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"Fly from Here" is a set of songs by progressive rock band Yes from their 2011 album Fly from Here  and its 2018 remixed edition Fly from Here – Return Trip. With a complete length of 23 minutes and 49 seconds, the original version of "Fly from Here" is the longest composition ever released by Yes, beating "The Solution" by two seconds, while the Return Trip re-recording is 21 minutes and 31 seconds long.

"Fly From Here" is split into six parts, consisting of the first tracks of the album: "Overture", "We Can Fly", "Sad Night at the Airfield", "Madman at the Screens", "Bumpy Ride" and "We Can Fly (Reprise)". Being the first recording of the album, it is the first Yes work to feature singer Benoît David.

The basis of the hexalogy was a demo originally recorded by Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn of The Buggles before they joined Yes in 1980, and it was the first song to be rehearsed by the new line-up, despite which it was never officially recorded by the band in a studio, although it was played several times live by the band in the 1980-81 Drama World Tour. After Yes disbanded in 1981, Horn and Downes recorded a second demo (published as bonus tracks in the 2010 release of Buggles' 1981 second album "Adventures in Modern Recording"), and both recordings became the foundation of the tracks "We Can Fly" and "Sad Night at the Airfield". A demo of "Madman at the Screens" was also written but it was never released. Chris Squire called it "the band's 11th epic-length piece, the first in 15 years".

Other releases
A single uniting "We Can Fly" and "We Can Fly (Reprise)" was released under the name "We Can Fly".

In 2016, new vocals for "Fly From Here" were recorded by Trevor Horn.  A new mix of the piece, using Horn's vocals instead of David's, was released on Fly from Here – Return Trip in 2018.

Personnel
Yes
 Benoît David – lead vocals (2011 edition)
 Chris Squire – bass, backing vocals
 Steve Howe – guitars, backing vocals
 Geoff Downes – keyboards
 Alan White – drums

Additional musicians
 Trevor Horn – lead vocals (2018 edition), backing vocals, additional keyboards, additional acoustic guitar on "Sad Night at the Airfield"
 Oliver Wakeman – additional keyboards on "We Can Fly" and "We Can Fly (Reprise)"

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References

Yes (band) songs
The Buggles songs
2011 songs
Song recordings produced by Trevor Horn
Songs written by Geoff Downes
Songs written by Trevor Horn
Songs written by Steve Howe (musician)
Songs written by Chris Squire

