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Girls' Generation have been caught up in a lip-synching controversy.
According to allkpop, a post about the nine-year girl group has been heating up online ever since July 28. Netizens are saying that the image above posted along with the message "Girls' Generation pre-recording found out" reveals that Girls' Generation lip-synched for a performance or possibly multiple performances.
The image of the music show set list details the list of performers including Girls' Generation, Tae Jin Ah, A Pink, SISTAR, INFINITE, and B2ST as well as their accompanied "MR" or music that's played along with the artists' live vocals. While the majority of artists are scheduled to sing along with normal MR, Girls' Generation are labeled to have "Live MR." According to reports, this indicates that Girls' Generation had both the MR and vocals playing for them, meaning they were lip-synching.
Netizens commented, "They're a veteran group, but still, this is wrong," "I knew this would happen," "Everyone already knows about this," "Girls' Generation's live performances have been really bad lately," and more.
In other news, Girls' Generation recently wrapped up filming for their final promotion of "Party" on July 27 for MBC's 'Show! Music Core'.


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Darksiders II: Van Der Schmash Hammer DLC
Third party DRM: SteamThis game requires a free Steam account to play.
Requires the Darksiders ii (base game) to use this DLC
Pulverize your enemies with the Van der Schmash. This item is best suited for 5th - 10th level characters. Please note this item is NOT included in Season Pass which ONLY includes the Maker Armor Set, The Abyssal Forge, and The Demon Lord Belial.
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Like most of the downloadable weapons for Darksiders II, the VAN Der Schmash Hammer is good if you do a frest start of the game and you want to be strong and a bit overpowered, the hammer is slow but It does a lot of damage. If you are weapons collector and you want all the stuff of the game, maybe you will enjoy it.

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Looking back at the 2018 growing season at our Richland, Iowa Research Farm, it was quite a condensed season. We had the coldest April in 100 years. I learned that the normal flowering dates for our clovers were pushed back 4-6 days and forage production was cut drastically. FIXatioN Balansa Clover forage production was less than half of what it was in the Spring of 2017. Snow and below freezing temperatures into the last week of April really limited forage production and while the flowering dates were a bit later, they couldn’t make up for the 3 weeks of growth they missed out on.
Even with a very cold, extended winter and short Spring, we had quite a bit of Frosty Berseem Clover plants that survived the winter. As in the past, these plants are allowed to flower and seed is collected. The seed from the surviving plants is then planted back again in Iowa to further select for greater cold tolerance.
In the Fall of 2017 I planted a silage trial consisting of rows of WinterMax and HyOctane Triticale as well as Hood Barley. While WinterMax showed some great traits in the fall, such as upright growth and quick establishment, being bred in New Zealand, it lacked cold tolerance and did not survive the winter. Hood Barley also had a very low survival rate. HyOctane had nearly 100% winter survival. Between the grain rows, I planted Survivor Peas which had a very high survival rate also. The HyOctane & Survivor section produced a large forage harvest in May.
Another trial I planted in the fall of 2017 was a matrix of Albion Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass with different Clovers (FIXatioN Balansa, Frosty Berseem, Kentucky Pride Crimson, AberLasting Hybrid and Domino White). I had 2 reps of each clover/Albion mix. The highest yielding plots were the FIXatioN Balansa/Albion plots. Frosty had quite a bit of winterkill which we expected. Kentucky Pride, AberLasting and Domino all had excellent survival rates and forage production. By the fall of 2018, AberLasting and Domino were looking very strong but not overwhelming the Albion.
In May, when the soil dried out and warmed up, I planted a Spring Cover Crop Matrix. The species planted were White Mustard, Purple Top Turnips, German Millet, Daikon Radish, Buckwheat, Phacelia, Frosty Berseem, Survivor Winter Peas, Spring Oats and Sun Hemp.The purpose of this trial was to see what combination of two species was the best at suppressing weeds. I posted a detailed blog about the findings last summer.
An idea Jerry and I came up with last Spring was to simulate strip-tilling corn into plots of clovers planted in the Fall of 2017. The clovers were FIXatioN, Frosty, Kentucky Pride and AberLasting. The Clovers all did a good job of suppressing weeds and adding Nitrogen to the corn in May. What we learned is that a 6” strip is not nearly wide enough. When the clovers hit their spring growth spurt in early May, they proved to be too much competition for the corn in many places. What we saw in AberLasting was great promise as a perennial cover crop product. More on that in the seasons to come.
The Summer of 2018 marked the end of our Forage Grass Maturity Trial. In the fall of 2016, I planted plants from 8 different species and 72 different forage varieties. The data collected on plant maturities of these varieties will help develop a forage grass maturity index to help producers select varieties that meet their forage production needs.
In September of this year, I started planting plots and trials for Spring of 2019. I planted a plot of our experimental Persian Clover variety to see how it does after a cold, roller coaster Iowa Winter. I planted a plot of a new wildlife food plot consisting of FIXatioN Balansa Clover and Dwarf Essex Rape. Jerry fell in love with this mix because the seeds are Oregon State Beaver colors. Makes sense, right?
I planted another silage trial with HyOctane Triticale as the grain component and a section with Survivor Peas and another with FIXatioN Balansa Clover. Next Spring I will measure forage output and forage quality on both.
The coolest trial planted last Fall was my Bio-Strip trial. I planted 3 rows, 6” apart of Buckwheat, Driller Radish and Oats. They all put on a tremendous amount of growth and will winter-kill. Between reps of the 3 winterkill species I have an 18” wide strip of clover. I planted FIXatioN Balansa, Kentucky Pride Crimson and AberLasting Hybrid. Next April, the goal is to plant corn between the rows of Buckwheat and Radish. The soil in that winter-killed strip should be full of nutrients and very mellow. The residue should suppress Spring weeds as well. The annual clovers between the corn rows should help suppress weeds and give the corn a shot of Nitrogen over the summer. The AberLasting will provide ground cover between corn rows and likely provide some Nitrogen as well.
As I write this blog, it is 20° outside with a 4° wind chill. It will be a long winter of fighting to survive out in Richland. I’m looking forward to seeing what comes out the other side!
For a printable, PDF version of this blog, click below.

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The importance of the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) test lies in detecting HIV infection, before it degenerates into AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), the most advanced stage of the infection.
ART antiretroviral therapy is the current medicinal treatment against HIV. Recommended for all people with HIV, it should be undertaken as soon as possible.
The only way to be certain that you have contracted the HIV virus is to get tested. It is not possible to rely on symptoms only to know your real state of health.
There is no cure for HIV yet. But researchers believe that we can find a cure for it. However, current HIV/AIDS treatments can control the virus and enable people to live an healthy life.

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Compared to many hardwood floorings like oak and maple, bamboo flooring is much denser, it makes bamboo becomes excellent material for flooring. But actually bamboo is grass and is not considered wood. Because bamboo is grass, it can grow very fast. We can harvest bamboo in just four years up to five years. We must wait for thirty years to sixty years to mill hardwood trees into flooring.
Interior. Published at Sunday, November 27th 2016, 17:42:34 PM by Struky Joe.
Window shutters usually are made from woods but there are also vinyl shutters and fiberglass shutters that are perfect for your windows. Read about them here.
Interior. Published at Friday, November 25th 2016, 21:33:25 PM by Struky Joe.
Next style of wooden shutters is raised panel window shutter that matches Greek revival, ranch, French country, Georgian, and Victorian styled houses. For colonial and federal styled houses, raised panel window shutter is perfect for windows on first floor. Bahama is another style of window shutters that we can adjust with any house style and even for commercial building.
Exterior. Published at Wednesday, November 23rd 2016, 09:51:26 AM by Struky Joe.
Decorative exterior shutters are excellent choice for everyone who wants authentic look for their house but doesn’t have time to maintain stuffs. If you can find decorative shutters in proper hardware, placement, and size your house will be awesome. Use direct mount exterior shutters that will accentuate windows and ad appealing look on them.
Interior. Published at Monday, November 21st 2016, 07:29:28 AM by Struky Joe.
Trusted company that had produced lots of high quality plantation shutters may offer awesome plantation shutters in high price. But the high price comes with extremely durable materials and beauty to perfect your windows. If you have crafted some stuff before and you think you can build your own plantation shutters, use your creativity to build unique plantation shutters.
Kitchen. Published at Sunday, November 20th 2016, 20:31:08 PM by Johannah Guan.
What about going totally unique? Using a set of lockers can also make an awesome idea for your freestanding kitchen pantry! To make it less school-ey, outfit the unit with painted pediment and furniture feet with attractive shape to solve both of your storage and style problems. This cool freestanding pantry idea also offers you the secure storage spaces with labels you can add.
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You can also take your own freestanding storage unit by repurposing old item. For instance, transform a bookcase into a small and movable pantry unit by adding casters and lath attachments so the unit is secured when it’s in motion. To make the unit way less conspicuous, add a curtain rod and hang clipped-on dish towels so this DIY small freestanding pantry can conceal the supplies stored while looking great in any room at the same time.
Kitchen. Published at Wednesday, November 16th 2016, 09:03:05 AM by Johannah Guan.
Both walk-in and reach-in kitchen pantry cabinet designs can make the most of the kitchen layout by allowing you to store everything in one location. This makes your kitchen storage simply effective, allowing an easier plan for the flow in your kitchen. Depending on the layout of your kitchen, size of the space, and your storage needs, every possible design can be accomplished.
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A journalist loses his professional credentials as soon as he accepts political or government office. Mr Sethi accepted political office as a federal minister in the caretaker cabinet set up by the then president, Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari. As such, he is legitimately expected to follow the political agenda of Mr Leghari, which is to oppose and criticise the present government. But his detention is related neither to his being an editor, nor to his being an opposition politician; it is his alleged links with foreign intelligence agencies that are under investigation.
Mr Sethi's contributions, frequently published in his magazine, were not confined to mere criticism of government policies. He vehemently questioned the very basis of the creation of Pakistan. No doubt many others in Pakistan hold similar views, but most of them follow the ethical principle that one does not denigrate or ridicule one's own country when visiting foreign lands, particularly before an audience known to be opposed to the existence of the country.
Can one imagine an opposition politician, or a professional journalist from the UK, US, even India, disparaging his nation or the government before a foreign audience?
Mr Sethi has been arrested on the specific charge of anti-state activities, falling outside the ambit of legitimate journalistic freedom. He will be afforded the opportunity to defend himself.
Ms Jugnu, his wife, is fully aware of the whereabouts of her husband, who has been sent medicines and clothes by her, and she is visiting him today on the orders of the Supreme Court.Reuse content

