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Jorge Luis Borges: blindness. Tango poetry.
The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary . . . More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.
— Jorge Luis Borges
A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön
Independently Published in Memphis, Tennessee, 1824-1914.
A masterpiece of philosophical apocrypha, the First Encyclopaedia of Tlön is the clandestine work of a secret society of scholars, philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers who dedicated themselves to the awesome task of inventing an entire planet. Inspired by the seventeenth-century writer J.V. Andreä, who coined the name “Tlön” to describe an imaginary realm, the project was instigated by the American millionaire Ezra Buckley, who wanted to “prove to a nonexistent God that mortals could conceive and shape a world.” Published in English over a period of ninety years, the 40-volume Encyclopaedia was limited to a run of 300 copies, intended to be distributed only to members of the society and a few select “friends.” The whole set is reputed to consist of forty octavo volumes, each with 1001 pages bound in yellow leather, and filled with color engravings, drawings, and diagrams. Each volume — quite mysteriously — bears no signs of origin or date, except for the inscription “ORBIS TERTIUS” in a blue oval stamp on a silk sheet covering the illustrated title page. According to some reports, Volume XL is said to contain an extensive index; but this was denied in an anonymous letter sent to the 1920 MLA Convention, carefully typed on white paper with the blue oval stamp as a signature. (Postmarked from Brazil, the letter contained a photograph of a page numbered 998 and detailing the “Zynemorg,” a typographical symbol used to represent the various degrees of belief an author has in a word or statement.)
Often considered to be among the world’s rarest books, all extant volumes of the Encyclopaedia are believed to rest exclusively in the hands of private collectors. Indeed, so rarely does a volume make an appearance, more than a few bibliophiles have declared the entire project to be as apocryphal as Tlön itself. This confusion is only made worse by persistent hoaxes and spurious fragments, such as the Thessaloniki Manuscripts, Sean Kernan’s faux set of “Early Plates on the Morphology of Insects of the Axa Delta,” Markus Fahrner’s Zweite Enzyklopädie von Tlön, and of course the recently “unearthed” Volume IX, sold for an undisclosed sum over the Internet and unmasked as a hoax by Laura Barnes of Glenn Horowitz Booksellers. (Who, by the way, are rumored to be in possession of no less than six complete genuine sets!) Aside from these various forgeries and imitations are the many outlandish claims and conspiracy theories put forth by so-called Tlönists. (For a complete listing of Tlönist stories, fakes, and forgeries, see Suzanne Nixon’s “A Con’s-Piracy of Sirens,” Spiral-Bound, No. 13, Fall 1999, pp 23-34. A personal favorite of mine is Trevor Ravenscroft’s contention that over half the 300 sets were sunk with the Lusitania in 1915; apparently Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger of U-20 had misunderstood his orders to “retrieve” the shipment of volumes for some dire cabal of Germans!)
Of course, this sense of mystery only increases the fascination the First Encyclopaedia of Tlön holds for artists and writers alike. The Encyclopaedia is the subject of numerous stories and artistic projects, including Richard Behrens’ novel U-20, Mark Gustavson’s 11-movement symphony Eleven Hrönir, and of course, Borges’ celebrated short story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” in which the world of Tlön slowly consumes our own reality. Although most biographers agree that a copy of Volume XI was once in the possession of Borges, it has never been discovered, leading many to believe that it was tragically misplaced or even stolen. More than a few, however, including both Willis Barnstone and Ivan Almeida, have rather quixotically suggested that it was actually given as a present to Adolfo Bioy-Casares, whose “flawed” copy of The Anglo-American Cyclopedia was used as the fictional germ for Borges’ original story. Their evidence for this is unfortunately slim — a brief mention in conversation with Borges’ first wife of a letter from Bioy-Casares; this letter, however, was apparently lost during the second Perón regime, and like so many other things involving Tlön, its existence is generally considered apocryphal. (See Traces & Letters: Early Notebooks of Borges, edited by Willis Barnstone, 1975, published by New Horizons after Borges’ death in 1986.) But whether or not Bioy-Casares ever saw a volume of the First Encyclopaedia of Tlön, his actual copy of Volume XLVI of The Anglo-American Cyclopedia can be viewed in the Buenos Aires Writer’s Museum. Its black leather binding and faux gold leaf trim seem to leap right from the pages of Ficciones, serving to remind us of the unique way Borges viewed the interchangeable nature of reality and fictive illusion.
And yet, and yet…. Perhaps one of the strangest theories about Borges and the Encyclopaedia predictably comes from Umberto Eco. In an article in PoMo Praxis (June 1988, pp. 34-36) the Italian semiologist speculates, tongue somewhat in cheek, that Borges himself was actually a late member of the secret society responsible for the First Encyclopaedia of Tlön, a circle which included his granduncle, Silas Haslam. Recruited by Xul Solar in the years following its publication, Borges’ principle assignment was to write a story about himself finding Volume XI — a trick designed to make any rogue copies of the Encyclopaedia seem to be the work of a Borges imitator, and consequentially completely fictional. Eco also ventures that Néstor Ibarra’s “now classic” refutation of the Tlön project in the Nouvelle Revue Française was ghost-written by Borges, who permitted his friend Ibarra to believe it was just another literary joke.
Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien
Johann Valentin Andreä
Strassburg, Lazarus Zetzner, 1641.
A very rare work of which only seven original copies survive, this fictional travelogue was written by J.V. Andreä, the purported author of Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreuz and “accidental” founder of the Rosicrucian movement. Author of several works involving imaginary communities and mystico-Christian utopias, including the Reipublicae Christianopolitanae Descriptio, Bemerkungen was an expansion of ideas first expressed in the Christianopolis, now projected onto an abstract philosophical country situated within the borders of present-day Iraq. While certainly of interest to Borges scholars and modern Rosicrucians, Bemerkungen is most notorious for its chapter on the ideal community of Vheissu, the major inspiration behind the infamous Zweite Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft. Better known to history as the Commune of Prague, the ZFG was an isolated group of philosophers, Rosicrucians, and Lutheran radicals who attempted to recreate the ideals of Vheissu by establishing a closed community outside Prague in 1773. Their experiment was a disaster, ending two years later in a spiral of cannibalism, violent orgies, and mass suicide. (For further details, see “Rosiges Glühen, Blutiges Kreuz,” by Kristoph Gross, Der Annalen Metakarus, 1934, pp. 345-78; or “The Prague Commune and its Influence on DeSade’s The 120 Days of Sodom,” by Josephine Pinto, Lingua Franca, Vol 10/No. 3, April 2000, pp. 22-25.)
Bemerkungen is not an easy work to read, filled with arcane references to the Qabalah, idiosyncratic prose structure, and bizarre, almost absent-minded lapses into Latin. Most difficult of all are the numerous German terms and compound-expressions, many of which were specially coined by Andreä to describe the philosophy of Uqbar and its fantastic literary realms of Mle’khnas and Tlön. (To provide two of my favorite examples: Ketherursprache, which means “the primal (pre)language of fire and creation,” and Ding-nicht-Ding, an expression nearly anticipating Kant, used to represent “an object that is simultaneously there and not yet present.”) Despite the tortuous prose and abstract philosophical formulations, there is an amusing satiric slant to the work, and once in a while it even topples over into genuine comedy. In fact, the entire section devoted to the Heresiarchs of Uqbar — which informed the encyclopedia entry famously misquoted by Bioy-Casares in Borges’ “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” — takes the form of a comical debate between duelling philosophers, and parodies Plato’s Republic with surprising wit. (Kathryn Hume once jokingly referred to the book at “The work of a seventeenth-century Pynchon.” Given that Thomas Pynchon uses “Vheissu” to describe a mythical land in V., it is certainly plausible that he was familiar with Andreä. See Hume’s study, Pynchon’s Mythography, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.)
The history of translating Bemerkungen is almost as convoluted as its style. Poorly translated into French in 1783 by an anonymous Freemason, this flawed version was subsequently rendered into English in 1817 by Immanuel St. James, an associate of De Quincey, who first introduced De Quincey to Andreä’s work. No great linguist himself, St. James introduced countless additional errors to his Clear and Worthy Observations on Uqbar of Asia Minor, further diluting the humor and complexity of Andreä’s original. Silas Haslam was working on a more authentic English translation based directly on the German text at the time of his death in 1914, but literary legend contends that his wife Anna burned the manuscripts. Seven years later, the 1641 text was updated into modern German by Catholic theologian and historian Kristoph Gross. Using Gross’ new German edition, the book was finally translated into modern English in 1990 by Markus Fahrner. Titled A Few Literary Remarks Regarding Uqbar of Asia Minor, this version is now published by Phranes Press, with an introduction and annotations by Rosicrucian scholar Adam McLean.
History of a Land called Uqbar
Ippwich & Beckett, London, 1874
This book is remarkable for several reasons. Not only is it the first work penned by the inimitable poet and historian Silas Haslam, but it could very well mark the beginning of a literary heritage which came to full flower in Jorge Luis Borges — Silas Haslam was the younger brother of Frances Haslam, Borges’ paternal grandmother. In many ways, Haslam was a precursor to his grandnephew, bestowing upon him a love of mazes, wordplay, and, unfortunately, blindness.
In true “Borgesian” fashion, Haslam’s first book is a fictional history of an imaginary place, the philosophical utopia created over two centuries earlier by J.V. Andreä. While living in Berlin with German cousins, the young poet was introduced to Andreä’s Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien by Jacquelyn Lindhurst, an American artist and occultist who was working on a series of illustrations for an Andreä Compendium. Fluent in German and possessing a rare copy of the original text, Lindhurst shared her delight in Andreä with the young poet, who eventually moved into her studio as their relationship developed along more intimate lines. Utterly enchanted by the very notion of “Ukkbar,” Haslam acquired both the Masonic French and St. James English translations of Bemerkungen, slowly working through the original text with the help of Lindhurst. His imagination fired, he began recreating his own version of Uqbar, expanding it and adding his sense of poetic grandeur to Andreä’s complex philosophical games.
Often compared to Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, The History is a brilliantly inventive book, clearly displaying the eccentric black humor and linguistic playfulness that would later become Haslam’s trademark. In chronicling Uqbar’s countless wars and religious persecutions, Haslam created his own “stone mirror,” creating a dark and sharply polished reflection of the European forces of imperialism, colonialism, and religious intolerance that he would later satirize openly in his epic poems. As would be expected of the author of such labyrinthine works as Gannymeade & Europa and Love Song for a Minotaur, Haslam describes the philosophies of Uqbar with meticulous detail, spinning the threads of multiple nuance into an expanding web of complexities that engage and entangle the reader on every page. Unlike Andreä, Haslam surprisingly avoids exploring the languages of Uqbar; but his fabrications and explanations of its strange cults and endless rituals mark a profound insight into the pyschology of “modern man,” and his ability to parody the rivalries of subtly differing systems of thought remains unparalleled.
Unfortunately, the Andreä Compendium never materialized, and after Lindhurst drifted into Theosophy, Haslam moved to Vienna where he met and eventually married the artist Anna Mondaugen, the “muse” to whom he would dedicated the rest of his work. In 1967, Haslam’s biographer, A. Buell Rooke, discovered thirteen of Lindhurst’s illustrations in the possession of her grandson, a Rosicrucian living in San Jose. Seven of these where subsequently included in the 1974 Grove Press centennial edition of History of a Land Called Uqbar; though the hardcover is now out of print, black-and-white versions of the plates are still included in the Grove Press paperback. Additionally, it should be noted that Haslam’s work has generated quite a few books of commentary. By far the most complete analysis is The Hydra Remerges, by Jon Fetter of the Hess Language School in Taiwan, which tracks the “many heads of Uqbar.” (1988, San Ming Press.) I would also recommend the section titled “Victorian Postmodern” in Brian McHale’s Postmodernist Fiction, Routledge, 1987, pp. 7-9; and of course, Borges’ lecture “Haslam and his Mazes,” available by reprint from the University of Texas. Although Borges has — perhaps deliberately — never discussed the subject, it’s almost unthinkable that his father’s library would not have held a copy of Haslam’s History. From this, Borges would have learned of Andreä’s text; finally deciding in 1940 to try his own hand at reinventing Uqbar in the pages of Sur. (For details, see my own “Evolving Tlön,” by Allen Ruch, Variaciones Borges, No. 1/1996, pp. 121-131.)
A General History of Labyrinths
Silas Haslam (1888)
Written during the first years of his impending blindness, this elegant book is a masterwork of scholarship. Adding to its appeal are the hauntingly beautiful illustrations, all provided by Haslam’s wife Anna, a Viennese art student who was later treated for schizophrenia and died in an English sanitarium three years after his death. Starting with a discussion of labyrinthine symbolism seen in prehistoric cave paintings, Haslam traces the development of the labyrinth through Celtic neolithic spirals to the mythic “lost labyrinth” of the Chinese governor Ts’ui Pen. No stone is left unturned as Haslam skillfully weaves an intricate tapestry of mazes across the warp and weft of time: the Cretan masterpiece of Dedalus, the fanciful hedge mazes of the European aristocracy, the twisting letters of illuminated calligraphy seen in both the Scriptures and the Qu’ran — even the religious discussions of Uqbar, the topic of his first book, are likened to mazes. Haslam expertly displays his particular genius in the way he relates the nature of physical labyrinths to other, more metaphysical ideas, such as religion, philosophy, and the then emerging field of psychology.
One of the more remarkable commentaries on this work is by the Serbo-Croatian Milorad Pavic, who claimed that Haslam’s interest in mazes stemmed from his studies of his wife’s growing insanity and its manifestation in her surreal artwork. He (rather callously) makes the claim that Haslam refused to have his wife treated by a professional, as her deliriums were far too interesting to his work. If he did indeed use his wife as such a dark muse, a theory also supported by Jon Fetter, it would most likely explain her vitriol towards him after his death in 1914. Before she entered a London asylum, she burned most of his papers, which — in a tragic loss to the literary world — included the fully completed manuscript of his first work of fiction, known to have been titled The Maze in the Rose.
Gentle Reader Fred DeWit writes:
I was most intrigued by your brief monograph on Silas Haslim’s “A General History of Labyrinths.” The style of writing is reminiscent of the rumor-mongering of the great Classical writers of antiquity. The observation is not mine, it was made by De Quincey concerning Suetonius in his essay on “The Caesars” for Blackwoods magazine, in which he relied quite heavily on Seutonius’ “De vita Caesarum.” There is one elision that puzzles me though, ipso est, the surprising failure to mention perhaps the first of the ancient labyrinths in Egypt across from Crocodilopolis and north of Hawara in the Fayum. Herodotus’ description of his visit there was mentioned in Book II of the “Histories.” Instead, you mention the Cretan labyrinth, which was based on the Egyptian model, yet according to my digital Britannica, probably never existed (!), although the image of which is still recorded on coins whose luster has become somewhat dimmed. I assume, for reasons of brevity, that you wished to avoid the scholarly debate over whether Flinders Petrie’s discovery of the foundations of the Egyptian labyrinth benefited from his reading of Haslim’s History, much the same way that Schliemann’s discovery of Troy benefited from his readings of the Homeric decriptions and those of Pausanias. It is much like the methods used in archeology of the more ancient sites of Tlön. I assume it was the atmosphere of professional jealousy and the intense competition and rivalry between Petrie and Haslim, a common relationship among the archeologists of the period, that explains Petrie’s slight. He never acknowledges Haslim, yet it seems more than a coincidence to me that Haslim’s exhaustive research was published in the same year, 1888, that Petrie made his discovery, and it would be highly unlikely that Petrie was unaware of Haslim’s work. The telling proof is that an examination of Petrie’s correspondences, fails to mention Haslim even once, yet any scholar of labyrinths, such as you are yourself, Mr. Ruch, would have necessarily been familiar with Haslim’s description of where the labyrinth would most likely be located. My point is an ethical one — those things that are not mentioned are probably the most important ones. Perhaps the best course of action is to know that whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent and (taking to heart Poe’s advice in “How to Write a Blackwood Article”) to remember Seneca’s dictum, “Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio.”
Fred de Wit
The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim
Mir Bahadur Ali (1932)
Written by a lawyer from Bombay, this is an unusual novel that combines Islamic mysticism and allegory with a strange sort of detective story. Originally a cheaply published book in Bombay, the popularity of the work brought almost immediate fame to its author. In essence, it is the story of a law student in Bombay who surprisingly commits a murder, and is subsequently drawn into the lower strata of Indian society. There he becomes obsessed with finding a “perfect man,” Al-Mu’tasim, by analyzing the imprint he leaves in others. This book — the original version — is extremely rare, and has never been reprinted beyond the original 4000 copies.
The American composer, Philip Glass, owns a translated copy of one of the originals he got from Constance DeJong; and has often contemplated making it the subject of an opera. If he would ever see this project through, it would do much to bring the original out from the shadow of the more popular rewrite. (See below.)
The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu’tasim
Mir Bahadur Ali (1934) — Illustrated version
After the success of his novel in 1932, Bahadur issued a revised and (poorly) illustrated version which was subtitled A Game of Shifting Mirrors. By far the more widely known of the two versions, it has been reprinted several times and translated into English, German, and French. It should be noted, however, that this edition has been criticized for its slick rewrite, and that Bahadur debased his original idea by making the quest for the missing protagonist a too-obvious allegory for a quest for God, inserting several stereotypical characters in a distracting and overly extraneous fashion. Still, the book has its coterie of admirers, including Borges, Heller, Beckett, and Salman Rushdie, who cited it as “the single most influential book I have ever read.”
Urkunden zur Geschichte der Zahirsage
Julius Barlach (Breslau: 1899)
An obscure but well-researched work, “Documents and Tales: the History of the Zahir” is an account of the Islamic myth of the Zahir, the word that signifies “beings or things which possess the terrible property of being unforgettable, and whose image finally drives one mad.” It is, essentially, a collection of every story, myth, and reference to the Zahir from around the world, from the early eighteenth century to the time of composition. Included are excerpts from Luft Ali Azur’s Temple of Fire, Meadow Taylor’s comprehensive study while in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, and the verses from the Asrar Nama which claim that to see the Zahir is to soon see God.
The original book itself is a handsome octavo edition, published first in Breslau, and reprinted in Berlin in 1935 under the direction of Dr. Julius Niemand, a close associate of Dr. Rudolf Steiner, who provided a few illustrations. Dr. Niemand added a few more references, including the celebrated “Weimar Bierstein des Weisen” story, and insouciantly edited a few of the stories out of existence. These stories — all Jewish in origin — were later reintroduced for the third printing in 1953. Dr. Niemand — who would be arrested as a Nazi after WW II, was one of the “Spear of Destiny” conspirators, and can be seen in a famous photograph along with his associates Karl Holz, Julius Streicher, Willi Liebel, Hans von Obernitz, and Dr. Benno Martin. This photo, from the Stadtarchiv Nürnberg, is the only known picture of Dr. Niemand, who hung himself during the trials.
During a lecture at Columbia University in 1971, Borges admitted that he owned a copy of the original, which is where he got the idea for his famous story “The Zahir.” His copy is now on display in the Buenos Aires Writer’s Museum, opened to the page where, across the margin in Borges’s cramped handwriting, this ironic note is scrawled: “The Zahir as a story! — make it a tiger. Stripes all over the walls. Eyes in gemstones. Yellow and gold! It would be impossible to forget a tiger!”
Vindication of Eternity
Jaromir Hladík (1927)
One of this century’s most exhausting, complex, and rewarding works, Hladík’s Vindication has been called everything from a “parlor game” to a “masterpiece unsurpassed in the world of philosophy.” While the subject remains constant — an exploration of eternity and infinity — the style is quite radical, shifting from short fictional stories to complex essays, from haiku poetry to metaphorical dramas in which mathematical formulae take on character roles and debate each other. (In one well-known scene which takes place in the future, the ghost of Pierre Menard debates with Zeno over the progress of the Achilles and the tortoise; meanwhile Lewis Carroll’s Alice slips by and picks their pockets!) The book is today considered less controversial, and many authors have claimed it as a source of tremendous inspiration, from Italo Calvino to Douglas Hofstadter, who recently mentioned it in an interview in Wired Magazine. It has just gone into a new paperback printing from Vintage, where it has found a new audience among the young “digerati” culture, and rumor has it that Knopf will add it to their “Everyman’s Library” new line of 20th century classics. (Supposedly they have secured Hofstadter to write the introduction.)
Les problèms d’un problème
Pierre Menard (Paris 1917)
A witty and engaging work, this book takes up in chronological order the various solutions of the famous paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. Two editions of this work have appeared, and the second edition contains revisions of the chapters dedicated to Russell and Descartes. Unfortunately, it has not yet been translated into English.
The Garden of Forking Paths
Written by the governor of Yunnan, this work is largely considered to be next to Finnegans Wake in inscrutability. Ts’ui Pen retired from rulership to write a book and construct a labyrinth; and for thirteen years he labored on that task. Upon his death, all his relatives found were the myriad pages to an almost incomprehensible manuscript — no real book, and certainly no physical labyrinth. Saved from the fire by a Buddhist monk, the pages were organized into some sort of form and published, much to the shame of Ts’ui Pen’s family. Virtually ignored in China, the work was finally revised, corrected, and restored to its intended form by the English Sinologist Stephen Albert, who began a translation. To him goes the credit for the discovery of the book’s strange form: the book is the labyrinth. It is a non-linear work in which anything that can happen, does — each possible plot outcome is pursued, multiplying into a seemingly infinite chaos. In this way, the book represents Ts’ui Pen’s view of time: and endless series of possibilities that spread their web through all of eternity.
The restored and translated version had to wait several decades after Albert’s death to finally find a publisher: the book was finally published in 1955 by a small company in New York. Financed by a Dublin philanthropist, the editions were quite beautiful: three volumes, each of 500 rose-colored pages, bound in black leather with golden Chinese calligraphy on the front; illustrated throughout with color plates, they bore a dedication to Stephen Albert and a forward by Joseph Campbell. Unfortunately The Garden of Forking Paths has never been published again, making the surviving volumes quite rare and expensive. (I would like to make this observation: In 1985 the American composer Stephen Albert, a direct descendent of the Sinologist of the same name, wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning symphony based on Finnegans Wake. It seems that it runs in the family!)
The God of the Labyrinth
Herbert Quain (1933)
Quain’s first book, this novel tells the story of an assassination and its subsequent solution by a detective — the twist occurs in that the reader is made aware that the solution is incorrect, inviting a second reading of the work with the reader acting as detective and finding the correct solution. As are all Quain’s works, it is currently available through Vintage paperbacks.
Although he has never cited Quain as an influence, this novel makes a brief guest appearance in the writings of Philip K. Dick. In The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick, (Pantheon, 1995) which contains some of his published notes, including a few chapters for a proposed sequel to his masterpiece The Man in the High Castle, there is a mention of the novel. In Chapter Three, Herr Doktor Goebbels is seen casually finishing The God of the Labyrinth, which he considers an amusing little story — and ironically enough, takes it at face value. Subtle, but then after all, it’s Philip K. Dick.
Herbert Quain (1936)
An interesting novel, this book is told in reverse order with several branching paths that invite a set of alternate readings, each possible storyline unfolding around a different narrative style that changes the whole temper of the book; for instance one reading makes it a novel with a blatant anti-communist theme, and another reading reverses this and gives it the characteristics of a piece communist rhetoric; and still another makes it out to be a non-political fantasy novel.
This work, long ignored, has been experiencing a recent upsurge in popularity after an article in Wired Magazine appeared, citing it as an early example of Hypertextual fiction. It also made an appearance on a bookshelf in the movie Slackers. Reprinted by Penguin books in 1994, the novel has recently been converted to hypertext format by Libyrinth scholar Allen B. Ruch, and is available on the Web at: http://www.microserve.com/~thequail/quain/aprilmarch
The Secret Mirror
Herbert Quain (1937)
A comedy in two acts, this play has often been (unjustly) reduced to a “Freudian comedy.” In reality, it is a complex work in which the second act parallels the extensive and romantic first act, using more down-to-earth characters with related names, finally revealing to the audience that the first act is in the imagination of the writer of the second; a fantasia on his mundane and frustrating life. Unfortunately it is rarely performed; however it was adapted to comic book format by DC’s “Vertigo” line in 1994. (Adapted by Grant Morrison and running three issues in “Prestige” format.)
Herbert Quain (1939)
A strange work, this book consists of eight stories. Each one starts out with what at first appears to be a good plot, but soon founders — deliberately frustrated by the author. Quain reputedly penned the stories to serve as a treasure trove of ideas for other writers, and Borges himself admitted that he took the idea for his story “The Circular Ruins” from Quain’s third story, “The Rose of Yesterday.” More recently, the English science fiction writer Michael Moorcock has indicated that his award winning “Behold the Man” was inspired by the sixth story from Quain’s book, “Ecce Homo Fantasia,” in which an obsessed painter named Klaus Glauber imagines himself as Christ.
Kristus och Judas
Nils Runeberg (Lund 1904)
Published in Lund by Nils Runeberg, the most outstanding member of the National Evangelical Union, this short book contains the ideas that would later flower as a fully developed heretical thesis in his second book. Dedicated to De Quincey, the book explores the relationship between Judas and Christ in a series of dialogues between famous religious figures, from St. Paul to Runeberg himself.
Dem hemlige Fralsaren
Nils Runeberg (1909)
His second and last book, this complicated work is considered his masterpiece. Written over a feverish period of five years of increasing insomnia, it is essentially an expanded — and more heretical — version of his ideas as put forth in Kristus och Judas. Published in Stockholm in a limited run of two thousand red-leather copies, it was immediately either refuted or utterly ignored. The basic heresy of the book, thought out in meticulous detail, is that Judas is truly the Son of God, the ultimate sacrifice that purchased our redemption. The book is more commonly read in its German translation, Der heimliche Heiland, executed in 1912 by Emil Schering.
Runeberg never lived to see the translation; he died several weeks before it was published.
Confessions of a Thug
Meadows Taylor (1839)
This famous novel has been reprinted and translated into several languages, but none are said to contain the power of the original English. Written by Taylor when he was in service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, the novel is a harrowing journey into the world of the Thuggee and the cult of Kali, as told by a protagonist who is “confessing” his life to Taylor, who appears in the book as himself. So startling and realistic are his descriptions, that many people back in England thought that the novel was nonfiction, and feared that Taylor had been actually murdered! (Which was not entirely an unreasonable assumption — the author’s death is ingeniously inferred at the end through the clever use of “editor’s notes” appended to an “unfinished document.”) The book has been widely recognized as the inspiration for a dozen poems, pulp novels, and movies. (George Lucas loaned it to Steven Spielberg after the first “Indiana Jones” movie, obviously providing material for the second.)
An Examination of the Philosophy of Robert Fludd
Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky (1921)
One of Dr. Yarmolinsky’s earliest works, this small book foreshadows his later writing style quite nicely. While not as detailed as his later works, his distinctive voice shines through the text, illuminating the often misunderstood (and always obscure) philosophies of Fludd with a lucid and reverent light.
History of the Sect of the Hasidim
Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky (1931)
Another one of Dr. Yarmolinsky’s comprehensive and illuminating works, this large book traces the development of the Hasidim from their origins to the present day. Well illustrated, the book has been hailed the “definitive work” on the Hasidim from the moment of its publication.
A Vindication of the Cabala
Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky (1938)
A simple and well-written book that explores the Cabala from within a framework of modern Judaism, this work has rightfully earned its place on the bookshelf of most Qabalists. Dr. Yarmolinsky (responsible for an excellent translation of the Sepher Yezirah as well) writes with a clear and lucid style, bringing to his subject a sense of religious authority unmatched by Regardie, Fortune, or Mathers. It is copiously illustrated, although the recent reprint as a Samuel Weiser trade paperback unfortunately changes all the color plates to black and white to save on cost.
Biography of the Baal Shem
Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky (1940)
A labor of love, this is an exhaustive account of Baal Shem. No stone is left unturned, and all aspects of his life are given a clear analysis, with an obvious emphasis on religion. It was the last book he completed before he was murdered in his hotel room. ✪


