Seven completely different gamers dotted down with substitute scrumhalf Brad Weber bagging a brace as he registered his first and second tries for his nation.
Canada by no means actually had a hope coming in to this match and the gulf in high quality confirmed. The North People noticed simply 35 % of the ball, ran a paltry 228 meters — in comparison with the 849 meters amassed by the Kiwis — and had been requested to make 148 tackles. That they missed 45 of them speaks extra to the facility and guile of the All Blacks than the ineptitude of the Canadians.
The All Blacks opened the scoring on 5 minutes when referee Romain Poite awarded a penalty attempt following a collection of reset scrums following New Zealand dominance.
Scores from Jordie Barrett, Sonny Invoice Williams and Beauden Barrett adopted because the bonus-point for scoring 4 tries was secured on 36 minutes.
Rieko Ioane, Scott Barrett and Shannon Frizell additionally touched down for the All Blacks in a rampant second half.
“They confirmed true Canadian grit,” Canada’s coach Kinglsey Jones mentioned after the sport. “I like the All Blacks’ accuracy, ability, velocity. The underside line is collisions. The velocity and energy that they’ll ship at occasions it actually causes massive issues.”
Good, however not excellent
There might, and will, have been a fifth attempt simply earlier than the break however Scott Barrett — brother of Jordie and Beauden — dropped the ball having already crossed the road. The incident proved two issues — that humid situations in Japan will affect outcomes because the match progresses and that the All Blacks are, certainly, human.
“It was troublesome situations,” New Zealand coach Steve Hansen mentioned. “The humidity is unbelievable. Individuals at dwelling is perhaps questioning why they’re dropping a couple of balls, however it is vitally troublesome.”
The second half started in a lot the identical method that the primary half did and Ioane transformed stress in to factors a minute after the restart. The highly effective winger now has 24 tries from simply 27 Checks.
Scott Barrett secured his face-saving attempt simply three minutes later, although he wanted a second seize of the ball to keep away from hfurther blushes, and Frizell was rewarded for his tireless work within the free with a attempt of his personal.
Then Weber received his double and set his sights on turning into the primary New Zealand scrum half to attain a hat trick in Take a look at rugby.
As the sport fizzled in direction of its conclusion, Canada noticed extra of the ball however ruthless New Zealand defence stored the door firmly shut as wave after wave of purple assaults broke on a remorseless black wall.
Three minutes from full time the three Barrett brothers produced a second of magic. Beauden obtained a flat cross and ran a space-opening angle in direction of his again line. He ignored the receivers to his proper and as an alternative dinked a deliciously delivered ball excessive. Jordie collected with out breaking stride earlier than drawing the tackler and offloading completely to Scott who provided an outlet on the within. Nevertheless, nothing got here of the transfer save for slack jaws within the stands.
That is the primary time the All Blacks have began a Take a look at with three brothers within the lineup. All through the sport they mixed as if guided by one thoughts and Hansen should absolutely be tempted to allow them to free as a triumvirate once more.
They did not have all of it their very own method, nonetheless. Similar to Scott within the first half, Beauden made a multitude of holding on to the ball and contrived to drop it with nothing however clear air and the attempt line forward late on — although he is perhaps forgiven contemplating simply how slippery issues had been on the market.
“We had been dripping moist as quickly as we ran out at first sport,” captain Kieran Learn mentioned. “It was powerful underneath the roof. However one thing to work on and to know we’ll get these situations additional on.”
The 2 Barrett knock-ons did not matter in the long run. This win has despatched a convincing warning to the remainder of the match.


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Name: Pavilion Mall Kuala Lumpur
Operating Hours: 10.00am – 10.00pm
Address: Pavilion, 168, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Year 2017 is the year of the Rooster according to the Chinese 12 Zodiacs cycle, and nevertheless Rooster is portray everywhere from hawker stalls to shopping malls in celebration of up coming Lunar New Year that marks the start of the year of the Rooster.
Entering the year of the Rooster, Pavilion Shopping Mall in Bukit Bintang Kuala Lumpur had set up a amazing and elaborated display of Rooster Themed Chinese New Year Decorations within the Mall. As their official webpage coined “The Rise to Opulence”, the year of Rooster signify great wealth and prosperity. With diligence, good values and blessings, one will rise to opulence – like the Rooster transforming into a Majestic Phoenix.
Visitors was take away with a breath taking scenery of a Majestic Phoenix flying high at the center of the Atrium. The Phoenix is made from sturdy wireframe, colorful coating and series of lights, making it the biggest lantern display in the mall, and might be as well the largest lantern display of the year 2017 in Malaysia.
This is the video taken from Pavilion Shopping Mall showing various scene of the Amazing Chinese New Year – Year of the rooster Decorations.
Pavilion Shopping Mall is at the heart of Bukit Bintang district, one of the Malaysia’s premier shopping mall with amazing 1.37 mil sq ft retail stores with over 550 outlets available. Catering all the fashion, design, food, grocery and technology needs of the population near and far.
At the front of the Pavilion, there is three stacked bowl structure with circle with light and fountain displays. It had close resemblance with the LiuLi Bowl, a classical Chinese crystal glass artwork.
Nearing the entrance, visitor is greeted with rows of red plum blossom trees and Chinese lanterns displays.
Entering the Mall, there is many Chicken or Rooster themed ornaments and merchandise on display. Visitor can have endless photographic opportunity, from decorative rooster artworks to purchasable plush.
The court is also decked with many Peonies, a beautify red to pink flowers that symbolize spring and richness, honor and high social class.
After visiting the Phoenix, you might reach a cage like structure enclosing a proud standing rooster. The golden cage is fully decorated with golden flowers which signify luxury and richness. The Cage have a opening in front , act like a opened cage.
The cage is located just behind the tail of the phoenix. Viewing as a whole, one might get the impression that the Phoenix is the incarnation of Golden Rainbow rooster, break free and flying towards the sky. It is consistent to the theme “Rise to Opulence “.
The Crystal Palace, or some might call it a Majestic Gateway to heaven, is at the far end of the decoration set. This semi transparent structure mimics a replica of the crystal palace entrance with golden roofs and decorated with two huge golden lantern tower. This set also signify opulence, as the theme suggested.
