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Review: Vera Tussing and Albert Quesada in Trilogy at The Place
Performance: 10 May 2011
Reviewed by Katie Fish - Wednesday 11 May 2011
The three works that form Trilogy are intricately connected by two of the choreographers' shared concerns: that together they create a 'listening experience' for the audience whereby the very different musical compositions are danced (rather than danced to)and that what is realised onstage is not the physical presence of the performers but the idea driving the movement.
First up was Beautiful Dance, a visual manifestation of Beethoven's Sonata No. 13 (as rendered by Glen Gould) for which Vera Tussing and Albert Quesada experimented with the acoustic and sensory variations possible in simple walking sequences. As they invited the audience to do at the beginning of the piece, Tussing and Quesada spent time listening with eyes closed, tuning in to the subtle changes of intonation, tempo and rhythm in each other's footfalls. Tempting though it is to open your eyes and see the movements that are producing the sounds, it is also pleasantly engaging just to listen to the reverberations. Both performers wear hats pulled over their eyes and much of their movement is done with their backs to the audience, allowing the acoustics to become the third person. The choreographers also designed the lighting, which was cleverly angled to give the impression of a crowd of chasing shadows. The idea of a chase also presents itself in Bach's score with its beguiling playfulness that in turn lends itself easily to the light and minimalist charm of this work.
For the lighting in Your Eyes the pair collaborated with Andrew Hammond and their regular designer Arne Lievens. This time however the shadows are not just projections but are actualised by the silhouetted figures of the performers dressed head to toe in black. The soundwaves of the music – a rock piece this time by JS Rafaeli – can be seen in the rebounding and rippling waves of their bodies. The layers of Rafaeli's composition are unravelled so that bass, percussion and strings are explored and their subtleties brought under the spotlight. Likewise, the lyrics add another level through the imagery of the words. The movement material is often repeated but thanks to the rhythmic structure of the music that is being physicalised and that propels it forwards, the work never becomes repetitious but has a living fluidity.
A duet from Bizet's Carmen was the impetus behind the last piece in the triune, Oh Souvenir [pictured] and the dialogue between the song's two lovers frames the humorous vignette of two enamoured sound speakers masterfully conducted by Tussing and Quesada. In this instance, the performers remove themselves from the direct glance of the audience by personifying the speakers as Don José and Micaela, thereby becoming facilitators instead of protagonists. A white billowing curtain on a pulley system screens their bodies so that we see two pairs of bare legs, one in heels, one in lace-ups guiding the speakers – one waistcoated, one cloaked – as they prowl and stalk the stage before coming together to embrace. At another point it is the curtain that is manipulated in synch with the male and female librettos, with Tussing pulling one side and Quesada the other. Perhaps this is a work you have to watch to be fully convinced. Fortunately, each of the three works is available to view on the choreographers' website http://veraalbert.wordpress.com. Experience for yourself and see the music!
Photo: Luc Depreitiere


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Kirstin, who had been on Lipitor for high cholesterol since her 20s, broke into tears when a man with the same problem was able to drop his cholesterol in half after adopting a whole-foods, plant-based diet.
The couple changed their eating habits and Kirsten soon found that she no longer needed to take Lipitor.
The experience, along with other impactful documentaries, brought the couple a heightened awareness of the food deserts and food insecurities that affect so many families so they decided to do something about it.
After a series of emails between Father Greg Boyle — one of the founders of Homeboy Industries, a nonprofit that provides job opportunities for former gang members and the recently incarcerated — and some donations, Polk had enough funding to start making a difference and had a spot at Homeboy to pilot his program.
Since its inception in 2014, Groceryships has provided grocery scholarships to more than 100 families to buy fruits, vegetables and grains for 20 weeks.
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Groceryships is slowly growing and every year, Polk and the Groceryships improve the quality of life of many more underserved families.
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Blue Note issued around 350 titles on 12″LP from 1956 until 1966, when the company was sold to Liberty Records Inc. The last catalogue number allocated by Blue Note was BLP 4250 Horace Silver The Jody Grind, and beyond there, all future release decisions were made by Liberty.
At the time of the sale of Blue Note, however, there were thirty five titles in preparation for release. The full list is shown below. These sessions had been recorded by Van Gelder, and the tape mastered by Van Gelder – Van Gelder metal existed – a Blue Note catalogue number had been allocated, and many if not all had sets of labels with the New York address ready. Possibly covers were already manufactured, or at least a Reid Miles design commissioned, but the record had not yet physically been pressed.
All these assets transferred with the sale to Liberty, who pressed the records mainly during the last half of 1966. None have the Plastylite ear because pressing transferred immediately to the plant that Liberty purchased to complement their expansion plans: All-Disc, Roselle N.J. While the Van Gelder stamp appeared on the master, the ear was applied during pressing in the Plastylite plant: when pressing moved, the ear disappeared.
All-Disc was, to all intents and purposes, an equal of Plastylite in terms of pressing quality, though their pressings are lighter than Plastylite – an average of 147 grams for those pressed with old stock NY labels, compared with Plastylite's average 166 grams (1962-66) .
Liberty Blue Note titles are found with and without a Van Gelder's stamp, most often absent on West Coast reissue pressings by Research Craft, who re-mastered the recordings for themselves, and generally present on All-Disc and other East Coast plant pressings. Though the absence of ear is considered a negative for selling prices, it is the reassuring presence of a VAN GELDER stamp that matters most as regards sound quality. The with/without ear business is the bane of collectors lives, because sellers "forget" to mention when it is absent.
