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Steam Year in Review for 2020 shows 21.4 percent more games were purchased compared to 2019 and the total amount of playtime doubled in 2020. With the coronavirus pandemic having forced people to stay inside their homes for most of last year, more and more people gravitated towards video games, be it on their smartphones,l consoles, or PCs. Valve's Year in Review for Steam shows just that, along with some interesting statistics showing significant increase in engagement on the platform.
The 2020 Year in Review for Steam shows there were 120 million active players on the platform per month in the year. With these many players dedicatedly playing video games, the overall hours invested increased by 50.7 percent compared to 2019. 21.4 percent more games were purchased during 2020 from Steam and there were 2.6 million first time purchases monthly.
Steam saw 62.6 million daily active players in 2020 across the globe with the highest concurrent player count reaching 24.8 million.
There were the usual multiple seasonal sales organised by Steam last year and the major ones – Summer, Autumn, and Winter were "record breaking in terms of revenue generated for developers and publishers," according to the official blog post. Compared to Winter Sale of 2019, 2020 saw a 36 percent increase in the number of games that grossed more than $100,000 (roughly Rs. 73 lakh).
To provide opportunities for visibility to games in Steam's catalogue, the platform organised Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition which saw 559,000 demo activations for a few dozen demos. Then, Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition saw 4 million customers sign up for over 900 demos. Finally, Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition saw 5.1 million demo activations.
Last year, Steam also launched the Steam Points programme that rewards users for buying games and engaging with the community. Till now, 99 million items including animated backgrounds, avatars, frames, and more have been redeemed by 15.5 million users.
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Q: Thermal Conductivity of Metals My textbook says on conduction:

These 'free' electrons can rapidly carry energy from the hotter to the cooler regions of the metal, so metals are generally good conductors of heat. A metal rod at 20 deg. C feels colder than a piece of wood at 20 deg. C because heat can flow more easily from your hand into the metal.

Wouldn't the metal rod be hotter because more heat is transferred from the hand to the metal?

A: The metal rod will become hotter.  Only not very much for a large rod.
The energy will flow from your fingers to the metal until the temperature of the metal reaches the temperature of your fingers.  For a large metal object this will never happen for all practical purposes.   For a small object, though, it does happen.  If you pick up a dime it will initially feel cool, in a minute or two it no longer feels cool.
Note that it takes a minute or so to heat up a dime to the point when it no longer feels cool.  For large objects, it would take a very very long time during which the metal is losing energy to the air ... so it may never stop feeling cool.

A: When something feels cold, it isn't the temperature that makes it feel cold, it's the rate of heat transfer (heat flux) from your body to the object.
Consider that thermal conduction follows Fourier's Law, $\dot{q} = -k A \Delta T$
We can simplify this equation for our purposes by taking one of the objects to be our body, at body temperature, 37$^\circ$C, and the other test object to always have the same contact area. We can then conclude that the heat flux depends on the thermal conductivity of the object, which is a property of the material it's made of, and its temperature.
$$\dot{q}\sim k~(T - 37)$$
Let's play around with this a bit.
Case 1: Touching the same object, at different temperatures
In this case, $T$ varies. $k$ remains constant. This gives us $\dot{q}\sim(T - 37)$, which is why a dime at 0C feels colder than a dime at 30C
Case 2: Touching a dime and a clay coin, at the same temperature
In this case, $T$ is the same, and the equation reduces to $\dot{q} \sim k$. We know the conductivity of a clay coin is less than the conductivity of a metal coin. That's why we feel the metal coin removing heat from our finger quicker, and hence it feels colder.
Consequently, if you look from the perspective of the coin, it gains heat faster, and hence reaches your body temperature faster. The clay coin will take more time to reach the same temperature.
Since temperature difference is the driving parameter for conduction, both will, given enough time, reach the same temperature.

Now for some slightly more complicated math.
The Fourier equation can be rewritten as
$$
\begin{align}
\dot{q} &= -k A \Delta T = \frac{\text{d}q}{\text{d}t} \\
\therefore \frac{\text{d}q}{\text{d}t} &= -k A (T - T_{res}) \\
\text{d}q &= m C \text{d}T \\
\therefore m C \frac{\text{d}T}{\text{d}t} &= -k A (T - T_{res}) \\
\therefore \frac{\text{d} T}{T - T_{res}} &= -\frac{k A}{m C} \text{d} t \\
\therefore \int_{T_{init}}^{T}\frac{\text{d} T}{T - T_{res}} &= \int_0^t-\frac{k A}{m C} \text{d} t \\
\therefore \ln(\frac{T - T_{ref}}{T_{init} - T_{ref}}) &= -\frac{k A}{m C} t \\
\therefore \frac{\Delta T}{\Delta T_{init}} &= \exp(-\frac{k A}{m C} t) \\
\therefore \frac{\Delta T}{\Delta T_{init}} &= \exp(-\phi t) \\
\therefore \dot{q} &= -k A \exp(-\phi t) \Delta T_{init}
\end{align}
$$

As you can see from this picture, the temperature difference falls much quicker if $\phi$ is larger, i.e. $k A / m C$ is larger. If the mass and contact area of both objects under comparison are identical, this implies the larger the $k / C$, the quicker the object reaches equilibrium with the heat reservoir. Here is the same plot, but showing the temperature of the coin initially at 0C with time, when touched to a heat reservoir at 37C.

This next image shows the heat flux plotted against time. As you can see, a smaller $k$ gives a smaller heat flux, but sustained over a longer period of time.

Notes:
$C$ is the specific heat of the material the coin is made of. $k$ is it's thermal conductivity. $m$ is the mass and $A$ is the contact area between the object and the hear reservoir.

A: I would say that the textbook is using some pretty vague terms here, although I imagine it's simply to make it easier for you to understand.  Different materials have different specific heat capacities, a property which indicates how much heat is required to raise the temperature of the material by 1 deg Celcius per gram of the material.  For example, the specific heat of water is 1 calorie per gram per degree Celcius (or, equivalently, 4.184 Joules per gram per degree C -- I use calories here only because it allows me to use simple numbers in my explanation).  This means that, if you supplied 50 calories worth of heat, you could raise the temp of 1 gram of water from 25 to 75 C (a change of 50 C), or you could raise the temperature of 50 grams of water from 25 to 26 C, or any other change in which the mass times the change in temperature is 50.  Metals generally have very low specific heat values, while more insulating substances like water and wood have higher specific heat values.
Saying something "feels colder" is pretty vague.  I would argue that, at the instant you touch either metal or wood they would likely "feel" the same to you.  However, if you hold onto say 50 grams of wood and 50 grams of metal, then it will take the metal much less time to reach body temperature.  Assuming that your body gives heat to both and the same rate, it takes less energy to raise the temperature of the metal (with a low specific heat) with an equivalent mass of wood (with a high specific heat).  You can easily find a table of specific heats for some common materials by just searching the web.
I hope that helps!

