MicroRNAs (miRNAs), an abundant class of 21-25 nucleotides long non-coding RNAs, regulate eukaryotic gene expression and therefore implicated in a wide range of biological processes. The miRNA- related genetic alterations are possibly more implicated in human diseases than currently appreciated. miRNA target prediction using bioinformatics tools is often the first line approach in studying gene regulation. Such predictions will help in setting search priorities for experimental validation of gene controlling mechanisms. But finding a functional miRNA target in the human genome yet remains a challenging task. In the present study, miRNA target sites within the complete sequences (5′ UTR, CDS and 3′ UTR) of human PPARG gene were investigated using miRwalk database. We found 26, 52 and 85 different miRNA target sites within the 5′ UTR, CDS and 3′ UTR regions of the gene, respectively. This computational approach will subsequently allow better in vitro confirmation of the miRNA regulatory networks in cellular systems.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a broad class of naturally occurring small non-coding RNAs of about 21-25 nucleotides in length and found in plants, animals and some viruses. The main functions of miRNAs are to down-regulate gene expression in translational repression, cleavage of messenger RNA (mRNA) and in a variety of other biological processes. Each miRNA is partially or completely complementary to one or more mRNAs (Friedman et al. 2009, Landgraf et al. 2007).
Transcription of miRNAs occurs through RNA polymerase II9 and subsequent processing is mediated by the nuclear ribonuclease III (RNase III) enzyme Drosha to form precursor miRNAs (70–100 nucleotides). Following transportation to the cytoplasm by exportin 5, a further cleavage occurs via another RNase III enzyme, Dicer, to form the mature miRNA (He and Hannon 2004, Zeng and Cullen 2006).
miRNAs modulate both physiological and pathological pathways by post-transcriptionally inhibiting the expression of a plethora of target genes. miRNAs deregulate gene expression mostly by imperfect binding to complementary sites within transcript sequences and suppresses their translation, stimulate their de-adenylation and degradation or induce their cleavage (Bartel 2004, Perron and Provost 2008).
The decisive regulatory functions exhibited by the miRNA are found to be associated with a wide variety of human diseases such as cancer, heart diseases, metabolic disorders, neurodegenerative disorders etc. as reviewed by Srinivasan et al. (Srinivasan et al 2013). Therefore, microRNAs displaying deregulated expression in the context of specific diseases are of particular interest as therapeutic targets especially if they can be shown to coordinate such disease networks.
Peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ or PPARG) encoded by the PPARG gene in humans belongs to the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily of ligand-activated transcription factors and originally has been characterized to be important for adipogenesis and glucose metabolism. There are two isoforms described (PPARG 1 and -2) (Vidal-Puig A. J. et al. 1997). PPARG has been associated with various diseases including obesity, diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, and cancer. PPARG agonists have been used in the treatment of hyperlipidaemia and hyperglycemia (Li et al. 2008). PPARG is important to shape an anti-inflammatory macrophage phenotype and appears crucial for dampening inflammation (Rosen et al. 1999). miRNAs have been reported to destabilize PPARG mRNA which can lead to impaired PPARG abundance (Schoonjans et al. 1996, Vidal-Puig A. et al. 1996). Therefore, miRNA target site identification within the PPARG gene is quite important in studying PPARG gene regulation.
There are a number of miRNA target prediction algorithms exploiting different approaches have been recently developed, and many methods of experimental validation have been premeditated. However, it is difficult to predict miRNA targets within the animal genomes due to its partial complementation to their target mRNA (Martin et al. 2007). For this shortcoming, the interactions of miRNA with their mRNA counterparts are complex and poorly understood. In the study in silico based miRNA targets identification within the human PPARG gene was performed.
The miRWalk, a comprehensive database of miRNA from human, mouse and rat was used to identify miRNA target sites within the human PPARG gene based on a comparison of identified miRNA binding sites with the 8 established miRNA-target prediction programs i.e. RNA22, miRanda, miRDB, TargetScan, RNA- hybrid, PITA, PICTAR, and Diana-microT (Dweep et al. 2011). The miRWalk algorithm identifies the longest consecutive complementary between miRNA and gene sequences. miRWalk was used for investigating predicted targets of microRNAs in the complete sequences (5′ UTR, CDS and 3′ UTR) of PPARG gene in the human genome. Default parameters were used regarding minimum seed length (7) and p value (0.05).
Because of the several limitations associated with genetic screening and experimental approaches for discovering founding members of miRNAs such as low efficiency, time consuming and high cost, several web-based or non web-based computer software programs for predicting miRNAs and their targets have been developed in order to predict targets for follow up experimental validation. Even though many computational methods for the identification of miRNA may have their own limitations, there is no other option now other than to use computational methods for miRNA predictions. The next step in miRNA research is to identify and experimentally validate their mRNA targets.
All computer-based miRNA target prediction programs are based on specific parameters where slight variation results for the same target input. Such weakness of single in silico studies can be partially compensated by predicting targets using multiple programs. Scoring methods using dynamic programming (John et al. 2004, Kiriakidou et al. 2004, Lewis et al. 2003) and a complementarily-based strategy (Lewis et al. 2003, Rajewsky and Socci 2004) are generally preferred to rank the prediction results. These approaches have been quite successful for a few top ranked results. miRNAs targets calculated from multiple prediction methods significantly improved target prediction accuracy. Therefore, 8 key programs were used in the present study to optimize our search and to unravel miRNA target sequences of the PPARG gene cluster with high accuracy.
Using miRWalk, number of potential target sites for miRNAs were identified within the sequences of 5′-UTR (5′-untranslated region), CDS (coding DNA sequence) and 3′ UTR (3′- untranslated region) of PPARG in the human genome. The functional regions of the PPARG gene cluster as possible sites for miRNA targeting were further analyzed. A unique target pattern was pointed within the genomic sequences representing the 5′ UTR, CDS and 3′ UTR of PPARG gene. Specific sequences within 5′ UTR, CDS and 3′ UTR of human PPARG gene along with seed sequences, its location and size respectively are shown in tables 1, 2 and 3. These experimental data show that the number of miRNA target sites ranges differently in different regions of PPARG. In the 5′ UTR of the screened gene, we found 29 different miRNA target sites with different p values. Among them, the target site for miRNA-181a-2 had the lowest p value (0.003), i.e. most significant value (Table 1). In case of CDS, we obtained 52 target sites, miRNA-367 being the most significant one (p value= 0.0014) (Table 2). Finally, 85 different miRNA target sites were identified within the 3′ UTR. We found miRNA-559 be the most significant one (p= 0.0080 amongst all within this region (Table 3). The findings would help when we want to select miRNAs for studying their role in PPARG regulation in laboratory conditions.
A number of computational miRNA-target prediction algorithms have been developed due to lack of high-throughput experimental methods but these programs still lacking sensitivity and specificity. The miRWalk database provides a comprehensive atlas of putative miRNA binding site prediction from multiple algorithms and therefore attracts researchers. These existing algorithms will become more accurate with more understanding of miRNA regulatory mechanism (Dweep et al. 2013). It can thus be concluded that a combination of both computational and experimental approaches would be required to unravel the complex networks of miRNA gene regulation and their expected therapeutic potentials.
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The dance-floor-fuelled d 'n' b tear-up 'Abort' was their debut release on Viper, which made so much noise that the duo duly signed to Andy C's Ram Recordings. Quickly establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with, 'Space Time'/Take The Stairs' solidified their place as low-end bass innovators. But as you'll soon hear, this is one duo who don't ever want to be put in a box. Or stand still for too long either. This isn't an act dwelling on the past, which is why we're now going to fast-forward to the present day. With a super-successful debut album for Ram Records/BMG (the chart-chomping 'Paradise Lost') [Debuting in both the US and UK iTunes Electronic charts in the top #10 and shifting over 250k+ copies worldwide across streaming and physical product] and Winners of Best Producers as the 2016 DNB Awards, the Delta future is all about music and touring. But beyond – and also before – that, what they're really looking for is their own lane.