Bring home the ‘Dance of the Prosperity Rooster’ decorative glass plate, handmade by master craftsmen from Turkey, with proceeds going to old folks’ homes and needy organisations nationwide.
There is many more Chicken Themed decorations available around the mall. The one below is one of our favorite and hilarious decoration set. With motorized pedestal, the golden bushy paper hen appears looking at the three little chicks racing around and chasing the golden leaves. It does class up the place.
For more details, please visit Pavilion Shopping Mall Kuala Lumpur to have more immersive experience on this wondrous Chinese New Year Rooster Decorations. See you there !!

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Some better shots of the Skylanders McDonald’s Toys.
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I break down the six new Skylanders toys from McDonald’s.
All new Skylanders figures have been released for Wave 4.
Skylanders Trap Team has been nominated for a Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Award.
New Skylanders products from Crayola and Big G Cereals plus some Special Edition sets.
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Prettiest pants in a delicious print from Danish brand Libertine Libertine. The model is made from their popular model and is sewn with wide legs and high waist, which sits just above the hip. In the sides, there are pockets, where the pants are closed in front with a hidden zipper and button. The quality is a light and beautiful print viscose.
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The geometric and arithmetic revelations concerning the map of Ancient Hellas in relation to the map of the cosmos. The great mysteries of the ancient temples, the magic of the "curves" of the Parthenon, the Golden mean as exemplified in ancient theaters, the relation of distances between the temples, the hidden harmony and the sense of beauty which characterize the religion, art, philosophy, spatial arrangements, and language of Ancient Hellas.

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This drug should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus. Comments: Topical corticosteroids should not be used extensively on pregnant patients, in large amounts or for extended periods of time.
Why corticosteroids are contraindicated in pregnancy?
Taking an oral corticosteroid like prednisone or prednisolone long-term during pregnancy has been associated with an increased chance for preterm delivery (delivery before 37 weeks of pregnancy) and/or lower birth weight than expected.
What anti itch cream is safe during pregnancy?
Safe OTC Rash Treatments to Use During Pregnancy
- Benadryl cream (Do not take oral Benadryl at the same time)
- Caladryl lotion or cream.
- Hydrocortisone cream or ointment.
- Oatmeal bath (Aveeno)
Are steroid creams safe during pregnancy?
Most topical corticosteroids are considered safe to use during pregnancy or breastfeeding. However, you should wash off any steroid cream applied to your breasts before feeding your baby. Very potent topical corticosteroids are not usually prescribed for pregnant or breastfeeding women, or for very young children.
What corticosteroids are safe during pregnancy?
Therefore, if steroid treatment is desired for the mother, hydrocortisone, cortisone, or prednisone should be chosen. Dexamethasone and betamethasone cross the placenta with similar maternal and fetal concentrations; thus, they are the treatment of choice for fetal respiratory distress.
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This drug has been used without reports of adverse outcomes in women with adrenal insufficiency. Untreated adrenal insufficiency during pregnancy has been associated with poor outcomes in both mothers and infants.
Why is my Vigina itchy outside while pregnant?
Most women experience occasional bouts of a common yeast infection known as vaginal thrush. It causes itching, irritation and swelling of the vagina and surrounding area, sometimes with a creamy white cottage cheese-like discharge.
How can I relieve itching during pregnancy?
Consider these natural remedies you can try at home:
- Change perfumes or detergents. …
- Wear loose clothing made from natural fabrics. …
- Take an oatmeal bath or use a yogurt skin treatment. …
- Use a moisturizer to help with dry skin. …
- Apply some calamine lotion.
When is itching a problem in pregnancy?
The itching is most common during the third trimester of pregnancy but sometimes begins earlier. It may feel worse as your due date approaches. Once your baby arrives, however, the itchiness usually goes away within a few days.
Can I use hydrocortisone cream on hemorrhoids while pregnant?
Clean the area with moist toilet paper, witch hazel pads, or Tucks* pads. Apply ice packs to relieve discomfort. Take a warm (but not hot) bath for 20 minutes, several times a day. Use Preparation H,* Anusol,* or 1% hydrocortisone cream to relieve pain.
Can steroids make eczema worse?
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What do corticosteroids do in pregnancy?
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When are steroids given in pregnancy?
Corticosteroids help most if they are given to you between 24 weeks and 34 weeks plus 6 days of pregnancy. If you are having a planned caesarean section between 35 and 38 weeks plus 6 days, corticosteroids are usually recommended.

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Module 1 - Dermatology
Lombard, Chicago: 5th/6th/7th October 2018
San Francisco: 12th/13th/14 October 2018
(i) Introduction to Dermatology
• An overview of the fundamentals of dermatology.
• Lesions - An in-depth description with numerous images of all the primary & secondary lesions that manifest on the skin (such as papules, pustules, lichenification, atrophy, scaling etc), their meaning & significance according to Chinese medicine.
• How to examination the skin including significance of morphology & distribution.
• Pruritis - How it is understood, differentiated & treated in Chinese medicine.
• The Eight Methods of Clearing Heat in Dermatology - Detailed description of the layers that pathological heat occupies in the body, the treatment protocols & important ingredients used to dissipate it.
(ii) Psoriasis* (Part I & II)
Psoriasis is one of the commonest and most stubborn diseases of the skin, affecting as many as 3% of the population. With a correct approach to treatment up to 65% of cases can be substantially helped with Chinese medicine.
As well as the the commonest variant of psoriasis known as plaque psoriasis, other forms of such as guttate psoriasis, pustular psoriasis & erythrodermic psoriasis will also be included.
(i) Psoriasis* (Part III)
Continuation of previous day's lecture.
(ii) Perioral Dermatitis*
A distinctive inflammatory eruption primarily affecting young women. It is characterised by pale red macular-papular eruption around the mouth, nose and eyes. As with acne this condition is very amenable to treatment, with the vast majority of cases resolving rapidly once a correct formula is prescribed.
* The following will be covered for each disease -
• Overview, its common and uncommon clinical features, differential diagnosis from other skin disease, patho-mechanism & aetiology.
