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Hospitals with high scores in at least six specialties earn a spot on The Honor Roll.
The National Ranking names the top hospitals in each of 16 specialties.
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The Best Hospital rankings are updated annually in July. Results are posted on US News website. US News is developing "The Best Hospitals Dashboard", which gives hospitals an opportunity to communicate directly with US News making it easier for hospitals to provide updates and ask questions.
US News starts with virtually all nonfederal community hospitals in the U.S. of any size, approximately 4,743 hospitals in 2014. A hospital is first qualified for consideration in the data-driven specialties if it met any of four possible criteria:
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Hospitals meeting any of the above criteria are then considered after meeting the minimum-specified number of discharges as defined. A hospital with below-minimum volume was considered eligible for a specialty if it had a reputation score of 1 percent or greater. Specialties are: Cancer; Cardiology & Heart Surgery; Diabetes & Endocrinology; Ear, Nose & Throat; Gastroenterology; Geriatrics; Gynecology; Kidney Disorders; Neurology & Neurosurgery; Ophthalmology; Orthopedics; Psychiatry; Pulmonology; Rehabilitation; Rheumatology; and Urology.
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The IHQ reflects performance in three interlocked dimensions of health care quality. In order to reflect complications of care that compromise patient care, Patient Safety is considered as a fourth component that is evaluated separately from structure, process and outcomes. Quality dimensions are as follows:
Structure: represented by volume, technology and other characteristics of the hospital environment. A secondary data source such as the AHA Annual Survey, which provides information about various structural hospital characteristics, is utilized. Volume data are taken from the MedPAR database maintained by CMS. This database contains information on all fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries who use hospital inpatient services. This dimension counts for 30% of final score
Process: represented by hospital's reputation. The concept of reputation speaks to an institutional ability to develop and sustain a system that delivers high- quality care. A random sample of 200 board-certified physicians is selected in each specialty from the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician. The physician sample is stratified by census region—West, Northeast, South and Midwest and by specialty. The final aggregated sample includes both federal and nonfederal medical and osteopathic physicians in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The surveyed physicians were asked to nominate the hospitals in their specific field of care, irrespective of expense or location, they consider best for patients with serious or difficult conditions. Up to five hospitals could be listed. A hospital's reputational score is based on the average of responses from the three most recent annual surveys of board-certified physicians. This dimension counts for 27.5% of final score
Outcomes: represented by mortality, harm to patients, preventable readmissions and other consequences of care. The primary outcomes measure is mortality 30 days after admission for all IHQ-driven specialties. Like the volume indicator, the mortality measure is based on MedPAR data. For each hospital and specialty, Truven Health Analytics computes an adjusted mortality rate based on observed and expected mortality rates using the APR-DRG and Medicare Severity (MS) Grouper software. The method is applied to the three most recent fiscal years of Medicare reimbursement claims submitted by hospitals to CMS. This dimension counts for 32.5% of final score
Patient Safety: RTI is using the AHRQ Patient Safety Quality Indicators (PSI) Composite. This dimension counts for 10% of final score
Starting with the 2012-13 ranking, all structure measure values were normalized prior to weighing. The formula for normalization is Normalized Value = Xi/(Maximumi − Minimumi), where Xi = the value for measure i, Maximumi is the highest possible value for measure i and Minimumi is the lowest possible value for measure i. The final score is a weighted sum of structure, process, outcomes, and patient safety measures.
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The remaining four specialties (Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation and Rheumatology) rankings' reflect the results of the reputational survey alone. Many structural and outcomes measures are not applicable to these specialties because procedures are performed largely on an outpatient basis and pose a very small risk of death. For this report, these specialties are referred to as Reputation-Only Rankings.
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In China today, does poetry still matter?
In Verse Going Viral: China's New Media Scenes, Heather Inwood unravels a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry: while poetry as a representation of high culture is widely assumed to be marginalized to the point of death, poetry activity flourishes across the country. She finds that this ancient art form has benefited from China's continued self-identity as a nation of poetry (shiguo) and from the interactive opportunities created by the Internet and other participatory media. In today's guest post, Inwood provides a glimpse into some of the myriad ways the digital revolution has impacted the role of poetry in contemporary Chinese society.
There's a famous Chinese saying that "the misery of the state leads to the emergence of great poets" (guojia buxing shijia xing)–or more literally, "when the state is unfortunate, poets are fortunate." These words come from a poem by the Qing dynasty historian Zhao Yi (1727–1814), observing the phenomenon in which classic works of poetry often appear during times of calamity: war, famine, dynastic downfall, and so on.
The poets Yu Jian and Mo Mo unveil a plaque celebrating the relationship between poetry and real estate at the Lushan Villas complex in Changsha, Hunan, June 2006.
Zhao Yi's saying sprang to mind for many observers of Chinese poetry after the Sichuan Earthquake of May 2008. The loss of nearly 70,000 lives spurred an outpouring of poems that were widely circulated on the Internet, in newspapers, on television and radio, and recited at fundraising events. As a form of writing that "follows from emotion" (shi yuan qing), poetry is ideally placed in times of turmoil and tragedy. When things go wrong, you can trust that poets will find a way to put into words what many are thinking and feeling.
Turn the saying around (when the state is fortunate, poets are unfortunate) and we might have an explanation for why the very existence of poetry in twenty-first century China has been brought into doubt. China as a whole seems to be flourishing, growing in confidence on the global stage and on the way to becoming the world's largest economy. Does that mean it is the poets' turn to suffer, robbed of their source of inspiration and ignored by a public who craves instant entertainment over contemplative reading? Such questions echo concerns around the world about the fate of literature under neoliberal conditions, in which success is judged primarily by the ability to make money. If poets aren't contributing to China's economic rise, why bother writing at all?
Poets sign their autographs upon arriving at Lushan Villas to attend the First Lushan New Century Famous Poets Summit, June 2006.
This is, needless to say, a distorted way of thinking about what it means to write poetry. Yet similar suggestions have surfaced again and again in critiques of modern poetry that swirl across the Chinese media. One outspoken attack came from Han Han, a popular writer and race-car driver with a knack for stirring up public opinion through social media. Joining in the spoofing of some colloquial language poems that went viral on the Internet in late 2006, Han Han proffered the provocative lines,
"My opinion has long been that there is no need for modern poetry or poets to exist, as they are of zero value. These days paper is pretty expensive, so why not write some decent prose and fill the whole page?"
Local school students perform on stage at the Lushan Tomorrow Poetry Recital in Changsha, Hunan, June 2006.
In Verse Going Viral, Han's words lead me into an exploration of the public status of poetry and internal workings of poetry scenes in contemporary China. It is a widely accepted fact that China is a "nation of poetry," but often the same person extolling the importance of poetry will be oblivious to the fact that anybody writes it anymore. Happily, even the briefest search online, look in a bookstore, or venture into China's burgeoning poetry event culture reveals that poetry is, in fact, in rude health. Despite its widely assumed marginality, poetry is everywhere—in the course of my research I attended events in schools, parks, cafés, bars, real estate offices, peach orchards, and concert halls, among other locations—and many people still care about it very, very much.