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28th October 2009: I have it hot of the press that declawing was banned tonight 28-10-09 in Santa Monica, California, USA, on a 6 to 1 vote. One of the stalwart supporters of banning this brutal procedure, Willow Evans, has sent an email this morning (UK time) to the UK. As I understand it (and I am open to being corrected as the matter unfolds) this latest vote concerns the approval of the ordinance that was drafted after the Sept 22nd 2009 meeting that approved the drawing up of a bill (or draft legislation).
Well if that is it we have legislation to ban declawing at the local level. And this is the best level as it is more likely to bring results.
Santa Monica Council Chamber - photo by Omar Omar
However, from January 1st 2010 it will not be possible for city legislators in California to enact such legislation as under new law signed off by the state governor only state legislation can do that (shame on the governor).
One of the people supporting the prohibition of city legislators in California banning declawing was Dr. Nunez, the president of the California Veterinary Medical Association. In another post on the subject of declawing he pleads his case saying that he is not a bad person. Maybe not but he is a bad decision maker in my opinion and one day he will see the error of his ways. See the post here: Malibu City Council Votes Against Ban on Cat Declawing.
Dr Nunez is supporting and promoting vets who declaw for non-therapeutic reasons. That is obviously wrong.
If someone can update this post in a comment that would be great. It might need correcting.


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Power Strike II (Game Gear)
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Game Gear Micro/PS4/Switch
JP (Aleste Collection): December 24, 2020
|Game Gear Micro: April 4, 2021|
Power Strike II was released in 1993 in Europe, Brazil, and Japan (as GG Aleste II) for Game Gear.
In 2020, GG Aleste II was included in the Aleste Collection, which was released in Japan for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. A special white Game Gear Micro was also released the same day with all of the games from the Aleste Collection.


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You consider yourself an openminded gal. You’ve tried yoga, you drink green tea, and you’re all about Meatless Mondays. But one area you may still be a bit of a skeptic? The murky realm of integrative and energy medicine.Not only are many of the treatments themselves confusing—Wait, my chi does what to where?—but it can be hard to discern what works and what doesn’t, too. “Many people still assume that there’s very little scientific evidence regarding complimentary and alternative medicine therapies,” says Daniel Friedland, MD, who specializes in internal medicine and is co-creator of SpaEvidence.com, a website that links dozens of spa/wellness therapies with hard scientific evidence. Yet the studies speak for themselves: Many of these approaches can have an enormous positive impact on your health and wellbeing. Here, 20 alternative therapies—demystified.AcupressureUsed to treat: Chronic neck pain, motion sickness, and lower back pain. Learn more ways to prevent lower back pain.What it is: This ancient Asian technique is similar to acupuncture—without the needles. Practitioners use their hands or tools to apply pressure to various acupoints on the body to open energy flows, release tension, and promote emotional balance.How it works: Stimulating various points on the body can trigger the release… Read full this story
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Petwo' is a rite that was formed in the New World by slaves to cope with their everyday situation. It was used the night before the revolution (by the slaves) to find the courage to free themselves. It usually reflects rage, anger and restlessness, but instead of showing that side of the rite, I focused on how powerful, strong and protective it also is; hence why I used women to portray that idea.
Petwo helps to empower people. Those words used to define this rite are the creativity behind the series. I wanted people to stand in pride of who they are, what their culture means and not how empires or colonialism has taught us to see our roots; as evil compared to religions. In fact, it is not about comparison but rather the common grounds in the two, and celebrate ‘us’ as a people instead of dividing.

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The Boston Restaurant blog is reporting that a new seafood restaurant called Atlantico will open in restaurant space formerly occupied by Southern Proper in the Girard apartment building at 600 Harrison Avenue in the South End.
Michael Serpa is listed on the Boston Licensing Board notice as the manager. You may recognize Serpa who is behind the successful Select Oyster Bar and the new Grand Tour, that opened this month – both in the Back Bay. Previously, Serpa worked at the much loved seafood restaurant, Neptune Oyster Bar in the North End. At this point there are no details but more may emerge following the hearing with the city next Wednesday, February 5, 2020.