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Issue 58, 2016
Chemical Communications
Exploiting the equilibrium dynamics in the self-assembly of inorganic macrocycles based upon polyoxothiometalate building blocks
Hongying Zang,a Andrew Surman,a Deliang Long,a Leroy Cronina and Haralampos N. Miras*a
a WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
E-mail: Charalampos.moiras@Glasgow.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)141-330-4375
We report the preparation and characterization of two new polyoxothiometalate species, {Mo16} = {(Mo2O2S2)8(OH)16(C4O4)2}4− (compound 1) and {Mo12} = {(Mo2O2S2)6(OH)12(CH3COO)2}2− (compound 2). Control of synthesis is achieved by the addition of the organic-template and further re-arrangement is controlled simply by the addition of potassium to a precursor compound yielding compound 2. The structures of the compounds are discussed and we also show that ion-mobility mass spectrometry can be used to resolve the species and their building blocks in solution.
This article is part of the themed collection: 2016 Emerging Investigators
This article is Open Access
Supplementary information PDF (1227K)
Crystal structure data CIF (29K)
The article was received on 02 Feb 2016, accepted on 10 Mar 2016 and first published on 16 Mar 2016
Article type: Communication
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC01041E
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Download Citation: Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 9109-9112
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We have high standards for our staff and we offer a high-quality environment for teaching, training and developing our staff in return.
At Royal Papworth Hospital, we take training and development seriously and offer a wide range of training and development opportunities to help you progress in your career.
Every member of staff takes part in regular 1:1s and an annual Individual Performance Review (IPR). This is an opportunity to discuss progress and plan for future learning and development requirements, including personal and professional development and the meeting of core and aspirational need.
We offer a comprehensive induction programme programme for all new joiners which includes hands-on practical sessions, presentations from experts across the hospital and the chance to meet other new staff.
All new nurses will have a supernumerary period of four weeks where they will be supported by an experienced member of the team. Newly qualified nurses will commence on a preceptorship programme, which is delivered through taught sessions, e-learning/self-directed learning and supervision in practice by a 'preceptor' (a nurse who has been registered for at least a year) to help them get to know the hospital and their ward environment.
We offer a preceptorship programme for all newly qualified nurses to help them develop their skills and confidence in cardiothoracic nursing.
All newly qualified nurses will be enrolled onto a six-day in-house training programme which focuses on caring for cardiology, respiratory and surgical patients, as well as covering topics such as leadership. These study days are led by multidisciplinary specialists from different departments across the hospital.
As well as the six-day training programme, newly qualified nurses will be matched with a 'preceptor' (a nurse who has been registered for more than a year) for a six month period, to provide ongoing advice and support.
Our Continuous Professional Development team also offers regular study sessions to help nurses gain competencies in cardiothoracic nursing – topics include administering oral medication, IV medication, chest drains, removing pacing wires, CPAP monitoring, tracheostomy care and ventilation.
Aseptic Non-touch Technique (ANTT), wound assessment and wound dressing change.
Teaching is provided by senior nursing staff in our Education team and is also supported by our extended Education team and registered nurses who have previously passed their OSCE exam. As an OSCE faculty we provide professional knowledge and experiences to enhance learning and preparation.
These study days are offered as protected learning time for those staff participating in the OSCE process and should be incorporated into shift allocation. Additionally, we provide two mock OSCE exam days to enhance the OSCE experience. Mock exams will include four nursing process stations covering Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation. We also assess all clinical skills that could potentially be assessed when at the two clinical stations. Individual feedback will be provided.
For candidates working in specialist area such as theatres, labs and critical care, clinical insights of the ward areas will also be provided as per local agreement. We will liaise with your preceptor and line manager to identify any challenges in your clinical area and help you gain experience outside of the classroom setting.
In addition, all of our Band 4 staff are encouraged to attend the Trust's Deteriorating Patient Study Day. This programme was designed and provided by the Education team and Alert team and focuses on the early recognition of a deteriorating patient and the timely escalation of patient care. Attendance at this study day provides students with the opportunity to relate OSCE teaching of the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) to situations they may face when working clinically.
Once you have passed the OSCE exam, you will join our preceptorship programme to help you build your skills and confidence as a registered nurse at Royal Papworth Hospital.
If you join the Trust as a Healthcare Support Worker, you will be enrolled onto the Care Certificate course (unless you have already taken the course elsewhere). Once you have gained the Care Certificate, you may wish to apply for further training, with the aim of eventually becoming a registered nurse. We currently support staff to complete the Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship, Level 5 Assistant Practitioner Apprenticeship and the Level 5 Nursing Associate Apprenticeship. We also currently have two staff members taking part in the Level 6 Registered Nurse Top-Up Degree programme.
At Royal Papworth Hospital, we support nurses who have taken a career break - for whatever reason - to regain their nursing licence and practice as a registered nurse. Nurses who are returning to practice are eligible to join us as a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker while taking part in a three-to- four-month course to regain their nursing skills. The return to practice programme, which is provided by Anglia Ruskin University, offers the chance to revisit clinical skills with the support of a nursing supervisor. At the end of the programme, participants undergo a robust assessment to ensure they are competent and able to perform as a registered nurse. Once participants have passed this assessment they can be appointed as a Band 5 registered nurse.


The nurses, who successively tended to one of their own, had a diametrically opposite opinion. They argued that Aruna Shanbaug responded to stimulus and actually "relished" her fish curry, albeit through tubes. Their stand was upheld in the landmark dismissal of Ms Virani's petition in 2011.


These winter themed sub plans are perfect for the month of January! Kindergarten students will love these activities and you can rest easy knowing they are busy with meaningful ELA activities while you are away. This set of January emergency sub plans can be used as a full day of sub plans (for full day Kindergarten) OR for several days of your Language Arts block.
Themes in the activities and lessons include: New Year's Resolutions, the new year, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, winter, snow angels, snowmen, mittens, and more! The monthly themes are so engaging and fun for kids.
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-Students will practice writing the letters M, N, and O and identify objects that use their sounds. Winter themed!
-Students will do a cut and paste activity to practice rhyming! They will find words to match "LAY" and "MUG" to keep up the winter theme.
-Students will write an acrostic poem- using one word for each of the letters in the word "WINTER"!
-Students will write a simple goal for the new year and draw a picture of themselves working on it.
-Students will write about why Martin Luther King, Jr. was important after a brief mini lesson about him.
-Students will put the pictures of "How To Build A Snowman" in order and finish a brief sentence for each.
-2 reading prompts are included at 2 different levels. Choose one to use or use both and differentiate! One of the prompts is about a snowball fight and the other is about a red snow hat.
-This reading lesson can be used for a class read aloud for any narrative story. It is focused on the main idea of the story. This lesson can be used over and over with new stories!
-The mitten art activity is a lot of fun! Students will decorate the mitten on the outside, and trace their hand on the inside! The lesson plan is also included.


