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The Office for National Statistics has admitted that England suffered another record-breaking week of deaths in the week ending 14th October 2022, with a whopping 1,608 people dying compared to the five-year average.
This means England and Wales have now recorded significant numbers of excess deaths every week for the past 26 weeks, bringing the grand total to 29,491.
Expose-news.com reports: However, the actual number of excess deaths would be much higher if not for the fact that the five-year average now includes deaths that occurred throughout 2021, a year that recorded significant excess deaths on a near-weekly basis.
It is not officially known why so many people are dying, and only 13,278 of the deaths since April have been attributed to Covid-19. This is 45% of all excess deaths and just 5% of all deaths during this time frame
But with further Office for National Statistics figures proving 94% of all Covid-19 deaths since April have been among the triple/quadruple vaccinated, as well as proving mortality rates per 100,000 are highest among the vaccinated population in all age groups, this strongly suggests that the Covid-19 vaccine are a contributing factor to why so many people are dying.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes weekly figures on deaths registered in England and Wales. The most recent data shows deaths up to 14th October 2022.
In the week ending 14th October, there were 111,699 deaths in England and Wales, equating to 1,608 excess deaths against the five-year average.
This is a 15.9% increase on the 2016-2019 + 2021 five-year average.
The increase during this week can not be blamed on Covid-19 because just 565 deaths were attributed to the alleged disease. This equates to 35% of the excess deaths, and 5% of all deaths during that week.
The following chart, created by the ONS, shows the number of deaths per week compared to the 5-year average since the beginning of 2020 and it proves the trend of weekly excess deaths in 2022 began towards the end of April –
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The Oklahoma City Thunder are shopping backup point guard, Eric Maynor. Averaging just 2.8 points and 2.0 assists in 10.6 minutes per game this season, the fourth-year guard is looking for more minutes.
According to Ken Berger, CBS Sports:
The Thunder are listening to offers for backup point guard Eric Maynor, who is eager for more playing time. Maynor will be a restricted free agent this summer. Utah needs a backup point guard and would be a good fit, but sources say the Jazz front office is consumed with the dilemma of whether to trade Jefferson or Paul Millsap.

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Yes! In most cases, LASIK can completely correct astigmatism. While there is a limit to the laser’s capability (about 3 diopters of astigmatism), most patients fall below this threshold.
No. The medical term for “lazy eye” is amblyopia. It results from the connection between the eye and the brain not developing properly, even if the eye itself is relatively normal. LASIK has no effect on the connection between the eye and the brain, and therefore it cannot correct a lazy eye. However, if the vision in your lazy eye is 20/30 or better, you may still be a candidate for LASIK.
Contact lenses can interfere with proper measurements of your eyes. So, you must completely stay out of your contact lenses for at least 2 weeks before your examination with Dr. Larson.
Yes! If both eyes are eligible for LASIK surgery, then both eyes can be treated at the same time. The entire LASIK procedure for both eyes takes only about 10 minutes to perform.
The actual LASIK procedure only takes about 10 minutes to perform. However, on the day of your surgery, plan on being at Vermont Eye Laser for approximately 2 hours. The additional time is needed to verify measurements, review consent forms, and explain post-op instructions.
Before your LASIK procedure begins, you will be given medication to help you to relax. So, while you will be awake during the surgery, you will be very comfortable. Most patients report that the experience of having LASIK is much easier and much less stressful than they had anticipated beforehand.
Before your LASIK procedure begins, drops will be placed in your eyes to thoroughly numb them. This makes the surgery itself completely painless. There may be times during the procedure when you feel pressure around your eyes, but you should not experience any pain. When your surgery is over and your numbing drops eventually wear off, you may have some mild discomfort in your eyes, but this generally lasts only a few hours. Over-the-counter pain medication is rarely needed.
The advanced technology used at Vermont Eye Laser allows the laser to carefully track your eye in three dimensions. So, if your eye starts to drift up/down/left/right, or if you start to breathe heavily and your eye moves closer/farther from the laser, the treatment is automatically adjusted to your position. If you move out of range of the laser tracker, the laser automatically shuts off.
Conventional LASIK is based on the prescription in your glasses (or contact lenses) alone. It aims to eliminate your prescription, but without taking any specific measurements of your individual eyes.
Custom Wavefront-guided LASIK is based on a sophisticated device called an aberrometer, which takes precise measurements of your eye that include not only your prescription but also the unique nuances of your eyes’ anatomy. It is a more advanced, more precise, and more specific form of laser vision correction.
As you would expect, the results of Custom Wavefront-guided LASIK are superior to conventional LASIK. At Vermont Eye Laser, we are proud to offer the most advanced Wavefront-guided system in the industry (CustomVue™), giving our patients the best possible outcomes.
Like any surgery, LASIK has risks. Millions of Americans have undergone LASIK in the last 20+ years, and the rate of serious problems has been about 1%. However, it is important to recognize the potential complications of this procedure. These include:
- Overcorrection or undercorrection of your prescription
- Dry eyes
- Halos/starbursts around lights or glare from bright lights
- Flap striae (wrinkles/folds) or flap dislocation
- Inflammation under the flap, or cells from the surface of your eye trapped under the flap
More serious problems (like progressive irregular bulging of the cornea, eye infection, or vision loss) are far less common.
Talk to you surgeon at Vermont Eye Laser about any questions that you have regarding the risks, benefits, and alternatives to LASIK surgery.
No. You must have someone drive you home on the day of surgery. You cannot use a taxi.
Yes. For two weeks following your procedure:
- Avoid rubbing your eyes
- Wear eye protection while sleeping
- Wear eye protection during any activities that could result in being hit in the eye
- Do not use swimming pools, hot tubs, or saunas
- Do not use eye makeup
You can begin driving again once your vision is good enough and you feel comfortable behind the wheel. Overall, most people are ready to resume driving within 1-2 days.
Typically, most patients are back to work within 24-48 hours.
Your eyes begin to heal immediately after your LASIK procedure is over. Healing usually occurs rapidly, but it is normal to have blurry vision or fluctuating vision for several weeks to months after your surgery. Attending all of your post-operative appointments is critical to ensuring that your eyes heal properly after LASIK.
If you plan on having all of your follow-up care at Vermont Eye Laser, your post-op appointments are included in the cost of the LASIK procedure. You will be seen the day after your surgery, 1 week after your surgery, 1 month after your surgery, and 3 months after your surgery.
If you plan on seeing your established eye doctor for follow-up appointments after LASIK, a separate fee is paid directly to this provider. You will be seen by your surgeon on the day after surgery, and then you will see your optometrist for the remaining post-op visits. Copies of these visits with your optometrist will be sent to your surgeon so that your progress can be monitored. If for any reason you need to see your surgeon again during the first month after LASIK, the visit is included in the fees you have already paid.