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The dawn of Butoh and the body of Tatsum Hijikata
Hiromi Harada(Japanese Dance critic, author of “Butoh Taizen”)
＊This text was altered after reading Japanese version of “Le Butô en France―Malentendus et Fasciation” by Sylviane Pagès（in France,2015/in Japan,2017）in 2018 January, from ”Lunch time lecture” at Kent University in U.K. on 12th October in 2005”.
Hello, everyone. Have you ever watched Butoh? Butoh dancers are generally white-painted and they lower their center of gravity, move slowly. And they sometimes bowlegged, pigeon-toed, chicken-neck,skin-head and half-naked. Then their eyes are half an eye or white of the eye, or they have sometimes steady fixed look, their bodies droop and slump or cramped, and are stiff as corpse. Today I’d like to speak about butoh dancer's body, especially about the body of Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, which seems to be surrealistic. However, before I speak about it, I’d like to tell you the short history of Butoh.
Now Butoh is known by many people around the world, but it has started from 1959, as the most avant-garde movement on stage in Japan after World WarⅡ.We have now almost 60 years of Butoh history. The founder of Butoh is Tatsumi Hijikata, he was born in 1928 and passed away in 1986. But he had a real big charisma for under-ground scene in Japan, and was a genius, because he created Butoh as a new genre of performing-art in his lifetime.
On the other hand, we had really another great Butoh master Kazuo Ohno, he was born in 1906 and passed away in 2010, he was 22 years elder than Hijikata, also in his later years he had been continuing to dance Butoh on wheel chair. The first meeting of Hijikata and Ohno was 1954, although Hijikata looked Ohno's performance amazing at it in 1949. And their first collaboration became the first Butoh piece in 1959, but in this time Yoshito Ohno (1938～) who is Kazuo's son played supporting role to Hijikata. After then they had helped each other, and had been collaborating for more than 20years, as a result they created the real core of Butoh not only in Japan but also abroad.
The First piece of Butoh was "Kinjiki" in 1959 as mentioned, it was choreographed by Hijikata, and he dealt with homosexuality in it, being influenced by Jean Genet and Yukio Mishima. The title “Kinjiki” was taken from a Mishima’s novel. According to the legend of Butoh, in this time half number of audience was shocked to leave the room.
And following most shocking performance by Hijikata was in 1968, the title of this famous avant-garde piece was "Tatsumi Hijikata and Japanese”, and subtitle was “Rebellion(Revolt) of body". It was peak in the first half of Hijikata’s butoh life.
Then after it, during the1970s, Hijikata was beginning to accomplish his new Butoh style with his special pupil Yoko Ashikawa(1947～),Saga Kobayashi(1946～), Koichi Tamano (1946～),Yukio Waguri(1952～2017) and some dancers, and he realized the first full-dress performance of this new style on stage in 1972. In the autumn of this year he gave 5 different pieces in a month, these pieces also gave another Butoh great history, the general title was "27 nights for 4 seasons".
However in this 1972, the other strong Butoh company Dairakudakan was born, this company has been doing good at Spectacle. And they added to Butoh new taste of underground theater Jōkyō-gekijō (Situation Theater), which was a representative one in those days, their main feature was physical theatre by so strong impression of body. But some of founding members of the new butoh company Dairakudakan had been disciples of Hijikata, for example leader of this is Akaji Maro (1943～), or Ko Murobushi (1947～2015), Bishop Yamada(1948～). And especially Maro had been already also a big star in Jōkyō-gekijō, before establishing Dairakudakan. Their taste became a natural mixing of dance and physical theater.
As a result, this concept was almost similar in Tantz Theater of Pina Bausch(1940～2009). Butoh and Pina Bausch had met actually each other at Paris later in the 1970s (Early time of Butoh in Europe), and people say that they gave influence the becoming of Nouvelle Danse, which has being a contemporary dance in France. And it has been spreading as Contemporary Dance scene in many countries until today.
By the way, basically Hijikata, Ohno(s), other Butoh dancers from early time had experienced for instance mainly Modern dance from Germany, or also sometimes Ballet from Russia or U.S.A., also touched modern Mime from France, before Butoh. So this modern dance was Neue tantz, which is German expressional dance, some pioneers of Japanese modern dance learned it in Germany, and brought it to Japan before World WarⅡ. So, Tantz Theater of Pina Bausch and Butoh have same root.
WATER LILY(KAZUO & YOSHITO OHNO) in 1994©EIKOH HOSOE
I think their common point is their importance of memories including shocks and traumata, deposited in their body and mind, then they sometimes let them be core for creating pieces. This point is also very important for each masterpiece of Hijikata, Ohno, Maro, even Ushio Amagatsu (1949～) of Sankaijuku. The early Amagatsu’s piece ”Kinkan-Shonen” was made of his memory when he was a boy. And about “Unetsu- From one thing to make the egg heat” in 1986, Amagatsu’s memory for creating this piece might be too sorrowful loss of a dancer’s life in his company during their performance of hanging upside down by accident at Seattle in 1985.
Incidentally, the first dancer who went to abroad was Mitsutaka Ishii (1939～2017), he was an important disciple of Hijikata in 1960's. His first work abroad started from London in 1971. He left Japan in this year, and took the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Moscow, and from there flew to Heathrow air-port, with an only one-way ticket to London, and only 45dollars. He was a special Butoh dancer and improviser, his main work was in Germany before going back to Japan with his partner and disciple Bettina Klein Hannes (She went back to Germany in the 1980s), then had lived at village since 1979. He had very unique and fine artistic nature, was also the first person in Japan having dance workshop at mental hospital in the early 1970s. And after the 1980s, he went to Germany, Austria, too.
And as same as Ishii, Akira Kasai (1943～) is an important one from early time of Butoh. He took part in some important pieces by Hijikata in 1960s. Before joying Hijikata, he learned Neue Tanz, Ballet, Mime, then after, he learned from Kazuo Ohno for 3years. He has mysticism and so original notion of Butoh. Then he says that I used the word of Butoh in earlier than Hijikata, I guess the time when he was teenager. Later he went to Germany to study Eurhytmie from last of the1970s to 1985. He is also special improviser, solo dancer, however his dance is more rhythmical than others, so his dance close to contemporary dance. So that, surely since half in the 1990s, he sometimes collaborated with contemporary dancers.
Then we shouldn’t forget about Tomiko Takai (1931～2011) who had learned from Takaya Eguchi(write later), Kazuo Ohno and Hijikata. ”Keijijōgaku” was the first her butoh piece. The title was quoted from Ikuya Katō’s collection of poems, and this piece was supported by mainly Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Ishii, Kasai, and several contemporary artists including Natsuyuki Nakanishi(1935～2016) around Hijikata in 1967.
Besides of them, another new certain main stream of Butoh for Europe started in France from the first of 1978 with Comp. Ariadone and Ko Murobushi at Sylvia Montfort. The leader of this female group was Carlota Ikeda (1941～2014), in this time of going to Paris, other members were Yumiko Yoshioka (1952～), and Ko Murobushi. So Murobushi choreographed for this group in those days, although he had been co-founder of Dairakudakan, after experiencing to be disciple of Hijikata. And later he had left not only Dairakudakan, but also Comp. Ariadone.
In this1978 was completely special year for Butoh for France. After about half a year of the stage of Comp. Ariadne & Ko Murobushi, Yoko Ashikawa also brought her solo piece choreographed by Hijikata to Paris, and Min Tanaka (1945～) had improvisation with jazz musician that wasn’t called Butoh yet in those time, at same place (Musée des arts décoratifs), in same event (exhibition of “Japanese Ma” produced by Arata Isozaki, modern architecture) as Ashikawa.
Then, since 1980, Kazuo Ohno and Sankaijuku were also known in Europe, in the wake of taking part in Avignon and Nancy Festival. Hijikata helped the Ohno’s piece “La Argentina-sho”, later “My Mother” by his direction in Japan. The other side, the leader of Sankaijuku, Ushio Amagatsu had left Dairakudakan, and founded Sankaijuku, then after having some successful tours for several years in Japan, went to France. Then Amagatsu has been co-producing each their pieces with The Théâtre de la Ville at Paris, once in 2 years for more than 30 years from 1982, has been having international tour in each year.
As almost same time as it, Natsu Nakajima (1943～) started her career abroad from Edinburgh Festival in England 1983, and continued international tour until 1987.And until almost 1990, she had work abroad. Then she was awarded of choreograph at Montreal in Canada, in U.S.A. She was also an important pupil of Hijikata until 1968. She has been continuing her original Butoh, and improvisation class for handicapped people until today.
In these way Butoh have been also known for many countries widely during this period. And these current of Butoh had almost corresponded to Peter Brook(1925～) and Lindsay Kemp(1938～), or Theatre du Soleil by Ariane Mnouchkine(1939～), Living Theater by Julian Beck(1925～1985), Jerzy Grotowski(1933～1999), Tadeusz Kanttor (1915～1990).
And afterward from the 1990s, Butoh festivals have been holding in some place in towns of foreign countries, for example San Francisco in U.S.A., Göttingen(base town
of butoh dancer Tadashi Endo1947～) and Berlin in Germany, Seoul in Korea, Vancouver in Canada, Paris in France, Sao Paulo in Brazil, Gdansk in Poland, New York, London, Budapest, Amsterdam, etc. These are amazing.
By the way, in Japanese history, modern time started in 1868. Because American government asked our country (The Tokugawa government) to open the country to supply provision for whaling, and rescue of boat people. Until the time for 235 years, Japanese government which by Samurai class had closed our country. After that opening, new modern government missioned over sea's students to England, France and Germany.
So, since the term we Japanese wish to absorb especially European culture, and in the air some Japanese representable modern dancers went to Germany to study Neue Tanz as mentioned, for example Takaya Eguchi (1900～1977), Misako Miya (1907～2009), Nobutoshi Tsuda(1910～1984). And most original founder of modern dance in Japan Baku Ishii (1900～1977) went to Germany and U.S.A. to have his shows with his sister in law Konami Ishii (1905～1978).
And some foreign ballet teachers had been called or came to our country, before and after World WarⅡ. Then also in Japan we feel that real popular modern time for the arts and life started after the World WarⅡ.Because we had to experience a lot of changing Japanese society and mentality. And during this period, American cultural center introduced American modern dance: Martha Graham-technique to Tokyo, Amagatsu and Ikeda had learned it before starting butoh career, so they were younger than Butoh founders.
Then also I should tell about French modern Mime by Etienne Decroux(1898～1991), that was brought by Hironobu Oikawa(1924～) to Japan in the middle of 1950s. He learned Ballet and the Mime in Paris for 2years, and came back to Japan, and established studio Artaud-kan (maison) in Tokyo. Because he has been respecting Antonin Artaud (1896～1948) from many sides, since he knew Artaud in France. After his coming back to Tokyo, he sometimes joined Hijikata, Ohno(s), Ishii. And Kasai learned the mime from Oikawa’s disciple.
Add to it, before this term, Kazuo Ohno was so touched by Mime of Jean-Louis Barrault (1910～1994) in the movie “Les enfants du Paradis” in 1952, this movie became to be famous in Japan after the war too. Then he repeated to look it many times. And it became to be also well known that Barrault studied Mime from Decoroux.
Although story changes, in postwar time Japanese had surprising rush of publication, because people had been very starving for the arts and culture during the war. In these streams, surrealism, heterodox literature and many kinds of art from West including some underground ones, were earnestly introduced to people, then also Hijikata himself could reach them in the 1950s. And especially after Hijikata’s coming Tokyo from Akita where is his home town in northern Japan, some intellectuals around him could make Hijikata know many things above. In them, most important intellectual was Shūzō Takiguchi(1903～1979) who had been trying to introduce Surrealism to Japan since in the 1930s.
Then surrealism brought Sigmund Freud's notion of unconscious of body and mind to our country, even though Japanese have this kind of resemble notion in our traditional culture. Anyway, Freud became famous during this period in Japan, because of this publishing rush. We feel that Hijikata absorbed all these influences, with floating the air of time. As a result, in Butoh we have many kinds of aesthetic sense wildly, and unconscious of body and mind.
Now, I’d like to show you some films of Hijikata. These are masterpieces of Butoh of the early time, and which pieces were from 1968 to 1973. So, please allow the poor condition of these films.
*explanation for Film
(This is a film in 1973, Hijikata’s last dance on stage, he was 45 years old, and special guest dancer for the piece of Dairakudakan. But after stopping his dance on stage, he’d been continuing to choreograph for his pupils, for example including Moe Yamamoto-1953～-until the eve of his death, even Hijikata had break period for Butoh several times from 1979 to 1982)
The image of this scene was about emperor Heliogabaws of Roman tyrant inspired from a novel of Antonin Artaud, the title of novel was "Heliogabaws the crowned anarchist". And another novel influenced from this one by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928～1987) was entitled “Youbutsu-shintan", then Dairakdakan quoted this Sibusawa’s Japanese title as title of the piece in 1973.
In high light scene of this Dairakudakan’s piece, Hijikata took the role of Heliogabaws, but the image of the figure and moving were so delicate and surrealistic, also looked as if the special existence that is out of this world.
ROSE DANCE(HIJIKATA & KAZUO OHNO) in 1965©EIKOH HOSOE
Then the scene was little mixed an image of Adolf Hitler's situation. On the least pretext of this, another man who was Bishop Yamada in military uniform, having a pistol in his right hand, appearing from his head to the upper part of body from under floorboards on stage, in front of the Tyrant. Although he was turning his back to the Tyrant, and shot 2dummy cartridges to audience, he wore an image of assassin to Hitler. But in the next scene, the assassin became to be naked, and seemed to become a lover of the tyrant on bed, as if the tyrant let the man change into his lover. In this scene audience could hear very beautiful and calm western classic music.
In this kind of homosexual and heretical, un-heard of the scene, Hijikata had been influenced by heterodox literature and following atheistic and avant-gard thought that he loved in those days, for example Jean Genet, Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille, Edgar Allan Poe, Surrealism, Antonin Artaud and so on. And he took many images from many kinds of heterodox pictures, paintings, photographs, art pieces. Lastly please look hanging transparent board from the ceiling behind their bed. We can look a fake design of Marcel Duchamp’s picture on it.
And the story dates back, the most famous festal Hijikata’s solo piece in 1968, the title was "Tatsumi Hijikata and Japanese", and sub-title was "Rebellion (Revolt) of Body". Main contents of the piece were eroticism and violence with nuance of social taboo. On the days of performance, a white horse bounded on pole of the gate greeted visitors (audience) at out of theater, and in the hall, starting time of performance was related more than 40mins, so in noisy situation Hijikata appeared on palanquin made of baby bed supported by several young men.
The palanquin was in a solemn parade called “parade of ridiculous king”, leaded by a rabbit on the top of high pole, being carried by young man, and not only the pole and palanquin but also other stage art was made by contemporary artist Natsuyuki Nakanishi. Then Nakanishi hanged 6 big brass boards(1.2mX2.4m) from the ceiling for the stage, and 2 chickens suspended upside down. Later during performance these 2chickens were thrown against each board by Hijikata.
Then after he took off his Japanese white thin kimono, he did dance very hardly with tying an art piece formed penis made by contemporary artist Nori Doi(1955～) on his crotch, then next he wore red kimono in short style, and as same time as wore white high socks, holding something like a grass in his month, he did dance in the very original way of artistic, comical, stylish in the most high-level movement of body. And did alike Spanish style’s dance in another big dress of western style, keeping dignified, excessive strong expression of his original postures and looking to audience with opening his eyes wide.
Anyway, fascinating dances with strong sense of eroticism and violence, but simultaneously so absorbed in unique and sensitive feelings were there. And at last he was hanged by 3ropes under the ceiling, it was also up in the air of audience, to let his body transfer from backyard of audience to front, it looked like the Ascension.
We think he’d had wish to be a Christ in darkness under-ground. He’d been having always Charisma. In this year of 1968, also Japanese had the biggest political movement after the war by students in universities, and at the same time, as other many kinds of political movements occurred around the world in those days. Hijikata’s this performance looked a feast at the time.
And next is Hijikata’s this film from " Hōsōtan" in 1972, the meaning of this title "a story of small pox". In the piece dancer’s bodies curved and disfigured, close to an image of death and disease. Those bodies were named SUIJAKU-TAI by Hijikata. The meaning of it is weaken or wasted body.
Later I’ll explain about the meaning of SUIJAKU-TAI in more details again, those posture and movements of body were so low center of gravity and very complexed, looks strange, but based on the law of universal gravitation. In addition, those bodies were very cultivated by honed of sensitivity, and moved each part of divided body apart to different direction with including transformational mode of material from raw body, involving unexpected timing of each body part’s moving. Although also from the beginning of butoh, he had many similar contents like them, including low center of gravity. However, his choreograph had much development in detail and for low position of bodies since this term.
I think that their butoh body with the law of universal gravitation shows an incarnation of universal providence. That’s to say that the body concept was beyond human being, nationality, folk customs. Therefor their performances were accepted by many countries, as sacred one.
Then I’d like to say that Hijikata’s aim of this kind of choreograph was not only giving
audience shocking of original bodies, but also extension of aesthetics as the art, furthermore, sensibility his choreograph that make body and mind of audience be cultivated. And basically I think low center of gravity also make dancers be able to open the door of feeling and cultivating their sensibility of all body. Anyway, this kind of approach for body is an opposite intention to classic Ballet. On the contrary, resemble case of Hijikata’s is choreograph by Pina Bausch. Hijikata’s Butoh is not same as Bausch’s, but common denominator had come from same root of German expressional dance. Their important are low center of gravity, and sensitivity of body, and memory of body and mind.
Then from more large view, Hijikata always had been having a sort of reverse the sense of values, this point is particularly important to analyze for their nature of avant-garde, that means trial to express of new values, being against common sense.