You might even go so far as to say that rather than caring too little, the public cares about poetry a little too much. The development of modern Chinese poetry has been driven by the need to open the gates of poetry by abandoning the literary language and stylistic conventions of classical poetry for a more free-form, vernacular style of writing. By doing so, early twentieth-century poets hoped that they might use their poetry to participate in the rejuvenation of China, much needed after a series of national humiliations that marked the last few decades of dynastic rule.
Yet the move toward accessibility hasn't always pleased the public. Making written poetry sound like everyday speech was supposed to facilitate communication between poets and their audiences. Instead, it appears to have prompted a large swathe of China's online population to adopt a gatekeeping mentality of their own, complaining that poems that are too easily understood don't deserve the title of "poetry." In doing so, they inadvertently address the question I began with. Does poetry still matter? If the question is being asked in the first place, I would venture that we already know the answer.
Heather Inwood is lecturer of Chinese cultural studies at the University of Manchester. Her book, Verse Going Viral: China's New Media Scenes is now available from the University of Washington Press.
This entry was posted in Asian Art, Asian Studies, Current Events, Guest Post and tagged China on April 24, 2014 by uwpressblog.
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JOHNSTOWN — Fulton County is reappropriating old state funds promised to the county to allow the purchase of a closed circuit camera for the Gloversville Police Department.
The Board of Supervisors on Monday voted to reappropriate 2017 and 2018 state Homeland Security Grant Program funds into the county's 2019 budget to help make the purchase.
The county in both 2017 and 2018 accepted grant funds in the amount of $63,731 for the office, now known as the Fulton County Emergency Management Office.
Supervisors last year authorized office Director Steven Santa Maria to purchase a closed-circuit TV system for the Gloversville Police Department at a cost not to exceed $13,881.
Officials noted the funding process was held up because the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services required an environmental historical preservation document, which was not approved until two months ago.
In another matter impacting the city of Gloversville, the Board of Supervisors approved referring five parcels to the county Demolition Team as part of Operation Green Scene.
The Fulton County solid waste director was authorized to mobilize the demolition team to raze any structures and clean up the following county-owned properties in Gloversville: 10 Union St., 134 North St., 87 Forest St., 424 S. Main St., and 25 Kent St.
The board in February 2001 established the municipal demolition team. In 2004, the board authorized an intermunicipal agreement with the city of Gloversville, with the county assuming property tax collection and enforcement responsibilities for the city. The county also established "Operation Green Scene" to demolish dilapidated residential properties and foster community rehabilitation.
Gloversville 5th Ward Supervisor Gregory Young said this latest planned demolition activity is "good news," noting a number of Gloversville supervisors have met recently with city government officials to work on cleaning up derelict properties.
"They're getting more involved in tax foreclosure and code enforcement," Young said.
Once the structures are razed by the demolition team, he said new owners will invest in the property, take of it and the county won't have to deal with them as foreclosed properties, he said.
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Ted Cruz has some, uh, thoughts about the Supreme Court– namely that there shouldn't really be one. The republican presidential hopeful dropped by 'The Late Show' on Sept. 21 to chat and his comments diminishing the justices are shocking. Watch!
Ted Cruz, 44, is once again making people angry, this time insinuating that the Supreme Court should essentially be eliminated. When he made an appearance on The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert asked the senator his thoughts on gay marriage and while he remains opposed, he did manage to skirt some of the responsibility and turn the question into a complete dismissal of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court justices. You can watch the objectionable remarks below!
Cruz, somewhat shockingly, admitted that there is "nothing diabolical" about the left. Rather, he wishes for a political system which would allow us to, "live within our means, stop bankrupting our kids and grandkids, and follow the Constitution."
"And no gay marriage!" Colbert fired back, to roars from his audience. When Cruz responded that marriage is dictated by the constitution, Colbert quickly corrected him. "It doesn't mention marriage in the Constitution."
If you think Cruz couldn't dig himself deeper from there, don't worry, he does. "The 10th Amendment states that if the Constitution doesn't mention it, it's a question for the states," he said. "I don't think we should entrust governing our society to five unelected lawyers in Washington."
So, in other words, you don't think we should abide by the Supreme Court, Mr. Cruz? Just want to make sure that is what you're saying there. If you missed the interview, the entire thing is worth a watch, particularly if you're still undecided on which way or for whom you'd like to make the most powerful person in the world come 2016. The clip, however, is below.
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1844, Kingdom of Prussia, Frederick William IV. Silver "Mining" Thaler Coin.
Mint Place: Berlin Reference: Davenport 774, KM-446.
Material: Silver (.750) Weight: 22.01gm Diameter: 34mm
Obverse: Head of Frederick William IV right. Mint initial (A) of the Berlin mint below. Legend: FRIEDR. WILHELM IV KOENIG V. PREUSSEN
Reverse: Legend in three lines: "SEGEN DES MANSFELDER BERGBAUES" - "Blessed be the Mansfeld mining!". Legend: EIN THALER XIV EINE FEINE MARK 1844
King Frederick William IV of Prussia (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preußen) (15 October 1795 – 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel (1840–1857).
Frederick William was educated by private tutors, many of whom were experienced civil servants, such as Friedrich Ancillon. He also gained military experience by serving in the army during the War of Liberation against Napoleon I of France in 1814, though he was an indifferent soldier. He was a draftsman interested in both architecture and landscape gardening and was a patron of several great German artists, including architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. He married Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria in 1823, but the couple had no children.
Frederick William was a staunch Romanticist, and his devotion to this movement, which in the German States featured a nostalgia for the Middle Ages, was largely responsible for him developing into a conservative at an early age. In 1815, when he was only 20, the crown prince exerted his influence to structure the proposed constitution of 1815, which was never actually enacted, in such a way that the landed aristocracy would hold the majority of the power. He was firmly against both liberalisation and unification of Germany, preferring to allow Austria to remain the principal power in the German states.
pon his accession, he toned down the reactionary policies enacted by his father, easing press censorship and promising to enact a constitution at some point, but he refused to enact a popular legislative assembly, preferring to work with the aristocracy through "united committees" of the provincial estates. Despite being a devout Lutheran[citation needed], his Romantic leanings led him to settle the Cologne church conflict by releasing the imprisoned Archbishop of Cologne, and he patronized further construction of Cologne Cathedral. In 1844, he attended the celebrations marking the completion of the cathedral, becoming the first king of Prussia to enter a Roman Catholic building. When he finally called a national assembly in 1847, it was not a representative body, but rather a United Diet comprising all the provincial estates, which had the right to grant taxes and loans but no right to meet at regular intervals.
When revolution broke out in Prussia in March 1848, part of the larger Revolutions of 1848, the king initially moved to repress it with the army, but later decided to recall the troops and place himself at the head of the movement on 19 March. He committed himself to German unification, formed a liberal government, convened a national assembly, and ordered that a Constitution of the Kingdom of Prussia be drawn up. Once his position was more secure again, however, he quickly had the army reoccupy Berlin and dissolved the assembly in December. He did, however, remain dedicated to unification for a time, leading the Frankfurt Parliament to offer him the crown of Germany on 3 April 1849, which he refused, purportedly saying that he would not accept "a crown from the gutter". He did attempt to establish the Erfurt Union, a union of German states excluding Austria, soon after, but abandoned the idea by the Punctation of Olmütz on 29 November 1850, in the face of Austrian resistance.
