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It’s all about to start again. You’ve probably made up your strategic plan for 2018. Decided in which period you will target your different segments of potential customers, when you’ll launch your newest product or service, what your KPI’s will be.
1. Know what’s going through people’s minds and act on it.
This year, the biggest breakthroughs I had when working with clients were in Empathy Mapping sessions and starting every plan from the perspective of the potential customer.
In most companies’ day-to-day setting, it’s very hard not to think in terms of your existing business and not turn a blind eye to the universe it is existing in. Having everyone in this customer-mindset makes the decisions much more easy to take. It becomes clear as daylight which difference you should be making in the lives of your potential customer.
So, if you really want to make 2018 about your customer, start to implement Service Design-principles in your process. It’s the most efficient thing to do considering (when done will) this ensures you’re spending your time on the right stuff. And that’s priceless.
2. Study Serotonin, Oxytocin & Dopamine.
‘Loss aversion’ has been one of the most interesting human behaviours I’ve encountered and studied in the last few years. You have to make up for the time and money you take from people. As the market for attention is getting bigger, you’ll have to step up your game.
Study neurotransmitters and understand their functions.
The Manifesto of Greater Than X really sums this up for me. You have to design for Serotonin, Oxytocin and Dopamine if you want people to use your product or service. Sounds very scientific, but it’s the most human thing to do.
Ask yourself how your product, service or marketing can be altered to incorporate this knowledge. Are you generating pain or pleasure? Are you doing this for the right reasons? Pain can lead to customers if you’re the one who solves it, an absence of pleasure will lead to a loss of customers.
3. Embrace platforms, apps, VPA’s… You’ll need them.
The ‘Hub & Spokes’-model is rumbling. Stop using the ‘spokes’ as just a pathway to your website. Website traffic is not a goal, creating valuable touch-points is.
More than just adding links to your website, be ready to carry out your brand’s most suitable message for the platforms you’re on. Know why people use which apps and draw analogies (Hint: you’ll probably end up somewhere in my previous resolution).
Understand what it is that people are asking VPA’s for and develop in function of this need. Have a team working on the statement ‘What should we build if all internet searches are replaced with conversational voice search?’.
At Wijs, we have the amazing Koen Vinken en Stijn Spanhove working on Alexa and voice search.
4. Get your company ready for conversational platforms, AI and immersive UX.
In my best guess, these are the three technologies that will influence your job most within the next 5 years. These are very much aligned with and influenced by Gartner’s findings on Digital Marketing and Advertising technology.
For any one of these technologies will probably be ‘somewhat useful’ by 2019, this year should be about getting to know them and try out what value they could bring for single-purpose goals. Don’t expect to have a general purpose conversational platform in 2018 if this is not the only focus for the year. It will not happen.
Conversational Platforms: Your focus should be on NLP and intention detection. Build single-purpose chatbots to solve one of the most common problems in the customer journey. Doesn’t matter if it’s in onboarding, informing, entertaining or getting a cab.
Artificial Intelligence: There is a lot of artificial intelligence in place right now. Mostly its in the hands of second parties and put in a black box. Get someone in your team educated on the subject and have him/her both challenge your partners as well as finding opportunities for your business flows.
Immersive UX: Play around. The world of gaming will probably be some years ahead in the use of technologies like AR and VR. Look at what they do. 2018 will probably see relatively cheap head-mounted displays for gaming and thus advance this field. Imagine a world with smartphones and HMD’s being the main carriers of Augmented Reality. Find your place in that world.
5. Build your own datasets.
The importance of useful and clean data will increase. Having this data at your disposal, combined with the know-how to use it, will give you a better position when talking to MarTech partners and publishers.
2017 has been the year in which trust in Third Party-data decreased even further. Mainly due to the lack of transparency in gathering of the data and thus the quality of it.
Define a data-approach on how to create as much first party data as possible. Get your partners in on it. The use of their data should always have your first-party data as a starting point and should mainly involve similar audiences (clustering) and exclusion of existing audiences.
Signing off for 2017. Please do let me know how your year has been.
Want to have chat on some of these subjects? Contact me.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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As a thought experiment, imagine what a society without art would be like? How would buildings look? Could any kind of visual communication exist at all? It’s a provocative question that quickly necessitates defining the boundaries of what does and does not constitute art. This mirrors the complexity of engaging in the ongoing definition of art.
Art is studied because “it is among the highest expressions of culture, embodying its ideals and aspirations, challenging its assumptions and beliefs, and creating new visions and possibilities for it to pursue” (Sayre, XVI). When we discuss contemporary art, we are typically referring to the practice of fine art, but prior to the Renaissance, art was defined within the realm of functional crafts, such as goldsmithing. The idea of autonomous art or art for art’s sake developed later, over many eras.
During this period, art changed beyond recognition. The various academies still held sway in Europe. It is true that the hierarchy of the genres was breaking down and the classical ideal was becoming less convincing.
What counted as art in much of the nineteenth century remained pretty stable. Whether in sculpture, painting, drawing or printmaking, artworks represented recognizable subjects in a credible human-centered space. To be sure, subjects became less high-flown, compositional effects often deliberately jarring and surface handling more explicit. There were plenty of academicians and commentators who believed these changes amounted to the end of civilization, but from today’s perspective they seem like small shifts of emphasis.
Sculptors began to leave the surface of their works in a rough, seemingly unfinished state; they increasingly created partial figures and abandoned plinths or, alternatively, inflated the scale of their bases. Architects abandoned revivalist styles and rich ornamentation. To take one often cited example from painting, while the art of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is based on a recognizable motif, say a landscape, when looking at these paintings we get the distinct impression that the overall organization of the colors and structural elements matters as much or more than the scene depicted. To retain fidelity to his sense impressions, Cézanne is compelled to find a new order and coherence internal to the canvas. Frequently this turns into incoherence as he tries to manage the tension between putting marks on a flat surface and his external observation of space.
At khanacademy.org they point out that in fifteen years some artists would take this problem – the recognition that making art involved attention to its own formal conditions that are not reducible to representing external things – through Cubism to a fully abstract art. Conventionally, this story is told as a heroic progression of ‘movements’ and ‘styles’, each giving way to the next in the sequence: Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism. Each changing of the guard is perceived as an advance and almost a necessary next step on the road to some preset goal. This rapid turnover of small groups and personal idioms can seem bewildering and, in fact, this is a minimal version of this story.
Whether they sought new expressive resources, novel ways of conveying experience or innovative techniques for representing the modern world, modern artists turned their backs on the tried and tested forms of mimetic resemblance. But what counted as art changed too. Bits of the everyday world began to be incorporated into artworks – as collage or montage in two-dimensional art forms; in construction and assemblage in three-dimensional ones. The inclusion of found materials played a fundamental role in modern art.
The use of modern materials and technologies – steel, concrete, photography – did something similar. Some artists abandoned easel painting or sculpture to make direct interventions in the world through the production of usable things, whether chairs or illustrated news magazines. Not all artists elected to work with these new techniques and materials, and many carried on in the traditional ways or attempted to adapt them to new circumstances.
Art has had a great number of different functions throughout its history, making its purpose difficult to abstract or quantify to any single concept. This does not imply that the purpose of art is “vague” but that it has had many unique, different reasons for being created. Some of the functions of art are provided in the outline below. The different purposes of art may be grouped according to those that are non-motivated and those that are motivated (Lévi-Strauss).
The non-motivated purposes of art are those that are integral to being human, transcend the individual, or do not fulfill a specific external purpose, states pbs.org. In this sense, art, as creativity, is something humans must do by their very nature (i.e., no other species creates art), and is therefore beyond utility.
Beauty is something we perceive and respond to. It may be a response of awe and amazement, wonder and joy, or something else. It might resemble a “peak experience” or an epiphany. It might happen while watching a sunset or taking in the view from a mountaintop—the list goes on. Here we are referring to a kind of experience, an aesthetic response that is a response to the thing’s representational qualities, whether it is man-made or natural (Silverman). The subfield of philosophy called aesthetics is devoted to the study and theory of this experience of the beautiful; in the field of psychology, aesthetics is studied in relation to the physiology and psychology of perception.
Aesthetic analysis is a careful investigation of the qualities which belong to objects and events that evoke an aesthetic response. The aesthetic response is the thoughts and feelings initiated because of the character of these qualities and the particular ways they are organized and experienced perceptually (Silverman).
The aesthetic experience that we get from the world at large is different than the art-based aesthetic experience. It is important to recognize that we are not saying that the natural wonder experience is bad or lesser than the art world experience; we are saying it is different. What is different is the constructed nature of the art experience. The art experience is a type of aesthetic experience that also includes aspects, content, and context of our humanness. When something is made by a human– we know that there is some level of commonality and/or communal experience.