LASIK is considered an elective procedure, and it is generally not covered by your insurance. However, some insurance providers offer patients a small discount on LASIK. Please contact your insurance provider to ask if they offer a discount, and Vermont Eye Laser would be happy to honor it.
In the majority of cases, the effects of LASIK are permanent. However, there is a chance that you may experience a recurrence of some nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism over time. If this occurs and you are bothered by your vision, a LASIK enhancement (“touch-up”) can often be done to restore clear vision.
is important to remember that other eye conditions (dry eyes, presbyopia, cataracts, glaucoma, etc.) can impact your vision. If you develop one of these problems, the previous LASIK procedure will not prevent vision changes, and additional LASIK will not correct these vision changes.
The short answer is no. The goal of LASIK is to provide clear distance vision without glasses or contact lenses. LASIK does not eliminate your need for reading glasses (if you already have them) or prevent you from needing reading glasses in the future (if you don’t have them already).
Presbyopia occurs as a natural part of aging. LASIK does not prevent/reverse presbyopia and the resulting need in reading glasses. However, if you are interested in reducing your dependence on glasses for both distance vision and near vision, Vermont Eye Laser offers several options, including monovision.
Developing cataracts is a natural part of aging. LASIK does not accelerate the development of cataracts, but it does not prevent the development of cataracts either.
The previous LASIK procedure does not complicate cataract surgery. However, in order to treat you properly, your cataract surgeon will need certain pre-LASIK information about your eyes. At Vermont Eye Laser, we provide you with written records that contain all of the necessary pre-LASIK information about your eyes so that your future cataract surgery goes as smoothly as possible.
If you had LASIK years ago and you are now being told that you have cataracts, make an appointment today. In addition to being a LASIK specialist, Dr. Larson is also highly-acclaimed cataract surgeons with extensive experience treating previous LASIK patients.

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Project divides Ontario County planners
A deadlocked Ontario County Planning Board agreed Wednesday night on only one of five issues up for referral regarding the proposed Residences at West Lake Marine Club.
Board members discussed and voted on variances to rezone the property, as well as site plan and subdivision approval. However, the board achieved the necessary 10 of 12 votes to issue a formal referral only on the special use permit, which allows for a “private water-oriented recreational facility.”
The board could not come to a consensus on the other issues, so its comments alone will be sent to the town planners in lieu of a formal referral.
Canandaigua’s town Planning Board makes the ultimate decisions on the project, but the county planners offered their opinions on its impact.
The 70-home development is proposed for 75 acres off of West Lake Road, at the site of the German Brothers Marina. The project, which would include a private marina and clubhouse, has undergone intense scrutiny from town officials and residents. A public comment period on a draft environmental impact statement ended last week, paving the way for a final environmental statement.
County planners expressed concerns about views of the development, which extends up a hillside on the west side of Canandaigua Lake, particularly the 35-foot height of the proposed homes,, which would be 10 feet higher current zoning allows.
Stephen Groet, a Planning Board member representing Canadice, said he didn’t want drainage issues to result in damage to the lake, noting that the draft impact statement acknowledges that “some degradation from existing conditions will still result.”
Doug Eldred of RSM Development Co., the project developer, responded that his company will restrict the use of phosphorus and exceed current practices designed to prevent runoff.
Robert Brancato, president of the Canandaigua Lake Association, said he was concerned with the project’s impact on the density — or, number — of boats on the lake, drinking water drawn from the lake and the visual impact of the homes. In an Aug. 11 letter addressed to county Planner Tim Jensen and the board, Brancato describes the organization’s concerns about a “slippery slope” resulting from the lakeside development.
“This kind of ‘special use’ logic, taken to the extreme (as has occurred around some lakes in the U.S.), would set dangerous precedents for other lakeshore landowners,” the letter stated.
Eldred stressed the measures developers have taken to address residents’ concerns.
“Our plan is cleaner and greener than existing facilities,” he said.
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There are a few issues that we look ahead to after each year. Christmas time supper using my family. Making resolutions looking for mens any new year. And all of the most known 10 databases.
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Guys would rather date women who are dumped. A research published because of the college of Michigan discovered that males would rather date women who happened to be dumped by their finally men, while females would like to date guys whom started their unique finally separation. The team behind the study speculates that when a man starts a breakup it reinforces male prominence and conventional gender functions, whereas a lady whom starts a breakup is considered picky and high-maintenance.
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Men and women can recognize a cheater from the audio of their vocals. 120 female and male college students happened to be expected to help make vowel sounds in various pitches, then participants picked the voices which they believed happened to be a lot of appealing while the sounds they believed belonged to cheaters. Guys connected higher-pitched female voices with cheating, while women connected lower-pitched male voices with unfaithfulness. There could be a biological vital for women’s response: a-deep vocals could be indicative of a higher testosterone amount, that might consequently be indicative of more promiscuity and a heightened odds of cheating.
Adele could easily get you a date. Adele’s most famous tracks go for about breakups, however it looks like that hearing the woman songs might a good way to hook up. A dating web site called Tastebuds.fm, which suits possible times considering their unique style in songs, found that the essential effective on-line daters are enthusiasts of Adele’s music. Fans of Arcade flames, Kings of Leon, while the Arctic Monkeys had been in addition lucky in love, while Metallica, Linkin Park, and Eminem enthusiasts were the least prominent times.
Hamsters are not likely to ruin your odds of getting a date. Yep, someone actually learned that! When Craigslist.co.uk questioned single people what kind of pet tends to make all of them less inclined to date some one, the hamster obtained the coveted subject of “Least more likely to Break several upwards.” 28percent said they mightn’t date your dog owner and 25percent wouldn’t date a cat manager, but only 10percent stated a hamster is actually a dealbreaker.
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I doubt you will ever find one that will have that much of a time delay, or be good for that current. Buy a digital watch or waterproof timer that you can set for 10 minutes and pay attention to it.
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Day: January 19, 2017
Throughout the spring semester, visitors to Leach Theatre can view a retrospective exhibit by artist Ellen Pearce. Pearce, a Rolla resident who has traveled through much of the U.S. and Europe, primarily uses acrylic paint to create landscapes in hopes of bringing viewers a fresh take on common and uncommon themes.Read More »
The Spanish program in the arts, languages, and philosophy department at Missouri University of Science and Technology will present its third Hispanic Film Series during the spring semester at Missouri S&T. This event is open to the public and free of charge. The series consists of five films presented at 7 p.m. Fridays. All films are in Spanish or Portuguese with English subtitles.Read More »
Enrollment for the first day of classes at Missouri University of Science and Technology was 7,834. This is 1.2 percent less than spring enrollment in 2016, says Deanne Jackson, Missouri S&T registrar.