By the way, about these shocking body of Butoh, some foreigners thought "it's a direct influence from Atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Nagasaki", however for Hijikata, it wasn’t the answer. Hijikata was influenced from aesthetics of Surrealism, heretical art, and add to his childhood experience and observation of deformed body from famine, poverty, hard work of farming, shivering and freezing with cold in snow, diseases that were smallpox, Hansen’s disease, syphilis, and so on, in his village of Tohoku-region, in Northern part of Japan, when he was a boy. These bodies were SUIJAKU-TAI by Hijikata, but later I’ll add another explanation of SUIJAKU-TAI to above mentioned.
And another important point here is, even if you find our traditional clothes kimono in Butoh, it doesn't mean that Butoh is Japanese traditional, kimono sometimes expresses our memories of previous time.
Then in addition to this point of kimono, I’d like to refer to Dairakudakan too. This company is the most strong, large in Japan even now. The company’s name means big camel ship. And the leader of this is Akaji Maro as mentioned before. We could say his chaotic image is similar in Julian Beak of Living theater, and their way of creation by cooperation was basically like the Teatre du Soleilr, especially in their early time of company.
Maro’s father was vice-captain of a big famous battleship during the World WarⅡ, and he died as a soldier. Maro might have not only great pride for his father as his son, but also might have an endless vanity and nihilism, because his father died for old Japanese sense of value. Then the value was lost after the war. Now only occasionally we wear kimono, but Maro likes good old Japanese sense, it might be also related to his deep love for his father, and adoration for old Japanese feeling. I think that’s the reason that we often look kimono and traditional Japanese culture in Dairakudakan's spectacle. On other hand, dancers had left Dairakudakan almost until in the 1980s were born in the postwar days, then they had rebellious sprit for elder Japanese.
Besides of them, Min Tanaka(1945～) proposed “body weather” in 1978. At the first he had learned Japanese modern dance, then started his original dance “Butai” in 1973, and next started to tour of “Hyper dance project 1977” at more than 150 places not on formal stage in Japan. During the performances he looked as if a white naked objet. And next he had improvisation with Jazz musician at Paris in 1978, inner same project as Yoko Ashikawa, although he performed not as butoh in those time as mentioned. But later Hijikata helped Tanaka’s basic performance as butoh in 1984. Then he has been living at farming village with farm life since 1985, as he had hoped to be so, when he was a boy in town. Maro is 2 years elder than Tanaka, but they’ve been looking a worthy rival in Butoh for long time. But recently Tanaka doesn’t call himself butoh dancer, neither dancer, nor actor. He said himself just Min Tanaka.
Now here, I really go back to the body of Hijikata forward to conclusion. However before starting it, please remember European history, there was Dadaism before Surrealism. The aesthetics of body and pieces of Hijikata’s transition was like them. The first piece of Butoh in1959, Hijikata dealt with homosexuality very quietly, in blown voice and whisper of love. But he let Yoshito Ohno squeeze a chicken between his thighs as a symbol of eroticism and death. Hijikata also had used to have some rehearsals with running chickens in studios.
Then in 1963 he had performance entitled "Anma" which had a nuance of happening. In this piece some dancers ran, then they shouldered and threw their bodies each other, this piece leaned to the side of Dadaism, too. And in the piece, dancers were white painted very rough and thickly, therefor they also seem to be Objets. The concept of Objet started in surrealism, and Objet means body which let people be in wonder and shock. The bodies as "Objet" doesn't let people feel raw body no longer, and besides, slow speed of Butoh can lead people to be a kind of unconscious, in trance. In short, these kinds of mixed cultural situation of Dadaism and Surrealism, notion of Freud, happening, exactly showed the rush of surging waves of western culture in the postwar period in Japan.
And in the last of 1960s, also Hijikata said to Yoko Ashikawa and people around him "The body of Butoh is standing corpse" and "many corpses are walking on a ride". Hjikata might had looked many weak, lean, stiff and wasted bodies when he was almost 3 or 4 years old, at his village located in northern Japan, where people had been suffering of terrible hunger by so special cold summers. In those days breeding of rice was not enough in the cold summer. In addition, farmer's bodies for cropping rice were very warped and drawn by half-sitting posture.
TATSUMI HIJIKATA in 1970©EIKOH HOSOE
The other side, Hijikata also said, looking people on the street of Tokyo, in the last of 1960s, "They are all dead people, many corpses are walking on street". That is to say I think that corpse for Hijikata didn't mean only real corpses or just weaken, stiffen bodies dying death, he looked also at another image of corpse living in the world, not vivid, not alive, manipulated by something around them, not concentrated, not felt enough by themselves.
After all, he probably could touch the layer of our existence itself through his body, where dying traumata made by repression of deep emotions, then these had changed into distortions, rigidities, warps in our body. I think when Hijikata had his famous solo piece "Rebellion (Revolt) of body" in 1968, passing his moment of Dadaism, although the piece was based on concept of rebellion(revolt), but the piece had double images, one is of a great festival of a mad king, even if in the final part of this piece he was raised to the sky like Christ, and another symbolic image was the biggest political uprising after the war.
More in detail of this piece, Hijikata’s body always seemed to have both side of living and dying. In other words, even in this most powerful impressed piece with so strong taste of eroticism and violence, his body had many beautiful stiff postures probably let audience touch their deep sensitivity for border of conscious and unconscious, influenced by the inner sense of suffocated, repressed, and painful experience.
The body concept which always concludes this kind of death part in it, was formed into his original enchanting style of Butoh. And many butoh dancers after Hijiikata, for example younger founding members of Dairakudakan were really fascinated with this piece. (Although the body of Dirakudakan was made by them in another original way.)
And, thus body concept of butoh with having life and death part in it, is not only resemble to relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness, but also more wider view of relationship between darkness and light on Butoh stage. I mean here this darkness is Ankokou that almost equal to social taboo, that is always repressed into our body and mind. For example, Ankoku’s side has violence, eroticism, homosexuality (in those days), madness, on the other’s side has from the middle territory of general, normal, common sense, to the most upper territory of light and God. Hijikata had wished to extend of human nature for butoh, to extreme both sides on Butoh stage. And Hijikata’s Ankoku was tied with Avant-garde.
However, in the 1970s, Hijikata’s stage world had changed to next tendency of Yami (Shade) from Ankoku. In English this 2words were contained in a word of Darkness, but in Japanese these have different each nuance, clearly. Anyway in 1972 as mentioned, Hijikata had big series of 5pieces for a month. And this time he dealt with deeper unconscious world with his memory of birth village including folklore.
Since this series, Hijikata’s pieces contained more painful, pitiable darkness, Hijikata named it Yami (Shade), although each people lived each life having each glance there. Hijikata’s butoh world had developed into not only his memories of famine, strict nature, cruel farmer work, but also small pox, Hansen's disease, syphilis, sorrow of woman who should had been married with madman by a reason, who cannot be married for being dirtied her record by someone, standing souls of soldiers who lost their bodies in the battlefield, and horses also danced by dancer’s bodies in low center of gravity, mixed taste of metamorphose of material of body itself.
In a word, Hijikata’s Yami(Shade) had certain connection with image of metamorphose of dancer’s bodies choreographed by him. Ankoku has nuance of strong and clear, distinct impression, but Yami has impression of not being able to look clearly, poorly lighted. People can understand Ankoku is social taboo, then another feeling for Yami is like that people might be able to guess there is something, but not be able to look them definite, because of by social, familial, individual repression.
Add to it, I think Yami had also relationship to memory that people would like to forget, repress, because there were too much difficult and disconsolate situations under great violence by nature or financial situation, and militarism by our government during the last war, and so on. In this meaning, Yami is also the outside of our every day’s normal life.
And I must repeat for Hijjikata’s body concept touching to Yami was SUIJAKU-TAI. In the1970s people became forgetful memory of the war, and to enjoy new life. Maybe this is the reason that Hijikata took up Yami for his creation, Yami of Japan, his village life in boy’s time, and more individual life scene around him in past including related the time of the last war. I guess he didn’t want to be forgotten Yami by people.
We can look the contrast of Yami and divine, for example in the climax of “Hōsōtan” in 1972. He used French traditional folk song (“Bailero” in “Chants d’Auvergne” composed by Canteloube) by woman's spiritual and beautiful voice sounds image of Maria, in the voice he played most impressed SUIJAKU-TAI as like a Geisha, quoted from (Dai-)Yūfu: (the boss of )handsome woman in Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s Ukiyo-e, losing life for disease.
In most poor time before the war, not a few young women from Northern Japan became Geishas, or Jorōs (Japanese traditional prostitute), other workers in towns for paying off debt of family caused by famine or some economic reasons. And under the similar situation, not a few young men became to be soldiers for saving provision in their families and village. Although this kind of situation was looked more or less anywhere in Japan in those days. Hijikata also might lose his brother and sister in this term. And Hijkata also played role of Christ crucified on Japanese traditional storm door in 1972.
Near the birth place of Hijikata, which locates in northern region of Japan, there was outrageous legend of Christ. In 1935, when Hijikata was 7 years old, a founder of new religion came to Aomori where is neighbor prefecture of Akita is birth place of Hijikata,
and said that Christ had come from Golgotha, passing Siberia to northern Japan, and he died here. Then also today there is a grave as Christ’s. Hijikata maybe be influenced by this contemporary legend.
Anyway since 1972, SUIJAKU-TAI which means weaken, wasted or disease’s bodies, were often shown on his stage. However, those surrealistic bodies mixed Japanese racial attitude, posture, gesture were not only generated by his personal experience and memory, but he also referred to many international surrealistic or avant-garde or other paintings, photographs, art pieces. These were for example Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, William Turner, Marcel Duchmp, Hans Bellmer, Aubrey Beardsley, Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Edvard Munch, Pan(faun)of Nizhinskiy, Japanese Ukiyo(e), and so on. And he also referred bodies of handicapped people too.
From early time of the1970s, Hijikata started “NOTATION OF BUTOH(BUTOH-FU)”, which is sketch book scrapped many kinds of copies, above mentioned paintings, printings and art pieces, with poetic words for choreograph. BUTOH-FU was used to let students understand very subtle and delicate or strange image of body with including image of metamorphose of body as material by Hijikata’s choreograph.
In 1976 his choreograph had reached climax in this way, the piece of climaxed was solo piece “Hitogata” that means figure. It was danced by his most important pupil Yoko Ashikawa. We could guess that this piece was offered from his bottom of heart to his sister or other women who were in similar situation, who had to emigrate to distant town, for helping their family in difficult time of family finance. Someone heard this kind of women occasionally died without marring, because of being disease in distant town, or south foreign country.
We don’t know about real relationship of his sister and the principal in “Hitogata”, but the principal has big scab which might look suffering from for example syphilis－this interpretation by Nario Goda who is the most elder critic for butoh since “Kinjiki”－, and the scab was made of Japanese traditional so beautiful ornamental hairpins, on her head. Hiijikata loved his sister or other women in similar case, because they were sometimes grate sacrifice for each family.
You can see his eternal wish to make the most pitiful and sorrowful people change to the most divine being by artistic way of Butoh, although their figures were sometime strange and ugly on stage. Anyway, we feel that Hijikata had a wish of hatching out the most miserable and painful parts of ourselves depressed in Yami, to the most divine beauty on butoh stage.
Lastly I’d like to say that butoh was not influenced by atomic bomb directly, however influenced by darkness of both Ankoku and Yami, including so painful and difficult complexed memories before, during, after World WarⅡ, in the dawn of the history. And I’d like to say for international Butoh, of course dancers and choreographers don’t need to be Japanese, victims by atomic bomb, neither.
However, if new generation could refer some contents from the way of creating the body and piece of Butoh in the term of origin, this is my great pleasure. Because there were so strong power for creating new genre that’s Butoh, or amazing power of creation itself. Butoh has many sides of matters, but especially for Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno who were main dancers in the time of dawn of Butoh, cultivating feeling of body and mind for digging each memory related with each existence was important. Or I should say that they had strong desire for expression and creation at the first. Then they had to cultivate their body and mind for digging each importance, each creation.
And they were always interested in international, heretical, contemporary art and art sprit, also thought and literature. Then I think also matters of social and international issues of each time were absorbed through their experiences as memories of their bodies and minds.
I could to talk about butoh all night long, but I had to finish it now, thank you very much for your attention.
＊Hiromi HARADA（原田広美）：Dance critic, a member of Japanese Society for Dance Research, Psycho-therapist(Gestalt therapy), person for workshop
Books: “Butoh Taizen” (『舞踏大全～暗黒と光の王国』現代書館)in 2004.
”Kokusai(International) Contemporary dance” (『国際コンテンポラリー・ダンス～新しい〈身体と舞踊〉の歴史』現代書館) in 2016, both published by Gendai-shokan
(you can see the books also in the web site of amazon U.K.)
＊And I was student of Suehiro Tanemura(種村季弘1933～2004) who named “Rebellion (Revolt) of Body” for Hijikata through criticism of photo exhibition Kamaitachi（『鎌鼬』） by Eikoh Hosoe （細江英公）in 1968, and editor of “Tatsumi Hijikata’s complete work (for writing)” (『土方巽全集』河出書房新社) in 1998, 2005, 2016, Germany literary person, translator for Sacher Masoch “Venus im Pelz”, and so on.
*And I’m very sorry that I couldn’t write many butoh dancer’s names who had relation with dawn of Butoh, for example, Akiko Motofuji, Issou Miura, Sumako Koseki, Yuko Yuki, Isamu Ohsuka, Sanae Hiruta, Tetsuro Tamura, Anzu Furukawa, Ebis Torii, Mutsuko Tanaka, Teru Goi, Masaki Iwana, Kan Katsura, Mitsuyo Uesugi, Minoru Hideshima, Goro Namerikawa, Uno Man, Masami Yurabe, Tenko Ima, Kuritaro, Masahide Ohmori, Yasuhiko Takeuchi, Jousaku Sugita, Setsuko Yamada, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Shigeya Mori, Nobuo Harada, Shouich Fukushi, Atsushi Takenouchi, Takuya Ishide, Seisaku, Kayo Mikami (dancer & scholar, written by her book “The Body as Vessel” published by Ozaru Books in U.K. 2016), and so on. And next generation are many in the world.
*other recommended books are following
“HIJIKATA TATSUMI’S NOTATIONAL BUTOH～AN INNOVATIONAL METHOD FOR BUTOH VREATION” by MORISHITATAKASHI, KEIOU NIVERSITY ART CENTER TOKYOin 2015
“BUTOH～Shades of Darkness” by Jean Viala, Nourit Nasson-Sekine, SHUFUNOTOMO CO. , LTD 1988 (You can buy Mikami’s and Viala, Sekine’s in Amazon U.K., 2nd is in Japan, too)
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Jorge Marçal da Silva captured the first image on August 12, 1906, in the garden of his house in Lisbon, portraying a familiar environment spent in the middle of a Sunday afternoon. This photograph of his wife and still only daughter was followed by hundreds more, in different formats, the most recurrent being stereoscopic (Verascope), which he began using on February 28, 1909 and for about 20 years. We know from some of his images that it was in his house where he developed the glass plates and that was where he probably confirmed or printed them on paper.
After his death in 1929, the set remained in the family’s possession, initially remaining in Lisbon, and later transferred to the family home in northern Portugal.
On the initiative of his grandson, dr. Manuel Mendes Silva, on behalf of the family, made the first contacts in 2014 for the donation to the Lisbon City Council.
In 2016, a part of the estate was formally donated to Lisbon City Hall and transferred to the Lisbon Municipal Archive-Photographic, where it began to be processed.
There are 3175 images in various supports and formats (see table below), mostly gelatin and silver stereoscopic negatives in Verascope format glass (4,3 x 10,5 cm), wooden and cardboard packaging boxes, two small cabinets of 4 drawers, as well as a set of five registration books and one notebook, trademark leaflets and two paper masks.
This was followed in the same year by the deposit of a archival cabinet and its contents of 991 gelatin and silver stereoscopic positives in Verascope format glass. In 2019, a taxiphote and 211 glass positives included in the compartment, a notebook (catalog or thematic index of the chassis) and a projector also used as an enlarger were also deposited.
During the archival processing, it was possible to retrieve the information registered in the author’s books, regarding the subject and date, for the copies that contain inscriptions corresponding to the sequential number written by the author himself. With the death of Jorge Marçal da Silva, some copies remained unidentified in the books.
In the absence of inscriptions in the copies and in the register books, the comparison between images remained to identify the places, people (throughout their aging process) and the date of capture. The positive glasses, with richer inscriptions, most of them kept in the taxiphoto and in the closet, provided more information.
The comparison of inscriptions, images, supports and formats revealed some technical practices of laboratory work, moving the image to different supports, reframing, enlarging, among others.
We can verify, through the comparative analysis of the images and inscriptions, that Jorge Marçal da Silva started from the gelatin and silver negatives in glass, in Verascope format, to make the prints on direct collodion or gelatin paper, and the gelatin and silver slides in glass of the same shape (in some circular or rectangular masks were used).
The same relationship was established between gelatin and silver negatives on glass (8×10,7cm, 9×11,7cm or 9x12cm), gelatin and silver on glass slides (9x12cm) and prints on barium developing paper (9x12cm). We recorded the magnification/reframing of images, for negatives of the same format and support (ex JMS001535 and JMS001580), which in turn were positive (ex JMS001564).
In other situations, we verified the use of the same images in gelatin and silver on glass slides (9x12cm), cellulose acetate negatives (8,5x11cm), gelatin and silver on glass negatives (9x12cm) and in prints on barium developing paper (9x12cm). In some of these prints, circular and oval masks were used.
The archival treatment of this collection gives access to images that photographer Jorge Marçal da Silva worked to be seen by his closest people, and also reveals those that he will have rejected in the work process, thus enabling an approximation to his sensitivity as an photographer.