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Entertain Me – October
Our picks of the best flicks, music and stuff to read this month.
Ingrid Goes West
Aiming its comedy at pitch black, Ingrid Goes West (pictured top, October 26) sees its suitably damaged protagonist (Aubrey Plaza in fine whack-job form) heading (any guesses?) west to track down her Instagram obsession, vacuous LA socialite Taylor (Elizabeth Olsen). An unlikely and, ultimately, unhealthy friendship ensues before the superficial union becomes as strained as the turgid social media filters Ingrid views life through in this cautionary tale of how posting every annoying detail of your existence online can create so much more than a little FOMO.
Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) stars as an orphaned girl forcibly married to a rich and powerful merchant (Christoph Waltz) against the backdrop of the 17th Century Tulip Wars in Amsterdam in this October 26 release. While the ‘arrangement’ saves her from a life of poverty, the unhappy bride embarks on a torrid affair with a struggling (natch) young artist (Dane DeHaan). Seeking to escape the old boy’s grip, the lovers risk everything on the high-stakes tulip market, hoping to make a fortune and buy their freedom.
Blade Runner 2049
The long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi action noir flick, Blade Runner 2049 has a storyline that picks up some 30 years after the mind-bending futuristic gritty bombshell of the 1982 original left viewers slack-jawed in awe. Stepping into the runaway replicant hunter role is Ryan Gosling’s Officer K, who uncovers a well-hidden secret with the potential to destroy what’s left of society and leads him to track down ex-cop/legendary replicant decomissioner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford). With details under tight wraps and helmed by Sicario director Denis Villeneuve with Scott co-producing, we just know it’s gonna blow a whole new generation's minds when it opens on October 5.
DVD: Despite The Falling Snow
Based on Shamim Sarif’s highly-acclaimed novel, Despite the Falling Snow sees Cold War spy Katya (Rebecca Ferguson) falling in love with her target – idealistic Communist politician Alexander (Sam Reid) in a chilling espionage-laced love story for the ages. Cue obligatory triangle, sacrifice and a thrilling finale/emotional reveal.
Snow, Angus & Julia Stone
Across-the-ditch folk indie pop brother/sister duo Angus & Julia Stone’s latest offering Snow brings a suitably chill offering to a back catalogue that includes Triple J Hottest 100-smashing hit and movie/advertising staple ‘Big Jet Plane’. The 12-track album's (the first the pair have turned out since 2015’s sublime The Hanging Tree) eponymous opening track ‘Snow’ brings an infectious mix of breezy rock (inspired no doubt by its recording in Angus’ studio in super chill Central Coast hot spot Byron Bay), scratchy guitars, gently driving organ beat and their signature killer harmonies. Catch the sibling’s sun-drenched melodies on their album tour at the Isaac Theatre Royal on December 17.
Concrete and Gold, Foo Fighters
This might be the Foo’s ninth album, but it’s arguably one of their best since their blistering sophomore effort The Colour and the Shape 20 years ago. Despite bringing in the ‘talent’ of, let’s be honest, questionable colabs (Paul McCartney, Justin Timberlake and Boys II Men’s Shawn Stockman!) Grohl and boys have managed what is a cranking rock offering. From the high-rotation radio play of the frenzied riff and rasp of ‘The Sky is a Neighbourhood’ through to the buzzsaw bluntness of ‘La Dee Da’ and ragged anthem charms of lead single ‘Run’, it’s proof enough that some earlier, tepid middle of the road offerings were just a phase after all.
Reputation, Taylor Swift
Hell hath no fury like a wronged Swift and if her November release Reputation’s first single ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ is anything to go by, those who’ve crossed the former country crooner will be smarting well into 2018. The mega budget video sees the pop star dripping in jewels (heck, she’s even bathing in them!) and dissing nemeses and declaring the old Taylor dead in a signature Swift-style mic drop!
The killer tracks on high-rotation in the Cityscape office.
Portugal. The Man
‘Feel It Still’
The Black Seeds
Sons of Zion
‘Live It Up’
The Jukebox Suite
Funk Wav Bounces Vol.1
Queens of the Stone Age
‘The Way You Used To Do’
The Break, Marian Keyes
Keyes is back and in brilliant form with this midlife crisis showdown between a long-time married couple, with the husband running off for six months to ‘find himself’ – fans of Keyes prolific work will know endless hilarity ensues from the first to the last page.
Hinterland: Cabins, Love Shacks and Other Hide-Outs, Sven Ehmann/Robert Klanten
The cabin has long been a somewhat rustic escape, but not in Hinterland – discover the best new cabin architecture and design approaches creating the refuges that refresh and revitalise amid the beauty of nature.