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Exams take place between Monday 3rd and Friday 7th December.
*Please note that AB, MA, FA and LW examinations (variants English and Global) are available as on-demand CBE only. All other exams and variants are available during this session.
For more information about scheduling your exam and to find your nearest test centre, head to the ACCA global website.


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Seventy-two per cent of the bankers think that the number of banks operating in the country should be reduced amid influential quarters’ lobbying for new banks at the fag end of the tenure of the current Awami League-led government, reveals a Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management research report.
The research report was released at a seminar on ‘Exploring merger and acquisition in the context of the banking sector of Bangladesh’ at the BIBM auditorium in the capital on Thursday.
A four-member BIBM team led by its professor and director Md Mohiuddin Siddique came up with the findings based on opinions of 285 bankers of 57 banks, five from each bank, above the rank of assistant vice-president.
Eleven per cent of the bankers, however, think that the number of banks in the country is reasonable and 17 per cent denied making any comment on the issue, the BIBM director said while presenting the research findings.
At present there are 57 scheduled banks and six specialised banks in the country.
The Awami League-led government in its 1996-2001 tenure had issued licences to 13 new banks and in the current tenure it issued nine new licences in 2012.
Awami League leaders and organisations like the police, Navy and Air Force are lobbying for bank company licences ahead of the next general elections scheduled for 2018.
The presentation of Mohiuddin Siddique on the banking sector also highlighted the challenges for merger of banks in the country.
The challenges include lack of corporate governance, hidden benefits of the board members, lack of capacity of the directors, political weakness and change of mentality.
BIBM director general Toufic Ahmad Choudhury presided over the seminar where Bangladesh Bank deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury and former BB deputy governor Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled were present, among others.
Ibrahim Khaled said banks had turned into grocery shops due to low educational qualification of the sponsors of banks.
Speaking about newly amended provision in the bank companies act that allows four directors from a family, Khaled called on the banking professionals to speak loud against the provision.
The country’s small-scale banks think that any merger with big banks will result in non-existence for them but a significant number of mergers are taking place worldwide as part of the entities’ desire for becoming bigger, Khaled said.
Speaking about the Bangladesh Development Bank Limited’s issue, he said that two bad entities produced another bad entity.
SK Sur Chowdhury said that there were examples of mergers in developed and developing countries but the concept was a bit new in Bangladesh.
He also said that the central bank had preparation to deal with mergers and it had already prepared guidelines in this regard.
Toufic Ahmad said that there should be an ‘exit policy’ for those banks which will perform poorly.

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This game suffered from poor editing and general anti-Gary Gygax prejudice, but my friend David Thompson and I liked it a lot and we played when we could. Like my AD&D Character Sheet, this baby is six, count 'em, six pages long, and includes a place for everything (though Heka users will likely need our separate Castings grimoire). Created with Dave's help.
My first adventure for Mythus was a conversion of the excellent AD&D module U1 - The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. My second was my own and took advantage of the robust Ærth setting and was placed in Afrik - an analogue to our own Africa. I worked it up into a format for submission to Journeys magazine but the magazine (and the game) died just as it was completed.
I had worked up a map of Medieval Rus for Ars Magica, and seeing as how Ærth is a close parallel to our Earth, I couldn't resist creating a slightly modified version of Russ and its neighbors. The map is approximately 8" x 16", and shows the major cities, rivers, political boundaries and trade routes of the region. This isn't official Ærth, though: I felt that although Gary Gygax had done a good job of populating Ærth with all the major cultures (real or imagined) of the past, he should have included an analogue to Medieval Novgorod. So my map has just that, displacing some of the land from its Baltic neighbors and Russ.

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text: Religious sect active in Palestine during the NT period. The Pharisees are consistently depicted in the Gospels as Jesus’ antagonists. It is commonly held that the Pharisees represented mainstream Judaism early in the 1st century and that they were characterized by a variety of morally objectionable features. Accordingly, most Bible dictionaries and similar works of reference depict the Pharisees as greedy, hypocritical, lacking in a sense of justice, overly concerned with fulfilling the literal details of the Law, and insensitive to the spiritual significance of the OT. These and other characteristics are furthermore viewed as giving shape to Judaism more generally.


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Widely covered in the press today is the another high street retailer going into administration, this time, the photography chain, Jessops.
Jessops was the sort of place you would go to buy camera stuff if you needed it quickly and couldn’t wait for it to be delivered, i.e. you were desperate for a particular widget that they happened to have in stock. The other reason you might visit Jessops is to check something out, and then go and order online for a better price.
For instance, I like photography. Before I headed on holiday at the end of last year, I thought I could do with a good wide-angle lens for my DSLR. Running out of time before the trip, I had looked at the local Jessops. Compared to Jessops’ walk-in price, the lens was over £150 cheaper online and still delivered next working day.
The professional market spurned Jessops for being too consumer oriented (with a limited in-store range and high prices) in favour of independent and online shops (or small, specialist chains like Calumet), and the bottom has fallen out of the consumer point-and-shoot market because almost everyone’s mobile phone has a half-decent point-and-shoot camera packaged in it.
Jessops did have an online store, but the prices weren’t significantly better value than those offered in the high street, and not competitive against other online retailers such as Amazon.
That’s what killed Jessops. They were expensive, failed to move with changing habits, and ended up appealing to a very fickle and limited audience.
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Croatia has become one of the most popular holiday destinations in the world in less than two decades – and quite rightly so.
This small country provides excellent holiday conditions all year round with a population of approx. 4.3 million, a coastline stretching across nearly 2000km and islands over a stretch of more than 6000km. Due to the mild Mediterranean climate temperatures never plunge below 0 degrees apart from in the mountains. In summer temperatures rarely go past 30 degrees. These temperatures provide comfortable cycling conditions. To top things off, the country greets visitors with a well developed infrastructure, countless sights and an equally impressive and diverse scenery.
For a cycling holiday there are several suitable regions, all oozing their individual and very unique charm. The countless islands of the Dalmatian coast or also the Kvarner Gulf invite to some island-hopping with extenisive cycling tours along the coast and inland. However if you are not too keen on boats, Istria peninsula on the mainland is a unique opportunity to cycle across the picturesque hilly scenery with extenisve vineyards and idyllic fishing villages. There is more than one spot where you get to enjoy the breathtaking view onto the beaches and cliff coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Particularly impressive are the river estuaries which have in parts carved deeply into the limestone and are often and with good reason compared to the Scandinavian fjords.
However Croatia not only offers unforgettable highlights regarding the scenery. The long history of population can be traced back to excarvations more than 12000 years ago. This consequently created a just as varied cultural scenery characterised by different influences, combining amongst others Roman, Greek, Germanic and Franconian elements. Medieval town centres with embattled walls are just as part of it as anitque amphitheatres and modern buildings – such as the magnificent buildings of the 20th century dating back to the time of the Cold War – distinctive and part of Croatian architecture. There are several building which are part of the Unseco World Cultural Heritage such as the Euphrasius-basilica in the coastal town of Porec. This architectural diversity is completed by numerous cultural assets dating back to various times in history which allow an informative insight into European politics and culture from the Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea.
Cycling is a healthy and flexible means of transport, but no-one wants to transport larger loads around on a holiday. That is exactly what we think here at Eurobike of course and hence naturally handle the luggage transport for you every day of your tour. At the time of your booking, we advise you thoroughly about possible destinations, tours and provide you with extensive information and maps for each route. Due to our experience and cooperation with local guides and agencies we at Eurobike are aware of the requirements of each stage. Along with guided cycling tours in a group, we also offer self-guided tours, which are just as comfortable and pleasant as a group tour. From luxury accommodations to the idyllic family-run B&B, we organise all your overnight stays and take over the booking and other technicalities. With Eurobike every holiday turns out the way it should: a time for piece and quiet, relaxation and recuperation far away from the pressures of everyday life. With us you can enjoy a cycling holiday stress-free.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Given the variegated productivity of Forsyth, Ga., it is hardly a wonder the municipality of 3,788 has one of the busiest city seals in the nation.
The seal contains a crowded collage of images, including railway cars, a church, factory, high school, city hall with an American flag, a grove of trees, several cattle lounging on a hillside and a semi truck hauling down a highway.
Edging the round seal are the city’s name, its date of incorporation and two strings of forsythia flowers.
Forsyth, named for eminent political leader John Forsyth, who served as a U.S. representative, senator, secretary of state, ambassador to Spain and governor of Georgia, was incorporated and made the county seat of newly formed Monroe County in 1823.
The original plat consisted of 2-1/2 acre lots and was circumscribed by a circular boundary with a radius of a one-half mile from the courthouse square.
By 1827, the settlement consisted of 70 houses, a few stores, an academy, a Baptist worship house, a jail and an elegant log courthouse.
The Norfolk Southern railroad arrived in 1838, with Forsyth being home to the first passenger rail service in Georgia. Farming and cotton mills provided much of the economy of the day.
Tift College, the second oldest female college in the world, opened it doors in 1849.
Times have changed and the seal may need to be updated, according to Bo Gregory, president of the Development Authority of Monroe County.
“Two key industrial partners that have moved into the city are Encore Plastics and Perdue Farms,” he said.
Encore manufactures plastic products from paint roller trays to rollable trash bins. Perdue established a feed mill and hatchery in Forsyth.
“We have four or five projects in the mix right now, fingers crossed,” he said of prospective new industries anchoring their businesses in Forsyth.
Gregory also touted the unsung contributions of agriculture to the town and the surrounding area.
He noted Monroe County has 3,800 acres for beef cattle, which bring in $3.3 million in revenue a year.
Further, he said, the county, one of 159 in the state, ranks sixth in growing strawberries, ninth in peach production, 17th in harvesting catfish, 46th in dairy and 101st in timber revenue.
For more information, call (478) 994-9239 or visit www.cityofforsyth.net.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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LONDON – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said he was "beyond excited" to be handed the Manchester United manager's job on a full-time basis as the club announced on Thursday he had signed a three-year deal.
The Norwegian, 46, has inspired a dramatic revival of United's fortunes since taking over from the sacked Jose Mourinho in December, winning 14 of his 19 games and leading the Red Devils to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
"This is the job that I always dreamed of doing and I'm beyond excited to have the chance to lead the club long-term and hopefully deliver the continued success that our amazing fans deserve," he said in a statement on manutd.com.
"I've always had it but I have to say the last few months have been absolutely crazy with the way they've taken to the players, to me and to the coaching staff. We've really appreciated that support and hopefully we can pay them back now."
After Mourinho was sacked following a 3-1 loss to Liverpool on December 16, Molde boss Solskjaer was given the task of reviving United's flagging fortunes but was expected to return to the Norwegian club following his caretaker spell.
"I'm delighted for Ole," Neville tweeted. "I didn't think this would happen when he was appointed. However the results and spirit in the club have been incredible since he arrived and he deserves it. He now needs support in the transfer market in terms of finance and the right resource!"
On the pitch, the Norwegian, nicknamed the "Baby-faced Assassin", became an embodiment of United’s never-say-die spirit, often scoring late goals when points or trophies looked to have been lost.
Solskjaer lost his battle with persistent knee problems in 2007 before becoming the United's reserve-team manager.

