'Iolani may have served notice Saturday night that it's ready for a return to its state championship form. The Raiders, who have won eight Hawaii Division II titles since 2005, opened the season Saturday night with a 42-6 win over 2015 Division II champ Radford.
Iolani, which is coming-off a 2-7 season last year, jumped-out to a 42-0 lead behind Tai-John Mizutani, who threw for 253 yards and three TDs. The Raiders won six straight Hawaii Division II titles between 2007 and 2012.
The showdown between Saint Louis and Mililani ended after just one quarter with Saint Louis leading 7-0. The game was cancelled because of a power outage at John Kauinana Stadium.
Waipahu quarterback Braden Amorozo completed 22 of 33 passe for 316 yards and a touchdown in his team's 20-12 win over Nanakuli.
Moanalua receiver Ryan Ramones caught five of quarterback Alakai Yuen's six touchdown passes in a 46-24 win over Damien.
Punahou rolled-up 530 yards in total offense in its 70-9 win over Leilehua.
Kapolei sophomore QB Taulia Tagovailoa was 21-for-30 with 259 yards and five touchdowns with no interceptions in his team's 38-0 shutout of Campbell.
Waianae defense stopped Kamehameha at its 16-yard line as time expired in its 26-20 win. The big defensive stop came after Kamehameha scored a game-tying touchdown that was nullified by a holding penalty, according to ScoringLive.com.