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Mistrial declared in black motorist's shooting…
Mistrial declared in black motorist's shooting by officer
By The Associated Press and Bruce Smith-Peters- |
PUBLISHED: December 5, 2016 at 2:49 am | UPDATED: May 17, 2018 at 4:34 am
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge declared a mistrial Monday after a jury deadlocked in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist.
A panel of one black and 11 white jurors — who had seemed close to a verdict to convict Friday, with apparently only one holdout — said Monday they were unable to reach a unanimous decision after deliberating more than 22 hours over four days.
"We as a jury regret to inform the court that despite the best efforts of all parties we are unable to come to a unanimous decision," said Circuit Judge Clifton Newman, reading a note from the jury before declaring a mistrial.
Former patrolman Michael Slager was charged with murder in the April 4, 2015, shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott. The judge had said the jury could also consider a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
Outside the courtroom, Scott's mother and brother said justice will eventually prevail.
"I'm not sad, because I know justice will be served," Judy Scott said.
Asked whether he could forgive Slager, Anthony Scott said he could eventually "find the peace" to forgive the ex-officer but not before justice is served.
"He gets to spend Christmas with his family," he said of Slager.
Cellphone video taken by a bystander that showed Scott being shot in the back five times was shown widely in the media and on the internet and shocked the country, inflaming the national debate about how blacks are treated by law enforcement officers.
After the video went public, Slager was fired by the police department and charged with murder. Scott's family called for peace in the North Charleston community. Their calls for calm are believed to have helped prevent the kind of violence that erupted elsewhere when black men were killed in encounters with law enforcement.
It's the second time in recent weeks a jury has deadlocked in an officer-involved shooting. A mistrial was declared Nov. 12 when a jury in Cincinnati couldn't reach a verdict in the case of a former campus police officer who was also charged with shooting a black motorist.
The video in the Scott slaying renewed debate about how blacks are treated by white law officers. There have been similar debates over race and policing in places from New York to Ferguson, Missouri, and from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to North Carolina.
Slager's wife, Jamie, cried after the jurors were dismissed and briefly put her head on the bench in front of her. She said "thank you for everything" to the defense lawyers as they left the courtroom. She did not respond when reporters asked if she wanted to comment.
One female juror wiped away tears with her hands and a tissue as the attorneys addressed them and thanked them for their hours of work.
There were no outbursts in the courtroom. Slager's lawyer, Andy Savage, did not comment.
Scott's family again called for peaceful protests.
"We're not going to tear up this city," Anthony Scott said. "We're not happy. But we're not sad."
Solicitor Scarlett Wilson praised Scott's family for their patience and understanding.
"They have not received the credit they deserve in their calm leadership for the community," she said in a statement. "The Scotts have been a sterling example of dignity and grace in extraordinary circumstances."
Slager also faces trial next year in federal court on charges of depriving Scott of his civil rights.
Gov. Nikki Haley said that she understood there will be "a new trial where the Scott family and all of South Carolina will hopefully receive the closure that a verdict brings. Justice is not always immediate, but we must all have faith that it will be served I certainly do."
While Slager is white and Scott was black, the video, not the races of the men, dominated the trial.
Scott was pulled over in North Charleston for having a broken taillight on his 1990 Mercedes and then fled the car, running into a vacant lot. Family members have said he may have run because he was worried about going to jail because he was $18,000 behind on child support.
The prosecution argued that the 35-year-old Slager let his sense of authority get the better of him.
The defense maintained that the two men wrestled on the ground, that Scott got control of Slager's stun gun and then pointed the weapon at the officer before the shooting. The defense also contended there was no way the officer could tell if Scott was unarmed.
Last year, the city of North Charleston reached a $6.5 million civil settlement with Scott's family. In the wake of the shooting, the city also asked that the U.S. Justice Department conduct a review of its police department policies with an eye toward how the department can improve its relationship with residents.
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Share this Story: W. BRICE MCVICAR: No place for election online bullying
W. BRICE MCVICAR: No place for election online bullying
Brice McVicar
W. Brice McVicar
Body shaming. Alluding that a woman is promiscuous. Mocking her.
It sounds like the latest episode of some tawdry television show, but instead it's the vile and disgusting actions of a local school board trustee candidate and it was all directed at another candidate.
Through social media, trustee candidate Lisa Anne Chatten became the target of cyber-bullying from fellow trustee candidate Margaret Schuler. In a nearly incomprehensible series of Facebook posts Schuler attacked Chatten's personal character making comments about the other woman's weight and alluding to promiscuity, all while maintaining she would be a better trustee.
The posts, which Chatten shared in a bid to address online bullying include Schuler stating "I am sure she 'knows' all the guys in Belleville when she was a bit thinner! Like 200 pounds!" and "People laugh at her!! selfies from the neck up! She is enormous!!"
This from a woman who, in her campaign material, states she will be an "effective liaison between the school, board and school community" and will have "effective discipline for students to ensure optimal learning."
It's mind-blowing that this type of activity is taking place when, in today's age, a huge, glowing spotlight has been placed on bullying and its known impacts on individuals, whether the individual be a child or an adult. What's more concerning, though, is that a trustee candidate would act in such a careless manner.
The Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board's own Code of Conduct clearly states all members of the school community must "treat one another with dignity and respect at all times" and "respect all members of the school community." Further, the board also makes it clear members of the school community must not "engage in bullying behaviours."
Schuler and Chatten both appeared on The Lorne Brooker Show this week and discussed the ugly affair, with Chatten trying to use it as a platform to address bullying and agencies which can help victims and Schuler, while saying there was no excuse for her behaviour, arguably continued to point fingers at Chatten and claimed her actions would not match the definition of online bullying.
Bullying Canada, Canada's only national anti-bullying charity, defines cyberbullying as "using the internet or text messaging to intimidate, put-down, spread rumours or make fun of someone." It seems a pretty clear definition.
In today's age no one, in any circumstance, in any position, should be the subject of such vile comments. Schuler, at one point during her time on Brooker's show, said she was wrong in making her comments… but followed that by quickly noting that Chatten "is not a child."
So, bullying is okay as long as the target is an adult?
There are no excuses for this type of behaviour, from anyone. Whether the target is a child, an adult, a woman, a man… none of that matters and this entire circus will, hopefully, if nothing else, shine a light on bullying — because that is exactly what it is — and perhaps make people have a second thought before they post something online.
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This past Saturday, Lisa, myself, and some friends went to Toronto to attend the performance of Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, presented as part of the Luminato Festival 6. I had long wanted to see a performance of this work, ever since my early exposure and interests in Glass some 18 years ago, and was very happy to finally satisfy this long-held curiosity.
The performance was done without intermissions, and lasted about 4.5 hours. The performance used the original staging. The performance was… astounding. I was mostly mesmerized from the start to finish, sitting in my seat throughout the performance. Glass's music felt as fresh as ever (I find his early music has "it", that quality that permeates a timeless work). Robert Wilson's staging was equally as present, and Lucinda Childs' choreography was a joy to watch.
The highlights for me were the first Dance scene and the Spaceship scene, the first for the dance and the latter for the music. The rest of the work was of fantastic, but those two scenes were particularly engaging for me. The violinist did a wonderful job, as did the rest of the performers.
If there was any criticism I would have for the work, I would say two things stuck out. The first is the Building scene: the solo saxophonist didn't really work for me. Musically and dramatically it felt like a departure from the rest of the work. While the opera as a whole had a wonderfully surreal quality, I felt the saxophone solo broke from it. While the visuals and rest of what was going on stage may continued the surreal dream-like world of the rest of the scenes, the music was enough to break focus and threw me off a bit.
Secondly, the performer doing the narrations involving "Mr. Bojangles." At times I had some difficulty in understanding what was being said, especially compared to the performer doing the narrations for "I was in this prematurely air-conditioned supermarket…". It felt that the first performer had gotten a bit tongue-tied at times, keeping up with the rapid pace of the dialogue.
Overall, I thought the performance was fantastic, and I was more than ecstatic in satisfying this long held curiosity to see this work. I hope that later in my life that there will continue to be performances of this work to attend. I was also very inspired by this performance, and I look forward to now getting back to my own composing work.
Lisa and I just attended the opening performance by the Canadian Opera Company of Kaija Saariaho's hauntingly beautiful opera L'amour de loin (Love from Afar). This was the second opera we had seen there and I have to say I absolutely love the venue: intimate, stylish, classy. My experience there was as enjoyable if not more so than our last, and I think now it is my favorite opera venue.
The production was fantastic. The use of doubles was tasteful, as was the use of acrobats. The latter could easily be a simple spectacle, but here I felt it was well done, very much adding to the experience of the work. The production accomplished such a wonderful surrealism: I found myself enchanted by, and lost in the work throughout.
The three main singers performed admirably (Russell Braun as Jaufré Rudel, Erin Wall as Clémence, and Krisztina Szabò as The Pilgrim). Braun's voice really opened up in Acts IV and V, while the other two were spot on throughout. The music was generally performed excellently, though I did feel like the chorus could have been a little better: adequate, but not exceptional.
Overall, I found the work incredibly gripping, the love so painful, so beautiful. Powerful and subtle. Mesmerizing. I have long enjoyed Saariaho's work, and although I have owned a copy of the DVD for quite some time, I had not seen it before, something I will certainly do when we return home from Toronto. (I am very curious to see another production…) Just from my experience today though, I would easily say it is a major work that I would be surprised if it was not a common work in the repertoire many years from now.
I have been using this application for some deep breathing sessions and have been enjoying it for relaxation and calming the mind, as well as to help open up the body. If you give it a try, I'd love to hear your feedback! Enjoy!