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March 15, 2021 Updated: March 15, 2021 7:09 p.m.
Paier College of Art, in Hamden, is moving to the University of Bridgeport campus in the fall.
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BRIDGEPORT — Paier College has found a new home on the University of Bridgeport's campus.
Paier announced on Monday it will relocate to Bridgeport in time for the fall semester. The school has also changed its name from Paier College of Art to Paier College, officials said, to reflect an expansion of degree offerings.
The move marks the latest development in Paier's acquisition of struggling UB art programs in a joint deal forged this summer alongside Goodwin University.
"As we spent more time in Bridgeport and around the campus," said Joe Bierbaum, the president of Paier College, "we just fell in love with the area and said 'this can be the next refrain of the school.'"
Paier is a small, for-profit college in Hamden known for visual arts. The school will remain an independent institution on UB's campus, occupying the Arnold Bernhard Center for Arts & Humanities and the Cooper Hall Dormitory along with two additional buildings on the southwest side of the campus.
A college spokesman said there were no plans to sell the Hamden campus.
The Arnold Bernhard Center, a nine-story building on the Long Island Sound, houses a 1,000-seat performing arts theater, a permanent art gallery and dozens of classrooms, offices and performance and event spaces. Cooper Hall will provide 140 beds of on-campus housing to Paier students and UB students taking classes through Paier.
Plans are for Paier to share libraries, recreation and fitness centers, dining halls, health services and security with UB and Goodwin.
The school's name change from Paier College of Art is effective immediately and comes as the school continues to add degree offerings outside of the traditional visual arts related to design and communications, officials said.
Last summer, Goodwin University, Paier College and Sacred Heart University made plans to take on several University of Bridgeport programs. SHU pulled out of the arrangement this fall, leaving Goodwin, Paier and UB to pursue a modified deal.
Paier College will acquire UB's art programs, including graphic and interior design. Paier's acquisition represents about 200 students, according to representatives for the school.
Bierbaum reflected on the growth of Paier since the beginning of his tenure in winter 2019.
"We had 55 students," he said. "Now we have 135. With what we're going to be added from programs UB was offering that we will be offering, I wouldn't be surprised if, in the next two to three years, we're 500 to 800 students."
Goodwin will get about 4,100 students from UB and most of the university's real estate. UB also sold property to Bridgeport to build a new Bassick High School.
Paier College needs approval for the agreement from the Connecticut Office of Higher Education. The school is also seeking approval from the U.S. Department of Education and its accreditors to offer certain UB bachelor's degrees, including industrial design, digital marketing, mass communication and marketing.
"There's a lot that can be gained from collaboration — from really honest collaboration," said Bierbaum, adding that often in acquisitions, "It's one school eating another — and that's just not the case here. You have independence for three institutions that have three different sets of values and ideals."
Bierbaum said he expects Paier students to benefit from the relocation to Bridgeport.
"When you get into these big, diverse communities, that's where you get your best art," he said.
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim said he anticipates the move will be mutually beneficial.
"As a home to hundreds of artists and innovators, the arts have always been an integral part of our city," Ganim said in a statement. "We are thrilled Paier College has decided to call Bridgeport home. Paier will help us continue to inspire a more vibrant and creative community and provide more opportunities for our residents of all ages to enjoy the arts."
School officials from UB, too, said they look forward to welcoming Paier on campus.
"Welcoming Paier College to Bridgeport is an important step in forming the consortium of higher education that will help us to maintain the legacy of the University of Bridgeport," UB Interim President Stephen Healey said in a statement. "Paier's unique programs focused on art, design and innovation will bring a new perspective to the city that will further enhance the diversity of our community."
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La frontière terrestre entre l'Espagne et Gibraltar est la deuxième plus petite frontière internationale du monde avec seulement  de longueur. Installée au sud de la péninsule Ibérique, elle sépare l'Espagne de Gibraltar, une possession britannique.

Le tracé actuel de la frontière passe directement au nord des infrastructures de l'aéroport de Gibraltar, et jouxte la ville de La Línea de la Concepción, côté espagnol, dont l'essor économique est lié à cette situation privilégiée.

Ce tracé est constitué de deux sections rectilignes :
 une partie occidentale, orientée est-ouest, d'environ  de long ;
 une partie orientale, obliquant après le bâtiment du terminal aéroportuaire vers le sud-est, d'une longueur d'environ .

De part et d'autre de la frontière s'étend une zone neutre, dont la limite sud côté britannique est constituée par le tracé de 1713 et la limite nord côté espagnol, par l'Avenida Del Ejército à La Línea de la Concepción, englobant ainsi le quartier de Sácra.

Historique
Lorsqu'en 1713, les traités d'Utrecht sanctionnèrent le rattachement du territoire au Royaume-Uni, la frontière passait au pied du rocher de Gibraltar. Une partie de la zone neutre entre le territoire de la colonie et La Linea fut ensuite concédée provisoirement par l'Espagne afin de permettre la création d'un camp temporaire pour raison d'épidémie dans la cité, et la délimitation déplacée vers le nord une première fois en 1854, avant que les autorités britanniques ne la fixent ensuite unilatéralement sur le tracé actuel par l'édification d'un grillage en 1908.

En , la frontière fut fermée sur ordre du général Franco, afin de protester contre l'organisation quelques mois plus tôt, le , d'un référendum d'autodétermination sur le rocher qui avait donné une écrasante majorité pour le maintien de la souveraineté britannique. L'unique poste-frontière, situé à proximité du terminal aéroportuaire ne fut rouvert que le  à minuit.

En 2006, les accords triparties de Cordoue ont été signés entre le Royaume-Uni, l'Espagne et Gibraltar.

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En 2017, le trafic transfrontalier s'élève à 12 000 personnes quotidiennes pour un temps de franchissement pouvant varier entre une demi-heure et deux heures.