• Traditional Chinese Medicine pattern differentiation with treatment principles, representative formulae (internal & external) and modifications.
• Numerous case examples with many detailed before, during & after pictures to illustrate in great detail common approaches to treatment with both internal and external formulae, how the prescription is modified to take account the changed circumstances as the patient improves, and finally how consolidation is achieved.


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March 31, 2002 |
lucknow: in view of the summer season, the timings of 'jan milan' programme being organised on every tuesday in raj bhawan have been changed. now, the governor vishnu kant shastri will meet the people in jan milan programme on every tuesday from 9:30 am to 11 am in place of 10 am at raj bhawan lawns. giving the above information on saturday, the principal secretary to the governor, shambhu nath said that those who wanted to apprise the governor of their problems or complaints would get entry into raj bhawan from gate number one. he added that if any tuesday falls on a public holiday, then the jan milan programme would be organised on next working day.
May 14, 2002 |
KANPUR: Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri defended transfers of the IAS and IPS officers undertaken by the Mayawati government on the grounds that they were routine. As the governor, he said he was committed to intervening only when he was required by the Constitution. He had allowed Mayawati to form the government after ascertaining the list of MLAS required in the formation of the government. Shastri, in the city on Monday night to attend a wedding, said the government should acquaint the newly elected MLAs with proceedings of the House.
April 27, 2002 |
lucknow: carrying forward its moves for formation of a bsp-bjp coalition government in uttar pradesh, bsp leader and chief ministerial aspirant mayawati is likely to stake her claim on sunday at a meeting with governor vishnu kant shastri. according to highly placed sources here on saturday, mayawati was also likely to submit letters of support from the bjp and its allies to the governor. bsp, which has 98 mlas and the bjp with 88 mlas, along with 22 mlas belonging to its allies, including the rashtriya lok dal, form a clear majority in the 403-member vidhan sabha.
June 13, 2003 |
LUCKNOW: The condition of Mahant Ram Chandra Paramhans Das, chief of the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust who suffered a heart attack on Thursday, is stable on Friday but the next 48 years would be critical for him. "The mahant is still not out of danger and the next 48 hours are crucial for him," Hem Chandra, medical superintendent of the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute (SGPGI) here said. He said all the organs of the mahant were working satisfactorily. Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri, VHP International President Ashok Singhal, Union Minister of State for Home Swami Chinmayanand were among dignitaries who called on the mahant on Friday, hospital sources said.
August 28, 2003 |
LUCKNOW: Mayawati on Wednesday kept herself busy trying to ascertain BSP MLAs' inclinations in the present political crisis. Her concerned stemmed from the fact that more than a dozen BSP MLAs had already pledged their support to the opposition groups headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav. Late night Mayawati had sent a letter to governor Vishnukant Shastri drawing his attention to "abduction attempt" being made by the opposition parties. She also recalled how these elements had tried to kidnap her in 1995.
July 9, 2001 |
new delhi: hindustani classical vocalist shubha mudgal will perform for president musharraf in agra next sunday. the cultural programme will be held before the dinner to be hosted by up governor vishnu kant shastri for prime minister vajpayee and the visiting president. tabla maestro zakir hussain may also be roped in for the show. earlier, a bharatnatyam performance was also planned, but it has since been cancelled. as of now there will only be classical recitals during the cultural show.
September 15, 2001 |
lucknow: an ordinance on the social justice committee report is expected any day. the report has already been passed by the state cabinet on thursday. according to official sources, the legal department has drafted the ordinance, but it is awaiting a nod from governor vishnu kant shastri, who is in allahabad. the governor is expected to return on late friday night. chief minister rajnath singh had announced that an ordinance on sjc report would be issued by saturday (september 15). "we are ready with the papers.
February 6, 2003 |
LUCKNOW: Continuing to bolster her ranks ahead of a possible trial of strength in the budget session of the state Assembly, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday inducted into her ministry three more MLAs who deserted the Congress and joined the BSP. The chief minister also elevated a minister of state belonging to BSP to the Cabinet rank. Rajpal Tyagi, Vinod Kumar Yadav and Dinesh Singh, who had joined the BSP on Tuesday, have been made ministers of state with independent charge, while, Minister of State for Cultural Affairs Ramesh Kumar Sharma was elevated to the Cabinet rank.
February 27, 2003 |
LUCKNOW: On the eve of the crucial session of the state Assembly, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati got a shot in the arm with seven Independent legislators on Thursday pledging their support to her government and seeking recognition as a separate group. The seven Independents met Assembly Speaker Kesri Nath Tripathi and asked him to recognise them as a separate group and allowed to sit with the treasury benches. The seven Independents are Hoshiar Singh, Jitendra Jaiswal, Mahesh Trivedi, Devendra Nagpal, Mithilesh Kumar, Amar Singh Yadav and Vijay Singh.
October 26, 2002 |
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri on Saturday ruled out convening a session of the state Assembly for a trial of strength demanded by the independent MLAs who withdrew support to the Mayawati government on Friday night. "One has to accept that out of 217 MLAs who had extended support to the government, only seven have withdrawn," Shastri said, adding 210 MLAs remained with the government which was still in majority. Asked if he would call a session of the state Assembly, he counter posed "what do you think?

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Google Play Carried Out Another Purge of Apps
- Oct 24, 2022
Google Play regularly reviews published products and removes those that violate approved policies in one way or another. Recently 16 utility apps have been taken down due to ad fraud.
The McAfee representatives could identify intruders because devices consumed battery power too quickly when having these apps. According to a report published by Ars Technica, these products launched web pages in the background and thus boosted traffic, disguising it as organic one (that is, created by real users). In total, these apps received more than 20 million installs before experts discovered the problem.
The report says the deleted apps were utility services that let users scan QR codes, convert measurements, download Instagram profile data, turn on the camera flash as a flashlight, and more. After the first launch, these products downloaded a code that opened websites and clicked on links and advertising banners without the device owners' knowledge. Of course, they did not ask users for permission for such activity. Creating artificial demand is ad fraud and a direct violation of Google Play policies.
