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Charles Camoin (Marseille, 23 september 1879 – Parijs, 20 mei 1965) was een Franse kunstschilder die behoorde tot het fauvisme.

Biografie

Jeugdjaren
Charles Camoin was de jongste in een gezin met vier kinderen. Zijn vader Jozef had in 1851 een schilder- en decoratiebedrijf opgericht in Marseille maar stierf in 1885 toen Charles zes jaar was. De kinderen werden onder voogdij geplaatst en verbleven afwisselend in Marseille en Parijs. Hoewel voorbestemd voor een carrière in de handel volgde de jonge Camoin in 1895 een opleiding aan de École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. In 1896 kreeg hij een eerste prijs in het figuurschilderen wat hem ervan overtuigde kunstschilder te worden.

Beginperiode
In januari 1898 verhuist hij met zijn moeder naar Parijs waar hij de lessen gaat volgen bij Gustave Moreau, een symbolist aan de École des Beaux-Arts. Van de opleiding van Moreau heeft hij niet lang genoten, want die stierf in april 1898, maar hij had wel de gelegenheid om kennis te maken met Henri Matisse, Henri Manguin en Albert Marquet. Omdat de lessen van de opvolger van Gustave Moreau, Fernand Cormon, veel meer op de klassieke academische stijl gebaseerd waren, besloot Charles om de Beaux-Arts te verlaten en ging hij zich verder bekwamen in vrije ateliers. De doeken die hij schildert in deze periode zijn nog zeer precies getekend en vallen op door de sterke contrasten. Zijn palet is vrij licht geworden onder invloed van de werken van de impressionisten die hij leerde kennen in de Parijse galeries. Hij schilderde in deze periode ook zijn eerste landschappen.

Ontmoeting met Cézanne
Tijdens zijn legerdienst (1900-1903), die toen drie jaar duurde, ontmoette hij in oktober 1901 in Aix-en-Provence Paul Cézanne en het klikt tussen de jonge Carlo en de oude meester. Hij wordt regelmatig uitgenodigd voor de maaltijd op zondag, samen met de literatoren Leo Larguier en Louis Aurenche. Als het regiment van Camoin Aix verlaat onderhouden Cézanne en Charles een regelmatige briefwisseling tot de dood van Cézanne in 1906.

Fauvistische periode
In september 1903 betrekt Charles een atelier aan de Place Dauphine. Hij exposeert op het Salon des Indépendants en op het Salon d'Automne en sluit aan bij de groep kunstenaars rond Matisse met zijn oude studiegenoten Manguin en Marquet en Jean Puy. Ze exposeren in de kleine galerie van Berthe Weill. Hij reist in deze periode ook veel rond in het zuiden, in de Provence van zijn jeugd, en in Italië waar hij in 1904 Rome, Napels en Capri bezoekt.

Op het Salon d'Automne van 1905, waar het fauvisme zijn naam kreeg, exposeerde hij samen met Matisse, Manguin, Marquet, Derain et Maurice de Vlaminck. Hij wordt sindsdien bij deze kunstrichting ondergebracht. In zijn werken toont hij geen interesse meer voor de eigen perceptie van licht en landschap zoals de impressionisten, maar hij ordende vormen en kleurvlakken in de perspectiefruimte en bracht op die manier de goede raad van zijn vriend Paul Cézanne in de praktijk: faire du Poussin sur nature (schilder zoals Poussin, het boegbeeld van het Franse classicisme in wiens werken helderheid, logica en orde tot uiting kwamen, maar naar de exact waargenomen natuur). Maar Camoin zal in tegenstelling tot Matisse en Derain nooit de samenhang van het geschilderde beeld afwijkend maken van de werkelijkheid en wijzigt de oorspronkelijke kleuren zelden of nooit.

In 1906 begint hij een relatie met de kunstschilderes Émilie Charmy met wie hij in 1906 en 1909 naar Corsica zal reizen.

In 1908 krijgt hij zijn eerste solotentoonstelling bij de van oorsprong Duitse, maar in Parijs gevestigde kunsthandelaar Daniel Henri Kahnweiler en komt zo in contact met Ludwig Schames, een kunsthandelaar gevestigd in Frankfurt. Zijn werk circuleert op avant-garde tentoonstellingen in gans Europa, onder meer op het Salon de la Toison d'or in Moskou, de Société Mànes in Praag, op het Salon de la Libre Esthétique te Brussel, de Sonderbund in Düsseldorf en op de bekende Armory Show te New York in 1913. In 1912, sloot hij een contract met Galerie Eugène Druet.

Vanaf 1908 gaat Camoin zwart toevoegen aan zijn palet en besteedt hij in zijn werken minder aandacht aan de details en aan de structuur; de toetsvoering daarentegen wordt belangrijker in de weergave van de kleurvlakken. Hij was in die periode naar Montmartre verhuisd en sommige stadsgezichten toen geschilderd tonen hetzelfde melancholieke timbre als de werken van Marquet met wie hij nog steeds bevriend was. Hij blijft een aanhanger van de kleurcanon van de fauvisten en wil niets te maken hebben met het opkomende kubisme.

Na zijn breuk met Charmy voegt hij zich bij Matisse in Tanger waar hij de winter van 1912-1913 doorbracht. Hij hervond zijn werklust en schildert een aantal landschappen waarin het zwart en de donkere tonen afgevoerd worden en hij teruggrijpt naar de tedere tinten van zijn beginperiode. Die trend bleef hij aanhouden na zijn terugkeer naar Frankrijk, waar hij het zomerseizoen doorbrengt in het zuiden, onder andere in Marseille, Cassis en Martigues.

Bij het begin van 1914 heeft Camoin een solotentoonstelling van meer dan 60 werken bij de galerie Druet, maar in de maand juni van dat jaar vernielde hij een groot aantal van de doeken die zich in zijn atelier bevonden. Hij knipte ze in stukken en kieperde ze in de vuilnisbak die werd buitengezet aan de rue Lepic. De stukken werden door een voddenraper gerecupereerd en terug samen gepuzzeld om dan te worden aangeboden op de vlooienmarkt, waar ze worden opgekocht door le Père Soulier,  een bekende handelaar aan de rue des Martyrs. De historie raakte vlug bekend en Apollinaire schreef in de Paris-journal van 25 juli van dat jaar, dat de herstelde doeken bij het interessantste werk van de schilder hoorden. De min of meer gerestaureerde werken werden opgekocht door de verzamelaars en kunstcritici die op die manier hoopten een koopje te doen. Camoin is echter altijd blijven weigeren het auteurschap van deze werken op zich te nemen.

De oorlog en daarna
Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog wordt hij opgeroepen door het leger. Deze periode betekent een breuk in zijn werk. Hij blijft corresponderen met Matisse. In 1919 zwaait hij af en installeert zich opnieuw in zijn atelier aan de rue Lepic in Montmartre.

Camoin trouwt in maart 1920 met Charlotte Prost. Ze krijgen in 1933 een dochter Anne-Marie.

De naoorlogse werken van Charles Camoin knopen aan bij de stijl die hij had aangenomen tijdens en na zijn periode in Tanger. Hij schildert met delicate kleuren en besteedt veel aandacht aan licht en atmosfeer. Zijn werken baden in een intimistische sfeer. Hij schildert vooral landschappen uit de Midi zoals zichten op Cannes, Antibes en Aix-en Provence en portretten van zijn vrouw.

Synthese met het impressionisme
Samen met Matisse brengt hij in november 1918 een bezoek aan de oude meester Auguste Renoir. Hierna wordt de invloed van Renoir duidelijk zichtbaar in zijn werk zoals in de portretten en stillevens waarin hij de mooie, karakteristieke penseeltoets van de oude meester probeert te evenaren. Camoin toont meer en meer zijn voorliefde voor een pretentieloze, spontane, sensuele en weelderige schilderkunst, wars van alle intellectualisme.
Charles Camoin wordt beschouwd als de meest impressionistische schilder onder de fauvisten. Onder de invloed van Renoir realiseert hij het beste de synthese tussen impressionisme en fauvisme. In 1955 schreef hij zelf dat hij nooit een fauvist geweest was.