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Yes, this is now looking like a website. Bengt is maintaining the site (if you want to be a part of it Bengt and I have admin accounts that can give you accesses if you want add to it).
It’s probably missing your route, Id bee glad to hear how you travel and add your way to the route list.
Accommodation is now becoming harder to get. So all the cheap places are full. Have a look at: www.airbnb.se, www.couchsurfing.com. There is still room in the hostels in Helsingör. The building is not approved for people to stay there therefor we are only open 10:00 – 05:00 (10AM-5AM).
Important, sound camp level 1! This will affect placement! Now there is more room on the 2 floor!
To be able to have the Soundcamp on the same floor as the welcome, first aid, bandcamp and so on there is demand on lighter music volume 10.00 – 18.00.
We know that there is already stuff everywhere. This page is not a complete solution but here for a reason. If we have it we can send more emails and we hope that this is a good thing. First mail is coming to you (hopefully more than 5% will open it when it does not come from an @google-adress).


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DMPED is creating an inclusive prosperity dashboard — a manageable set of metrics that collectively define and help monitor inclusive prosperity in DC. The indicators were developed with input from DC residents, businesses, government data managers, and community organizations with the guidance of researchers from the Urban Institute. Over the next six months, DMPED will acquire the data necessary to build out the dashboard and continue to collect input on the indicators.
September 2018: Released updated inclusive prosperity dashboard, a set of metrics that collectively define and help monitor inclusive prosperity in DC. New 2017 data show increases in educational attainment and household income for African-American residents.

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Happy Fourth Anniversary to Survivor Blog Here and to Melinda. I’m proud to be part of the team!
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Pete Bulmer caused problems for Ryhope with his movement.
An already daunting task became substantially more difficult for the visitors when they went down to ten men on 20 minutes. Chris Stockton looked to latch onto a captain Adam Nicholson’s impeccably weighted through ball but was pulled back by Corey Nicholson. The referee judged the Ryhope right back to have denied a clear goalscoring opportunity and gave him his marching orders.


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Home › Blog › Do Alcoholics Get Hangovers?
The unpleasant experience of the hangover has been traced back to ancient cultures, like those in Egypt and Greece, where people documented the all-too-familiar symptoms we still experience today. If you are suffering from alcoholism, or a loved one is dealing with alcohol addiction, then you most likely understand just how excessive drinking can affect someone’s life. Hangovers aren’t something to take lightly and they can lead to much more than just headaches. Take the time to learn about the relationship between long-term alcohol abuse, hangovers, and other health issues for your sake and the sake of your loved ones.
A hangover is characterized by multiple unpleasant physical and mental symptoms that occur as a result of heavy alcohol consumption. Physical symptoms include fatigue, weakness, thirst, headache, nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, decreased sleep, sensitivity to light, and bloodshot eyes. Other less serious symptoms include dizziness, vertigo, depression, anxiety, and irritability. More severe symptoms can be extremely dangerous and include increased systolic blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, tremors, dehydration, and sweating.
What Factors Lead To A Hangover?
The symptoms of a hangover range from person to person and can depend on the type of alcohol consumed and the amount consumed. In general, a hangover will occur within several hours after drinking has ended, when the person’s Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) starts to fall.
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, there are multiple factors that contribute to a hangover. Among them are the direct physiological effects of alcohol on the brain, the withdrawal of alcohol from the body, alcohol’s diuretic nature causing dehydration, alcohol-induced low blood sugar, restricted food intake, disturbed sleep, use of other drugs, and certain personal characteristics.
In addition to the physiological effects that alcohol has on the body, there are also other factors that don’t involve alcohol that lead to hangovers. Combining other drugs with alcohol is believed to affect hangovers since many drugs can lead to hangover symptoms by themselves and can influence alcohol intoxication.
Certain characteristics and personality traits can potentially factor into alcohol hangovers. There is some existing evidence that suggests increased hangover symptoms occur in people with aggressive, defensive, and neurotic tendencies. Negative events in someone’s life and feelings of guilt with alcohol consumption also have been reported to contribute to increased hangovers.
Research has also found that a family history of alcoholism may be linked to the occurrence of hangovers because it increases one’s risk of developing alcoholism themselves.
Among the studies that have looked at the relationship of alcohol hangovers and varying contributing factors, it was found that those with a higher risk of developing alcoholism were at a greater risk for experiencing hangovers. Those with a risk of alcoholism experienced more acute withdrawal and hangover symptoms which may have encouraged them to continue drinking to avoid the unpleasant symptoms.
Alcohol withdrawal (AW syndrome) occurs when someone stops drinking and the body eliminates the alcohol. AW may cause nervous system hyperactivity, including tremors, sweating, and increased heart rate, which are symptoms also observed in hangovers.
Can Someone Addicted to Alcohol Become Tolerant to Hangovers?
While repeated alcohol consumption can lead to tolerance, it doesn’t mean that someone will become tolerant to alcohol’s after-effects. Alcohol tolerance is the need to drink more or drink more often to achieve desired effects. Someone who has developed a tolerance to alcohol, and addiction in many cases, will also have developed withdrawal.
Withdrawal is a term used to describe the symptoms someone experiences when they stop drinking alcohol or using a drug. Because many of the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal (AW) and alcohol hangovers overlap, an alcoholic is not immune to the effects of a hangover and will continue to crave alcohol due to withdrawal.
Do Hangovers Deter People From Abusing Alcohol?
It seems to make sense that experiencing hangovers would make someone less likely to want to continue drinking. But according to a study led by the University of Missouri and Brown University School of Public Health, hangovers were viewed merely as a temporary annoyance, rather than a reason to quit drinking for many alcoholics. Furthermore, the often overlapped AW symptoms led many alcoholism sufferers to continue to crave alcohol.
Alcohol consumption is a big part of our culture, and while it is used to celebrate many wonderful occasions, it can easily become abused. In addition to causing addiction and life-threatening accidents, alcoholism can also lead to organ damage, a weakened immune system, and an increased risk of certain cancers, including mouth, esophagus, pharynx, larynx, liver, and breast. Hangovers from alcohol consumption are only the tip of the iceberg in regards to the adverse health effects of alcohol abuse.
If you suffer from alcoholism, or you have a loved one who does, it is important to know that it is never too late to seek help. Treatment are vast, but some readily available options include the well-known 12-step program, inpatient rehab programs, and outpatient therapies. Whichever treatment you choose, look for a program that involves behavioral therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational therapy, marital and family counseling, and one-on-one interventions. All of these therapies are designed to help the person suffering from alcoholism to develop the skills they need to stop or cut back on drinking, build a strong support system, and help them achieve reachable goals. Treatment may also involve medication to help the person sustain abstinence by easing the effects of withdrawal. When the person in treatment has completed their inpatient or outpatient program, they may choose to join an Alcoholics Anonymous group for continued peer support.
When it comes to receiving treatment for alcoholism, the most important thing to understand is that you or a loved one doesn’t have to go through recovery alone. If you have any questions about treatment for alcoholism, and would like help with finding a program near you, contact us today at AlcoholTreatment.net. Our friendly staff will help you figure out the next step towards healing.