This background use of apps leads to rapid battery drain and increased use of Internet traffic. All of them have already been removed from the store, and Play Protect blocks them on users' smartphones and tablets. However, the fact that such a scam has become possible demonstrates the existence of breaches in the product moderation system and the Play Store protection. So far, the service representatives have not released any statements in this regard.
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Sunday 22 December Vicarage Road – Premier League Watford are desperate for points as they are stuck at bottom place in the Premier League, but a hungry Manchester United visit the Hornets... Continue reading
Freiburg vs. Bayern Munich Predictions, Betting Tips and Previews
18 December 2019
Wednesday 18 December
Schwarzwald-Stadion - Bundesliga
Bayern Munich end the 2019 Bundesliga schedule in the unfamiliar position of fifth place, and could drop further if they lose to sixth-place Freiburg. Two points separate the sides, who had very different ambitions when the season got underway.
The last two meetings between Freiburg and Bayern both ended 1-1 – at Freiburg in March, and in Munich in November 2018. Lucas Holer scored in both games.
The last time there was a winner was in the game before that, when Bayern romped to a 4-0 away win. Freiburg last beat Bayern in May 2015, thanks to a last minute Nils Petersen goal.
Freiburg coach Christian Streich has doubts over midfielder Jerome Gondorf, through illness, and goalkeeper Alexander Schwolow, who has a hamstring problem, while Jeong Woo-yeong is on international duty with South Korea. Also expected to be missing are defenders Lukas Kubler and Philipp Lienhart, midfielder Lino Templemann and forward Luca Waldschmitt.
Bayern will likely have to contend with the absence of Corentin Tolisso, while Kingsley Coman, Lucas Hernandez and Niklas Sule are also on the injured list
Freiburg vs. Bayern Munich Preview and Predictions
There are distinctly different reactions to being in the top six for Freiburg and Bayern – the former would have considered sixth a revelation at the start of the season, while for the latter, fifth is a disaster.
Bayern have already changed coach this season, removing Niko Kovac and putting his assisant, Hans-Dieter Flick, in temporary charge. There have been some impressive results since – the weekend’s 6-1 hammering of Werder Bremen the latest – but defeats to Bayer Leverkusen and Gladbach suggest there is still a gap between the Bavarians and their domestic rivals. It’s a stark change from the norm, and Bayern are 1.23 to put it right – but it can’t be guaranteed either.
Freiburg have only lost once at home this season and it’s no exaggeration to say the Schwarzwald-Stadion has become something of a fortress in its last season in use. The Breisgau club are on the move for next year, and a win over dominant Bayern would be a moment to savour. Their form has however been indifferent in recent outings, with Freiburg’s last five games in all competitions bringing two draws, two defeats and just one win. That win was at home, though, against Wolfsburg. They’re 11.25 to get another one, with a draw – a better result for the home side than the away side – at 6.95
Freiburg to score first at 4.50
Freiburg scored after three minutes in the teams’ last meeting – and this is a more vulnerable Bayern than that. Even if they can’t hold on for all three points, they can get off to a strong start.
Freiburg double chance at 4.20
The table says there isn’t much between the teams – and players and fans are always more up for it when the champions come to visit. Freiburg can upset the odds and even a draw is a good result for the home team – one they’re capable of getting.


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[Hip-Hop Is My Art]…Drawings by Michael Molloy
LOVE these drawings by Michael Molloy. The colors are great and I love the somewhat 80’s reto vibe (the colors and graphic work is what makes me say that)…great stuff, ain’t it??
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Welcome to the Pilchard Books blog where you can enter another world of excitement and mystery, adventure and love.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Endless Night - Agatha Christie
Okay, she can write. That's how she made her name, I suppose - sold a few books. And as ever there's an economy of style - "it's the narrative, Stupid". Christie doesn't waste words; she keeps us on the action. I was surprised in a "that's interesting way" to find myself making a link between Agatha Christie, The Doors and William Blake. After that came a slight disappointment. Endless Night, as expected, is rich with fantastic characters and intrigue. To resolve her complex mystery, however - no, I didn't guess who did it - Christie does a complete character make-over towards the end; the villain suddenly acquires qualities, a history that had not been there before. This left me imagining that the villain was a convenience - someone had to be guilty; and more importantly I imagined that like me Christie did not know who did it until she had invented her convenience. The novel then loses its sense of being crafted from the start, clever clues and distractions woven into the plot - there were none. As a result I will take a pause from her mysteries for now. I will only return when I have forgiven her. This should not take too long.


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I spent the day today making some yummy cupcakes for my nieces first birthday tomorrow. I will be posting pictures of the desserts including her giant cupcake smash cake. But in the meantime I wanted to show you my dinner tonight.
I have been trying my best to consume all my tomatoes and not waste a single one, and in that vain, I made a yummy tricolor caprese salad to go with my grilled beef sausage and corn on the cob. It was a lovely meal and we actually ate in the garden tonight, which despite the flies and heat, was actually very nice.
For the caprese salad I used some of my early girl tomatoes, green zebra striped tomatoes, yellow pear, and sunburst golden. I layered them with some fresh picked basil and some fresh mozzarella. To finish the salad I simply drizzled on some olive oil and added salt and pepper to taste.

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By John M. Giggie
After Redemption fills in a lacking bankruptcy within the background of African American lifestyles after freedom. It takes at the extensively missed interval among the tip of Reconstruction and international battle I to ascertain the sacred global of ex-slaves and their descendants residing within the area extra densely settled than the other by means of blacks dwelling during this period, the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta. Drawing on a wealthy diversity of neighborhood memoirs, newspaper bills, photos, early blues track, and lately unearthed Works venture management documents, John Giggie demanding situations the traditional view that this period marked the low element within the sleek evolution of African-American faith and tradition. Set opposed to a backdrop of escalating racial violence in a quarter extra densely populated through African american citizens than the other on the time, he illuminates how blacks tailored to the defining beneficial properties of the post-Reconstruction South-- together with the expansion of segregation, teach go back and forth, buyer capitalism, and fraternal orders--and within the method dramatically altered their non secular principles and associations. Masterfully examining those disparate parts, Giggie's research situates the African-American event within the broadest context of southern, spiritual, and American heritage and sheds new gentle at the complexity of black faith and its position in confronting Jim Crow.