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Have you ever considered starting your own small business? Do you have a hobby you would like to turn into a thriving career? Do you like the idea of being your own boss?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then consider attending "So You Think You Want to Start a Small Business," which will be 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, May 10 in the Boyle County Public Library Community Room.
This information-packed session will be led by Stuart Arnold, marketing consultant and owner of Lexington-based Strategic Planning Specialists, and Rex McDonald, a product commercialization specialist and senior project manager with the Andromeda Group, based in Williamsburg, Va.
"People consider starting their own business for a variety of reasons," Arnold said. "Some are looking for ways to supplement their income, while others are motivated to maintain a level of income against potential job change or loss. And then there are the dreamers among us who have harbored a lifelong desire to captain their own ship.
"No matter the reason or objective," he continued, "there are many factors to consider before your 'Open for Business' sign, and many of the most important ones are likely missing from your list."
During the 90-minute workshop, Arnold and McDonald will introduce key, and often overlooked, topics for starting a successful small business, including: mechanics of a start-up; necessity of market research; realities of the E-myth; administrative have-tos; and exit strategies.
The program — which is sponsored by the Heart of Danville, Boyle County Public Library, and Danville-Boyle County Chamber of Commerce — is free and open to all Boyle County residents. Space is limited, so reservations are required. For more information, or to reserve a spot, email director@downtowndanville.com or call (859) 236-2361 x 141 by 9 a.m., Monday, May 9.
Guests have the option of bringing their own lunch or ordering a $10 brown bag lunch through the Heart of Danville when making reservations.
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Ontario's long-term care system is in crisis and failing those who rely on it.
That was the message delivered Monday with the release of Situation Critical, a report prepared by the Ontario Health Coalition that outlines the shortcomings of the current system.
McIntyre pointed to short-staffing, more need and chronic underfunding by the province as the major issues that have combined to weaken the system.
McIntyre said short-staffing is so common "we see it daily on almost every shift," with increasing violence against caregivers and other residents in long-term care facilities.
Ontario's long-term care facilities now have about 80,000 residents. There are another 33,000 on wait lists. In the North Bay area, there are about 700 people on wait lists for long-term care beds.
The province now ranks second last in Canada for the number of long-term beds, while the number of beds has been cut. Funding for long-term care beds is approximately one-third what is received for chronic or complex care beds in hospitals.
"Levels of care are now too low to meet basic needs" of residents, McIntyre said.
Over the last five years, she said, there have been 27 homicides in Ontario long-term care facilities, seven in the last year alone, which is, per capita, eight times higher than the national homicide rate.
The provincial government has promised to increase the number of long-term beds by 30,000 over the next decade, with 15,000 to be added over the next five years.
Blanche-Helen Tremblay first became involved with long-term care seven years ago, when both her parents were admitted to homes.
"I was lucky," Tremblay says. "There was almost no wait time" for them to be admitted.
But what she found, she said, is that staffing is so inadequate that family members or personal support workers hired by the families are needed to provide much of a family member's care.
It was not unusual, she said, for three staff members to be responsible for 72 or more residents overnight, or for two staff members to help 18 residents with things like toileting or getting up and dressed in the morning.
In most cases, Peggy Smith, a former personal support worker said, the staff can only devote 10 minutes or less to each resident to get them out of bed, get them dressed, help them brush their teeth.
"I can't do all that in 10 minutes," she said.
Only a small percentage – perhaps 15 per cent of residents, she said – have family members visiting daily to help their family members get through the day.
On top of that, she said, between 75 and 80 per cent of long-term care facilities suffer to some degree from dementia.
"This needs to be fixed right away, not in 10 years," she said.
Smith has seen the situation from two sides, both as a family member and as a personal support worker for more than a quarter of a century.
The fault, they said, is not with the workers or administration in long-term care facilities who "do their very best" to ensure residents receive adequate care.
Monday's release was one of 30 being held across the province between now and Feb. 5 to draw attention to the issue.