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What to know as the 134th Ohio General Assembly's legislative work ramps up When the Ohio House of Representatives' Republican Caucus recently announced its committee assignments, one members' name was noticeably absent: the former House speaker who is on trial for public corruption. Rep. Larry Householder is serving his third term in the 72nd District, […]
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When state Rep. John Becker's summer plan to impeach Gov. Mike DeWine received quick endorsements from three legislative colleagues, he hoped the momentum would snowball throughout the end of 2020. That did not happen. In social media posts and Statehouse speeches, Republican lawmakers have criticized the governor's handling of COVID-19. They've complained about a lack […]
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Back in June, 19 state legislators joined together to claim that "Ohio smashed the curve long ago. Mission accomplished!" Months later, as Ohio continues to set new records for COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, one of those legislators admits the pandemic has proved to be an "evolving situation." Another is doubling down on the letter's message […]
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Struggles with My Voice Lead to Fear and Anxiety
by Brianna Albers
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I have always struggled with my voice.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) causes muscle degeneration and weakness. In this case, it means that my voice is quiet. Soft. And not just my voice, either. People rarely notice when I sneeze, because it's such a tiny, forgettable sound. My laugh is practically silent. My mom claims she can tell when I find something uproariously funny — I don't cry with laughter or clutch my stomach, but I do make a sound, even if that sound is the gentlest of croaks.
I was in speech therapy as a child. I don't remember any of it, but I do remember the effect my voice had on my childhood. A lot of people in primary school — classmates, teachers, even paraprofessionals — had a hard time understanding me. I would be asked over and over again to say that again, please, sorry, I just didn't catch it, it's so loud in here. Here would be the cafeteria, the halls, the library. Sometimes people were so embarrassed that instead of asking me to repeat myself, they would just nod blankly. Or, I'd get uh-huh or yeah, for sure or definitely, which they considered to be relatively safe responses.
My voice became a great source of anxiety for me. You often hear people say they hate their voices, or that they can't stand to listen to themselves talk, but it was different for me. I sounded like a child. My words were blurry — slurred, almost. Talking in front of a group was embarrassing, which made school presentations difficult. Few people could understand what I was saying. I didn't understand the point of humiliating myself like that, and most of the time just opted for silence. I never raised my hand in class. I begged and pleaded my case managers to include some sort of presentation exemption in my individualized education program (IEP). I did whatever I could to avoid situations in which I might have to, heaven forbid, talk.
Part of it was adolescent melodrama. I freely admit that. But a lot of it was because of trauma. I can think of several situations that scarred me as a child. Reading a poem I wrote as an eighth-grader to an assembly of classmates and their parents, only to realize that no one understood a word of what I said. The applause was delayed, stilted, and accompanied by a ripple of confused looks. Speaking in front of my high school youth group, only to realize that, again, no one had understood a word. (My crush was in the audience that time. That was fun.) A few years later, when I shared my personal testimony in front of that same youth group, I decided to write the whole thing out beforehand and include a transcript as part of a PowerPoint that would be displayed behind me on the big screen.
It worked. The applause was genuine. But it didn't soften the humiliation. Why couldn't I have been like everyone else, I wondered, just once?
My speech has improved over the years. I almost sound normal. But I still get anxious about my voice, and I still carry all those traumatic experiences with me. It took me more than a year to get to a point of comfort with my Dungeons & Dragons group. I still have bad days, days where I hardly say a word. I'm incredibly uncomfortable around strangers and tend toward silence during group activities. It's not just the fear of being misunderstood; it's the exhaustion associated with screaming myself hoarse, all to be heard in a room full of people. It's dreading that blank stare, half-hearted nod — sorry, I just can't understand you.
An important part of the admissions process for the master's program I'm interested in is the faculty interview. This Wednesday, I will meet with someone in clinical mental health counseling, and, in many ways, my career depends on how it goes. My speech has improved over the years, but instant messaging platforms hardly do my voice justice. I'm worried they won't be able to understand me. I'm worried my anxiety will get the better of me. I'm worried my fear of embarrassment and humiliation will prevent me from doing my best.
I tell myself that if I was able to endure the entirety of middle school, I can do this. I have no choice. Like in primary school, there is only one way out: Get through it.
Note: SMA News Today is strictly a news and information website about the disease. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website. The opinions expressed in this column are not those of SMA News Today, or its parent company, BioNews Services, and are intended to spark discussion about issues pertaining to spinal muscular atrophy.
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MPs irate as regulators duck and weave on Apple Pay
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Jul 28, 2021 – 4.36pm
Irate members of a parliamentary committee worried about Apple and Google entering the financial system by stealth have likened the response of regulators to the infamously work-shy civil service mandarin of the British Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister television series of the 1980s.
MP Julian Hill described the regulators' appearance as "a Sir Humphrey moment", and other members of the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services expressed frustration as officials from Treasury and the regulators passed the buck around the room in a farcical session on Tuesday.
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The pointed reference to Sir Humphrey Appleby – the cynical mandarin who outwits his minister to shirk every conceivable task or responsibility – came after each of the bureaucrats had offered excuses for why they had not taken the lead in investigating the aggressive move of the digital platform giants into payments.
Treasury received a report on June 1 on potential reforms to the regulatory architecture of the payments system but this has not been released publicly.
Committee chairman Andrew Wallace chastised Treasury for not proactively assessing the risks of Apple and Google entering the payments system, after regulators showed confusion about who should be taking the lead. This came after Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn said more regulation was required to counter the rising power of Apple in payments.
The Reserve Bank, the primary payments system regulator, told the committee on Monday that Apple and Google fall outside the legal definition of a payments system. Its head of payments, Tony Richards, said this meant the RBA would not be able to lead any investigation on limits Apple puts on banks accessing the iPhone chips that make payments, which CBA argues limits the usefulness of bank apps.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission told the same committee on Tuesday that Apple's limitations on the near field communication (NFC) chips created competition concerns – but the terms of reference for its digital platforms inquiry excluded investigation of payments. Therefore, the ACCC had not conducted any deep dive on the NFC issue, despite this being the subject of ongoing investigations in Europe.
Because Apple Pay does not hold any customer funds (it merely facilitates transactions with bank cards on existing infrastructure), it does not fall under the regime for "stored value facilities", which has been reformed to be administered by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Furthermore, the ASIC e-payments code is voluntary, and Apple has not signed it.
Officials from APRA and ASIC told the committee they were waiting for the Treasury payments system review to be released to provide guidance on the direction they should be taking. Meanwhile, Treasury assistant secretary David Pearl said Treasury was aware of concerns about access to the NFC, but had not looked into the issue in any detail.
"The longer this inquiry goes, by the hour, I am becoming more and more concerned that Apple and Google are driving the bus and the government is missing in action and the gaps ... are so open it's like the Wild West for those companies to come in here and we are experiencing a moment of sovereign risk," committee member Deborah O'Neill told the officials.
"If Apple decided to do something, it doesn't look that they are captured in any way and this is very concerning to me. I ask my questions from increasing anxiety and it is become exacerbating, as we are not getting responses from you."
Andrew Wallace, chairman of the committee on financial services and corporations: "There are so many overlapping responsibilities ... that everyone seems to be missing it." Alex Ellinghausen
Mr Comyn said Apple should be designated as a payments system, which would regulate its fees and investment in the system, and growth in digital wallets made Apple an essential service. Banks are keen to avoid the experience of the media industry, where millions of dollars in advertising revenue was sucked out of Australian companies by Google and Facebook, leading to years of industry turmoil.
Mr Wallace warned Treasury to take a much more proactive approach to payments policy. "Because there is such market domination [by Apple and Google], can't you see there is a risk to the payments system down the track? Shoudn't Treasury be saying, 'Government, there is a real risk here'?" he said.
"We have so many regulators in this space, everyone seems to be looking at each other saying 'It's your responsibility, not ours' – and things don't seem to be getting the attention that Australians would expect them to be," Mr Wallace said.
"Is it a matter there are so many overlapping responsibilities, that with these issues of access to the NFC, disclosure of fees, and transparency for this digital wallet space, everyone seems to be missing it?"
Potentially serious competition issue
Another parliamentary committee, the Senate select committee on financial technology, in an interim report last September, called for "a clear, effective and accountable regulatory structure for all aspects of data management and privacy in the digital economy", after also identifying overlapping regulatory responsibilities.
The parliamentary joint committee is considering whether to recommend that Treasurer Josh Frydenberg widen the terms of reference of the ongoing digital platform services inquiry to ensure it includes payments.
Tom Leuner, the ACCC's head of mergers, exemptions and digital, said access to the NFC had the potential to be a serious competition issue.
But he said "we haven't done a deep dive into NFC, and part of [the reason for] that is the direction for the [digital platform] inquiry doesn't allow us to look specially at processing of payments or access to payment systems".
The ACCC examined the issue of limits on access to iPhone NFCs in 2016 and denied an application by CBA, Westpac, NAB and Bendigo Bank to collectively negotiate with Apple.
Payments consultant Lance Blockley, who advised the banks on that application, said the ACCC's rejection of the request in 2017 was a "missed opportunity to head off the current issues, but at the time, tap-and-go payments on mobile devices were minimal and nascent.
"But it would be hard for any bank to now drop Apple Pay from its offering, as there would be an enormous negative reaction from customers – this gives Apple remarkable leverage and pricing power," he said.
"By the time Apple Pay launched in Australia in late 2015, the local industry had spent nine years and significant investment in making contactless payments available at nearly all point-of-sale devices. Apple then charged a fee to the same banks for accessing their own investment."
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Q: How to remove object from object array by object key name? I want to be able to remove an object from this object array individually by its key name. So if I wanted to remove item1 I would call a function or something similar and it would remove it completely.
var list = [{item1: 'Foo'}, {item2: 'Bar'}];

removeObjectByKeyName(item1);