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This is Brook Emery’s third book. The first two – and dug my fingers in the sand (2000) and Misplaced Heart (2003) – share what are, essentially, philosophico -poetic concerns. Emery is especially good, in these, at registering the sense of an observing self, simultaneously part of the normal processes of the world and apart from them. As the first poem of his first book – significantly about the sea – says:
I'm in the sea but not of it, neither fish nor fisherman nor sailor with their understanding of its distance and its depths . . . . .
He is also good at epistemological issues, such as the fact that, when part of the world momentarily makes some sense (“coheres” is the word he is inclined to use) we are uncertain as to whether that is a pattern we impose or whether we have uncovered an underlying law. Does knowing less make patterns easier to discern? That is, is there a tension between empirical data and generalisation? He is continuously intrigued by the status of thought and the fact that thoughts arise naturally in us and play over experiences. He is also highly sensitive to the way in which the future passes through the present and on into the past and the fact that these three time-states are decidedly different. The present is the world of immersion while the past – full of traces of the present – is a remembered and analysed construct.
This all might make Emery seem like a second-rate philosopher but the fact is that he is a first-rate poet. He manages to convince us that these are not only intellectual issues but intensely internalised ones, part of his visceral experience of the world. This is done by the deployment of a small but potent cast of symbols. Of these water – as the sea and as rain – is the most common. Yes, the sea seems to represent the incomprehensible world of the data of experience – swimming is never a simple act in Emery – but it is also part of a personal environment. Emery, like Slessor , is profoundly a Sydney poet. Many poems are set inside a car (often during a rainstorm) and the situation is exploited as a way of coming to terms with the artist’s sense of being simultaneously inside and outside the world. After the rain, so to speak, come the birds, often exploited as symbols of thought.
Uncommon Light builds on and extends these first books – a critical commonplace – but it also makes radical changes. It begins with a poem, “Very Like a Whale” which is, as its title suggests about imposed perception. This seems contiguous with the earlier books, but there are two elements here that I think are rarer than in the first two books and which are very important in this new one. One is an emphasis on the self:
. . . . . I am not what I imagined, here I am the illusionist and dupe of my illusions, making the angels disappear, wishing them back again. . . . . .
And the second, only suggested here in the word “angels”, an interest in the possibility of transcendence of some kind. Later in the poem, the self is redescribed in an entirely materialist, evolutionary way as:
one more clay figurine with beseeching hollows where the eyes should be, as different from the others as I am the same, no more evolved than a roach, no better than a rat, happy as a labrador in the sun. This is grace, the rest is commentary and I would let it go: in millennia I'll chatter metaphysics with a chimpanzee, now my thoughts are the antlers of the Irish elk, the wings of flightless birds . . . . .
Of course a word like “grace” leaps out at the reader in a passage such as this. To complicate matters, it is not easy to be entirely sure about its significance here. It could be saying that grace is the state of living entirely physically, at one with the natural and animal world. It could also be saying, of course, that “grace” is a theological nonsense, a sense of bodily rightness that has become encrusted with commentary.
So Uncommon Light extends the generally epistemological concerns of the first two books into questions of our material identity and the validity of the idea of transcendence. It is also obsessed (I don’t think it too strong a word) with the idea of evil. This is a theme sounded in a number of poems towards the end of Misplaced Heart . Poems like “Self-portrait with Exploding Device”, “Aubade and Evensong: New Year, 2003” and “Commentary: Two Days”, though corralled in a single section of the book, all address the idea of suffering in the contemporary world. This note is continued almost immediately in Uncommon Light . The second poem, “Spring”, recalls the book’s epigraph from Orwell:
. . . spring is still spring. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going around the sun and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.
“Spring” uses, as its central metaphor, the idea that we absorb time as sunlight and eventually let it show as cancers – “Our darker selves in and out of seasons”. And this bleak note is taken up in “Finches Perhaps” which deals first with the response of our thoughts when faced with a site of horror such as the Khmer Rouge torture centre of Tuol Sleng and then with the “tyrants” themselves:
Birds strip the hanging air, cut through it between bars, through chinks, always at this flit-flitting peak, this in and away as we say, monstrous; as we say, how could anyone have endured; thinking they, thinking if I were, as birds dart in micro-moments through our scant attention to how time corrodes between denials then and now. It happened and happened, normal really how helpless rectify appears. Mind that thinks manacle and bird and time cants to be a shrug. Tomorrow the new tyrant's found in a spider hole, he has a thick white web of beard, he has a gun he doesn't fire. A torch shines in his open mouth, the talk again of supervised elections. Distinctions are this stark: Tuol Sleng – the poisoned mound - used to be a school; its commandant taught mathematics; its guards were adolescent. Coherence only in the birds, what they have reclaimed.
It is a potent poem and, as far as I can see, gets double value out of the birds flitting in and out of the prison windows. They symbolise our thoughts – and thus connect the poem up to its author’s epistemological concerns – but they also symbolise a natural world that is, by definition, coherent.
The issue of the nature of evil gets a thorough working over in a four part poem called “Monster” whose parts are spread throughout the book. This poem impresses in the way it operates by statement and denial. Emery often puts both sides of a situation and lets the statements lie alongside each other – working by balancing possibilities rather than a potentially reductive assertion. The first “Monster” poem asserts unequivocally that the monster is present with us in the womb. Monstrosity is not a perversion or a freak sport of nature but an inherently human condition – we are all capable of running Auschwitz or Tuol Sleng . The second poem worries about the essentialism of this position: no monster, after all, produced the Lisbon earthquake – that is a product of some random and completely natural processes. It experiments with the idea of lived experience being made up of encounters between the good and the bad, the monsters and the saints:
. . . . . I know saintliness exists. It's all around me. My next door neighbours in their simple modesty, the lady down the street who is always helping someone older than herself. Even the slow judicial process conceives it natural to be better than we are. I'm trying to shoo the gloomy birds away but crows repeat about me on the lawn; and the vulture and the kite, the cuckoo and the owl: should I have given up the ghost when I was drawn from the womb?