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If not overwatering I’m 100% sure
I’m gonna say, if not over water, then possible bugs or wind burn. Have you checked for bugs? You may need a scope to see them and they’ll be on the underside, (I think).
@spyonyou is not a bug is wind burn from a fan I was look but is any recovery she be like this for 2 days
It will take a couple of days. If you addressed the fan issue, it should recover. Just give it time.
Thank I do hope she ge back cuz I move the fan to under the pot so I m wait to see but is auto flower they don’t have much time to recovery
You underwatering? Soil looks dry
@GulfCoastGurilla is not oveewatering I can talk you, that is call wind burn
How much water do u give it at water and how big of a pot is it in. If its not over watered its underwatered. The soil looks super dry besides a small ring around. Is the soil thru the middle of the plant atleast wet or moist. Maybe dirt inside is dry and root have nothing. Wind burn looks diff from my experiences and the worst leaf on the plant looks as it sat on the soil and thats why it looks so bad. I just dont see windburn being it
@Mark0427 thanks bro but I can talk you is wing burn
Most indoor cannabis growers use fans to blow air around within the grow area. This creates a nice breezy environment that cannabis plants love. But sometimes there can be too much breeze!
Be Careful! Too Much Wind Causes Clawed Leaves and Sometimes Spots
When there’s too much breeze, the affected marijuana leaves will start getting “wind-burned.”
Wind-burned leaves are often curved under and form “claws.” They can look like they’re droopy from overwatering, underwatering, or possible a nitrogen toxicity, but you know you’ve got wind-burn when the leaves in front of the fan are clawing, and leaves further away from the fan look fine.
I know is not over watering or under watering cuz I water until I was runoff and she feel the same and I knwo is wind burn cuz I leave a fan all night to that plant and on the morning look like that
Ok if you say so, the soil in the picture must be from your tomatoes then as it looks way to dry.
Went she started to look leaf claw I feed her 16 oz of water and two days later 1/2 gallon and I was look like that I have another one with variegation and I feed same water went they young they just need soil moisture not more that half cup so is no water problems
Yes wind burn looks exactly like the pic u posted last. The pic of ur plant looks total diff from wind burn plants. Weve all trued to help and explain. Can only say so much before u just say ok and on to the next person. Everyone is trying to help u u came to ask for help but u r persistant it is something other than what most peopme who been growing for 30 years is telling u its something diff. Its all good. I hope u hdt ur plant figured out brother. Good lick to u
I have with wind burn but that don’t look like wind only to me. It looks like Nitrogen toxicity combined with wind burn.
I’m on you way @GulfCoastGurilla That why I’m out of her cuz I read that to nitrogen toxing with wind burn, I move my fan and flushed the plant with 66oz of water but auto and my don’t have time to recovery her I give her 5 days watering, flushed and the fan was move but nothing
Sometimes it takes awhile with autos and they bounce back but sometimes they don’t and stay stunted but only time will tell. Autos for whatever reason don’t like much nitrogen at first like a photo plant.
@Mark0427 I’m thankful for you help and I know you have 30 year on growing but I like me went you trade a plant same and one you know that change overnight and you know you add a new fan on from of the plant and the only one change is the plant that have the fan hit the leaf I think you conclusion is same that I have and I respect all advice more went come from experience ppl but is not way I have two plant and just that die for unde watering or over watering if I was that the case both die
And I understand I’m amateur on any plants and more in weed my lovely at you can see I don’t do bad work