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A significant player in the $39 billion scrap metal recycling industry, Liberty traces its roots to Erie, Pennsylvania, where it began in 1932 as a family-owned scrap yard. Thirty-five years later, the company purchased the first automobile shredder to be used east of the Mississippi and followed that advancement with a series of acquisitions that expanded their reach into Ohio, New York, Arizona, and Northern Mexico.
Liberty entered the global market in 2007, a result of their acquisition by German metal recycler Scholz Group. One of the largest recycling firms in the world, Scholz is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chiho Environmental Group (CEG), one of China’s foremost recycling companies.
In addition to reaping the rewards of a growing domestic market for both recycled ferrous and non-ferrous material, Liberty provides recycled non-ferrous metals specifically to the Asian markets through its trading office located in Pleasanton, California.
“Our markets tend to be somewhat local in the sense that you have to consider local market specifics in your decision making,” Diamond noted. “There are certain global trends and macroeconomic factors that impact supply and demand but being able to operate locally is a really important advantage that we have. While we have a corporate structure where Scholz and CEG are shareholders, we still have strong local decision-making capabilities at Liberty. Our management team is composed of senior operators and personnel who’ve been in the industry for decades, and we are able to make fast local decisions.
Liberty defines its customer base in two ways: consumers that transform the recycled scrap supplied by Liberty to create new products, predominantly steel and pure non-ferrous raw materials like copper, and the suppliers who generate or trade scrap itself. That supplier base runs the gamut from small local companies such as construction subcontractors and plumbing companies, to large enterprises for whom metal scrap is a byproduct of their manufacturing activities.
This year, Liberty Iron & Metal has been nominated by steel industry pub American Metals Market for achievements as a finalist in Environmental Responsibility/Stewardship and Scrap Company of the Year. “That shows our commitment, and also how publications in the industry see us as working in this area,” Howard added. Liberty also recently implemented additional environmental management standards like ISO14001.
“All that we collect, sort, and bring back into the economic cycle will not go to a landfill. There we have reduction essentially of what is incinerated, lower emissions, reduction of the use of landfills, and also an economic and ecological opportunity to use already used scrap from various sources and bring it back into the economy,” he said.
As Liberty Iron & Metal continues to fortify their market presence, they are moving on a steady growth track. “How do we do it? How do we want to get there? To make investments in people, because having the right people who have a passion for what they're doing, who have knowledge is first and foremost,” he said.
“We invest in our existing yards and in areas that enhance productivity, whether it's the effective use of IT, streamlining of processes and procedures, or through investing in technology and new equipment,” Esser said. The recent purchase of an automobile shredder modification for their Erie, PA facility will enable Liberty to shred not only vehicles, but also electric motors, which, in addition to increasing their service portfolio, eliminates the need to ship E-motors overseas for processing.
Liberty Iron & Metal, with its network of affiliated companies, is among the leading processors and brokers of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in North America.
Their network spreads from the Northeast to the Southwest of the United States and Northern Mexico. Over the course of eight decades, Liberty Iron & Metal grew from a small family business to an innovative, technologically advanced and well experienced group of recycling companies. They provide holistic solutions and services to customers of all shapes and sizes, from big industrials, to midsize dealers, to small producers and collectors.
Liberty prides itself on maintaining strong relationships with their clients and on their ability to support local communities with easy-to-access locations while preserving the environment and boosting local economy.

industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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If you've read my blog this year, then you know how much love I have for STORMDANCER by Jay Kristoff, and if you haven't seen my fanboying all over the place yet, then feast your eyes on the blog I posted to win the last ARC. Well, I lost, but I did eventually win a signed hardcover copy of Jay's amazing debut and swag as well. I even hosted a giveaway to share the love. Not that winning had anything to do with my review. I rated the book on the merit of the writing alone. But, receiving cool stuff for a book I adore, well, that's gravy.
Just so you know, STORMDANCER is among the top 5 books I've read in 2012, so when I get around to posting my end of the year blog about the best of 2012, you'll remember I told you it would be among the best of the best. As for what other books made it in my top 5 and top 10 book lists, you'll have to wait to find out. Feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments below.
I'm still struggling to come back down off the high that was a riveting, gripping ending, like the sweat beading beneath the fist clenched around the hilt of a sword. I am in awe. Wow. I must go to bed, but I will come back to update this review completely as it deserves all the words. Wow.
Yukiko doesn't see herself the way her father does. Instead she carries the shadow of her mother and brother and the stink of lotus. For her, life must be filtered like the air she breathes through a cloth. She's aged by the harsh world she lives in, pressed between the thumb and finger of the emporer, Shogun Yoritomo and the futile task to hunt the extinct thunder tiger, an arashitora, for his vainglorious plan to conquer the world of Shima.
And, then there's the Kenning, the ability to speak to animals, a power the guild finds blasphemous and impure. All who have revealed such power have been summarily executed in the public square. While Yukiko struggles to be all that her father wasn't, she doesn't realize how much she's like her old man. She can't get away from his shadow, even if it reeks of sake and failure.
The journey north in a skyship not only reveals more of Yukiko's struggle with her father and his mistress, but a strange boy of mystery who only later reveals where he comes from. Meanwhile, Yukiko's dreams are troubled by another boy with sea-green eyes. Below, the lotus crops corrupt the land and all who live there, a cancer, oppressing everyone and everything.
Yukiko also faces her past in the dark and lonely hours aboard the skyship as they travel toward the mountains where the ronin dwell.
When Buruu is found and captured, it comes with a great cost, and Yukiko and her father are separated. Alone again, Yukiko is forced to make a difficult choice and bargain with the arishitora who could kill her as soon as look at her. An uneasy alliance is formed and a bond is kindled.
After the battle with a horde of blue oni demons, Yukiko must make a choice if she is ever to return to her father and find her own place in a dying world.
This was an incredible read, visceral, and true to the Asian culture I lived in for more than a year after college. I loved all of the plot twists and surprises along the way and tried to savor every word of Kristoff's densely imagined world. It is richly appointed and fully realized.
You will not only root for Yukiko, but for Buruu as well.
I highly recommend this book, and look forward to book 2 and 3. This is among my top 5 reads for 2012. If you haven't read it yet, get this book and read it. You'll be glad you did.