The spring semester at Missouri S&T began on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Last spring, 7,931 students were enrolled on the first day of the spring semester.Read More »


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Based on material type the global aptamer market is segmented into nucleic acid aptamer and peptide aptamer. The material type segments have been analyzed based on type of aptamer uses for different application in the region. The market size and forecast for each of these segments have been provided for the period from 2015 to 2025, along with their respective CAGRs for the forecast period from 2017 to 2025, considering 2016 as the base year. According to application the global aptamer market is segmented into research, diagnostics, therapeutics and others. The market size and forecast for each of these segments have been provided for the period from 2015 to 2025, along with their respective CAGRs for the forecast period from 2017 to 2025, considering 2016 as the base year.
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Ricardo Moutinho Guilherme Alves Soares
Hospital Quironsalud Madrid, Spain
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Background: We wanted to examine whether the apparent diffusion coefficient values obtained by diffusion-weighted imaging techniques could indicate an early prognostic assessment for patients with invasive ductal carcinoma and, therefore, influence the treatment decision making.
Objectives: The main objective was to evaluate the correlation between the apparent diffusion coefficient values obtained by diffusion-weighted imaging and the key prognostic factors in breast invasive ductal carcinoma. Secondary objectives were to analyze the eventual correlations between magnetic resonance imaging findings and prognostic factors in breast cancer; and to perform a comparison between results in 1.5 and 3.0 T scanners.
Methods: Breast magnetic resonance imaging with diffusion-weighted imaging sequence was performed on 100 patients, who were proven histopathologically to have breast invasive ductal carcinoma. We compared the apparent diffusion coefficient values, obtained previous to biopsy, with the main prognostic factors in breast cancer: tumor size, histologic grade, hormonal receptors, Ki67 index, human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2, and axillary lymph node status. The Mann-Whitney U test and the Kruskal-Wallis analysis were used to establish these correlations.
Results: The mean apparent diffusion coefficient value was inferior in the estrogen receptor-positive group than in the estrogen receptor-negative group (1.04 vs 1.17 x10–3mm2/s, p=0.004). Higher histologic grade related to larger tumor size (p=0.002). We found association between spiculated margins and positive axillary lymph node status [OR=4.35 (1.49-12.71)]. There were no differences in apparent diffusion coefficient measurements between 1.5 and 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging scanners (p=0.513).
Conclusions: Low apparent diffusion coefficient values are related with positive expression of estrogen receptor. Larger tumors and spiculated margins are associated to worse prognosis. Rim enhancement is more frequently observed in estrogen receptor-negative tumors. There are no differences in apparent diffusion coefficient measurements between different magnetic resonance imaging scanners.
Ricardo is a Portuguese resident Medical Doctor at Hospital do Barlavento Algarvio in Portimão, Portugal. Studied Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Faculty of Pharmacy (Porto University) in Portugal. Graduated in Medicine by the Universidad Europea de Madrid in Spain. During his internship, he joined the Clinical Radiology Department in the Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud Madrid, in Spain, where he developed great interest in breast pathology, namely diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. Clinical Internship in the Hospital da Beneficiência Portuguesa de São Paulo in 2015, during a period of 12 months, granted by the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil. He published his work about the “Correlation Between Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Values in Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Prognostic Factors of Breast Invasive Ductal Carcinoma” under the supervision of Dr. Vicente Vega Martínez, Head of the Clinical Radiology Department. Article published on July 2018 in the “Porto Biomedical Journal”. Received the CIMQ17 1st prize award on best investigational work in 2017, by the Faculty of Medicine of Compostela University in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He has a major research interest, taking part on several projects on Molecular Research and Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. Reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals, both national and internationally.
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With thanks to Zia Weise, Cristina Gonzalez, Giorgio Leali and Zosia Wanat
Good Friday afternoon and welcome back to EU Influence.
LOBBYING THE EU
HOMELESSNESS IN FOCUS: European institutions, governments and civil society groups came together earlier this week to launch the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness. The platform “will promote policies based on a person-centred, housing-led and integrated approach,” according to a declaration signed in Lisbon on Monday. The aims of the platform include supporting “mutual learning for policy-makers and practitioners,” as well as contributing “to harness EU funding possibilities” and promoting “good practices.”
Civil society view: “We understand that the responsibility for addressing homelessness is with the national and local authorities,” said Freek Spinnewijn, director of the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA), who welcomed the creation of a new platform. “But there is [a] huge amount that the European Commission can do to make the policies and services addressing homelessness better,” Spinnewijn told EU Influence.
What the EU can do: “Many homeless policies are not sufficiently evidence-based, for instance, and the evidence might be quite narrow sometimes. The European Commission can help to broaden the evidence base, to make evidence more available,” Spinnewijn said, adding that the Berlaymont can also “help to promote new policies” such as a “housing first” approach to homelessness. “If the European Commission could help organize what they call mutual learning, exchange of best practices, research, etc., that would already have quite a bit of policy impact,” he said.
More funding, please: Civil society hopes that the increased focus on the problem of homelessness could also lead to more investment in tackling it. “There seems to be more money available for social interventions at the EU level than ever before. And if the platform could help to direct some of that money towards the fight against homelessness, that would also make a big difference,” Spinnewijn said.
CATCHING UP WITH: SUSI DENNISON
FOREIGN POLICY OPTIONS: From Belarus to China, EU foreign policy is in the spotlight — but the bloc has been struggling to overcome internal divisions and slow decision-making. “It’s been understood now that we have to get better at this,” said Susi Dennison, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
The road ahead: One way forward is “some foreign ministers taking a representative role on certain key files,” Dennison told EU Influence, adding that working groups or “coalitions of the willing” could also do more to prepare files ahead of bigger discussions and that “we could look more at the kind of common statements that aren’t necessarily at 27.”
A question of priorities: “The messaging that has come out of the G7, the NATO summit, EU-U.S. summit is that the EU leadership is kind of jumping on board with the U.S. focus on China,” Dennison said. “This is a real sort of challenge for European foreign policy right now,” she added, pointing to the need to “define what EU leadership means, at a time when you’ve got a newly re-engaged U.S.” According to Dennison, this shift “should mean more of a focus back on the neighborhood, and the relationships where we carry more economic clout,” including in areas such as climate.
What Europeans want: In a recent ECFR poll of 12 EU countries, 33 percent of respondents said that “the EU should be a beacon of democracy and human rights, prioritising the rule of law and high democratic standards within its own ranks.” Eighteen percent said that “the EU should be one of the world’s great powers, capable of defending itself from external threats, including through military means when necessary.”
