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CE Offered: BACB
There's More than One Way to Arrange a Contingency: Strategies for Supporting Healthy Behaviors
8:00 AM–9:50 AM
Hyatt Regency, Capitol Ballroom 5-7
Area: CBM; Domain: Applied Research
Chair: Kimberly C. Kirby (Rowan University)
Discussant: Derek D. Reed (The University of Kansas)
CE Instructor: Kimberly C. Kirby, Ph.D.
Abstract: The United States has faced steadily rising rates of chronic health problems that develop from long-standing patterns of unhealthy behavior. Developing and maintaining new healthy behaviors can be challenging, especially when reinforcement for an unhealthy alternative is reliable and immediate while the healthy choices are reinforced on a delayed and uncertain schedule. The effectiveness of using incentives to promote healthy behavior and counteract unhealthy choices is becoming increasingly well-known, and in recent years a variety of innovative strategies have emerged for delivering them. In the current symposium, a series of talks will address different strategies for delivering positive reinforcement for a variety of healthy behaviors in populations of children, adolescents, and adults. The healthy behaviors addressed include medication compliance, drug abstinence, smoking cessation, and consumption of fruits and vegetables. Strategies vary from applying established methods (e.g., token reinforcement and parent training) in new contexts to developing innovative methods of delivery (internet-based and gaming formats). All strategies show positive changes in behaviors and demonstrate methods for preventing or addressing serious health concerns by applying established principles of behavior analysis.
Incentives for Suppression of Viral Load in People Living With HIV: Interim Results
KENNETH SILVERMAN (Johns Hopkins University), Andrew Rodewald (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Carol-Ann Getty (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Brian R. Katz (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), August F. Holtyn (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Brantley Jarvis (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Shrinidhi Subramaniam (Johns Hopkins University)
Consistent use of antiretroviral medications by adults living with HIV can suppress plasma HIV-1 RNA (viral load) to undetectable levels. This ongoing study is evaluating the effectiveness of an incentive intervention in promoting suppression of viral load. Adults living with HIV who have detectable viral loads are being randomly assigned to an Incentive or a Usual Care Control group. Incentive participants receive high magnitude incentives for maintaining reduced or undetectable viral loads, the testing frequency is gradually reduced as participants achieve longer periods of viral load suppression, incentives are arranged on a schedule of escalating reinforcement for sustained suppression of viral load, and the intervention is maintained for two years. Assessments are conducted every 3 months throughout the two years of treatment and every 6 months throughout the year following treatment. Interim results for 30 participants who completed the 3-month assessment show that Incentive participants have significantly lower viral loads than the Usual Care Control participants at the 3-month assessment. If the incentive intervention maintains suppressed viral load, it could be used to improve the health of adults living with HIV.
Community Reinforcement and Family Training With Parents of Substance-Using Treatment-Resistant Youth
KIMBERLY C. KIRBY (Rowan University), Kathleen Meyers (Treatment Research Institute), Elena Bresani (Treatment Research Institute), Lois A. Benishek (Treatment Research Institute), Mary Louise E. Kerwin (Rowan University), Yukiko Washio (Treatment Research Institute), Robert J. Meyers (Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D. & Associates)
Little research has examined methods for helping a parent with a treatment-resistant child who is using alcohol or drugs. We adapted Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) designed for spouses of substance-using adults for use by parents of treatment resistant youth and evaluated the revised program on efficacy in facilitating treatment entry and reducing substance use and behavior problems of the youth. Parents were randomly assigned to receive either CRAFT or 12-Step Facilitation Training (TFT). Parents reported on their youths treatment entry during CRAFT sessions and at 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-up assessments. At baseline and follow-ups, parents also reported on youth substance use and behavior problems (using Achenbach Child and Adult Behavior Checklists). Large differences were seen with 77% of the youth of CRAFT parents receiving a brief intervention and treatment referral compared to 42% of the youth in the TNF group. There were significant reductions in substance use and behavior problems as a main effect of time; but no differences as a function of the type of training.
Nationwide Access to an Internet-Based Contingency Management Intervention to Promote Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
JESSE DALLERY (University of Florida), Bethany R. Raiff (Rowan University), SunnyJung Kim (The Geisel School of Medicine at Darmouth), Lisa A. Marsch (Dartmouth College), Maxine Stitzer (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Mike Grabinski (Red5hift LLC)
Abstract: Contingency management (CM) is one of the most effective behavioral interventions to promote drug abstinence, but availability of this treatment is limited. We evaluated the efficacy and acceptability of internet-based CM relative to an Internet-based monitoring and goal setting control group in a nationwide sample of cigarette smokers. Participants were randomized to earn financial incentives based on video-verified abstinence using breath carbon monoxide (CO) output (Abstinent Contingent Group, AC), or based on submitting CO samples (Submission Contingent, SC). Both groups also received the same CO-based goals. A deposit was required in both groups that could be recouped from initial earnings. Smokers from 26 states were enrolled. Abstinence rates differed at 4 weeks between the AC and SC groups, but not at the 3-, or 6-month follow-ups. The lowest acceptability ratings were for the items assessing the deposit, whereas the highest ratings concerned the ease of the intervention, the graph of CO results, and earning money. It is efficacious and acceptable to extend the reach of CM interventions for smoking cessation using technology.
Gamifying the School Cafeteria to Increase Healthy Eating
GREGORY J. MADDEN (Utah State University), Frank Sosa (Utah State University), Damon Joyner (Utah State University), Hali King (Utah State University), Heidi Wengreen (Utah State University), Sheryl Aguilar (Utah State University)
Abstract: Children in 1st through 5th grades participated in a school-wide healthy eating program known as the FIT Game. Following a stable baseline period in which fruit and vegetable consumption was measured daily, the FIT Game intervention was introduced in two schools in what would be an A-B-A-B design. In the game phases, the school worked cooperatively to aid a group of heroes (the FITs) in their quest to find and capture a band of villains (the VAT). The game narrative was presented in comic-book formatted episodes presented in the school cafeteria. Each day that the school collectively met a vegetable-consumption goal, the game continued the next day with a new episode. Game elements included competitions against fictional schools, voting to determine the direction of the narrative, solving riddles, earning and spending virtual currency, and helping the heroes to complete their quests. Bootstrapping statistical analyses appropriate to time-series data were used to evaluate differences across the A and B phases (alpha less than .05). In both schools, vegetable consumption significantly increased during both FIT Game phases. Fruit consumption did not decrease in response to the contingency placed on vegetable consumption; to the contrary, there was a modest (but non-significant) increase.


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Carolyn Crane
Carolyn Crane has long been fascinated by hidden worlds — the wiry insides of old gadgets, the strange workings of secret societies, the mysteries of people's minds and hearts. She's into that as a reader and a writer, too. Plotty puzzles. Psychological intrigue. Concealed realms. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two daring cats, and when she's not writing novels or working at her day job as a freelance writer, she can be found reading in bed, running, helping animals, or eating Mexican food. Read excerpts of her novels at Carolyn Crane's website.
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The Disillusionists
The Disillusionists — (2010-2014) Publisher: JUSTINE KNOWS SHE'S GOING TO DIE. ANY SECOND NOW. Justine Jones has a secret. A hardcore hypochondriac, she's convinced a blood vessel is about to burst in her brain. Then, out of the blue, a startlingly handsome man named Packard peers into Justine's soul and invites her to join his private crime-fighting team. It's a once-in-a-lifetime deal. With a little of Packard's hands-on training, Justine can weaponize her neurosis, turning it outward on Midcity's worst criminals, and finally get the freedom from fear she's always craved. End of problem. Or is it? In Midcity, a dashing police chief is fighting a unique breed of outlaw with more than human powers. And while Justine's first missions, including one against a nymphomaniac husband-killer, are thrilling successes, there is more to Packard than meets the eye. Soon, while battling her attraction to two very different men, Justine is plunging deeper into a world of wizardry, eroticism, and cosmic secrets. With Packard's help, Justine has freed herself from her madness — only to discover a reality more frightening than anyone's worst fears.
Mind Games: Major points for originality
Mind Games by Carolyn Crane
Justine Jones is a hypochondriac whose mental health is quickly spiraling downward. She's convinced she has vein star syndrome, the condition that killed her mother. Then she meets the mysterious Packard, who recruits her into his team of Disillusionists. Disillusionists are essentially psychic vigilantes, attacking criminals by zapping their own psychological problems into the bad guy's energy field. When the criminal has been reduced to a gibbering mass of anxiety, so Packard's theory goes, he or she can start building a new life as a better person.
Mind Games is set in a fictional city where "highcaps" (high-capacity humans) exist alongside regular humans. A few holdouts don't believe in the highcaps' superpowers, but most people do. These powers make it difficult for highcap criminals to be caught and incarcerated, a problem that comes up several times in the ... Read More
May 23rd, 2011. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3 | Carolyn Crane | SFF Reviews | no comments

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Gather at our Siem Reap meeting point then board our air-conditioned bus for the scenic 45-minute countryside ride to the dock on the Tonle Sap Lake for check-in to your 7-story, five star Mekong abode. Settle into your floating retreat, with its window wall conferring an endlessly captivating panorama. Enjoy these private Mekong moments on your California king bed, terrace or daybed.