Rather than returning to bureaucratic rule after dismissing the national assembly, Frederick William promulgated a new constitution that created a parliament with two chambers, an aristocratic upper house and an elected lower house. The lower house was elected by all taxpayers, but in a three-tiered system based on the amount of taxes paid so that true universal suffrage was denied. The constitution also reserved for the king the power of appointing all ministers, reestablished the conservative district assemblies and provincial diets, and guaranteed that the bureaucracy and the military remained firmly in the hands of the king. This was a more liberal system than had existed in Prussia before 1848, but was still a conservative system of government in which the monarch, the aristocracy, and the military retained most of the power. This constitution remained in effect until the dissolution of the Prussian kingdom in 1918.
A stroke in 1857 left the king partially paralyzed and largely mentally incapacitated, and his brother William served as regent from 1858 until the king's death in 1861, at which point he acceded the throne himself as William I.
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CoinWorldTV 1844, Kingdom of Prussia, Frederick William IV. Silver "Mining" Thaler Coin. VF+ Mint year: 1844 Mint Place: Berlin Mintage: 50,000 pcs. Reference: Davenport 774, KM-446. R! Denomination: Mining Thaler - Struck from the silver ore, mined at the mansfeld silver mines! Condit ...
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79-2979. Telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund; distributions, procedures; duties of secretary of revenue. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund which shall be administered by the state treasurer. All expenditures from the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund shall be for the payments to counties for distribution to taxing subdivisions levying ad valorem taxes within the county in accordance with this section.
(b) The secretary of revenue shall adopt a policy using the most current information that is available, and that is determined to be practicable by the secretary for this purpose and shall calculate the following:
(1) On January 31, 2008, the secretary shall calculate for each county an amount equal to the difference in total ad valorem taxes levied by the county on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment for all taxing subdivisions within the county imposing ad valorem taxes on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment for tax year 2005, and the total of such ad valorem taxes levied for tax year 2007 not including any such ad valorem taxes on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment that were abated or exempted prior to July 1, 2006, and which such abatement or exemption expired after July 1, 2006. On or before February 15, 2008, subject to the provisions of subsection (c), the state treasurer shall pay to the county treasurer of each county an amount equal to 90% of such difference for distribution as provided in subsection (d).
(2) On January 31, 2009, the secretary shall calculate for each county an amount equal to the difference in total ad valorem taxes levied by the county on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment for all taxing subdivisions within the county imposing ad valorem taxes on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment for tax year 2005, and the total of such ad valorem taxes levied for tax year 2008 not including any such ad valorem taxes on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment that were abated or exempted prior to July 1, 2006, and which such abatement or exemption expired after July 1, 2006. On March 2, 2009, subject to the provisions of subsection (c) and subsection (f), the state treasurer shall pay to the county treasurer of each county an amount equal to 70% of such difference for distribution as provided in subsection (d).
(6) There shall be no payments made pursuant to this section after the payments made by the state treasurer on or before February 15, 2012, and the provisions of this section shall expire at such time.
(c) If the amount calculated for the difference in subsections (b)(1) through (b)(5) is negative, the amount calculated for such county for such year shall be deemed to be zero and no amount shall be paid to the county treasurer of such county as otherwise provided in subsection (b). Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the county to make any payments to the state in such event that the amount calculated for the difference is negative for the county for such year.
(d) (1) On January 31 of each year specified in this section, the secretary of revenue shall certify to the director of accounts and reports the aggregate of all amounts determined for counties pursuant to subsection (b). Upon receipt of such certification, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer the amount certified from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund, except that (A) the aggregate amount of moneys transferred from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, pursuant to this section shall not exceed the maximum amount determined pursuant to subsection (f), (B) an amount equal to 50% of the maximum amount determined pursuant to subsection (f) shall be transferred from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund on March 2, 2009, (C) no moneys shall be transferred from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, pursuant to this section, (D) no moneys shall be transferred from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, pursuant to this section, (E) no moneys shall be transferred from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, pursuant to this section, (F) no moneys shall be transferred from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2013, pursuant to this section, and (G) no moneys shall be transferred from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, pursuant to this section.
(2) The state treasurer shall apportion and distribute the moneys credited to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund to the county treasurers in accordance with subsection (b). Upon receipt of each such amount, each county treasurer shall apportion such amount among the ad valorem taxing subdivisions imposing ad valorem taxes on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment in an amount equal to the difference between the total ad valorem taxes on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment levied by each such ad valorem taxing subdivision for the tax year 2005 and the total ad valorem taxes on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment levied by each such ad valorem taxing subdivision for the tax year of the apportionment, subject to the percentage reduction set forth in subsection (b) for the tax year of the apportionment of such moneys to that county. The county treasurer shall pay such amounts to the taxing subdivisions at the same time or times as their regular operating tax rate mill levy is paid to them.
(e) Before January 31 of 2007 through 2013, the secretary of revenue shall make a detailed report of amounts calculated as required pursuant to subsection (b) for each individual county and in aggregate for all the counties for the current year along with any projections for future years, amounts distributed to the counties pursuant to this section, the amount of ad valorem taxes on telecommunications machinery and equipment and railroad machinery and equipment not included in the total of ad valorem taxes for each tax year due to the fact that the tax liability of such machinery and equipment was abated or exempted prior to July 1, 2006, and the abatement or exemption expired after July 1, 2006, for each individual county and in aggregate for all counties and all other relevant information related to the provisions of this section, and shall present such report before such date to the house committee on taxation of the house of representatives and the senate committee on assessment and taxation of the senate for consideration by the legislature in making any appropriate adjustments to the provisions of this section.
(f) (1) The maximum amount that may be transferred during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund pursuant to this section shall be equal to (A) the amount equal to 93.5% of the aggregate amount determined under subsection (b)(2) plus the amount equal to 93.5% of the aggregate amount determined under subsection (b)(2) of K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 79-2978, and amendments thereto, multiplied by (B) the result obtained by dividing the amount equal to 93.5% of the aggregate amount determined under subsection (b)(2) by the aggregate of the amount equal to 93.5% of the aggregate amount determined under subsection (b)(2) plus the amount equal to 93.5% of the aggregate amount determined under subsection (b)(2) of K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 79-2978, and amendments thereto.
(2) If a maximum amount is imposed under this subsection and the aggregate amount transferred from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during state fiscal year 2009 pursuant to this section is reduced, then the amount allocated to each county by the state treasurer under subsection (b)(2) shall be reduced proportionately with respect to aggregate reduction in the amount of such transfer from the state general fund to the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during state fiscal year 2009.
History: L. 2006, ch. 205, § 4; L. 2007, ch. 152, § 3; L. 2009, ch. 2, § 89; L. 2009, ch. 144, § 85; L. 2010, ch. 165, § 153; L. 2012, ch. 175, § 163; July 1.
Revisor's Note:
Section was also amended by L. 2009, ch. 124, § 143, but that version was repealed by L. 2009, ch. 144, § 91.