In 1921 vestigde hij zich in Saint-Tropez en vanaf dan verdeelt hij zijn tijd tussen zijn geliefde geboortestreek en zijn atelier in Montmartre, waar hij zijn zakelijke belangen regelt. Zijn werken worden regelmatig verkocht bij Vildrac, Druet, Marcel Bernheim, Bernheim-Jeune en Charpentier. Hij neemt ook nog bijna jaarlijks deel aan het Salon d'Automne.

Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog verblijft hij in Saint-Tropez en maakt er talrijke schilderijen met de baai en ander plaatsen in Saint-Tropez als onderwerp. In 1946 huurt hij een atelier tegenover de haven die vanaf dan zijn lievelingsonderwerp wordt.

In 1955 wordt hij benoemd tot officier van het Légion d'Honneur en krijgt hij de grote prijs van de biënnale van Menton. Hij overlijdt in zijn atelier in Montmartre op 20 mei 1965.

Tentoonstellingen
 1966 - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, retrospectieve met 41 schilderijen
 1971 - Palais de la Méditerranée in Nice, retrospectieve met 72 schilderijen en publicatie van een monografie door Danièle Giraudy
 1998 - Musée Cantini te Marseille en Fondation de l'Hermitage te Lausanne, 90 schilderijen en 90 tekeningen
 2016 - Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, retrospectieve met 90 schilderijen en 40 tekeningen

Externe links
 Charles Camoin op the Athenaeum* Charles Camoin op de website van Artnet
 Charles Camoin op de website van Artcyclopedia.

Frans kunstschilder
Fauvisme

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Day 1: Arrive in Las Vegas and drive to Zion
Pass By: 1 Zion Park Blvd, Zion National Park, UT 84767-9402
Fly from your hometown to McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, where you will meet your travel companions. You will be transported to the hotel with your baggage. This service is included in the tour price. This first evening is arranged open for your leisure, though we are happy to suggest many things to do. At 7 pm, after a wonderful Welcome Dinner, continue to get to know your fellow travelers.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
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• Dinner
Accommodation included: Lodging accommodations will vary based on availability. Please contact us for info.
Day 2: Zion National Park
Enjoy a locally-inspired breakfast. We will help you load up at 7:30 am for an 8 am departure. Your guide will escort you north from Las Vegas via Interstate 15 to Mesquite, NV; There we will stop to stretch our legs for 15 minutes. After the shortstop, we will cross the Virgin River Gorge, continuing north on Interstate 15. This stretch of road boasts sixteen incredible bridges, spanning deep gorge and the river below. After lunch, you'll visit Brigham Young's house on a guided tour. The journey continues as we see the Temple of Saint George from the road. Not long after, we will arrive at the hotel where we'll spend the night. After dinner, we will drive through the park to see the sunset. The sunset is always unique and always amazing. On each side of the road, the rising red and yellow cliffs of Zion Park stretch skyward to the star-studded sky.
The high red and yellow cliffs of Zion National Park will loom above us on both sides of the road. Day 3 in Zion Park will be breathtaking. Your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby. From there, you will travel to Zion National Park to explore places like White Throne, Angel's Landing, the Court of the Patriarch and the Narrows. All the while, learn local history and hear stories of the area's incredible past.
Day 4: Bryce Canyon
Pass By: Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
We will help you gather your bags at 7:30 am as our departure will again be at 8 am. The view is impressive as we travel to Mount Carmel Junction. We'll make a morning break here. The trip to Bryce Canyon National Park will continue around 10 am. We enter the park at approximately 2 pm where you will see red and yellow hoodoos (unique rock formations), pinnacles, and spires. After we leave the park around 4 pm, we will check into Ruby's Lodge for the night where you will enjoy another amazing eating experience.
Day 5: Grand Staircase Escalante Monument / Capitol Reef
Pass By: Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, 735 W Main, UT 84726
On the fifth day of your incredible journey, you will travel down Road 12, known as the All-American Road for its picturesque views and deep canyons carved through the landscape. In time, we will arrive in Moab, Utah. We will settle into the hotel where we will start our evening events, beginning with dinner. Take a ride into the park at night. Examine the millions of stars. The sky seems so big, and the stars look so close at the park. Moab at night puts on quite a show! We'll stay here for two nights
Day 6: Arches National Park
Pass By: Arches National Park, Moab, UT
Arches National Park allows viewing and exploring some of its 2,000+ arches. Unparalleled, distinctive, and unspoiled, the park is primarily as it has been for centuries. Unchanged, dreamlike, out of this world. The list of landscape features and formations is almost endless: fault lines, petrified dunes, arches, bridges, balanced rocks, spires, and many, many more. On this day, we are going to visit Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, Double Arch Park Avenue, Windows Section, Balanced Rock, Courthouse Wash, and other interesting areas in the park. While traveling through the park, you can explore the Cove of Caves, the Garden of Eden, the Petrified Sand Dunes, the Fiery Chamber Viewpoint, the Double Arch, and others. We'll jump on the jet boat and tour the park via the Colorado River. Then you're off to another amazing dinner.
Day 7: Canyonlands National Park
Pass By: Canyonlands National Park, Moab, UT 84532
You'll visit Canyonlands National Park- Island in the sky. You'll see a wilderness of countless canyons, buttes, mesas, and other geological features that were carved by the Colorado and Green Rivers over millions of years. You can walk along the canyon's rims. Visit one of the park's most photographed geological features the Mesa Arch. It is best to photograph this formation in the morning. Walk along the world's edge to Grandview Point, Murphy Point, or Upheaval Dome. You'll then enjoy the San Rafael Swell on the way to Capitol Reef National Park, where you'll walk to Hickman Bridge. Enjoy Grand Wash and seek out geodes (rocks with crystals inside) and other activities in this little-known, under-visited park. In one of the local hotels in this area, dinner and an enjoyable evening will be experienced. Once you've finished, you'll retire to Moab, UT for lunch and a lovely evening before you retire at the hotel.
Day 8: Mesa Verde National Park / 4 Corners National Monument
Pass By: Montezuma County, Mesa Verde National Park, CO
Pull the bag and enjoy breakfast at the hotel at 7:30 am. Leaving at 8 am. South from Moab to Monticello, then east to Colorado. There will be a short leg stretch in Dove Creek and lunch in Cortez. We then travel to the National Park of Mesa Verde. You'll visit the dramatic ruins of Pueblo 's old cliff houses, built-in shallow caves, and rocky overhangs. Then stop at viewpoints and a museum at the top of the table before heading through the San Juan Mountains Destination tonight Durango, Colorado. Durango during the night)
Day 9: Durango and Silverton Railroad
Pass By: Silverton Northern Railroad, Silverton, CO 81433, USA
Score a real experience on the border with a steam engine train ride on Durango and Silverton Railroad, an impressive 1881 track that snakes along the canyons of the Animas River. It will be lunchtime when you arrive in Silverton. Enjoy a delicious lunch in Silverton.
Day 10: Monument Valley and Canyon De Chelly
Pass By: Four Corners Monument, NM-597, Teec Nos Pos, AZ 86514
Driving south out of Durango, you will visit the Aztec Ruins in Aztec, NM. Then travel on toward the 4 Corners where you'll have the opportunity to stand in four states at one time! From 4 Corners you'll go south to Chinle and Canyon de Chelly where tonight you'll stay in Kayenta AZ.
Day 11: Canyon De Chelly
Pass By: Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Highway 191, Chinle, AZ 86503
Experience Canyon de Chelly from the bottom riding in a 6x 6 truck with a Navajo Guide. Then we're going to Monument Valley. You will also visit classic Western filming spots and less frequent outcroppings in the backcountry.
Day 12: Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend
Pass By: Antelope Canyon, Navajo Tribal Park, Page, AZ 86040
Your journey through Antelope Canyon will take about two hours, giving photographers plenty of time. Antelope Canyon, formed by erosion and flash floods, is one of the world's most famous slot canyons. You'll tour Antelope Canyon 's hypnotic canyons with a local Navajo as your guide.
After Antelope Canyon we head over to Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped incised meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona, in the United States. We take some pictures. Then head off to Glen Canyon Dam for a 14-mile float trip down the Colorado River. Surrounded by deep sandstone canyons, plus a stop to view some fascinating petroglyphs. Finish this trip we pick you up at the dock and head straight to Grand Canyon Village.
Day 13: Grand Canyon
Pass By: Grand Canyon South Rim, Highway 64, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ 86023
Breakfast at the hotel, departure at 8a. Lunch is going to be at Cameron Trading Post. You'll have time to explore the trading post until 2p. At approximately 3 pm, you will enter Grand Canyon National Park, and the first stop will be at the Desert View Overlook. From Desert View, you'll travel along the river to the Grand Canyon Village, where you'll spend the night. You'll see the IMAX theater movie about the Grand Canyon after checking into the hotel... Return to the hotel in time for the Rim's sunset.
Day 14: The Grand Canyon Caverns
Pass By: Grand Canyon Caverns, Mile Marker 115 Route 66, Peach Springs, AZ 86434
Bag pull 6:30a, hotel breakfast, departure 8a. In Williams, there's going to be a leg stretch stop, and then we'll be off to Route 66. Following the longest undisturbed stretch of this nostalgic highway, you will visit the city of Seligman for a lunch break; stop at the Grand Canyon Caverns for a tour of the largest dry caverns in the United States; travel through Peach Springs, headquarters of the Hualapai Tribe, home of the Wild and Hackberry General Store's Valentine Keepers. We'll come to Kingman for dinner and night accommodation.
"The Grand Canyon Caverns are the largest dry caverns in the United States, located 200 to 300 feet below the surface and accessible through our exploration lift. With this elevator, you enter and leave the caverns, dropping 21 underground stories, making the caverns readily available. Since the caverns are so deep underground, the temperature is always constant, the temperature is mild 56 degrees, and there is no moisture. The caves offer several unique geological formations that can easily be seen from our smoothly paved footpaths. The walking trails have handrails, and there are several benches on the way to rest.
Day 15: Las Vegas
Pass By: Hoover Dam Access Road, Boulder City, NV 89109
Bag pull 7:30a, including breakfast at the hotel. Setting off 8a. You'll have a tour of the historic district of the old town, see the Sahuaro Cactus, visit the Locomotive Park and stop at the Powerhouse Visitor Center for a leg stretch and last chance for souvenirs from AZ. Leaving Kingman AZ at 11 am. Then travel to Hoover Dam for the Dam Tour. After the Tour and some photos then travel to Las Vegas to Check-in at 15:00. Dinner included tonight in the hotel, and everyone is saying goodbye!
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It is impossible to miss them! Bringing life to the proverbial party through their energetic drumming at every festival and show they participate in.
Connected to India trains the Spotlight on Akshara Thiru the founder of Damaru Singapore. Founded with a vision to celebrate the diversity of Indian drumming, in March 2015. "A lot of people were familiar with the classical drums, such as tabla and so on, but not many knew about the folk and street drums," says the passionate young man.
He saw the gap as an opportunity to get people together – especially in a culturally diverse place like Singapore. "In Singapore, you have the best of everything. There is a good mix of Malayalees, Gujaratis, and Rajasthani, and so on. So I thought, "Why don't I bring these street styles over and create an Indian ensemble?"
With aspirations to go international, Damaru, today, has over 40 members ranging from age 5 to 65 years old. Enjoy the interview.