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We hear a lot from citizens about the failings of Australian democracy and the need for reform. But how do politicians view the growing trust divide?
We set out to answer this question in an attitudinal survey of federal politicians, which we co-designed with the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters. It was conducted in January and February 2019 and completed by 98 out of a possible 226 respondents (43.36%). Our sample (see Figure 1) is skewed towards women and Labor and crossbench respondents.
Given the higher proportion of opposition members, our respondents may be more critical of the status quo compared to those in government. Yet all respondents were free from party loyalties in submitting their replies, could select their preferences from a list of established reform options and also specify their own priorities.
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We have a strong, if not perfect, expression of voice from elite-level politicians. And because of earlier research we can compare the responses of politicians to those of citizens.
Judging Australia's democratic arrangements
Let's start with a finding you might have guessed. Australia's federal politicians are more satisfied (61%) with the way democracy works than their fellow citizens (41%).
Yet here is a perhaps more surprising finding: they are sufficiently concerned about evidence of a trust divide between citizens and politicians to favour a substantial program of reform.
As Figure 2 shows, parliamentarians share a sense of what they "like" about the nature of Australia's democratic arrangements with the general public. In particular, both groups like "fair voting", "stable government" and "freedom of speech".
Citizens are more appreciative of Australia's "good economy and lifestyle" and the quality of "public services". Parliamentarians extol the virtue of the political system in providing access for citizens to exercise their right to political participation.
When asked to explain the loss of trust in politics (see Figure 3), parliamentarians focus on the lack of public understanding of how government works. They also point to the disproportionate power of minority representatives in decision-making.
Citizens focus on "not being able to hold politicians to account for broken promises", politicians "not dealing with the issues that really matter", and the disproportionate power of big business or trade unions in decision-making.
However, they have a shared concern with what they perceive as the conflict-driven nature of party politics and the media focusing too much on "personalities and not enough on policy". Parliamentarians consider concerns related to media misrepresentation and the pressure of the media cycle to be the major weakness in Australian democratic practice.
Reforms politicians would like to see (and those they reject)
Unlike Australian citizens, the majority of parliamentarians are against:
the right to recall an MP for a new election if they fail to provide effective representation during the parliamentary term (72%)
performance reviews for politicians (72%)
greater use of citizen juries based on the criminal jury system (64%).
Parliamentarians appear to have limited desire to open up the system to direct influence from the public. Instead, their preference is to make the representative system more outward-looking. This is reflected in strong support for:
ordinary party members and voters having more say in choosing party leaders and election candidates (49%) provision for e-petitions to parliament (54%) dual citizens being able to stand for election without renouncing their overseas citizenship (47%) less voting on party lines based on manifesto promises and more free votes (46%).
When we asked parliamentarians what other reforms they would like to see, the responses highlighted a strong desire for improved publicly funded civics education and formal electorate forums for all parliamentarians.
The former idea is a reflection of the existence of different approaches to civics education across states and territories, and different patterns of funding. The general perception is that a national framework and funding commitment are needed to help foster the political literacy of the Australian electorate.
The latter idea is about improving public accountability through the establishment of public forums. These would have standing minutes and reporting requirements to ensure parliamentarians remain responsive to the interests of their constituents.
Linking to community is the key to saving representative democracy
Central to the thinking of politicians is their community linkage role. This involves expressing broad values and ideological positions to capture the wider concerns of citizens, and educating citizens about political issues. It also requires meeting and engaging with citizens.
The message from politicians is that reform is as much about improving existing democratic practices as designing new ways of doing democracy.
Our evidence suggests elected politicians are aware of concerns of citizens and interested in improving democratic processes. They are more satisfied than citizens about how democracy works and not inclined to jump to reforms that give more direct control or say to citizens.
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But the politicians do accept the need to reform their community linkage role so they are better connected to citizens. They also think the political process and their role in it needs to be better understood, so strongly support better political education.
The reform agendas of citizens and politicians do not entirely match up, but there is a degree of alignment. If feasible and doable reforms are going to emerge, we might first look to common ground, starting with cementing the community linkage role.
Changes backed both by many citizens and politicians could lead the way to a wider and more radical reform process.
More detail on this research can be found in Mark Evans, Michelle Grattan and Brendan McCaffrie (eds), From Turnbull to Morrison: the Trust Divide published by Melbourne University Press and launched today at Parliament House.
Authors: Mark Evans - Professor of Governance and Director of Democracy 2025 - bridging the trust divide at Old Parliament House, University of Canberra | Gerry Stoker - Fellow and Centenary Professor, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra | Max Halupka - Research Fellow at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, University of Canberra


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James Heavey, owner of The Beanpod cafe in British Columbia was featured in the local BC free press paper.
"It's been amazing how word of mouth has got around," said Beanpod's owner James Heavey. "A guy came in and told me he'd heard about us from people in line at the base of Timber chair!"
Now Beanpod is fully open for business and has already had regular customers come from Sparwood, Elkford, Calgary and Cranbrook to try out the handmade chocolates and espresso coffees. They are proving so popular, James is struggling to keep up with demand and the shop regularly sells out.
James and his wife, Mary, came to Fernie from Ireland, a few years ago with their four children and decided they wanted to open a shop to cater to their own passions. For James, it was coffee and for Mary, chocolate.
"Coffee and chocolate are not new to the Valley, but what makes us different is that we make the chocolate here in the shop, from scratch, and we roast the coffee beans we use in our espresso based drinks in-house."
James travelled to Ecuador to a cacao bean farm and got to know all the people involved in growing the beans, from the machete-wielding pickers to the woman who makes the sacks that the beans are stored and shipped in.
A lot of chocolate is made from beans that are not fermented in the sun, but the ones James buys are left out to ripen before being shipped to him in Fernie, and are consequently the highest grade of bean available.
James and Mary, are the owners of the only business in Canada that make chocolate from beans, the old fashioned way. There are only about 85 companies that make chocolate in the world and most other chocolate shops buy pre-made chocolate in block form and then re-melt it to make individual chocolates.
"The problem with buying chocolate like that is you have no control over it," said James. "You can't control the taste, the texture, and you don't know what the process was of getting it to that stage."
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Conversations with Anaïs Nin
Wendy DuBow
University Press of Mississippi, 2011 - 278 pagina's
Largely ignored by mainstream audiences for the first thirty years of her career, Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) finally came into her own with the publication of the first part of her diary in 1966. Thereafter she was catapulted into fame. Throughout the late sixties and the seventies she attracted a host of devoted and admiring readers in the counterculture, who were magnetized by her personal liberation and openness. For a woman to make such a probing exploration of the intimate recesses of her psyche made her a cult figure with a large and lasting readership. Born in France, she came to America in the thirties. Her liaison with Henry Miller and his wife June, documented in her explicitly detailed diaries, became the subject of a major film of the nineties. Nin's forthright books such as Delta of Venus, her diaries that continue to be published in a steady flow, and her charismatic charm made her the subject of many candid interviews, such as those collected here. Eight included in this volume are printed for the first time. Many others were originally published in magazines that are now defunct. Nin elaborates on subjects only touched upon in the diaries, and she speaks also of her role in the women's movement and of her philosophies on art, writing, and individual growth.
Anaïs Nin,Wendy M. DuBow
Titel Conversations with Anaïs Nin
Literary conversations series
Redacteur Wendy DuBow
Uitgever University Press of Mississippi, 2011