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DELAYED VOTE: A committee vote on a new EU ethics body originally scheduled for this week has been delayed until July 14.
What happened? Members of the Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO) received a note on Monday informing them that “the secretariat received a request on behalf of the EPP [European People’s Party] for the postponement of the vote on the report on Strengthening transparency and integrity in the EU institutions by setting up an independent EU ethics body” and that “the Chair will propose this modification of the draft agenda at the opening of the meeting.”
EPP take: European Parliament Vice President Rainer Wieland, a German member of the EPP, told EU Influence that “I requested to postpone the vote on the EU Ethics Body on behalf of my group because of major concerns my group still has with the current compromises which need further discussion.” Wieland also said in an email that “the compromises, as they currently stand, can lead to some very serious impacts with regards to the balance of powers between the institutions” and that “we see core principles of the rule of law violated, such as the presumption of innocence.”
FOREIGN FUNDING: The European Parliament’s special committee on foreign interference this week examined a study on the role of foreign funding in European politics. Edoardo Bressanelli, an assistant professor at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the author of the report, told EU Influence that while contributions from abroad are currently not allowed for EU-level political parties and their foundations, there are still loopholes on the national level and many countries “do not really ban” foreign financing of political parties.
“The very fact that it is still possible, and there is so much variation — particularly in Western Europe — on the rules of the game … that’s an issue,” Bressanelli said. While noting that foreign actors appear more interested in targeting national parties than European-level political groups, the academic argued that the bloc should be doing more to tackle foreign funding.
“Of course, the EU cannot regulate” national politics, he said. But it can “exert pressure, soft power,” he said, adding that “the trend is more regulation.” Another approach that can help, according to Bressanelli, is a “more institutionalized dialogue” between national and European regulators so that if there is “any evidence or even any suspicion of foreign funding” to a political movement, alarm bells could be rung.
SCOTTISH CAMPAIGN CHIEF: The Scottish National Party has approved the nomination of Michael Russell as political director of its independence unit. Russell “will oversee the development of the party’s independence campaign, as we look ahead to #indyref2 later in this Parliament,” tweeted First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
IN MEMORIAM: Former DG Competition director and legendary competition lawyer Aurelio Pappalardo has died. Pappalardo — who taught at the College of Europe for decades and launched law firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo — is considered one of the founding fathers of EU and Italian competition law.
Cor Baltus is the new president of the International Federation of Automotive Aftermarket Distributors.
Richard Burn, a former British trade official, has returned to APCO Worldwide as senior adviser.
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has announced that Thalia Chryssikou, head of global sales strats & structuring at Goldman Sachs, has been appointed as chair of the board.
Paolo Compostella, currently managing director of APCO’s Rome and Milan offices, is set to become CEO Europe. Janet Sippy, currently Europe finance director, has been promoted to COO. Meanwhile, Robert Ardelt, currently managing director of the Berlin and Frankfurt offices, will become chief innovation officer worldwide.
Quentin de Hults, formerly with BASF and the Modern Building Alliance, has joined the European Copper Institute as director, green and healthy buildings. Anna-Maria Karjalainen has joined the institute as director, clean energy transition after nine years at Hume Brophy.
Christian Kovács, previously a bank resolution expert at the Single Resolution Board, has recently joined the state aid team of the European Commission’s legal service.
Dr2 Consultants Brussels has welcomed Jeroen Lammers as associate partner.
Aleksandra Lugović has joined Hanover Health as an associate director.
Torsten Lüth is the new president of the German Tax Advisers Association.
Chulani Sakuntala Mahagamage is now a policy adviser at MUST & Partners.
Valeria Ronzitti has been reelected general secretary of SGI Europe, with a mandate running until 2026.
The European Container Glass Federation has elected Vitaliano Torno as its new president. Martin Petersson was elected vice president.
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Things seem to pile up for Miami Beach songbird Paulina Rubio, as well. The Mexican icon has been entangled in a legal battle with a former assistant who says she abused him. But the gopher isn’t the only one who wants her money. So does the IRS. The taxman filed a lien on Rubio’s $2.2 million home on DiLido Isle earlier this year. The feds claim the singer of Nada de Ti owes $132,641 in taxes for 2010. Rubio’s attorney was unavailable for comment as of press time.
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Holy crap guys, I’m sorry it’s been so long since my last post but it’s been busy. Things are afoot over here and hopefully I’ll have a shiny new website up and running, that’ll allow more customization and make it easier for me to organize my posts. In the mean time though, I thought I’d share with all of you some really cool commercials that I hope become the future of advertising. I hate commercials, I really do, but if all commercials were as moving and honest as these two, I would literally watch nothing but the commercials.
First one is from Google:
And I don’t even know what this one was supposed to be advertising, but I’ll take twelve:
So once again, sorry for my long absence, but hopefully these give you something to think about or least bring a smile to your face!
Edit: And for some reason the youtube embed code isn’t working, so you’ll just have to follow the links. Trust me, these are great.
Sorry for the long delay between posts, but this month has been absolutely crazy for my freelancing business. I complete one assignment only for three more to pop up, still that’s no excuse for ignoring all my readers, so my apologies. Fortunately last night I took some time to myself to relax and let my fingers relax, since my writer’s cramp has progressed into writer’s rigor mortis; I went to see Gravity, and it is without a doubt the greatest movie that’s come out this year. Once again I’ll be using my patented style of analysis to systematically ruin every surprise and character arc in the movie, so if you haven’t see this please don’t read any further. This is a great movie and really deserves to be seen. For those of you who have seen it, sit back and enjoy while I take the story apart piece by piece and show you why this movie is so damn good.
Gravity: A Storyteller’s Review
Gravity takes place in an alternate universe where NASA is actually funded and we’re still actively exploring space, but other than that the movie is pretty grounded in reality. I’ve heard from some sciencey-type guys that the physics of Gravity are wrong, and that some of the scenes are unrealistic but then I never was any good at mathing so I still enjoyed it. If you have Phd in Physics then either turn off your bullshit sensors or avoid this movie, nerd!
The plot of Gravity is deceptively simple, those wacky Russians decide to blow up a satellite but accidentally trigger a chain reaction that sends a giant wave of debris smashing into the Space Shuttle Explorer and sending Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) drifting aimlessly through the upper atmosphere. Well, not entirely aimlessly as Kowalski was field testing a new jetpack of sorts that allows him to maneuver through space and attempt to survive without any outside assistance. That’s the plot, and it’s a damn good plot filled with incredibly tense moments. Except for a short scene when Dr. Ryan is inside the International Space Station, the entire movie is devoid of all sound effects and watching space debris go ripping through the space shuttle, astronauts and space stations in the movie is even eerier when there’s no sound. It’s a good plot, but that’s not why it’s a good story.