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"When our basic needs get frustrated, this gets transferred into stress," said Gregory Fricchione (second from left), director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, who explored "The Burden of Stress in America" at The Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health. The panel included Joshua Riff (from left), medical director of the Target Corp., Fricchione, Kristin Schubert, team director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at HSPH and Harvard Kennedy School.
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A quarter of Americans report high levels, report says; panel suggests solutions
By Chuck Leddy Harvard Correspondent
If you're feeling more stressed out lately, you're not alone. In fact, a new study says, you've got plenty of teeth-gritting company.
The Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) was stress central on Wednesday afternoon, or more accurately the site of an in-depth discussion about its causes, consequences, and possible remedies for a stress-filled nation. The forum, sponsored by HSPH along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and National Public Radio (NPR), explored the results of a new poll called "The Burden of Stress in America," conducted by the three groups.
Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at HSPH and Harvard Kennedy School, began by saying that a quarter of Americans surveyed reported "high levels of stress" caused by various factors. About 60 percent reported stress related to "poor health conditions," such as diabetes and heart disease. Other major stressors included parenting teenagers (34 percent) and coping with the effects of low wages (36 percent). Blendon observed that "health problems overwhelmed financial problems" as stressors in the poll.
Blendon also discussed the severe consequences of stress, including health-related problems (75 percent of those with high stress reported these), disruption of emotional well-being (63 percent), and difficulty sleeping (56 percent). He said that 75 percent of people experiencing high stress said that it "made it harder to get along with family," and 70 percent said stress adversely affected their working lives.
Harvard Professor Robert Blendon said he was surprised that so much media attention gets paid to "stressed-out" business executives, when low-income people reported such high levels of daily stress.
Panelist Kristin Schubert, senior program officer and team director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, expressed surprise at "how many people are dealing with high levels of stress on a daily basis. They face the kind of stress that is toxic, that can impact health directly." Schubert said that the foundation's mission is "building a culture of health" that will enable individuals and communities to cope better with stressors such as parenting teenagers, the quest for work-life balance, health problems, and more.
Gregory Fricchione, associate chief of psychiatry, director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine, and director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital, explained how the stress response works inside the human brain.
"When our basic needs get frustrated, this gets transferred into stress," he said. Sometimes, the brain's stress response is good, as when it quickly goes into full-functioning mode after a car accident, sending signals (such as those to release adrenaline) to other parts of the body to help a person survive. However, some stress is bad, and can make people more vulnerable to health problems, especially long-term.
Joshua Riff, medical director and director of health and well-being for Target Corp., agreed with Fricchione on the dual nature of stress: "In the workplace, stress can be really good, motivating people to act, but the wrong amount of stress can be a bad thing."
Moderator Joe Neel of NPR asked the panelists to explain how they relieved stress in their own lives. Blendon said he likes "to go outside and walk around lakes and oceans." Fricchione enjoys "hiking, swimming, and shoveling snow." After the audience stopped laughing, Fricchione explained that "doing something repetitive like that can reduce stress, and it also feels good when you stop." Schubert uses "deep breathing and running around with my kids." For Riff, putting things into perspective helps. He recalled his days as an ER doctor. At Target, even under a tight deadline, Riff asks himself, "What's the worst that could happen? Nobody is going to die" if a report is late. He also takes 15 minutes each day for quiet reflection.
The panel also discussed the importance of developing resilience. Fricchione said stress makes resilience more problematic, since "stress actually removes a main part of resilience, which is connection to family and community." Stress isolates people at the exact moment when connecting with "people who care about you becomes extraordinarily important," he noted.
Riff added that while people may not be able to change the stimuli that create stress, such as heavy workloads, they can change how they respond to that stimuli. "There's no way your job will be getting any easier anytime soon," he said, to rueful nods from the audience, "so you need to change you."
Blendon said he was surprised that so much media attention gets paid to "stressed-out" business executives, when low-income people reported such high levels of daily stress. Schubert added that "having control and agency are important. It can be hard to change conditions of poverty" for individuals, and this perceived lack of control only intensifies stress.
From the audience, NPR's medical and science reporter Richard Knox asked how the medical profession can better address stress. Riff noted that "our training [as doctors] doesn't provide us with the knowledge, and there's no pill to prescribe [for stress]."
Fricchione concluded with a call to action. "We need to embed into medical analysis [of all patients] a measure of stress and develop a treatment plan based on the research," he said. "It will take time, but I believe this will flow into medical education
The Health Burden of Stress: What We Can Do About It
For many of us, stress is an omnipresent and frequently overwhelming factor of day-to-day life. As we begin to better understand its toll on our health, The Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health — in connection with a new poll by HSPH, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR — shared the story of stress as perceived by many Americans. What are the biggest sources of stress? How can it affect our health? And what can we do in our homes, workplaces and communities to help us manage stress and to live calmer — and healthier — lives?
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Barclays' bounce won't last
Barclays shares rose by 7% after it delivered "forecast-beating profits". But the surge could be running out of steam.
by: Dr Matthew Partridge
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Despite a "once-in-a-lifetime crisis", Barclays has delivered "forecast-beating profits", says Ben Marlow in The Daily Telegraph. That is due to its investment bank, which is "firing on all cylinders". The shares rose by 7% on the news.
With boss Jes Staley pledging to "hang around for several years yet", it looks as though activist shareholder Ed Bramson's "hostile" campaign to get rid of Staley and move Barclays away from investment banking has been a "complete failure".
The latest results show the benefit of having a "diversified business model" rather than narrowly focusing on retail banking.
Not so fast, says Lex in the Financial Times. Over the past year Barclays' share price has largely been determined by the performance of the overall European banking sector, which has been hit by fears of a second lockdown. So, unless bond yields change tack and rise, pointing to "strong economic recovery", it is "hard to see" the stock rising further.
Indeed, the "surging" investment bank may already be "running out of steam", with sales in the last quarter 16% below the average of the two previous quarters, says Liam Proud on Breakingviews. What's more, a few good quarters don't make up for the "sub-par" returns that it has generated over the past few years. Over the last 19 quarters the unit actually "destroyed" value due to its low return on equity. With the board already engaged in "succession planning", a candidate "less attached" to the markets business would be the best choice to succeed Staley.
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Hello to anyone out there who has been wondering where I have been hiding. Sorry about the length of time it has taken for me to resurface. I am grateful to those of you that may have taken time to check on this website and are interested in the music that is so much a life's passion for me. As some of you may already know I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in November 2000. Unfortunately, after having gone through a year of chemo and radio-therapy the cancer has returned. In the beginning of January 2002 I underwent a major operation to remove my spleen which was found to have a tumour. This year will involve having a radical course of chemotherapy followed by stem-cell transplant.
This has been a year of enormous changes for every person living on this planet. In many ways the epoch-making events of September 11th 2001 were like a huge version of what Kirsten and I are going through. I would go so far as to say that perhaps terrorism and cancer are not so dissimilar. They both exist as a strange madness brought about by the starvation of love.
Many people who live with cancer have come to take it as a kind of spiritual test. Having been diagnosed with cancer three times now, it has forced me to reflect the need to make changes to my life. Unfortunately I'm a bit spiritually "hard-of-hearing" especially when it comes to listening to my inner voices. I do believe, however, that everything put across one's path has been put there to nurture you spiritually, and your job is to be open to change and listen to the guiding voice. The voice of that emissary can sometimes ask you to do some pretty brave U-turns.
I have also been working on my hardest, most beatiest project yet. Entitled GRIT, it features samples of various Scottish travellers (Romany gypsies) and Gaelic west coast singers that I knew personally, or grew up hearing at the folk festivals around Scotland in the 1980s.
Last year, whilst I was receiving treatment, I kept as active as I could and managed to finish a "gentle" album of songs in the Gaelic language. Entitled Glen Lyon and sung entirely by my mother Margaret Bennett, this song-cycle is an exploration of my own family's history as passed down from generations of aural tradition. It is a step away from most of my work and very unlike the "fusion world music" (whatever that means!) where many people have pigeon-holed me. I have also been working on my hardest, most beatiest project yet. Entitled GRIT, it features samples of various Scottish travellers (Romany gypsies) and Gaelic west coast singers that I knew personally, or grew up hearing at the folk festivals around Scotland in the 1980s. The samples are taken from original vinyl recordings, dating from the 1950s to the 1970s, recorded by the archives of Alan Lomax, School of Scottish Studies, and a few small Scottish labels. GRIT offers an alternative to those who think that traditional music is being spread thin amongst urban trendiness or to those of you who have noticed that "world-beat" music is just a load of arbitrary fantasy.