I expect the object array after deletion to be [{item2: 'Bar'}]
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

A: One option is using filter to filter the array element with no property name toRemove

var list = [{
  item1: 'Foo'
}, {
  item2: 'Bar'
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var toRemove = 'item1';
var result = list.filter(o => !(toRemove in o));

console.log(result);

With removeObjectByKeyName function. The first parameter is the key to remove and the second is the array.

let list = [{
  item1: 'Foo'
}, {
  item2: 'Bar'
}];

let removeObjectByKeyName = (k, a) => a.filter(o => !(k in o));

let result = removeObjectByKeyName('item1', list);

console.log(result);

A: this function will do what you need:
var list = [{item1: 'Foo'}, {item2: 'Bar'}];

function removeObjectByKeyName(list, key) {
  return list.filter(item => !Object.keys(item).find(k => k === key) )
}

removeObjectByKeyName(list, 'item1') // [{item2: 'Bar'}]

A: You can use filter and hasOwnProperty

var list = [{
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}, {
  item2: 'Bar'
}];

var toRemove = 'item1';
var result = list.filter(o => !o.hasOwnProperty(toRemove));

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Coppola's Cotton Club Encore Remakes American Entertainment
Gregory Hines
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American actor and dancer (1946-2003)
The Cotton Club Encore, Francis Ford Coppola's re-edit of his 1984 period movie musical and gangster film, debuted at the New York Film Festival. Encore, now eleven minutes longer, differs from the original film mostly in the way it preserves Coppola's early, unique depiction of American race culture. This version expands on the opening line of The Godfather: "I believe in America."
Coppola takes on the anthropological irony of a white-owned club in Harlem where blacks performed yet were not allowed to attend and mix with the segregated audience. Encore's opening scene shows a black doorman (played by Woody Strode, the legendary star of John Ford's race epic Sergeant Rutledge) refusing admission to a black woman who passes for white. (David Levering Lewis's When Harlem Was in Vogue recounts that even W. C. Handy was turned away.) Meanwhile, white musician Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) and black dancer Sandman Williams (Gregory Hines) partake of the establishment's ironic apartheid work policy.
This paradox at the core of the film's concept (juxtaposing white and black society) is responsible for its oddity and explains why it still doesn't work. Coppola hired New York folk-novelist William Kennedy to do a Ragtime-style adaptation, and though the story's biracial narrative predates the concept of "woke," it remains uneven. Encore exposes "wokeness" (self-satisfying social progress) as deeply delusional.
Encore distills American ambition through the violent and artistic contrasts of complementary brother duos (Gere and Nicolas Cage, Gregory and Maurice Hines) who take divergent paths toward power and self-realization.
Coppola's prismatic narrative reflects both Hollywood and New York history when Dixie becomes a George Raft–inspired film star and the Williams brothers evoke the Nicholas brothers. Behind-the-scenes gangster drama reflects the private struggles performed on stage by segregated performers who hide their anguish in art. Musical numbers by Lonette McKee and Diane Lane of "Am I Blue," "Ill Wind," and "Stormy Weather" recalled 1920s anxieties in the face of Reagan-era aspiration — now post-Obama disappointment.
The Encore re-edit underscores Coppola's unsentimental awareness of the complexities in American culture and the ambition of citizens confronting its system. He restores and lengthens certain scenes (a family dinner conflict, a romantic tiff, and an Apache dance) to emphasize ethnic and gender complexity — the same ingenuity that would later enrich The Godfather, Part III (1990) while disappointing some viewers.
Hollywood establishment figures don't get sufficient credit for their humanitarian screen efforts that are easily scoffed at as cornball. The Cotton Club was an experiment in commercialism and aesthetics that tested Hollywood's commitment to social consciousness. Coppola addresses racism in the aftermath of that stinging Godfather line about blacks ("Let them lose their souls, they're animals anyway"). It follows the alarming Do Long Bridge scene of Apocalypse Now where a troop of black soldiers are desperately, hopelessly lost in a quagmire — Coppola's daring metaphor for America's urban ghettoes.
It was commercial custom that forced Coppola to focus The Cotton Club on the white characters — Gere, Lane, the gangsters Dutch Schultz (ferocious James Remar), Owney Madden (Bob Hoskins), and Frenchy Demange (Fred Gwynne), the latter two depicted as a pair of brotherly cut-throat entrepreneurs. Coppola, who had directed the film version of the pioneering race musical Finian's Rainbow, attempts to correct the imbalance of this Robert Evans production by making the musical numbers Brechtian — as in the closing montage intercutting a Harlem stage performance. The contrast of the stage and the train station is an alienated (post-Cabaret) concept of entertainment, mixing multiple real and surreal leavetakings at Grand Central Station. This is the film's most successful experiment, but it would take Robert Altman's 1996 masterpiece Kansas City to get this all-American mayhem right.
Coppola shows off sex and race dynamics in scene's where Gere's and Lane's bodies are covered by a Bertoluccian lace scrim and a didactic speech by Harlem gangster Bumpy Johnson (Laurence Fishburne): "I ain't got to do nothin' but be black and die. The white man ain't left me nothin' out here . . . that is where I dance."
Encore is a social-consciousness musical, brought back to challenge an era in which social consciousness itself isn't enough.
Encore may outlast Coppola's recent statement siding with Martin Scorsese's critique of Marvel film culture: "When Martin Scorsese says that the Marvel pictures are not cinema, he's right because we expect to learn something from cinema, we expect to gain something, some enlightenment, some knowledge, some inspiration."
Testing the social meanings of film is something Marvel movies resolutely don't do. When Coppola says, "I don't know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie over and over again," he is also explaining his desire to make The Cotton Club relevant to a new millennium. Speaking from an outdated era, Coppola — joined so far by Ken Loach, Brian De Palma, Pedro Almodóvar, and Fernando Mierelles — supports Scorsese. Consider The Cotton Club Encore re-edit a defiant artistic stance.
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Arkhiv Iugo-Zapadnoi Rossii (Archive of Southwestern Russia). Published by the Kyiv Archeographic Commission in Kyiv in 1859–1914. The Arkhiv is divided into eight parts or series. The first part consists of twelve volumes of materials on the history of the church, edited by Orest Levytsky, Teofan Lebedyntsev, Serhii Ternovsky, Stepan Golubev, and Volodymyr Antonovych. The second part consists of eight volumes of documents pertaining to the nobility's self-rule and was edited by Mykola Ivanyshev, Ivan Kamanin, and Mykola V. Storozhenko (publ 1861–1910). The third part consists of six volumes of materials on the Cossacks and the Haidamaka uprisings, edited by V. Antonovych, I. Kamanin, and Nykandr Molchanovsky (publ 1863–1914). The fourth part, edited by V. Antonovych, is one volume (1867) of documents on the family histories of the nobility. The fifth part deals with towns and is in two volumes (1869–91), edited by V. Antonovych and I. Kamanin. The sixth part consists of two volumes (1870–6) of materials about the peasantry, edited by V. Antonovych and Ivan Novytsky. The seventh part deals with the colonization of Right-Bank Ukraine up to the end of the 17th century and consists of three volumes (1886–1905), edited by Mikhail Vladimirsky-Budanov. The eighth part consists of six volumes (1893–1911) of materials on the administration and internal affairs, edited by Mykhailo Hrushevsky, O. Levytsky, M. Vladimirsky-Budanov, and Mytrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky. I. Novytsky prepared an index of personal names (1878) and an index of geographical names (1883).
List of related links from Encyclopedia of Ukraine pointing to Arkhiv Iugo-Zapadnoi Rossii entry:
1 Antonovych, Volodymyr 2 Golubev, Stepan 3 Historiography of the Ukrainian church 4 Kamanin, Ivan 5 Kyiv Archeographic Commission 6 Lebedyntsev, Teofan 7 Literature studies 8 Mohyla, Petro 9 Molchanovsky, Nykandr 10 Nobility 11 Shcherbyna, Volodymyr 12 Southwestern land 13 Storozhenko, Mykola V. 14 Sweden 15 Ternovsky, Serhii 16 Vyshensky, Ivan 17 Znachko-Yavorsky, Melkhysedek