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Tech hockey start stuns St. Cloud
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Freshman goaltender Jamie Phillips made 36 saves in his second career start to help Michigan Tech to a 5-1 victory at WCHA-leading St. Cloud State Saturday at the National Hockey Center. Tech scored 28 seconds into the game and went on to tally four more to gain the series split with No. 7-ranked SCSU and its first win in St. Cloud since 1998.
Phillips, whose last start was Dec. 4 at Northern Michigan, got some early help from his offense. Tech put up a trio of goals in the first 4:23 to take control of the game. Tanner Kero scored on a rebound of a Riley Sweeney shot during the game’s first shift.
After Jujhar Khaira was called for boarding at the 1:41 mark, he came out of the penalty box and wristed a shot into the top left corner of the goal for a 2-0 lead. Just 32 seconds after that, Sweeney scored his first career goal with a shot through traffic from the high slot.
The Black and Gold withstood a St. Cloud barrage late in the first period, but the score remained 3-0 into the first intermission.
SCSU had two power play opportunities in the second period, but Tech killed them both without allowing a shot on goal. David Johnstone extended the lead with a rebound of his own shot from the slot. Jujhar Khaira picked up the only assist as he fed it from the side of the the net to Johnstone.
Goaltender Ryan Faragher was replaced by Rasmus Reijola following the goal.
The visiting Huskies entered the second intermission with a 4-0 lead.
As expected, SCSU came out with a strong start to the third period. Tech weathered the storm with Phillips making several key saves.
The Black and Gold added some insurance at the 8:28 mark with a fifth goal on a well-executed faceoff play. Blake Pietila won the draw, Kero picked up the puck and sent a pass to Alex Petan waiting in front of the net. Petan tipped it through Reijola’s five-hole for his third point of the night and 13th goal of the season.
St. Cloud broke up the shutout with 2:44 remaining to play as Jimmy Murray beat Phillips on a wrap-around.
Phillips finished with 16 saves in the first period, eight in the second and 13 in the third for his first career win. It was nearly Tech’s fourth shutout this season.
Tech’s penalty kill was a huge part of its success Saturday. The Black and Gold held St. Cloud scoreless on seven man advantages. Tech was 0-for-2 on the power play.
Michigan Tech (11-17-4, 7-15-4 WCHA) will return home for its regular season finale against Colorado College. Games are both Friday and Saturday at 7:07 p.m.