US private taxi service Uber has expanded into several French beach resorts for the summer season, to the anger of traditional cab drivers.
As the inhabitants of France's big cities head to the beaches this summer, Uber will be there waiting for them with the ride-booking company having rolled out its service in seven holiday resorts around France for the summer season.
The company, whose bosses in France were fined several thousands of euros earlier this year, has launched its ride-booking app in St Tropez and Toulon on the French Riviera as well as nearby Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, which are popular with tourists in the summer season.
Uber will also launch its app in the Bassin d'Arcachon on the south west coast and the beach resort of La Baule in Brittany.
Holidaymakers in the chic Normandy resort of Deauville will also be able to order an Uber cab to get home from the seaside Casino late at night or from some of the town's nightclubs.
New users can benefit from €15 worth of reductions if they type in the code "Uberplage2016" when making a booking.
Of course there is a danger that the arrival of Uber will spark the usual anger and protests among the local taxi drivers.
Taxi firms in Paris and other French cities have long railed against the US firm for unfairly undercutting prices and ruining their livelihoods.
"Uber is coming here to smash the prices and then will just leave. It's unacceptable," one taxi driver in St Tropez told Le Parisien newspaper.
The firms insists it will only remain in the holiday resorts as long as the tourists are there, meaning at the end of the season taxi firms can have the towns to themselves again.
However many suspect that's just a ploy to appease the taxi firms and Uber will stay around in the likes of St Tropez well after the rentrée.


USG Terra Alba food- and pharmaceutical-grade (F&P) Dihydrate Calcium Sulfate Filler is made by fine grinding and air separating a select, high purity white gypsum containing approximately 20% water of crystallization.
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Hewlett reported that at grinding temperatures between 115°C and 130°C, the dihydrate form can dehydrate to the hemihydrate form and to a lesser extent to calcium sulphate anhydrite, which upon mixing with water forms a supersaturated solution with respect to the dihydrate form.
Terra alba is a natural gypsum that can be used as an extender in paint and filler in grounds. Terra alba, calcium sulfate dihydrate, is made by fine grinding and air separating a select, high purity, white gypsum from Italy containing about 20% water of crystallization.
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The 13th presents the good golfer with an opportunity, but you do need to be LONG off the tee to take advantage of this par 5. Beware the OB on the right - it goes nearly all the way down the hole for some 400 yards, but don't get protective as this will put you in the deepest of difficulties behind the trees if you go left.
Most club players, having found the fairway, would take a mid iron to lay up over the fairway bunker that acts as a magnet to so many shots. This bunker is short of the ditch that goes diagonally left to right across the hole approximately 80 yards short of the green, anything hit with a slice is in danger of ending up wet.
The way the green is aligned makes it important to be on the left side of the fairway especially if the hole is cut on the right of the green. But beware of the bunker and slopes that come into play if you push your shot.
The green tilts from right to left and has heavy bunkering on the right. The safe side is on the left - but as this green is narrow this is not much of an option.