This is our 11th installment of the TMC Labs Innovation Awards recognizing the truly unique and innovative products and services within the VoIP industry. Over the years, TMC Labs has recognized some remarkable achievements in the VoIP and telecom space. While the VoIP industry has certainly matured and perhaps products are not as unique as they were, say, five years ago, we still encounter products pushing the leading edge by offering better performance, a slight variation in features, or a more comprehensive all-on-one solution that eliminates the need for several disparate products.
Take, for example, one winner, the Grandstream GXV3611 PoE dome camera. While IP cameras are nothing new, Grandstream's camera supports H.264 with an impressive max resolution of up to 1600x900 at 25fps. ClearOne has taken its innovative speakerphone technology and embedded it into a USB speakerphone so it can be used with the popular Microsoft OCS 2007 platform.
Choosing the most innovative products and services is always challenging, but TMC Labs carefully scrutinized each applicant and came up with the 15 most innovative companies. TMC Labs proudly bestows each of these 15 companies with a TMC Labs Innovation Award.
We're publishing details about the awards recipients in two parts to accommodate our in-depth write-ups for the winners. The complete winners list will be published in both issues; however, we will run the detailed write-ups in alphabetical order beginning with AccessLine Communications and ending with Hatteras Networks this month. Next month, we start with PhonePower and end with Transera Communications.
Epygi (News - Alert) Technologies Ltd.
PIKA Technologies (News - Alert) Inc.
Polycom (News - Alert) Inc.
AccessLine told TMC Labs that more than 15 percent of its customers were asking to purchase a cordless phone that would work with their hosted digital phone service. After deciding to develop a DECT (News - Alert) cordless phone product, the company knew it was important to ensure complete feature parity between the DECT cordless phones and the desk phones. The DECT Cordless phone the company developed is fully compatible with all system features including voicemail, call park/ pickup, intercom, call hold, call transfer, call waiting, multiline display and call conferencing. It's worth noting that the cordless phones are not twins of a desk phone and have their own extension, phone number and voicemail box.
The company claims to be the first hosted phone system provider to offer DECT cordless phones. AccessLine pre-configures the entire phone system (including the cordless phones), and the customer installs the phones in a few minutes. AccessLine pointed out that competitors offer desk phones with a twin cordless phone, but added that its customer research showed that customers wanted the phone to be stand alone, but still have complete integration with the full set of features of the phone system.
ADTRAN's Total Access 5000, a carrier-class multi-service access and aggregation platform, helps solve this problem. It is designed to help service providers bridge the gap between existing and next-generation networks. It supports both legacy and emerging service interfaces over copper and fiber and can be easily scaled to support even the most bandwidth-intensive applications.
The Total Access 5000 was the first product of its kind on the market with a pure Ethernet core – unlike traditional ATM- and SONET-based platforms, which require enormous overhead and expensive add-ons to deliver emerging services. The Total Access 5000 supports both legacy and emerging service interfaces over copper and fiber and, includes support for both TDM and VoIP switches. In addition, the Total Access 5000's Ethernet core provides a scalable and cost-optimized aggregation point in the network, with interfaces ranging from DS1 to gigabit Ethernet.
The Total Access 5000 supports a variety of access and line modules with supported applications including IP DSLAM, broadband loop carrier, fiber to the premises, fiber to the node, Ethernet aggregation and legacy service aggregation. As a broadband loop carrier, the Total Access 5000 provides converged POTS and enhanced broadband services using ADSL2+, VDSL2 and GPON technologies.
With the growth of smartphones with powerful processors the desire to play high-definition video content on your mobile phone also has seen dramatic growth. Aricent offers a pre-integrated and pre-optimized set of applications and middleware, along with Aricent's high-performance codecs, which enhances the end user multimedia experience across a multitude of platforms (Android, Win Mobile, LiMO, etc). Aricent's multimedia coders/decoders are a key element of Aricent's Media EXP suite, a pre-packaged software framework that enables device manufacturers to accelerate the launch of highly differentiated products for mobile TV, messaging, videoconferencing and streaming media solutions. The pre-packaged software framework reduces the development cost and complexity for vendors manufacturing a variety of consumer electronic devices such as mobile Internet devices, smartphones, digital photo frames, portable media players, and more.
Their frameworks also makes it easy to develop applications such as VoIP, video telephony, IM, DLNA-enabled streaming media players, mobile TV, photo album manager, and Internet radio. The middleware solution includes multimedia framework, IMS, file parsers, RTSP streaming, HTTP streaming, video telephony, Media Transfer Protocol, DLNA and UPnP. Aricent claims to be the first to integrate 720p video playback on a constraint device (Samsung Omnia) and the first to integrate DivX DRM in AVI file playback.
The components included in the Media EXP suite leverage the target hardware capabilities like graphics acceleration, 2D and 3D services making the solution capable of providing the best performance on the target platform. Aricent codecs are pre-optimized for multiple processors (e.g. ARM, TI, Marvell and Intel) and operating systems (e.g. Symbian, Windows Mobile, BREW, Java and Android), resulting in considerable savings in CPU processing power, which extends battery life for video recording and playback.
The ClearOne product delivers full duplex audio and eliminates echo. HDConference, the suite of advanced audio technologies, developed for ClearOne's other higher-end professional audio conferencing products, is incorporated into the CHAT 70 to give it superb audio characteristics. It leverages distributed echo cancellation on every microphone input (DSPs, not software); noise cancellation, which removes ambient room noise; and automatic level controls to keep participants' audio balanced and consistent. It also uses first-mic priority gating techniques to eliminate hollow tunnel sound.
Epygi's new solid state QuadroM8L appliance targets offices with 32 to 98 users and supports eight FXO trunk line ports or an ITSP with SIP trunking. Hitting the small to medium business sweet spot, the QuadroM8L delivers advanced features like call recording, conferencing, automatic call distribution and barge-in, while maintaining an affordable price point of $2,395.
The QuadroM8L is a SIP-based IP PBX that has your typical auto-attendant and ACD features for call routing, but it also has find me/follow me routing. Tools like hot desking and remote extensions provide further flexibility for offices that have a dynamic employee base. Standard features include auto attendant, unified voicemail, unified fax, free upgrades and a number of other standard features. Purchasable features include automatic call distribution for call centers, call recording, supervisor barge-in, silent agent monitoring, supervisor whisper, integrated conference bridges and a XML application programmers interface. In this way, businesses can start with the features they need and as they grow they can enable more advanced functionality.
Epygi partnered with Polycom and Yealink to bring businesses video call support for free to the SMB. In the past, this feature only has been available to large enterprise companies and was an expensive capital investment. Further, Epygi has teamed with VoIP security systems and IP-based cameras suppliers, such as Cyber Data, ITS and Mobotix, to create a completely integrated VoIP security system that will stream video through the security cameras to video handsets or cell phones.
Grandstream's GXV3611 indoor fixed dome IP cameras are among the most feature-rich power over Ethernet IP cameras that we've encountered – and they won't break the bank either. Easily mounted on walls or ceilings, the GXM3611 cameras deliver razor-sharp image clarity and can archive video to memory or captured and archived using free software. Grandstream's GXV3611_HD camera includes 2-Mexapixel progressive scan CMOS sensor and advanced lens while delivering multi-rate H.264 real-time video streaming with a maximum resolution of 1600x900 and at a frame rate of up to 25fps. Using GSurf, Grandstream's free video management software, businesses can monitor and control up to 36 cameras simultaneously. The GXV3601_LL captures and streams high quality real-time video under low light conditions (as low as 0.05Lux) and up to 30fps with full D1 (720x480) or VGA (640x480) resolution. It features multi-rate H.264 video compression with excellent image quality.
Grandstream is known for its SIP phones, well they've taken that knowledge and added support for SIP/VoIP and 2-way audio to their cameras. SIP/VoIP essentially turns these cameras into smart camera phones for video monitoring and two-way audio intercom/monitoring. Live video feeds from any of Grandstream's surveillance cameras can also be routed through Grandstream's GXE502x IP PBX and streamed onto Grandstream's IP video endpoints like the GXV3140 for a completely integrated, cost-effective network solution.
In addition to the integrated microphone and speaker, it also sports a smoke detector. It also features motion detection and alert notification. A 24MB pre-/post-event recording buffer makes sure you don't miss the preceding moments of when an event/alert occurred. Lastly, you can use its Web-based graphical user interface for both configuration and monitoring of individual cameras.
The HN6100 is a modular, multi-service platform designed to enable carriers to offer any service, over any media, via any port or slot, from one compact, ultra-dense chassis. The 40gbps, two-rack-unit solution's simple, flexible support for the complete range of Ethernet business services and mobile backhaul from the same pay-as-you-grow platform is a unique differentiator that enables a carrier to cost-effectively reduce its number of vendors.
The HN6100 supports Ethernet over Copper customer premises equipment via Hatteras Networks' HN400 Series, Ethernet over Time Division Multiplexing and Ethernet over NxT1/E1 via the new HN500 Series and TDM over Ethernet CPE via the new HN600 Series with PWE3-plus, Hatteras Networks' revolutionary, patented method of simultaneously transporting native Ethernet and native TDM over copper for mobile backhaul solutions. The same HN6100 multi-service chassis will also support Ethernet over fiber interfaces in the future. The HN600 delivers 10 times more bandwidth at one-tenth the cost of legacy technologies for mobile backhaul.
The HN6100 addresses the synchronization issues that are prevalent with emulated T1/E1 services. The HN6100 delivers a synchronization solution that is fast, reliable, and accurate where every interface port can be synchronized to a reference clock (including the Ethernet ports), and these same interfaces can serve as a clock source. The HN6100 is NEBS level 3 certified, temperature-hardened, and has full front access to all of its cables and plug-in modules. Its two RU-high chassis can be deployed in a central office, a controlled environmental vault, an outside plant remote-terminal, a cell site, or at the customer's premises.
Tom Keating is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Technology Marketing Corporation, and Executive Technology Editor/SEO Director for TMCnet.com. To read more of Tom's articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.