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Exclusive: Music Matters – A Candid Conversation with Cameron Crowe
On the Set of We Bought A Zoo
An all encompassing discussion about music
Do you ever feel any pressure of being Cameron Crowe, the all-knowing Musical Guru?
No. That's a funny question. We went into We Bought A Zoo thinking it would probably be mostly score. We had so much music in Elizabethtown. My Morning Jacket and Ryan Adams were always going to be the sound of Elizabethtown, but we went down so many paths that the movie filled with other records. Strangely, one of the most important songs in the writing of the script, "I Will Be There When You Die," by MMJ, never found a home. Similarly, Julie Miller's "By Way Of Sorrow" never made it into Vanilla Sky. Anyway, the original idea of We Bought A Zoo was to not play as much music. We've been trying to mostly make it a score-based movie, but sure enough… records we loved started creeping in.
It started on the first day. I wasn't going to play music during the actual takes. I usually do that a lot. But I'm standing out there for a scene in a junior high hallway with Matt Damon and Colin Ford. The way Matt was looking, I kept thinking about the Tom Petty song, "Don't Come Around Here No More". I just said, "I've got to play it!" (laughs) So I played the song during the next take. Matt Damon immediately soaked it up and turned to me and said, "That was amazing. You've got to play that again. And what else do you have?" I don't think he'd ever acted with music playing during the take.
So we started going down the road with records again. It really is exciting when you pick the right song out of the blue and you play it while you're filming. Then it becomes part of the texture of the movie. We even played the theme from Local Hero when Peter Riegert was with us. He was the star of that movie, and Local Hero meant a lot to quite a few of us. And Scarlett Johansson is a huge music fan too, she's made records with Pete Yorn and Massive Attack. She's an artist too, and it really comes out in her performance in We Bought A Zoo. She acted to a lot of Bob Dylan, we did quite a few takes listening to Freddie Stevenson's "If An Alien Astronomer Could See Us."
So, no, I don't feel the pressure to be "music guy", but music is so much a part of my life. It's never far away from the whole creative process. I always use music as a metaphor to explain stuff to the actors. I can't help it. The end result is that it starts to bring out the music fan in all the people that are working on the movie.
It also creates some great music discussions on the set. For example, Thomas Haden Church is a specialist in a very specific kind of hard rock that he loves. Melodic, urgent, never cheesy. So we'll have these great discussions about Seether or Eddie Trunk's show, or Craving Lucy or whoever he's into at the time. I guess the point is that there's no reason to try to get away from music. Music is inherently part of the relationships that I have in life and in the actors we work with.
Yeah. I would think that somebody who signed up to work with you and walked on set and found that you weren't playing music during takes might be slightly disappointed.
Yeah. Maybe so. It does add something. You'll see in just the subtle way that people move. I remember when Steven Spielberg visited us on Vanilla Sky… he was about to work with Tom Cruise on Minority Report. He saw us doing it and said, "I really need to do that too." We all had this vision of composer John Williams on set with a boom box playing his score on full volume. (laughs) I heard he tried it on Catch Me If You Can.
Do you ever tire of seeking out new music and just want to listen to the stuff that makes you feel the most comfortable?
I can't help it. New music will find me. There's stuff that I'm delinquent in checking out, but before too long, someone will come up to me and say, "What's your favorite new Fleet Foxes track?" And I'll say that I'm saving them because I know I'll love the Fleet Foxes. I'm saving it for a car ride or something. But that immediate look of somebody LOVING new music makes me go home and listen. It's fun. It's the game that music lovers always play with other music lovers. Also, I listen to a lot of internet radio, which is where the best stuff lives now.
I love hearing the songs that people connect so hardcore to that they have to share it. Someone will play you a song that you will blow your mind too and then you're off and running again. It's the greatest cycle in the world.
That goes back to a period I remember when I was thinking that I was not going to listen to a lot of music and I'm going to just going "love the stuff I love" and not chase any new stuff for awhile. That was the day that Nancy (Wilson) came up to me and said that Heart's drummer, Denny Carmassi, had an early copy of the new Peter Gabriel album. "You have to hear this song "In Your Eyes"." I specifically remember her playing me "In Your Eyes" and thinking this is the sound of the future. And then I was back craving new music again. That's the beautiful thing about music. It doesn't matter what anybody says about the music business dying. Music will never die. The business will transmute, but you'll always be able to go down the street and see somebody playing a song. And you'll want to know what that song is, and suddenly that song has crept into your way of looking at the world.
"Sound of the Future"…
You've mentioned Todd Rundgren as someone you didn't want to like, but couldn't help yourself…
You touch on something that is one of the great things about loving bands, music or movies. Sometimes the ones you love the most are the ones that began by you arguing so aggressively with your friends that the group or the song is shit. It's like something that kind of irks you ultimately can become the very thing that you cannot get enough of. It's true in life too with relationships for sure.
Because of an album cover or a photo I'd seen, Todd seemed like an irksome dude. He had a smirk on his face. He had such a self-appreciative presentation that made me want to be the guy who said, "I don't want to get it." Of course now, I crave Todd Rundgren and I will forever. The YouTube performances of Todd, I mean I've lost entire days going through 'em. (laughs) I think I've over-tweeted this issue with Paul Myers too. Paul wrote a great book on Todd (A Wizard. A True Star. Todd Rundgren In The Studio). There are a lot of songs and people that begin that way in your life. It's the best cycle, it's fandom.
How about a guilty pleasure that might not have the critical praise?
Mid-period Elvis Presley. It's too easy to love The Sun Sessions. If you really love Elvis, you're into "Shrimp Boat Song". Or all that great 60's pop stuff like the Grassroots and Every Mother's Son.
What about a review that you wish you could rewrite? I saw your San Diego Door review of Neil Young's Harvest in 1972 and you (like many critics) trashed it pretty good.
I remember being really disappointed by Harvest because I heard all those songs on the bootleg of I'm Happy That Y'all Came Down. All that stuff that showed up later on the Massey Hall album that was finally released. I just initially felt like some of Harvest was overproduced.
Any songs from that album that really stand the test of time with you?
Sure. "Out on the Weekend" was the song that played as we rolled up to the property that became where we shot We Bought A Zoo. It really completed the whole vision of it and we knew we needed to shoot there. Some of Neil Young's best writing is on that album. Usually I'm fine to have the demo of a song I love. I don't even need drums. Just the singer and the song…
The whole Jack Nitzsche overblown "There's a World" stuff on Harvest disappointed me. But the songs over time, you just go 'Oh My God.' The strings were meant to be there. But still, nothing beats the versions you hear on Massey Hall. Much the same way, there's bootlegs of Neil playing in '92/'93 which is where the version of "Cortez The Killer" that we used in Almost Famous came from. It's just really hard to top solo, acoustic versions of those songs. That's just where I sit as a Neil fan. It's the same with a lot of other artists as you read the early reviews I did for the Door and L.A. Times. I'm always fighting for the most original version of the song. If you come to me and say that you have the greatest band version of a song or a shitty demo where you can barely hear the vocals where it was first written in a back room at the guy's house, give me that one. Give me the versions of "Watching the Wheels" and "Grow Old With Me" that John Lennon wrote with his son, Sean, crying in the background. Or even the demo of Marvin Gaye working out "Sexual Healing" in his living room in Belgium. The best! Almost every time, those are always going to be the most brilliant interpretations of the song. But that's just me.
Live at the Massey Hall
What has happened with your long-planned Neil Young book with photographer/Young archivist Joel Bernstein? Is it a traditional bio or do you have something else planned?
I do. I have a changing concept. We were going to do the cover of Rolling Stone around the times of Archives Vol. 1. The time to get with Neil up at his ranch kept changing due to other projects. We finally got up there after Archives Vol. 1 was released and he was working on Dreamin' Man. Anyway, we did the most amazing interview with Neil. He said it was the last interview that he would ever do. It was a career spanning interview. We drove around his ranch and talked about everything. Rolling Stone had a hard time scheduling it since Archives Vol. 1 had already come out. Then I heard from Neil and he said that he was coming down to L.A. and wanted us to hear his new album that he was working on which turned out to be Le Noise. So now we do more interviews based on those songs and the creation of that album. We had a big session that was not unlike the Bob Dylan Biograph session where he was talking about songs. Track by Track. What inspired them, what they remind him of today. Just amazing stuff. Now, the entire thing is awaiting the release of Archives Vol. 2 or it got me thinking that we now have enough material to do a Conversations With Neil Young book. Which would be just as thorough as we were able to be with Billy Wilder. That feels like it would really create a difference with the Shakey book and be a wonderful thing for fans to hear Neil talk about his music through the years in Q & A form.
What did you think of the first volume of the Neil Young Archives?
Brilliant, and just perfectly complex and beautiful. You don't think of Neil Young as being a techhead but he is as geniously precise as any R&D guy you could ever meet. The Archives are the two sides of his brain on full throttle – the techie and the dreamer.
Greatest guitarist you've ever seen live in person?
I can't narrow it to one, so how about three? Joni Mitchell live at the Troubadour (Nov 1972) where she was playing solo and doing all these amazing, odd tunings that were hard to play and hard to copy. Joel Bernstein was the one who kept track of all the tunings, and I think, taught them back to her. She was so original that even she couldn't keep track! But she was doing all the tunings and playing all these songs that were so intricate, beautiful and hard to play. This was right after the release of For the Roses. It was a quiet tour de force of guitar playing.
Seeing The Who live really at any point, you marvel over Pete Townshend's incredible rhythm playing which is just as important as any lead guitar.
And then seeing a guy named Ledward Ka'apana play in Oahu, Hawaii at a strip mall a couple of years ago. He was playing the most truly amazing slack guitar. He's kind of the Keith Richards of slack guitar. That was truly inspiring. So I would pick those three.
Led Ka'apana
Would you consider Robert Hilburn, the legendary L.A. Times music critic, a mentor? Was it him or Danny Goldberg (VP of Swan Song at that time) who helped you get your first L.A. Times writing assignment on Led Zeppelin in 1973?
Absolutely, Robert Hilburn is a shining light for anybody who wants to write or read about music. He was really important to me. We're putting together a collection book of the rock journalism I've done, some of which you've collected on the Uncool… thanks by the way! I really want to treat the book as a primer for how you can function as a young journalist. Even today, journalism lives, you know? I get people asking "How can I break into journalism and write about the music and the artists I love?". That fever lives in anybody who loves music and loves to write about it. So the book will have some of the stories between the stories. How do you do it? How do you get the access? How do you behave, and how do you do an interview that makes yours different from the others?
For that 1973 article in the L.A. Times, Led Zeppelin didn't want to talk to anybody, but Danny Goldberg, their publicist was a former journalist himself. He wrote for Hit Parader and Circus and for Lisa Robinson's Rock Scene. He was a sympathetic guy to the plight of the journalist. He knew that I really wanted to write about Led Zeppelin and I had written about other Atlantic acts and had established a relationship with Danny, working together on other stories. He kind of inched me onto a list of reporters who were much more heavily connected than me who would talk with Led Zeppelin. People like Al Rudis of the Chicago Sun Times and Lisa Robinson, who became a good friend and still is.
So I asked Robert Hilburn if I could write about Led Zeppelin. He said yes, but that I couldn't let the artist pay for the trip from San Diego, where I lived, to Los Angeles. I said, "Don't worry about it, I'll drive!" I couldn't even drive at that time. I took the bus, and Neal Preston would pick me up at the station. Bob Hilburn was insistent on journalistic integrity, and it was important. It said, basically, that rock journalism wasn't a throwaway pursuit. It was as important as anything on the front page. He said, "Don't even let the record companies pay for your gas. You can't let the artist influence your coverage by letting them pay for your travel." He was adamant about that and it was great. It was that relationship that happened over the L.A. Times coverage that made Zeppelin trust us enough to do the Rolling Stone cover.
Robert Hilburn is also a great editor. I remember him telling me that you really have to describe who these people are and what position they occupy in the band. "It's not enough to say, 'bassist Glenn Hughes.' Describe him and his style!" I'm really proud of those L.A. Times articles as they were so beautifully edited by Hilburn.
What's your take on Linda Ronstadt? I'm surprised that she's never even been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…. do you think it's due to turning her back on rock/pop or the fact that she wasn't a songwriter?
Let's campaign because you're absolutely right. She's a pivotal figure in many ways for the people she put together and the songwriters she discovered. Forget what an amazing singer she is. I think what happens sometimes is that when an artist turns their back and says I'm pulling out of the race, they get forgotten. The same thing happened to Laura Nyro. They check out and they don't spend a lot of time reminding you of the things they've done. So let us begin a campaign.
Linda Ronstadt with Andrew Gold
Is it a coincidence that you've hired many actors with musical pasts or futures (Zooey Deschanel, Scarlett Johannson, etc…) or passionate music lovers (Cusack, Dunst etc….)? Do you actively seek actors for roles that have music running through their veins?
It's probably not a coincidence at this point. We end up talking about music pretty early on. There is a difference between people who don't appreciate music or think musically and those who do. Those who do are able to get the metaphor you naturally use when you're directing which translates onto the screen. A music lover is often the exact actor who soaks music up when you watch music and film together. So pretty much if it's somebody who loves music you will feel it later in the editing room.
Matt Damon has discussed the Eddie Vedder/Neil Young-heavy tape he received with the script. Can we expect a lot of Vedder and Young songs on the Zoo soundtrack?
I think it's going to lean heavily into one or two artists, but not necessarily either of them. We did play a lot of Eddie, Neil and PJ during the movie. It's kind of revealing itself now. There is another artist who is campaigning in the editing room with his music ala Cat Stevens in Harold and Maude. We'll see how far it gets.
Will there be a traditional score on We Bought A Zoo?
It won't be a traditional score, but there will be more score than usual on this one. It won't feel like a collection of records as much as you'll feel an overall mood. Local Hero was a big, big influence in that. Mark Knopfler's score really set a tone for a world you create in a movie. It happened a little in Vanilla Sky with Nancy's wonderful themes, but I really do want to create one of those movie environments where when it's over, you want to go back there and feel that way again.
To a completely different end, William Friedkin did that with The Exorcist with a very small amount of music. But to this day when you hear that one theme or feel that piece of music you go right back to the tone of that movie. I really like that and that should be We Bought A Zoo.
I heard that Blood Circus's "Six Foot Under" will be featured in the Pearl Jam Twenty doc. Will other musicians' songs play a part as well or will most of the music be courtesy of PJ?
Yes. "Six Foot Under" is in the documentary. It's one of the first songs I heard back in Seattle when Bruce Pavitt (Sub-pop founder) was DJing at a museum show and played "Six Foot Under" into "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward. I was thinking, "Holy Shit." That's a different sensibility than I grew up with. That is not a San Diego segue. That feels like the future.
KCMU (Now KEXP) 90.5 Seattle
Sure enough, later that night, we ended up at a Mother Love Bone show at the Central. It all felt like that KCMU (now KEXP, of course) sensibility that I love so much. Pearl Jam Twenty begins with that mood setting and the idea is to put you back into that frame of mind. 1988-89 Seattle, where the music belongs to you. You have the music playing in clubs that nobody else has. You have KMCU at the far left end of the dial. They will play Thelonious Monk, Anita Ward and Blood Circus. PJ20 begins by putting you in that place.
The soundtrack will have quite a few rarities and some demos from a few different eras in the band's history. Kevin Shuss (and Josh Taft) deserve a lot of credit for that – Kevin in particular was filming the band as it was all starting to break wide open. He's still filming them. Chris Perkel, Kevin Klauber and Adi Cabigting, our editors on PJ20, have been deep in the cave curating this visually and sonically, along with Andy Fischer (Vinyl Films) of course, for what has been literally years. It's been our passion project for a long time. The crew all deserve a big thanks. You'll be able to hopefully, between the movie and the soundtrack, really feel the band from the inside out. It's one of the gifts of having met them so early in their careers. They gave me a lot of cassettes and work tapes, and I kept everything. It's been a little bit like homework for them, I know, to go back over all the artifacts… but like Neil Young, they're able to be objective and look at their own stuff the way a fan would. Which is one of the themes of the movie – a band made up of fans, kept alive by fans, and now their concerts are a celebration of that fact. Everybody made it, together…
One last question, do you prefer the mono or stereo version of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds?
Because it's one of the greatest recordings ever, for the pure feel of the songs, I'll take any version of Pet Sounds that's available. I like every version of Pet Sounds. Especially bootlegs or box-set versions of the songs that contain Brian Wilson's studio chatter. Knowing Brian's fondness for mono, I'll always appreciate that sixties sensibility, but I'll take any version you got.
© 2011 The Uncool by Vinyl Films and Greg Mariotti. All rights reserved.