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What is "The Disaster Artist, the James Franco film people are saying is his best ever, about?
Arielle Tschinkel
There's truly something to be said about a movie that's so bad, it loops around to good, and it becomes an unintentional classic. But for a movie to become such a cult classic that James Franco makes a film about it fourteen years after its release — that honor can only go to The Room, the 2003 cult flick that inspired this year's awards season favorite The Disaster Artist.
In a truly meta twist, Franco took home a 2018 Golden Globe Sunday night for best film actor in a musical or comedy for his portrayal of Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist, bringing the real Tommy Wiseau on stage with him as he accepted his award.
But who is Tommy Wiseau, the eccentric director portrayed by Franco in The Disaster Artist? Turns out, fans and reporters alike have been trying to figure out who he really is ever since his debut movie became an unlikely fan favorite upon its release in 2003.
It's believed that Wiseau grew up living in Louisiana, although he recently told Jimmy Kimmel that he was "originally from Europe," identifying himself as an American. Wiseau is equally vague about his age, and it seems he prefers it this way, coyly dodging the question when Kimmel quipped that he was 36 or 37; Wiseau's IMDB page lists him as 62 years old, so take that as you will.
Hello from The #GoldenGlobes ! Be good ! Thanks for your support of The Room !#TheRoom #TommyWiseau pic.twitter.com/7LvtGpOKYi
— Tommy Wiseau (@TommyWiseau) January 8, 2018
But in 2001, he reportedly came to Hollywood with dreams of becoming a filmmaker and an actor. And thus, a star was inadvertently born. According to People, Wiseau spent $6 million of his own money to create his debut film, The Room, pouring his heart and soul into a movie that — quite literally — became a disaster.
The Room has widely been considered one of the worst movies of all time, developing a cult following of rabid fans who are obsessed with its unintentional brand of humor.
Wiseau has gone on to direct, produce, and star in assorted documentaries, films, and TV shows, but he'll forever remain in the hearts of film lovers thanks to his zany, boisterous personality and life story shrouded in mystery, all thanks to the little movie that could, The Room.
And now Tommy Wiseau is back in the cultural zeitgeist yet again, all thanks to Franco's big movie about the little movie that could. So if you haven't caught the The Disaster Artist yet, we highly recommend you check your local showtimes and settle in with a bucket of popcorn.
By Arielle Tschinkel
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Add-on for Blood Plasma Pack and regular Blood 1.11 edition. After Caleb's successful defeat of Tchernobog, he retires to Los Roma, a sleepy little town in his home state of Texas, where the only dead animal is the one on his dinner plate. He is sick of fighting, tired of bloodshed. But as he spends his days building up a ranch, there is activity beneath the ground of Los Roma. At first there are only tremors, and the townspeople shrug their shoulders before going on as usual. But soon, strange sounds begin to emanate from the town church. Hellish sounds that lift the hair on Caleb's neck, and grip his cojones with iron-tight fear. His old life, he knows, is returning.
I'm only on the secret level but from what I've played so far, this is by far the best Blood Add-on here. Some superb level design given the limitations of the Build Engine. I also love the inclusion of the strategy guide. Thanks for sharing this fantastic episode for all to enjoy.