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I want to personally invite you to join me on this one of kind trip to Provence. Our design trip is going to be unforgettable. We are staying in luxury accommodations, eating fantastic food, drinking fabulous wine, and enjoying wonderful company, all with the beautiful backdrop of Provence. That alone would have made an excellent holiday - but add in our focus on interior design and I believe it becomes the "crème de la crème" of holidays!
I have chosen Provence as the location for a design inspired trip because of the popularity of French design styles today. Whether you are looking for the essence of French country or a complete French transformation of your home, the Provence region offers excellent examples of classic architecture and design.
In order to ensure that our time in Provence is best utilized, as part of the trip I will be offering prior to departure an in-home design consultation. I will come to your home to photograph rooms and help identify a "wish list" to identifying pieces that may fit your home. While on the trip, my sole purpose will be to provide you with inspiration and assist you in making any purchases. Consider this a wonderful opportunity to go to the source to shop with your own personal designer! I will help you cull out those treasures.
And treasures we will find. Provence is well known for fabrics, ceramics, and furniture, but we will take it much further than that. We will be visiting local artisans to learn about how the materials are made. We will be visiting home decorating shops and quaint local antique markets to search out perfect complements to your home décor. We will also visit architectural salvage yards to find those one of kind pieces like garden gates or even bathroom fixtures. And finally we will be invited into private homes to view how the locals throw these pieces together to decorate their own homes.
Not to worry though, we have interspersed these shopping elements with all the elements of wonderful relaxing European vacation. We will be staying at two wonderful luxury hotels, which are destinations in and of themselves. I have chosen both a rural and an urban location for the trip so that you can enjoy both aspects of Provencal life. These hotels are small, gracious and luxurious. Their décor will not only pamper you but also provide another source of design inspiration.
In addition, we will be savouring tremendous food opportunities on the trip - from lunches with winemakers and olive oil producers to grand dinners at Michelin restaurants. Add to that visits to local vineyards and olive oil producers and you will get a real feel for the Provencal cuisine.
And no trip to Provence could be complete without enjoying the spectacular sights. We will have fully escorted tours through the most gorgeous villages and towns with our own personal guide helping to understand how the architecture, history and culture informs the design styles coming from this region.
My own personal design philosophy is that you should be surrounded by pieces of art and furniture that you love and enjoy. By actually visiting the artists and the areas where your pieces have been chosen will give you a lifetime of memories as well as the satisfaction of actually buying from the source! My job will be to help you discover, purchase and bring home objects that really complement your home and your own personality.
Please come to our Information Night on Oct 25th to learn more about the trip and get a sneak preview of the sights and smells of Provence. I have invited a few of my Caledon friends to share their knowledge of food and wine, while I be giving a brief lecture on French design.
I again invite you to join me on this truly unique trip. Please feel free to contact to answer any of your design questions prior to departure.
7-15 April, 2006
9 days/8 nights
$6350 plus airfare