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Carrier believes in providing innovative solutions and strives to bring a more comfortable setting for homes while delivering pure energy savings.
Action Repair Service, Inc., as expert HVAC contractors and Long Island Carrier central air conditioning repair experts, specialize in the maintenance and repair of central air conditioning systems. Maintenance of your central air conditioning system is crucial, espcially before the heat of the summer. We will repair your Carrier central air conditioning system should any problems arise. We understand the need for comfort in the home, especially for those with health issues. We guarantee all work performed on your Long Island Carrier central air conditioning system.
We also sell and install Carrier central air conditioning systems.

industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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Please be aware that this documentation is out of date and will soon be archived. New documentation will be posted shortly.
What are the Geoscience Standard Names?
The Geoscience Standard Names(GSN) are a set of variable names for concept labeling in the geosciences. The GSN are derived from and dramatically extend the CSDMS Standard Names, a set of variable names generated utilizing rules and controlled vocabularies described in Peckham (2014a). The goal of the CSN and GSN is to formalize the concepts needed to provide a deep description of a resource. This information can then be used to discover, compare, use and connect geoscience resources into workflows.
The GSN are a list of variable name strings standardized and encoded through an RDF ontology and a standard names generation engine. The ontology is split into an upper ontology that describes classes and class properties and a lower ontology that contains instances of the ontology. The most recent upper ontology can be found here and the accompanying lower ontology files can be found here.
We have made available a SPARQL endpoint that can be accessed over HTTP at http://35.194.43.13:3030/ds/query. Note that this is not a browser compatible site. For your convenience, we have also created a web freeform tool to search terms in the ontology. This tool is available by cliking the 'Search' tab in the menu at the top of this page.
Standardized metadata for models is the key to reliable and greatly simplified coupling in model coupling frameworks like CSDMS (Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System). This model metadata also helps model users to understand the important details that underpin computational models and to compare the capabilities of different models. These details include simplifying assumptions on the physics, governing equations and the numerical methods used to solve them, discretization of space (the grid) and time (the time- stepping scheme), state variables (input or output), model configuration parameters. This kind of metadata provides a "deep description" of a computational model that goes well beyond simple discovery/citation metadata (e.g. author, purpose, scientific domain, programming language, digital rights, provenance, execution) and captures the science that underpins a model. Basic metadata for discovery and citation is already well-served by projects like Dublin Core ( main site ) and DataCite.
While having this kind of standardized metadata for each model in a repository opens up a wide range of exciting possibilities, it is difficult to collect this information and a carefully conceived "data model" or schema (like the GSN) is needed to store it. Automated harvesting and scraping methods can provide some useful information, but they often result in metadata that is inaccurate or incomplete, and this is not sufficient to enable the desired capabilities. In order to address this problem, we have developed a tool (tentatively) called the MCM App (Model Component Metadata) which runs on notebooks, tablets and smart phones. This tool was partially inspired by the TurboTax software, which greatly simplifies the necessary task of preparing tax documents. It allows a model developer or advanced user to provide a standardized, deep description of virtually any computational geoscience model. Under the hood, the tool uses the Geoscience Standard Names ontology for models, expressed as a collection of RDF files (Resource Description Framework). This ontology is based on core concepts such as variables, objects, quantities, operations, processes and assumptions, as described below.
The MCM App is being developed with Ionic 2 (an open-source app development framework built on Google's Angular 2) and will be available on this page soon. It will be accessible in a desktop browser window and also as an app for mobile devices, including iOS and Android.
Variables are the fundamental currency of science. Values of variables are the items that are measured and saved in data sets of all kinds. They are the inputs and outputs of predictive models and the items exchanged between coupled models. They also appear in the equations that summarize our scientific knowledge. But what are they? Variables are symbols, names or labels that refer to the pairing of a particular object and a particular attribute of that object. Geospatial variables have associated grids, and require geo-referencing with ellipsoids, datums and map projections.
Geoscience resources, such as data sets, models and even papers typically use their own internal vocabulary to refer to variables, which may use domain jargon, abbreviations and an over-reliance on context to provide omitted information. When resources are connected into some kind of workflow, the values of variables need to be reliably passed between these resources. This gives rise to the problem of semantic mediation or reconciliation. Hub-and-spoke mappings from internal names to standard variable names provide an elegant solution to this problem if they are: unambiguous, rules-based, expressive, cross-domain and widely recognized.
Why Do We Need Standard Names?
There are a wide variety of computational models and data sets in use all over the world. Unfortunately, they differ in a variety of ways and this makes it labor-intensive to connect them into workflows. For example, each has its own internal vocabulary for referring to its variables. However, automated interoperability becomes possible once these are mapped to unambiguous, cross-domain, rule-based standard names. For a more in-depth discussion of the semantic mediation problem, what kinds of variable names are needed and prior work, see Peckham (2014a).
The GSN Ontology is based on 8 core concepts or entities that are inter-related. These are variables, objects, quantities, operations, processes, grids, assumptions and science domains. Objects and quantities are also considered fundamental in the International System of Quantities (ISO 80000).
Variables are the fundamental currency of science. Values of variables are what scientists measure and save in data sets of all kinds. They are the inputs and outputs of predictive models and the items exchanged between coupled models. They also appear in the equations that summarize our scientific knowledge. But what are they? Variables are symbols, names or labels that refer to the pairing of an object and one of its attributes.
In our context, an object is any physical thing that we can observe (body, substance, etc.). We are often interested in a particular part of something larger, or an object contained in another object. For context and alphabetical grouping, it is therefore helpful to use hierarchical object names. Objects may have both numerical and string attributes. In the GSN, a word after a tilde '~' in an object name is an adjective.
A quantity is an attribute of an object that has a numerical value. It will often have measurement units but can also be dimensionless (e.g. [m/m]). It may be represented as a scalar, vector or tensor. Many distinct quantities may have the same root quantity, such as constant, exponent and angle. Good quantity names are object free and can then be applied to many different objects. For example, volume flow rate is preferable to streamflow.
When a mathematical operation is applied to a quantity it simply creates a new quantity, often with new units. So quantity names may contain zero, one or a chain of operations. In the GSN, all operation names end in the word of. Examples include: time_derivative_of, area_integral_of, x_component_of, log_of and divergence_of.
A process is an action that an object can do or that can happen to it. For example, a glacier can advance, calve, melt, sublimate, slide, or deform. Process names are nouns derived from verbs. E.g. water can infiltrate into soil, and this process is called infiltration.
Variables can be associated with a fixed location or can vary in space and time, such as temperature within a room. As appropriate, they may then be treated as scalar, vector or tensor fields. A grid is a subdivision or discretization of space into grid cells. Grids for geospatial variables require geo-referencing with ellipsoids, datums and map projections.
In the GSN ontology, the term assumption is used broadly to refer to any type of qualifier, such as a simplification, limitation, convention, exclusion, condition, approximation, clarification or restriction. Scientists refer to assumptions with standard phrases, such as incompressible flow. Any of the other 7 entities in the GSN can be tagged and qualified with an assumption.
The GSN is currently using the UNESCO Nomenclature for Fields of Science and Technology which uses SKOS. This is a hierarchical classification of different science and technology domains. These can be used to tag the other 7 entities, as appropriate, so that they can be filtered based on the most relevant science domain.
Models can have Objects, Assumptions and (science) Domains. Objects can have Quantities, Processes and Assumptions. Quantities can have Grids and Assumptions. Processes can have Assumptions. Operations act on Quantities to create new ones.
David, C.H., Y. Gil, C. Duffy, S.D. Peckham and S.K. Venayagamoorthy (2016) An introduction to the Earth and Space Science, special issue: "Geoscience Papers of the Future", American Geophysical Union, 1-4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016EA000201.
Peckham, S.D., E.W.H. Hutton and B. Norris (2013) A component-based approach to integrated modeling in the geosciences: The Design of CSDMS, Computers & Geosciences, special issue: Modeling for Environmental Change, 53, 3-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2012.04.002.
Peckham, S.D. (2014a) The CSDMS Standard Names: Cross-domain naming conventions for describing process models, data sets and their associated variables, Proceedings of the 7th Intl. Congress on Env. Modelling and Software, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), San Diego, CA. (Eds. D.P. Ames, N.W.T. Quinn, A.E. Rizzoli). http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/iemssconference/2014/Stream-A/12/.
Peckham, S.D. (2014b) EMELI 1.0: An experimental smart modeling framework for automatic coupling of self-describing models, Proceedings of HIC 2014, 11th International Conf. on Hydroinformatics, New York, NY. http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_conf_hic/464/.
Peckham, S.D. and J.L. Goodall (2013) Driving plug-and-play models with data from web-services: A demonstration of interoperability between CSDMS and CUAHSI-HIS, Computers & Geosciences, special issue: Modeling for Environmental Change, 53, 154-161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2012.04.019.
Voinov, A.A., C. Deluca, R.R. Hood, S.D. Peckham, C.R. Sherwood, J.P.M. Syvitski (2010) A community approach to earth systems modeling, EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 91(13), p. 117, 30 March 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010EO130001.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