It seems like everywhere I look, a new article is popping up about melatonin for children. Some articles sing its praises as a natural, sanity-saving remedy. Other articles scare the pants off of us by telling us our child's hormones will be thrown out of whack and they will become dependent on it like little pint-sized drug addicts.
The truth is, while melatonin is widely accepted and considered safe, there is a lot we just don't know about it. I did a lot of research before deciding to give it to my daughter, and even still there were things I didn't find out about it until much later.
Melatonin for children has become a very polarized topic, and I'm not sure that's the best way to approach it. I truly believe that it's one of those things that can be a life-saver for some children, and not worth the risk for others. The most important factor is to weigh the pros and cons (and to realize that there are some hefty "cons" involved) and then see where you are at.
I feel like this is something that gets very misunderstood about melatonin. People hear the term "natural," and they jump on board without any further information. The fact is, natural doesn't always mean safe.
Don't get me wrong: I am a super-crunchy, chemical-eliminating, make-your-own-soap type of person. But guess what? Poison Ivy is natural, folks. Not saying that melatonin or poison ivy have anything in common, just saying that we need to understand what we are using or putting in our bodies.
Fact: If you give your child melatonin, you are giving them hormone therapy. Does that scare you a little?! It certainly scared me! Melatonin is a hormone secreted by your pineal gland in accordance with your circadian rhythms. That is a fancy way of saying that your body releases a surge of it approximately half an hour before you go to bed to help you fall asleep.
The melatonin you buy at the store has been synthesized in a lab. Just like when your body naturally releases melatonin, there is a chemical reaction that affects other hormones in your body. The fear with this is that you will be disrupting the hormones in your child's body and there is some evidence that this could cause hormone-related issues down the road.
On the flip side of the coin, there are some children (particularly with neurological disorders like autism or Sensory Processing Disorder) whose bodies do not produce enough melatonin on their own. Children who are not actually getting enough sleep face a host of other health problems, not to mention the havoc that sleepless nights can wreck on a whole family. In these instances, the short and long-term benefits of sleep can easily outweigh the potential for long-term hormone disruption.
Okay, this is kind of a controversial statement to make, so let me clarify. There is currently no proof that you can become dependent on melatonin, and it is widely regarded as non-addictive.
However, there are many instances where, for whatever reason, a child cannot fall asleep without it once they have started taking it. This has been our personal experience with melatonin. I give it to my daughter for nap time, because she has never been able to take naps due to a deficiency in her melatonin production.
Pre-melatonin, she would go weeks without napping, and when she did nap, it would be a light sleep that was not very restful. I would say the odds of her taking a nap on any given day were 1 in 5. With melatonin, she sleeps the appropriate amount of time, and wakes up much happier, because she is well rested. However, if I don't give her melatonin, the odds of her napping are now are about 1 in 15.
Certainly, there is always the possibility of psychological addiction. Children are especially sensitive to this type of dependence. They see mommy giving them a pill every night to go to sleep, so they believe they must have it to sleep.
We have been very careful to avoid letting our daughter know that she is taking medicine, and we certainly don't tell her it will help her sleep. She just thinks she is getting a little "treat" at the end of her lunch, and we also don't have issues with her asking for it at other times of the day.
Again, there isn't medical proof that melatonin is addictive, yet based on personal experience and the experience of others, there seems to be some evidence that it might cause dependency if taken for an extended period of time.
I hate to be a bubble-popper, I really do, but melatonin is not always going to be the answer to your child's sleeping issues. For one, melatonin only helps you fall asleep, it doesn't help you stay asleep. If your child struggles to stay asleep–for whatever reason–melatonin can't help with that.
If your child isn't staying in bed for behavioral reasons (like the fact that they are a toddler and toddlers make us want to pull our hair out when they won't stay in bed!!) melatonin could be a dangerous road to travel down. It might be the equivalent of putting a band-aid over something that needs stitches. Even if it fixes the problem short-term, it's going to do a pretty crummy job of it.
Can I suggest a book that, at the risk of overstating things, may just save your life? It's called Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition: A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night's Sleep. When my daughter was only just a few months old and having sleep issues like you wouldn't believe, a family member recommended this to me and I devoured it.
This book is just full of helpful information. No matter where you are, I suggest reading this before giving your child melatonin. It will teach you step-by-step how to build a strong bedtime routine and it has plenty of age-specific advice.
Working through this book answered several of my questions and helped me realize that there was something more going on with my child's sleep than a bedtime routine and various strategies could overcome. If you make it through this book and still don't have a child that sleeps, melatonin might just be the answer for you.
Okay, I know I just gave you all a lot of information to digest! So, who is the best person to decide whether or not you should give melatonin to your child?
A parent who has done research, is informed, and has talked it over with their pediatrician, is the absolute best person to decide. If this post taught you a bunch of scary new things that you didn't know about melatonin, maybe take a little bit longer to process and research before pulling the trigger.
If you read it and said, "Yes, Megan, I know all of this, but I still don't think I have any other choice!" then guess what? You need to trust your gut. You know your child and you know what works and what doesn't. Compared to the various other scary-dangerous sleep drug alternatives, melatonin is a pretty "safe" bet.
If anyone is curious, the type of melatonin we get and have been very happy with is Zarbee's Naturals Children's Sleep, 30 count . Our daughter loves the purple flavor and they are easy enough to break in half, if you'd like to start your child with a super-small dose! That is what we do and have found it is perfect for her.
So I'm curious, what do you guys think? Any fellow melatonin users that want to weigh in?
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"The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone."
- Mark 12:10
Like many of you, I was first introduced to Roosevelt Jamison in the pages of Peter Guralnick's seminal Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm & Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom. The story of him working with Gospel groups in a back room at the Blood Bank where he worked, of his cutting a few raw demo tapes of songs he had written with a couple of those singers, and knocking on the door of Goldwax owner Quinton Claunch in the middle of the night with those singers (who just happened to be O.V. Wright and James Carr) in tow, and changing the course of history in the process... the tale of this visionary poet who may just have written the greatest Love Song of all time going on to become Carr's manager, confidant and, in many ways, soul-mate, helped me to understand the importance of this man in the history of this music. It is hard to imagine Memphis Soul without him.
When Preston Lauterbach and I started up the O.V. Wright Memorial Fund in 2008, we went out of our way to find Roosevelt and bring him on board with Willie Mitchell and the rest of the crew. Once we finally tracked him down, he agreed to come have breakfast with me and talk things over. As he began to speak of those days, of James Carr showing up on his doorstep broke and hungry, and quite literally out of his mind, he broke down and started to cry at the memory of it. This was the first time I had met him, and I began to truly understand the depth of spirit and emotion that this man, and the music he created, brought to this world of ours. From that moment on, I became his biggest fan.