1. An Instant Guide to The Grenadines: An overview of the islands we have visited in the St Vincent and the Grenada Grenadines.
2. A Guide to Weather Sources: Where do we go for weather forecasts while we are cruising in the Caribbean?


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package com.fxexperience.javafx.animation;

import javafx.animation.KeyFrame;
import javafx.animation.KeyValue;
import javafx.animation.TimelineBuilder;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.util.Duration;

/**
 * Animate a shake effect on the given node
 *
 * Port of Shake from Animate.css http://daneden.me/animate by Dan Eden
 *
 * {@literal @}keyframes shake {
 * 	0%, 100% {transform: translateX(0);}
 * 	10%, 30%, 50%, 70%, 90% {transform: translateX(-10px);}
 * 	20%, 40%, 60%, 80% {transform: translateX(10px);}
 * }
 *
 * @author Jasper Potts
 */
public class ShakeTransition extends CachedTimelineTransition {
    /**
     * Create new ShakeTransition
     *
     * @param node The node to affect
     */
    public ShakeTransition(final Node node) {
        super(
            node,
            TimelineBuilder.create()
                .keyFrames(
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(0), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), 0, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(100), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), -10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(200), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), 10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(300), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), -10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(400), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), 10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(500), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), -10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(600), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), 10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(700), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), -10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(800), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), 10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(900), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), -10, WEB_EASE)),
                    new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(1000), new KeyValue(node.translateXProperty(), 0, WEB_EASE))
                )
                .build()
            );
        setCycleDuration(Duration.seconds(1));
        setDelay(Duration.seconds(0.2));
    }
}

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Q: How do I get a Canon LBP 2900 B Printer working? I am using Ubuntu 11.10 , I have a Canon LBP 2900 B model printer.
I installed two .deb driver packeges (cndrvcups-capt,cndrvcups-common) with gs-esp dependency package, then configured the printer, using informations given in the Ubuntu community and from many other sources from the Internet.
I am sure that all configurations are right according rules (ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0) but when I give a print -nothing happens (not printing).
I saw another matter - a new printer automatically configured (LBP2900-2) in device uri usb://Canon/LBP2900
Using Ubuntu 11.04, I installed the printer with the same method cited above, then I printed a test page and many other pages successfully, but after restarting the PC, trying to print - nothing happens.
I saw that a second printer configured in the address

usb://Canon/LBP2900
  I connect Canon LBP2900 with Computer using USB port

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Last week, my job was eliminated with my employer, and my employment terminated. Since then, life has pretty much been a mess. First is dealing with the grief of the loss of one's job, and don't kid yourself, the grief is real. Then there's trying to figure out what the new "everyday" is going to look like, because the previous one is history. Finally, there's the omnipresent push/pull of "be calm, patient, and things will come together," versus "holy crap, I gotta get a job tomorrow!"
Toward that end, there is more to do than I can list, and in many ways finding a new job is much more of a job than a traditional job is. And through it all, it is hard not to want to do EVERYTHING.
So as I slog through this stage of my career, I'm trying to take things in chunks and not boil the ocean. It is tough to do, as my head is swimming with great ideas of how I should be spending this unique time. Prioritization and organization will obviously be my best friends.
But the toughest part is to not get down, which is really hard to do as little things can really set things off. A great example was this morning, when I slept in until 6:00AM and hit the gym like I normally do, albeit a hour or two later than usual. Things were going great until about 7:15 when there was a definite shift in the clientele. The people with jobs were all gone, and the gym was left with a bunch of retirees. And me. And it made me feel like a loser.
This is but one example of the battle that is raging right now. It's counterproductive, sapping, and about as far from objective as possible.
It is also a dragon that I have to figure out how to slay if I'm going to get to where I need to go.
John Wayne Sings "God Bless America"
Why I Won't See "Unbroken"
A True Version of "Hands Up, Don't Shoot"