The real meat of the story is in the underlying theme, the journey of the characters and the absolutely stunning visual symbolism.
As that not-so-subtle visual metaphor probably makes abundantly clear, this movie’s core themes are about life, death and the journey in between. The imagery, and indeed the dialogue, is sometimes a bit heavy-handed but the message it’s carrying is so good that I didn’t really mind. I’m getting a head of myself, however.
After a nail biting opening sequence, Dr. Stone and Kowalski return to the now shattered hull of the Explorer to find there are no survivors on board. Nearly every Satellite in orbit has been wiped out, cutting the pair off from Houston but Kowalski tells Dr. Stone to keep talking just in case. Ostensibly this is because someone might be listening but unable to respond to them, but the real reason is so Sandra Bullock and Kowalski can continue talking without being too unrealistic (talking consumes a lot more oxygen than just breathing.) This is a great thing because it’s Dr. Stone and Kowalski’s relationship that really make the first part of the movie fantastic, and set the stage for the later character development of Dr. Stone. Why only Dr. Stone? Well because Kowalski isn’t going to stay with us.
Kowalski does what’s necessary: he sacrifices himself rather than doom both of them. This is a powerful scene for several reasons; first because Kowalski attitude towards death gives us a glimpse at Dr. Stone’s character arc, two because it preys on the primal fear of being alone, and three, it’s a symbolic representation of life and human relationships.
Kowalski’s attitude towards his own impending doom is one of calm acceptance rather than fear and when he starts floating away into the emptiness of space, he doesn’t waste time mourning for himself or sharing his regrets. He sits back and enjoys the view, enjoying the fact that he’s finally going to be beat Anatoly Solovyev’s record for longest space walk. He uses his final words to remark on how beautiful the sunrise is as it hits the Ganges River hundred of thousands miles down. George Clooney absolutely nails this performance, to the point where you’re almost envious that the guy gets to die in the void of space cold and alone. Dr. Stone desperately tries to keep in contact with him, but eventually he drifts out of range and Dr. Stone is completely and utterly alone, everyone’s worst nightmare.
It was watching Dr. Stone desperately clutching at the tether that made this whole scene so powerful. Relationships are a lot like that, we’re all just attached by the flimsiest of tethers and sometimes it doesn’t take much for those tethers to slip, break or be let go, and when they’re gone it’s impossible not to feel that emptiness on the other side of the tether. More to the point, it’s also a great visual metaphor for life; delicate and so easy to lose. Kowalski let go of the tether, and his life, because he had to. His fate was sealed already, and hanging on would only have killed Dr. Stone as well. Some people though, let go of the tether of life because we just don’t want to hold on to it anymore. That’s the situation Dr. Stone finds herself in after she makes it to the ISS’s escape ship and finds out the engines are out of fuel. Frustrated and exhausted she turns off the ship’s life support systems and waits for death, until Kowalski reappears.
His speech here is amazing and I can’t remember it word for word, but it boils down to this: life is hard and painful to get through sometimes, and sometimes it gets to the point where it feels like it would just be easier to curl up and let ourselves go. I’ve been in that situation several times before, back when I was depressed and even a couple times since when the walls seem to be closing in around me; when I was kicked out of college for instance, it sometimes seemed like ending it would have been the easier option. After all, I’d raised to believe that life without college is a life not worth living, by my parents, by my teachers and by society itself. Then I returned to my first true love, my writing and I found a new career that didn’t care if I’d been kicked out of college. That’s the beauty of life, there’s always another option and that’s what Kowalski reminds Dr. Stone of. The main engines are dead, but the soft-landing jets that deploy after re-entry are still functioning. There’s still a way to get home.
Of course Kowalski isn’t really there, it was just a dream brought on by low oxygen, but the idea is real. So she fires the jets and heads toward the Chinese space station Tiangong, hoping to find a functional escape vehicle there. she succeeds but finds Tiangong falling into the atmosphere. She finds a functional escape ship, and with the station burning up around her, begins preparations to launch. Then Sandra Bullock gives us her best performance of the movie, and a speech that’ll make you want to go out there and do something crazy.
Houston, in ten minutes I’ll either be home on earth with one hell of a story to tell or I’ll burn up in the atmosphere. Either way, no harm, no foul. Because one way or the other, it’s been a hell of a ride.
Obviously I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist of her statement and it brought manly tears to my eyes. She let go of her fear of death, and embraced life with every fiber of her being. She stopped worrying and let life take its course; she still does everything she can to survive, but there’s no more hopelessness and no more despair, just determination and confidence. Even after all the greatness this movie gave me, it’s the ending that really secures this movie as my favorite of the year.
After an admittedly unrealistic survival and reentry, Sandra Bullocks emerges from the ocean and takes her first unsure steps on Earth. Weak from long-term exposure to Zero Gravity, her first steps are awkward and unsure, and that’s what makes this ending amazing.
Hundreds of millions of years ago, some strange sea creature made this same journey. It stepped out of the primordial oceans to take its first steps on land and ushered in a new age. Obviously it didn’t see it that way, it was just evolving to take advantage of a new environment but that doesn’t matter. What does matter is some creature with only rudimentary leg-flaps and breathing with its half-developed lungs came onto land, and though all the odds were stacked against it, it survived. More followed, and soon there was man.
Gravity reminds us not only where we came from, and what life is all about, but also where we’re going. We emerged from the seas countless eons ago, and now we’re taking our first unsure steps into the depths of space. We may have landed on the moon fifty years ago, but make no mistake, we’re still in the infancy of space travel. We’re just like that half-formed sea creature, our bodies aren’t adapted to the environment of space and its an environment filled with dangers both known and unknown, but it’s crucial we take these steps. Even when tragedies like the destruction of Challenger and Columbia strike, we have to keep moving forward. Space exploration is the future of our species, and up there we don’t have nationalities, we’re mankind united.
We have to reach the stars because no matter what we find or what setbacks we suffer…
We’ll have one hell of a story to tell, and it’ll be a hell of a ride.
Before I begin this week’s blog post, a few updates about the Breaking Bad situation. First of all I’ll be continuing to cover Breaking Bad, but from now on these posts will be password protected so that people who aren’t caught up on the show won’t run into spoilers by accident. I’ve already gone back and password protected the other two posts as well. If you want to read these posts, the password is “spoilers” without quotations marks obviously. The following post, however, has nothing to do with Breaking Bad so every should read on without fear!
The suspension of disbelief is the foundation upon which good stories are built and yet there are a lot of misconceptions about it, the biggest being that the suspension of disbelief relies entirely on the audience. “It’s just a movie/book/game” is the phrase a lot of people trot out when mistakes in the story are pointed out.