This next six months is going to be yet another testing time for Kirsten and I, however, we know that we will get through it and we also feel that health and happiness lie just around the corner. I don¹t know if I will physically be able to do the things I once did but I hope to continue with music. I also hope that these next two albums will generate enough interest that enables me to work in the future with some of the musicians I have always admired. I certainly don't think that I will continue as a one-man producer, composer, technician, performer etc as this has drained too much energy from me in the past. I think.
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After a relaxing break over Christmas all the residents are now back at House Otto and along with our staff would like to wish everybody reading this post the very best for 2014. May all prosper and grow this year and may each and everyone be eager to face and conquer which ever challenges it may bring.
Along with the festive season and the rest we had we also mobilized and went to collect pledges for the 'Buckle-up' campaign. This is a campaign run by our National office where members go to garages on some of the main routes to encourage motorists and motor cyclists to sign a pledge to wear their seatbelts and to be safe on our roads in an effort to try and reduce the amount of debilitating accidents on our roads. House Otto residents deployed at the Engen Highveld One-stop on the R21 near Olifantsfontein on 06, 13 and 20 December 2013 and again on 11 January 2014 and managed to get 649 pledges.
We are looking forward to the start of the building of our staff quarters at our property in Kempton Park this month so that we can move there in the very near future. This will enable us to broaden our outreach activities to those in our surrounding area and hopefully we can in this way make a meaningful difference.
Towards the end of 2013 we also registered our printing business, Page by Page Printing, as an income generator for House Otto and hopefully with your support we can generate enough income on a monthly basis to make a huge difference to our expenses. We provide quality paper products i.e. manuals, pamphlets, calendars, stationery, etc. at an affordable price. Please contact us with your requirements so that we may be able to give you a reasonable quotation.
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A Celebration of Catherine's life took place at Newnham College on Saturday 18th June, 2016. Lionel Bently's address can be found here: Address by Lionel Bently.
Words of appreciation from the world of intellectual property law and copyright history
for Catherine Seville (1963-2016)
"I first met Catherine Seville 2008 when I came to Cambridge to pursue my LLM studies. She was my Director of Studies at Newnham College, as well as one of my lecturers in the Faculty's IP courses. I admired her rigorous writing style and enjoyed her typically British sense of humour. Newnham College has lost one of its most engaged fellows, and the IP community an elegant and thoughtful voice." (Dr Eleonora Rosati, Faculty of Law, University of Southampton)
"Catherine was a joint supervisor of my PhD thesis at Cambridge. I benefited enormously from her wide ranging knowledge of copyright matters. As a supervisor, she was unfailingly courteous, sensitive to detail, patient and generous with her time. Her excellent hospitality and warm personality meant that supervision meetings were conducted in a truly friendly but intellectually rigorous environment. Catherine was deeply committed to her students' welfare. Her pastoral guidance in times of personal difficulty was rooted in an ingrained sense of responsibility for others. Her advice was both practical and effective. After the PhD, Catherine remained a constant source of help. She assisted with references, motivated me to keep writing and commented on draft articles. I will always treasure Catherine's supervision, humanity and assistance." (Dr Patrick Masiyakurima, University of Aberdeen)
"Catherine was a truly supportive and caring supervisor and an inspiring teacher and academic. Her passion about transmitting her knowledge and her accessibility to her students distinguished her. Cambridge University and the academic community will be that much poorer without her." (Patricia Vantsiouri, former doctoral student, University of Cambridge)
"Reading Catherine's book on the 1842 Copyright Act as a law student was one of my inspirations for pursuing research on the history of copyright, and I will always be grateful for the many things I learned from her. I know she will be deeply missed by a large international community of scholars as well as by her friends and family." (Dr Barbara Lauriat, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College, London)
"I am very saddened by Catherine Seville's passing. She was a truly inspirational scholar. There was something very special about the way she helped early career academics. Catherine was extremely generous with her time and knowledge and I remember how she helped me with my work a few years ago, not only reading it closely but always suggesting ways of improving it. She really cheered me up in my first attempts to become an academic, minimising the failures and highlighting the positives. She was extremely generous even to those who were not her (Cambridge) students. I will always be grateful to her. My thoughts are with her family." (Dr Jose Bellido, University of Kent)
"I'm really feeling very difficult at this moment – I still can't believe Catherine left this world. As I am browsing her works, every word bounces into my eyes so lively. I remember talking to Catherine when I tried to invite her to our workshop on media law in September 2013. She smiled at me regretfully and complained that her problem was that her schedule was so full ... Everything was just like yesterday. She has shown her love for the most scintillating parts of the world that God has created for us: music, literature, law... If I may use an old Chinese saying to describe such a respectable and talented person like Catherine passing away so early: even "the Heaven is envious of such a person of outstanding abilities" (天妒英才).
"Catherine will live always in our memory." (Dr. Ge Chen, Research Associate, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin)
"Catherine was always a very friendly and supportive colleague and I enjoyed working with her at CIPIL. I always admired and respected her dedication to her students and I'm sure she will be much missed by them and everyone who knew her." (Gaenor Moore, CRASSH, formerly CIPIL Administrator)
"Catherine Seville was a kind and generous colleague and friend, and I valued her dry wit and gentle support. She was also a gifted scholar, who brought intellectual rigour and high standards to everything she undertook. The Cambridge and legal communities have suffered a great loss. I will miss her greatly." (Dr Isabella Alexander, University of Technology, Sydney)
"I met Catherine through CIPIL and was impressed with her unflinching dedication to her College and work. She was passionate about the past but her outlook was focused on the future. I remember her fortitude, dignity, kindness and intellect and how she always found the time to read and praise the work of other CIPIL members. My sympathy goes out to her family." (Dr Patricia Akester, Head of Intellectual Property Law Clinic at Sérvulo & Partners, CIPIL Associate and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Lisbon)
"Catherine was an outstanding scholar and an inspiration to many new-comers to the field, myself included. Cambridge will not be the same without her." (Dr Elena Cooper, CREATe, University of Glasgow)
"I am sad today. Catherine was among the nicest people I met. Je me souviens de sa gentillesse, de ses sourires, et de son regard bienveillant. Ces choses-là ne s'oublient pas." (Professor Pascal Kamina, Université de Franche-Comté)
"Catherine was known to many across the world as an incredibly meticulous and highly appreciated scholar. I had the privilege of knowing her as a person. She will be sorely missed." (Professor Oren Bracha, University of Texas)
"Catherine Seville was a scholar whose work sends forth a warm guiding light across copyright history. She also helped others see a clearer way forward, even helping progression line by line, when she saw the need. It just seems impossible that someone whose work is so extensive, thorough and solid could not be continuing on. Her loss to the IP community is a very great one." (Professor Kathy Bowrey, University of New South Wales)
"I join all who have known Catherine Seville personally in your tribute to a great academic and a sensitive scholar. I have known her mainly through her work, of which I admire the rigour and intelligence. She will be greatly missed." (Professor Maurizio Borghi, University of Bournemouth)
"I was deeply saddened to learn of Catherine's death: a great loss to the IP academic fraternity and, even more poignantly, to her colleagues in Cambridge law faculty." (Professor Norma Dawson, Queen's, Belfast)
"I met Catherine by proxy through her wonderful book about the early days of copyright - Victorian times. It is not often when reading an IP book that one says to oneself: "Here is a real scholar, one whose work will last." I did for that book - compelling."
"I met her at several CIPIL and other functions - the more you saw her in the better she was."
"We have lost a lovely person and one of the world's first class copyright minds." (The Rt. Hon. Professor Sir Robin Jacob, UCL)
"Dr. Catherine Seville was an outstanding scholar in the field of intellectual property. Her works on the genesis of copyright law were magisterial for not only analysing legal developments, but also contextualising the evolution within social and political history. As I and my many students and colleagues have found, she made copyright history come alive with stories. She will be deeply missed." (Professor Uma Suthersanen, Queen Mary, Univ. of London)
"Catherine was young, vital, so smart and so nice. I admired her work and admired her. I am shocked and saddened." (Professor Mark Rose, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara)
"I first met Catherine in the mid 1980s over a shared interest in nineteenth-century copyright matters. From the first she was as generous with her time as she was in sharing and correcting early forays into copyright history. I recall in particular a memorable dinner at Magdalene where we exchanged notes hastily scribbled on menus. I still have mine because it serves as a reminder of what not to say about a particular Act. But Catherine's company was also infectious and when Steward of Newnham she invited me to several wonderful guest nights which lasted and lasted. I shall hugely miss her friendship and wise advice." (Professor James Raven, University of Essex)
"Catherine Seville was recognised as a leading scholar in intellectual property law, and in particular the history of copyright. I have cited her work in that field and have also appreciated her work in other areas. I particularly remember the conference organised by Justine Pila and Ansgar Ohly on the Europeanization of IP Law in January 2013, at which Catherine and I both spoke. Catherine's contribution was a characteristically lucid examination of the impact of fundamental rights on IP law in the area of P2P file sharing. Fortunately this has been preserved for posterity in the volume of papers subsequently published by OUP." (Mr Justice Richard Arnold, Chancery Division, High Court of England and Wales)
"My thoughts are with you." (Professor Charlotte Waelde, Faculty of Law, University of Exeter)