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by Cathy Hayden | May 9, 2018 | News
UTICA – Tom Joyner, a nationally syndicated radio and television host based in Dallas, Texas, is the speaker for the May 13 graduation ceremony at Hinds Community College's Utica Campus. About 130 students from the Utica Campus will graduate.
The ceremony is at 2 p.m. in the Boyd Gymnasium.
The Utica Campus, which has a designation as an HBCU (historically black college and university), has been selected by the Tom Joyner Foundation as its June 2018 School of the Month.
The "School of the Month" program is the signature program of the foundation, which supports historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) through fundraising efforts, scholarships, endowments and capacity-building enhancements.
The designation is an opportunity for supporters of the HBCU campus to help raise money for student scholarships. The Utica Campus enrolls more than 800 students per semester. To donate online, supporters can go to the website: https://hub.hindscc.edu/tomjoyner. Additional fundraising opportunities will be available over the next few weeks.
Joyner's show is the nation's top syndicated morning show, airing in 105 markets and reaching nearly 8 million listeners.
The Utica Campus is one of two, two-year HBCUs selected for the honor, which is traditionally reserved for four-year institutions. Annually, the Tom Joyner Foundation selects 11 HBCUs with which to partner. During the partnership, funds are raised in support of student scholarships and other initiatives to help sustain the HBCU.
Fundraising efforts include a monthly day of giving by faculty, staff and students; church and community outreach programs; a donor reception; alumni support initiatives and a visit from Joyner.
All donations received during the campaign will be used for student scholarships at Hinds' Utica Campus. Although selected for June, the campaign officially kicked off March 1 and will continue through Dec. 31.
Since 1998, Joyner's foundation has provided support to HBCUs to help sustain and preserve their legacies through fundraising and donor development initiatives. More than $65 million has been raised to support more than 29,000 students attending selected colleges and universities. Additionally, the foundation has recommended internships, offered matching grant support and career development to deserving students.
Hinds Community College has four other graduation ceremonies on May 10 and 11 at the Muse Center on the Rankin Campus. Over the five ceremonies, Hinds is awarding 1,839 degrees and certificates to 1,319 people, with some people receiving multiple credentials in academic, career or technical programs. This is the largest number of credentials Hinds has ever awarded for one graduation season.
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Manger folkehøgskule, ca 40 km north of the city of Bergen, is a secular school with humanistic ideals such as respect for life, consideration for others and responsibility for freedom and justice. Through life in a close-knit residential community, practical and theoretical studies and activities we challenge students to develop their own personal depth of knowledge and experience.
Each of these courses has it's own timetable with approximately 18 classes a week focused directly on the main study area. There are also joint lessons covering a wide range of musical and non-musical subjects with the other students at the school.
Residential accommodation for 60 students. Total fees, bord and meals included for 2018/19 is NOK 112.000,- The school year is from mid August to mid May. However, it is possible just to take a half-year course.
The fact that the School is residential and has a budget based on a fixed number of students carries with it certain responsibilities. If a student wishes or is required to leave before completing a course, fees for a period of 6 weeks after the date of departure will be charged. Students who fail to discharge their financial responsibilities towards the School can risk losing their place as a student.
It is prohibited to use, have or be under the influence of drugs or alcohol on the School premises.
No breaches of Norwegian law, either on or off the School premises, will be tolerated.
The school is closed for the autumn half-term break, Christmas holidays, and Easter holidays and students are not permitted to stay at the School during these periods. The autumn half-term break and the Easter holidays present excellent opportunities for overseas students to be invited home to Norwegian families. The school can help with arrangements.
Please note that Folk High Schools have a 6-day a week timetable. There are 4 periods in the timetable each Saturday from 10.30 hours until 14.00 hours. Free Saturdays are incorporated in the timetable approx. once a month.
The catering at the school provides an all round nutritious diet. Please send information concerning allergic dietary reactions. All students are allocated domestic duties in the common areas, kitchen, and accommodation buildings. Accommodation prices are based on the principal that all students keep their rooms and other shared areas in order.
The School does not accept responsibility for personal belongings. Please check that your family house-content insurance policy covers your belongings during your stay here at Manger. If not, it is possible to take out a student policy to cover your personal belongings. Articles of special value should be insured separately, musical instruments etc.
We will send confirmation of your student status at Manger folkehøgskule so that you can make the use of student-travelling rates for your journey to Manger in August.
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Kabul, a city of ancient history, had been a home for kings and crowns. In the past, a wall, which still its remainders exist, enclosed the city with six entrance gates. Each of the doors were known with a certain name, Kandahari Gate in Dehmazang area, Sardar Jahan Khan Gate at Salam Khaana area, Speena Darwaza, Peet Darwaza behind Eidgah Masjid, Guzargah gate at Bala Hesar as well as Lahoori Gate which old people still express their memory lanes about.
The ruling castle was situated at Bala Hesar. Before kingdom of Abd-ur-Rahman Khan, no suitable place was available for the king. Bala Hesar and Shir Poor palaces had been damaged and partly burned during the wars in Afghanistan. During the reign of Shir Ali Khan, construction of Shir Poor Castle had been started in accordance with his order, but in 1878, following the attack of English to Kabul, the King moved away to Mazar-e-Sharif and the construction was stopped.
By the time, Amir Abd-ur-Rahman Khan came to Kabul and ascended the throne, there was no suitable place for residence of the king. Therefore Amir spent the first night at house of Ghazi Abdullah Khan Wardak who was dwelling in the area today known as Da-Afghanan.
King Abd-ur-Rahman Khan developed a plan to build the Arg palace in 1229 Hijri Qamari. The King paid a visit to Jalalabad to organize military affairs and stayed there for a while. Amir – the king – sent a letter to his son and instructed him to commence building of the palace in coordination with advisors at the area which is located today. At last, construction of the palace was started by a number of adept and proficient architects in 1300 Hijri Qamari.
There was no trace of a constructed area in nowadays Arg (the Presidential Palace) and it was only a soil dessert. There were farms and gardens on a part of the area surrounded by dry lands. There was also a small bazar in present-day Da-Afghanan and Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood was an open area in which, afterwards, the first airport was founded during the reign of Ghazi Amanullah Khan.
Construction of the Arg was coincided with creation of several other buildings. Bostan Saray is located in current Zarnegar Park where Amir Abd-ur-Rahman Khan is laid to rest today. The other building 'Gulistan Saray', in which Amir Abd-ur-Rahman khan had been living, was situated across from Ministry of Education on the area where currently Kabul Municipality is positioned. Two mentioned buildings were parts of the Arg in that time.
Currently, some portions of the Arg do not exist on the map of Kabul city. Some of these buildings have been demolished and some renovated and still remain. Right now, the mentioned buildings are differently situated inside and outside of the Arg. For instance, Storay Palace is situated in Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Naak Bagh Palace is positioned in National Archive. Zain-ul-Emaarat Palace is referred to the current Sedarat (Presidency) which was built by Viceroy Nasrullah Khan.
In aspect of location, the Arg palace is located at the heart of Kabul linked to Da Afghanan in east and to Murad Khani area in north-west. From Pashtunistan Square to Macrorayan, Ministry of Mines, Administrative Office of the President and Ministry of Defense are situated at the side of the road in front of the Arg palace. Also, Ariana Square, Ariana Hotel and Central Statistics Department are positioned in north-east. Amani High School and residential houses of Wazir Akbar Khan are positioning at side of a road passed through the north side of the Arg palace. The west side has comprised Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of China as well as the United Nations Offices, and finally Azizi Center and other building have been raised to the south.
The first building constructed inside the Arg palace is called Kuti Baghcha of which construction was completed on 1304 Hijri Qamari. Following that, several buildings were constructed such as; the building of ARG, Salaam Khaana Palace, Gunbad (Dome) of Naghara Khaana, Arg Kootwali Bazar, Shahi Base (Qaraargah Shahi), Shahi therm (Hamam Shahi) and Office of Accountant for the Countries (Mostofi-ul-Mamalek).
Other Palaces
A number of other palaces were built during the reign of Amir Abd-ur-Rahman Khan along with construction of the Arg Palace.
Kuti Baghcha
Kuti Baghcha known as the first palace inside the compound, is a round two-floor building built on a 300 m2 area. The palace comprises a total number of 15 small, medium and large rooms. The second floor contains small but spectacular rooms which its windows are opened to numerous directions.
Prior to coup against Sardar Dawood Khan, Sardar Abdul Wali Khan was living in Kuti Bachcha. It is expressed that sacred hair of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) has been found on eastern room of the second floor. It is worth mentioning that a part of the palace had served as a museum, and Shahi Kitchen used to exist on south-east of the palace. Construction process of Kuti Baghcha came to an end in 1304 Hijri Qamari.
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Until I'd finished college, the most exotic thing I put into in a chicken sandwich was tomato. Later I dared to flirt with Dijon mustard over the electric-yellow domestic variety. But it was years before my taste buds graduated to that most foreign of sauces, pesto. Discovering pesto was like finding a third arm. Before long I was including pesto in everything from breakfast to dessert, with varying degrees of success. Pesto is the perfect counterpart to chicken heaped between two aptly thick slices of Grace Baking Organic Multigrain With Quinoa. This is bread that'll convince anyone that it was created expressly for chicken, cheese, almonds, roasted red pepper and garden fresh arugula. There's just something about the nutty, garlicky, cheesy flavor of pesto that makes chicken come alive. So to speak. Perfect anytime, anywhere.
In a large mixing bowl, combine chicken and pesto until chicken is evenly coated. Fold in parmesan, almonds and roasted red pepper.
Lay arugula on one slice of bread. Top with chicken salad, and the remaining bread slice. Enjoy!