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Olivier Awards 2022: Cabaret and Life Of Pi dominate as West End celebrates return of theatre
A reimagined Cabaret and the stage adaptation of Life Of Pi have swept the board at the Olivier Awards as crowds gathered for the event for the first time in three years.
Sunday 10 April 2022 22:00, UK
Cabaret star Eddie Redmayne said starring in the musical's West End revival was "the dream performing experience" on the night the show took home the most awards at the prestigious Olivier Awards.
Speaking before the ceremony, he said: "For us it was kind of the dream performing experience because you could see the faces of every audience member and after all those couple of year being locked away it felt like theatre in its most connected, most present form."
The critically acclaimed revival of the 1966 musical won seven of the eleven categories it was nominated in, including Best Musical Revival and acting awards for both Redmayne who plays the Emcee and his co-star Jessie Buckley who plays Sally Bowles.
Continuing its domination, Cabaret also produced the winners of both supporting actor and actress in a musical, Elliot Levey and Liza Sadovy.
Elsewhere, Lolita Chakrabarti's stage adaptation of the bestselling novel Life Of Pi won five awards, with Hiran Abeysekera taking home best actor in a play, and - in an historic first for the Olivier Awards - the seven performers who play the puppet tiger were collectively awarded best actor in a supporting role in a play.
Theatre's post-pandemic recovery has been helped in no small part by the star power the West End has managed to pull in since the reopening last May, such as singer Lily Allen. A nominee for best actress in a play, she made her theatre debut in 2:22: A Ghost Story, a show about to head into its third West End run.
Speaking before the ceremony, Allen told Sky News the experience made her "feel like even more of an imposter than I did in the music world" but she said she was happy if having her name attached to the show helped boost ticket sales.
"The theatre world was on its knees and everyone was so scared because, you know, if somebody contracted [Covid] the whole [production] would fall apart and you could really feel it palpably within all the people that I was working with. So it was great to be able to pull some ticket sales through."
In a year of nostalgia-heavy musical pleasers, Back to the Future took home Best New Musical, winning over the theatre staging of the film Frozen and jukebox musical The Drifters Girl.
Singer Beverley Knight, who stars in the latter, said that given the industry had experienced some of the most challenging years in British theatre's history it is now finally feeling like "theatre is back".
"We as performers are testing ourselves constantly… we're still being as cautious as humanly possible without taking away from the enjoyment of the audience… you know, the NHS is the heart of the nation, we're the soul, no two ways about it."
It wasn't just about awards though - the Royal Albert Hall was brought to life by performances from all the nominated musicals, with numbers from the likes of Disney's Frozen, Spring Awakening and Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
There was also a tribute to the much-loved composer Stephen Sondheim, whose work included West Side Story, Into The Woods and Company, who died in November aged 91, with the swings and understudies of the nominated shows performing alongside a choir from the drama school ArtsEd.