In addition to the first release of those thirty five titles in preparation, Liberty also reissued many popular titles from the back-catalogue of Blue Note. In both cases, any labels found in the inventory were used first before printing more. This included not only previously prepared NY labels, but any available labels, going as far back as the 767 Lexington for titles released in 1956-7. Labels printed before 1961 lacked the legal ® trademark protection and incorporation references, so in matching Side 1 and Side 2 pairs, the older label was often matched with a more recent label on the other side, hence it is not uncommon to find mixed pairs of Blue Note addresses.
Though an original Blue Note NY label is considered somehow "original" compared with the "later" Division of Liberty label, there may be no practical difference between a Liberty copy with an NY label and one with Division of Liberty label, both pressed by All-Disc for Liberty at around the same time.
The thirty five previously unreleased titles are a special case: Blue Note recordings whose first "original" pressing was by Liberty, no copies with ear exist.
One added complication collectors should be aware of: some titles were released by Blue Note only in mono (with ear). Liberty went on to issue the first stereo edition (without ear). A Liberty stereo for those titles is technically a first pressing.
The full list of the thirty five titles includes some surprises, with much lower catalogue numbers, whose release had been deferred by Alfred Lion for several years, for commercial reasons.
Both MONO and STEREO first pressed by Liberty; no copies with Plastylite ear exist.
(The year shown in brackets below is the year of recording)
4118: Donald Byrd, Free Form (1961)
4171: George Braith, Extension (1964)
4193: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Indestructible (1964)
4196: Freddie Hubbard, Blue Spirits (1965)
4203: Andrew Hill, Andrew! (1964)
4204: Dexter Gordon, Gettin' Around (1965)
4206: Sam Rivers, Contours (1965)
4209: Hank Mobley, Dippin' (1965)
4212: Lee Morgan, The Gigolo (1965)
4213: Bobby Hutcherson, Components (1965)
4215: Jackie McLean, Right Now (1965)
4217: Andrew Hill, Compulsion (1965)
4218: Jackie McLean, Action (1964)
4219: Wayne Shorter, The All-Seeing Eye (1965)
4222: Lee Morgan, Cornbread (1965)
4227: Joe Henderson, Mode for Joe (1966)
4228: Blue Mitchell, Bring it on Home (1966)
4229: John Patton, Got a Good Thing Goin' (1966)
4230: Hank Mobley, A Caddy for Daddy (1965)
4231: Bobby Hutcherson, Happenings (1966)
4232: Wayne Shorter, Adam's Apple (1966)
4235: Jimmy Smith, Bucket! (1963)
4237: Cecil Taylor, Unit Structures (1966)
4238: Donald Byrd, Mustang! (1966)
4239: John Patton, Let 'Em Roll (1965)
4240: Stanley Turrentine, Rough 'n Tumble (1966)
4242: Larry Young, Of Love and Peace (1966)
4243: Lee Morgan, Delightfulee Morgan (1966)
4244: Bobby Hutcherson, Stick Up! (1966)
4245: Art Blakey, Like Someone in Love (1960)
4246: Ornette Coleman, The Empty Foxhole (1966)
4247: Don Cherry, Symphony for Improvisers (1966)
4248: The Three Sounds, Vibrations (1966)
4249: Sam Rivers, A New Conception (1966)
4250: Horace Silver, The Jody Grind (1966)
Though it is conventional to list Blue Notes in catalogue number order, this gives a false impression of the sequence of events. More interesting but never before published is Liberty's 1966 Blue Note release schedule (which Cohen's Guide does not cover). It shows Liberty methodically releasing 2, 3, or 4 Blue Note first pressing every month. Release dates have been culled from Billboard's weekly Spotlight sales potential guide and reviews of new LPs for the trade, timed to coincide with release.
Billboard August 13, 1966
Month is linked to the week of Billboard publication. Above snip includes some last minute Blue Note releases .
Below are all the non-Plastylite first editions, by month of release.
4229 John Patton Got a Good Thing Goin' Jul-66
4209 Hank Mobley Dippin' Jul-66
4204 Dexter Gordon Gettin' Around Jul-66
4193 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Indestructible Sep-66
4240 Stanley Turrentine Rough 'n Tumble Oct-66
4237 Cecil Taylor Unit Structures Oct-66
4235 Jimmy Smith Bucket! Oct-66
4219 Wayne Shorter The All Seeing Eye Oct-66
4227 Joe Henderson Mode for Joe Nov-66
4215 Jackie McLean Right Now Nov-66
4213 Bobby Hutcherson Components Nov-66
4248 The Three Sounds Vibrations Jan-67
4231 Bobby Hutcherson Happenings Jan-67
4222 Lee Morgan Cornbread Jan-67
4206 Sam Rivers Contours Jan-67
4196 Freddie Hubbard Blue Spirits Jan-67
4171 George Braith Extension Jan-67
4217 Andrew Hill Compulsion Feb-67
4250 Horace Silver The Jody Grind Mar-67
4228 Blue Mitchell Bring it on Home Mar-67
4246 Ornette Coleman The Empty Foxhole Apr-67
4239 John Patton Let 'Em Roll Apr-67
4247 Don Cherry Symphony for Improvisers Aug-67
4245 Art Blakey Like Someone in Love Aug-67
4242 Larry Young Of Love and Peace Aug-67
4230 Hank Mobley A Caddy for Daddy Sep-67
4218 Jackie McLean Action Sep-67
4238 Donald Byrd Mustang! Oct-67
4249 Sam Rivers A New Conception Nov-67
4243 Lee Morgan Delightfulee Morgan Nov-67
4232 Wayne Shorter Adam's Apple Nov-67
4244 Bobby Hutcherson Stick Up! Feb-68
4203 Andrew Hill Andrew! May-68
4212 Lee Morgan The Gigolo Jun-68