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Interoperability capabilities limited, don't improve care
October 11, 2016, 7:12 a.m. EDT
Current interoperability capabilities of information technology don't go nearly far enough to help clinicians improve their delivery of care.
The ability to exchange information between different vendors' electronic health records falls woefully short of what's needed by clinicians, and new initiatives like Carequality and CommonWell hold promise, but are not widely used at present, according to results of a report issued today by KLAS.
The healthcare IT research organization released "Interoperability 2016," part of a series of efforts this year to assess the state of interoperability among U.S. providers.
KLAS research, based on more than 500 interviews with clinicians, indicates that the ability to exchange patients' health data between systems is limited and isn't pervasive, limiting the extent to which patient care is affected.
The ability to share records between organizations "is happening only in pockets and is often frustrating for clinicians," the report notes. Clinicians say it's not a matter of the number of records shared, "but whether clinicians have the interoperability they need."
There's widespread belief that interoperability is needed to help the industry improve delivery under value-based care models, says Bob Cash, vice president of provider relations at KLAS. "This report illustrates the considerable amount of work that still needs to be done in order to achieve impactful record exchange," he adds.
The survey measures capabilities against the interoperability measurement tool defined and agreed upon by both healthcare providers and healthcare IT vendors last October to measure capabilities in exchanging information between systems of different vendors.
Using a baseball as a metaphor, KLAS says true interoperability needs to hit a home run by making effective use of patient records from outside the EHR system used by their organization. To do so, outside records must be available, easy to locate, delivered within the clinician workflow and "delivered in an effective way that facilitates improvement in patient care." Achieving any one of the goals is helpful, but care is only improved if all four criteria are met, KLAS contends.
Leveraging those measures, KLAS says only 28 percent of respondents indicate that clinical information from outside organizations is readily available; 13 percent say information is easy to find; 8 percent say it's integrated into clinicians' workflow; and only 6 percent say their experience of interoperability hits the home run of being able to have an impact that significantly benefits patient care.
Also See: AMA-led coalition lambasts current level of interoperability
KLAS research suggests that effective sharing of information happens, on average, six times more between organizations using the same vendor's EHR product than between organizations using different products. "Every provider in this report who has achieved successful sharing has had less success exchanging with providers who use different vendors than their own," report writers conclude. "Some reasons for this stronger performance include compatibility, familiarity and shared access."
The report concludes that, without outside sharing, no vendor's customers report consistently report receiving "available, locateable, viewable and impactful information," and KLAS says that its research shows that satisfaction with support in "cross-EMR sharing is low for customers of all vendors, with athenahealth achieving the highest satisfaction from customers and their exchange partners.
While exchange between different vendor systems is low—less than 15 percent of respondents report interoperability that results in benefits to patient care—results are better when records are exchanged between providers using the same records system, KLAS says. Best performers in that area are led by Epic, athenahealth and Cerner.
Initiatives such as Carequality and CommonWell are engendering optimism, with each "claiming thousands of participating providers, but a relatively small subset are actively sharing data today," KLAS reports.
CommonWell, a vendor-led collaboration that offers federated health information exchange services, claims to have more than 1,000 actively exchanging customers, "finding these organizations is difficult since meaningful adoption is very low today," KLAS says. "These organizations report nearly universal optimism that CommonWell is a game changer."
Carequality, an association of vendors, providers and agencies that have established a legal, technical and governance framework, has only been live since early July; some early adopters "report high exchange volumes, and all report high optimism for the future," KLAS says.
KLAS research also finds a role for public health information exchanges, although respondents say they still question the value of these initiatives in current environment. "Although public HIEs are the most prevalent, they are not the most satisfying," KLAS researchers say. "As a group, public HIEs are rated lowest of the major facilitators. Providers cite challenges with integration, record location and cost."
In assessing public HIE capabilities, "some hospitals can only send data out, and clinics are sometimes unable to locate the data they need," KLAS reports.
With regard to different care settings, "both acute and ambulatory care settings see significant and strikingly proportional deficits in usable, useful information exchange," KLAS concludes.
Cash believes there's good news, however. "Vendors and providers seem committed to working through challenges identified in the study, and this year's findings will serve as a baseline for tracking progress in coming years," he adds.
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Liquidation of Corporate Debtors Under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
Post by: Drishti Saxena in Insolvency
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as "The Code"), was implemented to mend the broken and unstable system of insolvency. The Code has been corroborated in a manner where it assimilates all aspects of an insolvent or bankrupt company or corporate debtor. The ideology behind framing a law dedicated specifically to this subject was to safeguard the operations of the corporate debtor.
The Supreme Court in the landmark judgment of Swiss Ribbons Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. has defined the primary objective of the Code. It states that the fundamental focus of The Code is to ensure the revival of the corporate debtor. The revival is against the management that led it to defaulted payments and to also safeguard it from corporate death. However, liquidation is the only viable option when all other alternatives exhaust. The Code also provides for the corporate debtor to file an application for insolvency before the adjudicating authority, against itself.
The insolvency system requires the parties involved i.e. the Committee of Creditors, to prepare a resolution plan. This is done to rectify the corporate debtor's consequences for the act of insolvency and to also keep its operations as a going concern. However, not every insolvency proceeding concludes with a successful resolution plan. The Code lays down alternative provisions in the event a resolution plan is not implemented,. When this happens, the adjudicating authority orders to initiate a liquidation proceeding against the corporate debtor.
Liquidation of the corporate debtor is the absolute last resort that the adjudicating authority and the Resolution Professional (RP) intend to reach. The fundamental ideology behind such an extensive mechanism is to prevent the corporate debtor from liquidating. However, in certain unavoidable circumstances, to recover the defaulted payment, liquidation has to be initiated. This article will discuss the major aspects leading up to liquidation of a corporate debtor by the adjudicating authority.
As mentioned above, the adjudicating authority passes an order for liquidation when all other options have exhausted. In the case of Innoventive Industries v. ICICI Bank Ltd, the Supreme Court ruled that as soon as the liquidation order comes into effect, the moratorium period will end. The following describe the cases in which the adjudicating authority can pass liquidation orders;
Resolution plan not submitted in designated time
The Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) has a meticulous timeframe in effect of The Code. As per the Code and subsequent amendments, CIRP has to be concluded within 330 days of commencement of insolvency date. The adjudicating authority has the discretionary power to extend the moratorium period of 180 days by 90 days only under special circumstances.
Committee of Creditors (COC) has to approve a resolution plan during the moratorium period. Once the COC approves the plan with a minimum majority of sixty-six per cent, it presents the same before the adjudicating authority u/s 30(6). However, if the COC does not submit the plan to the adjudicating authority in the due course, then the court can pass an order for liquidation.
Adjudicating authority rejects the resolution plan
An approved resolution plan submitted to the adjudicating authority within the required time frame can still anticipate a liquidation order. Section 30(2) of The Code lays down the essential requirements that a resolution plan must comprise.
The resolution plan submitted must have a provision that complies with the requirements of section 30(2). On submission, the adjudicating authority assesses the merits of the plan. If it finds that the resolution plan meets the requirements, then it passes an order to execute the resolution plan. However, if it finds that the plan does not meet with the requirements, then it rejects the plan and consequently, pass an order for liquidation.
COC does not approve a resolution plan
As discussed above, the COC has to approve a resolution plan proposed by bidders, with a majority of minimum sixty-six per cent. However, there is a possibility that the COC does not come to a consensus or reach a majority of sixty-six per cent.
However, there could be a scenario, where the COC holds a vote in favour of liquidation of the corporate debtor. In this case, as well, the approval rate must be at a minimum of sixty-six per cent. If the COC approves the vote for liquidation with the said approval rate, then the RP has the authority, to intimate the adjudicating authority of the same. The adjudicating authority can pass an order for liquidation.
Violation of resolution plan
Once the resolution plan approved by the COC and the adjudicating authority, the RP has to ensure its implementation. All parties and stakeholders involved have to respect the order passed by the adjudicating authority.
However, if the corporate debtor acts in a manner which infringes the norms of the resolution plan, then this can be contested. Any stakeholder, whose right stands violated as a consequence of this infringement, can make an application to the adjudicating authority for liquidation of the corporate debtor. On receiving the application, the adjudicating authority examines the same. Court can pass a liquidation order, if the corporate debtor stands in violation of the resolution plan.
Since the implementation of The Code, the courts have adjudicated several cases. The purpose has been to bring some clarity on concerned provisions. As a result of the same, liquidation under The Code has also been challenged in numerous cases. The court has successfully set precedents that have to be complied with for future references. However, the area still remains to be a subject of discussion amid the legal community and the stakeholders.
Post by Drishti Saxena
Drishti Saxena is a Lawyer and holds a post-graduate diploma degree in IPR from University of Mumbai. With experience in Immigration Law (UK and Canada), she has been an independent content creator in the field of law and politics.


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Verona is 67% more expensive than Zhengzhou. Apr 2019 Cost of Living.
WARNING! This comparison is based on only a few data points. At this point it is only a guess. It is based on 173 prices entered by 17 different people.
For example, you would need at least 16,501元 (€2,188) in Verona to maintain the same standard of living that you can have with 9,900元 in Zhengzhou.