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March 20, 2019
12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg
930 Portage Avenue
About the Course
This two session course will discuss the symptoms of anxiety which are often physical as well as mental and emotional. Various types of anxiety will be discussed along with treatment options and coping strategies.
Course Date & Time: Wednesdays, March 20 & 27, 2019 – 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Location: CMHA Manitoba and Winnipeg, 930 Portage Avenue – lower level (Blueberry Room)
Instructor: Kellie Williams
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First Families: The Boyd Family
Boyd, Hugh (1842-1931)
Boyd (née McColl), Mary Ann
Hugh Boyd, First Reeve, Township of Richmond
Hugh Boyd was born in County Down, Ireland in 1842. He died in Ireland in 1931. He was one of the first settlers of Sea Island. After working with Hugh McRoberts and the McCleerys on the North Arm Trail, Hugh Boyd soon returned to Sea Island. In 1866, Hugh Boyd and Alexander Kilgour established a farming business partnership with the acquisition of land on the south side of Sea Island, which they called Rosebrook Farm.
In 1873, Hugh Boyd married Mary Ann McColl, the daughter of Sergeant McColl of the Royal Engineers. Their first child, William James Boyd (1874-1959), was born on Sea Island on September 7, 1874. The Boyds had seven more children, for a total of 6 boys and 2 girls: William James Boyd, Frances Mary Boyd, George Dudley Boyd, Joseph Burrard Boyd, Hugh Patton Boyd, Andrew Clarence Boyd, John Boyd and Elizabeth Boyd.
In 1880 Hugh Boyd was elected the first warden (reeve) of the Township of Richmond.
In 1887, after Alexander Kilgour decided to dissolve the partnership and farm on his own, Hugh Boyd and family returned to Ireland where he passed away on November 22, 1931, at Bangor. Their Irish home was named "Richmond".
To view the Boyd family tree on Ancestry or obtain further information, contact Barb Nielsen at email@example.com.
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UMHLANGA – Bargain hunters are gearing up for Black Friday on November, 25 as retailers get the Sale signs ready.
A tradition dating back to the 1920s, Black Friday is known for crazy discounts as items go on Sale when the Christmas-shopping-season starts. While Black Friday is an American tradition, South African retailers are getting on board with some offering whopping 5o percent discounts on selected items.
And this is just what shopaholics want to hear. “Especially coming towards the Festive Season, times are tough and the low prices being offered are just what customers are after,” said Kalpana Ramsamy, Marketing Manager for The Crescent Shopping Centre in uMhlanaga. At Gateway Theater of shopping more bargains are expected with Black Friday spreading that festive cheer. “Gateway Theatre of Shopping is expecting a bumper kick off to the festive season on Friday,” said Marketing Manager, Michelle Shelley, “many of Gateway’s stores are participating and shoppers are in for some not-to-be-missed bargains.” The mall is gearing up with additional centre staff in anticipation of an influx of shoppers hunting those bargains. Christmas has come early as uMhlanaga shops get on board with Black Friday. “Retailers have pulled out all the stops to ensure SA consumers will get unprecedented deals this Friday,” said Ramsamy.
With retailers capitalising on the hype of Black Friday, sales are sure to sky-rocket as customers bag those low prices.

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Press Release Summary:
Designed to demonstrate technical test capabilities of CION LX JTAG controllable Tester on Chip (ToC), CION LX Evaluation Board (EVB) lets usersÂ verify all operating modes as well as develop applications and test scenarios. Circuit pins are accessible via connectors, and board also provides such additional resources as LEDs and adjustable clock generator up to 170 MHz. Control of features is carried out via JTAG port, and TAP connector allows direct access via Boundary Scan controllers.
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Compact CION LX Evaluation Board for Test and Development
As part of Boundary Scan Days 2014, GOEPEL electronic introduces the CION LX Evaluation Board (EVB). The module was designed to demonstrate technical test capabilities of the CION LX circuit which is the world’s first JTAG controllable Tester on Chip (ToC).
Using the Evaluation Board, users can verify all operating modes as well as develop their own applications and test scenarios. As a result, the entire range of performance of the CION LX chips and the potential of the Embedded System Access (ESA) technology can be achieved.
The pins of the circuit are accessible via connectors. The board also provides additional resources such as LEDs and an adjustable clock generator up to 170MHz, which is an ideal base for tracking frequency measurements or signal recordings by the digital Waveform recorder.
Control of the features is carried out thropugh the JTAG port. In addition, the Evaluation Board has a TAP connector which allows direct access via Boundary Scan controllers such as the PicoTAP.
About the CION™ LX:
The CION LX was developed in 0.35 µm mixed-signal CMOS technology and provides four independent I/O ports. Each port can be individually operated in a voltage range from 0.9 V to 3.6 V. The integrated Boundary Scan architecture supports the standards IEEE 1149.1, IEEE 1149.6 and IEEE 1149.8.1, at a maximum TCK frequency of 100 MHz. In addition to the single-ended pins, the CION LX provides differential signals as well as interfaces with increased driver capability. Four operation modes enable the IC‘s flexible utilization as a purely serially controlled JTAG transceiver, parallel I/O buffer, latched bus transceiver, and pin driver.
Additionally, instruments such as digitizer, arbitrary waveform generator, event counter, frequency meter and toggle detectors are integrated into the CION LX. These instruments can be accessed – depending on operation mode – either serially via the JTAG Test Access Port (TAP) or a parallel control bus. The instruments can be activated simultaneously to Boundary Scan operations and per test channel. For each channel, pull-up and pull-down resistors can also be connected and the drivers‘ slew rates can be programmed.
About GOEPEL electronic:
GOEPEL electronic is a worldwide leading vendor of innovative electronic and optical test and inspection systems, being the market leader for professional JTAG/Boundary Scan solutions for Embedded System Access (ESA). A network of branch offices, distributors and service partners ensures the global availability of the products as well as the support of the more than 8,000 system installations. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Jena/Germany, GOEPEL electronic employs currently more than 200 employees and generated a revenue of 25 Million Euro in 2013 (ca. $34 Mio). GOEPEL electronic has continuously been ISO9001 certified since 1996 and has been honoured with TOP-JOB and TOP-100 awards for being one of the best medium-sized companies in Germany. GOEPEL electronic’s products won several awards in recent years and are used by the leading companies in telecommunication, automotive, space and avionics, industrial controls, medical technology, and other industries. Further information about the company and its products can be found on the internet at www.goepel.com.
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Maggie Small with the Richmond Ballet talks about her love of dance and her responsibility as a mentor to young ballerinas. "I always make sure to spend time with the Claras," Small says as they prepare for the Nutcracker.
Hugo the Cat is making waves on social media as he sips his cup of coffee while listening to 88.9 WCVE. Read about the inspiration behind this curious little creature helping to spread the word about public radio.
Editorial Fashion and Fantasy Illustration artist Julia Gabrielov visits Daphne’s Corner to share insights into her ethereal creations. Julia has a background in modeling, fashion and costume design, as well as illustrating children's books. Julia currently illustrates her own stories and plans to publish soon. Her art can be found in galleries around the world, which reflects the passion and wonder found in her art.
See more of Julia Gabrielov’s art at JuliaGabrielov.com.
Visionary artists Deshia Williams visits Daphne’s Corner to discuss how she uses paint and light to illustrate how transparent surfaces can be transformed into light exhibitions. Deshia talks about how she got started in this art form and shares some insight into her creative process. The multimedia artist’s studio is located at Art Works in Richmond, Virginia.


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Sign up for an account and enjoy Php150 off your first order with a minimum of Php2000 purchase! Use HELLOBOOKWORM promo code at checkout. For first time orders only.
Good news for bookworms and TV series buffs alike!
While Amazon Prime confirmed there will be a season 2 of the comedic fantasy drama Good Omens, Neil Gaiman also tweeted that his novel Anansi Boys will be appearing on the small screen.
Gaiman wrote, “I’ve been hinting for, well, over a year now, that there are two big TV shows I’m making. Last month, we announced Good Omens 2. Here’s a clue to what the other one might be…”
A plan is placed to adapt the book into a limited six-episode series and will start shooting in Scotland later this year according to a report published by Variety.
Anansi Boys is a fantasy novel written by Gaiman and published in 2005. It follows the story of Charlie Nancy, a young man who is usually picked upon and embarrassed by his father, Mr. Nancy—an incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi.
Amazon Studios, The Blank Corporation, Endor Productions, and RED Production company are working together to produce the show. Currently, Gaiman has an overall deal with Amazon.
Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen leap from podcast to book adaptation
Higher Ground and Penguin Random House are set to release the book adaptation of Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen’s podcast Renegades: Born in the USA on October 26, 2021.
As reported by The Los Angeles Times, it is billed as "a collection of candid, intimate, and entertaining conversations between the former president and veteran rocker."
The 320-page coffee book table will include more than 350 photographs and illustrations, as well as historical documents: handwritten copies of Springsteen’s song lyrics and annotated Obama speeches.
According to the trailer, the book will "explore the mythology of America, the music and dreams that unite us, the contradictions that divide us, the lure of the open road, and the call back home."
Pre-order a copy of Renegades: Born in the USA on the Fully Booked website. Get 10% off when you pre-order from July 23 to October 26, 2021.
Mitch Albom announces release date of new book
The best-selling author of Tuesdays with Morrie is back with another novel that is awaiting to capture the hearts of readers from all ages.
For the first time in his fiction, Albom ponders what we would do if God actually appeared before us—Stranger in the Lifeboat is a fast-paced and compelling novel about hope and faith that will make bookworms think about their deepest beliefs.
Stranger in the Lifeboat is a novel that suggests: the answers to our prayers may be found where it is least expected to be seen.
The book will be released on November 2, 2021. You may now pre-order a copy of this book on Fully Booked.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a tale playful, profound, and rife with mayhem and mischief―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee
When Fat Charlie’s dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie “Fat Charlie.” Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can’t shake that name, one of the many embarrassing “gifts” his father bestowed—before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie’s life. Because Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the stranger who appears on Charlie’s doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Get Anansi Boys: A Novel (Paperback) by Neil Gaiman and other science fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.Learn More
In The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Albom keeps us guessing until the end: Is this strange and quiet man really who he claims to be? What actually happened to cause the explosion? Are the survivors already in heaven, or are they in hell?
The story is narrated by Benji, one of the passengers, who recounts the events in a notebook that is later discovered—a year later—when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat.
A fast-paced, compelling novel that makes you ponder your deepest beliefs, The Stranger in the Lifeboat suggests that answers to our prayers may be found where we least expect them.
Get The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel (Hardcover) by Mitch Albom and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.Learn More
Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen
Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material.
Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to our country’s polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-color photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders—one Black and one white—looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself.
Get Renegades: Born in the USA (Hardcover) by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen, and other lifestyle books online at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
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Look red carpet ready with these stunning marquise crystal chandelier style earrings in a brilliant clear crystal. This wonderful face framing silhouette looks amazing on anyone who wants a longer statement earring to complete their vision.
Clear Crystal Austrian Crystals
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Today, we premiere our latest video series called “Person of Interest.”
The idea is simple — each episode, we'll meet an interesting person.
It could be a top local news maker, a politician, a local or visiting celebrity or one of the many individuals in our community who has an interesting story just begging to be told.
We first met them after they were invited to showcase their wears in Hollywood at the MTV Move Awards, which took place May 7.
Now that they're back, we decided to pay them another visit to see how their adventure in Tinsel Town played out.
We also sampled a few products in the store and joked about stalking celebrities.
We'll be releasing new 10-minute episodes regularly here on Sudbury.com so check back often!