"The news of Catherine's early death comes as a terrible shock. I knew her best through her remarkable and readable scholarship on the history of copyright, so wonderfully informed not only by painstaking research but also by a wide range of cultural and especially literary reference points. Her textbook on EU intellectual property law was also brilliantly conceived and superbly executed. My feeling of loss is only increased by the sense of what she still had to offer. She was also, quite simply, a very nice person. I only met and corresponded with her occasionally but always found these exchanges enjoyable and interesting. The most memorable encounter, however, was in May 2004, when we joined forces along with Bill Cornish and Lionel Bently to perform Thomas Talfourd's celebrated tragedy, Ion, as part of a table ronde on copyright history in the University of Poitiers, hosted by Frederic Rideau. The performance was almost as sensational as the very first in 1836 even if our audience was somewhat smaller and probably much more bemused than the people who packed into the premiere in Covent Garden. It was primarily an occasion for laughter but there was a serious contribution in it too for the academic occasion – typical in all ways of Catherine as I knew her. The attached photo shows her with Lionel and our French hosts at Angles-sur-l'Anglin, near Poitiers, on the eve of our show (Bill Cornish had not yet arrived, for reasons which only he can explain). It was a wonderful occasion in all respects, including the flights with Ryanair and the alarmingly short runway at Poitiers, and I shall remember Catherine's contribution to that with gratitude and deep regret that it cannot ever be again." (Professor Hector MacQueen, University of Edinburgh)
"I was introduced to Catherine by Bill Cornish, at a time I was working on my PhD dissertation, at the end of the 1990s. She has thus been linked to these special years of discovery in Cambridge and also, thanks to – or because of – her brilliant and insightful work, to a growing obsession for Thomas Talfourd ! With the now famous and jubilant re-interpretation of Ion in a small French town in 2004, recalled here by Hector MacQueen, the preparation of the table ronde which preceded this event was also the perfect occasion to benefit more directly from Catherine's precious personal qualities, in particular her encouraging kindness and enduring patience. Needless to say that the act of reading her huge contribution to the history of copyright and to intellectual property, now with great sadness, will never be the same." (Dr Frédéric Rideau, Université de Poitiers)
"In 2008, as a PhD student, I first encountered the work of Dr Catherine Seville, and in devouring her two major historical books, Literary Copyright in Early Victorian England and The Internationalisation of Copyright Law, I found my own interest in historical intellectual property law. Dr Seville's research interests were as diverse as her work was rich in detail, writing on every topic from Peter Pan, to Mark Twain, across the EU, UK, and the USA. I never had the opportunity to meet Dr Seville, but nearly a decade after discovering her work it continues to influence my own today, and I know will do so for many years to come." (Dr. Catherine Bond, University of New South Wales)
"I met Catherine Seville in 2012 when, as a music scholar, I started a project on performers' rights. On telling Catherine about my project, she responded with reassuring enthusiasm and invited me to attend her copyright lectures, which formed the basis of my project. On every encounter thereafter, Catherine selflessly offered helpful insights and kind words of encouragement. I will always remember her with fondness." (Dr. Ananay Aguilar, Leverhulme Fellow, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge)
"Although I was familiar with Catherine's work, I hadn't actually met her until I came to stay at CIPIL. In the wonderful years I spent there she struck me as a quiet but strong presence, thoughtful and sharp, radiating kindness." (Mireille van Eechoud, IVIR University of Amsterdam)
"It is with great sadness that I learned of Catherine's passing. This is truly a great loss to the IP community and all who have known her. Catherine was an eminent scholar very much admired for her dedication and commitment. I would like to convey my deepest condolences and prayers to her family, friends, and all at Newnham College and CIPIL for this indescribable loss. Catherine will be dearly missed and may she rest in peace with the Lord." (Professor Elizabeth Siew-Kuan Ng, National University of Singapore)
"From our first meeting, Catherine was always generous with her time and her knowledge. I greatly valued her insights during the time we all spent together in the 2014-15 LLM 'History of Intellectual Property' seminar. Her dedication was always apparent - a small but memorable example being her soldiering through one of our tiny two-student seminars despite a terrible cold. No doubt her loss will be keenly felt." (Daniel Kinsey, LLM Student, 2014-2015)
"Catherine seemed to me to find the right balance between enthusiasm and measured, well-informed scepticism. In my early years in Cambridge, she invited me to lunch in Newnham and was enormously helpful in discussing lecturing and supervising. We had enjoyable debates about our work, particularly in the European IP and Competition area, where I fondly remember us both commenting that the other's field ought to be able to do more to address the issues at hand, while pointing out the challenges faced by our own field in so doing. I certainly learned much from the time that I spent with Catherine, and will miss her laconic self-descriptions of her voice when lecturing while under the weather (Macy Gray was a favourite comparison)!" (Professor Angus Johnston, University of Oxford)
"I was very sad to hear of Catherine's passing. A genuinely good person, she was also a brilliant scholar. Her work on Victorian and international copyright stands as a model for others to aspire to. I learned much from her and she will be greatly missed." (Professor Tomas Gomez Arostegui, Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon)
"Catherine Seville has left us unexpectedly, and far too soon. Her scholarship offered sophisticated and stimulating investigations into the intersection of legal and cultural history, as well as thought-provoking reflections on legal history's contributions to analysis of the prospects for the future of copyright. She combined considerable historical erudition with an excellent grasp of current copyright doctrine. Her work was well-known beyond the borders of the UK and the EU. The Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, on whose board she served, published her work, as did the tri-lingual (French, English, Spanish) Revue Internationale du Droit d'Auteur. Copyright scholars the world over have lost a widely-respected colleague." (Professor Jane Ginsburg, Columbia University)
"I am truly heartbroken to learn of Catherine Seville's death. I extend my sincere condolences to her family and friends, and to everyone Catherine has touched through her work. I met Catherine in 2014 when I was a student of the English Legal Methods Summer School at the Cambridge Faculty of Law. I told her that it was my dream to study Intellectual Property Law at Cambridge and that I wanted to apply to the LLM programme in the near future. She asked which college I was interested in and she highly recommended Newnham College to me as she was the Vice-Principal at the time. She subsequently offered to give me a personal tour of Newnham College and its beautiful gardens. During the tour, she not only made me fall in love with Newnham College but she also made a huge and lasting impact on me due to the inspiring and encouraging conversation that we had - while walking through the gardens, the beautiful Newnham College library, the Buttery and the incredibly long hallway of Newnham College. She told me about her early career, education and the time when she was applying to Cambridge. I told her about what I wanted to achieve, how she inspired me and that I aspired to have a career similar to her impressive career. She told me something that nobody had really ever told me before: "You can have all of it too". I will never forget those words. She truly and genuinely believed in me. I could tell that she was passionate about the education of women, Newnham College and Intellectual Property. I told her, after the tour was over, how cruel it was that I had to leave Newnham as I completely fell in love with the college and she told me that I now had something to look forward to. I was really looking forward to studying at Newnham College one day under the guidance of her as my Director of Studies. I will never experience her inspiring and thought-provoking Intellectual Property lectures and guidance now as I so hoped and planned to experience one day. She truly made a lifelong impact on me and she greatly and sincerely encouraged me to pursue my dreams. I am so fortunate that I had the opportunity to tell her how much she inspired me. It is a great honour and privilege to have known her and therefore I am truly lucky. It is not often that someone comes along, like Catherine, who you know will make a huge and lasting impact on you for the rest of your life. The Faculty of Law, CIPIL and Newnham College will not be the same without her. I will continue to pursue my dreams and, because of her, I hope to become a member of Newnham College one day too. Thank you so very much, Catherine." (Georgina Lara Booth)
"I was very sorry to hear the sad news of Catherine's death. I did not know her well, but remember her warmth and hospitality when I was a visitor at Cambridge some years ago. For much longer, however, I had been very familiar with her scholarly work, which I greatly enjoyed for its lively and penetrating accounts of nineteenth century copyright history, and from which, like so many other contributors to this page, I benefitted enormously in my own work. I remember with particular pleasure Catherine's elegant and witty presentation on Canada's vexed relationship with the UK at the ten year celebration of CIPIL last year." (Professor Sam Ricketson, University of Melbourne)
"I first met Dr. Seville when she lectured the course on international intellectual property in the LLM programme at the University of Cambridge in the year 2011/12. Her sudden demise is simply shocking. Of a number fond memories that she left behind, I distinctly recall that she was the only lecturer to my knowledge, who came to the lecture hall with a bag of chocolates every single day, and she used to distribute it among us during the halfway break. She would speak to us during the break of where we come from, our cultures and such random things, which now seem to be the most treasurable conversations I've ever had. Her knowledge needs no emphasis, but I believe her simplicity, approachability and pleasing smile made her unique. It is with sadness but also with happiness that I state that academically I am where I am because of her guidance, and I should have, and could have, thanked her an infinite number of times for it." (Milhan Ikram Mohamed, Doctoral Student)
"Catherine and I corresponded frequently since mid-2014 when I approached her by email in an unsolicited way with an esoteric question about the 1842 Copyright Act. It is rare to engage with an intellectual so generous and scrupulous. Her death is a profound loss." (Dr David Brennan, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Vic.)
"Very sad to hear of Catherine's passing. I remember a wonderful lunch she kindly organised when Margaret Ann Wilkinson was over from Canada. Catherine combined being friendly, erudite and stylish in an inimitable way. A great loss to the IP community; sympathies to her family." (Professor Alison Firth, Surrey/Newcastle/ Queen Mary)