The third and fourth “Monster” poems censor the first two by overlaying an epistemological rigorousness:
. . . . . I'm embarrassed by the flimsiness of my resolve, the silliness of saints and monsters, conversations with a being who can't plausibly exist, this mockery of flagellation . . . . .
and a return to issues of coherence: are observations of order “true but trivial” or a window into profound underlying laws? At any rate, the final result is bleak:
Against the livid orange sunset, consolation (Is it a wing? A fuselage?) dips behind the hill, out of the debris: fragments, disconnected things, suffering that makes nothing holy.
Others have noted that Emery is a master of extended – usually multi-part – poetic meditations. At the core of Uncommon Light are a number of these. They make a very impressive achievement. The first of them is “That Beat Against the Cage” another poem to work over the bird/thought connection. The essential question that it asks is: where is life primary and where is it secondary? Its eight poems come down against the idea (shared by Buddhists and twentieth century metaphysicians) that life is an observed process and that what matters is not essences but field and flow:
. . . . . Life lopes away as we dally in sub-plot, or worse in a stream of consciousness; these thoughts, sometimes like chirping birds, more often like the incidental murmur of the sea, or wind that gusts down evening streets. They never stop.
And yet, despite this confident rejection, there is still an intellectual openness: “I think it is. I think it isn’t”:
Yet there is confinement when all is in its place , the mind becomes eye's slave, scribe of boundaries, reporter of coherence. . . . . .
What complicates – or adds a third perspective – is a sense of a kind of non-transcendent transcendence which can be found in many places in this book, not least in its title – a quotation, we are told, from Augustine speaking of God’s view from an omniscient perspective. Some of the best poetry in Uncommon Light is that describing this sense that “The world holds back / a secret for itself, puts up a lattice work / of truth and lies.” Ideas are difficult to do in poetry but an almost queasy sensation is something even more challenging. One of the poems from “That Beat Against the Cage” makes an impressive attempt to speak of a transcendence that can be sensed but not really argued for:
I would see the outline of the world sufficient had there not been an unconcealment , as though the wind were taking off its clothes, a folding and unfolding of bird and tree and light all the time back to swirling fire, emergent seas. It's as if I'm deep inside the world, gripped and almost capable of understanding the mystery that is no mystery, that yields but in yielding withdraws behind the clouds. This seems an alias of beautiful, an inkling that is in the moment but escapes the present. Nothing here's sublime, nothing fixed and final , nothing artful: this records confusion and the mind's existence.
I know that many will find this kind of meditative beating out of ideas and positions unattractive, but I am greatly taken by this poem and the way it tries in words to get towards the edges of a profound but non-religious experience – a profound philosophical sensation. “That Beats Against the Cage” finishes with an unequivocal rejection of that version of the-world-as-process which leads to an idea of art as the solipsistic recording of the transient:
It's untenable, this drifting that sees the world as drift. The fantasy should ebb, become the half-recalled calling of the sea, or else lifetimes will be spent meandering self-consciously through the matter of the day, shuttling back and forth as if transience could be a domicile . . . . .
Other poems record this sensation of approaching a transcendent which is not located above or even, really, within: it is more that it is underlying. “Nevertheless Also There” is an example. Beginning “The ordinary, it seems, is something more”, it goes on to describe the bodily sensation of seeming removed:
a kind of separation where my body was an empty overcoat given form by air and the something that was absent, too physical to be a thought, too stark and inessential to be a soul, was also there without a shade or outline though it looked to float above me and to occupy an equal space. This division outlasts the waking moment so a day or life or lives are spent in mist and expectation or the purblind clarity left by rain when the everyday is edged and charged and hardly changed at all.
And “Making a Presence” takes up the same theme, speaking of the unseen which makes
a presence here, a passing that takes us even as we hold together harder. Hours blow by and the stranger remains, making fans of trees , sharpening the sand, whispering and hissing till we hear the vacancy it sings, this way, this way, it lies. Wind whistles beyond us and my voice is the sea torn to snow, cattle beneath a hill, an empty room , something promised and just beyond my reach.
Finally there is the title poem itself. Thirty-eight one line statements, questions and imperatives. Like another poem, “Tourism: What the I Sees”, “Uncommon Light” is an attempt to move into a poetic mode quite different to the usual meditations of Emery’s work. It is about the eye and its responses to what it sees. One line “An edge we share: it makes conspirators of us all” is about the involvement of subject with object while another “Starlight becomes us: no, really; divinity adapts as it descends” while looking neoplatonic is probably a statement of human- centredness so that all things become human size when we process them. That would make it the inverse of Blake’s “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite”. Finally there is the mysterious question “Common and uncommon light: who patrols the border?” which could be interpreted in many ways including as a rhetorical question. The significance of “Uncommon Light” though, is not so much what its gnomic sentences add to the complicated concerns of the book but rather in its move to a different mode. Of course this Delphic mode is not necessarily more intensely “poetic”. Philosophers from Heracleitus to Nietzsche and Wittgenstein have enjoyed the way cryptic propositions engage with discursive thought.
Looking at Emery’s work so far we can see a clear pattern of movement from a poetry almost entirely concerned with issues of reality, essence and knowledge to a poetry that almost is forced to face some of the mass horrors of the world. In Uncommon Light it tries to find ways of doing this that do not sacrifice the epistemological rigour of the earlier work. At the same time it quietly, and often in the interstices, asks painful questions about the value of poetry. The prospects – for the world, for knowledge and for poetry – might said to be bleak but bracing.

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And whereas, in their humble address (the people of Rhode Island) have freely declared, that it is much on their hearts … to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained, and that among our English subjects, with a full liberty in religious concernments; and that true piety rightly grounded … will give the best and greatest security to sovereignty.
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|Application number||US 10/330,790|
|Publication date||Apr 4, 2006|
|Filing date||Dec 26, 2002|
|Priority date||Jul 20, 1998|
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|Inventors||John Lemke, Robert Justice Shartle, Victor Pan, Philip Cizdziel|
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This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/333,765, filed Jun. 15, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,521,182 which claims benefit from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/093,421, filed Jul. 20, 1998, which applications are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a fluidic medical diagnostic device for measuring the concentration of an analyte in or a property of a biological fluid.