We sold this particular house back in 2011, and we have now had the pleasure of being instructed by the current owner to market it 'for sale', eight years later.
If you look carefully you can see our 'original' 'for sale' boards, and our first company van!
The property is a one bedroom end-of-terrace house which is 'for sale' at £185,000.
This property could make either a great 'first-time' buy or investment purchase.
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Decent weather at last, we are living in a police state, spoken English
It was actually not raining this morning so off I went to finish one garden, and then do another one which consists entirely of weeding and keeping an area free of anything at all. There are certain types of weed which are a real test and one of them is Mares Tail. Its roots go down to Australia and once introduced its very difficult to get rid of. We must have cleared the area ten times but each time more weeds appear. This time it was chickweed. I have no idea why the very elderly woman wants it cleared but she pays as she does then I will do weeding.
I read yesterday in the paper that in America, the police threatened a couple with a gun because their four-year-old child had taken a toy, worth one dollar, from a store. Why such an over-reaction? Cosmetically, the officer concerned was put on a desk job but we know that many more of these events will happen as they do every day in the USA. Because the police have been told to come down in every way they can. The idea is to keep everybody in fear so that they lose the sense of power.
The other item in the paper was a chap who wanted to come back from Istanbul to London by Turkish Airways. He had evidently told them that he had an allergy to nuts and repeated his story when he got on the plane. He was not allowed to fly because they said they had had insufficient notice. He offered not to eat or drink anything but this was not enough and he was exported off playing by police and told he could fly with another Turkish airline that he would have to pay £560 for the privilege.
It is important that tensions be kept to a high level. 'A terrorist could be lurking behind every door'. It is important for the United States in particular that frightening events happen at regular intervals. By the last count, USA initiated 46 wars since World War II – all based on lies iff you care to do the research. As part of this, We then read that Donald Trump is going to support America in its attack on Iran for, well, just being Iran. Remember what Gen Wesley Clark was told in 2013 by the Government. "We are going to start with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran". Watch the video again.
Off to Ston Easton to listen to someone talking about Victorian gardens. His father worked as a junior gardener, otherwise known as a "pot boy" whose job consisted of washing out earthenware pots. He started work at the age of 12 and allowed to leave school which was the rule at that time, somewhat before the start of the First World War. He got paid six shillings a week of which he paid two and sixpence to the head gardener for his apprenticeship. He walked 2 1/2 miles to and from work and started at 6.30 in the morning with a half day on Saturday which means he stopped at 2.30 in the afternoon.
It was lovely to be in this time warp, to listen to someone who lived ate and breathed the Victorian way of life and all that went with it. Also, it was a joy to experience something very rare these days, the English language enunciated as it should be. No beginning each sentence with… So. No 'sort of' or 'like'. I fear in the coming generations we will lose the ability to communicate verbally and I read that already children are more comfortable communicating via text message than in person. George Orwell's 1984, here we come.
This was the scene as we came out of the talk at about nine o'clock this evening. Blue sky, lovely setting sun albeit a bit cold.


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Der Lippija Tower () ist ein ehemaliger Wachturm in der Gemeinde Mġarr auf der maltesischen Hauptinsel Malta. Er wurde 1637 wahrscheinlich als erster der Lascaris Towers errichtet. Das Gebäude steht als Grade-1-Bauwerk unter Denkmalschutz und ist im National Inventory of Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands unter der Nummer 58 verzeichnet.

Geschichte
Der Turm wurde 1637 unter der Herrschaft des Großmeisters Jean de Lascaris erbaut. In den Jahren zwischen 1636 und 1657 wurden unter der Herrschaft de Lascaris insgesamt neun dieser Türme gebaut. Im Unterschied zu den Türmen, die zwischen 1609 und 1620 unter dem Großmeister Alof de Wignacourt errichtet wurden, waren die Lascaris-Türme kleiner und benötigten keine so zahlreiche Besatzung. Die Ressourcen des Ordens ließen die Bemannung einer größeren Anzahl großer Türme nicht mehr zu. Daher ging man unter der Herrschaft von de Lascaris zum Bau kleinerer Türme über.

Der Lippija Tower war Teil einer Kette von Wachtürmen, die sich an den Küsten der Inseln Malta, Gozo und Comino entlangzogen. Ihre Aufgabe war es, die Küste zu überwachen und bei Annäherung feindlicher Schiffe Warnungen durch Kanonenschüsse oder Leuchtfeuer abzugeben.

Beschreibung
Der Turm steht im Nordwesten der Insel Malta auf einer Klippe der Wardija Ridge und überblickt die Ġnejna Bay. Er befindet sich auf einer Höhe von 80 Metern über dem Meeresspiegel. Von hier aus besteht eine Sichtverbindung zu den beiden benachbarten Türmen, dem Għajn Tuffieħa Tower und dem Nadur Tower.

Wie nahezu alle Lascaris-Türme erhebt er sich auf einer Grundfläche von 6 m × 6 m und hat eine Höhe von etwa 11 m in zwei Geschossen. Außen ist das Mauerwerk des Untergeschosses angeschrägt, das Dach wird von einer Brüstung geschützt. Das Innere besteht aus zwei übereinanderliegenden durchgehenden Räumen. Ein Zugang war nur durch das Obergeschoss möglich, das man entweder durch eine hölzerne Leiter oder eine Strickleiter () erreichte.

Literatur
 Alison Hoppen: The Fortification of Malta by the Order of St. John. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1979, ISBN 1-870579-38-0.
 Quentin Hughes: Malta. A guide to the fortifications. Said International, Valletta 1993, ISBN 99909-43-07-9.
 Stephen C. Spiteri: Fortresses of the Cross. Hospitaller Military Architecture (1136–1798). Heritage Interpretation Services, Malta 1994, ISBN 99909-965-3-9.
 Stephen C. Spiteri: Fortresses of the Knights. Book Distributors, Malta 2001, ISBN 99909-72-07-9.

Einzelnachweise

Bauwerk in Mġarr
Lascaris Towers
Erbaut in den 1630er Jahren
National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands
Turm in Europa
Festung in Europa


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Q: Getting a better user experience on editing data on a continuous form I need a bit of advice. I have a continuous form that displays records where the user is able to edit the data but I'm having trouble providing a good user experience. For an edit to get validated it has to go through the BeforeUpdate event but this doesn't get triggered until the user clicks on another data row or the Exit button I placed on the form. This isn't intuitive for the user so apart from putting a message in the footer telling the user what to do I'm not sure how to do this. Are there any better ways to deal with this?

A: You can't validate the record before it is to be saved.
Thus, you may have to validate the fields in question in the AfterUpdate events of these and, if validated, save the record:
If Me.Dirty = True Then
    Me.Dirty = False
End If