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JAMES, Samantha Lynn, 27, Prattville, AL, passed away on Saturday, March 20, 2021. The family will receive friends at Prattville Memorial on Friday evening, March 26, 2021 from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 27, 2021 from Prattville Memorial Chapel at 9:00 a.m. with Brother Ken Barnett officiating. Burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery with Prattville Memorial directing. Samantha was preceded in death by her grandfather-in-law, Jack Colson. She is survived by her loving husband, Jesse James; mother, Tammy and Brian Tindol; father, Mark and Amy Adams; brother, James Christopher Adams; father and mother-in-law, Dennis and Heather James; grandparents, Robert and Hazel Gilliland, James and Doris Adams, Sonny and Janet James and Linda Colson; extended family and many friends. Pallbearers will be Brian Gilliland, Tim Galloway, Tim Adams, Justin Payton, Mickey Adams and Chance Ellison. Flowers accepted or memorials may be made in her honor to your local animal shelter. In remembrance of her bright personality we ask everyone to wear a bright color.
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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it"*…
(Roughly) Daily has taken a look at the obscure corner of the U.S. Treasury once devoted (literally) to laundering money ("Cleanliness is Next to Godliness"); today we visit that operation's forensic cousin…
The colorfully named Mutilated Currency Division at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is a small office of crack forensics that spend their days poring over all manner of defaced dollars. Provided for free as a public service, the Mutilated Currency employees labor to identify bits and fragments of identifiable denominations that can be redeemed at face value.
Established by Congress in 1866—less than five years after the government started issuing paper money—the Mutilated Currency Division handles about 30,000 cases a year, returning currency valued at over $30 million. As long as more than half of the note remains, or the Treasury can be satisfied that the missing portions have been destroyed, the Mutilated Currency Division will redeem the amount of money that has been damaged by fire, water, chemicals, and acts of god…
Cash in your burnt, moldy, or soiled greenbacks at "The Mutilated Currency Division."
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As we take it to the bank, we might recall that it was on this date in 1928, after more than 130 years of trading, that the New York Stock Exchange finally had its first day on which more than 5 million shares trade hands, as total daily volume hit 5,252,425 shares. Just over a year later, on Black Tuesday, volume spiked to over 16 million shares… as traders dumped their holdings and the Wall Street Crash of 1929 began (presaging the Great Depression).
Average daily volume (over the last three months) on the NYSE today is 880,564,865 shares.
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I passionately love my job.
I've been a teacher for 20 years and I confess I've never done anything else (apart from a few temporary or part-time jobs ages ago). It won't be a surprise if I say that I don't dream of doing something different than teaching English - neither in the near nor the distant future. I suppose that's how many EFL teachers feel, at least those I've had the opportunity to encounter online or offline.
The thing is that presently the situation in the Czech Republic is not ideal as far as ELT jobs (or any teaching jobs) are concerned. I should stress that I don't live in a rural village but in a town with a population of about 17,000 people. There are three primary schools locally. The secondary school where I work is currently educating about 400 students. There are seven English teachers employed full-time, one English teacher who can't teach English, even though she would love to (there are no more lessons available). One of the seven teachers is (luckily) planning to start her maternity leave soon, which means more lessons for the rest of us next year. Yet, two more teachers will be made redundant due to the lack of students (hopefully not any English teachers). This is a worrying situation, in spite of the fact that there are some freelance job opportunities. But even these are becoming rarer.
Some days, when in low spirits, my close friend and colleague (female, single, childless, now in her 30s) seriously contemplates going abroad some day and she hopes she could teach English there. I've had to warn her, though. Even before reading Vedrana Vojkovic's or Ana Elisa Miranda's posts I was aware of the fact that being a fully qualified English teacher here in the Czech Republic doesn't necessarily mean that you will be regarded qualified abroad. What is worse, non-native speakers have a minuscule chance to do the job they've been trained to do outside their native country, even if they have a vast experience in teaching - their applications won't even be considered in most cases.
Another misfortune affecting teachers all over the country is the fact that many of them are considered unqualified, even though several years ago their qualification was fully sufficient. This is due to some recent education law changes. I find it really unfair that now, with the surplus of teachers, we are treated almost dismissively. I can still remember the days (about 10-15 years ago) when school principals were stopping me in the street offering me a job, which I had to keep refusing. I wasn't fully qualified back then but apparently it didn't matter - they desperately needed someone with some knowledge of English. At that time a lot of under-qualified English teachers were hired and cherished, to be later sternly asked to leave due to their insufficient qualification. Some argue that since then those teachers have undoubtedly had plenty of time to complete their education, but in effect many of them have meanwhile become busy parents who have to support their families. And while they might have had plenty of time, they might not have had plenty of opportunities - not all universities offer the right courses one needs to complete the qualification.
I was lucky; I got my MA degree two years ago, just in the nick of time - right before the proposed legal changes were about to get into motion. But even then I had to self fund my studies and beg and plead for days off work to be able to sit my exams (even our students normally get a day off when they are preparing for a regional competition, for example). Not to mention that I had to commute 100 km every week to attend the lessons, which obviously cost me a fortune. But I'm not complaining. It was worth it and I learnt a lot.
Nowadays I attend conferences, which I self fund as well, and I do everything in my power to become a better teacher. I listen to teachers from all over the world and hear that they face similar problems and joys (this is a post by @swanDOS, for example).
Finally, on a more materialistic note. They say I should never speak about the money I earn (because some might feel envious). Nonetheless, a teacher's average salary over here is 650 euros a month (this is not an official statistic; it's reality). I'm not complaining - I passionately love my job and I'm grateful for the opportunity to be there in the classroom every day. But I think at least I deserve some respect for what I do and for what I've been through.