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I spent the rest of the day in a haze. I couldn’t take back the thought once I’d had it, but I realized I no longer wanted to. I knew this revelation wouldn’t change some things – it didn’t give me a sudden desire to leave my marriage, for instance. But my sense of myself had changed, and even though I wasn’t sure what that would mean for my life yet, when I looked at my three friends, I knew it would be okay. I could be like them. I could be myself.
Thankfully, this is changing as more and more shows introduce bi characters who are at ease with their own sexuality
A door cracked open in me that day in Glastonbury, and it’s been letting sunshine into my life ever since. After years of tying myself into knots, I’m trying hard to approach my sexuality with curiosity. (It was both.) When I find myself interested in someone, whether in real life or on a screen, I pay attention to how I’m feeling: Am I attracted to this person? Do I have a type? It’s like I discovered a whole new color, and now I see it everywhere.
So far, the deepest joy of coming out has been learning to trust that the things that make me me – what I want, who I want – are valuable. And yet I still second guess myself sometimes; after all, I’ve never even kissed a girl. But why should that matter? No one asks straight people to prove that they’re straight – no one would say to a teenage boy, well, you’ve never kissed a girl, so how do you know you like them?
I’m not the only bisexual person who feels this way.

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Defending and Promoting Africa’s Image
AFRICA PRIME is pursuing five key objectives.
1. Africa told by Africans
Africa yearns for fairness and respect. Often depicted as having the ‘Heart of darkness’, or as one famous cover of the Economist was entitled “Hopeless continent”. Too often, Western mainstream media depict Africa under what I call the 5Ds, namely, Disease, Disorder, Death, Devastation and Desperation.
Others publicize Africa as only an exotic place rich in wildlife and tourism. The international media tend to highlight only Africa’s problems and failures and ignore the continent’s achievements. If uncorrected, those misrepresentations feed misunderstanding and mistrust, deter foreign investment and marginalize Africa. Africa’s stories are better told by the Africans themselves.
2. Showcasing Africa’s successes
By comparison, the same foreign media often overlook Africa’s giant steps into the future. For example, Ghana’s IT project called HOPE (Home, Office, People, Environment) is worth USD 10 billion. It is mirrored in Kenya by Konza Technopolis project worth USD 15 billion. Nigeria’s futuristic Eko Atlantic aims to rival Dubai’s skyline.
In the current trendy IT sector, how many people have heard about young tech entrepreneurs such as Verone Mankou from the Congo who made a smartphone, Arthur Zang from Cameroon who built a tablet to monitor heart diseases or Nahum Bertin from Benin who invented a brain-surgery robot? I personally have Mankou’s smartphone Ilikia (meaning Hope in his native Congolese language).
At a broader level, and to strengthen institutions, African leaders have put in place a peer review mechanism to help advance good governance and democracy. An African, Mo Ibrahim, has established a governance index and a prize higher than the Nobel Prize, to promote responsible exercise and peaceful transition of power on the continent.
African countries recently agreed to create a continent-wide free trade zone. With regards Business, African corporations such as Standard Bank of South Africa, Ethiopian Air Lines, and Sonangol of Angola are world-class in their respective fields. Young African entrepreneurs in technology, fashion and cuisine for example, proudly express their African-ness through their creations and are using their talent to “rebrand” the continent under a positive light. At the level of individual achievement, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, is a Panafricanist by his actions and is investing USD 20 billion throughout the continent in sectors as diverse as cement, oil and agriculture.
3. Debunking myths about Africa
One of the entrenched myths holds it that Africa has never generated great leaders. How about Pharaoh Akhenaton who reigned in Egypt (14th century BC) and Mansa Musa of Mali? (Golden king of Mali, 14th century AD)
AFRICA PRIME will challenge prevailing false narratives on Africa as a poor continent, a place with no history, a collection of nations living on foreign aid, a land impenetrable to democracy, a continent probe to corruption and mismanagement.
4. Celebrating unsung African heroes
Who knew that Bilal, Prophet’s Muhamad’s companion and preferred muezzin was a Black man from current Ethiopia? That the Russian great (greatest?) poet Alexander Pushkin and the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas were both of African descent? That Malik Ambar, a notable leader in the 17th century India, had African roots?
5. Building Africa’s soft power abroad
AFRICA PRIME aims not only to defend Africa, but more importantly to proactively promote the continent by advertising its creativity, talents, successes, and achievements. AFRICA PRIME will feature successful Africans, from both the continent and the diaspora, involved in business, politics, sports, entertainment, social activism, art and academia but to name a few.
To achieve its eminently strategic goal, AFRICA PRIME relies on the active support of all Africans, including governments, corporations, organizations, and private individuals. I started AFRICA PRIME on my own and I want it to become the voice and face of Africa in North America. it is now up to each of you, Africans and friends of Africa, to take this channel to its next level, and this should be a collective endeavour. In the name of Africa, we urge you to join this exciting adventure.
Mr Yaya Moussa


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News Briefs, part 1
Clinton Embraces Compromise Proposed by Aristide Opponents
Los Angeles Times
President Clinton embraced a compromise advanced by political opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Monday as U.S., U.N. and other mediators searched for ways to resolve the island's leadership crisis without more violence and assassinations.
In the Haitian capital, U.N. envoy Dante Caputo appealed to former President Carter and other out-of-office elected leaders from the Western Hemisphere to congregate in Port-au-Prince this week to act as high-level human rights monitors whose presence might discourage political killings and offer increased safety to parliamentarians and Aristide's supporters.
Aristide, who insists that he intends to return to Haiti Saturday under the terms of a tattered peace plan signed last July, will address the U.N. General Assembly Thursday to appeal for continued international support, U.N. officials announced in New York.
Clinton, talking to reporters after meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said his hopes for a settlement were raised by a proposal advanced this weekend by a group of Haitian legislators who previously had opposed Aristide's return.
The 11-point plan calls for the former president to regain his office provided that he broaden his government to include some political opponents and Parliament passes legislation assuring coup leaders that they will not be punished.
DNA Test May Let Man Go Free
The Washington Post
A DNA test raises serious questions about the guilt of a mentally retarded man who is sentenced to die in Virginia's electric chair for raping and killing a Culpeper woman in 1982, state officials acknowledged Monday.
The news ultimately could result in the release of Earl Washington Jr., 34, who was convicted based on a confession that defense lawyers maintain was coerced because of his limited intelligence.
Attorney General Stephen D. Rosenthal said the most sophisticated DNA test was not conducted because too little sperm had been preserved well enough for examination. But another genetic test, looking for more general traits, yielded mixed results and so Washington cannot yet be eliminated as a suspect, he said.
"The test threw us a curveball," Rosenthal said. "It neither established his innocence, nor did it rule him out as a perpetrator."
Despite calls from Washington's supporters for his immediate release, the inmate will remain on death row at the Mecklenburg Correctional Center pending a review by Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and further tests, Rosenthal said.
The development is the latest in a case that has generated national debate about the mentally retarded and capital punishment. Medical tests have indicated that Washington has the mentality of a 10-year-old and an IQ of 69.
Scientists Report Discovery Of Co-Receptor Used by AIDS Virus
Discovery of a natural molecule that the AIDS virus uses like a trapdoor to invade white blood cells was reported Monday by French researchers, who hope it will lead to vaccines or treatments for AIDS.
According to a report released by the Pasteur Institute at a news conference in Paris, virologist Ara Hovanessian's research team isolated a co-receptor that the AIDS virus uses in tandem with the well-known CD4 receptor.
The CD4 cells -- white blood cells bearing CD4 surface molecules -- are the major target of the AIDS virus. It has been known that the virus needs to find CD4 molecules so it can anchor itself to blood cells. But it was not known what happens next, exactly how the virus worms its way into the cell to cause disease. Hovanessian's find -- a molecule called CD26 -- apparently answers that question. It is an enzyme that opens a portal so the virus can slip inside.
Virologist Max Essex, head of the Harvard AIDS Institute, in Boston, said the French discovery "sounds both interesting and important. It's been known by everyone for a long time that CD4 was necessary, but not sufficient," for the AIDS virus to infect cells. "But no one had come up with a clear reason why," Essex said.


COMPLETED PHOTOS – Post #131
Step 1: Picking up the JDM v7 front clip – post #1
Step 2: Teardown of the clip – post #2
Step 3: Intial teardown of the car post #4
Step 4: Beginning of the Right Hand Drive conversion– post #8
Step 5: Intial Fabrication work - post #9
Step 6: Wiring harness, Brakes, Additional mockup – post #11
Step 7: New Parts rolling in! – post #58
Step 8: Final fabrication work, Part 1 – Post #83
Step 8: Final fabrication work, Part 2 – Post #188
Step 9: April 2012 – June 15, 2012: Paint and Body work – Post #192
Step 10: Coating/Polishing – Post #196
So I figured it was about time to let NASIOC in on the latest work being done to my WRX. A lot of people have started to catch on that something is up, so I may as well begin to spill the beans as it is only weeks away from completion.
With this latest go around, I have gone through and reworked almost every aspect of the car with the goal of building, what is in my mind, the ultimate Subaru and Version 3.0 of my vision. I have taken some things from the old and kept them in place and completely revised other areas.
The theme of my build, even since the last iteration, was to build a car that would be equally at home on a racetrack (if I ever felt the desire to start breaking things), on the street, or at the shows. A JGTC car for the street – a race car that looks like show car. Everything on the car is completely functional. It is driven on weekends and is registered, emissions exempt, and 100% legal for Maryland road-use.
And yes, let’s get this out of the way now, since there are always a few that have issues with this, it is primarily a show car. Inevitably, someone will come in here and start complaining about how stupid they think it is that all of the parts on here don’t get “used how they were intended” or that all the money into the car is a waste. That may be your opinion, but I built this car for me to like first and foremost, and at the end of the day that’s what matters to me. Don’t like it? Kick rocks. Appreciate it for what it is? Thank you.
Before I continue, I want to thank a lot of people/sponsors who have been integral to my ability to get this project done, many of whom have been long-time supporters even before this rebuild: Andrew from Brainchild Customs, IndigoBay Ventures, Andrew Yates, Sam, Jacob and everyone from AndrewTech Automotive, Team EM>TION, John Lane from Congressional Bank, Mark, Jermaine and Raj from TurboXS, Mitch & Robbie from Piper Motorsport, Old School Enterprises, Erik from Boomba Racing, Falken Tires, Joe and Alex from JPM Coachworks, Robbie from Iparkharder Designs, Bob and Steve from Metro Plating, My supportive wife and family. Without them, this project could never have been completed(almost!). Thanks to everyone involved. And I do have to also mention the infamous DMoney! – if not for his competitive nature I would never have been motivated to take the car any further than it was before.
Let’s start from the beginning of the rebuild back in July 2011. It was just after an extremely close decision which put me ahead of DMoney(but just barely) for Best Subaru at Tuner Evolution in PA, that I decided I needed to step my game up to stay on top, especially with the likes of Joy's car, Dudley, Wayno, Tino, etc...
And now why we are all here – the photos. I literally have hundreds of progress pictures to add to this thread if there is interest, but for now let's start with the basics...
I'll kick things off with Step 1.
Step 1: July 20, 2011 –Picking up the JDM v7 front clip