text: The Kingston stacking dining armchair is ideal for an outdoor home setting on a patio or deck. Danish designer Povl Eskildsen created the solid teak Gloster Kingston collection, which this chair is part of, with classic artistic flair and modern ergonomic comfort in mind. The chairs and benches in the collection feature clean lines, curved arms and contoured backs and seats. The narrow width and ability to stack this solid teak chair also makes them perfect for use in a restaurant's outdoor dining area or the outside deck of an inn. There is also an optional weather-resistant seat cushion available in more than 90 acrylic fabrics. The myriad fabric choices make it easy to redecorate a room to match your style or decor. Choose from solids and stripes to elaborate floral designs.Note: All Gloster furniture is factory tested to support a weight of 300 lbs.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Want to relax and spend some wonderful time? Then call me and I will do all the work!
I am an exotic Asian cutie with friendly attitude.
I am available any time upon your request.
Definitely, I will make you feel happy and relaxed with my perfect companionship.


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In a fast-paced world filled with too many obligations and temptations, in a universe that empasizes materialism and instant gratification, many of us strive in our own way to recover a foundational sense of equilibrium, and through it a form of rest and contentment. Among others, these questions are echoed by Hanneke Beaumont’s new exhibition, titled "Searching for Balance", and introducing a dozen new works aong which some never previously exhibited.
In his second Brussels solo exhibition, Egyptian artist Armen Agop invites the viewers to do what is usually forbidden: Touch the sculptures. This new exhibition is about freedom. The freedom to touch the sculptures and, through this contact, the sculptures are given the freedom to move.
LKFF invites you to rediscover and enjoy the atmosphere of an artistic salon – as one could have enjoyed at the “Belle Epoque” or even in the 18th century - where conversation, delicacy, art and luxury are king. Art lovers can sit together and enjoy a drink while comfortably seated in a fabulous design environment (in collaboration with Ampersand House) in which are installed artworks of the finest quality.
Lucien Murat is fascinated by the concept of the end of the world, its representation and its impact on the “collective unconscious”. His canvases are patchwork of carefully chosen old- fashioned classic decorative tapestries, sewn together. Under his paintbrushes, they are transformed into immense colorful tapestries, questioning the fantasized grandiose of chaos, constantly flirting between absurd and grotesque.
The Balloon, the most simple flying machine ever invented by Man, is the starting point of "Aria", the new solo exhibition of Velasco Vitali. Well sewn fabric, a basket, hot air and ballasts to drop on your way suffice to create a flight, an adventure.
The Aria sculptures of Velasco Vitali are an interpretation by the artist of the Montgolfier's balloon. Aria suggests an «aerostatic» voyage, a story, an invitation. Do they symbolise a departure, or an arrival? Their slow take-off from the ground towards an unknown freedom always implies a narrative, a story to tell.
Following the impressive «Sbarco» (read «Disembarqment») of dogs, Velasco Vitali’s last solo show in Brussels (March 2011), the Italian artist is back in Brussels for a now solo show, presenting us a totally new body of work titled «Aria».

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Most people have many questions when seeking treatment for mental illness. The more you know in advance, the better prepared you will be.
If you would like to speak with a member of our staff, please call Colorado Mental Health Help to learn more about mental health and different treatment programs. Call or contact us online and a member of our team will be happy to help you.


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This is a fantastic quick recipe, and I just made the best yet. I got the recipe called ‘The Quick After-Work Vegetarian Cookbook’ – last recipe in the book. I have adapted it to make it easier.
Bring the water to a boil, and then pour in the polenta in a thin stream, to avoid it clumping when it hits the water. Keep stirring the water around so the polenta mixes in with the water evenly. Keep stirring and cooking, and in a few minutes the mixture turns into a thick porridge.
Add the diced cheese, and as soon as it has melted, add the butter, salt and pepper. Stir it all together.
This is good with a savoury lentil stew, or with a fennel salad. If you let it get cold, it can be sliced, and then grilled the next day.


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Roe, H.S.J.; Badcock, J.; Billett, D.S.M.; Chidgey, K.C.; Domanski, P.A.; Ellis, C.J.; Fasham, M.J.R.; Gooday, A.J.; Hargreaves, P.M.D.; Huggett, Q.J.; James, P.T.; Kirkpatrick, P.A.; Lampitt, R.S.; Merrett, N.R.; Muirhead, A.; Pugh, P.R.; Rice, A.L.; Russell, R.A.; Thurston, M.R.; Tyler, P.A..
Great Meteor East: a biological characterisation.
Wormley, UK, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, 260pp.

industry_corpus2: Water Resources & Marine


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Why Become A Future Developer?
Do you feel like your students need a break from school work? Well, we do too...so we do not teach like a normal class. We provide hands-on experiences that will give your student the knowledge to master tech fields as they grow. We can help give your student an interest in programming, website development, graphic design and so much more.
We have friends in various businesses that speak to our kids about everything tech and our developers give hands-on lessons using real-world scenarios and tools.
Enroll now and start your student on a path to their career this summer.
This covers the entire 3 week (2 hours per day, 3 days a week) camp, the Raspberry Pi device they will learn on and any other costs that may pop up. Unfortnately, they cannot keep the devices because they will be used for future students...take it like it is a donation for OUR KID'S futures.
We are working on becoming a non-profit, but for the time being we would like to offer our camp to students, but it costs money to get started.
We will use your tuition to pay for a Raspberry Pi device that will be used to teach your student and future students. We will also apply your tuition to the lessons and materials needed for the lessons (such as parts for a RC car they can program) and lastly our "graduation" party. Our team will be donating our time but every penny we can get to help is much appreciated.
Do you have plans for your student's future? If not, enroll them in our three week class and let our team teach your student about programming, graphic design, computer and phone troubleshooting and so much more. Let them become a Future Developer.
Our summer camp will begin again Summer 2018. Stay on the look out for when it does.
We will reopen this form when we are taking new registration. Please become a fan on Facebook to stay up to date with our organization.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Forget the flu shot. A soup based on more than 50 cloves of garlic, onions, thyme and lemon will destroy almost any virus that enters its path including colds, flu and even norovirus.
As we sneeze and cough our way through these dark months of contagious nasties, garlic is being hailed for its powers to halt viruses in their tracks.
It has gained its reputation as a virus buster thanks to one of its chemical constituents, allicin.
When the garlic is crushed, alliin becomes allicin. Research shows that allicin helps lower cholesterol and blood pressure and also helps prevents blood clots. Garlic can also reduce the risk of developing atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Compounds in this familiar bulb kill many organisms, including bacteria and viruses that cause earaches, flu and colds. Research indicates that garlic is also effective against digestive ailments and diarrhea. What's more, further studies suggest that this common and familiar herb may help prevent the onset of cancers.
'This chemical has been known for a long time for its anti-bacterial and anti-fungal powers,' says Helen Bond, a Derbyshire-based consultant dietitian and spokeswoman for the British Dietetic Association.
'Because of this, people assume it is going to boost their immune systems. Lots of people are simply mashing up garlic, mixing it with olive oil and spreading it on bread.
Indeed, scientists remain divided on garlic's ability to combat colds and flu. Last March, a major investigation by the respected global research organisation, the Cochrane Database, found that increasing your garlic intake during winter can cut the duration of cold symptoms -- from five-and-a-half days to four-and-a-half.
The problem is that pharmaceutical companies are not interested in running huge, expensive trials -- as they would with promising new drug compounds -- because there is nothing in garlic that they can patent, package and sell at a profit.
If garlic were found to be a wonder drug, consumers could simply buy it in the supermarket for 30p a bulb or grow their own in the garden.
Last June, nutrition scientists at the University of Florida found eating garlic can boost the number of T-cells in the bloodstream. These play a vital role in strengthening our immune systems and fighting viruses.
And pharmacologists at the University of California found that allicin -- the active ingredient in garlic that contributes to bad breath -- is an infection-killer.
Allicin also makes our blood vessels dilate, improving blood flow and helping to tackle cardiovascular problems such as high cholesterol.
An Australian study of 80 patients published last week in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that diets high in garlic may reduce high blood pressure.
In 2007, dentists in Brazil found that gargling with garlic water (made by steeping crushed garlic cloves in warm, but not boiling, water) can kill the germs that cause tooth decay and gum disease.
But they hit a snag: the volunteers refused to continue the experiment, complaining that the garlic gargle made them feel sick. Looking at the garlic soup recipe certainly made me feel queasy. Still, it gave me an excuse to use up my ample supply of garlic.
Though last year's awful weather caused crop failures on my allotment, I enjoyed a bumper harvest of garlic.
Among its many other virtues, garlic kills slugs and snails. Researchers from the University of Newcastle believe it contains oils that may cripple the nervous systems of these slimy creatures.
There are two schools of thought as to the best way of preparing garlic to make the most of its medicinal qualities.
Argentinian investigators found it releases its allicin-type compounds when you bake the cloves, while scientists at South Carolina Medical University believe peeling garlic and letting it sit uncovered for 15 minutes produces the highest levels of compounds to fight infection.
So you can simply peel half of the garlic cloves and roast the other half with the kitchen door tightly closed (to stop the pong permeating throughout the house).
After an hour-and-a-quarter's industrious soup-making, sprinkle lemon juice over a bowl of steaming, grey gloop andÂ tuck in.
The heady aroma certainly revs up the appetite and the first spoonful does not disappoint. Delicious as it is, however, one large bowl of home-made soup is a more than ample meal.
As for the soup's cold-preventing powers, only time will tell. Regular bowlfuls may very well keep me free of winter ailments, thanks to the virus-killing compounds they contain.
Or it could just be that my nuclear-strength garlic breath will keep everyone who is infectious far out of sneezing range for months to come.