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The new contactless passes are intended for motorists of foreign-registered vehicles to pay for their vehicle entry permit and toll charges at checkpoints.
According to channelnewsaisa.com, the new card may support other applications, such as public transport and contactless purchases, but LTA says it has not yet determined which features will be added to the card, if any at all.
The LTA says that current contact Autopass cards, of which there are about 40,000 in use, will still be accepted alongside the new contactless ones.


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Mary Kom wins gold medal in style ahead of World Championships
Mary Kom, who claimed her sixth world title last year in Delhi, will be looking to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the World Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
New Delhi: Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom claimed the gold medal without breaking a sweat in the 23rd President's Cup, asserting her supremacy in a lopsided 51 kg bout final in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia on Sunday. The Olympic bronze medallist boxer decimated Australian April Franks 5-0.
The 36-year-old Indian had also won a gold medal at the India Open boxing tournament in May but skipped the Asian Championships as part of a larger plan to enhance her chances of Olympic qualification.
The Asian Championship was held in Thailand in May.
Fresh from winning the gold at the India Open two months ago, Mary Kom participated in this prestigious tournament with the aim of testing herself and getting some much-needed bouts under the belt ahead of the World Championships.
Mary Kom, who claimed her sixth world title last year in Delhi, will be looking to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the World Championships in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Besides being an active and top-level boxer, she is a sitting Rajya Sabha MP.
"After 2020 I want to retire. So, my main mission is to get a gold for India. I really really want to win (gold)," Mary Kom had said on the sidelines of an event organised by Colgate.
Mary Kom won the bronze medal in the flyweight category at the 2012 London Olympics. She now aims to change the shade of her medal to gold. "I always try my best to give a medal to the country and if possible, a gold. I will be starting my preparation for the Olympic qualifiers and the World Championship. I want to win a gold medal this time," she had earlier mentioned.
After failing to qualify for the Rio Games, Mary Kom had changed her weight category to 48 kg in December 2016 but now the pugilist from Manipur is back to competing in the 51 kg. Asked about the transition, Mary Kom said: "51 kg category is not new for me. I was fighting in this category 4-5 years ago. It was not continuous because I kept changing my weight."
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Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwały 924 osoby, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 32 osób/km² (wśród 1467 gmin regionu Poitou-Charentes Clessé plasuje się na 338. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 188.).