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March 12, 2017 Stephen H. Provost
Janet Racciato is the author of Jade and Time of the Assassin, the second installment of the Jade series, which focuses on Julie, who has the power to teleport to anywhere or anyone in the world. She sat down for an e-interview with The Open Book to discuss the series.
Author's website: http://www.elfinforestwritersguild.com/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jade-Janet-Racciato/dp/1495488209/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jade-269437156552165/
Name, age and occupation: Janet Racciato, 44, I am currently a stay-at-home mom, but I was the director of Together We Grow, a facility for children with special medical needs.
Where and with whom do you live? I live in Escondido, with my husband, two daughters, dogs and horses.
If you could co-write a book with any author, living or dead, whom would you choose? If I could co-write a book with any author it would be Jim Butcher. I think his stories are amazing.
Why do you write? I write because I have stories running around in my head that I think other people would enjoy too.
Where do you write? I write anywhere that I can find. I've done some of my best scenes while waiting in my car to pick up my kids from school.
What imaginary land would you like to visit? If I could live in any imaginary land I would choose to live on Pern, by Anne McCaffrey. It has vast unexplored areas and dragons and firelizards to impress.
What animal, real or imaginary, would you choose as your constant companion? I would choose Mouse, the temple dog from the Harry Dresden Files, as my constant companion.
Historical period you'd like to visit: I would love to visit Ancient Egypt.
Favorite board, card or video game: My favorite video game is a toss up between Diablo and Minecraft.
"I loved this book! Well written and compelling. You won't want to put it down."
— Lynda D. O'Byrne, Amazon review of "Jade"
Genre and length: Jade, urban sci-fi, 368 pages.
When and where does it take place? It takes place in the present, and the main character lives in Oceanside, California, but she teleports all over the world.
How did you come up with the title? The title is based on the main character's alternate identity, her superhero name.
What inspired you to write it? About nine years ago I had two friends die. One was a Marine who died in the Middle East and I watched his family deal with their loss. The other was a very close friend, an uncle figure to my daughters, who died under mysterious circumstances. The Jade story was one that I told myself to help me fall asleep at night instead of thinking about the friends I had lost. I was feeling helpless, especially with the chaos in the Middle East at the time. I came up with a superhero who could help. The story evolved over the years, and after about seven years I decided to try to write it down.
Is there a sequel in the works? It is a trilogy, with the second in the series, Time of the Assassin, just recently published. The final book, Mercy's Battle, is due out this year.
Where, how can you get it? Jade and its sequels are available on Amazon in paperback and ebook.
Who would want to ban it? If anyone would want to ban my book it would be China or North Korea.
To whom did you dedicate it and why? I dedicated Jade to my two daughters. They were always my biggest fans. Their love of my writing, even when I was just starting and was terrible, encouraged me to keep trying.
"Awesome book! Truly enjoyed the first and this sequel is no let down!"
— Amazon review of "Time of the Assassin"
Name, age and occupation: Julie, 19, nursing student.
Where and with whom does she live? She lives with her parents in Oceanside with a dog that she rescued using her powers.
Who would play your protagonist in a movie? I'm not sure who I'd want to play my protagonist. Maybe Dakota Fanning.
What real-life person would be your protagonist's hero, mentor or role model? My protagonist's mentor would be the same person who was her role model in the story. Her Uncle Mark is based on a real person, our family's close friend who died.
Who's her celebrity crush? Her celebrity crush is Brendan Fraser from The Mummy.
What's her biggest fear/phobia? Her biggest fear is being alone, of losing another friend.
What's her favorite quote or motto? Her favorite motto is Keep Calm, Zap On.
Weapon of choice: Her weapon of choice is a shotgun.
tags Jade, Janet Racciato, Time of the Assassin, Fantasy, Teleportation, Janet D. Racciato