Of course the audience does have to play its part. Whenever we turn on a movie, pick up a book or play a video game we’re asking the creators to fool us. To trick us with sweet, sweet lies and take us into another world, or show us our own world from a different point of view. So of course we, as the audience, have to take that first step and accept that we’re being fooled. That doesn’t let the writer off the hook though and, in fact, the audience’s ability to suspend its disbelief relies almost entirely on the writer.
The suspension of disbelief is a magic trick and like any magic trick, its success largely comes down to how much showmanship and theatricality the magician puts into the trick. The writer has to distract, dazzle and misdirect the audience so that the splendid and unbelievable things happening in the story don’t hamper our ability to enjoy it.
There’s a great line from the movie The Prestige that sums up the suspension of disbelief beautifully:
(Huge Spoiler. If you haven’t seen this movie, what the hell is wrong with you? It has Batman vs Wolverine! If you haven’t seen it, there’s a spoiler free quote from the movie below.)
Now you’re looking for the secret [of the magic trick], but you won’t find it…because of course, you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to work it out…you want to be fooled.
A magician works by concealing and misdirecting you from the ordinary, mundane objects that make the trick possible: the wires, pulleys and mirrors. A writer’s magic trick works by plugging or hiding plot holes and drawing the audience’s attention away from the staggering coincidences and unbelievable elements that all stories rely on. So how does this work in practice?
Well the first and easiest part of the magic trick that is the suspension of disbelief is simply properly labeling your story. Aliens showing up in a historical fiction story is a great way to make your reader put down the book, but having aliens show up in a science fiction story is a great way to make the story more interesting. If you’re writing a realistic drama you’re going to have a hard time getting away with the larger-than-life action scenes where the hero takes out an entire terrorist cell, but if you’re writing about Jack Bauer or anything with Bruce Willis in it then your audience would be disappointed if they didn’t get an absurd fight scene. Our willingness to ignore or overlook plot holes and improbable coincidences depends largely on the genre the story falls into.
For instance, the most famous plot hole you probably all know is the “Eagle Flight” from Lord of the Rings: why did Frodo and Sam go through all the trouble of walking when they could have flown instead?
Despite this being a rather large plot hole, most people are okay with it because it’s a fantasy story. We’re already in a story where a giant disembodied eyeball is conquering a world containing elves, dwarves and hobbits so not riding the giant eagles into Mordor to end the story in five minutes doesn’t really ruffle our feathers (I’m so sorry) which leads us to step 2 of the trick: don’t point out your mistakes to the reader.
Do you want to know the reason why Tolkien never went into why they couldn’t just fly into Mordor? Because doing so would draw your attention to the fact that they could even do that, he ignored it for the same reason a magician doesn’t tell the audience why the levitating woman isn’t held up by wires: you don’t want the audience looking for the wires. The moment you tell them to look for the secret to the trick you’re reminding them that they’re watching a trick, and that sense of magical wonder is lost. The sad fact of the matter is that plot holes happen, there’s no writer so talented as to make a completely airtight world free of holes, but when a writer comes across a plot hole that can’t be fixed then its up to him to redirect the audience’s attention elsewhere.
Now imagine for a moment that Tolkien did decide to try and tackle this plot hole in the book. What kind of excuse should he use and what excuse would the reader accept? Eagles don’t like the warmth of volcanoes? Sauron emits an Anti-Eagle field around his domain? The Naz’gul patrol the area constantly even though they should be looking for the ring? No matter what excuse he made, it would seem flimsy to us because suddenly we’d realize “yeah, flying the ring to Mount Doom would be a lot easier.” He would have shown us the wires; he would have ruined the trick for us. So instead of telling us why the Eagles couldn’t fly to Mordor, he instead spent his time redirecting our attention to other things: Frodo and Sam’s survival, Gondor’s stand against the hordes of Mordor, and the final heroic fight at the Black Gate. Using high tension and emotional involvement in the characters it the best way to keep the audience from noticing a plot hole because we’ll be much more invested in a character than a plot.
The Dark Knight Rises for instance featured a lot of rather inexcusable plot holes and unexplained elements, and yet it’s fucking Batman and we would have been willing to excuse any or all of them if they’d put more effort into redirecting our attention. I’m currently working on an article covering Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, but let me just pick on one prime example: Bane’s discovery of Batman’s secret arsenal.
This is a major story point in the movie because it’s Batman’s arsenal that gives Bane the ability to take over the city, but how Bane located it is never explained and then instead of trying to distract us from this gaping plot hole they just keep going like they hoped we wouldn’t notice. Honestly only a few lines of dialogue were needed here, just a little extra effort that would let me go on fooling myself into accepting this extremely convenient discovery and if they’d really wanted to go all out they would have simply dragged that whiny little accountant from The Dark Knight on screen to explain how Bane found out. Apparently Rises was too busy with time-compressing montages and miraculous punch cures for broken backs to bother trying to disguise its mistakes.
The rest of the magic trick can’t be easily described unfortunately because it all comes down to the skill of the writer. Keeping a consistent tone, remaining true to the themes of your story, and making interesting characters are crucially important in making sure the audience can suspend its disbelief. If any one of those elements fail, then so does the trick.
The reason we accept Arya just happening to rescue a shapeshifting assassin but scoff at Jeff Goldblum hacking an alien mothership with his 1996 laptop all comes down to the writer’s talent and ability to keep us distracted. They’re both equally absurd if you think about it, but because Arya is such an amazing character and A Song of Ice and Fire is so well written the staggering coincidences don’t seem all that strange.
All of this said though, this doesn’t lets you off the hook because in the end its still your disbelief that you need to suspend. No writer is so good as to completely fool you into believing everything they write, so you need to meet us halfway. You have to be willing to let yourself be fooled, because otherwise you’re just that one asshole in the theater that came to the magic show just to yell out “It’s a trick!”
Yes, we know its a trick. That’s why we came. The real question is, why did you?
I don’t want to be one of those bloggers who comes on and begs for readers, but this is too interesting not to share. When I began writing on Breaking Bad I was getting pretty steady traffic here, I’m not breaking any records or anything but I was pleased with the amount of readers I was getting.
And then I wrote this. (Warning: Link Contains Spoilers)
And then this happened:
Yeah those last couple days there? Notice how they’re so much shorter than the rest of the bars? They’re the ugly and stubby post signs saying I just lost a shitload of readers after making a single post. So how did this happen?
Well as a friend of mine pointed out, he’s been avoiding my blog because he hasn’t caught up with the latest season of Breaking Bad and wants to avoid spoilers. But is this the case with the rest of you? Here’s your chance to tell me.