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In case you didn't know, cascading bouquets are having a bit of a moment right now.
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Chen Group: Machine learning peeks into nano-aquariums
In the nanoworld, tiny particles such as proteins appear to dance as they transform and assemble to perform various tasks while suspended in a liquid. Recently developed methods have made it possible to watch and record these otherwise-elusive tiny motions, and researchers now take a step forward by developing a machine learning workflow to streamline the process.
Graduate student Zihao Ou, left, professor Qian Chen, center, and graduate student and lead author Lehan Yao. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
The new study, led by Qian Chen, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, builds upon her past work with liquid-phase electron microscopy and is published in the journal ACS Central Science.
Being able to see – and record – the motions of nanoparticles is essential for understanding a variety of engineering challenges. Liquid-phase electron microscopy, which allows researchers to watch nanoparticles interact inside tiny aquariumlike sample containers, is useful for research in medicine, energy and environmental sustainability and in fabrication of metamaterials, to name a few. However, it is difficult to interpret the dataset, the researchers said. The video files produced are large, filled with temporal and spatial information, and are noisy due to background signals – in other words, they require a lot of tedious image processing and analysis.
"Developing a method even to see these particles was a huge challenge," Chen said. "Figuring out how to efficiently get the useful data pieces from a sea of outliers and noise has become the new challenge."
To confront this problem, the team developed a machine learning workflow that is based upon an artificial neural network that mimics, in part, the learning potency of the human brain. The program builds off of an existing neural network, known as U-Net, that does not require handcrafted features or predetermined input and has yielded significant breakthroughs in identifying irregular cellular features using other types of microscopy, the study reports.
The schematic shows a simplified version of the steps taken by researchers to connect liquid-phase electron microscopy and machine learning to produce a streamlined data output that is less tedious to process than past methods. For more information, visit pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.0c00430. Graphic courtesy ACS and the Qian Chen group
"Our new program processed information for three types of nanoscale dynamics including motion, chemical reaction and self-assembly of nanoparticles," said lead author and graduate student Lehan Yao. "These represent the scenarios and challenges we have encountered in the analysis of liquid-phase electron microscopy videos."
The researchers collected measurements from approximately 300,000 pairs of interacting nanoparticles, the study reports.
Click here to see liquid-phase electron microscopy with combined machine learning in action.
As found in past studies by Chen's group, contrast continues to be a problem while imaging certain types of nanoparticles. In their experimental work, the team used particles made out of gold, which is easy to see with an electron microscope. However, particles with lower elemental or molecular weights like proteins, plastic polymers and other organic nanoparticles show very low contrast when viewed under an electron beam, Chen said.
"Biological applications, like the search for vaccines and drugs, underscore the urgency in our push to have our technique available for imaging biomolecules," she said. "There are critical nanoscale interactions between viruses and our immune systems, between the drugs and the immune system, and between the drug and the virus itself that must be understood. The fact that our new processing method allows us to extract information from samples as demonstrated here gets us ready for the next step of application and model systems."
The team has made the source code for the machine learning program used in this study publicly available through the supplemental information section of the new paper. "We feel that making the code available to other researchers can benefit the whole nanomaterials research community,"Chen said.
The graphic shows a simulated liquid-phase electron microscope image using precisely assembled triangular gold nanoparticles with edges approximately 115 nanometers in length. Graphic courtesy ACS and the Qian Chen group.
Chen also is affiliated with chemistry and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the U. of I.
The National Science Foundation and Air Force Office of Scientific Research supported this study.
Story by Lois Yoksoulian, U of I News Burea


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Sumbaviopsis is a genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1910.  It contains only one known species, Sumbaviopsis albicans, native to Yunnan, the eastern Himalayas, and Southeast Asia (Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines).