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Changes in apprentice accident planning behavior will be implemented starting July 1, according to Joseph Scaffido, administrator of campus activities and co-chair of the accident administering planning team. Changes accommodate an added four-week apprehension appropriate for accident planning, an overage abetment up to $1,000 for aegis costs that beat predicted quotes and a stricter administering of accepted rules.
The better change in action is a about-face in time appropriate to ample out an Accident Registration Form, according to Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88, chief accessory administrator of students. The new action will crave contest to abide an Accident Registration Anatomy four weeks in advance. The accepted action requires three weeks, a action that Grant accustomed was activated leniently.
This about-face was apropos to Sasha Chanko ’19, admiral of Cornell Hillel. “The logistical affair of acute added contest to be planned beforehand … will accomplish it added difficult to accommodate the aforementioned cardinal and aforementioned affection programming that Hillel has been accomplishing for the accomplished few years,” Chanko said.
Vijay Pendakur, administrator of students, said that annihilation accurately instigated these changes, and that accident planning behavior accept been “tweaked” abounding times in the past.
The action additionally states that there will be a “protest space” area demonstrators can organize. According to Grant, these spaces will be best with application to safety. As a result, sidewalks and anchorage charge abide clear, and there charge be “space amid groups who disagree.” Grant accustomed that afterimage of the demonstrators is important to protest, and acclaimed that this would be taken into consideration.
In the past, the accident administering planning aggregation has activated amusing media to appearance accessible beef contest on sites like Facebook, according to Pendakur. That advice was again acclimated to appraisal the cardinal of bodies accepted at a protest. Pendakur encouraged acceptance acclimation protests to book an ERF so that they could accept added ascribe in the process.
A blueprint that allows acceptance to adumbrate the accepted aegis amount of the accident will be accessible on the campus activities website this summer and abounding contest will not crave any aegis fees, Grant said. Final aegis costs will be bent by the Cornell University Police Department.
According to Grant, amount ranges for basal aegis contest will ambit from about $300 to $610. Elevated aegis contest costs will ambit from about $600 to $1,400. High-level aegis contest will ambit from about $2,300 to $3,900. Abounding contest won’t crave any aegis fees, at the acumen of CUPD. These costs will be accomplished in July, and adapted July of the afterward year.
Pendakur accustomed this problem, acquainted the additional big action change: that the University would accommodate up to $1,000 for aegis fees that exceeded the aboriginal aegis adduce that was provided by CUPD.
“In some cases, aegis costs for contest will beat the predicted costs. In those instances, Cornell will blot the aboriginal $1,000 in aegis costs beyond those costs in the fee amount schedule,” Grant said.
Current alfresco beef action dictates that demonstrations with amplification, like a megaphone, are alone permissible alfresco Day Hall and Willard Straight Hall from apex to 1 p.m. According to Grant, these behavior abide unchanged.
A final appointment for altercation and description of action will be captivated on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in Willard Straight Hall.