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EIGHTIES LETTERS AND FAN DIARY
25: SEPTEMBER 1985
4th September 1985 - letter to Ted White
Well, here it is: CRANK#1. When putting it together I realised that there are quite a few details of format we didn't get around to hammering out so I've just followed my own instincts for the most part. I figure issue #2, your first, is going to look a. little different (if only because you don't use a golf-ball typer) but I'm sure we'll arrive at a satisfactory synthesis.
As well as the conclusion to your trip report I've taken the liberty of incorporating bits from recent letters you've sent. I hope you won't mind but I felt that a single large piece from you - half the issue in fact - was out of balance. It seemed to me more important that we attain some sort of parity in the number of pieces we each had in the issue than that we achieve parity of wordage. In fact, I more or less tailored my bits to this ideal and worked from the outset to the issue being eight pages long.
The art this issue isn't the "editorial cartoon" we both agreed it should be but rather an illo, mainly because I couldn't think of a suitably satirical picture and was running out of time. Since West is a genius at the sort of thing we have in mind I'm trying to rope him in for some cartoons.
Anyway, good luck with STARDATE,--and I'll see you in February - ghod permitting.
Thursday 5th September - from fanzine (original manuscript). Photos by Vince Clarke
'CONGRATULATIONS HUGOWINNER' read the computer-generated banner hanging over the bar, and it said it in Olde English, but of Langford himself there was no sign. We were at September's One Tun gathering and having pushed through the large crowd of Hitch-hiker fans cavorting outside the pub, Avedon and I were dismayed to discover we were almost the first fannish fans to arrive. The Tun was as solidly packed as usual and it was easy to think back nostalgically to the April One Tun, when the Nielsen Haydens were over on their TAFF trip, and fondly recall how much room there was on that occasion. ("Is it always this overcrowded?" Patrick had asked, and then looked puzzled as the Brits around him collapsed in helpless laughter.)
unknown, Dave Swindon, Jimmy Robertson, Cyril Simsa, Margaret Wellbank, Arthur Thomson,
Avedon Carol, Chris Evans, Dave Langford, Mike Ford, Dave Lally.
When more of the fannish contingent began to arrive Avedon went off to talk to the Pickersgills while I started handing out copies of the first CRANK. While doing this I was surprised to notice Greg Pickersgill grinning hugely at one and all. Since Greg is not much given to grinning hugely in these days of Margaret Thatcher and Guinness at more than £1 a pint, it would have been hard not to notice.
"What's up with Greg? I asked Avedon as an undercurrent in the swirl of the crowd brought her close.
"He's got shingles" she replied, before it carried her away again.
Malcolm Edwards informed me that he and Chris had Langford's Hugo in the boot of their car and we both wondered what had happened to him. What with the banner and with the award itself ready and waiting it would be a shame if Dave didn't show. With a casual motion that showed all the signs of being an acquired reflex Malcolm deftly lifted his pint clear of the flailing elbows of Rob Holdstock, who was over-excitedly articulating some point or other behind us, and told me about his time in Australia. As the evening wore on and more and more fannish fans turned up I ran out of CRANKs. There were more at home, of course, but I was annoyed at having underestimated the number I needed to bring along. Avedon drifted by again so I quizzed her further...
"Why should shingles have cheered Greg up so much?"
"Well, they're pretty painful, you see..." she began, and then another crowd surge carried her out through the door.
Determined to get to the bottom of this mystery I left my safe spot by at the bar and plunged into the crowd myself. Which is how, having fought my way across the room and emerged into the chill night air, I was just in time to witness the arrival of Dave Langford.
"Where've you been?" I demanded.
"Computer exhibition at Olympia, boss." he explained, pointing to the ID card pinned to his lapel. This identified him as being the representative of something called 'Ansible Communications'.
"There's a man inside with something for you." I told him, as I steered him into the pub.
Malcolm presents the Hugo. Chris Atkinson, Rob Hansen, Caroline Mullan, Chris Evans look on.
Standing on a stool, waving the Hugo around like some royal sceptre, Malcolm called for silence and, miraculously, the babel of voices fell to a murmer.
"The fanwriter Hugo has finally been sent to its rightful home..." he told them, "...Britain."
The assembled multitude cheered this simple truth and applauded when Langford was handed the award itself.
Kaj Harju, Ylva Spångberg, Greg Pickersgill, Rob Hansen.
Hugo celebration. Cyril Simsa centre rear.
Dave then mounted the stool and tried to give a short speech of thanks but Malcolm had already exceeded the short attention-spans of most of those present, so his efforts were drowned out by the noise of interrupted conversations being resumed.
"So what is all this about Greg's shingles?" I asked Avedon, when I finally cornered her.
"Oh, he's just delighted to know that there's actually a physical reason why he never seems able to do anything and that it's not a flaw in his brain."
So delighted, in fact, that he's actually managed to overcome his lethargy and is busy writing fanzine pieces again.
Maybe he ought to get shingles more often.
Saturday 14th September - edited together from fanzine report & diary entry.
After just missing the tube, bus, *and* ferry - an almost unbelievable feat - Avedon and I met up with Arthur Thomson and Vince Clarke at Woolwich. (Terry Hill couldn't be there as he was returning from a family holiday in Devon that very day.) Freed for a week by his disapproving non-fan wife taking a vacation, ATom has been more in evidence at fannish gatherings of late than is usual. Our trip to Broadstairs on the south coast today was to visit a large second-hand bookshop housed in an old church (where Avedon bought a copy of 'Secret of the Marauder Satellite' by someone called Ted White - clearly a pseudonym). Arthur showed us the hotel he gets dragged off to every Easter and explained mournfully that this is why he can never attend an Eastercon. However, he will be at NOVACON in a few weeks time, the first convention he's attended in 20 years.
"I felt I owed it to my public to put in an appearance," he explained, "and also my wife said I could go."
Broadstairs was picturesque, but the weather was lousy. Thursday was the hottest day of the year so far and would've been perfect. After looking around and taking in part of Margate, we drove back to London. Avedon had tried to wangle us an invite to this evening's FORBIDDEN PLANET anniversary party, but no go.
Sunday 15th September - from fanzine (original manuscript). Photos by Vince Clarke
The exit we emerged from after doing the white rat routine in the labyrinthine tunnels beneath Waterloo tube and train stations brought us out on the street directly across the road from The Wellington Tavern, much to Avedon's amazement - she's taken my word that I know where I'm going too often in the past and now regards such claims with healthy scepticism. Since I work less than half-a-mile from Waterloo and use the station often this wasn't that remarkable a feat but that didn't stop me from wearing my smug I-told-you-so expression as we crossed the road and entered the pub. Due to track repairs on the District line, and the bus ride this made necessary between Plaistow and Bromley-by-Bow, we were late and almost the last to arrive, much to my annoyance.
Linda Pickersgill, Pam Wells, ATom, Greg Pickersgill, Helen Starkey, and Mike Dickinson before
we arrived.
It was the third Sunday of the month, and the first meeting of what Mike Dickinson's flyer had called 'The New Southern Friends In Space', a new and more dynamic version of the earlier Friends In Space - or so it's hoped, anyway. Present at this inaugural gathering were Dickinson himself, the Pickersgills, Pam Wells, Helen Starkey, Vince Clarke, ATom and, briefly, Anne Hamill (formerly Warren). A good turn-out, and certainly a larger one than FIS had attracted in quite a while, but when it started in 1981 things were very different. Back then it was a weekly meeting - every Sunday evening at The Queen Victoria in Ealing - and attracted many of the most active and interesting fans in London. Unfortunately it didn't last. Personal disagreements caused a split in late-1981 and an advertisement in the BSFA's MATRIX attracted only people from the SF group at the local polytechnic, which changed the character of FIS meetings considerably. Eventually they fell from a weekly to a monthly schedule and had, by the time the decision was taken to alter the venue and re-launch the group, become just an excuse for Pam, the Pickersgills, Avedon and me to get together for a drink over in West London once a month. Such is life. In 1982 I wrote a fictional account of the groups origins for Larry Carmody and Stu Shiffman's RAFFLES in an article titled 'The Almost-True Story of Friends In Space'. Its actual origins were far more prosaic than I made out. Perhaps. As I recall, 'Friends In Space' was the name of a fictional UFO-group, in a one-off TV play of the same name, led by a man with the improbable name of Rex G.X. Thornton. Though I never saw the play myself Greg and Linda did and were much taken with it. This was either during, or shortly after,the period between June 1980 and March 1981 that I was staying with them, a period during which the Queen Victoria became our regular watering-hole. When the notion of holding a regular fannish meeting there took hold the idea of naming it after that fictional UFO-group seemed irresistible. In time Harry Bell designed a special FIS logo and the badge Linda had made up with this on became a much-coverted item, particularly among certain American fans. I still wear mine at most fannish gatherings and if required to so would probably give FIS as my group-affiliation. Times change however, and we've come a long way since the early years of the decade - about eight miles, in fact.