As part of the festivities in Memphis surrounding the O.V. Wright Memorial Dedication, I had arranged for a luncheon at the Rendezvous that would bring Roosevelt and Quinton Claunch back together, just like the night they had spent on the living room floor listening to those tapes all those years ago. As it turned out, Quinton wasn't feeling up to it, but Roosevelt came and introduced everyone to his wonderful wife Linda, who was kind enough to have made these beautiful keepsake laminated bookmarks for the occasion, emblazoned with the lyrics of Jamison's song of songs... all of us who were lucky enough to be there that day will treasure them forever.
I kept in touch with Roosevelt over the years, and we talked often of those days. Here was a man who had been there and back, and had the stories to prove it. In the summer of 2011, he was diagnosed with Brain Cancer and, although he was weak, he would still answer my call and speak with me from his hospital bed. Miraculously, Roosevelt got up out of that bed, and the cancer seemed to go into remission. That Fall, he would receive a 'Note' on Beale Street, and be honored by the City of Memphis by re-naming the street where he lived 'Roosevelt Jamison Road'. He was finally getting some home-town recognition... but, sadly, the Cancer had returned. When John Broven and I got into town on the Road Trip last August, Roosevelt was the first person I called. He and Linda were kind enough to invite us out to the house and, although things didn't look good at first, with Linda's help we were finally able to make it happen...
...that luncheon with Quinton and Roosevelt we had been angling for all along. It was truly a privilege and an honor to have been able to bring these two historic figures back together one last time.
I will never forget it.
As I drove Roosevelt home from the restaurant that afternoon, somehow I knew it would be the last time I would ever see him... I told him that no matter what happened, he had written a song that will live on forever. Tears filled both of our eyes, as he turned to me and answered, "I know it."
That's How Strong My Love Is
O.V. WRIGHT REMEMBERED
O.V. Wright - Giant Of Southern Soul is, quite simply, the most comprehensive and in-depth article ever written about O.V.'s life and times. It first appeared in Juke Blues Magazine in the Spring of 2000, and has now been made available here, for the first time on the internet, with the gracious permission of the author, Ray Ellis.
Along with some thirty audio tracks, the article appears in two installments:
PART ONE: FROM GOSPEL TO SOUL TO GOSPEL
PART TWO: PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT
Considered by many to be the greatest soul singer that ever lived, O.V. Wright died tragically in the back of an ambulance on November 16, 1980.
He had been lying in an unmarked grave ever since.
The O.V. Wright Memorial Fund was formed earlier this year, and collected donations from people around the globe who joined together to help place a monument at his final resting place in Memphis.
We were able to raise over $2000, and dedicated the headstone selected by his family on the twenty eighth anniversary of his death - Sunday, November 16th, 2008.
As part of a weekend long tribute to O.V., we put together a series of other events to co-incide with the dedication ceremony, as outlined above.
The concert on November 15th served as the inaugural fundraiser for a new organization called The Soul of Memphis Foundation which, as an outgrowth of the Memorial Fund, will strive to continue the work we've started here together.
Our purpose from the beginning has been to help preserve the legacy of Memphis Soul by honoring the past and doing our part to preserve its rich history for future generations.
The incredible outpouring of love that we received from the soul community down in Memphis let us know that we are on the right track.
Please consider making a donation to this worthy cause.
Together we can do anything!
THAT'S HOW STRONG OUR LOVE IS
OUR WEEKEND IN MEMPHIS
As you may know, the Memorial Fund sponsored a series of events leading up to the dedication of O.V.'s monument on November 16th. Folks flew in from all over the world to be a part of it.
Our kickoff event was a tour of the venerable Royal Studio, the place where O.V. recorded all that soul, where we got to hang out with his producer, the one and only Willie Mitchell. Despite continuing health problems related to the broken ankle he suffered in February, Willie welcomed us with open arms. The tour was led by his grandson Boo, who showed us around the still operating studio, which remains exactly the same as it ever was. Very cool indeed.
Although 88 year old Quinton Claunch was unable to make it, Roosevelt Jamison and his lovely wife Linda were our guests at the Goldwax Rendezvous luncheon the following afternoon. Roosevelt shared his memories of those days at the Blood Bank with O.V. and James Carr, and gave us a taste of his beautiful poetry. The laminated bookmarks Linda made up for everybody are just awesome!
Next up was our after hours tour of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, where media director Tim Sampson was kind enough to let us roam around and check everything out. A truly amazing place, even those of us who had been there before found something new and exciting... like the O.V. album they have displayed as part of their Goldwax exhibit. A great time was had by all.
The crowd was buzzing at the Ground Zero as we packed the house for our O.V. Wright Night benefit concert on Saturday night. It seemed like the whole town was on its ear, as both WDIA and WRBO did their best to spread the word that this was definitely the place you wanted to be. It felt like a great big reunion, as members of O.V.'s family connected with people they hadn't seen in years, like the 1956 class O.V. graduated with from Mt. Pisgah High School.
It felt like a reunion up there on stage as well, as Hi Rhythm kicked it off joined by a veteran horn section led by none other than 'Mister Last Night' himself, Floyd Newman. O.V.'s son Overton DeWayne wowed the crowd with Don't Let My Baby Ride, before Hi vocalist Percy Wiggins took over the microphone and brought it on home with songs like The Bottom Line, You're Gonna Make Me Cry and Lost In The Shuffle.
Next up, Otis Clay showed why he's one of the most respected soul singers ever, laying it all out on smoking versions of songs like Blind, Crippled and Crazy and A Nickel and a Nail, then holding the crowd in the palm of his hand during deep numbers like When You Took Your Love From Me. Otis' impassioned vocals gave way to Charles Hodges' incredible solo during Precious, Precious, and together they just brought down the house!
Perhaps the most moving moment of the whole evening, however, was when special guests The Masqueraders took the stage and performed a stirring rendition of The Old Rugged Cross. We had us some Church up in there, folks, let me tell ya. One of the most under-rated vocal groups of all time, these guys can really sing. There wasn't a dry eye in the place!
Otis, Percy and Overton closed out the show harmonizing together on Love and Happiness and I Wanna Testify, with the crowd swaying together as one. As more than one person in the house told me that night, 'it felt like coming home.'
Sunday, November 16th was the 28th anniversary of O.V.'s passing, and we gathered out at the Galilee Memorial Gardens to dedicate his new monument together. With his extended family all around us, this represented the culmination of the Memorial Fund's efforts, as we paid tribute to this great man. The star of the entire weekend was, without any doubt, O.V.'s older sister, Ada, who told us of her enduring love for her 'singing baby' of a brother. It is a love that will live on forever, a love she was willing to share with those of us lucky enough to have been there in that special place with her.
After Ada's son Elder Eric McCreight spoke about 'the stone that the builders rejected', and Reverend Charles Hodges told of how O.V. influenced his own spiritual journey, O.V.'s two sons shared the love they had for their father with us. As Overton DeWayne sang Amazing Grace in a voice eerily reminiscent of his father's, O.V.'s spirit soared there amongst us as we joined him in song...
All of O.V.'s beloved family, The Mitchell family, The Hodges family, The Grimes family, The Wiggins family, Archie Turner, Otis Clay, The Jamisons, The Masqueraders, Floyd Newman, Mickey Gregory, Tommy Lee Williams, Darryl Carter, Quinton Claunch, Tim Sampson, Al Davis, Morgan Freeman, Bill Luckett, Roger Stolle, Don Wilson, Jud Phillips, Hi Records, Chris Kourdevellis, The Memphis & Shelby County Music Commission, The Memphis Convention & Visitor's Bureau, WDIA, WRBO, Bob Mehr, Jesse Drucker, Andria Lisle, Ira Padnos, The Memphis Flyer, Monica Jackson, The Doubletree Memphis Downtown, Pop Tunes, Shangri-La Records, Jared McStay, Eric Hermeyer, Paul Pollman, Hot Graphics, The Mt. Pisgah Alumni Association, Julius Bradley, Chase Thompson, Charles Paige, Coffee Al, and everyone who cared enough to come to the concert or become a member of the team.
Please click here to view a photo gallery and slideshow of pictures taken by our team members.
Please click here to view some video taken over the course of our tribute weekend, as well as some vintage footage of O.V.
Please visit our new guestbook page and tell the world all about it!
Our big weekend in Memphis made a little noise in the press:
