization material Xavier®; CFDA approved China's first entry into innovative medical devices for special approval of "green channel" Sai Ning® and more.
In recent years, in order to meet the needs of market development, the company has continued to explore new marketing and management models. Chairman Mr. Zou Fangming proposed the "M520" plan in 2012, which means that 20 millionaires will be created in 5 years. By leaning on talents in policy and funding, we encourage outstanding sales people to establish their own subsidiaries. At present, 23 branches have been established throughout the country and the business covers 30 provinces, cities and autonomous regions across the country. The social influence of enterprises and product brands has been gradually expanded and the market competitiveness has been continuously enhanced.
In order to meet market demand and expand production capacity, the company started the construction of a new factory area in 2015. The new plant site is located on the west side of Dazheng Road in the High-tech Zone, on the south side of the Biomedical Park, covering an area of 140 acres and a total construction area of 76,000 square meters. The total investment of the project is 640 million yuan. The main contents of the project are medical device GMP standard workshop, medical equipment warehouse, raw material warehouse, pilot plant and related supporting facilities.
After the project is completed, a brand-new, modern, and large-scale production capacity Saikesaisi will be standing proudly in the Jinan Pharmaceutical Valley Industrial Park, leading the Yaogu medical device industry, fully bearing the company's new projects currently in the R&D phase and being in clinical practice. The new products in the research stage will be put into production to benefit the majority of patients and provide the public with more abundant products and services.
Shandong Saikesaisi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is willing to create and manufacture high-quality medical products with a rigorous scientific attitude, providing safe, high-quality services for the majority of patients, medical workers, and the entire industry. We are committed to building our company into a 100-year-old national brand that enjoys a good reputation. We actively promote products and services to the world and become leaders in the industry.
Septim:
The Septim® surgical anti-blocking liquid is the company's first medical device product developed and put into the market. It was developed in cooperation with the School of Life Sciences of Shandong University and was approved by the CFDA in 2007. As one of the country's largest production bases for sterile carboxymethyl chitosan raw materials and preparations, Septim® has a clinical use volume of over 1 million cases and a sales volume of over 100 million. This product ranks first in the field of surgical anti-adhesion.
In 2008, Septim® was identified as "National Key New Product". As an industry model, it was invited by the China National Institute of Food and Drug Control 2 times to participate in the formulation of national standards for chitosan products in 2010 and 2015 respectively.
Instantaneous:
Instantaneous Microporous Hemostatic Powder is another star product of Cytec Biotech. It is the only haemostatic material combining plant starch and carboxymethyl chitosan. It is also the world's second starch after Arista. Hemostatic products. The annual clinical use in China exceeds 300,000 cases and sales exceeds 100 million yuan. The product consists of a starch polysaccharide and carboxymethyl chitosan emulsified cross-linked and copolymerized. It has a microporous structure and can be used for hemostasis in various traumatic hemorrhage areas such as heart surgery and neurosurgery. It is the first patented product in China.
Instantaneous® is a pioneering application of plant starch to the field of hemostasis. The R&D team found that potato starch has very good adhesion and water absorption characteristics. After encountering blood, it can quickly absorb the water in the blood and quickly form a gel to achieve hemostasis. At the same time, carboxymethyl chitosan as an excellent hemostatic anti-adhesive material can increase the gel strength, inhibit bacteria and promote wound healing. The product was approved by CFDA in the category of medical device registration in 2012, and in the same year it was awarded the "Shandong Provincial Department of Science and Technology's Independent Achievement Transformation Major Project".
The EVAL® non-adhesive liquid embolization agent is the second interventional embolization product for endovascular embolization treatment of cerebrovascular malformations that has been launched globally after ONYX products in the United States. It obtained national invention patents in 2009 and was approved by CFDA in 2012. It is the first non-adhesive liquid embolic agent listed in China, and is the only domestic brand to date.
The product is a suspension composed of ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL), DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide), anhydrous ethanol and hydrazine materials in a certain ratio. When it comes in contact with an aqueous solution (such as blood), DMSO quickly diffuses into the aqueous solution. EVAL precipitates as a solid and embolizes. This helps aneurysmal malformation patients to heal cerebrovascular malformations by interventional therapy, greatly reducing The risk of treatment through craniotomy, and reduce the burden on the patient.