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Building Materials Matter
Life-cycle view supports informed choices, contributes to sustainable design
Sponsored by Think Wood
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Carbon Footprint: Reducing Greenhouse Gases
Although there is growing awareness that using wood from sustainably managed forests can reduce a building's carbon footprint, only a portion of wood's benefits are recognized in an LCA. As noted, the LCA literature review concluded that fossil fuel consumption and potential contributions to the greenhouse effect tend to be minor for wood products compared with competing products. This is because wood products require less energy to manufacture than other major building materials, and most of that comes from renewable biomass (e.g., sawdust, bark and other residual fiber).3
The other aspect to wood's carbon footprint is that as trees grow they absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, release the oxygen (O2), and incorporate the carbon into their wood, leaves or needles, roots, and surrounding soil. Young, vigorously growing trees take up carbon quickly, with the rate slowing as they reach maturity (typically 60-100 years, depending on species and environmental factors). Over time, one of three things then happens:
When the trees get older, they start to decay and slowly release the stored carbon.
The forest succumbs to wildfire, insects or disease and releases the carbon quickly.
The trees are harvested and manufactured into products, which continue to store much of the carbon. (Wood material is approximately 50 percent carbon by dry weight.) In the case of wood buildings, the carbon is kept out of the atmosphere for the lifetime of the structure—or longer if the wood is reclaimed at the end of the building's service life and reused or manufactured into other products.
Unless the land is converted to another use, the cycle begins again as the forest regenerates and young seedlings once again begin absorbing CO2. For more information, the USDA Forest Service recently released an infographic illustrating the forest/carbon cycle (www.fs.fed.us/climatechange/advisor/scorecard/Carbon_Infographic_Final.pdf).
CALCULATING THE IMPACTS OF BUILDING DESIGNS
Numerous free tools are available to evaluate the environmental impacts of building designs. For example, the Athena Impact Estimator for Buildings gives users access to life-cycle data without requiring advanced skills. It can model more than 1,200 structural and envelope assembly combinations, allowing for quick and easy comparison of design options. Another free tool, the Carbon Calculator for Wood Buildings (cc.woodworks.org), focuses on carbon footprint. Users input the volume of structural wood in a building, and the calculator estimates how much carbon is stored in the wood, the greenhouse gas emissions avoided by not using steel or concrete, and the amount of time it takes North American forests to grow that volume of wood.4
Initial Embodied Impacts: From Extraction to Construction
The impact of materials from extraction or harvesting through manufacturing, transportation and construction are considered initial embodied impacts. They are distinct from operational impacts, which result from a building's operation and from recurring embodied impacts, which relate to the durability of building materials, components and systems; how well they're maintained; and the service life of the building. Building materials tend to have the greatest impact from extraction through manufacturing. Within an LCA, this is also where wood's advantages are most evident.
Wood products store carbon. In the case of wood buildings, the carbon is kept out of the atmosphere for the lifetime of the structure—or longer if the wood is reclaimed and reused or manufactured into other products.
The life cycle of building products typically starts with the extraction of raw resources such as timber, iron ore, limestone and aggregates. The collection of data starts here, with the tracking of energy use and emissions to air, water and land per unit of resource. Wood's impacts during this phase are relatively low compared with concrete and steel, which are made from substances that must be mined and heated to extremely high temperatures.5
A typical concrete mix is about 10 to 15 percent cement, 60 to 75 percent aggregate and 15 to 20 percent water, though proportions change to achieve different requirements for strength and flexibility. While most of concrete's ingredients are themselves manufactured products or mined materials, it's the cement in concrete that has the highest embodied energy.6 According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the cement industry is the most energy-intensive of all manufacturing industries. Cement is also unique in its heavy reliance on coal and petroleum coke.7
A major ingredient needed for cement is limestone, which is found in abundance in many places in the world. In most cases, limestone is blasted from surface mines and removed in large blocks to a crusher, mixed with other raw materials, and transferred to a rotating furnace, where it is heated to about 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit in order for the materials to coalesce. The mixture is cooled and ground to fine powder (cement), which is transported to its destination by truck, rail or ship. Fly ash, a byproduct of coal burning, can be substituted for some of the cement, as can a variety of other ingredients, with associated reductions in carbon footprint.8,9,10,11
Steel is an alloy consisting mainly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2 percent and 2.1 percent by weight, depending on grade. Steel's main ingredient is iron ore, which must be extracted through open-pit mining and heated to extremely high temperatures. In surface mines, ground is removed from large areas to expose the ore. Ore is then crushed, sorted and transported by train or ship to the blast furnace, where the iron is heated to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, usually with charcoal or coke, and charged with the ore and limestone. The molten iron drains off, and iron ingots are formed. This pig iron, as the ingots are called, is the basis for steel.12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
For both concrete and steel there are environmental consequences from open-pit mining, and from the fossil fuels used to process the raw materials. However, both industries continue making strides to lighten their environmental footprint.18, 19, 20
RENEWABLE VS. RECYCLABLE
Calculated using the Athena Impact Estimator for Buildings. Image courtesy of FPInnovations
A natural resource is renewable if it can be naturally replaced at the rate at which it is consumed. Of the three building materials, wood is the only renewable resource. Recyclability is another matter. Waste recovery and recycling are important societal goals in the quest to ensure efficient use of resources. It has become increasingly common to extend the life cycles of steel, concrete and wood through recycling and reuse; however, there is room to improve the recovery rate for all three materials. (See section, "End of Life.")
In the context of comparing one building design with another, it is also useful to consider the environmental impacts of the applicable recycling process. For example, recycling scrap steel requires approximately half the energy as refining virgin steel from iron ore, yet this is still considerably more energy than is required to manufacture wood products.21, 22 Expanding this point to other impact categories, the chart above compares the LCA profile of two standard structural post-and-beam systems, and one hypothetical steel system with 100 percent recycled content. Wood is shown to be superior to virgin steel in all categories and to the hypothetical 100 percent recycled steel in all categories except air pollution and resource use.
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Originally published in November 2015