Each of these titles was paired with the 27 Years second inner sleeve, which was devoted almost exclusively to Liberty Blue Note releases from July 1966 to November 1967.( Last three above likely by 1968 with Liberty inner sleeve)
First STEREO pressed by Liberty : no "ear" expected
There are titles whose mono edition was pressed for Blue Note by Plastylite, with the ear, but whose stereo edition was first pressed by Liberty some time later, hence without ear. (There are also a small number of titles where the sequence is the reverse: the first stereo had been pressed by Plastylite , but the first mono by Liberty)
First STEREO edition pressed by Liberty
4001: Sonny Rollins, Newk's Time (1957)
4002: Jimmy Smith, House Party (1957)
4004: Art Blakey, Holiday for Skins, Volume 1 (1958)
4007: Donald Byrd, Off to the Races (1958)
4009: Bud Powell, The Scene Changes (1958)
4010: Bennie Green, Walkin' and Talkin' (1959)
4012: Lou Donaldson, Lou Donaldson with the Three Sounds (1959)
4019: Donald Byrd, Byrd in Hand (1959)
4024: Jackie McLean, Swing, Swang, Swingin' (1959)
4025: Lou Donaldson, The Time is Right (1959)
4031: Hank Mobley, Soul Station (1960)
4034: Lee Morgan, Leeway (1960)
4036: Lou Donaldson, Sunny Side Up (1960)
4038: Jackie McLean, Capuchin Swing (1960)
4048: Donald Byrd, Byrd in Flight (1960)
4051: Jackie McLean, Jackie's Bag (1959)
4053: Lou Donaldson, Lightfoot (1958)
4056: Freddie Hubbard, Goin' Up (1960)
4063: Kenny Dorham, Whistle Stop (1961)
4064: Grant Green, Grant's First Stand (1961)
4071: Grant Green, Green Street (1961)
In addition to the above first stereo release by Liberty , there are a further twenty four Blue Note titles whose first stereo release was in Japan by King Records or Toshiba-EMI. Whilst King did sometimes remain faithful to the mono format, but not always, and Toshiba tended to issue only a stereo. There are also a number of titles only ever released in Japan. Early Blue Notes recordings made in the late '50s are not especially recommended in stereo, as they were cut from Van Gelder two-track tapes that were intended to prepare a mono master.
Titles issued by Blue Note in pseudo-stereo
As the home ownership of stereo phonographs increased, from around 1959, a number early Blue Note mono recordings went on to be issued in pseudo-stereo – "electronically reprocessed for stereo" so new stereo record player owners could enjoy them in simulated "stereo". Whilst these can be "original Blue Note" issues, they are not true stereo as they pre-date Van Gelder's move to two track tape recording. These can also be found in pseudo-stereo among Liberty "stereo" reissues. Towards the end of the 1500 series, Van Gelder was routinely employing two track tape, so "genuine" stereo could be recreated at a later date, though ill-advised, as never intended for stereo, hard-panning and odd stage placement.
1501: Miles Davis, Miles Davis, Volume 1 (1953)
1503: Bud Powell, The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1 (1951)
1505: J.J. Johnson, The Eminent J. J. Johnson, Volume 1 (1954)
1507: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Cafe Bohemia, Volume 1 (1955)
1509: Milt Jackson, Milt Jackson (1952)
1510: Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern Music, Volume 1 (1947)
1512: Jimmy Smith, A New Sound, A New Star, Volume 1 (1956)
1518: Horace Silver, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1955)
1520: Horace Silver and Art Blakey, Sabu (1953)
1521: Art Blakey, A Night at Birdland, Volume 1 (1954)
1523: Kenny Burrell, Introducing Kenny Burrell (1956)
1525: Jimmy Smith, The Incredible Jimmy Smith, Volume 3 (1956)
1526: Clifford Brown, Memorial Album (1953)
1528: Jimmy Smith, At Club Baby Grand, Volume 1 (1956)
1534: Paul Chambers, Whims of Chambers (1956)
1539: Horace Silver, Six Pieces of Silver (1956)
1541: Lee Morgan, Volume 2 (1956)
1542: Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins (1956)
1543: Kenny Burrell, Kenny Burrell, Volume 2 (1956)
1544: Hank Mobley, And His All-Stars (1957)
1547: Jimmy Smith, A Date with Jimmy Smith, Volume 1 (1957)
1551: Jimmy Smith, At the Organ, Volume 1 (1957)
1556: Jimmy Smith, The Sounds of Jimmy Smith (1957)
1558: Sonny Rollins, Volume 2 (1957)
1581: Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (1957)
LJC

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Norwegian Airports Scenery (with update #9). The following airports are included: ENAL ENBO ENBR ENEV ENGM ENKR ENML ENOV ENRO ENSD ENTC ENVA ENZV. By Jan Tillung.
AFCAD files for use with Norwegian Airports Scenery 8(with update #9). NOT for default FS2004 airports. Copy BGL files to Addon Scenery/Scenery folder.
Note for Gardermoen (ENGM): I have closed Runway 01L - 19R for takeoffs and 01R - 19L for landings to try cut down on the go arounds with heavy AI traffic. And because GA parking is next to 01L-19R which make the small aircrafts taxi off the runway faster. 01R-19L is the short runway, but I have seen AI planes using Airbus A330 and A340 take off just fine even though they rotate only a couple hundred feet from the threshold lines.
Please also note that parking will be off at the gates for most aircrafts because the reference point is different for each model even if its the same aircraft. This is due to the designers not having the same ref point. Also the size of the aircrafts will never be the same. Unless you use the same aircraft I used to set the gate points of course.