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Meet the voice artist behind some of the 90s most iconic cartoon characters
Published: Friday, 15 November 2019 4:43 PM GMT+11
Voice artist Rob Paulsen
Voice artist Rob Paulsen on his career.
Rob Paulsen is the voice actor behind some much-loved 90s cartoon characters including Pinky in Pinky and the Brain, Yakko in Animaniacs, Raphael in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series and Jimmy Neutron's best friend.
In the video above: Rob Paulsen on The Morning Show
But in February 2016, he was diagnosed with Stage 3 throat cancer. After undergoing treatment, his cancer is now in remission.
Now he hosts a podcast where he chats to other voice actors about their careers and has written the memoir Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life, which is out now.
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Palace Theatre Announces Two New Shows
Nick Offerman – comedian, actor, writer and woodworker, best known for his award-winning role as Ron Swanson on NBC-TV's hit comedy series "Parks & Recreation" – steps into the spotlight at Albany's Palace Theatre at 8pm on Friday, October 25.
He describes his show, "All Rise," as "an evening of deliberative talking and light dance that will compel you to chuckle whilst enjoining you to brandish a better side of humanity than the one to which we have grown accustomed. Genuflection optional: in my church, you kneel as you please!"
Priced at $42, $52 & $62, tickets go on sale to the general public at 10am on Friday (March 22).
Lookin' for more laughs? Also new on the Palace's concert calendar is the return of the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking funnyman Ron "Tater Salad" White, who will take the stage at 8pm on Friday, October 11. Priced at $49.75 & $59.75, tickets go on sale to the general public at 10am on Friday (March 22).
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Game Critique 3: Feed the Dingo
Mar 19, 2019·12 min read
Design of Educational Games: Game Critique 3
Feed the Dingo
Developer: PBS Kids
Platform: Browser (Flash)
High-Level Instructional Goal: Biology, Ecology
Feed the Dingo is a strategy game where the main objective is to keep an ecosystem alive for 12 days. The player is alloted 5 "moves" for each day, where they must choose from a set of desert plants and animals which organisms to place in the habitat. At the conclusion of each day, the player receives a report on which organisms have died, which are not healthy, and which are healthy. The player is only allotted a specific amount of each organism per game, so if a certain plant or animal continues to die off with each round, eventually the player will be unable to place more of them. Points are awarded to the player based on how many organisms are healthy at the end of each day, and those points are totaled into a high school at the end of the 12 days. This game is designed for classroom and educational use, so the score is designed to be put into the player's profile and/or shared with the teacher, so that players can compete with fellow players. The name, "Feed the Dingo," comes from the apex predator in this ecosystem, the Dingo, which is challenging to place in the habitat because it is a tertiary consumer. There is no time limit on this game (as I have had it running in the next tab continuously), but there is a limited number of days in which you can try to build an ecosystem that supports the dingo. Although you can still finish the game and gain points without the dingo, the ultimate objective if to involve him in the game. The constant challenge is figuring out how to properly allocate resources so that organisms along all three trophic levels stay healthy.
This game is part of a series put out by PBS Kids called "Plums Landing." This entire webpage is designed under the story of an alien organism, "Plum," who has crashed onto earth and is discovering this new planet –and it's many wonders!– for the first time. I think Plum's Landing is set up as an educational resource to use in the classroom or at home with parents, where students can remain in one place but play a multitude of games geared around science and biology learning. The target demographic for the entire "Plums Landing" collection of games is between grades 1–5.
Prior Knowledge:
Just to start playing this game, there is enough given information in the tutorial to start playing with little confusion. However, in order to succeed immediately, this game actually requires more prior knowledge than I expected. Although there is an introduction that shows the player how to place animals in the habitat and examine what type of resources they need, there is a fair amount of understanding of ecosystems and ecology needed in order to do well. For example, there needs to be a really high concentration of producers and primary consumers for even a single secondary consumer to exist in the habitat longer than a day, and that's something that I wouldn't have figured out quickly had I not remembered this from AP Biology in high school. However, this probably isn't required prior knowledge in order to play the game, since the player can figure this out after a couple rounds of play.
Likely to Learn:
Players will likely learn the plants and animals that each organism in this specific desert ecosystems require to survive (ie, Termites eat Spinifex grass, Desert Bloodwood trees, and Mulga Trees, the Thorny Devil eats the Ant). Because of the graphics and the auditory aides, there is an emphasis on learning and remembering the appearance and names of all elements of this desert ecosystem, so players will become experts on this material after a few rounds of play. Players will also likely pick up a better understanding of the basic mechanics of this game, including how to drag and drop different organisms into the space. The mechanics of the game are not very complicated and only require mouse function, so depending on the player's prior webgame experience there may not be any new skills learned here.
Transferable Knowledge and Skills:
The biggest piece of transferable knowledge is definitely the understanding of the balanced and interconnected nature of a desert ecosystem (and ideally, expand this knowledge to understand all ecosystems). I mentioned that this requires some prior knowledge about the balance of ecosystems in order to succeed initially, but if a player approaches the game without this knowledge, they will likely leave with a newfound understanding of the specific dynamics of an ecosystem in a way that simply reading in a textbook probably wouldn't as effectively communicate. Also, because there is a level of frustration and sadness when an animal won't survive in your habitat, players partake in a more visceral and emotional experience with this habitat that would ideally encourage the player to take part in conservation practices outside of the game. This isn't a very heavy theme in the game, but the overarching site "Plum's Landing" does have environmental conservation motives and this is one manifestation of it. Also, the challenge created in this game makes player aware of how fragile ecosystems are, adding to this encouragement for conservation efforts and just arming them with a better understanding of the intricacies of a thriving ecosystem, something that would most likely aid a student who was going to learn more complex biological themes later in their education. There is also the ultimate challenge of building as much biodiversity for as long as possible within the desert habitat, which ideally is transferable knowledge that can be applied when the player is examining a real world habitat and assessing whether or not it is healthy.
The player will also end up memorizing the very specific food and shelter needs of the animals in this game. They can most likely recite all of the animals that a dingo eats after a couple rounds of play, which could be applied to another project concerning this specific set of desert animals.
Mechanics, Dynamics, & Aesthetics
As I mentioned before, this game only requires mouse function in order to play, and runs relatively smoothly. There is a lot (a LOT) of audio support throughout the gameplay: the narrator explains the entire game in the beginning, reads the name of each organism outloud whenever the player clicks on it (even if they are using the animal that round), and announces which animals died and aren't doing well, urging the player that they "need food!" One main activity during the game is the ability to click on an information button above each organism, which shows the user the name and, importantly, what they eat. This is similar to the game Windfall that I analyzed last week, where you can conduct research on a specific plot of land in order to find out more about it's potential for generating energy. In the same way there is this exploratory element afforded by the mechanics that allows the player to customize their experience, which I think adds to amount of transferable knowledge gained.
Another significant mechanic is the fixed number of turns allowed to the player. There are only 12 days in the game and five moves allocated for each day, meaning that one of the main mechanics is simply dragging and dropping, waiting for the sun to set and receiving feedback on the health of the ecosystem, and then using that information to determine what five things are selected for the next day. The player also gets some freedom in the way they place the items in the desert space, which allows some customization but ultimately does not have a significant effect on the player's success.
Because this game is so simple (it is designed potentially for seven-year-old kids), there are not a lot of complex mechanics. As a college-level student, I got bored with the same basic mechanics after figuring out how to win the game, even though I was still struggling to actually create an ecosystem that supported an apex predator.
One other interesting dynamic, or lack of one: there is no tally of how many organisms exist in the desert space, only how many are left for you to use in the. They are rendered in the space, but players do not generally count them (especially the termites, because they are hard to see). This mechanic is designed to increase the amount of guesswork involved in the game (side note: I think this is to mimic the guesswork often conducted when scientists are trying to assess the biodiversity of an actual ecosystem)
Dynamics:
The main dynamic that dominates the game is this idea of survival and growth. In the first couple rounds as a player, there isn't a lot of understanding of how big of a toll one predator will have on another organism, so there is a lot of guessing and checking that results. Because there is no way to see how the organisms in the ecosystem interact with each other until the end of each day, the game requires a lot of reasoning based on what is already crawling around in the space and what creatures were reported unhealthy. There is a lot of guesswork specifically when trying to solve for one unhealthy or disappearing organism, such as the black ant: oftentimes in my experience, the ant would die when there was a disproportionate amount of predators, but the only way to solve this was to figure out what other organisms/plants it's main predators would eat, who else was eating them, and then asses whether there needed to be a tertiary predator introduced or more of the needed producer. This complex interaction is intensified by the limited amount of each organism alloted to the player per game (not day, but total). I found that I personally would often run out of the "Never-Fail grass" which is ironic. As the player continues, they learn that they recieve points for the number of species they have, not the number of organisms, so learning to increase biodiversity in the environment becomes a pretty immediate goal. There is this other dynamic of rationing turns on new species versus existing ones: often you need to add more of one species in order to keep others alive, but doing so sacrifices your opportunity to add a new species.
Aesthetics:
Feed the Dingo's main aesthetic is this idea of strategy and balance. The player essentially is "playing god" in that they have control over what animals exist where, and in turn these animals' lives are in their hands. The graphics in the game also promote emotional attachment to the organisms, so there's that aesthetic as well.
The player has a limited number of resources and a limited number of turns, and wants to include as many organisms as possible into their desert. There is a constant trial and error element, and often the player is left guessing and then doubting their decision because the needs of their ecosystem are purposefully vague. The player has to keep this internal tally of what they put in the environment and how much of it is there, since counting the organisms is exhausting. This tally, at least for me, adds an element of stress that results in a respect for the intricate natural workings of a real ecosystem.
Another key aesthetic is customization, and the limits of it. You have the opportunity to place plants wherever you want, and they remain there unless they die off. This allows the player to have ownership over this desert space, which in some ways adds to the emotional element because it allows the player to get attached. When dropping animals in, they immediately move around the space: the birds will nest in trees, the kangaroo jumps around and the ants, for some reason, like bolting off screen and making it challenging to find and count them later. However, the customization has no effect on the ultimate result of each day, and when I realized this I was less interested in that aspect of the game.
This was designed for grade school kids, so I remained relatively interested in this game after a couple plays, and stayed that way until I had mostly figured it out and then ultimately got bored with it. I think that any student over the age of 10 would probably experience a similar trajectory of play, since the mechanics of the game are not challenging to understand or particularly exciting to use, and there isn't an extremely addictive quality that would counteract it's simple nature.
Learning Principles:
Anchored learning I think is the most prominent learning principle. There are no fictional characters or made up rules. Their food and nesting needs are accurate to the actual species. Because the player id driven by this goal to win gain as many points as possible through biodiversity in their desert space, they learn that biodiversity means a healthy ecosystem not just because the gemae says so, but because actual animals that exist in the actual Australian desert are thriving because of the players own decisions. Again, this game is designed for younger kids so the terms are simplified, but the narrator makes sure to express when an organism is not doing well because it needs food, and then the player is tasked with identifying what type of food it needs, which again is entirely accurate to the actual species.
Temporal contiguity is also a prominent learning principle. I kind of felt like the game was really holding my hand as I played, but I can see how this would be helpful to kid playing who was still learning how to read, or needed some encouragement in order to continue exploring new organisms. Each organism is paired with an audio description of their name when the player clicks on them. You actually can't opt out of this experience unless all of the sound is muted, meaning that everytime you place a termite into the space, the narrator tells you exactly what that is and how to pronounce it. This is a good technique for combination visuals and audio in order to enforce memorization of these organisms and create transferable knowledge.
Another learning principle used is "Provide instruction in the problem-solving context" (from The Journal of the Learning Sciences). When an organism in reported unhealthy at then end of the day, auditory instruction in provided that the animal needs food. This feedback is curated so that it doesn't give away too much instruction, but alerts the player that this is the first problem-solving step in order to keep this animal alive. Also, if there is a period of inactivity longer than a minute, the narrator will chime in with instructional feedback on how to place organisms in the space, depending on how many are left. This allows a puzzled player to take immediate action and continue with the game, and most likely averts some players who would otherwise give up.
Synthesis and Critique:
Feed the Dingo is a simple game to understand, but especially considering it's target audience, it is effective in it's mission to educate the player on the mechanics behind a desert ecosystem. I think it balances the EDGE framework pretty well, although it is not dealing with really high level science that would make it more challenging to do so. The main learning objectives of understanding the balance and levels of an ecosystem and the name and survival needs of desert animals are accomplished, probably within the first round of gameplay and definitely by the third or fourth. There is a very simple set of dynamics involved, which I think is fitting since this game is simulating a phenomenon in nature that happens without human intervention, so allowing a complex interaction within an ecosystem would muddle the player's anchored learning. As I mentioned before, the game is animated and drawn in a cute, cartoony style, which when paired with the customization element of placing animals (which is nonessential to game outcome), encourages emotional attachment to the animals. This in turn relates to the ideas of transferring this understanding of the intricacies of an ecosystem into motivation for environmental conservation efforts outside of the game and in the player's own life.
I think Feed the Dingo is a solid educational game, but maybe so much so that when playing it, I really feel like the main intention isn't enjoyment but understanding of ecology. There is a simplicity that, while in some ways is elegant and practical for teaching first graders about the names of desert mice and grass, gets boring. I think the game lacks key terms that would really strengthen transferable knowledge beyond a vague understanding of an ecosystem to a concrete mental glossary the player could take away. I think that in order to really have the tool set to set out and further educate yourself about ecology, you would need terms like "keystone species" and "apex predator". I had to look them up to make sure I was using them correctly, as the game offers no keywords. It's nice to have an experience that isn't forcing instruction and memorization on the player, but I think this eats into the transferable knowledge.
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Believing that surroundings can influence one's health and mind, painter and physiotherapist Aase Birkhaug has combined her two passions by painting roses for a soothing effect. Having fallen in love with flowers, nature and painting from early age, it was only natural to merge these factors together at some point, and by combining the aesthetic beauty of botany with her skills as a painter. It is documented that colors have an effect on the sensory system, and some years ago I made the waiting room in my physiotherapy office into an exhibition for my paintings, so I discovered that it influenced the patient s mental state. My paintings are regularly described as very soft and mild. The color combinations I use are tastefully and delicately fused to make a motif that can be described as very soothing to the eye. I discovered several years ago that Roses have a positive effect on me, almost like healing, and the combination of the smell and the sight feels like a meditation, bringing about a certain calmness, this is something I try to reflect in my paintings. I do my paintings in different media: aquarelle, tempera, gouache, oil, acrylics and pastels. I have been drawing and painting since I was 6 years old. I have had exhibitions both in Norway and several country's abroad during the years 1990 – 2016. In my family we have several painters who have inspired my art work and inspired my painting and the paintings I have painted during the years of my painting career. To mention some names in my art family- Anna Sofie Brunchorst Ibsen who run the painting school in Bergen, Norway early in the 1900, Henrik Ibsen the famous poet, Harald Ibsen my grandfather, Borghild Ibsen my aunt and prof dr med Conrad Birkhaug, a very famous doctor working in USA for many years, a famous doctor and an artist - my father's uncle. I have attended art and painting classes during the years from I was 13 years old until this anno 2016.
• Online art Contest Artavita 2016 Certificate of Excellence 19th online art contest.
• Representations in Rose Associations and News Papers in Norway with articles and paintings.
• Represented in Healing Today UK – Article – Design – Roses and Healing.
• Invited by PAKS GALLERY and participating in the International Art Fair Caroussel de Louvre Paris 21-23 October 2016.
• Participating in Art Contest at Artslant round V June 2016.
• Invited by Artifact Gallery New York for a solo exhibition 2016.