(October 17, Kerala, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lankan poet, eminent jurist, and veteran human rights activist, Basil Fernando lives in Hong Kong - in exile. His life always reminds me of the lives of the Chinese writers who have gone into exile after the Tiananmen Tragedy in 1989. And of the lives of Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Joseph Brodsky, Gao Xingjian, Bei Dao, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, leading Afro-Caribbean writers and a galaxy of great literary giants, major artists and filmmakers of the world of yesterday and today, whose works were wrongly labeled by the authorities as politically subversive. This situation of revolutionary confrontation is an inevitable part of contemporary history in its struggles for liberation and rights. Here we get the answer to the most frequently asked question: why did they leave their countries?
Basil writes in Sinhalese and English; addresses both the ordinary people of his country and the elite everywhere. He works with friends from various parts of the world in his office at the Asian Human Rights Commission. Basil travels east and west to far off places; in history and jurisprudence; in the labyrinths of past and present; in the vast zones of virtual and real spaces of new human experience, perception, knowledge, and imagination.
Quite naturally all the journeys of Basil and his poetry end in Sri Lanka, his homeland. This may not be a conscious/calculated landing. This return to his native land is as smooth as an instinctual roost in one's own nest, rather than an intellectual arrival at an ideological/spiritual asylum. It is neither a return to the past, nor a fall into nostalgia.
Let us not forget the basic fact that Basil is not an admirer of the revived splendors of the past. Past was revisited, reinterpreted, and redefined in the discourses of the nationalist movement for the construction of a nation, of a heritage, and of a cultural identity charged with resistance against colonial hegemony. The fully-grown ideology of nationalism in the course of the anti-colonial freedom struggles was rooted deeply in the reconstructed past, and in the full spectrum of newly discovered tradition.
Sri Lanka in Basil's poetry is neither a mythic island in the mysterious prehistoric whistles of the sea-breeze, nor a colonial Ceylon tortured and looted by foreign invaders. Of course certain elements of those bygone days can be traced in the subconscious gallery of the poet's memory. That is a possible source of the vivid trait of folklore, fables, and fragments of mythology in Basil's poetry. Creative recycling of tradition is a way to renew tradition. Historically and culturally expired cells of tradition will be rejected naturally in the process of a creative retelling of an ancient narrative. Outlines, events, characters, story, form, and other features may be partially retained in the new version. But the style and vision will be fresh. Folk narratives have an organic hold in the imagination of Basil. He brings forth many characters and situations from the past for a clearer articulation of contemporary disquiet. Poet Basil's concern is not at all contrary to the concerns of the jurist, activist Basil. Basil is Basils. He has a creatively plural energy in his essential substance. One can easily reckon at least three Basils in Basil: Poet, Jurist, and Activist; possibly more than that. Present is the time of all these 'Basils'. A close scrutiny of the poems of Basil Fernando will disclose the creative alliance of those faculties to form the dialogic fabric of these poems. Sri Lanka is Basils' base. The present reality, with all its violence and violations, cries and resistance, is the weaver of feelings, meanings and arguments. This place and this time are capable of an enormous aesthetic stretch to the entire complexities of power and disparities, of love and violence, of conviction and confusion, of terror and injustice, of killing and saving, of appearance and disappearance, in any nation where democracy is in decline. Suffering and poetry are local and universal, line by line. Their catchment areas have no borders.
The Sri Lanka of Basil's poems is a deep wound in the poet's mind; a bleeding face through which his daring creativity has to see, breathe, recollect, protest, and sing; a fragmented yet fascinating emerald, to which his memory, concepts and dreams, thoughts and sufferings, are tragically attached and magically resurrected. Basil sees that pain, blood, tears, murder, dead bodies, distrust, schizophrenia, loss of faith, peace and normal rhythm of life, pollutes the quiet flow of values in a culture.
and charming girls growing in the villages.
I see not tears but distrust.
to that I can't bring myself.
This poem is apparently a simple narration of personal loss and pain. But it grows in us to the vision of the heights and depths of the recent losses and pains of Sri Lanka specifically, and of third world nations in general. The quantum of cruelty we do to one another is explosive. We are at war with ourselves, and with our most essential habitat of culture and environment. A terrific shock is needed to wake us from the frightening underworlds of our moral sleep. This kind of an ethical alarm is the primary source of inspiration, provocation for Basil to write his poems. His responsibility to world and word is deep. Poet is an ambassador of love and an advocate of justice in Basil's art of poetry. Use of poetry for Basil is enlightenment, not entertainment, or enjoyment.
The river within us has become more impure and frozen than ever before. 'River too pure yields no fish' is a Chinese proverb. 'River too impure yields no fish' can be a new saying of any nation today. Great rivers of Sri Lanka in this poem represent the central lifeline in the history of that country. A quiet flow of the rivers kept the land's nature and culture in harmony and peace. Once they are poisoned or troubled by blood or butchered bodies, the peace of mind of a nation begins to vanish. Life on the island is in a panic; falling into terrific and tragic waves. Transparency, simplicity, credibility, and intimacy of the flow of the river of life are then condemned to disappear from the public sphere. In the eyes of mothers the poet could see only distrust, not tears. Mountains have lost their charm and mysterious heights. Nature is being forcibly driven out of the company of the human soul. A terrible situation is thrust upon the people like a thunderbolt that can stop tears and songs; that can confuse memory with desire; that can bury hope in despair.
Longing to sing a song of the distanced self is a sign of the creative struggle to bring back the lost charm and music of hope. It is to regenerate the beauty of common sense and sense of history and justice to local forms of expression. Faith in justice is the centre of and the gravity of beauty, love, and the meaning of life, which is still alive in the common man's dream for a Promised Land. And justice is the most vital concern in Basil's poetry. Justice has both aesthetical and philosophical roots and manifestations in his poems.
Images of injustice in Basil's poems are those of beast, inhuman, bloody and ugly. Beast is Satan and his age is the age of the failed God. Images show the vision of the poet. Beast is the shape of all dying cultures. It is the violence, the hatred, the irrational enmity, which embodies all that is terribly opposed to the wellbeing of humanity. It is an image which insists and forces us into introspection, to go deep into our time and space. Elements of that image can be seen as scattered in the poetic world of Basil, that same way injustice is scattered in the real world. Injustice is closely connected with each and every criminal tendency in the social psyche. It seeks its dark and violent expressions through innumerable crimes, explosions, corruption, pollution, kidnapping, killings, sadist responses, and disasters of every breed. We see this dance of the beast in many of Basil's poems as different languages of the power of evil, and its consequent tragic realities emerging in a failing state. I-low cunningly the beasts cooperate. They accommodate each other, perform theft, organize cheating, maintain unholy alliances, compete mutually, keep secrets, manage malicious and violent operations, annihilate the enemy, sow the seeds of fear, despair, insecurity and tragedy, damage the free circulation of truth, propagate lies through various media, celebrate the defeat and disintegration of culture, and finally function entirely in anti- human ways. These are neatly exposed in Basil's poems. Contentions in these poems can be summed up as follows: any practitioner of injustice is a beast, a murderer of human dignity, of creativity, of culture, and of freedom. He/she is also a killer of peace, meaning; terminator of genuine forms of nature and beauty. The praxis of injustice as a whole is a praxis of dehumanization. The properties of the socio-historic environment which alone protests against injustice, electrifies the words in Basil's poems.
In a complex and critical fascist situation like ours, man/woman is dehumanized to either a wordless mute or to senseless verbiage. He/she is brutally reduced to the predicament of a prey/a slave/ a follower/a consumer/a desire machine/a sacrificial animal. This is a historical extension of the Kafkaesque metamorphosis. For the lowest strata this is a fall into the cellar of denial of justice and language, which can cause turbulence.