Sai Naoning:
Sai NaoNing® absorbable dura mater sealant is the first neurosurgical specialty product of Cycers Biotech Co., Ltd. after 10 years of R&D investment, acting on the human dura mater, and assisting in sealing the dura to prevent leakage of cerebrospinal fluid. . The product was patented in 2017. It is the world's first three-component mixed-durable dura mater-sealed medical gel, and it is also the first domestically marketed product. At the same time, Sai Na Ning® is the first batch of Class III medical devices approved by the CFDA to enter the special "green channel" for innovative medical device approval.
Bi Jing:
Bijing® nasal allergen barrier ointment is the first generic product of Alergol Pollen Blocker developed exclusively by Dr. Theiss Natural Products in Germany. It is mainly used to prevent allergies caused by inhalant allergens such as pollen, dust, aphids, and animal skins. Rhinitis and asthma. By forming a protective film in the nasal cavity, inhaled allergens are effectively blocked. At the same time, because the product does not contain any hormone component, it does not have any stimulation on the contact site and is highly favored by allergic patients. CFDA was approved in 2010 and national invention patents were obtained in 2012.
Runbao:
Runbao® Double Dose Dry Moisturizing Solution is a first medical device for relieving dry mouth symptoms in China that was developed by Seixia Biotechnology through the exploration of clinical needs. Prior to this, temporary dry mouth during perioperative period, and Radiotherapy leads to long-term dry mouth caused by damage to the salivary glands, and there are no symptomatic treatment products. The advent of Runbao® relieves the patient's dry mouth and various oral problems and solves the clinical needs of oral care. It acts as an "artificial saliva" to provide continuous lubrication and moisturization to the oral cavity. The product was approved by CFDA in 2013 and obtained national invention patent in the same year.
Ya Jing:
The inspiration for the development of Yajing® Draining Cream was based on the fact that the gum line caused permanent damage to the gums when the gums were dislocated. The patient had to endure gum pain and bleeding. In order to avoid the pain of patients, Yajing® uses a new row of spasm technology to push out the gums with the aid of the cream, and the ingredients of the cream can effectively stop the bleeding. In 2011, it was the first domestic medical device product for drainage and was approved by CFDA.
Aierqing:
Aierqing® Hydrogel Eye Mask is a professional corneal protection product used to prevent exposure keratitis caused by incomplete eyelid closure due to general anesthesia, deep coma, paralysis of facial nerves, and more. At present, it is mainly used in general anesthesia patients and patients in ICU wards to create an eye moist environment through eye patch dressing and reduce the incidence of keratitis. Since the launch of the product, eye problems have been relieved for millions of patients, and the product won a national invention patent in 2017.
Zhuchuangsu:
Zhuchuangsu® is a further hemostatic product developed by Cysecs after Instantaneous®, mainly for traumatic bleeding in armaments and first aid. The product stimulates the endogenous coagulation mechanism by absorbing the moisture in the blood, and at the same time creates a stable and effective "golden ten minute" rescue window for the wounded by compressing the hemostasis to provide the doctor with sufficient follow-up wound treatment time. This product won national invention patent in 2013.
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What is a Grand Jury and what does it do?
On Behalf of Law Office of Gregory S. Robey | Feb 18, 2021 | Firm News
I recently attended a bond hearing for a client where the court set a bond and conditions for release. Once the client posted the bond, he called me and asked "So what is the next step?" I told him that his case would now be sent to the Grand Jury for review of possible felony charges. He then asked "What's a grand jury and what does it do?" Great question. In plain English, a grand jury is a legal body composed of ordinary citizens that determines whether there is enough evidence to file formal criminal charges. State grand juries are usually composed of 6 to 12 people, while federal grand juries are typically composed of 16 to 23 people. In a grand jury, a prosecutor presents an accusation and supporting evidence which may include witness testimony or documents. The grand jury then votes on whether there is probable cause to file criminal charges. Unlike other court proceedings which are open to the public, grand jury proceedings take place in secret. Neither an accused nor their defense lawyer appears before a grand jury. The grand jury is designed to be a check on the power of the Government and the prosecutor, by making certain that there is probable cause for the filing of criminal charges. If the grand jury votes in favor of charges, an indictment containing those charges is then issued.