This is the 49th edition of this highly useful little publication, which retains its usual format. It begins with a short feature: last year it related to the start of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for Children; this year the feature is on using the World Wide Web by activists within the peace movement.
The diary section is a week to a view, running from Monday to Sunday. Each week has its own quote or campaigning note as an introduction and for every day (except January 6 and 26, March 9, June 8, August 19 and September 10) there is an anniversary; the anniversaries included have been changed since last year's diary.
After the week to a view for 2002, there is a four page forward planner section for 2003. Unfortunately, the usefulness of this section is marred somewhat by what is presumably a printing error. In my copy at least, the abbreviations for Monday and Wednesday (Mon and Wed) had been split over two lines, so that the days of the week do not match up with the dates themselves.
The World Peace Directory (a subset of Housmans World Peace Database) gives contact details for almost 2000 organisations throughout the world working for peace and conflict resolution, the environment, and human rights. International organisations are listed first, and the remainder are listed by country, from Afghanistan (four organisations, addresses in Pakistan) and Albania to Zambia and Zimbabwe. The countries with the most organisations listed are Britain (9 pages) and the USA (6 pages). This year there are 66 pages devoted to the Peace Directory, 4 fewer than last year. The publishers claim that this directory is the most comprehensive and up-to-date of its kind published anywhere in the world.
The combined diary and world peace directory will be immensely useful to a wide range of activists, although I suspect that very few will make use of more than a few of its contact details. Its usefulness lies in the fact that they are there and they are comprehensive.


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Katchkanar (en ) est une ville de l'oblast de Sverdlovsk, en Russie. Sa population s'élevait à  habitants en 2013.

Géographie
Katchkanar est située entre les rivières Issa et Viya, à  au nord-ouest de Nijniaïa Toura, à  au nord-nord-ouest de Iekaterinbourg et à  au nord-est de Moscou.

Histoire
Katchkanar fut fondée en 1957 comme centre d'exploitation minière et connut une très rapide croissance dans les années 1960. Elle accéda au statut de commune urbaine en 1959 et au statut de ville en 1968.

Population
Recensements (*) ou estimations de la population

Économie
La principale activité de la ville est l'exploitation d'une mine de fer par le combinat OAO Vanadi (ОАО Ванадий).

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Informations sur Katchanagar
  Cartes topographiques

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Please join us for our monthly Coffee, Tea and PYP tomorrow, Wednesday Nov. 28, at 8:30 AM. We will be meeting in the Mandarin room. This month's topic is about presenting both sides of an issue with kids so they can come to their own conclusions. See you then!


William Karlsson scored a goal-of-the-year candidate on Saturday night that got the entire hockey world talking.
Crazy, I know. What made the goal even more ridiculous was the fact that it came shorthanded and catapulted the Vegas Golden Knights to a Pacific Division title in their inaugural season. However, not everyone had sympathy for the victim of the pretty piece, Sharks goaltender Martin Jones.
When not between the pipes for the Florida Panthers, Roberto Luongo has made a habit of crushing the Twitterverse with timely, perfectly-executed banter.
Meanwhile, the jokes about Scott Foster have been on-going since the accountant stopped all seven shots against the Winnipeg Jets in an emergency start for the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night.
While the internet is now filled with all the Scott Foster it can handle, Bobby Lu may have bested everyone. Nice work, Roberto.