"There have been many words and expressions of grief from the great and the good, as it should be. I would like, as a member of the Law Faculty's admin staff, to add my own. I didn't know Catherine well, just a few words in passing as she came into or left the building, however I was struck by her friendliness and warmth toward someone she barely knew. It's true that we had a mutual friend and that is how I first had a conversation with Catherine, and subsequently she always took time to stop and chat. Mostly - if not always - about very little of importance but her wry humour was always apparent. I was saddened to learn of her passing and I believe that she will be sorely missed by friends and colleagues. And by those of us who also serve." (John Corr)
"I was in shock when I learnt about Catherine's passing. She had a deep impact in my Cambridge experience, and I can say for sure that my academic work would have been much poorer without her guidance. She was vigorous and passionate about her subject (copyright). I think I can close my eyes and still hear her speaking about Talfourd or Mark Twain. She also had a deep knowledge about literature - an interest that we shared. Being her student was very challenging - specially for someone whose native language was not English. But at the same time that she pushed for results, she showed me that I was brighter than I believed. She will be utterly missed." (Aline Ferreira de Carvalho Da Silva, LLM student, 2014-5)
"I first met Catherine during my LLM studies at Cambridge, and had the opportunity to know her much better when she became the joint supervisor of my PhD thesis. Catherine was always warm, wise and supportive, and I learned much from her both about scholarship and about life. The world seems a poorer and colder place for her absence." (Yin Harn Lee, University of Sheffield)
"Dr Seville was a truly inspiring lecturer. Her passion for her work was clearly apparent in her lectures and was one of the reasons why I always enjoyed her lectures. Her legacy remains in the lives of the many law students she has inspired and will not be forgotten." (Joyce Fong, LLM 2009/2010)
"Catherine's book on early Victorian copyright is never far from my desk, and I expect this is so for many of us. Catherine Seville was a scholars' scholar. Who will now say: 'it would be foolhardy (and unduly Whiggish)'?" (Professor Martin Kretschmer, Director, CREATe, University of Glasgow)
"Very sad to hear this. Catherine was my Director of Studies when I was at Darwin on the LLM. Have fond memories of going to a meeting with her in Newnham, which she conducted horizontally on her sofa. I was not to start talking until she had sprawled herself out first. She also played music and displayed clips from newspapers in her lectures. Someone who didn't take life too seriously (which is the right attitude to take to life)." (Mark Rodgers, Barrister at Law, Dublin)
"Catherine was my Director of Studies during my LLM studies at Newnham College, Cambridge in 2013/14. I admire her diligence, dedication to work, her listening ear and high sense of discipline. She was a great intellectual, a guiding light, a role-model, and a counsellor. She helped me find myself and follow my passion. I recall her saying "slow and steady wins the race" during one of our meetings in her office. Catherine had a profound impact on me. As a teacher today, I try to be the kind of teacher she was. She had so many qualities worthy of emulation. Having such a positive experience with Catherine at such a pivotal time was invaluable for me. Memories of her are indelible. May her soul rest in peace." (Adure Uzo-Peters, University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
"On my arrival in Cambridge in 1990 I joined in teaching Intellectual Property as an LL.M. subject. There, among a group of engagingly bright students, was Catherine Seville. Already immersed in literature and other fine arts, she had obtained her London University M.Mus from the Royal Academy of Music. She had then been admitted by Newnham as an Affiliated Student in order to read for the English Tripos Part II during the academic years 1985-7. Intent on finding a discipline that would furnish an academic career, she turned to law. In Cambridge's generous view, her undergraduate achievements showed capacities that would justify registering her for an LLM. She had no difficulty in fulfilling that promise and saw in the law of copyright the branch of intellectual property that she most wanted to study in depth. I was appointed her research degree supervisor. Soon enough I realised that I had as much to learn from her as she from me. Her approach was historical and the training for this would be much enhanced by modern historians of Britain, notably at Newnham – the College where she built a multi-faceted core for her academic existence. She appreciated how the eighteenth century history of copyright had already been explored by modern scholars. She set out to continue that work through the decades after the House of Commons franchise began to be reformed in 1832.
By 1842 a general revision of the basic principles of copyright was on the statute book. Catherine completed her Ph.D. thesis with address and then revised it for publication by CUP (Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England (1999)). In it she tracked two basic lines of development. The first brought out the role of politically influential individuals in the movements for and against change in the concept, scope and consequences of copyright. The second traced the involvement of individuals and groups in reforms affecting their own engagements in the book trade.
Following her first track she found a hero in the person of Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854). He was a barrister of non-conformist stock who took up a range of radical liberal causes. Only in his last six years did he become a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Before that he had been prominent as a social reformer of the law affecting the custody of children, and a political reformer of copyright. He was a journalist and MP for Reading; but his lasting reputation was as a playwright who wrote pieces rooted in Hellenic classicism. His first endeavour in this sphere was his tragedy, Ion, first publicly performed in 1836. It was a grim exposure of the effects of autocratic power upon Adrastus, king of Argos, whose people suffered under a Delphic prophesy that their plight would continue so long as any inheritor of the kingdom was a scion of his family. His own behaviour went unchecked by any decent restraint deriving from his own personality. In the drama Argos is rescued from its hellish condition by the young Ion, but only after it is revealed that he is the son of Adrastus who was lost at birth; therefore to undo the prophesy that damns Argos he must kill himself; and, after telling his beloved of his dilemma, that is what, on the final page, he proceeds to do. Immediately the clouds over the kingdom begin to lift. The play was a popular triumph in which the formidable William Macready assumed the title role for many performances. Its blank verse caught a public mood for political change, which did not recur to the same extent over Talfourd's later efforts in the genre.
For my efforts as a supervisor Catherine presented me with a copy of Ion as well as a coloured print of Talfourd, now to be seen in the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law. In 2004 six of us were invited to visit academic counterparts in the University of Poitiers. I produced a radically reduced synthesis of the play's text for us to read to them and this we did (despite my leaving my passport behind – see MacQueen above). Quite what the audience made of it went unaccounted. But we – including Catherine – seemed to enjoy emitting the necessary cris de coeur. And Talfourd's struggle to secure a modernised version of British copyright law became a central theme in her first book.
Turning to the other main track of that book, Catherine tackled the role of a number of trades, which were extracting from lawmakers and enforcers the property rights that could lead to fortunes from successes with particular copyright works. She devoted much time to the careful reading of correspondence between individuals and even more to the outputs of groups of the leading publishers and printers who struggled to find common positions for the future copyright laws of Britain and its colonies. In Continental Europe civilian jurists wrote from philosophical foundations which justified the need for copyright as giving expression to authorial and artistic achievements of creators by their contributions to the advanced flowering of national cultures under industrial conditions. In common law jurisdictions however the general principles of copyright were largely developed by judicial interpretation of outline legislation and these precedents evolved when individual litigants wanted answers to questions affecting their commercial practice. Their concentration was on essentially economic rationales for what conduct by competitors could be stopped by grants of injunctions and damages in civil actions. As a leading playwright, Talfourd joined in argument over the period for which copyright should be granted. He wanted an extension of the right to the author's life plus 60 years for most cases; but he went too far for 'freedom of expression' advocates of his day. Nonetheless those working for pragmatic solutions, led in the main by judges, took as their prime concern the business of underwriting the production and distribution of new material that as an incentive mostly needed copyright only for a relatively short period and for use against common forms of 'borrowing'. For Catherine this settled the historical paths to follow in the period after mid-century when controversies became more focussed on solutions proposed at the level of national and international politics and diplomacy. They give real assurance to her second book, The Internationalisation of Copyright Law, with its tempting sub-title, Books, Buccaneers and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century (CUP, 2006).
As with other types of intellectual property, the governing morality of copyright turns very largely upon immediate demands of those engaged in its exploitation. Catherine's demonstration of this reality in the development of British copyright allies it to a much more general phenomenon in the evolution of English common law. Professor Toby Milsom spent his splendid career, much of it in Cambridge, explicating how change within that system was so often a response to the arguments of litigants before courts in search of solutions to their own particular needs. Since I knew both of them well over long periods, it is gratifying to point out the similarity of their basic perceptions. The fact that they died within a few days of each other is pure coincidence. But it adds poignancy to Catherine's death at an age when she was deep into research for her next unravelling of copyright history – which would have concentrated on copyright in theatrical performance. She had still so much to pursue and share." (Professor William R. Cornish, Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge)
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The GOP is planning an all-out assault on the rights of LGBTQ Americans with an Orwellian-named First Amendment Defense Act (FADA). This act would totally defang the government's ability to enforce anti-discrimination laws.
Republicans Ted Cruz and Senator Mike Lee of Utah are pushing the bill.
Ironically, the language of the bill positions the right to discriminate against one class of Americans as a "first amendment" right, and bans the government from taking any form of action to curb such discrimination—including withholding federal funds from institutions that discriminate.
It sounds a lot like Indiana's awful Religious Freedom law from a few years ago—the law that nearly ruined the state's economy as business leaders threatened to cut ties with the state.
But if the GOP passes FADA, we can't rely on LGBTQ-friendly capitalists to help us. They can't boycott the entire country.