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Dear Word Detective: My question is the origin of the phrase "heard it through the grapevine." I've seen several different answers and would like to hear it from the source, meaning you. — Jack O'Hea.
The source? Me? No, grasshopper. I am merely a conduit for the wisdom of the world, and if I sometimes see further than others, it's because I stand on the shoulders of giants and block their view.
I'm sure that by now most of us have the Marvin Gaye version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," his 1968 Motown hit, running through our heads, especially the dum dum dum dum dumdumdumdum intro. (Personally, I'm partial to The Platters' "Workin' My Way Back to You, Babe," but whatever.) The relevance of that song to us is that it perfectly illustrates the meaning of the title; the singer hears that his girlfriend is planning to leave him, not from her own lips, but from rumors ("It took me by surprise I must say/When I found out yesterday/Don't you know that I heard it through the grapevine/Not much longer would you be mine").
In a literal sense, a "grapevine" is, of course, the twisting, ropy vine on which grapes grow. The metaphorical "grapevine" by which news and rumors grow and propagate first appeared in popular speech in the mid-1800s during the US Civil War. "Grapevine" in this sense is actually a shortening of the original term "grapevine telegraph," a sardonic nod to the actual electric telegraph, which was then becoming established across the US as an important means of communication. With the coming of the Civil War also came the rupturing of conventional communications channels, and the "grapevine telegraph," especially among slaves in the South, became an important source of information to residents of the area (as well as intelligence of military importance to the Union forces). As Booker T. Washington noted in his book "Up from Slavery" (1901), "They kept themselves informed of events by what was called the 'grape-vine telegraph.'"
Of course, since information passed on the "grapevine" was of dubious provenance when it began its journey and often modified or mangled en route (much as in the old child's game "Telephone"), to call a bit of news "grapevine" was often to cast doubt on its veracity ("I'll bet you a day's ration of hardtack that it's only 'nother o' those grapevines" 1887). But the utility of the "grapevine telegraph" during the war made it a enduring slang term for "information passed from an inside source," at least a few steps above a mere rumor and quite possibly "the real deal."
The "grapevine" is more important than ever in today's internet-driven Kardashian-obsessed media landscape. Now any old schmuck with wi-fi can can ruin a career (often their own) or spawn a dubious social movement with a single Tweet. But the old word-of-mouth grapevine had one big advantage: for people to pass along a rumor, they had to find it at least vaguely plausible. Today, "Hillary is a shape-shifting lizard from another dimension" gets 14,000 retweets. That's progress of a very curious kind.
October 4th, 2015 | Category: columns, September - October 2015
3 comments to Heard it through the grapevine
Hughe
October 8, 2015 at 2:22 am · Reply
But why a grapevine? What is the connection between a grapevine and the passing on information or rumour by word of mouth? Was there a connection between the telegraph made of wires strung between poles and how a grapevine grows?
Only a visual similarity; the contrast between the then-new high-tech telegraph and the humble, tangled grapevine also gave the phrase a sardonic edge.
Taylor Michaels
Another possible explanation. While on vacation in Burgundy during the grape harvest, I was told that the grapes were all harvested at the same time in each section. To do that, a large group of pickers was gathered. There was, no doubt, discussions between pickers from various places allowing for passing of rumors and overhearing 'through the grapevine.'
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Rich Horton Reviews Short Fiction: Analog, Asimov's, Amazing, and Longshot Island
April 17, 2019 February 12, 2019 locusmag 0 Comments Rich Horton
Analog 1-2/19
Asimov's 1-2/19
Amazing Winter '18
Longshot Island 2/18
Analog opens 2019 with a varied set of stories that include some striking and unusual work. For example "Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing" by Andy Dudak is set in a future city-state (of sorts), the Moveable Feast, in which sexual fashions turn on mingling disease profiles, with the notion of increasing everyone's resistance. "Repro-sex" is frowned upon. (That description doesn't really capture what's going on.) Four people, lovers of sorts, travel to a differently organized city, and end up causing or being affected by political chaos. Simply weird!
Weird in a different and frankly more Analog-ish way is Thoraiya Dyer's "A Civilization Dreams of Absolutely Nothing". The civilization in question is on a planet in a dangerously unstable system at the edge of the known universe (from their perspective). They are threatened by the characteristics of the system itself – asteroids caused by the collision of two inner planets – and by a "Menace" from outside, which turns out to be dark matter. The inhabitants are not human, but intelligent creatures who share their experiences with their fellows in dreams, and who edit their memories with intent. The protagonist is Jade, a cosmochemist with three children, aware that she and her mate, Shale, must leave them for a mysterious project to counter the threat of the Menace. All of this is very strange, and a bit hard to follow (for good enough reasons), and slowly we realize the actual plans Jade has, which are pretty intriguing…. There's a lot going on here, for a shortish novelette, and a lot is unexplained (such as the history of the planet)…. It's hard to say if it fully works (for one thing, I found the characters presented as just a tad too human), but it is fascinating.
There is also a novella from Adam-Troy Castro, the latest of his Draiken stories, "The Savannah Problem". I was particularly struck by the structure here – the story seems all exposition, in a way, as Castro depicts Draiken's pursuit, capture, and extraction of a gangster thug from a space station. All this is interesting – Castro is good at action and tactics – but it seems extended, as we wait and wait for Draiken's purpose in capturing this man. A risky tactic in a storyteller – but Castro pulls it off with a brilliant, rapid, thematically relevant conclusion.