Like I said I don’t want to turn into a blogger than writes up sad, pleading posts every time his traffic dips below optimal. However I also want to keep you guys reading obviously, and not just because of the advertising money it brings (I make like $3.00 a month from ad revenue). I enjoy being able to entertain and inform you guys about writing, stories and all that good stuff.
So is it just people are avoiding spoilers for Breaking Bad, which admittedly my articles are full of, or was that last post poorly done? Did you not like the content or how it was written?
Come on people, bring me your complaints, suggestions or praise. Just let me know I’m not alone in this big lonely desert called the internet.
Please? I’ll give you a cookie!
Back in August of 2011 I went to go see something at the Historic Everett Theatre. Something amazing, something truly unique. It was called Aeterno Elementum and it was a Heavy Metal Opera. Just what is a Heavy Metal Opera? Well that’s what I asked when I went to go see it, and to this day I don’t think words can really do it justice, you really just have to see it.
The short version is that Aeterno Elementum combines traditional operatic themes, badass on-stage fights between warriors wearing authentic armor and weapons, great onstage performances that tell a story of death and redemption set to the tune of deep and thrumming Heavy Metal music. I don’t even care that’s a run-on sentence, that’s how good this thing is. The long version is that you can read my original review right here, but seriously, its really good. Ara’Kus Productions, the guys who put this show on, have been continuing to put this show on the past two years since that review and it’s only grown bigger and better since I saw the original show. In fact it has gotten so big and so awesome, that it can no longer be contained. The people over at Ara’Kus have been putting on this show by using their own personal money to fund it, but now the show has grown so much they need help in order finance their upcoming performances in November. This will be the first time putting on a show two-weekends in a row and they’re looking to buy new sound and special effects equipment, new costumes and tons of other improvements.
Ara’Kus is hoping to raise 10,000 dollars to make this showing of Aeterno Elementum the greatest show ever seen on the stage of the Historic Everett Theatre, and if all goes as planned, expanding our performances to include Seattle and hopefully the rest of Washington. And then of course, World Domination.
I know I have a large international audience and you’re probably wondering why you should support a show you’re not even going to get a chance to see. Well first of all, the people of Ara’Kus are all amazing. Jeremiah Johnson is one of the most talented composers I’ve met, he must be because I don’t even like Heavy Metal music and yet I love Jeremiah’s songs. They also have some of the most talented musicians and singers I’ve ever seen and heard, from the beautiful and dazzling Electric Violin player Razz to the menacing baldness of lead guitarist Randy Haines to our elegant lead soprano Vivian, they’re all astonishing. Then there’s the actors, BJ Becker as I mentioned in my original review, has so much talent I don’t know why the guy isn’t on Broadway. Carrole Johnson plays the Demoness, who causes most of the havoc that occurs throughout the play, and she brings an astounding energy with her onto the stage.
Look I could spend all day talking about these guys, but the bottom line is that these are exceptional people that put their heart and soul into this project, and they need your support.
I need your support.
You see when I went to go see that show in August of 2011, I had just been kicked out of college the year before, I was unemployed, depressed and had no idea what the hell I was going to do with myself. I was still writing this blog but it was only being read by my immediate friends and family, and I didn’t actually think I could make a living writing. Then I wrote that review, and Ara’Kus took me up on my offer to help them by writing for them, and that gave me a much needed boost to my self-confidence. I started trying to get work with a freelance writer, I grew more confident in my ability and knowledge as a writer. So when Mass Effect 3 came out Spring of 2012, I had the self-confidence and the practice to create this post which finally gave me the recognition I needed to actually start landing a few jobs.
So what I’m saying is that Ara’Kus is responsible for allowing me to so thoroughly eviscerate Mass Effect 3′s terrible ending. You wouldn’t be reading this blog were it not for them. Help me thank them for all they’ve done for me by helping them achieve the success and recognition they so richly deserve.
(Or click any of the awesome pictures above, and they’ll take you to the Kickstarter as well!)

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Reimagining Justice in the 21st Century with John Lewis and Eric Holder
Fifty years after the signing of landmark civil rights legislation in the United States, demographic shifts are bringing about enormous social, political, and economic transformation—and profound opportunity. Today, we have the chance to lift up and celebrate the voices of all communities, and to build a more inclusive and participatory democracy. At the same time, we must confront deep-seated anxieties that have created barriers to progress.
Are we at a tipping point? How do we translate growing awareness and engagement into the kind of action that can change systems? What does a 21st-century social justice infrastructure look like—and what will it take to realize it?
On Monday, December 7, we came together to explore these and other questions in an afternoon of conversations with leaders on the front lines of civil rights. You can watch videos of all those conversations right here.
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Alan Kaniarz had “always been a handy kid, taking things apart and making things,” and gaining more mechanical learning from hanging out at the gas station across the street from his youthful home. Spending a few years working as a welder with roll framing equipment — making things like guard rails, and gutters on houses — “taught me precision; we worked within 1,1000ths of an inch tolerance,” Alan said.
After that, he went to work for a company that had offered a stained glass class he had taken and been interested in, eventually working his way up to be vice president of the stained glass manufacturing company (and repairing Tiffany and LaFarge pieces along the way). After parting ways with that company over a difference of principle with the owner, Alan got his builder’s license and planned to work on houses, “but I was drawn to be a woodworker,” he said. “I would make a little money, and buy a tool.”
Setting up shop, at first as part of a group, then by himself (those who’ve had roommates, Alan said, know how it is, “when you come home expecting tofind the beer in the refrigerator and it wasn’t”), Alan has made doors, traditional kitchen cabinets, and furniture, restored and repaired furniture, and bought and sold antiques, as well as doing a little bit of metalwork.
His primary focus is on woodworking, though; most recently, on a line of modern furniture he’s designed. “Until a couple of years ago, I was doing mostlyreproduction work, a lot of Arts and Crafts, but my attraction these days is to modern — although Arts and Crafts is the beginning of modern furniture,” Alan said.
“There’s something visually stimulating about the lines of modern furniture. It has an organic nature to it that I find to be particularly appealing. With the classic mid-century designs — the Eames chair, Saarinen, Herman Miller — there’s something pretty appealing about the spare amount of material that ends up in a visually appealing piece of furniture.”
Alan himself designed one chair that uses only four pieces of wood, and, in his “mobel” (a European word that means “furniture”) line, “even though there’s a number of pieces” per item, “it’s not a lot of wood.” In fact, that’s part of the appeal for him: “We can build an entire chair, with 80 to 90 piees, and we can cut all the pieces out of a single sheet of plywood. We end up using 90 to 95 percent of a sheet, and the amount of waste is minimal at best.”