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By Mary-Ann Shearer
What is a Parasite?
It is an opportunistic organism that survives off the host. Very often their affect on the body goes unnoticed. Internal parasites, such as worms, take the nutrition from our food intended for us. This leaves us wide open to other illnesses. If you are feeling generally run down or have any of the symptoms below, this is the time to consider anti parasitical treatment. Some doctors estimate that over 90% of people suffer from parasite infestation.
These parasites can be in the form
- tapeworm – usually from eating animal flesh
- hook worm – from soil or sand (so wash even organically grown produce)
- pin worm – from not washing your hands and touching almost anything
- flukes and a host of other lesser known parasites which are estimated to number over 400!.
How can Parasites harm you?
- Destroy cells faster than new cells can be regenerated this will contribute to premature ageing and cancer
- Produce toxic waste products
- Irritate body tissue
- Invade body tissue, including skin and intestinal lining
- Put pressure of internal organs
- Depress immune system function while activating Immune system response, thereby contributing to auto Immune diseases such as Lupus, arthritis and Multiple sclerosis etc.
- Cause nutrient malabsorption, thus contributing to eating disorders and nutritional deficiencies.
How do you know you have Parasites?
Signs of parasites can be diarrhea, hunger pains (gnawing feeling), appetite that is too healthy or no appetite, weight loss or weight gain, (here I suggest that if you have any weight problem that you get rid of any parasites while you alter your diet and lifestyle) anemia, rectal itching especially at night, tooth grinding, nose picking, bloating and gas (even after you have changed your diet and are properly combining), nausea, fever, rash, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, diarrhea, joint and muscle pain, bad breath, fluid retention (this will also affect your weight as well), allergies and food sensitivities, sugar cravings, mental confusion, fatigue or tiredness), foul smelling stools, heartburn, headaches, bed wetting, nervousness, sleep disturbances. All this indicates that your Immune and endocrine system is being affected and who knows the long term effects parasites have on the body.
What can you do to get rid of Parasites?
Try to include some of the following foods on a regular basis, they help control parasite infestations; raw carrots, fresh and dried figs, parsley, pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds or tahini.
There is a variety of medication available from pharmacies, but they do not get rid of all parasites such as flukes and usually have some side effects. The safest approach is with a combination of herbs. The best herbs are those such as American wormseed, Black walnut hulls, Boldo leaves, Butternut bark, clove, cramp bark, garlic, grapefruit seed, Kamala, Male Fern Root, Neem, Peppermint, Pumpkin seed, Sweet Annie, Thyme and White Oak bark,these are all found in Aim’s Para 90. I do however suggest taking Aim’s Herbal Fibre Blend (1 heaped tsp twice daily for a month at least) as this will help clear the digestive tract of old fecal matter and some of the herbs in HFB will also rid you of some parasites, thus making it quicker and easier when you take Para 90.
You will know the product is working if you feel a ‘pokey’ feeling in your abdomen, or your skin itches or feels ‘crawly’. Headaches, excess mucous, nausea and extreme tiredness are other symptoms. You may also experience more frequent bowel movements, looser stools and increased urination. Some people even feel pain in the liver area.
I also suggest taking a probiotic such as Florafood after taking Para 90 to recolonize the intestinal bacteria. Some people also feel they benefit more by continuing to take Herbal Fibre blend with the Para 90
Pregnant and breast feeding women should avoid Para 90 as the parasites can emerge in some strange places, also some people experience severe stomach cramps as the parasites dislodge. People with colon problems should consult a doctor. It is safe to use from the age of 3 upwards. You should aim to cleanse yourself of parasites about once a year.
In the Kitchen with Mary Ann: Recipes to combat Parasites!
You get 100 daily emails full of natural health information, health tips, and healthy recipes to help change your life. We help you take small steps and begin integrating The 5 Basic Steps of Natural Health, based on The Natural Way, 30+ years of research, integration, and education by Mary-Ann Shearer.

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You might not know about ActionTec, but you may have their products in your home. They are the leading provider of routers and switches to 3rd party companies. Now they are coming to the consumers with a great product that gives you 1080p wirelessly within 150 feet.
ActionTec announced a new line of HDMI products using the Cavium PureVu processor that allow you to push video across a wireless signal. Not only video, but full 1080p video. This can push even a 3D signal across the air to your TV with HDCP 2.0 Encryption. No wires to bury in walls, still have a great picture. Now you won’t need to have a Set Top Box or Blu-Ray player next to a TV.
ActionTec HDMI Adaptor will be available soon for $200. You will get one transmitter and one receiver.
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With Pramac Racings Andrea Iannone in second and Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa in third.
Heading the second row, Rossi’s team-mate Jorge Lorenzo. After suffering a crash World Champion Marc Marquez will set off from fifth position while fellow Spaniard Pol Espargaro starts from sixth, team-mate Bradley Smith heads the third row.
Ducati’s Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso take eighth and ninth respectively and taking the final spot in the top ten is LCR Honda’s Stefan Bradl.
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2010 has ben an interesting year for the tech industry in the east African region, but the entry of Airtel Bhaarti through the purchase of Zain Africa and the bandwidth abundance on the east coast of the continent will go down in history as the two major occurrences that made the most impact.
Last year I made some predictions, which almost got me into trouble with some of the affected stakeholders, luckily looking back, I was not too far off. You can have a look my 2010 Predictions and let me what you think. But here are my 2011 predictions;
1. The death of voice as a business
Earlier this year, when the communicating Commission of Kenya (CCK) slashed the interconnection rates for mobile operators by 50% a move that Airtel took further and subsequently slashed their calling rates by a similar percentage. This started what many pundits and analysts called a price war, but to me this was the beginning of the end.
Voice as a business is long gone and 2011 will see the last kicks, as voice becomes a bonus service to other network services. We shall see operators giving free calls in order to woo subscribers to take up other profitable services such as data and other value added services.
2. Cloud-computing takes root
There has been a lot of sowing as far as cloud computing is concerned and awareness on cloud computing offerings seems high. With the death of voice, most of the networks in the region are now looking for other revenue streams and looks like they may have found one on cloud computing. Safaricom for instance has invested heavily in readying its infrastructure and have stringed a number of partnerships in preparation to offer cloud services.
I see cloud-computing taking off next year with small and medium sized companies, being attracted its utility-priced model, consuming computing and storage services on demand and pay for them as they go, using an Operating Expenses (OPEX) budget, instead of paying for infrastructure resources up-front using Capital Expenditures (CAPEX).
3. Seeds of ubiquitous computing
The developments within the mobile industry in the region have created a paradigm shift in the way people transact, access and process information. The mobile phone and the applications around it are becoming the way of life where people stop thinking of the technology behind transactions such as those of Mpesa.
The arrival of cheap smart phones with more computing power and the maturity of mobile application developers in the region will cause a major computing revolution and I see next year to be the beginning of ubiquitous computing environment with the mobile being at the centre of it all.
4. Free bandwidth
When the various undersea optical fiber cables landed on the east coast of Africa, there was high expectation that bandwidth prices will drop to match those in the Europe and America. This did not happen as operators tried to create scarcity in times of abundance in an effort to recoup return on their investment as fast as possible. This did not work, as uptake of bandwidth was slower than anticipated forcing market forces of demand and supply to check in.
Supply and demand, coupled with fierce competition to offload excess bandwidth has forced prices down to levels only imagined before. I see this trend continuing but with a twist. With slim margins from bandwidth, operators will choose to give free connectivity to gain a competitive edge on chargeable content and other value added services.
5. Orange to take the lead in mBanking
Kenya has been severally been recognized as the country of mobile money especially with the runaway success of Mpesa mobile money transfer from Safaricom. There has since been a lot of innovation around the money market with a myriad of mobile money applications.
The launch of Mkesho – a bank account at Equity Bank connected to an Mpesa account heralded the beginning of mobile banking in Kenya and the region. But my prediction is Orange will dominate this space next year with its tweaked Orange Money, which provides true mobile banking features. Orange Money will emerge the most successful mobile banking service in the region, with Orange leveraging on its regional presence to roll out the services across East Africa.
Those are my five predictions for 2011, let me know what you think.
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Emma (Darcy) Schneider ‘19
During her time at Trinity, Emma (Darcy) Schneider ’19 explored her love of theatre. As part of Trinity’s Theatre Club, the English education major participated in plays on campus and was nominated for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship.
After graduating in 2019, she spent a year teaching English at the high-school level. But she missed theater and decided to earn a graduate degree from the University of Chicago in Theater & Performance Studies while serving as theater program coordinator at Trinity. Now, Schneider’s connection to Trinity is deepening as she looks forward to serving as adjunct faculty and interim president of the Theatre Department
Schneider said her time at Trinity enhanced her appreciation for both theatre and literature. “Dr. John [Sebestyen, Ph.D., associate professor of communication arts and director of theatre] has certainly been one of the most influential people in my life, and that started in our collaborations within the theatre department. I also took several of his classes just because I loved theatre so much, and I always enjoyed learning from him,” said Schneider. She pointed to other life-changing courses as well, such as Dr. Mark Jones’s Shakespeare class, Dr. Michael Vander Weele’s English Senior Seminar, Dr. Erick Sierra’s Transatlantic Literature class, and Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell’s Secondary English Methods.
Schneider enjoyed teaching high school students after she graduated from Trinity but realized she was missing theatre. “While I was teaching high school students, I was able to incorporate one play into my curriculum for each class. These units were my favorite to teach, and my excitement about them translated well to my students, too,” she said. “Teaching these units made me realize how much I missed being involved in theatre and theatre studies, so I decided that as I moved into a goal to teach at the collegiate level, I would focus my work in theatre and theatre literature.” That involved exploring grad school.
A Degree from University of Chicago, a Return to Trinity
A native of Morton, Ill., Schneider was living in the Chicago area with her husband Tyler Schneider ’18. After exploring area theatre programs, she decided on University of Chicago’s master’s degree program in Theatre and Performance Studies and began classes there in the Fall 2020. Around the same time, she was in conversations with Sebestyen. The opportunity to take on the part-time role of Trinity’s theatre program coordinator developed from there.
Like so many aspects of life over the 18 months, particularly in education and the arts, COVID-19 impacted Schneider in her work and studies. Yet she adapted and brought her creative talents to new ways of expression within COVID constraints.
For example, during the Spring 2021 semester, she wrote and directed her own interactive play on campus, “Investigative Support,” which premiered at Trinity. The play was inspired by work on her master’s thesis, which involves the role of audience members in the theater-going experience. “Investigative Support” took place outside on the Trin Trail in March, to allow for safe social distancing.
At University of Chicago, most of her classes were virtual, presenting a unique way of studying performance arts. Schneider prepared a piece for presentation that involved the audience in a unique way. “It was more of a performance piece that reflects members of the BIPOC and LGBTQI community,” she said. The actors participating in the piece formed a circle while delivering monologues, and audience members were surrounded by voices, with the opportunity to step out of the cacophony and focus on just one speaker.
Now that she has finished her master’s degree, Trinity will continue to be a home for Schneider as she takes on additional roles here. Along with teaching as an adjunct professor in the Communication Arts department, Schneider will stay in her role as theatre program coordinator and serve as interim president of the Theatre Department while Sebestyen is on sabbatical during the 2021-22 academic year. She will also be directing Trinity’s mainstage play in Spring 2022.
“Trinity has always been a strong home to me. I’m blessed to be here,” she said. “I’m really thankful to be part of this community and to see my roots here continuing to grow.”