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RISE & RUN WITH THE WESTIN LONDON CITY
The Capital's latest wellness hotspot invites Londoners to start their day with a 5k, in partnership
with The Runner Beans and HOKA ONE ONE
To celebrate its opening this September, Westin Hotels & Resorts' UK debut, The Westin London
City is delighted to announce the relaunch of its Rise and Run programme. In partnership with
influencer Charlie Watson, AKA The Runner Beans, the hotel invites runners of all abilities to the
run taking place on Thursday 2nd September.
Kicking off at 7:00am, the event will begin in the hotel's lobby, giving participants an exclusive first
look at ahead of its opening on the 28th September. Charlie will then lead the group through a
warmup before heading out on the scenic five-kilometre run along the Thames. Accompanied by
Charlie and Westin's Run Concierge, the circular route will take the group across Tower Bridge,
down past Borough Market, across the Millennium Bridge and around St Paul's Cathedral, before
heading back to the hotel for refreshments. Allowing city dwellers of all abilities to start the day on
the right foot, the Rise and Run programme encourages participants to switch off from the daily
stresses of life and focus solely on the run ahead of them.
To coincide with the re-launch of Rise and Run, The Westin London City is delighted to be
partnering with premium performance footwear brand HOKA. Upon arrival to the event, runners
will have the chance to try on the brand's latest take on fan-favourites, the Clifton 8 and Arahi 4,
and trial them out on the 5k. Post-run refreshments will also be provided by The Juicery who will
serve up an energising juice filled with nutritious ingredients to replenish participants, setting them
up for the day ahead. Following the run, attendees will also have the chance to speak with Charlie
who will be available to share any tips and advice they may seek.
Westin Hotels and Resorts' UK debut, The Westin London City is the Capital's latest wellness
destination, opening its doors to guests from the 28th September. Boasting a prime riverfront
location, ideally situated on Upper Thames Street between Monument and Temple, the hotel
completes the Thames walkway, providing a gateway between the city and river. Embodying the
brand's six pillars of wellbeing – Sleep Well, Eat Well, Move Well, Feel Well, Work Well and Play
Well, The Westin London City empowers guests to take control of their fitness routine during their
stay. Be it through the Rise and Run programme, or on a solo run with Westin's Run Concierge
service, runners of all abilities are invited to head out and explore the various scenic routes, with
a range of distances available. Whilst the Heavenly Spa by Westin and WestinWORKOUT Fitness
Studio provide an array of wider fitness and wellness offerings to suit each and every type of
traveller.
Free and open to all abilities, the five-kilometre Rise & Run launch event will take place on
Thursday 2nd September at 7:00am. Participants are asked to arrive at The Westin London City
from 6:45am, for a 7:15am start, with the event ending by 8:30am. The monthly club will return
with its next run in October (date TBC).
For more information about the running club, and to sign up, please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rise-run-with-the-westin-london-city-tickets-166776963387
To be kept up to date with upcoming events, follow The Westin London City on Instagram and for
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Q: 500 error when access device detail page in wso2 IoT device mgt URL We configured ip via following doc and IoT worked.
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A: WSO2 IoT 3.1.0 is released and it has included a script to change the host name to IP. Default server comes with localhost URL configurations and an SSL certificate with localhost common name. Therefore if you need to change localhost to an IP, please run the change-ip.sh script in [WSO2 IoT 3.1.0]/scripts folder.


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We have a great need for servers at every Mass. All currently trained altar servers are encouraged to attend as a refresher. We hope you will consider joining this special ministry for youth in our parish!


Detonatik is the brainchild of Jassi, from Bombay, India. Seeing dance as a medium of active meditation going at sonic speed, his music is an inner journey not limited to our normal perceptions of space and time. His music tastes varied at an early age, but only a couple visits to Goa were enough to change his musical tastes forever as he attended powerful psy-gatherings.
Pumping psychedelia into the brains and the feet, Detonatik takes you for a journey on a wide horizon of intense soundscapes and atmospheres - inspiring dancers to reach for more. His mantra is simple: "movement arises from the breathwork guided by the universal OM!" BOOM SHANTI!


Nobody wants to live in a dingy, dirty city, especially not if they want to feel good about their home, and respect the area that they are spending time in. Research has shown that people who live and work in a clean city will have a better quality of life than those who are living in squalor. Not only will they enjoy better health, but their general outlook on life will be more positive. With this in mind, it is important for cities to implement strategies and programmes for ensuring that their areas are as bright and welcoming as they can be, so that their people can be happy and productive.
Here are four outdoor cleaning strategies for a better, brighter city.
city, and have less concrete and more trees for people to enjoy. Often during the growth of cities, there appears to be more and more concrete filling every square inch of the place, and less and less green areas. City planning and redevelopment needs to incorporate nature strips, and areas for the trees and other wildlife that also call the city home.
Walking around a city early in the morning, after the street sweepers have been by, is such a pleasing way of appreciating the city landscape. Employing commercial cleaners to ensure that areas around buildings are kept rubbish free, and that built up grime and dirt is removed regularly, can do wonders for helping a city to be brighter and cleaner. Commercial cleaners such as AMC Brisbane are employed by lots of individual businesses, and city councils to ensure that each part of the city is kept looking its best.
One great strategy for helping citizens to take responsibility is to reward people for picking up rubbish. Some cities such as Beijing have recently introduced a system whereby people can swap plastic bottles for subway credits, by returning containers. Systems such as this can turn waste into something positive by helping to make rubbish something that is valuable to citizens, and reduce the amount of rubbish that is left lying around in the process.
City planning and development needs to incorporate eco construction values to make the most of the space that is being used. There are loads of different ways that green values can be incorporated into the planning, such as utilising solar power, growing vertical gardens, recycling, and eco focused art pieces. A regular fountain in a city square can be planned to produce electricity through the flow of water, which can light street lights within the vicinity. In today's green revolution, with the many eco options available, there is no excuse for cities to continue to ignore their role in making their city as bright, clean and green as possible.
What other ways can a city be a brighter, cleaner place for its citizens?


I have COPD, i asked my doctor about, me buying a Nebulizer to help when my breathing is bad. He said they are no good for copd.
Has anybody else been told this?
Has anybody tried a Nebulizer, and if so does it work?
Hi Chez13, I have very severe COPD and have never used a nebuliser but I know many on here do. I don't think you can generalise as some find them extremely useful. I am sure others will be along soon to tell of their experiences.
Would nebulised ventolin or other bronchodilators not help your breathing a little, Toci ? I know you don't have a problem with sputum but I would have thought a nebuliser could be helpful in times of extra sob.
I can't use Ventolin as it actually makes my breathing worse, as does Bricanyl, both leave me gasping. I do not seem to have a lot of luck with inhalers. I had to stop using Spiriva (last year?) and am currently trying the Onbrez breezhaler again but with poor results.
What about Fostair ? I know nothing about this one but keep seeing it mentioned here. Bricanil and Atrovent both make me shaky and trembly but Ventolin, Symbicort and Spiriva seem okay. That' s a shame that you can't get an inhaler to suit you.
I use nebuliser to clear chest so gunk is easy to cough up also helps with my chronic infection rate.
All depends on your lung condition and severity MOST gp's as the don't prescribe them leave for hospital lung doctors to sort.
I bought a nebuliser because I was sick of having to go in to hospital and all they were giving you was ventalin through a nebuliser. My GP is happy with me having one in the house. But I think not all gps are. I also get the stuff you put in the nebuliser from my GP. I have never heard that a nebuliser is not used for COPD before. I also use saline to help bring up the phlegm.
I have COPD and would be lost without my nebuliser. Bought one on recommendation of gp to avoid lots of visits to A&E! Recent flare up resulted in having to use (on gp advice) 4 times per day.
Is important that gp in agreement to having one because they prescribe the meds. Also I have strict advice on when I shouldn't self nebulise but call an ambulance.
There is a recent NICE concern that people who self nebulise may not seek medical assistance quick enough which might be one of your GPs concern.?
But in my case having nebuliser at home is very helpful and has recently kept me out of hospital. I also keep one in the car. Nebuliser also means I feel have more control of the condition!
Do you have a rescue pack of meds? Ie antibiotics and steroids at home. Again some gps won't give them to patients on the grounds the patient won't know when to use and might over use! Again I feel it gives me control of the condition rather than the other way round.
Yes i have a rescue pack at home.
I've been using a nebuliser for four years on the recommendation of my Doctor...I have COPD/Asthma...find it's excellent for bring up gunk!
Yes I was by my doctor so haven't tried since.
Hi Chez, I have very severe COPD (stage 4) and before my COPD got to this level, the nebuliser worked well for me. I used it several times at my sugery to nebulise Ventolin when I was bad. I now find Salbutamol and Ventolin not effective at all.
You don't say what stage COPD you are so it may work for you.
Nebulisers are also used to nebulise antibiotics such as Gentamycin and Colymycin to treat infections where oral antibiotics have failed.
When just in hospital I had a neb 4 times a day, saline with salt in to help move the rubbish, they said I could have one on discharge but changed there minds.
I cannot really comment on whether it would benefit your condition but I have severe COPD and I am provided with a nebulizer by NHS. My medications for nebs are as follows, Sodium chloride which helps clear mucus in airways, Ventolin and Ipratropium bromide which do help me but as I say I suffer with severe shortness of breath and have a very weak immune system, hope this is of some help.
Are nebulizers given from the hospital?
Where can I buy 7% Hypertonic Saline for Nebulizer?