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Kurtis Blow Responds to Va. Attorney General's Apology for 80's Blackface Photo
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Image: Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring. (Getty Images)
While the Commonwealth of Virginia awaits the resolution of a series of scandals involving its Governor and Lieutenant Governor, there remains the matter of Attorney General Mark R. Herring, who apologized for wearing blackface styled after rap legend Kurtis Blow at a costume party in 1980, while he was 19.
While national Democrats push for the resignation of Governor Ralph Northam, and while facts surrounding two alleged assaults at the hands of Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax, Herring's apology seemed comparatively tame.
"Some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time, like Kurtis Blow, and perform a song," said Herring, who has been prepping for a 2021 gubernatorial campaign of his own. "Because of our ignorance and glib attitudes—and because we did not have an appreciation for the experiences and perspective of others—we dressed up and put on wigs and brown makeup."
"That I have contributed to the pain Virginians have felt this week is the greatest shame I have ever felt," Herring said during his apology to Virginia's Legislative Black Caucus. Though he maintains he never donned blackface again, said that "the shame of that moment has haunted me for decades" while acknowledging that his ability to maintain his position as Attorney General was in doubt.
On Friday, Blow, born Kurtis Walker, addressed Herring's apology with an open letter posted on Instagram.
"It is my hope ," he said, "that these regrettable actions can be turned into teachable moments."
Speaking to TMZ, Blow said he found Herring's photo to be "totally offensive and disrespectful," adding that he's "seen tributes before where blackface was not used."
Herring's blackface scandal is the third to hit Virginia politics in the last few weeks.Though Northam apologized initially, he later walked back his statement, claiming he was neither the blackface student nor the student beneath he Klan hood. Northam maintains he has no plans to resign.
Herring, one of the first local voices to call for Northam's resignation, would apologize for his blackface photo four days later.
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BMC Access & Conservation Trust
Posted by Catherine Flitcroft on 20/06/2016
The BMC's Access and Conservation Trust (ACT) funds projects to protect our cliffs and mountains.
It aims to promote sustainable access to cliffs, mountains and open countryside by facilitating education and conservation projects across the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The BMC Access & Conservation Trust (ACT) is a charity registered in England & Wales (no 1089516). ACT allows tax efficient donations to be made using Gift Aid. The Gift Aid Form can be downloaded here.
ACT aims to:
Support rural access and conservation projects that protect access and promote sustainable use
Educate and raise awareness of conservation issues
Inform people about areas of ecological sensitivity
Research the benefits and impacts of mountain recreation and tourism
Train and support access and conservation volunteers
ACT will fund:
Landscape Site Based Work
Campaigns and Policy Development
Rural Development Initiatives
Sustainable Transport Initiatives
Information Resources & Publications
Training & Support for Access Volunteers
ACT funds a wide range of projects encompassing policy-related work, literature production and large-scale environmental projects. For example, by supporting practical site based work (e.g. footpath construction, fencing, stiles, signs, ecological surveys) and rural development initiatives (e.g. projects to encourage climbers, hill walkers and mountaineers to contribute more to local economies in mountain areas). ACT also funds sustainable transport initiatives and provides high quality access and conservation information to the public (e.g. good practice publications).
See a list of projects that ACT has funded in previous years.
Have you got an idea for a project in the UK or Ireland? From local footpath work to national consultations, ACT might be able to help. Let us know.
Anyone can apply for funding, simply download an application form here and email cath@thebmc.co.uk
Supporting ACT
ACT gives you the opportunity to show your commitment to the outdoor environment.
See below for 2 easy ways to donate and support the worthwhile projects that ACT funds:
Donate online via PayPal
Donate when you renew your BMC membership
Additionally if you are thinking of making a will, why not let the conservation of our uplands be your legacy. For further infomation email cath@thebmc.co.uk
Please note the text message donation service from JustGiving is no longer available
Where does the ACT money come from?
From a number of places including individuals, companies, outdoor centres, climbing walls and clubs. As ACT is a registered charity, donors can take advantage of tax initiatives and incentives.
ACT donations 2014
ACT is extremely grateful to all its supporters without whom none of its work would be possible. In December 2014, ACT gratefully received a significant donation from a generous benefactor and member of Midland Association of Mountaineers. This legacy will mean that we can continue to help protect and repair the places we love to visit.
The Trust very much welcomes corporate donations and would like to acknowledge those made in 2014 from Colchester Climbing Club, EAH Recycling, UK Climbing Ltd and the Yorkshire Mountaineering Club. Many thanks also to everyone who has made an individual contribution; these are vital for the work of the Trust.
Who decides how to spend the money?
The trustees comprise of access and conservation experts from around the country. They have experience and understanding of the needs of climbers, hill walkers and mountaineers. It is their role to select suitable projects to support across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to get the maximum benefit from donations received from contributors
What are the main differences between ACT and the Crag Care Fund?
The Crag Care Fund exists to help support projects that directly benefit the crags, with the emphasis being on practical work. The main differences are:
Scale: ACT will aim to support larger projects with greater financial contributions.
Geographical Coverage: ACT supports projects throughout the whole of the British Isles with a landscape and regional focus.
Objectives: ACT aims to support a broader range of projects than the Crag Care Fund. Projects will focus on the sustainable use and conservation of the outdoor environment.
Legal Status: ACT is a charitable Trust making gift donations etc much more straightforward and tax efficient.
BMC Mend Our Mountains campaign
The BMC's crowdfunding campaign to fund eight urgent upland repair projects on some of Britain's most iconic peaks was launched on 14 March 2016 and it became one of the most successful crowdfunding appeals for mountain paths.
Thanks to more than 2500 pledges to the Mend Our Mountains campaign a total of £103,832 was raised on Crowdfunder. ACT kindly donated £8000 to the projects and was a major supporter of the campaign.
Working with eight national parks, the campaign will help fund repairs to damaged paths on some of Britain's most popular peaks, including Snowdon, Scafell Pike, Ingleborough, Kinder Scout and part of the Brecon Beacons Horseshoe, as well as contribute towards vital repairs to moorland on Dartmoor, Exmoor and the North York Moors.
"We did it!" £100,000 target reached for Mend Our Mountains campaign
Mend Our Mountains lives on – you can still donate
The Access and Conservation Trust
The BMC's charity – the BMC Access & Conservation Trust – promotes sustainable access to cliffs, mountains and open countryside by facilitating education and conservation projects across the United Kingdom and Ireland.
By educating climbers, hill walkers and mountaineers to enjoy outdoor recreation while minimising their impact on the landscape, conserving the UK's upland resources, and campaigning for improved access rights, ACT enables future generations to continue to enjoy outdoor activities and the physical, mental and social benefits they bring to individual lives and society in general.
READ: More about the recent work of ACT
WATCH: the Mend Our Mountains: Make One Million campaign film
BMC ACT
Choose your legacy: help upland conservation
Leave a legacy to the BMC Access & Conservation Trust (ACT) to help ensure the walking and climbing conservation project become reality.
ACT projects
ACT funds a wide range of projects encompassing policy-related work, literature production and large-scale environmental projects. We also fund sustainable transport initiatives and provides high quality access and conservation information to the public.
ACT help fund wheelchair friendly footpath
More than 50 people with disabilities were "amazed at what they could do" recently thanks to a new path in the Yorkshire Dales partly funded by the BMC's Access and Conservation Trust.
Mike Vasiljevs
How can one become an Access Volunteer?
I'm very interested in access to the great outdoors for all.
How does the use of 4x4 vehicles on LEGAL & sustainable byways/greenlane routes fit in with your work?
Sometines the equipment needed by less able bodied needs transporting and these routes are ideal.
However there are some folk out there who want to block the use of 4x4 vehicles from the very few linited routes still available. (Only around 2% of countryside routes have vehicular access. Surely we can share that tiny bit?)
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Two of the problems of applying for a patent are:
Patent protection is territorial: that is to say, a patent enables an owner to prevent others from making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing his or her invention in the country, group of countries or territory for which the patent is granted and not beyond; and
In order to get a patent, an applicant has to disclose the invention in a manner sufficiently clear and complete for the invention to be carried out by a person with the relevant skill and knowledge.
Thus, if an inventor gets a patent for the United Kingdom but nowhere else, there is nothing to stop an entrepreneur in India, China, Continental Europe or even the Republic of Ireland from making and selling your product everywhere in the world except the UK.
The only way to prevent that from happening was to seek patents in all the markets in which the applicant intends to market his or her invention as well as every country in which a competing product can be made. As a patent will be granted only for an invention that is new, that used to mean simultaneous applications to every patent office from which a patent was required.
Life became a lot easier for applicants in 1883 when the UK and other leading countries established the
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ("Paris Convention"). Art 4A (1) and art 4C (1) of the Convention gave a person who had duly filed an application for a patent in any of the contracting countries 12 months priority over anyone else who might file a patent for the same invention. So long as an application was made within a year of the first application in the first country applications in all other countries were backdated to the first filing.
As more and more countries industrialized the task of filing multiple applications even over the period of a year became increasingly burdensome. The solution was the Paris Cooperation Treaty ("PCT") which made it possible to seek patent one' protection for an invention simultaneously in every country that is a party to the PCT by filing an "international" patent application with the applicant's home intellectual property office or, ins some cases, with the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO").
The WIPO made the video that appears at the beginning of this article on 17 Dev 2020. More useful introductory information is available from PCT FAQ on the WIPO website, There are now 153 countries that are party to the PCT. They include China, the USA, Japan, India, Germany and France. Big countries that are not yet party to the PCT include Argentina, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Venezuela. The UK Intellectual Property Office has published a useful booklet entitled Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) for Private Applicants which was last updated on 1 July 2020. I reviewed a previous edition of the booklet in
Applying for Patent Protection through the Patent Co-operation Treaty without a Patent Attorney on 1 Nov 2016.
Anyone wishing to discuss this article or the PCT generally may call me on 020 7404 5252 during office hours or send me a message through my contact form.
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