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Transfer Pricing (22nd edition)
Transfer pricing specialists share their analysis and insight in the 22nd edition of ITR’s Transfer Pricing guide.
Eyal Bar-Zvi of Herzog Fox & Neeman Law Offices explains why the burden of transfer pricing documentation will grow as taxpayers are required to submit further documentation, reports and data to comply with the new documentation requirements.
Sponsored by Chevez Ruiz ZamarripaRicardo Rendón and Rafael Ramírez-Moreno of Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa discuss the issues arising from the application of the MAP.
Sponsored by GNV ConsultingRecent changes to Indonesia’s tax laws give taxpayers cause for optimism, as Charles Oetomo, Felic Setiawan and Wirawan Sasongko of GNV Consulting explain.
Sponsored by DeloitteSubhabrata Dasgupta and Jimit Parikh of Deloitte Malaysia explain why taking note of intangible actions will make for better transfer pricing analysis.

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Inside La Luna Dance Studio, students whirl like colorful tops, salsa dancing, tango dancing, or swing dancing atop a 5,000-square-foot dance floor as a crystal-clear sound system pumps tunes. Encouraging instructors stand nearby, breaking down the music and the steps of each style, as friends, partners, and the newly acquainted bond over each tap of their toes. While the studio specializes in these adult Latin-dance courses, junior-level programs welcome kids aged 3 and older, and all classes are scaled to beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels. In addition to their comprehensive month-long programs, the sashayers host special events and dance parties, such as BYOB Salsa Friday every second and fourth weekend, and an annual symposium on the safety risks of holding roses in your teeth.
A union of Middle Eastern and Western cultures, Fire N Ice Hookah Bar combines the laid-back charm of a hookah lounge with the music and swank of a nightclub. Customers roam through the electric bi-level space flooded by soft colorful lighting before picking their poison—hookah, drinks, food, or all three.
In the hookah lounge, they curl up on plush sofas cushioned by satiny pillows and reach out every so often to grasp the hookah pipe as it’s passed around, inhaling any one of 25 exotic hookah flavors. The smoke spirals up toward Middle Eastern tapestries hanging overhead or snakes around the top-shelf cocktails perched beside the pipe. It even intermingles briefly with the aromas wafting from Middle Eastern dishes—such as chicken tikka, korma sliders, and kebabs—before vanishing into the air as quickly as a magician at a science fair.
As the night lingers on, Fire N Ice begins its transformation into a full-blown nightclub. Belly dancers take to the stage first, twisting and shimmying across the spacious dance floor. By 11 p.m., the club's three DJs begin spinning top R & B and hip-hop hits intermixed with a few Arabian jams, signaling to guests that it's their turn to hit the floor.
The banners of New York's sports teams hang from the ceiling at Play Sports Bar, a space lined with flat-screen TVs tuned to sporting events all while more than 100 different beers flow from the bar. The diverse selection of bottles and drafts, many of them craft beers, complements a menu of traditional sports-bar fare such as burgers, wings, and pizza that can be molded into a football. On nights throughout the week, the bar is enlivened by events such as live music, beer tastings, and karaoke.
Head chef Andrew DiCataldo helms Patria Restaurant and Mixology Lounge, crafting Latin fusion cuisine so artfully executed it moved the New York Times to advise readers: "Don't miss the place". DiCataldo's menu highlights classic ingredients such as avocado, plantains, and queso fresco, presenting them in contemporary updates of traditional Latin dishes. Patria and its afterhours lounge are divided in both atmosphere and décor, alternating between the restaurant's scarlet walls, rich wood furniture, and luxurious curtains, and the lounge's cool-toned lights, well-stocked bars, and wizards attempting to resurrect disco.
The sizzling of Cajun batter-fried shrimp mingles with the sweet twang of acoustic guitars and smoky jazz vocals. This distinct bouquet of sounds and smells is the essence of The Crossroads, a venue that describes itself as an amalgamation of classic Cajun and American stylings: “[It's] as if NY and N'awlins had a baby and moved to the suburbs.” Patrons can sate their appetites with a menu of soul and Cajun fare escorted by a choice of libations, including more than 40 martinis. Nightly musical guests have included local and national acts spanning the genres of jazz, bluegrass, and classic-rock cover bands. Nightly events and specials keep energy high. Every Tuesday, guests pay no cover charges and can climb onstage with their finely tuned instruments or an array of water-filled pint glasses for the open Jazz Jam with the house’s trio of musicians.
An Exotic Ambiance
Bolts of crimson and green fabric embellished with golden patterns adorn the walls of Fez Moroccan Restaurant. Seated atop cushioned stools, diners surround the room's low-slung circular tables as Moroccan music echoes throughout the space and Friday and Saturday evenings herald the arrival of belly dancers. Collectively, these elements create an unmistakably Morroccan atmosphere.
A Feast for the Senses
As evidenced by the swirling aromas of saffron, honey and almonds, and harissa-cumin sauces, the chefs are equally committed to the task of capturing the essence of Morocco. In addition to the selection of kabobs and tagines, the menu features a variety of vegetarian as well as meat-laden couscous dishes. The savory smells mingle with the slightly sweet smoke of the fruit-flavored shisha smoldering in the hookahs.
What Do the Experts Say About Fez Moroccan Restaurant?


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It's National Human Trafficking Awareness Day!!
Today in the United States, it is estimated that 100,000 children annually are being lured into the commercial sex industry and sold for profit. While service providers often have the best access to the most at-risk and victimized youth in our communities, a lack of understanding of this issue coupled with inadequate training impedes the identification of exploited children. Visit the COA website at http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/364877/1182b59550/ARCHIVE for some awesome resources to learn, share and take action!
Looking Glass Community Services just added a Sex Trafficking Prevention Specialist position to our Runaway and Homeless Youth Services in order to help spread awareness and understanding within our community, as well as assist at-risk youth in combating this issue.

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A tale of three images. This first one was taken from Palais de Trocadero on the northern side of La Seine pointing to the south, between her legs. Ease your eye along the green of the Champs de Mar, and you can see the Ecole Militaire (where Bonaparte trained!).
Now come down south with me to Montparnesse. Come up to the 56th floor with me (can't go outside as they are renovating the 59th floor, but it only cost E5). The next two shots were taken from Tour Montparnesse. You know: that ugly building down south that everyone reckons should NOT have been permitted! This first shot was with my 250mm zoom lens and once again, you can see Ecole Militaire, the green of Champs de Mar, and the legs of Le Tour.
The final shot was back to the standard lens with about 20mm showing the suburbs, the area around Le Tour, and La Defense way in the background.
Pretty neat, hey?