Tribute Weekend Gives Soul Singer O.V. Wright Overdue Recognition - by Bob Mehr in the Commercial Appeal.
Tribute to a Tortured Soul Singer - by Jesse Drucker in the Wall Street Journal.
AT LONG LAST
Considered by many to be O.V. Wright's best album, the long out of print Memphis Unlimited has been released on CD for the first time ever by the good people at Reel Music.
With a beautiful 16 page booklet featuring liner notes written by team member John Ridley, and an excellent job of digital re-mastering from the original analog tapes, this package is truly a labor of love:
By the time Memphis Unlimited was released in 1973, O. V. Wright had been a star in the ghetto for almost a decade. His searing, uncompromising vocals had featured on 10 R&B hits and his Back Beat label had issued four previous LPs - an excellent run of both artistic and commercial success. But this new album was different from its predecessors. It was the first time that Wright had recorded an LP as an entity, rather than had one released as a collection of tracks already in the can - and the difference is marked. Memphis Unlimited has a coherence that his other LPs lack and has no fillers to detract from the quality.
Wright's long time producer Willie Mitchell was currently the hottest studio man in the South, fresh from multi million sellers on Al Green, and the fabled Hi Sound he developed was now a mature and fully acknowledged musical achievement. Wright himself was at the height of his formidable vocal powers, scorching on the ballads that were his trademark, swinging on the dance cuts. That combination makes this album the most accessible and commercial of all of Wright's Back Beat sets without any compromises at all to his traditional strengths. It remains one of the key Southern Soul albums and its re-release here is long overdue. O. V. Wright - the Boss of Southern Soul at his very best.
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Now available at Dusty Groove for only $10.99, this is one purchase you really need to make.
THE O.V. WRIGHT MEMORIAL FUND TEAM:
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Ricky Stevens
Brian Poust
Gary Sutcliffe
Gerrit Robs
Raymond Gavin Newe
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John Glassburner
David Batten
Kevin Kiley
Guy Wilmot
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Jyrki Ilva
Oliver MacDonald
Piet Hoens
Barry Fowden
William Mullins
Soulbag Magazine
Thomas Hyslop Jr
Blue Soul Records
Paul Mooney
Marcus Forrest
Derek Jack
Lydia Hurford
Stefan Tijs
Michael Connolly
Geoffrey Johnson
Paul Mullen
Karl Fluch
Rudolf Klein
Telasource
Sylvester Sartor
Heather Bennett
Andrew Owens
Kenneth Murphy
Lyle Nyberg
Shaun Irving
Michael Landzelius
Ruth Sproull
Jim Payne
Red Kelly
Cies de Theye
Kevin Briscoe
Frederic Adrian
Bo Carlsson
Gregg Levethan
Floris Cooman
Sean Hampsey
Alan Shellard
Michael Finbow
David Mackey
John Lias
Barbara O'Keefe
Eric Karten
Erik Arne Forsell
Heikki Suosalo
Richard Hebden
Cherrie Holden
Bill Cornell
Jo Springthorpe
Loretta James
Tony Rounce
Andrew Gohman
Kushaan Sengupta
Lucky 13 Lounge, London
Mark Koomey
Samir Koeck
Steve Longworth
Emmanuel Darnet
Anne-Marie Esteves
Johnny Spencer
Debbie Daughtry
Paul Pollman
Thomas Shaker
Marcel Benedit
ABS Magazine
Alejandro Subinas
John Poole
Jeremy Pender
ARTICLES BY TEAM MEMBERS:
Una Lapida Para O.V. Wright
by Alejandro Subinas at Soul Portrait
A Nickel and a Nail
by Raymond Gavin Newe at Testify
by Reverend Billy Wirtz, as originally published in Blueswax
We welcome any and all contributions. Submit yours today!
As you may have noticed, we recently added audio to our site. If you click on any of those little 'play' buttons underneath the label scans on the right, it opens up an audio player that allows you to listen to the rest of the 45s as well.
As always, clicking on any of the singles takes you to a page where you can read what Red Kelly had to say about them.
I've Been Searching
I Was Born All Over
I Want Everyone To Know
I'd Rather Be Blind...
You're Gonna Make Me Cry
I'm Going Home (To Live With God)
Ace Of Spade
The Time We Have
There Goes My Used To Be
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Experts: Shark Week's 'Zombie Sharks' harasses animals
By David Shiffman August 11 2014
Marine biologists and shark conservationists are concerned and confused by an upcoming Shark Week special. Entitled Zombie Sharks, it focuses on a physiological state called tonic immobility. Essentially, tonic immobility occurs when sharks that are flipped onto their backs go into a catatonic state, and it is used by researchers and aquarium veterinarians to safely study sharks. In Zombie Sharks, however, a SCUBA diver will attempt to become "the first person to induce underwater tonic immobility in a massive great white shark". Experts are asking a very important question about this plan to flip over a free-swimming great white shark: Why?
In this screenshot taken from "Zombie Sharks" a diver puts a reef shark into tonic immobility by overstimulating the electrical sensors in its nose.
Dr. Edd Brooks, the manager of the shark research program at the Cape Eleuthera Institute, explains: "[Tonic immobility] is triggered by capture or restraint. It occurs after neither fight nor flight has worked and is designed to maximise the probability of surviving capture by a predator. To anthropomorphise it, it is the point where you know you cannot get away and fighting harder will only burn more energy and/or cause more injury, so you wait it out for another chance to escape."
Although Shark Week claims that tonic immobility is unique to sharks, Dr. Brooks points out that it has been seen in several other animals, including chickens and even humans who have been the victims of rape or other trauma. "In humans it has been described as the out-of-body 'it felt like it was happening to someone else' experience," he says.
"Experts are asking a very important question about the plan to flip over a free-swimming great white shark: Why?"
Researchers are sceptical about the educational or scientific value of flipping over a large shark underwater. The premise of the show is to duplicate the behaviour of orca whales flipping over great whites, but this has been known to scientists for at least 15 years. The description of Zombie Sharks correctly notes that scientists have been studying tonic immobility for years, and have studied it in many other species.
"I certainly don't see the scientific value," says Dr. John Mandelman, the Director of Research at New England Aquarium. "Why do they need to confirm this other than to mess with a white shark for the sake of messing with a white shark?" Marine biologist Ivy Barremore, technical coordinator for the Mar Alliance, agrees. "It might be good TV, but it wouldn't be good for anything else, including the shark," she notes.
Ocean conservationists are concerned that flipping over a free-swimming great white shark to see what happens is part of a growing trend of SCUBA divers harassing sharks, behaviour that Zombie Sharks host Eli Martinez has been criticized for participating in. "Tonic immobility is not something that should be used lightly on sharks," says Susana Navajas, the US coordinator for Shark Aid International. "[It] should only be performed on sharks when they're being studied scientifically or to help them. This kind of harassment of a protected species should not be allowed."
While research performed by Dr. Brooks and Dr. Mandleman has shown that tonic immobility is unlikely to have a lasting negative effect on the shark, there's simply no good reason for the events depicted in this show to occur.
David Shiffman
David Shiffman is a marine biologist studying shark ecology and conservation. Follow him on Twitter @whysharksmatter. VIEW more from this CONTRIBUTOR
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SCOTLAND boss Craig Levein kicked off with no strikers – and paid the price.
Levein left hot-shot Kenny Miller on the bench and gave QPR striker Jamie Mackie his debut out wide in a strange-looking 4-6-0 formation.
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Most I already knew, but a few surprises had me itching to dive back into Pandora as soon as I find the time.
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Date: December 7, 2019Author: bernatroig 1 Comment
Vikings depicts the life of the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok and the adventures of his numerous sons. They became key figures of kingdom-making in medieval England, France and Ireland. With their superior ships and their thirst for exploring, Northmen from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, spread from Russia to Canada, and altered the course of history. But what is real in the TV show? Let's explore it with Ragnar's curiosity and open-mindedness.
On the contrary, if you wish to read what Vikings got wrong, click here.
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1# Arm-rings