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BTS' RM Launches Solo Career with Album "Indigo"
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RM, leader of the K-pop band BTS, launched on Friday his solo career with the release of his album "Indigo".
The rapper will be the third member to release solo material this year, following J-hope and Jin.
The album will be RM's first official solo release since the seven-member K-pop boy band announced a hiatus to pursue individual music releases.
The rapper has previously released a pair of mixtapes, 2018's "Mono" and 2015's "RM," but "Indigo" will be his first full-length effort.
In a statement, RM stated that the solo debut album "Indigo" is just like himself and will be another starting point of his nine-year musical career.
"It was 2019 when I first conceived the idea of making 'Indigo'," RM said in a video released through his agency, Big Hit Music, to introduce the new album. "It's an album that contains all my feelings, worries, and thoughts just like a diary."
He said it will be more "Kim Nam-joon like" than his previous unofficial releases and be another starting point, referring to his original Korean name. It was in this context he came up with the title, "Indigo."
"To express my changed tendencies, colors and thoughts, I wanted to contrast with the black-and-white atmosphere of 'mono.' So, I wondered what it would be like to start my formal album with this natural basic color," RM said.
"Indigo is the basic color of jeans that comes from nature," he added.
The album has a total of 10 tracks, including its main singles "Wild Flower", "All Day", and "Closer",
He noted that "Wild Flower" has lyrics about his wish to live just like a calm wildflower, not a flame that is flamboyant but disappears in an instant.
"Wild Flower" also features vocals from South Korean rock singer Youjeen, a vocalist of mixed K-pop band Cheery Filter, participated in the song as a featured artist, although she was not featured in the music video.
"I think the story that I wanted to tell gained the potential for broader approach when Cho's rocking and powerful vocal was added to the song," he said.
Also among the artists featured on the album are Erykah Badu, Anderson .Paak, Tablo of South Korean hip-hop trio Epik High and British singer-songwriter Mahalia.
"While working on a song, there are songs that I feel like I have to complete alone, while there are songs that can have more completeness and vitality when someone's color is applied together," RM said. "This time, there were lots of songs that I wanted to add someone else's unique frequency, narrative and sentiment, so I got to work with various musicians. I learned a lot while working with them."
For the album's cover and concept photos, he used "Blue," an artwork by late Korean painter Yoon Hyung-geun, known to be one of his respected and favorite artists.
Most recently, RM was the only K-pop artist chosen as one of 35 "innovators" in the art scene by American art news outlet Artnet.com.
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"Don't fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or if the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your inner life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the ravens, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, carefree in the care of God. And you count far more.
25-28"Has anyone by fussing before the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? If fussing can't even do that, why fuss at all? Walk into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They don't fuss with their appearance—but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them. If God gives such attention to the wildflowers, most of them never even seen, don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?
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Dow Jones Family Center Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary
September 24, 2018 – For 20 years, Dow Jones – a worldwide news and information organization that includes brands such as The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Financial News – has been offering employees at its Princeton, New Jersey location on-site child care. The Dow Jones Family Center opened to Dow Jones employees and their families on September 1, 1998. With space for 114 children ranging in age from 6 weeks through kindergarten as well as 24 school-age children during school breaks and holidays, the center's longevity is a testament to how crucial this benefit is to working parents.
At the anniversary celebration, Bright Horizons staff and Dow Jones senior executives were joined by current families and more than 20 parents of children who had since graduated from the center, but still wanted to partake in the festivities.
The center had shirts made with some statistics about their impact:
Served over 1,000 families
Educated more than 1,500 children
Provided more than 800 days of back-up care
Hosted more than 35 celebrity readers
Collaborated on over 30 community service projects
Helped to create two Bright Spaces for children in need
Director Kim Robbins has been with the center for 17 of its 20 years. Including the assistant director and the two education coordinators, the administration team has a combined 60+ years with Bright Horizons.
"We have always felt like a valued member of the Dow Jones family," Robbins said.
The celebration was also a commitment to the continued relationship between the two companies.
"I am very humbled by the dedication Dow Jones has to enriching the lives of our employees, and this child care center stands as a true testament to that commitment," said Mark Musgrave, Dow Jones Chief People Officer. "With the help of the Bright Horizons team, we're able to give these children a head start and poise them for great success as they transition into primary education. This is an investment not many employers could ever do. I am so proud of this opportunity employees have to integrate work and family and participate in all those special moments while furthering their careers."
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The APMG International AgilePM® certification aims to address the needs of those working in a project-focused environment who want to be Agile. Based on the proven fundamentals within the Agile Business Consortium's framework, the certification provides the ability to deliver Agile Projects in organisations requiring standards, rigor and visibility around Project Management, while at the same time enabling the fast pace, change and empowerment provided by Agile.
Organisations will deliver change faster, at a lower cost and with lower risk by continually validating project milestones against business objectives. The framework complements and works with existing corporate processes such as PRINCE2®, quality and audit processes which improves rigour and visibility around project management, leading to a proven track record of successful delivery in a corporate environment. Organisations can simply adopt a tried and tested approach rather than developing and integrating a company-specific agile management process.
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He's one of the UK's leading landscape photographers, yet Adam Burton didn't take a single photograph until he was an adult. Adam explains how he got into photography – and how to take stunning landscape shots.
Adam Burton has worked for a long list of impressive clients that includes The Times, National Geographic, AA Publishing, Ford, First Great Western (now Great Western Railway), the Dartmoor National Park Authority and the Woodland Trust. Not bad for someone who, in Adam's words: "Was very late into photography - I wasn't interested in photography at all and didn't take a single photograph until I was eighteen." But today, he is one the UK's leading landscape photographers.
Adam left school at sixteen to work for British Gas, "My background is IT and project management, although I'm not a technical person. I stumbled into database development and then into training people in IT-related subjects. But I'd say that my key skill was being able to communicate with people, including customers."
Adam's interest in photography grew organically, "I learnt as I went on. I was given a point-and-shoot camera for my eighteenth birthday and I used it to take photos of my family or trips to the zoo."
In 1996, Adam's interest in photography was sparked by a trip abroad, "I had been with British Gas for eight years and decided to go backpacking to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific," he says, "I was still using the same point-and-shoot camera and I saw so many incredible sights that I wanted to share with people back home. I was excited about sharing the locations. This is the reason why I take photographs – I'm excited by what I see. You have to remember that, back then, the internet was still quite young and people weren't that familiar with going online to look at locations around the world."
Back in the UK, Adam would go the New Forest to capture sunsets. Over time, he upgraded his equipment (he bought his first SLR in 2000), learnt how to use the camera's manual settings and switched to slide film for better results. Later on, he moved to digital.
Adam has only ever been interested in landscape photography, "I think it goes back to my backpacking trip. I'm not someone who is in love with their camera - I enjoy the scenery. I love being outdoors and being with nature. I'm not interested in photographing people (apart from my kids) or wildlife. I just stuck to landscapes. I guess that makes me a one-trick pony, but it also means that I'm really tuned into what I do, and I'm passionate about it. Being passionate about what you photograph is massively important in photography."
Adam's journey from amateur photographer to professional was also a slow process. At the end of 2002, he visited New England and took along his camera. By now, Adam had created a website to showcase his images, and was working for Centrica. "I was really surprised when I was contacted by two photography magazines that wanted to interview me for multi-page features – I couldn't believe it!"
Later on, Adam was contacted by AA Publishing, "The AA produce a lot of travel books and I got this big commission to photograph loads of locations – I took hundreds of photographs. I was working full-time with Centrica, so I took paid holidays or did the photography during the weekends or after work. "
Adam moved to the IT department at Southampton University, where he stayed for three years. "Two things helped me make the move to full-time professional photographer," he says, "the university kindly allowed me to work four and then three days a week, so it was a gradual process. And at the time, my girlfriend (who is now my wife) went to America for eighteen months, which meant I could focus totally on photography."
Adam went full-time in February 2008 and at the same time, moved to Devon, "It's got two national parks – Dartmoor and Exmoor - and you've got the Devon and Cornish coasts. It seemed like the ideal place to settle."
Being a landscape photographer has its pleasures and its challenges, says Adam, "The pleasure is obvious – it is so rewarding to be able to go out to capture a sunrise. To be all alone on the top of a hill and see the world waking up – it's so inspiring. The challenge is that you're working with light and nature and that is totally out of your control."
Not surprisingly, Adam has seen many memorable places and had a fair number of dream assignments. "New Zealand is a very special place for me. I've been lucky enough to go to Antarctica – it's an amazing place. I love Dartmoor – it's such a stunning rugged area. The Lake District is as good as anywhere in the world for me – it's got this wonderful blend of wilderness and rolling green countryside."
One of Adam's most memorable assignments was for First Great Western railway, which he did with his friend Mark Bauer. In early 2014, part of the main rail line between London and Penzance was washed away by floods in Dawlish, Devon. It was several months before the line was restored, and in effort to attract tourism back to the area, First Great Western launched a massive campaign, "Be a Great Westerner."
"Our job was to photograph all the beautiful places the train passed along the whole line," says Adam. The award-winning campaign used TV adverts and the photographs taken by Adam and Mark, which were on posters, billboards, taxis, trains and the Imax cinema in London. Prince Charles was so taken by the photographs that he was presented with a special book of them.
Adam says the three most important things for getting good results are: light, composition and equipment. "Light is everything - I don't think non-photographers appreciate the massive effect it has on your pictures. Composition is a close second. Even in dull light, if you have a strong composition of your subject, you can still get a good image. The technical side comes a long way down the list, because if you have special light and a good composition, you can still take great shots with modest equipment."
Adam uses a Nikon D850 camera and three lenses: a wide angle (18-35mm), mid-range (24-70mm) and telephoto (70-200mm). "I don't need any more than that," he says, "you can get too bogged down with equipment and spend so much time thinking about which lens to use, that you've lost the moment."
Preparation is also key to success, "I take in the weather forecasts and scrutinise the tides. I have a tide app which I use when shooting on the coast," explains Adam, "If I'm revisiting a place, I'll look at the metadata on my old photographs and work out the best times to shoot there. The Photographer's Ephemeris [app] provides information such as sunrise and sunset times. I also use Google Maps, Streetview and OS maps. I might search for images of the place, although this can be dangerous, because you don't want to be influenced. The level of planning is huge and you need to find locations yourself and not just shoot in the Top 20 spots in Devon. Having said all that, it's also nice to be occasionally surprised by what you see."
A combination of talent and being passionate about his photography has helped Adam reach the heights of his profession, but what else do you need to become a successful landscape photographer? "You have to be motivated and good at motivating yourself," he says, "you have to be on location when the light is doing something magical. It can't be overstated how challenging that is, because the amount of effort you have to put in - get up before sunrise; drive to the location and walk to the top of a hill. If the weather doesn't turn out as expected, then you have wasted a day. After several trips like this, you can sink into despondency, so you have to keep motivating yourself to find a reason to go out again."
He adds, "You need a good business head. My business strengths are customer service and administration. I always respond to people, even if I'm away. You have to be on the top of your game from a business side of things and you need to have your fingers in lots of pies."
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The number of local kiddies learning to ski is on the up.
More than 1800 youngsters took part in school skiing programmes this year at The Remarkables and Coronet Peak skifields.
That's 257 school groups and 385 hours a week of instruction.
Numbers have tripled in the last five years, NZSki big cheese Paul Anderson says.
He's stoked with the number of yellow training vests on the mountain.
Logistically it takes a bit of work as children are ferried up the mountain, kitted out with gear and split into lesson groups.
Anderson says it is worth the effort – seeing the little 'uns on snow and getting stuck in.
The programme is subsidised, working out at about $25 per day, including transport, gear hire, lift pass and lessons.
Anderson thinks it will have a knock-on effect and encourage more local families to ski – particularly those who are new to the area, taking advantage of discounted annual passes.