In Asimov's for January-February I was impressed by Jay O'Connell's "The Gorgon", in which an HR manager at a software company has to deal with his star architect's announcement that he's quitting. He tries to find out why – and what he finds is really scary indeed. The actual idea is fairly familiar, but the story is stylishly told, and the variation O'Connell rings on the central idea is clever enough that it really stands out. Also enjoyable is Peter Wood's "Salting the Mine", mostly for the amusing natives of a planet colonized for mining purposes and then abandoned. Said natives and the human colonists have forged a bond… then the mining company returns, which is not good news.
There are two fine novellas in this issue. Robert Reed's "The Esteemed" is an intricate time-travel story, featuring a man from the future returning to a version of our time (and past decade) warning of a variety of catastrophes, while also identifying critical people, who become "the esteemed" of the title, and who will have a particular impact on the future(s). Alexander Jablokov has another story about Sere, investigating things in the baroque multi-species city of Tempest. In "How Sere Looked for a Pair of Boots" she begins by trying to free her cousin's boyfriend from prison, and ends up stumbling on something much more significant. The best part of the story is the gleeful description of the odd configurations and habits of the various alien species. Fun stuff.
The second issue of the revived Amazing Stories features a few nice stories. "The Asteroid Contention" by Marina J. Lostetter doesn't really do anything new, but it does it nicely, telling of twin sisters each trying to be the first to claim a potentially valuable asteroid, and finding that the asteroid is more valuable than they might have thought – and that their relationship is more valuable still. Daniel M. Kimmel's "The Ransom of Red Robot (Beta)" is exactly what you have likely already guessed – a revamping of O. Henry's famous story "The Ransom of Red Chief" with a snarky robot replacing the bratty child of the original. Amusing enough – and with a nice extra twist at the end to make it worth the effort. The standout this issue is by Julie Novakova; "Reset in Peace" concerns Klaus Voort, who works for a company that creates personality simulations of dead people. He is contacted by the head of another company, who offers him a huge sum to get him access to one particular simulation, a crusading journalist who died fairly young. Klaus knows there's something fishy going on, but his husband has got them disastrously into debt, and so he's tempted…. What makes the story really work is the way the conclusion makes us think about the technology at the heart of the story, and about the people in the story – Klaus and his husband, the dead journalist, and the man who wants to talk to the journalist's simulation.
It's also worth mentioning a magazine that is new to me: Longshot Island. It seems to have a multi-genre focus, and #6, from February of 2018, is called "Deep Space: The Science Fiction Issue." I wasn't really wowed by any of the stories, but I did enjoy Emily Devenport's "Wraiths", about Deb, a wraith (a sort of ghost) who comes to "consciousness" in a house occupied by drug dealers, and intervenes in their business, and then in other human issues, even as another wraith she meets seems bemused by her preoccupation. I also liked Jerry Oltion's "The Moon Tree", about an old hippie who notices a tree on the University of Oregon campus that seems to have an aura – an aura that makes those near it tend to feel love. Indeed, he and a younger woman he encounters start having those feelings – and the man realizes the tree's powers need to be used for good. Slight, but amusing.
Recommended Stories:
"The Savannah Problem", Adam-Troy Castro (Analog 1-2/19)
"Love in the Time of Immuno-Sharing", Andy Dudak (Analog 1-2/19)
"A Civilization Dreams of Absolutely Nothing", Thoraiya Dyer (Analog 1-2/19)
"How Sere Looked for a Pair of Boots", Alexander Jablokov, (Asimov's 1-2/19)
"The Gorgon", Jay O'Connell (Asimov's 1-2/19)
"Reset in Peace", Julie Novakova (Amazing Winter '18)
Rich Horton works for a major aerospace company in St. Louis MO. He has published over a dozen anthologies, including the yearly series The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from Prime Books, and he is the Reprint Editor for Lightspeed Magazine. He contributes articles and reviews on SF and SF history to numerous publications.
This review and more like it in the February 2019 issue of Locus.
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2. Copy(Ctrl+C) & Paste(Ctrl+V) in notepad.
4. Double click on that file, and the text will be entered into the registry.
Thats it you can get command prompt in right click.
6. Now Right click on the new Command key and select New key.
8. Now right click on any folder you can find Command prompt.


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Exercise and Nutrition for Every Stage of a Mother's Journey, from Conception to Menopause and Beyond | The PTDC
"Once postpartum, always postpartum."
A woman's body begins to change the moment she conceives. She's the baby's only source of food, shelter, and comfort for the next 40 weeks. By the time she delivers, her body is changed forever.
If you're a trainer or nutritionist who works with women, you need to understand what those changes are, and how they affect your female clients from pregnancy to menopause and beyond.
We asked six experts—Erica Ziel, Jenny Burrell, Sarah Ellis Duvall, Rachel Cosgrove, Yusra Es-Haq, and Lulu Flores—to help you navigate the challenges of coaching clients at every stage of motherhood, and to offer solutions.
Pregnancy affects every aspect of your client's physiology. Every organ, every system, every ligament.
Her metabolic rate increases and her heart pumps more blood. Most pregnant women experience nausea in the first trimester, which is probably the body's way of warning her off foods that might damage the fetus.
By the final weeks of the pregnancy, the baby is pulling calcium from her bones and protein from her muscles. Her own body is running on a higher percentage of fat so more glucose can go to the baby.
Most trainers focus on the hormonal surges that increase joint laxity, particularly in the lower back and pelvis. Those changes are apparent almost immediately, especially if the client has given birth before, says Erica Ziel, a core exercise specialist, author of The Knocked-Up Fitness Guide to Pregnancy, and mother of three.
"You've got to be a little more cautious about keeping this client from injuring herself," she says.
But increased laxity doesn't always mean your client has increased ranges of motion.