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Q: How to compare two collections values in oracle? Suppose in one collection(Nested Collection) a I have values (1,2,3,4,5) and in another collection b I have values (5,6,7,8,9). In both collection 5 is common . How to compare and return 5?

A: Assuming you mean by "Collection" a Nested Table you can simply use
TYPE NumberArray IS TABLE OF INTEGER;
ret := NumberArray(1,2,3,4,5) MULTISET INTERSECT NumberArray(5,6,7,8,9);

Check also some other Multiset Operators and Multiset Conditions
If you just need "compare", i.e. "equal or not" then you can simply use
IF NumberArray(1,2,3,4,5) = NumberArray(5,6,7,8,9) THEN ...

A: With a collection you can use the MULTISET INTERSECT operator:
CREATE TYPE intlist IS TABLE OF int;

DECLARE
  a intlist := intlist(1,2,3,4,5);
  b intlist := intlist(5,6,7,8,9);
  c intlist;
BEGIN
  c := a MULTISET INTERSECT b;

  FOR i in 1 .. c.COUNT LOOP
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT( c(i) || ',' );
  END LOOP;
  DBMS_OUTPUT.NEW_LINE();
END;
/

outputs:
5,

I need to compare each value using loop.

Loop through one array and use the MEMBER OF operator to check whether each element is in another array:
DECLARE
  a intlist := intlist(1,2,3,4,5);
  b intlist := intlist(5,6,7,8,9);
  c intlist;
BEGIN
  c := intlist();
  FOR i IN 1 .. a.COUNT LOOP
    IF a(i) MEMBER OF b THEN
      c.EXTEND;
      c(c.COUNT) := a(i);
    END IF;
  END LOOP;

  FOR i IN 1 .. c.COUNT LOOP
    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT( c(i) || ',' );
  END LOOP;
  DBMS_OUTPUT.NEW_LINE();
END;
/

also outputs:
5,

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Died: 1873, Place not known.
Meynardus (or Meynhardus, Mynardus, Mynhardus) Ruysch was the son of Francis W.M. Ruysch and his wife Clara Leenbouwer. In 1815 he applied for permission to practise as a land surveyor in the Cape Colony. He was listed in the African court calendar from 1818 as living at 1 Keerom Street, and from 1820 as a sworn land surveyor. His work included survey maps of properties in Wynberg (1818, 1841, 1846), Port Elizabeth (1831), Rondebosch (1833), Worcester (1836), Cape Town (1837, 1838), Sea Point (1851), Beaufort West (1859-1869), and near Saldanha Bay (1861). He was declared insolvent in 1817, and again in 1832. On 12 August 1816 he married Catharina M. Heyneman in Cape Town and they had several children.
In December 1822 Reverend F. Fallows*, His Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, moved from a house in Kloof Street to Wandel Street and asked Ruysch to determine the difference in latitude between his old and new temporary observatories. Ruysch measured a baseline on upper Orange Street, corrected its length for slope, and by triangulation fixed the positions of Fallows's old and new residences, the houses of Mr van Breda and Mr Moller. The positions of the two observing sites were linked to the houses by measuring a bearing and distance. Fallows would have provided an accurate azimuth (direction of true north). Ruysch drew a plan of his work and calculated the difference in latitude between the two observing sites to be 12.8 seconds of arc.
In March 1843 Ruysch and John Skirrow* assisted C.P. Smyth* of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, with some observations of the Great Comet of 1843. They stayed at the observatory for a few days for that purpose.
Ruysch is credited with introducing a new system of calculation and plotting for farm surveys, by means of rectangular coordinates. The method was later systematized and perfected by Leopold Marquard* in 1848 (Bull, 1981, p. 19).
In June 1858 Ruysch was appointed by the governor as one of the commissioners (the others included T. Maclear*, G.F. Childe* and L. Marquard*) who were to ascertain and fix the size of the unit of land measure used in the Colony - a local version of the Rhynland foot. The only standards available for this purpose were two measuring rods of six Rhynland feet each that had been used by L.M. Thibault* and were later bought by Ruysch. By comparing these rods to British standards the commission found that the land unit was equivalent to 1.033 British Imperial feet (314.85mm) and renamed it the Cape foot. It remained in use as the South African unit of land measure until replaced by the metre in the nineteen-sixties.
In November 1838 Ruysche subscribed one pound sterling for the erection of a monument on the site of Sir John Hershel's telescope at the Cape. He was married a second time, on 6 November 1847 in Cape Town, to Anna M.E. Meyer.
African court calendar and directory (to 1826), then The South African almanac and directory, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1829, 1835.
Hurly, R.F. Presidential address: Astronomers and surveyors. MNASSA, October 1979, Vol. 38(10), pp. 59-64.
National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). . Documents relating to Ruysch, Mynardus / Ruysch, Meynardus / Ruysch, Mynhardus / Ruysch, Meynhardus / Ruysch, M.
South African Commercial Advertiser, 14 November 1838, p. 1: Monument commemorative of the visit of Sir J.F.W. Herschel.
Warner, B. Charles Piazzi Smyth, astronomer-artist. His Cape years, 1835-1845. Cape Town: Balkema, 1983.


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Q: Could I replace Directx11 with directx 12 by replacing the .dll files and other ones included? The title says it all. But, are there too many files to be replaced and is there a risk? What I mean is, there are files like d3d11.dll. Could I replace the files with with something like d3d12.dll or something like that?

A: When code is compiled it uses 'headers' and usually links to 'libraries' which refer to functions inside the dll.  When the game loads it maps the DLL into the address space of the executable so that the program can use features in the DLL.
So if the Game does D3D11_DrawTriangles, it will end up calling that feature in d3d11.dll.  Dropping in the DX12 DLL won't work because the expected function is no longer there (and besides, the executable would still be looking for the 11 DLL - it wouldn't even load).
Upgrading from DX11 to DX12 is a major undertaking; the graphics APIs are very different.
Put another way: It's like someone dropped a Fiat engine into your Volvo.  Would it work?  How much effort would it be to rewire all the pipes and electronics to make it work?


RIYADH – Arab coalition planes launched air strikes on Houthi-held bases in order to target the militants' drone capabilities during an operation in Sanaa, Col. Turki Al-Malki, the official spokesman of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen stated.
The Coalition fighting to support the legitimate Yemeni government said it took necessary measures to protect civilians during the operation in Sanaa and has asked them to stay away from the locations where militant sites were being bombed.
Col. Al-Malki explained that the targeting operation followed a precision intelligence operation conducted over a long period of time, which covered monitoring and surveillance of Houthi militia activities, its terrorist militants' movements with regards to this network to gain further knowledge of the system components and infrastructure operational and logistical connection, the communication system, and whereabouts of foreign experts.
He indicated that the destroyed targets include: UAV storage facilities, manufacturing and spare parts workshops, installation and bomb-equipping workshops, testing and launch-pad preparation locations and terrorist-activity training facilities.
The escalation in fighting, which follows a deadly Houthi drone attack last week on a Yemeni government military parade, augurs badly for a second round of UN-sponsored talks this month aimed at ending the war.
The United Nations is trying to implement a ceasefire and troop withdrawal agreement in the port city of Hodeida, the main entry point for most of Yemen's imports and aid.
In the first significant breakthrough in peace efforts, a deal was reached in talks in Sweden last month to avert a full-scale assault on the port. The truce has largely held in Hodeida.
Meanwhile, an explosion killed five demining specialists in war-torn Yemen's central province of Maarib on Sunday, security and medical sources said.
A pro-government security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the five were foreign experts working on the Saudi-backed Masam landmine clearance project.
The official said the blast occurred as landmines were being transported to be destroyed. A medic at a Maarib hospital confirmed five bodies were brought to the hospital, adding that a number of other people were injured in the incident.
Yemen is a signatory to the Mine Ban Treaty, an international pact which came into force in 1999 and aims to eliminate landmines and clear up vast tracts of affected land.