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Křižovnická ulice v Praze na Starém Městě v Praze vede od Křižovnického náměstí k náměstí Jana Palacha.

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Na jižní straně začíná Křižovnická ulice podjezdem pod historickými obytnými domy (Colloredo-mansfeldský palác) od Smetanova nábřeží a Křižovnickým náměstím u Staroměstské věže Karlova mostu začíná na křižovatce Karlovy ulice, Smetanova nábřeží.

Nazvána je podle kláštera řádu křižovníků založeného v roce 1252, výstavba byla dokončena za panování krále Václava II. (1271-1305).

Celou východní stranu jižní části ulice (přibližně polovina celé délky ulice) tvoří budova Klementina, původně jezuitské koleje založené v roce 1556, od roku 1990 sídla Národní knihovny České republiky.

Ulicí je vedena tramvajová trať a linky autobusové dopravy MHD.

Historie a názvy
Původně stál příčně k této komunikaci Juditin most, zbudovaný v letech 1158-1172 a rytířský řád křižovníků s červenou hvězdou ho do roku 1342 spravoval a vybíral mýtné. Severní část ulice se původně nazývala "Granátová" nebo "Malá Křižovnická", od roku 1870 se celá ulice nazývá "Křižovnická", německy pak Kreuzherrenstrasse.

Budovy, firmy a instituce
 Klášter křižovníků s kostelem sv. Františka z Assisi - Křižovnická 1
 kolej Klementinum s kostelem Nejsv. Salvátora, Salvátorská farní knihovna - Křižovnická 2
 městský dům - Křižovnická 3
 Vinárna U křižovníků – restaurace v historii proslulá jako centrum výtvarných umělců - disidentů, zvané Křižovnická škola čistého humoru bez vtipu, založená roku 1963, jejími zakladateli byli Karel Nepraš a Jan Steklík, členy např. Zbyšek Sion, Eugen Brikcius nebo Naděžda Plíšková
 škola – čp. 82/I Křižovnická 5, novorenesanční budova Měšťanské dívčí školy Na Rejdišti, arch. Josef Srdínko, v nikách u vchodu stály do roku 1990 protějškové sochy chlapce a dívky; nad portálem busta Tomáše Štítného, na druhém průčelí J. A. Komenského; od 1949 do 1990 (?) Střední zdravotnická škola
 Taneční konzervatoř hlavního města Prahy – čp. 81/I Křižovnická 7, novorenesanční školní budova Pedagogium postavena jako Učitelský ústav pro vzdělání učitelek, architekt František Schmoranz (1882-1885), na fasádě průčelí busty mladých žen a tři štítky se jmény Wenzig, Komenský, Svoboda. 11. října 1945 zde Jan Reimoser (Jan Rey) založil Taneční konzervatoř, která v budově sídlí dosud.
 Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze – čp. 80/I Křižovnická 9, Palachovo nám. 3, novorenesanční budova, architekti František Schmoranz ml. a Jan Machytka (projekt 1882), škola otevřena roku 1885; na fasádě v pískovci tesané reliéfy a na deskách jména slavných mistrů oboru; v suterénu dochován fragment bastionu středověké městské hradby.
 Dům Na Kocandě - čp. 71/I Křižovnická 14, Kaprova 2, novorenesanční nájemní dům, arch. Václav Sigmund; pamětní deska s bustou připomíná, že se zde roku 1890 narodil akademik Jaroslav Heyrovský.

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Reference

Literatura

 Pavel Vlček a kolektiv autorů: Umělecké památky Prahy, Staré Město a Josefov I, Academia Praha 1996, s. 171–174