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1/1 Photo of Flax Quinoa Crackers (Gluten-Free)
Attainable Health's Note:
These are just as good if not better tasting than any wheat cracker!
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- 1Soak flax seeds in water for 15 minutes.
- 2Grind up some quinoa into flour consistency (I use my mini-blender, but a clean coffee grinder would work too).
- 3Mix ground quinoa with soaked flax seeds (do not strain)
- 4Add olive oil, sea salt, and baking powder.
- 5Grease a 9x11 cookie sheet then spread the mixture out. Spread it so it fills the entire sheet.
- 6Bake at 375 degrees until it starts to brown on the edges (probably about 15 minutes), flip and bake a few more minutes.
- 7For a raw version you can omit baking powder, dehydrate, score, and flip.
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Nutritional Facts for Flax Quinoa Crackers (Gluten-Free)
Serving Size: 1 (267 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 1
- Amount Per Serving
- % Daily Value
- Calories 762.5
- Calories from Fat 365
- Total Fat 40.5 g
- Saturated Fat 3.6 g
- Cholesterol 0.0 mg
- Sodium 1376.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate 79.3 g
- Dietary Fiber 28.8 g
- Sugars 1.3 g
- Protein 27.3 g

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Professor Sir Mark Caulfield
Vice Principal for Health for Queen Mary’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Centre: Clinical Pharmacology
Email: firstname.lastname@example.org: +44(0) 20 7882 3403
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9295-3594
Professor Sir Mark Caulfield is Vice Principal for Health, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Queen Mary University of London and the CEO of Barts Life Sciences, a research and innovation partnership between Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust.
Professor Caulfield graduated in Medicine in 1984 from the London Hospital Medical College and trained in Clinical Pharmacology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he developed a research programme in molecular genetics of hypertension and translational clinical research.
At Queen Mary University of London Professor Caulfield has made substantial contributions to the discovery of genes related to blood pressure, cardiovascular health, cancer and rare diseases. His research has changed national and international guidance for high blood pressure. He was Director of Queen Mary’s William Harvey Research Institute between 2002-2020 and was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008.
Professor Caulfield was appointed Chief Scientist for Genomics England in 2013, charged with delivery of the 100,000 Genomes Project on whole genome sequencing in rare disease, cancer and infection. At Genomics England, he was instrumental in delivering the 100,000 Genomes Project which has delivered life-changing results for many patients. He has also worked with NHS England to co-create the National Genomic Test Directory, which offers equitable access for 56 million people to appropriate genomic tests. Professor Caulfield was awarded a knighthood in 2019 for his leadership of the 100,000 Genomes Project.
In July 2021, Professor Caulfield stepped down from his role as Chief Scientist for Genomics England and is taking a major leadership in Barts Life Sciences a partnership between Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust. This is driving the development of a world-leading life sciences campus at Whitechapel focusing on digital precision healthcare. He is a member of the Barts Health NHS trust Board and is the President Elect of the British Pharmacological Society.
NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre Director’s Office
Clare Birch (Executive Assistant); John Whiteley (Chief Operating Officer for the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre).
Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics
Dr Helen Warren (Lecturer); Dr Claudia Cabrera (Lecturer); Prof Mike Barnes (Director of Bioinformatics); Dr Emma Forton Macgavern (Academic Clinical Fellow).
Dr Arianna Tucci (MRC Clinician Scientist) Dr Kristina Ibanez Garikano (Lecturer)
William Harvey Clinical Research Centre
Dr David Collier (Clinical Director); Dr Manish Saxena (Clinical Fellow); Dr Julian Shiel (Clinical Fellow); Dr Vivienne Monk (Clinical Research Centre Manager); Marion Benford (Quality Assurance); Mike Taylor (Recruitment); Patrizia Ebano; Ania Michalska (Research Sisters).
My leadership of international research collaborations of 350 researchers from 24 countries has discovered over 1200 gene regions influencing blood pressure and generated a polygenic risk scores for hypertension published in Nature and Nature Genetics and recognised by two of the most prestigious prizes in cardiovascular research.
In 2013 I was asked to become Chief Scientist for Genomics England (GEL) to lead scientific strategy and delivery of the 100,000 Genomes Project. I drew on my extensive experience of collaborative working as a researcher, as an NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Director and Senior Investigator to create the vital coalition of 5000 healthcare professionals, 3400 researchers and 97,000 participants, in partnership with the NHS, to deliver the 100,000 Genomes Project on target creating the platform for a new Genomic Medicine Service (GMS).
Cardiovascular Clinical Research
I have undertaken internationally leading translational and outcomes trials research e.g. the ASCOT trial, which changed international and NICE guidance for lipid lowering and hypertension and the PATHWAY Study which changed European Guidance. From this Barts and The London now have a major clinical trials programme and a partnership with IQVIA where we coordinate and enhance clinical research across UCLP Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.
For a full list of publications click here
* denotes joint last author and # denotes the corresponding author.
- Postmus I, Trompet S, Deshmukh HA, Barnes MR, Li X, Warren HR, then 60 co-authors then Colhoun HM, Hitman G, Krauss RM, Wouter Jukema J*, Caulfield MJ*. Pharmacogenetic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of LDL cholesterol response to statins. Nat Commun. 2014 Oct 28;5:5068. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6068.
- Rapsomaniki E, Timmis A, George J, Pujades-Rodriguez M, Shah AD, Denaxas S, White IR, Caulfield MJ, Deanfield JE, Smeeth L, Williams B, Hingorani A, Hemingway H. Blood pressure and incidence of twelve cardiovascular diseases:
lifetime risks, healthy life-years lost, and age-specific associations in 1·25 million people. Lancet. 2014 May 31;383(9932):1899-911. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60685-1.
- Kottgen A*, then co-authors then Caulfield M*, Bochud M*, Geiger C*. Multiple Novel Loci Highlighting Metabolic Control of Urate Production and Excretion are Associated with Gout. Nature Genetics 2013. Feb;45(2):145-54. doi: 10.1038/ng.2500. Epub 2012 Dec 23.
- Georg B. Ehret*, then 346 co-authors then Bruce M. Psaty*, Gonçalo R Abecasis*, Aravinda Chakravarti*, Paul Elliott*, Cornelia M. van Duijn*, Christopher Newton-Cheh*#, Daniel Levy*##, Mark J. Caulfield*##, Toby Johnson*. Genetic variants from novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature 2011;478 (7367):103-9. Voted top 5 paper in CV research and number 1 in stroke by the American Heart Association.
- Louise V Wain*, then 248 co-authors- then Mark J Caulfield*, Dabeeru C Rao*, Martin D Tobin*#, Paul Elliott*#, Cornelia M van Duijn*#. Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. Nature Genetics 2011; 43(10):1005-11.
- Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls (Caulfield is a co-PI). Nature. 2010; 464 (7289):713-20.
- Christopher Newton-Cheh*#, then 165 co-authors then Mark Caulfield*#, Patricia B Munroe*#. Eight blood pressure loci identified by genome-wide association study of 34,433 people. Nature Genetics 2009; 41:666-676. Voted American Heart Association Top ten paper in worldwide CV research in 2009
- Caulfield MJ, et al. (2008) SLC2A9 is a high-capacity urate transporter in humans. PLoS Med 2008; 5(9): e197.
- Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (Caulfield co-PI). Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature 2007; 447:661-678. Voted Best Scientific Research Paper in the World in 2007 (by both Nature and Science).
- Barter PJ, Caulfield M, etal. Effects of torcetrapib in patients at high risk for coronary events. New England Journal of Medicine. 2007 Nov 22;357(21):2109-22.
£6.5m grant to launch new heart disease Biomedical Research Centre (Queen Mary University of London)
Blood pressure measured at home (BBC)


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The rooms looked just like the pictures it showed on website. Everything's nice and clean and felt new. We liked our room very much. There was no sea view from our hotel, however we enjoyed seeing the courtyard and the neighborhood from our window. It made me feel like i was staying in a friend's house and close to the local community.
The management was very good. Hotel staff was friendly and professional. Since the dining space was not very big, the selections of breakfast was not massive compared to large chain hotels, however good quality and tasty.
Location is also very good. It's not located right inside the old town but just literally 3 mins (or less) walk from it.
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