2. Description of the Related Art
A variety of medical diagnostic procedures involve tests on biological fluids, such as blood, urine, or saliva, and are based on a change in a physical characteristic of such a fluid or an element of the fluid, such as blood serum. The characteristic can be an electrical, magnetic, fluidic, or optical property. When an optical property is monitored, these procedures may make use of a transparent or translucent device to contain the biological fluid and a reagent. A change in light absorption of the fluid can be related to an analyte concentration in, or property of, the fluid. Typically, a light source is located adjacent to one surface of the device and a detector is adjacent to the opposite surface. The detector measures light transmitted through a fluid sample. Alternatively, the light source and detector can be on the same side of the device, in which case the detector measures light scattered and/or reflected by the sample. Finally, a reflector may be located at or adjacent to the opposite surface. A device of this latter type, in which light is first transmitted through the sample area, then reflected through a second time, is called a “transflectance” device. References to “light” throughout this specification and the appended claims should be understood to include the infrared and ultraviolet spectra, as well as the visible. References to “absorption” are meant to refer to the reduction in intensity as a light beam passes through a medium; thus, it encompasses both “true” absorption and scattering.
An example of a transparent test device is described in Wells et al. W094/02850, published on Feb. 3, 1994. Their device comprises a sealed housing, which is transparent or translucent, impervious, and rigid or semi-rigid. An assay material is contained within the housing, together with one or more assay reagents at predetermined sites. The housing is opened and the sample introduced just before conducting the assay. The combination of assay reagents and analyte in the sample results in a change in optical properties, such as color, of selected reagents at the end of the assay. The results can be read visually or with an optical instrument.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,620,676, issued on Nov. 16, 1971 to Davis, discloses a colorimetric indicator for liquids. The indicator includes a “half-bulb cavity”, which is compressible. The bulb is compressed and released to form a suction that draws fluid from a source, through a half-tubular cavity that has an indicator imprinted on its wall. The only controls on fluid flow into the indicator are how much the bulb is compressed and how long the indicator inlet is immersed in the source, while the bulb is released.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,640,267, issued on Feb. 8, 1972 to Hurtig et al., discloses a container for collecting is samples of body fluid that includes a chamber that has resilient, collapsible walls. The walls are squeezed before the container inlet is placed into the fluid being collected. When released, the walls are restored to their uncollapsed condition, drawing fluid into and through the inlet. As with the Davis device, discussed above, control of fluid flow into the indicator is very limited.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,088,448, issued on May 9, 1978 to Lilja et al., discloses a cuvette, which permits optical analysis of a sample mixed with a reagent. The reagent is coated on the walls of a cavity, which is then filled with a liquid sample. The sample mixes with the reagent to cause an optically-detectable change.
A number of patents, discussed below, disclose devices for diluting and/or analyzing biological fluid samples. These devices include valve-like designs to control the flow of the sample.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,426,451, issued on Jan. 17, 1984 to Columbus, discloses a multi-zone fluidic device that has pressure-actuatable means for controlling the flow of fluid between the zones. His device makes use of pressure balances on a liquid meniscus at the interface between a first zone and a second zone that has a different cross section. When both the first and second zones are at atmospheric pressure, surface tension creates a back pressure that stops the liquid meniscus from proceeding from the first zone to the second. The configuration of this interface or “stop junction” is such that the liquid flows into the second zone only upon application of an externally generated pressure to the liquid in the first zone that is sufficient to push the meniscus into the second zone.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,868,129, issued on Sep. 19, 1989 to Gibbons et al., discloses that the back pressure in a stop junction can be overcome by hydrostatic pressure on the liquid in the first zone, for example by having a column of fluid in the first zone.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,230,866, issued on Jul. 27, 1993 to Shartle et al., discloses a fluidic device with multiple stop junctions in which the surface tension-induced back pressure at the stop junction is augmented; for example, by trapping and compressing gas in the second zone. The compressed gas can then be vented before applying additional hydrostatic pressure to the first zone to cause fluid to flow into the second zone. By varying the back pressure of multiple stop junctions in parallel, “rupture junctions” can be formed, having lower maximum back pressure.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,472,603, issued on Dec. 5, 1995 to Schembri (see also U.S. Pat. No. 5,627,041), discloses using centrifugal force to overcome the back pressure in a stop junction. When flow stops, the first zone is at atmospheric pressure plus a centrifugally generated pressure that is less than the pressure required to overcome the back pressure. The second zone is at atmospheric pressure. To resume flow, additional centrifugal pressure is applied to the first zone, overcoming the meniscus back pressure. The second zone remains at atmospheric pressure.
European Patent Application EP 0 803 288, of Naka et al., published on Oct. 29, 1997, discloses a device and method for analyzing a sample that includes drawing the sample into the device by suction, then reacting the sample with a reagent in an analytical section. Analysis is done by optical or electrochemical means. In alternate embodiments, there are multiple analytical sections and/or a bypass channel. The flow among these sections is balanced without using stop junctions.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,700,695, issued on Dec. 23, 1997 to Yassinzadeh et al., discloses an apparatus for collecting and manipulating a biological fluid that uses a “thermal pressure chamber” to provide the driving force for moving the sample through the apparatus.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,736,404, issued on Apr. 7, 1998, to Yassinzadeh et al., discloses a method for determining the coagulation time of a blood sample that involves causing an end of the sample to oscillate within a passageway. The oscillating motion is caused by alternately increasing and decreasing the pressure on the sample.
The present invention provides a fluidic diagnostic device for measuring an analyte concentration or property of a biological fluid. The device comprises
In another embodiment, the device comprises
The device is particularly well adapted for measuring prothrombin time (PT time), with the biological fluid being whole blood and the measurement area having a composition that catalyzes the blood clotting cascade.
This invention relates to a fluidic device for analyzing biological fluid. The device is of the type that relates a physical parameter of the fluid, or an element of the fluid, to an analyte concentration in the fluid or to a property of the fluid. Although a variety of physical parameters—e.g., electrical, magnetic, fluidic, or optical—can form the basis for the measurement, a change in optical parameters is a preferred basis, and the details that follow refer to an optical device. The device includes a sample application area; a bladder, to create a suction force to draw the sample into the device; a measurement area, in which the sample may undergo a change in an optical parameter, such as light scattering; and a stop junction to precisely stop flow after filling the measurement area.