ATom, Linda Pickersgill, Pam Wells, Anne Hamill, Greg Pickersgill, Rob Hansen, Avedon Carol,
Helen Starkey, Mike Dickinson.
Pam was talking fanzines. At one point she told me that Steve Higgins was the best fanzine editor in Britain. When I expressed surprise at this bit of news and asked where she'd come by it she told me that it was a fairly widely-accepted view and that Paul Kincaid in particular loved writing for STOMACH PUMP so that he could be edited by Higgins. Suppressing the images of auctorial masochism that sprang to mind, I remembered reading a similar opinion by John Jarrold in PREVERT and wondered what this perception was based on. STOMACH PUMP is a good fanzine to be sure, and probably a front-runner for this year's Nova Award, but I can't honestly say I've noticed greater editorial skill at work in its pages than in those of other zines at its level, and I assume that Higgins prints only pieces that he's specifically commissioned and then edits them where necessary as the rest of us do (with varying degrees of success). Then again good editing should be almost invisible (I've heard) so maybe I'm just not perceptive enough to pick up on it.
It was good to see Vince and ATom at a Central London gathering other than the One Tun and to discuss with them, as with the others, the general state of fannish affairs. All in all then a pleasant evening, though there was little juicy gossip and little behaviour that could provide the raw material for suitably embellished anecdotes.
Friday 20th September - from fanzine (original manuscript).
Until Avedon, in her mad determination to sample all the many delights London's sprawling and kaleidoscopic fannish social scene has to offer, dragged me along to the September BSFA meeting I hadn't been to one in months. It lost a lot of its popularity when it was switched from its Holborn location to the less easily accessible Coopers Arms in Chelsea's Flood Street, a move necessitated by the landlord of The King of Diamonds throwing us out for being too opposed to nuclear weapons, and attendance figures had fallen accordingly.
At the meeting, fresh from their antipodean adventures, were John and Eve Harvey, Joseph Nicholas, and Judith Hanna. They regaled us with their tales of exotic places half a world away and entertained us with amusing anecdotes from the Worldcon, a surprising number of which featured Marty Cantor. Biggest surprise of the evening, however, was seeing Joseph with his lovingly-tended tresses at half-mast and the back of his neck exposed to the elements for the first time in fannish memory. When I'd finished laughing I asked him what had happened.
"It was Singapore" he explained. "The fascist junta there, controlled by running-dog lackeys of Capitalism doubtless in the pockets of such as Thatcher and Reagan, have been ruthlessly suppressing basic human freedoms, including a man's inalienable right to wear his hair over his collar."
"So they wouldn't let you into the country with longer than regulation-length hair?"
"Right. It was a question of standing firm on a point of principle and refusing to get it cut, or getting it cut and being allowed in...and Judith wanted to see Singapore."
Saturday 21st September - Quarterversary.
Met Linda by Manor House tube station prior to the CONSPIRACY '87 committee meeting. We walk down to Malcolm & Chris's Duckett Road manse together. Kettle is in France, but present are Malcolm, Paul Oldroyd & Chris Donaldson, and Kim Newman. During the course of the meeting, I discover I'm responsible for Fan Room publications.
Dave Hodson, Linda Pickersgill at SILICON
After the meeting, around 6pm, Linda and I meet up with our other halves at The Royal George, where we were briefly joined by Dave Hodson. Drinks and conversation ensue, following which we head to Gaby's for Mediterranean cuisine and Avedon is delighted by this (to her) familiar food. Dining at another table was the actor John Bluthal. When the meal was over we wandered around the West End - it was a beautiful night - soaking in the atmosphere and enjoying the crowds.
We ended the evening with a final drink in The Griffin, then headed to our respective homes. A very enjoyable day, and a pleasant way to spend our quarterversary.
23rd September 1985 - letter to Ted White
So how was Australia? Our own travellers have all returned now and have been telling us all about it - as I'm sure you will in CRANK.
Determined to make her mark on British fandom now that she is a resident alien ("bring me the ceremonial mouse"), Avedon has turned into something of a fannish dynamo of late. Not content with starting up a new monthly meeting for those fans unfortunate enough to live in East London (on the final Thursday of the month at The Boleyn, a pub first discovered by the drink-seeking horde after our wedding), she's put her name down on the waitlist for The Women's Periodical, is firing off letters and articles at a great rate, and is planning three - count 'em, three - decidedly different fanzines for publication over the next few months. The first of these, to be co-edited by myself, will be a genzine featuring (we hope) some of fandom's best writers, while the second - already existing in final draft form and possibly out by the time you read this - is the next issue of BLATANT. But it's the third zine that is perhaps the most surprising of all. This will be another co-production and the identity of her partner in this enterprise will both shock and astound you (and no, it's not Joy Hibbert). What a shame, then, that I'm sworn on pain of death not to tell you who it is.
The Boleyn pub in July 2017.
The night of the 'Sluts' meeting (Avedon's name, not mine) and beforehand we were joined at 9A by the Harveys and the Pickersgills. Greg was there to pick up some more of my fanzine discard pile. While he was doing so, John & Eve chuckled over a letter recently received from Marty Cantor.
"Take the Australian fanzines," I told Greg.
"Are you kidding? After the last MEXICON, we ended up with *more* Australian zines on the free fanzine table than we started with!"
At The Boleyn, we were dismayed to discover a pop group in residence and took to the bar furthest from them. Others who turned up were Mike & Jackie, Pam Wells, and Roz Kaveney. It was hot and humid - as it had been most of the month - so it was a relief to step outside occasionally.
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Who says movie stars can't be nice?
Check out these images, folks, from the Oscars.
IMAGE: For us, the image of the evening: Casey Affleck, right, hugs big bro Ben after winning the Best Actor Oscar for Manchester By The Sea.
Between them, the Affleck boys have three Oscars.
Ben won Best Director for Argo and Best Screenplay (with best pal Matt Damon) for Good Will Hunting.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (August 12, 1975) is three years younger than Ben (August 15, 1972).
He has been nominated for an Oscar before, for Supporting Actor for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Ben is not his only famous movie relative. Casey used to be married to actress Summer Phoenix, Joaquim's sister.
IMAGE: Mahershala Ali, left, and Ryan Gosling backstage during the Academy Awards.
Ali, who won the Best Supporting Oscar (Moonlight), played a key part in The Place Beyond the Pines, which starred Gosling and his partner Eva Mendes.
Ali may be more familiar to Indian audiences for his work in House of Cards, where he played the lobbyist Remy Denton, and The Hunger Games, where he plays Boggs.
Gosling was nominated for Best Actor for La La Land, but, alas, didn't win.
IMAGE: How nice to see two of the most exciting members of the British brat pack together?
Dev Patel and Andrew Garfield were both nominees this year.
Dev in the Supporting Actor category for Lion and Andrew for Best Actor in Hacksaw Ridge.
Neither won, but be sure that the Academy will see a lot more of these boys in coming years.
IMAGE: Ever since they played Sister Aloysius Beauvier and Mrs Miller in the 2008 film, Doubt, the finest actress of our time and one of the most versatile actresses around have been close friends.
In the weeks leading to the Oscars, Meryl turned up when Viola was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January.
Days later, Viola revealed some juicy nuggets about Meryl when she introduced her before the Cecil B De Mille Award at the Golden Globes.
Like at the Globes, Viola won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (Fences).
Meryl was not expected to win for Florence Foster Jenkins, her 20th Oscar nomination, not because she is 'over-rated' as the Orange Flamethrower in the WH unfairly (but then being fair is not a DJT quality) said she was, but because her performance this year was overshadowed by the incandescent Emma Stone, the amazing Ruth Negga and the astonishing Isabelle Huppert.