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A mixed bag today. I had agreed to meet some mates in La Daille, which was a bit challenging due to the lack of lifts initially, so having checked with the pisteurs that the links would open eventually I was first down Creux. The snow was not light by that time, I suspect the winds and the temperatures had played their part in settling it. I suspect the snow was lighter higher up (maybe), but visibility was a problem. Having found said mates we skied around Bellvarde. The sun then came out which also brought out the hordes. The snow on piste soon mogulled up, in fact Face de Bellvarde was back to frozen slush in places as the snow piled up. The road between Val and Le Fornet had to close because of ice for a while. Odd moment of the day was a mouse appearing on the piste between the bottom of Carpe Diem and Marmottes chair. It seemed intent on heading for the lift queue, I hope he made it. The patches of sun vanished at about 2pm. It is now snowing again and the visibility is poor. There will be some great pistes tomorrow depending on when they are pisted and how hard the snow falls. Off piste will have many dangers with the temperature rise, the wind and the new snow.The snow will continue through the night and the winds will calm. Another busy morning for the pisteurs. The snow will continue to fall through the morning but the intensity will drop and by late afternoon we may see the sun, just as the lifts close. It will be a couple of degrees warmer than today, meaning the snow line will gradually come uphill to 1700m in the afternoon. Expect slushy snow sticking to the goggles by mid morning at the levels of the main villages. Friday will be warmer again, the sky will be obscured in the morning by a veil of high cloud, but the sun will appear in the afternoon as will high winds after lunch, keep an eye on the links for your last runs!! Saturday is going to be a real mixed bag, high winds and heavy snow showers, but only above 1700m, below that it will be rain, which should make it easier on the transfer jams, expect the snow chain police to be out near the Dam. After dark it will snow down to 1000m. Sunday and beyond is all a bit unpredictable, but unsettled would be the one word I would use. Between now and Monday there will be at least another foot of snow (to be old fashioned!).
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January 7, 2020 January 7, 2020 by emilydufton
Magic Cures and their Discontents: The Belladonna Treatment in the Early Twentieth-Century
Jordan Mylet
AA, Addiction treatment, belladonna, hyoscine treatment
Editor's Note: Today's post comes from contributing editor Jordan Mylet. Mylet is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California, San Diego.
When Bill Wilson had the "spiritual awakening" at the upscale Charles B. Towns Hospital in New York City that would inspire the founding and program of Alcoholics Anonymous, he probably didn't know the strange, at times sinister, history of the treatment that made his transcendent experience possible.
What he received was the Towns Hospital's version of the belladonna treatment, which had emerged as a cutting-edge addiction treatment in 1900 and became the dominant method in public and private hospitals by the 1920s. Per its name, the treatment was derived from alkaloids of the belladonna and henbane plants in the nightshade family, which had been used for millennia as poison, cosmetic enhancement, and hallucinogen. They were known to be potent, psychoactive, and potentially fatal. As the belladonna treatment (or "hyoscine cure") spread in American medical practice, physicians and medical researchers engaged in an unwieldy process of trial and error to control the volatile qualities of the drug mixture. In practice, this meant that poor addicts and alcoholics during the first decades of the twentieth century encountered a far more dangerous version of the belladonna treatment. The course of the hyoscine cure reveals the long history of the United States' two-tiered addiction treatment (and healthcare) system, and the at times wildly experimental character of medicine and pharmacology in the early twentieth century, the same era in which the nation's narcotics control laws were developed.
The belladonna treatment for addiction came out of the nineteenth-century revolution in pharmaceutical and medical knowledge. Medical researchers in Western Europe created the drugs that would become both the stuff of, and the supposed cure for, addiction in the twentieth century. In the 1830s, German pharmaceutical researchers—using a process developed by their colleagues to create morphine from opium in 1805—worked successfully to isolate compounds from nightshade plants that could treat specific mental and physical ailments. By the 1890s, asylums in Western Europe and the United States used the Merck company's nightshade alkaloid, called hyoscine (or scopolamine), to treat cases of chronic mania and, increasingly, chronic alcoholism. In 1901, two physicians, Dr. M.K. Lott from Texas and Dr. George E. Petty from Tennessee, published papers extolling the benefits of "the hyoscine treatment" for morphine addiction. According to a 1938 U.S. Public Health Service report, it was Dr. Petty who was responsible for the belladonna treatment "com[ing] into almost universal use in this country." Under Petty's method, the patient was gradually weaned from morphine over a period of 36 hours while simultaneously giving them "cathartics" to purge the body by vomiting and defecating. After the morphine dosing ended, Petty administered frequent doses of hyoscine and purgative drugs for another 36 to 48 hours to induce delirium and continue to clean out their system.
The logic undergirding his withdrawal treatment stemmed from nineteenth-century advances in immunology and curative drugs. In 1891, medical researchers discovered a cure for diphtheria based on the healthy body's capacity to create antitoxins designed to combat specific bacterial toxins. To physicians like Petty—and later Dr. Alexander Lambert, Theodore Roosevelt's personal physician and the other founder of the Towns-Lambert cure that Bill Wilson underwent—it made sense that "toxins" like alcohol and morphine must be banished from the body by "antitoxins" like hyoscine, which generated in patients the opposite effects of their chosen narcotic drugs. One of Dr. Lambert's acolytes described the method as "a really rational treatment for the drug addict," since it serves to "unpoison the system," mainly by evacuating the bowels of the patient. Both Petty and Lambert emphasized the importance of purgation; Lambert even mentions "abundant bilious stools" as evidence of a successful treatment. Though addiction researchers by the late 1930s would deem the theory "illogical," belladonna's proponents reasoned that if morphine constipated its users, an effective antitoxin would purge the body—and, more controversially, if narcotics induced euphoria, then a cure might necessitate a degree of suffering.[1]
Advertisement in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1910
The degree to which addicts and alcoholics experienced such suffering while under the belladonna treatment depended on where they received treatment—which depended mostly on their socioeconomic status. No doubt influenced by the Petty method popularized years earlier, Charles Towns, a layman, and Dr. Alexander Lambert declared addiction and alcoholism "curable" in 1909, to much acclaim in the popular and medical press. The Towns Hospital administered the two men's particular recipe of belladonna and other drugs to mostly wealthy clients, who spent $250 to $300 per day for treatment. (The hospital's public ward, which charged $70 per day, was closed in the 1920s.) The mixture of belladonna and purgative drugs, administered over a period of days, was accompanied by meal service to patients' private rooms, a rooftop garden for relaxation and leisure, and personalized care by nurses and physicians.
The version given to the treatment's earlier and poorer recipients was far more severe. In his 1901 paper, Texas physician Dr. Lott acknowledged that patients could become "quite wild," hallucinating voices and visions, and recommended that patients be supervised constantly in order to prevent self-harm. In 1904, a Mississippi asylum superintendent, Dr. James Buchanan, published his observations of two hyoscine patients—one of whom underwent the treatment against his will—in the American Journal of Insanity. Over the course of a few days, Buchanan's notes recounted the content of belladonna-induced delirium: "Begged for morphine and cocaine. Has begun to see bugs." "Delirious and hard to keep on bed." "Delirious and very nervous, picking at bed-clothes, sees bugs, and is afraid of the hypodermic." "Vomiting." "Still buggy." Buchanan expressed satisfaction with the method despite its side effects because the patients, at the end of treatment, reported no craving for morphine. However, the journal published comments to Buchanan's article from other physicians who emphasized that hyoscine was "a very dangerous drug" and that they had seen extreme suffering result from its usage. A 1904 editorial in the Journal of Inebriety responded to the "number of communications extolling hyoscine in the treatment of morphinism" with a reminder of its "uncertain and dangerous" results, including the instance of an addicted physician who tried the hyoscine treatment and fell into "acute delirium" for 22 days.
A striking firsthand account of the hyoscine treatment as experienced by an indigent New York City heroin addict comes from Leroy Street's pseudonymous 1953 memoir I Was A Drug Addict. While recounting the years from 1910 to 1923 that he spent addicted, Street describes the various cures he tried to quit his habit. Around 1915, Street heard from a fellow user that the city was offering treatment at Metropolitan Hospital on Blackwell's Island, free of charge. He heard from another using friend that people had died under this "Met cure," but signed up at the city office on the dock anyway. Upon arriving at the island hospital, Street was told it was mandatory to note his religious affiliation. A priest came to read Street his last rites, then Street entered into a ward with six beds, three of which had "figures[s] that moaned and struggled," their bodies "held down by straps and restraining sheets" and "contorted…into inhuman grimaces of pain, of horror, of fear, of loathing." When the staff injected him with the hyoscine mixture, Street felt "a stream of liquid fire" spread throughout his arm, then "a swarm of centipedes" crawling across his body. What followed were visions of desperate searches for heroin, arrest by narcotics agents, and unspecified "terrors" from his childhood—until he woke up, three days later, "drenched in perspiration and so weak" he could barely walk after being unstrapped. The hospital kept him for another week—during which Street noticed the disappearance of a couple fellow hyoscine patients from the ward—and then shipped him back to the city. He used heroin after getting off the dock.
It's hard to know what dosage of hyoscine was administered to Street, but it seems fair to speculate that his "cure" was far more extreme than that experienced by the clients of the Towns hospital and perhaps many other recipients of the belladonna mixture. Yet the popularity of the Towns-Lambert method—and the luxuriousness of its institutional setting—often obscured the fact that hyoscine treatments remained dangerous, particularly for poor addicts and alcoholics. In 1921, the prominent physician Charles Terry testified in the U.S. House that he himself had been responsible for the death of an addicted woman after administering the Towns-Lambert method to her in a Jacksonville clinic. He had raised funds to operate a clinic on the Towns model for indigent addicts, but "was not prepared for the extreme suffering" he observed. In a 1938 report, influential addiction researchers Lawrence Kolb and Clifton Himmelsbach concluded that "unreported deaths" from belladonna treatments must have been "fairly common," based on their personal experience and a review of the medical literature. They also emphasized that the Towns-Lambert treatment permeated American medical practice—but its careful, more holistic administration did not. In the case of two deaths, Kolb and Himmelsbach attributed them to the hospital's refusal to provide any morphine to the patients, because the staff "considered [it]…to be more or less sinful and criminal to give morphine to an addict."
In that same report, Kolb and Himmelsbach declared belladonna treatments "absolutely useless and even harmful to addicts in withdrawal"—while also acknowledging that they have "no theory" about drug addiction or how to treat it. They advocated for a gradual withdrawal process under hospital observation, in lieu of any ambitious promises of cure. When looking back at Leroy Street's experience, or that of Charles Terry's patients, their contempt for the belladonna method is understandable. And yet it's interesting to consider, also, that one of the nodes on the peculiar genealogy of this treatment is Bill Willson's epiphany, and the spark of a grassroots recovery movement.
I owe the substance of this insight to pathologist Thomas Dormandy in his book Opium: Reality's Dark Dream (Yale University Press, 2012).
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Earlier today I was shocked to read this article in which it was made clear that Leicester brewery Everards was on the verge of driving a small independent Scottish brewery out of business over the most phenomenally overzealous intellectual property issue, and something you'd expect to see from the likes of Starbucks rather than a family-run British brewery that seemingly prides itself on traditional values.
Elixir Brew Co was seemingly facing extinction over trademark issues – Everards filing a trademark application brought about by the release of a seasonal ale in 2012 named Everards Elixir despite being on slightly iffy ground by naming one of their beers 'Tiger' – Pot. Kettle. Etc.
While there was never likely to be any confusion whatsoever between the two breweries or their products, Everards seemed undeterred by the prospect of driving a small brewery out of business nonetheless, despite not even having bothered to contact Elixir founder Ben Bullen prior to their legal assault, nor apparently bothering to respond to his attempts to contact them and to find some form of compromise – preferring instead to hide behind their legal team.
Faced with just one week to comply with Everards legal demands and unable to bankroll a legal fight over the issue, things were looking immensely bleak for Elixir Brew Co.
Incensed by the lunacy of the situation, many people took to Everards Facebook page to voice their opinions, which ranged from simple insults to well-rounded arguments – both having their place in terms of making a point and adding to the growing momentum against such a disproportionately litigious approach to a tremendously farcical situation.
Anyone convinced by this? Thought not.
Cue further enlightened comments, interspersed with abuse, insults and veiled threats, as is the way of the internet.