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El temple d'Isis és un temple romà del  situat a Pompeia i dedicat a la deessa egípcia Isis. Després del terratrèmol de l'any 62, l'edifici va ser reconstruït gairebé íntegrament. Pocs anys després, a conseqüència de l'erupció volcànica del Vesuvi l'any 79, va quedar enterrat sota una espessa capa de cendres i lapil·li. Aquest petit temple, trobat gairebé intacte, va ser un dels primers en ser desenterrat el 1764 durant les excavacions arqueològiques de Pompeia. Es van trobar nombrosos objectes i pintures de tema religiós, la majoria d'ells exposats actualment en el Museu Arqueològic Nacional de Nàpols.

L'edifici està emplaçat al sud de la ciutat, en la Regio VIII.7.28, darrere del Teatre Gran, en l'actual via del Temple d'Isis. Encara que estava encaixonat en un espai petit i estret, era visitat per nombrosos espectadors del teatre, homes de negocis del Fòrum Triangular i altres vianants que anaven a la porta Estabiana. Els principals devots eren dones, lliberts i esclaus.

Com a conseqüència del descobriment del temple, molts il·lustradors, artistes i intel·lectuals de l'època van visitar el lloc, entre d'altres Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vicent Blasco Ibáñez o Gustave Flaubert.

Culte a Isis

Isis era una deessa de l'Antic Egipte, el culte del qual es va estendre àmpliament al llarg del món grecoromà. Era venerada com a matrona de la maternitat i del matrimoni, així com del misticisme i de la pràctica de la màgia. Els seus seguidors eren les classes oprimides, esclaus, lliberts, artesans i delinqüents, encara que també les classes acomodades, donzelles, aristòcrates i governants. Contràriament a la majoria de clergues del món grecoromà, els sacerdots d'Isis solien afaitar-se el cap i vestien peces de lli en lloc de les típiques de llana, com a record de la tradició egípcia.

La devoció a Isis estava així mateix íntimament relacionada amb l'adquisició de coneixement, considerat com un llegat dels déus. El seu culte no promulgava una visió messiànica del món, sinó que procurava una relació divina que no acabava amb la mort. Igual que la majoria de les deïtats de l'antiguitat, Isis no exigia una veneració exclusiva, encara que en la pràctica els seus fidels aplicaven, des d'una perspectiva actual, un punt de vista en certa manera henoteista. Els iniciats en el culte als misteris d'Isis adoraven a una deessa compassiva que prometia una futura salvació i una relació perpètua entre els vius i el més enllà.

Es pensa que la veneració a Isis podria haver arribat a Pompeia aproximadament l'any 100 aC, després de la destrucció del primer temple durant el terratrèmol de 62. Se celebraven serveis diaris, que consistien en un solemne acte d'obertura al matí i un altre de clausura a la nit, amb acompanyament musical. Els instruments sagrats relacionats amb la cerimònia incloïen el sistre i una sitra que contenia aigua del Nil. Tots dos elements s'utilitzaven en el ritual i apareixen habitualment en els registres arqueològics com a símbols d'Isis.

Història

La construcció del temple d'Isis es remunta al , durant el mandat d'August. Després del terratrèmol de Pompeia de l'any 62, tot l'edifici va ser reconstruït amb opus latericium a instàncies de Numeri Popidi, un llibert que va adjudicar el mèrit al seu fill Cels, que tenia amb prou feines sis anys, amb la intenció d'encaminar-lo a una pròspera carrera política. En l'entrada principal del temple, sobre el portal, hi havia una inscripció avui conservada en el Museu Arqueològic Nacional de Nàpols que atribuïa la construcció al jove, la qual indicava:

La inscripció, trobada per l'enginyer Francisco La Vega el 20 de juliol de 1765, va permetre confirmar que es tractava d'un temple egipci hel·lenitzat en una colònia romana. L'edifici, redescobert entre els anys 1764 i 1766, va ser un dels primers en ser excavat i va resultar ser un dels millor conservats de l'antiga Pompeia.