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Dani Anwar (22 February 1968 – 3 August 2020) was an Indonesian politician who served as a Senator. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.

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On Coast & Country tonight Carl Edwards explores the regeneration of Barry Island.
It was once the jewel in South Wales' crown, one of the busiest seaside towns in the UK, which at its peak attracted a quarter of a million visitors in just one weekend.
With its own Pleasure Park, a holiday camp and of course the beach, Barry Island was the place to be in South Wales. But in recent years many of us have seen that once famous island deteriorate into a forgotten resort.
But regeneration is starting to affect the area, with the famous Pleasure Park re-opening and the development of the Barry Island beach huts - although these wont be ready until the summer.
"For a long time Barry Island was much neglected. People came in the summer months and it was a ghost town in the winter. But there's development going on so it's heartening to see Barry Island sort of, taking its rightful step again. People are beginning to invest in Barry Island and long may that continue"
Catch Carl Edward's full report on the regeneration process to bring Barry Island back into centre stage on Coast & Country - tonight at 8.00pm on ITV Cymru Wales.


Kip A. Frey has a long history of running and investing in start-up companies, including Ventana Communications Group (sold to Thomson International), Accipiter (sold to CMGI) and OpenSite (sold to Siebel Systems). He was a partner at venture capital firm Intersouth Partners and has served on the boards of SciQuest (SQI) and Inspire Pharmaceuticals (INSP) and several other privately-held companies. Kip is a professor of Law and Public Policy at Duke University, where he directs the Program in Law & Entrepreneurship. He sits on several non-profit boards, including the Emily Krzyzewski Center and Durham Academy. Kip is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Southern California and Duke Law School.
Brian Hare is the Director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center and an Associate Professor in both the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. Brian has published dozens of empirical articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals; his research is frequently featured in national and international media such as the New York Times, TIME magazine, the New Yorker, and the BBC. In 2004, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation named him a recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, Germany's most prestigious award for scientists under the age of 40. In 2007 Smithsonian Magazine named him one of the top 37 U.S. scientists under age 36. Brian's first book, The Genius of Dogs, was released in February 2013.
Prior to joining Dognition, Thede Loder served as CTO for eDataSource and was founder and CEO of Boxbe, Inc., a free easy-to-use inbox organizer service designed to eliminate email overload. He was co-founder of Leverage Information Systems, which produced the first open source Java-based application server. He joined Match.com as the company's third technical hire in 1995 and helped to design, build, and launch the company when the online service grew to 85,000 members in its first year. Loder received an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester.
Jim joins Dognition with over 20 years of experience in Finance and Operations management. Much of his career has involved the formation and operations of emerging technology companies. Most recently Jim held CFO/COO positions at EvoApp, Inc. and Zenph Sound Innovations. Previously he worked with the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) and Covelight Systems, Inc., which was sold to Radware in May 2007. Jim also oversaw the merger of Pinpoint Networks and PowerbyHand into Motricity, Inc. As VP of finance and operations for OpenSite Technologies (sold to Siebel Systems in May 2000), he oversaw all operational aspects including IPO and M&A strategies. Ford holds a Masters degree in Management from Florida State University and a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Gardner-Webb University.
Vanessa Woods is an award-winning author and journalist. Her book, Bonobo Handshake (June 2010, Gotham Books) about research with bonobos in Congo, won the Thomas Lowell Award. In 2007 her book It's True; Space Turns you into Spaghetti was named an acclaimed book by the Royal Society. Vanessa is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. She received her M.A. in science journalism from the Australian National University. Vanessa has written for various publications including BBC Wildlife, New Scientist, and Travel Africa. In 2003, she won the Australian Science award for journalism. Vanessa's most recent book, The Genius of Dogs, was written with her husband Brian Hare.
Chief Science Officer, Canines, Inc.
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Canines Inc.
Dr. Brian Hare received his Ph.D. from Harvard and is a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, which is a division of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. His publications on dog cognition are among the most heavily cited papers on dog behavior and intelligence.
Dr. Juliane Kaminski received her Ph.D. in biological sciences from Leipzig University. She helped to found and lead the Max Planck Institute's Dog Cognition Study Center where she made a number of exciting discoveries about how dogs solve problems.
Dr. Ádám Miklósi founded the Family Dog Research Project in 1994. Widely viewed as the formative research center for dog cognition, the Family Dog Research Project is one of the largest dog research groups in the world.
Dr. Laurie Santos is director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 2003 and is now recognized as a leader in the field of animal cognition.
Dr. Josep Call is the senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He studied psychology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Richard Wrangham began his research working with renowned primatologist Jane Goodall at the Gombe Stream Research Centre in Tanzania. He read zoology at Oxford University before receiving his Ph.D. in the field from Cambridge.
Dognition has assembled a panel of highly respected thought leaders from a broad spectrum of dog-oriented disciplines, for the purpose of sharing ideas and providing feedback on Dognition's mission, products and practices. Dognition Experts regularly contribute their expertise in areas like canine health and well-being, training, service, and behavior. They will also contribute to Dognition member content, partner programs, and outreach services.
Carlos A. López is founder and CEO of EDUCAN, the biggest European company specializing in canine education and trainers' instruction. Since the late 1990's he pioneered the field developing original training and educational protocols based on dogs' cognitive, emotional and social abilities. In 2004 Carlos wrote the Spanish bestseller Canine Cognitive-Emotional Training and in 2014 he published Your Dog Thinks and Loves You: Training Dogs is not as You Were Told. The success of his work has earned him the chance to lecture all over the Spanish-speaking world aiming at incorporating cognition within the training protocols applicable to various species like dolphins, sea lions or parrots, as well as to the coexistence between dogs and their human companions.
New York Times bestselling author Tamar Geller has been called "a life coach for dogs and their people." She developed the "Loved Dog" training system, which focuses on observing, listening and coaching the relationship between owner and dog. A former Israeli military intelligence officer, Tamar now shares her considerable coaching talents with such dog lovers as Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Jon Stewart. She is endorsed by the Humane Society of the United States.
Richard W. Hawkins, DVM, is a small animal practitioner and owner of a five doctor AAHA-accredited small animal hospital in Durham, NC. He is current president of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Board and a Key Opinion Leader for Merck Animal Health. Dr. Hawkins is Past President of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association, Board President of the NC Vet Medical Foundation, and a former member of NCSU's Board of Advisors and the Admissions Committee for NCSU's College of Veterinary Medicine. He has served over fifteen years on the Duke Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Dr. Hawkins is a graduate of North Carolina State University and Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Since 1997, Paul Mundell has been the National Director of Canine Programs for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), an organization that breeds, raises and trains assistance dogs for the disabled. He identifies and validates techniques to improve CCI's ability to select, breed and train service dogs. Paul has become an expert in applied animal genetics and breeding and for over a decade has led the breeding, development and training program for over 700 dogs annually. He has consulted with the United States Marine Corps (USMC) on a project to develop specialized search dogs to remotely detect improvised explosive devices. He also provides the USMC with expertise in the selection, training, conditioning and deployment of such dogs.
Nina Ottosson is a highly respected designer and groundbreaking inventor of intelligent puzzle games and toys for dogs. A pioneer in the dog games industry, Nina designed her first games in 1990, thereby creating a whole new category of toys that provide fun and engaging ways to stimulate and exercise dogs both physically and mentally. Through her eponymously branded company, Nina continues her relentless pursuit of designing new, fun and engaging toys and puzzles to delight dogs and their owners around the world.
In 1996 Betsy Saul harnessed the infant technology of the Internet and molded it into one of the most successful Web businesses to date — while changing the way the public views shelter pets. Petfinder, a "social profit" company, is on a mission to see that no pet is euthanized for lack of a home and to increase the value of the family pet. Almost 15 years of consistent and steady growth has translated to over seven million unique visitors each month and over two million adoptions annually. Betsy was named by Woman's Day magazine as one of fifty "Women Who Are Changing The World." She splits her time among Petfinder, the Petfinder.com Foundation (where she is board chair), and the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs, where she serves on the board of directors.
Victoria Stilwell is a world-renowned dog trainer and star of the international hit TV series It's Me or the Dog. Stilwell reaches audiences in over 50 countries with her philosophy of positive training methods. A best-selling author, she makes frequent media appearances and is widely recognized as a leader in the field of animal behavior. A passionate advocate for positive reinforcement dog training methods, Stilwell is Editor-in-Chief of Positively.com, the featured trainer for eHow Pets, and CEO of Victoria Stilwell Positively Dog Training, the premier global network of positive reinforcement dog trainers. Stilwell is committed to causes including animal rescue and rehabilitation, as well as increasing awareness of: dogfighting, animal abuse, pet overpopulation, and dog bite prevention. She is a National Ambassador for the American Humane Association and on the Advisory Boards of RedRover, DogTV, and Canine Assistants.
Kyra's acrobatic Sundance Dog Team starred in thousands of live shows including a command performance for the King of Morocco; Disney's Underdog stage show; Bravo TV's Showdog Moms & Dads series; circuses and halftime shows; co-host of Worldwide Fido Awards; and performances on The Tonight Show, Ellen, and more. A world-renowned training expert, Kyra authored 7 books including the international bestseller 101 Dog Tricks, and hosts an award-winning DVD series. Founded by Kyra, "Do More With Your Dog!" encourages the integration of your dog into more areas of your life through training, dog sports camps, and the All-Star Performance Dog Team.
Duke University's respected dog intelligence research community, and the surrounding Triangle's active dog-friendly community, makes Durham the perfect place to call home.