I am grateful to my Bubbe, who arrived in London from the Pale of Settlement in 1890, cradling the first of her 10 children, my beloved grandma. And equally to the paternal grandfather I sadly never met, who made his painful way to Britain from Bobruisk, Belarus, despite his gammy leg. Thanks to them my family thrived here rather than perishing in a pit in the Holocaust. But did they leave voluntarily, or were they pushed out like the Jews of Anatevka?
Daniel Evans' beautifully thought-through production made me ponder this question more than any previous incarnation of this much-loved musical, based on Shalom Aleichem's equally-loved tales. Gloriously funny though it may be when appropriate, it provokes thought as well as sentimental tears, starting with the eloquent opening, which actually has these Jews arriving to set up home in Anatevka from wherever else they have fled or been ejected.
Each carries some form of luggage – a metaphor for emotional baggage, somehow simultaneously obvious and subtle. For much of the evening designer Lez Brotherston offers little more set than these precious objects, both sentimental and practical, accompanying their owners to change each scene (the Sabbath table is extended to accommodate visiting student Perchik by adding a trunk covered with a tablecloth).
So as they dare to put down tentative roots in Anatevka, instead of the opening number Tradition bursting brashly onto the stage, its performers earn the right to share the significance of their traditions with their audience.
It makes the humour of Omid Djalili's splendidly warm and rounded Tevye all the richer and more nuanced. Iranian-born Bahai Djalili is no stranger to playing Jews. On his CV are Fagin in Oliver! and a Muslim who discovers he was born Jewish in Infidel – you could now add he was born to play Tevye. He splendidly embodies the conflicted milkman torn between the security blanket of tradition and losing his daughters if he won't face up to the changes their generation embraces. And he effortlessly laughs with his audience at himself and that dilemma, coining anew those catchphrases: "On the one hand… on the other hand…" and "As the Good Book says…" so you feel his God might laugh sympathetically too.
He's well-matched by Tracy-Ann Oberman's brisk, dry-humoured, long-suffering Golde, especially in their touching "Silver Wedding" duet Do You Love Me? ("after 25 years it's nice to know!").
The show's elegant structure has each of his three oldest daughters push the boundaries a little further. Tzeitel gets her father onside so she can marry her poor Jewish tailor rather than wealthy widower, the butcher Lazar Wolf. Hodel and student revolutionary Perchik will marry without Tevye's permission if necessary. And Chava must accept that she is dead to her father if she marries 'out' – her beloved Fyedka is a Gentile. All are strongly cast here. Simbi Akande's Tzeitel is touchingly single-minded in her love for Jos Slovick's doggedly determined Motel. Emma Kingston's spiky Hodel vividly charts her awakening love and awareness of a world outside Anatevka, as she falls for Louis Maskell's ardent, assertive Perchik. And Rose Shalloo's vulnerable, bespectacled Chava is heartbreaking, pleading for acceptance of Luke Fetherston's sensitive Fyedka.
Watching the "little unofficial demonstrations" that the local militia are ordered to carry out against their Jewish population, starting with the chilling disruption of the joy and emotion of Motel and Tzeitel's wedding, you can understand Tevye's tipping point.
Set pieces like the wedding and Tevye's dream conjuring Grandma Tzeitel (Mia Soteriou) to speak for Motel and Lazar Wolf's formidable late wife Fruma Sarah (Laura Tebbutt) to forbid her husband's remarriage are imaginatively realised, the latter with stunning lighting (David Hersey) and fiery effects. And Alistair David's choreography has Anatevka's Jews hold themselves with an authentic upper-body erectness, proud and graceful, whether in a circle dance for both sexes or the famous men-only bottle dance.
So if you've ever sniffled your way through what you thought was a schmaltzy musical, this production earns real tears alongside the gales of laughter, above all as those battered bags come out again when Anatevka's Jewish population receives its marching orders. Here are the parallels with today's migrations. May tomorrow's loyal citizens look back with love and admiration at the brave forebears who made perilous journeys to uncertain futures in the West.
Click here to listen to Emma Kingston, who plays Hodel, talking to Judi Herman on JR OutLoud.


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