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Is Fracture Healing in Space Problematic?
Tracey Romero • Mon, September 11th, 2017
A team of bioengineers led by the University of Missouri have been thinking a lot about what would happen if an astronaut broke a leg or injured a knee while in space. Can a fracture heal just as well in space as it would on Earth?
In a recent study, Elizabeth Loboa, Ph.D., dean of the College of Engineering at the university and her team that includes researchers from the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State found that the key to that answer is gravity or ‘mechanical loading’.
Mechanical loading or forces that stimulate cellular growth for development, is required for creating cartilage that is then turned to bone but little is known about how cartilage develops in the absence of gravity or mechanical loads.
According to their study findings, microgravity may actually inhibit cartilage formation, complicating the healing process for astronauts who experience a fracture while in space as well as for patients on bed rest or who are paralyzed due to trauma.
“Because these tissues cannot renew themselves, bioreactors, or devices that support tissue and cell development, are used in many cartilage tissue engineering applications. Some studies suggest that microgravity bioreactors are ideal for the process to take place, while others show that bioreactors that mimic the hydrostatic pressure needed to produce cartilage might be more ideal. Our first-of-its-kind study was designed to test both theories,” Loboa said in a release.
The process through which cartilage is developed is called chondrogenic differentiation. Using human adipose, or fat cells (hASC) obtained from women, Loboa and her team tested chondrogenic differentiation in bioreactors that simulated either microgravity or hydrostatic pressure, which is the pressure that is exerted by a fluid.
The results showed that cyclic hydrostatic pressure, which has been shown to be beneficial for cartilage formation, caused a threefold increase in cartilage production and resulted in stronger tissues. Microgravity, in turn, decreased chondrogenic differentiation.
“Our study provides insight showing that mechanical loading plays a critical role during cartilage development,” Loboa said. “The study also shows that microgravity, which is experienced in space and is similar to patients on prolonged bed rest or those who are paralyzed, may inhibit cartilage and bone formation. Bioengineers and flight surgeons involved with astronauts’ health should consider this as they make decisions for regenerating cartilage in patients and during space travel.”
The study, “Comparison of Simulated Microgravity and Hydrostatic Pressure for Chondrogenesis of hASC,” was published in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance.


Indian Relay - Premiering on PBS Nov. 18th at 10pm ET/9pm CT Follows three different Native American communities as they compete across a grueling season in one of the most exciting and dangerous forms of horse racing - Indian Relay legend Leo Teton during the Q&A at Ft.Hall, Idaho, with Aaron Pruitt and Lance Tissidimit. Credit: Marganna King
"Vikings" is a historical drama television series. It premiered on 3 March 2013. Vikings is inspired by the sagas of Viking Ragnar Lothbrok, one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of England and France.The third season of Vikings premiered on 19 February 2015, and was renewed for a fourth season on 26 March 2015.


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Trophy Bass 4 High 5
The classic trophy bass game by sierra returns and this time better than ever. Veterans to the game will be able to pick up on the easy controls and newbies will have it in no time flat. The graphics are better than any fishing game out on the market today and with 3D excelleration the graphics are even better. The single player game is fun but its the online aspect of the game that really shines. Every time I log on to play TB 4 I've been invited to play a tournament without having to wait longer than 5 min. If chatting is your thing feel free to sit in the lobbies and talk about the game and fishing in general (feel free to mention this site ;) Everybody I've played with online has been real friendly and helpful especially to a newbie like me ... you won't find this on any of your FPS that's for sure. So give the game a shot it's a lot of fun and with internet play it defiantly increases replayablity.
American McGee's Alice Thumbs Up
A true work of art as far as visuals go. This game has some of the most surreal backgrounds you'll find anywhere. The baddies are also some of the coolest looking creatures you'll find in any game. The game play is easy to get used to and flows smoothly along through the games levels. Usually annoying jumping puzzles have been made a lot easier thanks to the icon showing where you'll land once you jump. The game's challenge is handled well throughout the levels the first few levels are basically letting you get a feel for the controls but by the end of the game you'll need to have mastered all your skills to survive. Now let's not forget story line, the story is excellent for anybody who has either seen the movie or read the book Old friends and enemies show up to help or terrorize you (The Chester Cat is defiantly the coolest). The story tells why you're in wonderland and why everything is so messed up and of course why it's up to you to set things right.So why does Alice only get thumps up? Well sad to say but the game is a tad on the short side around 20hrs for an average gamer and the ending seems rather abrupt. Other than the few flaws defiantly work a look.


It is often said that open source software is like a recipe. In this context, let’s discuss your grandmother’s favorite cookies. It’s quite possible your grandmother is known throughout the family as having the most famous chocolate chip cookies. Maybe she’s better known for her Pecan Sandies, or her Rich Tea Biscuits. Whichever is her
So, what happens when a core component of Mac, Linux and other Unix-based operating systems is found to be highly vulnerable and easily exploitable? Last week, we found out: On September 24th, the world was first introduced to a family of bugs in the Bash shell, being referred to both as ‘Shellshock’ and ‘Bashdoor’. Here’s
In a sudden turn of events, Microsoft has released a Security Advisory regarding vulnerability in some of its most common software versions. This security flaw can allow hackers to execute codes remotely by gaining full access to user’s computers.


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His voice rose, and he lifted his fist to the sky. "I will take
my khalasar west to where the world ends, and ride the wooden
horses across the black salt water as no khal has done before.
I will kill the men in the iron suits and tear down their stone
houses. I will rape their women, take their children as slaves,
and bring their broken gods to Vaes Dothrak to bow down beneath
the Mother of Mountains. This I vow, I, Drogo son of Bharbo.
This I swear before the Mother of Mountains, as the stars look
down in witness."
I’m not anyone’s first choice. I’m not anyone’s favorite. People may tell me I mean a lot to them and that I’m special to them but I know there’s someone they will always choose over me.
I wrote you 365 letters! I wrote you everyday for a year! It wasn’t over! It still isn’t over!
#bravo finn bravo #and bravo to you too HBO #look at this flawless casting #just look at it #he has no lines #he is on screen for all of 5 seconds — helmetless i mean — and yet every part of him is loras #that ladies and gentlemen is an actor #look at his face; look at the slant of his shoulders and the way he wears his dead lover’s armour #finn removes a helmet and breathes and is loras#disgusted by everything going on around him; he wants to shout and tell everyone they are awful and is having a crap time cos renly’s dead #but he doesn’t #he remains silent and heartbroken and angry #but there’s also something else about him #pride in what he has done — riding through on his horse and cutting people down the way he did #because he wore renly’s armour #renly’s armour — that one bit of him he has been allowed keep since his death #and we know no matter what loras will love him #even when he’s hacking people to death and being disgusted with everyone #and even when finn has no lines and is on screen to remove a helmet and breathe heavily #because every part of him is loras #all the awards for finn jones standing around helmetless and breathing
30 days of Game of Thrones -most lamented death
Robb Stark - The Young Wolf was born a noble, the Young Wolf fought honorably, the Young Wolf loved passionately, the Young Wolf died.
On this day, April 15, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 was released on DVD and Bluray.
Lets take a moment to remember how much Harry Potter there was on Tumblr and how we still had one more movie to look forward to.
“But I don’t want to forget,”
I think they did this to get a bigger emotional reaction to Peeta being hijacked.
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Frederick W Plaxton was a joiner in the Yorkshire seaside resort of Scarborough, becoming a building contractor. After the Great War there was demand for vehicle bodywork, so in 1919 Plaxton built a coach body on a Ford Model T, followed by many more, and by coachbuilt bodies for cars, in particular on Crossley chassis. Bus and coach bodies were...
Frederick W Plaxton was a joiner in the Yorkshire seaside resort of Scarborough, becoming a building contractor. After the Great War there was demand for vehicle bodywork, so in 1919 Plaxton built a coach body on a Ford Model T, followed by many more, and by coachbuilt bodies for cars, in particular on Crossley chassis. Bus and coach bodies were built on many different chassis in the 1930s, when the company was reorganised as F W Plaxton & Son. After war work, the firm returned to peacetime production in 1946. The 1950s saw more advanced designs from Plaxton, with the trademark oval grille. The Panorama coach body appeared in 1958, with bigger windows than was common at the time. The Embassy was a similar body for lightweight, front engined chassis. In the 1960s Ogle designed the updated Panorama Elite. The Derwent was a new service bus. The Supreme was a new coach body eveolved in 1975 from the Elite, but without any timber in the framing. In 1977 the Viewmaster was a taller derivation of the Supreme, offering better passenger visibility and more locker space. This led to the Paramount of 1983, followed in 1987 by the Expressliner. From 1986 the popular Beaver small bus was produced by Plaxton subsidiary Reeve Burgess. Next came the Plaxton Pointer, and Plaxton merged with distributors Henly, then took over the rights to body designs from the recently defunct Duple. In 1991 the Paramount was replaced by the Premiere and Excalibur. In 1994 Plaxton took over double decker bus builders Northern Counties of Wigan, leading in 1998 to the Plaxton president double decker. In 1997 the Cheetah replaced the coach version of the Beaver. The Paragon and Panther were launched in 1999, suitable for all full-size coach chassis. In 2001 Henly merged its bus and coach interests with Mayflower Group (Alexander and Dennis) as Transbus. New coach designs included the Profile, Prima, Pronto and Paragon Plus. Transbus collapsed in 2004, and a management buyout acquired Plaxton. New designs followed; the Centro single decker bus, Primo minibus, and the Panther access bus. In 2007 Plaxton became part of Alexander Dennis Group, in which it is the coach brand, making the Cheetah XL, Panther and Elite
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(1) electrical insulation performance of safety helmet: according to the specified test method, the leakage current shall not exceed 1.2mA
(2) the flame retardancy of safety helmet: tested according to the specified method, the continuous burning time shall not exceed 5S, and the cap shell shall not be burned through
(3) the lateral rigidity of the safety helmet: according to the specified test method, the maximum deformation is not more than 40mm, the residual deformation is not more than 15mm, and the cap shell shall be free of debris
(4) antistatic performance of safety helmet: according to the specified method, the surface resistance value is not more than 1 Ω X 109.
(5) low temperature resistance of safety helmet: impact test was conducted after pretreatment at low temperature (- 20 ℃), and the force transferred to the head mold was no more than 4900n; There shall be no debris falling off the cap shell; Then another sample was pretreated at (- 20 ℃) for puncture test. The steel cone should not contact the surface of the head mold, and the cap shell should not have debris falling off
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