Visitants il·lustres

El descobriment de nombrosos objectes sagrats i decoracions pictòriques en aquest important temple d'origen egipci va provocar un gran interès en tota Europa, convertint-lo en un edifici molt popular. Moltes personalitats van viatjar a l'indret a veure'l, ja fos per raons polítiques, econòmiques o socials, sent els seus frescs els més copiats en les llars pompeianes. L'ambaixador britànic William Hamilton va ser un dels primers a conèixer'l, i va assistir en persona a les diferents fases de l'excavació. El 1776 va redactar una col·lecció de cartes titulada Campi Phlegraei, il·lustrada per Pietro Fabris, entre els gravats de les quals es trobava El descobriment del temple d'Isis a Pompeia.

Un altre viatger il·lustre va ser Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, que va visitar el temple el 1769 qun tenia 13 anys. Es diu que els records de la seva estada el van inspirar 20 anys més tard per compondre la seva òpera La flauta màgica. Giovanni Battista Piranesi va visitar Pompeia el 1770 al costat del seu fill Francesco, quan l'estàtua d'Isis i els frescs ja s'havien traslladat al Museu Arqueològic. Per tant, devia veure uns dibuixos realitzats poc temps després de l'excavació per poder afegir aquesta informació als seus gravats, de manera que les seves làmines reprodueixen l'edifici amb l'aspecte que tenia en el moment del seu descobriment. El 1779, sir John Soane va visitar Pompeia com a part del seu Grand Tour, i va dibuixar el temple d'Isis a la llum de la lluna per evitar la prohibició Reial de reproduir el monument. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, en la seva famosa novel·la Els últims dies de Pompeia, publicada el 1834, va utilitzar l'emplaçament i les troballes allí com a inspiració per a la trama del seu llibre. Gustave Flaubert va arribar a Pompeia el 1851 i va escriure una guia dels seus principals monuments, citant entre d'altres el temple d'Isis. Vicent Blasco Ibáñez va visitar el jaciment el 1896 i va relatar la seva experiència en la seva obra En el país del arte, en la qual pren com a inspiració el santuari per imaginar la vida dels seus sacerdots.

Descripció

El temple se situa a la zona dels teatres (K), prop del gimnàs samnita, la grandària del qual es va reduir per permetre els treballs d'ampliació de l'edifici sagrat. L'entrada principal (B) es trobava en l'actual via del Temple d'Isis. La portada d'accés al recinte, on se situava la inscripció de Numeri, donava pas a un pati interior (C) pavimentat amb lloses de tuf volcànic, que estava envoltat per un pòrtic corinti decorat amb pintures del quart estil.

La decoració pictòrica de la zona del pòrtic estava constituïda, a la zona inferior, per unes divisions amb motius de pàteres, bucrànis i copes que representaven a lleons, esfinxs, dracs i dofins. A la zona mitja hi havia temes nilòtics i de batalles navals, que s'alternaven amb imatges de sacerdots i paisatges egipcis. Sobre ells es disposava un fris i una zona superior decorada amb paisatges i bodegons, a més de diverses figures que estaven suspeses a l'aire. La totalitat de la decoració va ser arrencada del seu lloc original en els anys 1764-1766 i es conserva en el Museu Arqueològic de Nàpols.

Al centre del pati porticat se situava un prónaos (D) sobre un alt podi, al que s'accedia per una escalinata. Estava format per quatre columnes frontals i dos laterals, i dos fornícules que probablement allotjaven les estàtues d'Harpocrat i dAnubis. A continuació s'emplaçava la cella (I), amb els seus murs interiors i exteriors realitzats en opus quadratum i que van ser revestits d'estuc. En el mur posterior es recolzava un banc de maó, sobre el qual descansaven dues bases de tuf que albergaven les estàtues d'Osiris i Isis. Tot el paviment estava realitzat amb mosaic.

En la part posterior del podi es va trobar un nínxol que allotjava una estàtua de Dionís amb una pantera. Al pati s'emplaçaven a més dos petits altars dedicats a les mateixes divinitats que les fornícules d'accés. En el costat esquerre de la grada es va col·locar l'altar principal (k), on es van trobar restes dels sacrificis realitzats, com cendres i diversos ossos, entre ells dos cranis. A la cantonada sud-est del pòrtic se situava el purgatorium o edicle (F), amb una forma similar a un templet, on es dipositava l'aigua sagrada utilitzada pels fidels per a les cerimònies domèstiques, probablement provinent del Nil. Presentava una decoració en estuc amb fons blau, groc i vermell, i representacions de Arpòcrates, figures isíaques en processó, sacerdotesses egípcies, Venus, Mart, Perseu, Andròmeda i una parella d'amants entre amorets.

A la zona oest hi havia una sala d'iniciació (I) i un ekklesiasterion (H), un espai utilitzat per a les assemblees i els banquets rituals. El paviment estava realitzat amb mosaic en blanc i negre, i els murs tenien una important decoració pictòrica, conservada en el Museu Nacional de Nàpols. Es representaven diversos santuaris egipcis i escenes del mite de la nimfa Io. Als voltants d'aquesta sala va ser trobat a més el cap en marbre d'Isis. A la zona sud se situava el sacrarium (G), utilitzat com a dipòsit per a les vestimentes litúrgiques, amb frescs més modests respecte als de la resta de l'edifici. Sobre un fons blanc apareixen el bou Apis, Osiris en el tron i una representació de la Navigium Isidis. A l'interior del complex també hi havia un pastophorion o apartament dels sacerdots (o), amb una cuina (q), un triclini i un cubiculum (v).

Simbologia egípcia

Els elements distintius egipcis d'aquest temple poden apreciar-se en el purgatorium, en les grans escenes mitològiques del ekklesiasterion i en alguns símbols egipcis del sacrarium. El purgatorium era un recinte sense sostre situat a l'escaira sud-est del pati, que delimitava una estada subterrània amb un estany on es dipositaven les aigües del Nil. A més, es pensa que les estàtues d'Isis s'alineaven al llarg dels murs amb d'altres de deïtats romanes. El propi purgatori s'assemblava a un temple en miniatura, amb un frontó i pilastres en l'entrada i revestit d'estuc.

Un dels frescs de lekklesiasterion escenificava l'arribada de Io a Egipte i la posterior benvinguda d'Isis. En el mur nord es van trobar imatges de Io, Argos i Hermes. Sembla que aquest recinte s'utilitzava com a lloc de celebració de banquets rituals i de reunió dels iniciats. El sacrarium tenia una inspiració encara més egípcia, amb un mural que representava a unes serps protegint una cistella de vímet adornada amb símbols lunars. Aquesta escena podria reproduir una celebració naval de la primavera, la Navigium Isidis, en la qual es remolcava un vaixell ple d'aigua sagrada per commemorar la resurrecció d'Osiris, germà i espòs d'Isis, per part de la seva esposa.

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Notes i referències

Bibliografia

Enllaços externs

 Piranesi, F.; Desprez, L. J. View of the Temple of Isis, Pompeii. 1778-1779.

Pompeia
Jaciments arqueològics de l'antiga Roma
Patrimoni de la Humanitat a Itàlia

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  declare function major(v: string): number;
  declare function minor(v: string): number;
  declare function patch(v: string): number;

  // Comparison
  declare function gt(v1: string, v2: string): boolean;
  declare function gte(v1: string, v2: string): boolean;
  declare function lt(v1: string, v2: string): boolean;
  declare function lte(v1: string, v2: string): boolean;
  declare function eq(v1: string, v2: string): boolean;
  declare function neq(v1: string, v2: string): boolean;
  declare function cmp(v1: string, comparator: Comparator, v2: string): boolean;
  declare function compare(v1: string, v2: string): -1 | 0 | 1;
  declare function rcompare(v1: string, v2: string): -1 | 0 | 1;
  declare function diff(v1: string, v2: string): ?Release;

  // Ranges
  declare function validRange(r: string): string | null;
  declare function satisfies(version: string, range: string): boolean;
  declare function maxSatisfying(versions: Array<string>, range: string): string | null;
  declare function gtr(version: string, range: string): boolean;
  declare function ltr(version: string, range: string): boolean;
  declare function outside(version: string, range: string, hilo: '>' | '<'): boolean;

  // Not explicitly documented
  declare function parse(version: string): ?SemVer;
}