The plywood that Alan’s speaking of for this line is Baltic birch plywood, which he likes because it’s dimensionally stable and has a great weight to strength ratio. “We could make the pieces out of solid wood, but wood is a hygroscopic material; it takes on and gets rid of moisture and expands and contracts, so we would use a lot of wood, and the chair would eventually expand and contract itself apart.” Also, Alan said, there are no mineral stains, no big voids, and the edges are attractive — “the edgework ends up looking like quartersawn wood, with rings on the edges.”
Alan and his three employees use the CAD/CAM system for this line of furniture, creating computer assisted drawings in the TurboCAD program to show what all the parts of a piece of furniture will look like, and how they will fit, then creating a drawing exchange file and transferring it those who are cutting the pieces for the furniture with a computer assisted manufacturing system.
Furniture created for this line has included chairs like the flagship Quarnge (it rhymes with “orange”) and the Zag Zig Chair (a take-off on a 1933 Zig-Zag Chair by Gerrit Reitveld). “It looks fragile, but I had a fellow who told me he weighed 365 pounds who was able to sit in it and rock in it,” Alan said. All of the pieces are designed to be comfortable, which sometimes requires some redesigning. “It’s the art of trial and error. Something might look good on paper, but it was a torture device when it turned out.”
Since he has the assistance of his employees, Alan says he gets to pick and choose what aspects of the hands-on work he’s involved with, picking things thatparticularly interest him. He’s very involved in the design aspect, for instance, and he also likes finishing, “applying the various finishes and coming up with the stain and color combinations. A piece of furniture isn’t finished until it has finish on it.” These days, most of his items are finished with two-part post-catalyzed lacquer, which Alan appreciates as being “way more water- and chemical-resistant” than the older nitrocellulose lacquers. Sometimes, he’ll use shellac as a sanding sealer, in order to impart the subtle “cat’s-eye” shimmer of chatoyance.
He also keeps his hand in with stained glass because, he says, it goes hand in hand with woodworking — there might be glass sidelights on transoms on a door, leaded glass in the doors of kitchen cabinets, or leaded windows in the lower cabinets of a library installation. “I’ve been doing glass work since 1975,” Alan said. “It’s all done in the same shop.”
He also has a collection of over 100 pieces of antique lighting form the Philadelphia-based John L. Gaumer Company, which existed from 1882 to 1952. Although Alan says their quality is comparable to Tiffany and others, the company relied on a paper hanging tag to identify its products, with “the result that almost no one knows about the company. I think I’m the world expert on this missing chapter in the Arts and Crafts movement story,” Alan said.
Alan, who also teaches at an art college, elaborated on his point about Arts and Crafts being the beginning of a modern design: “The modern movement,” he said, “started as retaliation against the overornamentation of the Victorian period, where things were carved and ornamented and fringed with all sorts of gewgaws superfluous to the design.”
That’s not his taste. Instead, Alan said, he likes things, like his modern furniture, “with interesting lines to it.”


Welcome to Week 8 of the Daytona Karting Championships! This week was a relatively quiet one, with only two championships taking place. However, that didn't mean there wasn't any action on the track. Let's take a closer look at the winners and their accomplishments.
At Sandown Park, the SuperChamps race saw some fierce competition between the drivers. In the end, Keo Derrick, Olly Cooper-Welton, Matthew Boulton, and Alex Tucker emerged as the winners. The SuperChamps race is always a thrilling event, and this one was no exception.
Meanwhile, at Milton Keynes, the InKart championship also took place. Richard Marks, William Bennett, Jacob Csepreghi, and Oliver Sanderson came out on top, earning a well-deserved victory.
Unfortunately, Tamworth didn't have any championships this week, but we can look forward to more exciting races in the coming weeks.
It's worth noting that every driver who competes in the Daytona Karting Championships is truly talented and dedicated. These drivers put in the time and effort to hone their craft. Whether they win or lose, each driver is a testament to the sport and its ability to bring people together in a spirit of friendly competition.
So, congratulations to all the drivers who participated in this week's championships. Make sure to tune in next week for more thrilling races in the Daytona Karting Championships!


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Hello! This is the second part of my Tokyo Holiday Diary 2014. Finally, I managed to get my blog app working with the wireless internet connection our hostel provides! Though, I didn’t work through the whole night as I also slept for a while π
Yesterday, we landed to the Narita airport. Before that, our plane took off from Finland, we went to Istanbul (see the coming city light photos taken from the night sky) and from Istanbul we came to Japan. The whole trip took approximately 16 hours. After the landing in Japan, we were like lost childs as we tried to goggle those odd letters and figure out how to get to our final destination π In the airport, we took a train to Tokyo station and from there we went to Asakusabashi by metro, which is about 500 meters away from our hostel.
During the last flight, I read one info book made for tourists in Tokyo, and now I cannot wait to get my hands on the local dishes! Can you imagine, these guys make sashimi even by rolling fish roe in squid meat! Damn, those dishes sound marine and delicious to me! Actually, after the settling in our hostel, we took a little city round, drunk some beers and sake with small salty dishes. I already tried to satisfy my hunger for marine food by ordering a scallop skewer, but you should also notice the rectum skewer in the coming menu π Pretty wild, huh! The toilets are also somewhat weird here as you can see π And finally, people here are nice and kind.
So, enjoy the images and see ya later, next time with the new photos and stories!


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EU is selling cars like never before. According to ACEA, EU passenger car registrations increased significantly, totaling 1,891,583 units, which is up +11,2 percent in March this year. This is an all-time high.
All the big five markets recorded very strong performances during the month, with Italy (+18,2%), Spain (+12,6%) and Germany (+11,4%) posting double-digit percentage gains, followed by the UK (+8,4%) and France (+7,0%).
This level of growth is mainly due to Easter falling in March last year and in April this year. The demand for passenger cars from January to March 2017 increased by 8,4 percent, totaling 4,141,269 units.
Italy (+11,9%), Spain (+7,9%), Germany (+6,7%), the United Kingdom (+6,2%) and France (+4,8%) all saw their markets grow during the first three months of the year, contributing to the overall upturn in the EU market.
The growth in car sales rose «only» 2,2 percent in February this year. The demand fell in several big markets and sales of volume brands Volkswagen and Peugeot slumped. Volkswagen AG, which is the biggest manufacturer, continued to lose market share, falling down to 10,4 percent.
Volkswagen new car sales fell 6,6 percent in February, and the sales of the larger Volkswagen group, which includes Audi, Porche, Skoda and SEAT, fell 1,1 percent.
The sports car brand Jaguar in the Jaguar Land Rover Group was again the fastest growing automaker in Europe. New Jaguar sales surged about 52 percent in February, which is much better than their competitors like BMW, Audi, Daimler AG`s Mercedes and Porsche.
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