There's a very significant scene on the first episode, when Ragnar, Rollo and Bjorn travel to Kattegat, to attend the Thing, an assembly of free men. There, the Earl Haraldson gives Bjorn and another kiddo their first arm-ring, after swearing allegiance to him. We know Jarls and chieftains were called Ring-givers precisely because of giving such rewards to their household. On top of that, arm-rings were also a sign of wealth, ergo, of social status. Although we ignore the details of the ceremony to award arm-rings, it was a good choice of the scriptwriters to pull a scene.
Bracelets like this one, are amongst the most common items found in hoards of the Viking Age
2# The Viking ship
In the last moments of the first episode Ragnar and Floki test the latter's ship, which is implied to be the instrument that allows Ragnar to fulfil his dream of travelling west. The Viking ships were the key to understand their potential to travel to distant shores, and their overwhelming speed when attacking. The vessels were extremely well-built, shallow (they could navigate within barely meter-deep waters), narrow, and slender. On top of that, their lightness allowed men to drag them ashore and portage. In few words, they were years ahead of the naval technology of most of their European neighbours.
The Oseberg ship, found in Norway. It was the final resting place of two women, and is thought to had been built previous to 800
By Petter Ulleland. Source
And although the Vikings knew about Britain, and had already travelled west prior to Lindisfarne (793), the scene just attempts to explain the advantages of their ships to a modern audience, so I wouldn't understand it a blunder.
3# Sailing to Lindisfarne
The Lindisfarne raid in 793 marked the beginning of what we call Viking age, lasting until 1066 with the conquest of England, by William of Normandy, the descendant of the historical Rollo. Although there is no source mentioning Ragnar as the author of the Lindisfarne raid, in fact the Christian chronicles only dwell in the viciousness of the heathen demons, the TV show does a great job in portraying the attack.
Relatively undefended and isolated monasteries were an occurrence during the Middle Ages, and quickly became one of the Vikings preferred targets. Unabashed due to their heathen beliefs, the Northmen had no compunction in plundering the Church treasures and take monks as captives to sell. Although we only know because of chronicles written by churchmen (and thus biased), it's easy to imagine these heathen warriors killing the pious (and rich) servants of god without fear of divine retribution.
4# How to fight like a Viking
Although not invented and neither solely used by them, shield wall tactics were a must in their arsenal. It consisted in a wall of shields, rims overlapped together, the second rank protecting the front rank's exposed heads with their shields in turn. The shield wall worked as one man pushing against the enemy, who often adopted the same tactic. 1 vs 1 battles seldom took place, and the victor was decided through the shield wall. The first to break, was the first to die or run.
A very interesting detail the TV show highlights, is how the Vikings used their axes to hook and pull their opponents. A tactic now believed to have been genuine, and very deadly.
5# Target for archery
In several scenes the Vikings are shown as, not only slaughtering priests in very creative ways, but also taking immense pleasure from it. One of the most foretelling scenes, although probably unnoticed to many, is the particular way in which they kill a bishop during the third episode of second season. King Horik, then Ragnar's ally, strips and ties the naked bishop to a column, and he and his men use him as target for archery. This peculiar execution technique was allegedly used by Ragnar's sons in 869, to finish off King Edmund of East Anglia (later revered as Saint Edmund the Martyr), when he refused Ivar the Boneless and Ubba's demand to renounce Christ.
Although this scene belongs to the The Last Kingdom (another great TV show about the Vikings), it depicts the death of Edmund at the hands of Ubba
Killing priests for sport might also have a less banal explanation, which is that Charlemagne, Emperor of the Carolingian Empire, forced conversion on many pagans upon penalty of death. This bloody encroachment on their beliefs, might have incited the Northmen to be especially brutal against Christian priests.
6# Human sacrifices
Uppsala was said to be the location of a great heathen temple, the Temple of Uppsala. In the end of the first season, Ragnar, his family, and followers, travel to Uppsala, to a festivity happening every nine years. The temple and the ceremonies that were performed there are detailed in some Christian Chronicles (of course), especially the gore details related to human sacrifice.
Be as it might be, the TV show makes an excellent job in detailing the divine character that sacrifices had for the Vikings, and masterminds one of the darkest, yet mesmerising scenes, that a show about the intrepid Northmen has ever gave us. But if you want to learn more about Uppsala Temple you should read this article which deals specifically with it, here.
7# Sons of Ragnar
The strong Bjorn, the handsome Ubba, the lost Hvitserk, and the ruthless and crazy Ivar. It seems they were real, or at least they are mentioned in more than one historical source. Amongst many other offspring with several different wives (Ragnar had a hell of a time when not raiding), our legendary hero fathered several famous Vikings who would surpass his exploits. His offspring are his biggest legacy, and the show latest seasons nails it by highlighting Bjorn and Ivar's deeds.
8# Great Heathen Army
In 865, a great army of Danes, led by Ivar, Ubba, Hvitserk and Bjorn, invaded Saxon Britain. According to legend, they sought the death of King Ælla of Northumbria, who had killed their father, and they assembled the biggest Viking army ever to humiliate the bastard.
However, it is doubtless that thousands of Danes crossed the sea exclusively in a mission of noble filial duty. Taking lands and plunder must have been in their immediate agenda too. But could Ragnar's death had been the catalyst? We will never know, but the show limited itself to depict the general belief, and it seems the Vikings were indeed lead by Ragnar's sons, so why not?
The Anglo-Saxon chronicle mentions the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok carrying the Raven Banner. Could it had been their family symbol? Their main god, Odin, was associated with ravens after all
By Skydrake. Source
9# Iceland and Floki
The crazy, giggling Floki, who after his wife's death become a sort of spiritual guru and accidentally discovered Iceland, in the fifth season. He proceeds to trick honest, hard-working folk, with promises of rich and fertile land. His silver tongue earns him the gang's loyalty, until they reach Iceland, and see that indeed, there's plenty of ice. But how true is this tale of Iceland's discovery? Actually, quite a lot.
The true Floki was called Flóki Vilgerðarson, also known as Hrafna-Flóki (Raven-Floki).He was a Norseman who went in search of Iceland. The mysterious island had been previously discovered, and partially explored by two other Norsemen, but it was Flóki who overwintered there, and after observing drift ice in the fjord, named the new land Ísland (Iceland).
He and his pals returned to Norway and when asked about it, Flóki used to reply: nah, not the holidays I expected. One of five stars. Ironically enough, he returned to live and die there. The sour disappointment of Vikings Floki after his failed experiment on Paradise Island, resonates well with the real Flóki.
10# Ragnar's death
The death of a main character always comes as a shock for everybody (except in Game of Thrones), and when our favourite Viking was (SPOILERS COMING!) thrown into a pit of somewhat hostile snakes, by King Ælla, tears were shed and vows of revenge were made by the heartbroken fans.
The real Ragnar was allegedly killed by such a pioneering execution method, so of course Vikings only followed the script. However, many sensible historians question why Ælla would scour the whole Britain, to find its few poisonous snakes and chuck them in a hole, just to kill a single man? I mean, didn't he have more important stuff to do, a kingdom to rule, for example?
The Vipera Berus, or common European Adder, is the only native species of poisonous snake in the UK. Probably one of the little bastards that killed Ragnar
By Thomas Brown. Source
And don't forget to watch the last season of Vikings, featuring the Rus', the forefathers of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus! It features Prince Oleg, one of the main characters of my novel about the Rus', a tale about the Swedish Vikings who established their own kingdom far from their native Scandinavia. More information coming soon!
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Imperial received the award for its video about an app that was created by its patient engagement group. The app assisted patients and their caregivers participating in an international Alzheimer's disease clinical research trial. The 90-second video, designed for clinical trial managers at pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations, promoted the app and Imperial's app creation abilities.
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