Preferably, the device is substantially transparent over the measurement area, so that the area can be illuminated by a light source on one side and the transmitted light measured on the opposite side. The measurement on the sample may be of a parameter that is not changing, but typically the sample undergoes a change in the measurement area, and the change in transmitted light is a measure of the analyte or fluid property of interest. Alternatively, light that is scattered from a fluid sample or light that passes through the sample and is reflected back through a second time (by a reflector on that opposite side) can be detected by a detector on the same side as the light source.
This type of device is suitable for a variety of analytical tests of biological fluids, such as determining biochemical or hematological characteristics, or measuring the concentration in such fluids of proteins, hormones, carbohydrates, lipids, drugs, toxins, gases, electrolytes, etc. The procedures for performing these tests have been described in the literature. Among the tests, and where they are described, are the following:
The present device is particularly well suited for measuring blood-clotting time—“prothrombin time” or “PT time”—and details regarding such a device appear below. The modifications needed to adapt the device for applications such as those listed above require no more than routine experimentation.
As shown in
As shown in
The method of using the strip of
As described above, the detector senses a sample in sample port 12, simply by detecting a reduction in (specular) reflection of a light signal that is emitted by 42 a and detected by 42 b. However, that simple system cannot easily distinguish between a whole blood sample and some other liquid (e.g., blood serum) placed in the sample port in error or, even, an object (e.g., a finger) that can approach sample port 12 and cause the system to erroneously conclude that a proper sample has been applied. To avoid this type of error, another embodiment measures diffuse reflection from the sample port. This embodiment appears in
The device pictured in FIG. 2 and described above is preferably formed by laminating thermoplastic sheets 26 and 28 to a thermoplastic intermediate layer 24 that has adhesive on both of its surfaces. The cutouts that form the elements shown in
The bypass channel of
Bypass channel 52 minimizes that risk. The reduced pressure on the bladder side of the stop junction draws sample into the bypass channel (
If either or both of these control measurements are outside the range, then a retest is indicated. Extended stop junction 422 stops flow in all three measurement areas.
All the previous figures depict the device of this invention as a laminated strip structure; however, the device could also be an injection-molded structure of the type shown in
The principle of operation of the injection molded device is the same as described above. It provides greater flexibility in the design of the stop junction, as well as the other elements of the device, because a wide range of channel cross sections are feasible. The molded structure also provides more rigidity, although it is substantially more costly.
The following examples demonstrate the present invention in its various embodiments, but are not intended to be in any way limiting.
A strip of this invention is made by first passing a double-sided adhesive tape (RX 675SLT, available from Scapa Tapes, Windsor, Conn.) sandwiched between two release liners into a laminating and rotary die-cutting converting system. The pattern shown in
A procedure that is similar to the one described in Example 1 is followed to make a strip of the type depicted in FIG. 10. Reagent that is bubble-jet printed onto areas 118P, 218P, and 318P is, respectively, thromboplastin; thromboplastin, bovine eluate, and recombinant Factor VIIa; and thromboplastin and bovine eluate alone. The bovine eluate (plasma barium citrate bovine eluate) is available from Haemotologic Technologies, Burlington, Vt.; and recombinant Factor VIIa from American Diagnostica, Greenwich, Conn.
Measurements made on a whole blood sample using the strip of this Example yield a curve of the type shown in
The device of
The invention having been fully described, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that many modifications and changes may be made to it without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
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Unitronics Vision 260
Unitronics Vision260™ : PLC with Graphic HMI & Snap-in I/O modules
The Vision260™ is a powerful PLC with a built-in HMI Operator Panel comprising a 240 x 64 pixel graphic display and a customizable keyboard. On-board I/Os can be added by simply snapping a module onto the back of the PLC; Snap-in I/O Modules come in several configurations. I/O Expansion modules enable integrating up to 316 I/Os per Vision PLC.
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North Atlantic Books, Paperback, 9781556437281, 620pp.
Publication Date: October 7, 2008
Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer, version. Famous episodes such as the sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Cyclops, are rendered with previously unseen energy and empathy. The poem’s second half—where Odysseus, returned home to take revenge on his wife’s suitors—has extraordinarily subtle, “novelistic” features that are made more transparent in this version. There is also a special feel for the archaic dimensions of Homer—the world of gods and their complex relations to Fate and Being that other translators tend to deemphasize in order to make the poem feel “modern.” Most versions exclude or minimize the magical aspects of the poem, but Stein gives these elements full play, so that the spirit of a universe predating the classical era shines through. This vibrant version of The Odyssey shows readers not only what the Greeks thought about their gods but the gods themselves. Summaries preceding each chapter and a list of recommended websites help expand the experience.
Stein is author of thirteen books including a translation of The Odyssey; a vision of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled; a study of poet Charles Olson, The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum; and a study of Gary Hill, The Art of Limina. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and lives in Barrytown, New York. For more, www.charlessteinpoet.com.


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Local heritage museum St. Johann in Tirol
In the 18th century the two buildings served as correction houses for priests accused of inappropriate behavior. For the past several years the houses have been accommodating a museum and gallery to document the historic development of St. Johann in Tirol. Points of focus include historic costumes, history of the local schools, Schützen and battles for freedom, copper and silver mining, the former summer residence of the bishops of Lake Chiemsee, the beginnings of tourism, nostalgic memorabilia, and the Kaiser Massif.
Adults: € 2,50; with St. Johann Card € 2,00
Youth from 14 years: € 2,00; with St. Johann Card €1,50
Children, until 14 years, have free entrance!
OPENING TIMES: 27th June to 30rd September
27th June - 10th July: Every Tuesday and Thursday from 10-12
11th July - 30rd September: Tuesday - Saturday 10-12 and Thursday 4-6pm
If the opening times will be changed then you can see it in the bulletin in front of the museum
WhereBahnhofstraße 86380 St. Johann in Tirol

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