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Jeremy Sharma's Exhibition of Sound at Aloft at Hermès
Farhan Shah
Before the advent of paper and the printing press, communities passed down information through oral storytellers. They would hold court when the day's work was done and everyone would gather round to listen to what they had to say. It was this ancient and intimate tradition that came to mind as I sat in the circular bench and experienced Jeremy Sharma's 'fidelity' exhibition, currently being held at Aloft at Hermès, on the top floor of the brand boutique's space at Liat Towers.
Jeremy Sharma sitting on the circular bench
Sharma describes the presentation as "a question of representation and authenticity and the organising forces between them". While putting together 'fidelity', Sharma travelled around Southeast Asia to commune with diminishing and displaced communities to record their oral stories.
"I originally intended to record songs from around the region from different communities, songs you may not have heard, sung by communities that might exist among us," explained Sharma. "I think songs occupy both types of representation – they describe or portray events, feelings and life and yet also take the place of people, with the artist as proxy."
Sharma recorded four folk songs – Zatil Tarana, Kami Koun Laut, Dhandang Gula Dedhep Tidhem, and O Limau – for his exhibition.
• Zatil Tarana
"The song describes the Rohingya's rightful place in their homeland called Arakan and the historic events of 3 June 2012 and 9 October 2016. It describes both the persecution and the triumph of their people. Written by Ustaz Hamidullah, the song is performed by a five-piece ensemble comrpising young boys from the Rohingya Community School in Kuala Lumpur."
• Kami Koun Laut
"This is a song that depicts the Orang Seletar
(sea gypsies) as the original people of the sea, who have been driven to the mangroves where the small fish and crabs they find is too limited to sustain them. The language of the Orang Seletar is very close to the Malay language and is considered severely endangered by Unesco."
• Dhandang Gula Dedhep Tidhem
"This is a Javanese poem about the night and the moon's irresistible beauty. Javanese songs or the Macapat have a structure that takes 11 forms, each with its own name, structure and characteristic. The Macapat is a poetic form used to record events, stories, feelings and teachings, a method for recording and informing in Java."
• O Limau
"This is an old Portuguese ditty that describes the green lime fruit used in cooking and drinking, walking and following in a wheel, and the carefree dalliances of a young woman. It is sung in Kristang, a creole language spoken by the eponymous community and is derived from the Portuguese creole, which means 'Christian'. The people are of mixed Portuguese and Arabic descent."
Unlike typical art exhibitions that require visual and mental processing power, 'fidelity' is a journey through a 10-minute soundscape, filled with hymns, voices and music that are equal parts surreal and bewildering. That's the idea behind the new space. Curator Emi Eu wanted to focus on the theme 'immateriality' and Sharma has brought that concept to life.
Jeremy Sharma's notes, concepts and drawings
Besides the audio recordings, visitors to the exhibition can also delve into the mind of Sharma with his treasure trove of drawings, notes and scribblings that he has accumulated during his travels and research into 'fidelity'.
The creation of the sound room is as much a piece of art as the actual recording. "Sound propagates in a sphere, and finding a room's optimal acoustic condition, sound engineers put panels in place to absorb the first reflection points between speakers and listeners. The latter then create their own world from these speakers through their subjectivity," explained Sharma.
Depending on your where you position yourself as well as whether you decide to face inward or outward, you'll pick up different sounds and nuances. As we sat listening to the valleys and peaks of this aural art, we were enthralled. It's only a 10-minute journey, but what a journey.
fidelity is on till 19 August at Aloft at Hermès, admission is free
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Filippetti Yacht: Sunshine Yachting dealer for Asia
by Joni Scarpolini
Filippetti lands in Hong Kong: agreement with Sunshine Yachting, dealer for the Asian market
Filippetti Yacht is heading east and landing in Asia, a market
William Chan
all to be discovered for the famous Italian shipyard. It will be William Chan, founder and CEO of Sunshine Yachting, who will take the Italian brand around the Orient. Based in Hong Kong, Sunshine Yachting is Filippetti's new dealer for Asia. A challenge that starts from excellent premises.
It's enough to look at the curriculum of William Chan, born and raised in a family of boat builders (his father Chan Ki is his business partner, as we'll see) to see how this young broker could prove to be the right person to develop the Filippetti brand in the eastern market.
Among his prestigious experiences, he was a representative at Jesben Marine, dealer of the Fairline Yachts brand in 2012; three years later, he joined the team of Starship Yachts, authorized distributor for Cranchi and Ferretti boatyards in Hong Kong.
Filippetti S65
Working for these big brands, William's nautical background has grown exponentially, as has his ability to communicate with customers.
But, in addition to his undoubted professional skills, Willian can boast of the wonderful relationship of collaboration and complicity that he has always had with his father Chan Ki, with whom he has formed a stainless pair in the company since 2017.
Chan Ki – the first person in Hong Kong to coordinate the construction of a fiberglass boat in China in 1977, the year when he also built the first 30-foot fiberglass sailboat in southern China – has sold 25 boats from 40 to 108 feet together with his son under the Sunshine Yachting umbrella.
A company with great growth prospects that currently brokers luxury yachts from 500,000 euros upwards, manages and maintains them in the family-run shipyard. From today, Sunshine Yachting will also be selling Filippetti models in Asia.
"A famous proverb says that a dream comes true not through magic but through
Giovanni Filippetti with William Chan
sweat, determination and hard work – William Chan points out. We take care of the dreams that our customers have made come true through their work, commitment and sacrifices".
The owners that have chosen Sunshine Yachting, in fact, benefit from thorough pre- and after-sales services. Moreover, as a firm believer in customer-focused service, Willian Chan offers advice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
"We are relying heavily on William because he is a young, dynamic and enterprising professional and, having acquired a very high level of clientele over the years, he has excellent experience in the nautical-commercial sector, so he has the whole future ahead of his to devote time and energy to this new mission: developing our brand in Hong Kong and the entire Asian continent" – says Giovanni Filippetti – Furthermore, like us, he comes from a family with a long nautical tradition and this represents a common point that puts us even more in tune". The Filippetti family is expanding. And it's dropping anchor in the east.
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Wakaso Mubarak, född 25 juli 1990 i Tamale), känd som Wakaso, är en ghanansk fotbollsspelare som spelar för Jiangsu Suning. Han spelar främst som vänstermittfältare.

Klubbkarriär
Wakaso började sin seniorkarriär i Ashanti Gold SC. 2008 skrev han på ett femårskontrakt med spanska Elche CF, dock anslöt han inte till laget förrän två månader senare på grund av landslagsspel.

I slutet av januari 2011, efter bristande disciplin och överträdelser mot klubbreglerna, släpptes Wakaso fri från sitt kontrakt av klubben. Kort därefter gick han till en annan klubb i Segunda División, Villarreal CF:s B-lag.

Den 27 februari 2011 gjorde Wakaso sin La Liga-debut, när han byttes in mot José Catalá i slutminuterna av 2–2-matchen mot Racing de Santander. Han spelade endast sex matcher under säsongen 2011–12 och klubben blev nedflyttad efter 12 år i högsta ligan.