"You get some who become more flexible, but also some who get tighter," Ziel says. "I think it's the body's way of protecting itself from overstretching." It's up to the trainer to monitor the client's movement quality, making sure she's in control no matter her range of motion.
Another way pregnant clients differ:
"An athlete might need to do less exercise because she doesn't have the energy," Ziel explains. That client can easily become overtrained if she continues her normal routine throughout her pregnancy.
"But when you get a woman who was previously sedentary, she can become quite a bit stronger as her pregnancy progresses," she adds, as long as you start slow and gradually increase volume and intensity.
Every pregnant client, Ziel says, "should always feel better after a workout than when she started. Exercise doesn't have to be excessive to be effective. If she feels tired and depleted after a workout, we overexercised her, and that increases stress."
The key is to ensure there's a purpose to everything you do in the program, the most important of which is to prepare her body for pregnancy, birth, and recovery.
In particular, you should take advantage of what Ziel calls her "superpowers": "From a core perspective, she has this amazing feedback to make these muscular and fascial connections she'll never have at any other time."
What's not important, Ziel says, is how many calories she burns in your workouts. "We have to get her mind off the scale. If she's fit and she's smaller, she's likely to gain more weight, because she needs it."
But, like everything else when it comes to motherhood, there's nothing simple about pre- or postnatal nutrition and weight changes.
Part 2: Nutrition for new moms
Nutrition guidelines for pregnant and lactating women are relatively straightforward, says Yusra Es-Haq, a Level 1 Certified Online Trainer, nutrition coach, and mother of four who has multiple certifications in pre- and postnatal exercise:
But that doesn't mean you should encourage a pregnant or breastfeeding client to count calories. "It's added stress that a mama doesn't need," she says.
Coaches should instead focus on "building healthy nutrition and self-care habits they can practice postpartum, like consuming high-quality nourishing foods, eating slowly, listening to their body's hunger and satiety cues, and resting as much as possible."
Which would be wonderful if all your clients lived in a world where they can focus on themselves.
"Many mothers with newborns do not have a social or family support network," says Lulu Flores, a nutritionist, certified lactation educator, and mother of one. "They're alone with the baby at home—and, on many occasions, other young children."
The consequences of that isolation—combined with stress, fatigue, and sleep deprivation—can go in two extreme directions, she adds: "Some mothers finish the day having eaten almost nothing, and some eat what they can, when they can."
In Flores' experience, many of them end up gorging on packaged baked goods. They're easy to consume with one hand while holding a screaming baby and require no preparation or cleanup.
Another challenge: When pregnant or nursing women do focus on themselves, it's often in unhealthy ways, Flores says:
If you think your client is going down a risky path with her diet, the best tactic is to show you care.
"You have to have a lot of empathy," Flores says. "Let the mother know what the current recommendations are without making her feel judged, or that you despise her beliefs."
Part 3: Postpartum recovery
Your client has recently delivered her baby, and she's ready to start training again. Kind of.
If she had a C-section, she's recovering from a surgery that penetrated her skin, muscles, and connective tissues to reach into the uterus and pull the baby out.
If she had a vaginal delivery, she probably experienced some degree of tearing along her perineum. It's typically worse for first-time moms, those who have larger babies, and those whose delivery involved forceps or a vacuum.
And no matter the type of delivery, she almost certainly has some amount of diastasis recti, a stretching and weakening of the linea alba, turning her six-pack muscle into a couple of three-packs.
"Diastasis is normal," says Sarah Ellis Duvall, DPT, a physical therapist, mother of two, and creator of the Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist certification. The severity is partly genetic, and partly due to how she trained—or didn't train—during pregnancy.
To avoid making it worse, you have to know what to look out for, and use appropriate precautions, as explained in this article on training new moms.
Incontinence, though, is not normal. "Incontinence should be a wake-up call for women, especially younger women," Ziel says. If your client is peeing every time she runs, jumps, or even laughs, it's a sign of pelvic floor dysfunction. "Those muscles are either too tight or too weak, or a combination of both."
But it's not just the core and pelvic floor. "Diastasis is a full-body issue," Duvall says. "It's how you move, breathe, and load your body. The whole kinetic chain matters."
Makes sense, right? That's why, if you train clients in person, you probably use a movement screen, postural assessment, or both. And whether you train them in person or online, you surely focus on their exercise form.
But even then, things can go wrong. No matter how diligent you are with a pregnant client, or how cautious you are in your postpartum workouts, she may still end up with severe diastasis recti—or, worse, pelvic organ prolapse, when her bladder or rectum literally falls down into her vagina.
"It's emotionally crushing," Duvall says. "It's your very sense of who you are."
She speaks from personal experience.
Part 4: Returning to serious training
Duvall has been a dedicated athlete her entire life, with a string of injuries almost as long as the list of sports she's pursued.
That's on top of her professional knowledge and experience as a physical therapist. Her doctoral project focused on the pelvis. And she still developed a prolapse after the birth of her second child.
"Nobody thinks it's going to happen to them, until it happens," she says. "Prolapse made me respect my body a lot more. Every injury teaches you something, and I like to learn the hard way."
The problem begins when the pregnancy and delivery stretch out the tissues of the pelvic floor. But then it's exacerbated by the way a new mom puts pressure on those tissues.
"People bear down to get the last rep," she explains. "When it comes from the wrong place, it can make prolapse worse. It can make diastasis worse. Some people just have patterns of movement that inherently create pressure out or down. It's hard to use the right mechanics when you don't have the patterns in the right place."
Duvall was one of those people, and had to learn how to do everything again, despite a lifetime of training and competing at a high level.
Athletes and fitness enthusiasts like her are often the highest-risk postpartum clients. They want to get right back to where they were. Ironically, she says, "it's easier to work with someone who was on bedrest. They're out of shape and feel out of shape. They're more willing to start with the basics."
With any postpartum client—whether they feel strong, weak, or anything in between—you need to identify their weakest link and design the program to address it, rather than building the workout around what the client can get away with it.
It's the trainer's job to find those weak links, and do it in a way that shows the client where she's vulnerable. These are the tests Duvall uses:
1. Breathing pattern
Does she breathe into her belly? If she does, that's a pretty good sign she'll put pressure on her most vulnerable tissues if she tries to move a heavy load.
What you want to see, Duvall says, is a 360-degree breathing pattern:
2. Dead bug
"Can they stabilize their spine and pelvis," Duvall asks, "or do they shift all over the place?"
And when they stabilize, can they breathe while maintaining a braced core?
3. Hip hinge
Duvall wants to see if the client can maintain a neutral lumbar position during a hip hinge, which requires eccentrically lengthening her glutes. If she needs to hyperextend her lumbar spine to bend forward, work on that before loading any hip extension exercise.
Also see if she can brace her core and control her hips. If her stomach bulges out, or if her hips move laterally, spend more time on stability work before jumping into deadlifts and squats.
4. Push-up
"I don't assess a push-up in everyone because it's hard," Duvall says. But if the client passed the first three tests (and if you assessed her for diastasis recti, as shown in this video by Jessie Mundell), see how she does in the push-up position.
Can she load her core while continuing to breathe? As she lowers her body toward the floor, can she hold an abdominal brace?
What about her shoulder blades? Can she control them, or do they look like they're trying to fly away?
5. Landing and loading
The final test, for a client who wants to return to high-level training, is "to see what happens dynamically at their hip, knee and foot when they land or load," Duvall says.
If they can control those joints during a squat, kettlebell swing, or depth jump from a low box or step, they're cleared for takeoff.
Part 5: Emerging from the fog of motherhood
Not every new mom gets right back to the gym. For some, it's just not feasible. Many return to work soon after giving birth, and it might be years before they can squeeze a workout program into their schedule.
When they do come back, they're most likely to do it at one specific time of the year:
"For us, September is like January," says Rachel Cosgrove, co-owner of Results Fitness in Santa Clarita, California, and Results Fitness University, a coaching business for gym owners. "The kids are back in school, and they can start putting themselves first again. The mom's like, 'I have a few hours here. I can do this.'"
Those moms present unique challenges for coaches:
1. They're deconditioned, but they're not all deconditioned in the same way
Some have maintained a high activity level from keeping up with their kids. Others have been mostly sedentary.
Some are former athletes or gym rats who want to get back into what they were doing before. Others had never been in shape, and still have pregnancy- and delivery-related injuries like diastasis recti or prolapse to work around.
And if you do a postural evaluation before you start training, you'll often see imbalances caused by holding their kid on one hip—usually on their dominant side—while they multitask, Cosgrove says.
They also have two things in common:
2. Many have used crash diets
"If they've tried to lose weight after pregnancy, a super-low-calorie plan seems to be the default," Cosgrove laments. "The older they are, the more likely it is they've done that multiple times."
You know how those diets are most likely to work out for your clients:
That leads to perhaps the biggest challenge for a trainer working with these women: They measure progress with a scale. If it's not going down, they assume the program isn't working.
"Because they've had success with that diet in the past, even though it didn't last, they think they have to do it again," Cosgrove says. "We have to convince them to be consistent, fuel their body, and do strength training to build back their muscle while using a different form of measurement than the scale. And if they do those things, they won't ever have to do a crash diet again."
Part 6: Menopause and beyond
You might think that the pre- and postnatal issues we've talked about so far no longer apply to women as they enter menopause. Mild forms of diastasis recti and prolapse typically resolve themselves within a year of giving birth, while more serious conditions have probably been addressed through physical therapy, if not surgery.
But you'd be wrong.
"For so many women the physiological legacy of their birthing years really do become apparent as they head to menopause," says Jenny Burrell, founder of Burrell Education, whose education programs include a certification in peri- to postmenopause coaching.
The problem, she explains, is the decline in estrogen, which reduces the production of collagen by about 30 percent in the first five years of menopause. That, in turn, lowers both the quality and quantity of the connective tissues that hold their pelvic organs in place.
That's why the risk of prolapse rises among postmenopausal women, including about 50 percent of those who've given birth. The drop in estrogen also leaves them metabolically wired to add visceral fat, while the loss of collagen makes it harder to build or maintain muscle tissue.
"This is also a time when women in general start moving less and eating and drinking more, both of which are really the opposite of what their bodies need," Burrell says.
For those reasons, Burrell says two practices are non-negotiable for any coach who works with late-middle-aged women:
Burrell uses herself as an example: "Although I'm a mother, I've never given birth. But if you screened me, I'd tell you that I have pelvic health issues usually associated with birthing."
She's had multiple surgeries, including a hysterectomy. That leaves her with significant complications and challenges:
That last question is an example of the "could/should math" every trainer has to do with every client in this demographic.
"We need to stop with the 'beasting' message," Burrell says. "More exercise alone isn't the fix. It's hugely valuable and relevant to address their mental well-being, not just their physical well-being."
Lots of women in this stage of life are what Burrell calls "the meat in the sandwich"—taking care of their parents while also helping their kids. "Women at this time are generally time-poor and exhausted," she adds. "Whatever programming you create for them has to be sympathetic to the reality of their lives."
And here's a radical thought: Even though they come to you for fitness training, what they need most may be lifestyle coaching, Burrell says. Or just to be heard.