Referenser

Wakaso Mubarak på transfermarkt.co.uk
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Ghananska fotbollsspelare
Ghananska landslagsspelare i fotboll
Spelare i Ashanti Gold SC
Spelare i Elche CF
Spelare i Villarreal CF
Fotbollsspelare i RCD Espanyol
Spelare i FC Rubin Kazan
Spelare i Celtic FC
Spelare i UD Las Palmas
Spelare i Panathinaikos FC
Spelare i Granada CF
Spelare i Deportivo Alavés
Spelare i Jiangsu Sainty
Spelare i La Liga
Spelare i Segunda División
Spelare i Premjer-Liga
Spelare i Scottish Professional Football League
Spelare i Grekiska superligan
Spelare i Chinese Super League
Spelare i afrikanska mästerskapet i fotboll 2013
Spelare i VM i fotboll 2014
Spelare i afrikanska mästerskapet i fotboll 2015
Spelare i afrikanska mästerskapet i fotboll 2017
Spelare i afrikanska mästerskapet i fotboll 2019
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Review: "Bad Times at the El Royale"
By jasonbleau October 18, 2018 October 18, 2018
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Drew Goddard is one of the brightest film writers of our time. In addition to contributions to awesome television shows like "Alias", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and my personal favorites "LOST" and "Daredevil" he's also become well known for his contributions to film. He wrote "Cloverfield" and World War Z" and the screenplay for "The Martian", a film that garnered him widespread acclaim in the industry. His one directorial effort was "The Cabin in the Woods", a stylish genre subverting horror flick that, again, is one of my personal favorites. So when I heard he was returning to the director's chair and also writing a new film called "Bad Times at the El Royale" I was instantly hooked, even though it took me longer than I would like to actually see the film. Now I have and I'm ready to have my take on it. To be honest right off the bat it's a criminally underappreciated work. How underappreciated? Well let's dive in. This is my review of "Bad Times at the El Royale".
WHAT'S IT ABOUT
"Bad Times at the El Royale" follows seven strangers at a hotel placed squarely on the California-Navada border with half of the facility in one state and the other half in the other. The hotel is operated by the drug addicted concierge Miles Miller (Lewis Pullman) and owned by shady unknown individuals. The hotel's guests include Dwight Broadbeck (Jon Hamm), struggling singer Darlene (Cynthia Eviro), an aging and mysterious priest named Father Flynn (Jeff Bridges), and Emily Summerspring (Dakota Johnson) who has kidnapped her own younger sister Rose (Cailee Spaeny) from a cult with hopes of starting a new life. Circumstances cause their individual stories to intertwine and their pasts to catch up with them. Meanwhile it is revealed that the hotel is built to spy on its residents and has been used to collect blackmail material for years. As each character's individual stories begin to come to light things get out of control and reach a tipping point with the cult leader Emily and Rose have escaped, named Billy Lee (Chris Hemsworth), arrives threatening the lives of all of the guests at the El Royale.
WHAT WORKED
"Bad Times at the El Royale" was for me a very engaging film mostly because I enjoy a movie that delves into its characters as well as the story. I feel like this project finds a good balance between both, showcasing the background of almost every character while also giving us a fun and engaging narrative that we see from multiple perspectives. Many times the film cuts from the action to show us who these people were before their visit to the El Royale, allowing us to invest in their fates and understand their motivations. The flashbacks are (for the most part) placed well throughout the project so that we've had time to question these people before we're given some neat "ah ha" moments as the pieces come together. It's an awesome example of character development at its best, but it doesn't stop there. "Bad Times" is not against throwing surprises at you either. Not a lot of people survive this picture and some of them might die off faster than you think giving it a sense of realism and chaos. I won't say it's a relentless film, but it does take some chances that I couldn't help but appreciate.
No surprise this is an incredibly well written movie. While we've seen the results of Drew Goddard's writing and direction in the past this is the first time we see them both at the same time and with that in mind "Bad Times" does feel like a work of passion and art. The story and presentation are meticulously detailed, almost to the point of pretentiousness but not quite, and the social subtext is delightfully well built into the story tackling themes of redemption, the consequences of choice and free will, and my favorite message that involves the true definitions of right and wrong and good and evil. Every character's story fits the mold of one of these moral conundrums but none of them feel repetitive. Every one of the individual character stories feels inspired and unique almost as if Goddard's goal was to relay how many different ways you can tell the same kind of story without repeating yourself. For all the major names in this film and the many different story threads worked into the screenplay "Bad Times at the El Royale" builds everything up effectively, works in reveals seamlessly and concludes these stories mostly flawlessly becoming both a spectacular mystery thriller and an awesome character study.
That said a movie like this wouldn't stand out if it weren't for a capable cast. Big names like Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Chris Hemsworth and Dakota Johnson along with rising stars Cailee Spaeny and Lewis Pullman as well as stage actress and singer Cynthia Erivo in her big screen debut (she will also appear in this year's "Widows") all give us memorable characters that, thanks to the narrative style, are well defined and stand out in a crowded cast. Everyone feels like they are giving heir A-game here working off of each other well despite the fact that their characters are all strangers. Also considering that many of these scenes were probably shot and re-shot in order to achieve the style (showing the same scene from different perspectives) it's impressive how consistent everyone is. I was looking desperately for errors in consistency and while I found a few plot holes in the overall story the use of the same scene from a different perspective always felt consistent and on point with how it was presented previously. Either every actor was able to mimic specific scenes flawlessly in different takes or Drew Goddard filmed from different angles at the same time which still makes these performances impressive as they had to be able to perform to several different cameras at the same time. Simply put the performances in this movie are fantastic and kept me interested. It's the little details and dedication of the actors that truly help "Bad Times" become a complete and entertaining viewing experience.
WHAT DIDN'T WORK
The biggest criticism I've heard from a lot of people in regards to "Bad Times at the El Royale" is that it's too long and the pace is off. Both are pretty credible criticisms although only one really proved to be a problem for me. I actually believe "Bad Times" was pretty well paced, building the tension of the story and each character's background while never losing touch with the main narrative thread. But I will admit it takes a long time to get to the point and at times can feel like a drag as a result. Even though I enjoyed this time I can't help but label it as a bit tedious, focusing so much on the backstories of characters that it can sometimes take you out of the action. There's definitely some fat that could have been cut off the film that could have made "Bad Times" a much less irritating experience for those who aren't as fascinated by character arcs and buildup. It didn't spoil the film for me but I'd be lying if there weren't a few times where I just wanted to movie to get on with it and at least one time I felt the cutaway to a character's back story ruined the moment for me by taking me out of the drama. Regardless it in no way makes "Bad Times" a bad watch, it just makes it a bit of a chore at times to get through depending on what you're expecting going in. But I will say the wait is worth the result.
My only other real complaint about the film is that the gimmick of the hotel being used to spy on the residents never really goes anywhere and actually opens more plot holes than anything else at times. For example, it's used in a neat moment of suspense where Cynthia Eviro's Darlene uses her singing to cover up the actions of Jeff Bridges Dock, but they're doing it to avoid suspicions from someone on the other side of the two way mirror who would have seen both of them enter the room in the first place if they were there and there's no way of the two knowing anyone is on the other side of the glass to begin with. I know it's nitpicky but the rest of this film is so well written that moments like this stand out like a sore thumb. The bottom line though is I DID have to go looking for these errors and many were only realized in hindsight which means that "Bad Times" is more than good enough to gloss over these inconsistencies to still be a neat and well written story. When you have to specifically look for problems in a movie because it's borderline perfect on the surface that's all you can really hope for especially with a story structure as complicated and detailed as the one we get from "Bad Times at the El Royale".
I really enjoyed this movie. I expected to enjoy it but I didn't think I'd enjoy it THIS much. Is it tedious and drawn out? Yes, but this doesn't hurt the overall quality as much as you might expect. It takes its time building tension and characters but with great acting and writing to support this approach the film as a whole feels like a cohesive and fun collection of different narratives all rolled into one great story that ties them all together. It's not the first time we've experienced a movie like this but even then "Bad Times at the El Royale" feels unique and fresh. It might not keep you guessing all the way through the way many probably thought it would, but the suspense is there, the action and dialogue is well paced, at least in my opinion, and the social subtext is perfectly built into the story to avoid being heavy handed while still getting the point across. In the end "Bad Times" is a fun movie experience from an awesome writer and capable director who had a vision and brought it to fully realized life with precision, style and near perfection.
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Paul. Writer and Filmmaker says:
Hey, you should have a spoilers warning as you give away some key character and plot points in the opening paragraphs.
jasonbleau says:
Fair point and usually I work to avoid spoilers but I dont reveal anything that wasnt revealed in the trailers.
Well, I hadn't seen the trailer but thankfully saw the film before reading your review.
I have edited the review to at least include less spoilers in terms of the characters but the plot details were part of the trailers. Appreciate your input and after rereading parts of the review I can understand where you were coming from.
Cool. Interestingly enough, the plot kind of didn't really go anywhere but the characters were intriguing and it had some good twists amidst the pulp fiction stories.
Good review. Definitely a surprise hit for me. Yes, it was a slow-burner type film, but I loved how different the movie was (compared to today's films) and I do love the cast.
Sam Simon says:
I agree with you, I also loved this movie!
My short review, if you want to read it:
https://vengonofuoridallefottutepareti.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/bad-times-at-el-royale-extraordinary-english/
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"It was the first thing I did when I woke up in the morning, and any free second I had," Jayne Bigelson said.
Bigelson told CBS2's Maurice Dubois that for her daydreaming was a full blown compulsion.
She stepped out of reality and retreated into her mind where her favorite TV shows played over and over.
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She said it started to take a toll.
"I started to prefer it more than real life, and I found myself making excuses not to see my friends, and that's when I think it became a problem," she said.
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"I had no friends, I had no sense of outer reality, I had no sense of anything. All I wanted to do was lie around and fantasize all the time," she said.
They both knew something was wrong, but couldn't find any answers.
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Rose started a website that now has 6,000 followers.
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Bigelson herself has become a researcher looking for answers.
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Her daydreaming is controlled with an anti-depressant.
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