Part 7: Final thoughts about training new moms
If we had to summarize what we just learned from our six experts on training and feeding mothers, it might be something like this:
"We need to work with the person in front of us," rather than viewing them through the filter of our own preferences and biases, Es-Haq says.
"Pre- and postnatal women are more than a collection of muscles, tissues, bones, and tendons. They're individuals with goals, hopes, dreams, beliefs, and history, and as trainers we need to acknowledge that. We need to help them in a way that serves them, not a way that suits us."
So even though you're helping them through the awesome and difficult process of creating and nurturing life, you're also on a journey of your own.
"We shouldn't be afraid to ask questions," she says. "We shouldn't be afraid to be wrong and admit it. Growth comes from a place of discomfort and uncertainty. That's how we get better at what we do, and that's how we serve and empower our clients."
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Lou Schuler, CSCS, is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and editorial director of the PTDC. A longtime contributor to Men's Health magazine, he's been writing about fitness since 1992, and is the author of a long list of popular fitness and nutrition books, including the New Rules of Lifting series with Alwyn Cosgrove.You can learn more at his website or connect with him on Facebook or Twitter.
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Not only this but such malicious programs can enter your computer from a lot of ways including the use of infected USB cables, pen drives or in form of emails or from downloaded applications or by visiting websites or even with the use of social media. These programs can erase your data, can prevent you from using some programs, redirect you to different links, steal your information, allow remote access to your computer and can even get it crash down.
Usually these malicious software attacks the PC by utilizing loop holes which are areas of codes in an operating system or program which can be used to give the viral code more access to the contaminated device. As a result, software in your computer needs to be updated regularly so that such loopholes are not patched in your device. The viral code exploits the loophole to raise its own rights and as a result, gains full access to the computer. It is for this reason that performing updates on your computer's software regularly is of critical importance as these software updates more often than not will "patch" loopholes.
It is also to be noted that it is not that Macs are not prone to such attacks. But, actually the fact is that Windows are more economical and easy to use option over Mac and Linux. As a result windows PCs are a bigger target for hackers. Moreover, you must note that Windows have its in-built, free antivirus program which many people turn off. However they should not be shut off. But with the everyday growing technology you need to provide your computer increased level of protection.
Antivirus software like bitdefender is definitely a must for anyone using their computer with an internet connection. To protect your computer from malware, you need to get an anti malware software as soon as possible. In market both free and paid anti-virus are available with varying features and system. They will prevent malicious application from entering your device, detect if any of them in its virus definitions is present or not, detect behaviors and functioning of different apps and help your computer get rid of them completely thus saving a lot of your personal information from getting stolen.
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A big wheel for a bike with training wheels.
Later I gave up my moped for a car.
When I was in my twenties I gave up bars and drinking to hang out with a girl who became my first wife.
Why didn't I miss these items? Because I moved from one place to a new better place.
When I hear someone say, "I can't lose weight because I could never give up ___" they are underestimating themselves. We all have experience giving up things. Is it easy? Not always. But when I step on the scale and it's down again, I'm not missing hamburgers, mountain dew, and a chocolate frosty.
It automatically logs your weight and other measurements into the fitbit (or in my casr myfitnesspal) software.
Dave tries. He really does. And on the surface, the stuff he says makes sense. Move more. Eat less. But it's all SO gimmicky. He plays around with apps and programs but never seems to get anywhere. And when he finally does have progress, he acts like it's just common sense and everyone should know what to do and how to do it. Duh! The latest being his fascination with Slimgenics. From his description, this does not sound like a program that could be sustainable, but it does sound like a starting point. And I certainly wish Dave the best with this program. For real mindset change, I highly recommend Half Size Me and also Lift Like a Gift. The hosts talk about loving who you are NOW while changing your mindset to ultimately achieve your best self. You will pick up tips, but they won't be the little lists like Dave sometimes shares from an article. I'll keep listening because I am a podcast junkie (and I do produce 2 shows before Dave dismisses me completely…and not the ones I mentioned above.) And the sound quality is usually quite good. Not easy to pull off. I do hate the intro music because I think only wanting to be thin is a poor goal. I want so much more for myself, but that's just me. So I listen for the entertainment, but I do not expect to learn or be inspired.
You can leave a review by clicking HERE and going to iTunes to leave a review. Thanks so much!
I know the podcasts of which she speaks. Half size me is a GREAT podcast, but more than that, is a wonderful, supportive community. Heather (the hostess) DOES make a living with the internet and weight loss community business, she truly is not in it just for the money.. her cold seems to be to help people in their journey to reasonable sustainable weight loss.
The other podcast if not lift like a gift, but lift like a girl featuring Nia shanks. Also a good podcast.
I like your podcast Dave, it's not about someone who has everything figured out, what about someone who is trying to find his way on the journey. And in the process maybe give others some wisdom along the way. Keep up the great work.


Monolithic gives an impression of an object being ancient, something huge, massive, no? And, when you will read about it, you will be more sure that monolithic is something huge. It is an adjective.
Origin: Its first usage dates back to 1815-25. It has originated from two words .i.e. monolith and ic. Monolith means a statue or a column that has been made from a single black stone. Ic means a suffix that forms adjectives.
4) Something characterised by uniformity and rigidity.
Monolithic, sounds like something ancient and huge. So, you can draw a picture of something huge and ancient in front of your eyes when you read the word monolithic.
Monolithic can also be learnt with the help of the word Neolithic, as these two words rhyme. Monolithic means something huge and Neolithic means belonging to an earlier age, which now has been outdated. So, monolithic can be something huge that had relevance only in earlier age.


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