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David Arnold, who scored five James Bond films, discussed his work with singer Chris Cornell for the title song of 2006’s Casino Royale with the entertainment news website The Wrap.
Cornell died last week. Arnold paid tribute to the performer after Cornell’s death in Detroit.
Here’s an excerpt from the story in The Wrap.
Shortly after signing on…Cornell traveled to the set in Prague to meet with Arnold and the film’s director, Martin Campbell. After reading the script and watching Craig in action via a rough cut of the film, Arnold and Cornell sat down to compare ideas for the song. They agreed that the song couldn’t be called “Casino Royale” and decided that the title “You Know My Name” would fit with Bond’s ego, an element of his character that plays a major factor in the story.
Arnold and Cornell wrote You Know My Name, with Cornell as the singer. Elements of the song were woven into Arnold’s score for the 21st James Bond film. It was the last time (to date) a Bond movie composer collaborated on a 007 title song.
UPDATE III (6:50 p.m.): The Wayne County (Michigan) Medical Examiner said Chris Cornell died from “suicide by hanging” even though a full autopsy report hasn’t been completed according to The Detroit News.
ORIGINAL POST (4:30 a.m.): Chris Cornell, the rock musician who co-wrote and performed Casino Royale’s title song, died Wednesday night at age 52, The Associated Press reported.
The news service quoted a Cornell representative, Brian Bumbery, as saying the musician’s death was “sudden and unexpected.” No cause of death was known early Thursday. Cornell, who had been on tour, died in Detroit, the AP said.
Cornell was the lead singer for Soundgarden and “helped architect the 90’s grunge rock movement,” AP said in its report. He was also lead performer and songwriter for Audioslave.
In 2006, Cornell became the first title song performer for the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films.
Cornell also co-wrote Casino’s title song, “You Know My Name,” with David Arnold, who also scored the movie.
With Casino, Eon Productions opted for a “reboot,” or starting the series over. The Daniel Kleinman-designed main titles were different that previous entries. Graphic elements for the titles included playing card images as well as silhouettes of violent fights as well as images of Craig, who was making his 007 debut.
My friend Chris Cornell has died and I’m just incredibly sad .
UPDATE II (9:30 a.m.): Many tributes have been written about Chris Cornell in the hours after his death became public. Here are tweets by the official James Bond Twitter account and actor Jeffrey Wright, who played Felix Leiter in Casino Royale.
Chris Cornell. Man, what? Wow., wow. Too soon. Great singer. Super nice dude.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Tomorrow Never Dies, a jigsaw puzzle of a production.
Just when the pieces seemed to be coming together one way, they had to be disassembled and put together another.
That condition certainly applied to the script. Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli initially employed Donald E. Westlake. That effort was dropped.
Next up, Bruce Feirstein, who had penned the later drafts of GoldenEye, started a new story line. Other scribes worked on the project before Feirstein returned, doing rewrites on the fly while filming was underway.
Locations ended up being a puzzle as well. Much of the story was set in Vietnam. But the Asian country abruptly revoked permission to film there. The Eon Productions crew had to quickly go to Thailand as a substitute.
The score from composer David Arnold would also be a jigsaw puzzle. The newcomer scored the movie in thirds. (He explained the process in detail in an audio interview with journalist Jon Burlingame that was released on a later expanded soundtrack release.) There would be next to no time for normal post-production work.
Principal photography didn’t begin until April 1, 1997, and production would extend into early September for a movie slated to open just before Christmas.
It was star Pierce Brosnan’s second turn as 007. In the documentary Everything or Nothing, he said his Bond films other than GoldenEye were all a blur. That blur began with this production.
Also, during the film’s buildup, the publicity machine emphasized how Michelle Yeoh’s Wai Lin, a Chinese agent, was Bond’s equal. This wasn’t exactly a new development. Barbara Bach’s Agent Triple-X in The Spy Who Loved Me was “his equal in every way,” according to that movie’s director, Lewis Gilbert. Nor would Tomorrow Never Dies be the last time “Bond’s equal” would come up in marketing.
In some ways, Tomorrow Never Dies was the end of an era.
It was the last opportunity to have John Barry return to score a Bond film. He declined when told he wouldn’t be permitted to write the title song. That opened up the door for Arnold, who’d score the next four 007 movies.
This would also be the final time a Bond movie was released under the United Artists banner. UA was a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1997. Two years later, MGM decided to release The World is Not Enough under its own name.
The movie, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, generated global box office of $339.5 million. That was lower than GoldenEye’s $356.4 million. Still, it was more than ample to keep the series, and its Brosnan era, going.
Thomas Newman became the third composer to do more than one Bond album after John Barry (11 007 scores and David Arnold (five). It happened when Sam Mendes returned for the 007 director chair for SPECTRE, after the success of Skyfall.
With the son of the legendary Alfred Newman being one of Mendes’ favorite musicians, it was almost predictable that Newman would be coming back as well.
By the beginning of October, two tracks from SPECTRE were released through the British radio, disappointing many people as they sounded too similar to Skyfall.
Of course, both Barry and particularly Arnold repeated some of their previous films cues into the Bond film in hand, yet the SPECTRE soundtrack seemed almost a remix of the Skyfall score.
However, when watching the movie, the soundtrack effect grows.
The gunbarrel –back at the beginning for the first time since 2002’s Die Another Day – has a sound reminiscent to Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is not Enough, with the last bars of the James Bond Theme as the blood drips down. It was, unfortunately, discarded from the commercial album, which starts with a track titled “Los Muertos Vivos Están” (The Dead Are Alive).
Track 1 is a pretty cool rendition of the James Bond Theme accompanied by the drums of a Mexican band known as Tambuco.
Something very important to say is that Newman, this time, seems more confident when using the Bond Theme, using it prominently and in full, unlike his previous job where he seemed a bit afraid to repeat his predecessor’s expertise in handling the piece attributed to Monty Norman.
More effective uses of the James Bond Theme are heard during the last seconds of “Detonation” (track 23) and “Westminster Bridge” (track 24, very similar to Skyfall’s “The Moors”). An unreleased Bond fanfare is heard at the end of the helicopter fight during the pre-credits sequence, with a piano orchestration leading us to Smith’s theme.
As Vauxhall Bridge (track 2) reminds us to “New Digs” from Skyfall (funnily enough, Bond points out the CNS building as “C’s new digs” in the scene), the third track is almost a cut and paste version of “Brave New World,” also from Skyfall. Yet, Newman manages to change the epic Hans Zimmer-esque sound for a lyrical chorus to enhance Bond’s arrival to Rome aka “The Eternal City,” which is the title given to the track.
The use of the chorus, also present in “Backfire” (track 6) and the end titles (track 26) were perhaps the best thing Newman did and one of the strongest points of the score.
“Donna Lucia” (track 4), used for 007’s seduction of Monica Bellucci’s character, reminds us a bit to Die Another Day, particularly the scene where Pierce Brosnan’s Bond is visited by Peaceful Fountains of Desire.
Romantic pieces are Newman’s strong point as he proves in “Madeleine” (track 9) and “Secret Room” (track 13). The piano notes and the strings make us fall in love with the leading lady and feel some empathy for the death of her father, as she observes her childhood photos on Mr. White’s hidden room in an African hotel. A choral version of Madeline’s theme is reprised during the end credits.
The North African sounds combined with Hoyte Van Hoytema’s shots of the train through the desert are perhaps one of the best audiovisual moments in the whole franchise.
Track 15 is the only time when we hear a rendition of Sam Smith’s theme song, “Writing’s on the Wall”. Newman made his own instrumental version (the first minute sounds very similar to the original) for Bond’s intimate moment with Madeleine Swann on the train.
As Bond escapes a horrid torture by Oberhauser, a piece titled “Tempus Fugit” (track 19) is heard for the second time. Closely similar to another track from Skyfall titled The Bloody Shot, this track first appears as Bond fights Sciarra inside an helicopter atop Mexico City, at the very beginning of the film.
Perhaps the least interesting piece is the atonal “Snow Plane” (track 11), where it seems Newman tried to imitate Bill Conti’s For Your Eyes Only disco score. This scene – where 007 chases Hinx and his goons with a plane across the snowy Austria — needed a more John Barry or David Arnold like sound, a closer feeling to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, way more darker.
Apart from that, it was a nice nod of Newman to add a source piece in the score. Track 18, “Day of the Dead”, features Tambuco and has the actual chorus from the festive mourners, cheering up for the “resurrection” of their deceased ones.
Before the end titles, the composer closes with “Out of Bullets” (track 25), which is a very beautiful version of the romantic piano cue from “Secret Room” and “Madeleine”, combined with a lush sound reminiscent to David Arnold’s romantic sounds from his Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day scores.
In conclusion, the SPECTRE score is indeed special and fits with the conclusion of the story opened in Casino Royale, almost ten years ago. A needed criticism has to be made to the way Newman made that cut-and-paste to the Skyfall score (he should have used the cues in a more subtle way), but it indeed achieves the objective of transporting us to the magic atmosphere of the film’s locations –from the lyrical Rome to the exotic Tangier– in a very pretty way.
Newman, who turns 60 on Tuesday, was interviewed on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune show and there’s now a summary of the interview on THE BBC’S WEBSITE.
Newman, part of a Hollywood family of film composers, was brought into the Bond series by director Sam Mendes. The move displaced David Arnold, who had composed the scores for the previous five 007 films.
Newman also said film music shouldn’t overpower a movie.
To read the entire BBC website story, CLICK HERE.
How time flies! It was ten years ago we saw Daniel Craig rushing the Thames River on a speedboat to meet the press during his announcement as the new James Bond, on Oct. 14, 2005.
Casino Royale, set for November 2006, had many challenges: introduce a new Bond actor, reboot the series and provide a good balance between the action scenes the book lacked and the drama content that filled the pages of Ian Fleming’s first novel, published in 1953.
Directed by a familiar face, GoldenEye’s Martin Campbell, the film was the target of a lot of criticism concerning the new face of 007.
Craig, then 37, had a hard time when production started: a website boycotting him plus tabloids calling him “James Bland.” He seemed far different from Pierce Brosnan’s suave portrayal of the British spy, last seen in 2002’s Die Another Day, a movie that went too far with CGI effects and overly seen clichés.
However, the 2006 film proved to be a great box office hit and the press had to admit its misjudgment of Craig’s portrayal. The actor showed us a strong and fearless Bond. Lethal but equally weak and romantic, Craig’s Bond fell in love and tragically lost Vesper Lynd, the female lead of the movie played by Eva Green.
In Casino Royale, Craig’s 007 could balance Sean Connery’s ironies with Timothy Dalton’s violence, as well as bringing to screen a modern sense of humor. “Do I look as if I give a damn?” he says when asked if his drink should be shaken or stirred, or cuts M off the phone after interrupting her for an “urgent” call. Indeed, this was the Bond the 21st century needed.
Much of the 2006 film success came, of course, by the expert hand of director Campbell and his crew: veteran cinematographer Phil Méheux, editor Stuart Baird, composer David Arnold and the second unit directed by Alexander Witt (who returned in Skyfall and now in SPECTRE).
Martin Campbell, director of GoldenEye and Casino Royale.
Not to mention the cast selected by Debbie MacWilliams: Eva Green contrasting the original Vesper from Fleming’s book with a self-confident and seductive character that falls for the spy; Mads Mikkelsen bringing up a young and debonair Le Chiffre; and Giancarlo Giannini and Jeffrey Wright bringing to life to René Mathis and Felix Leiter, 007’s allies in the novel.
The film wasn’t a success because it was a Bond film, but because it excelled in showing us “how James became Bond,” as the audience exploded into an applause when getting the classic “Bond, James Bond” introduction spoken by Craig in the film’s last minutes.
In 2008, Daniel Craig returned for the much anticipated Quantum of Solace, conceived as a “direct sequel” of Casino Royale.
Craig provided a fine performance, but the script fails to give the audiences what they wanted: Quantum of Solace was, in result, poor in comparison with Casino Royale, both technically and literary, as the script had to be completed during filming when the WGA strike affected Bond scribes Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. Craig said he and director Marc Forster were de facto writers.
The film provides some nice shots of the Italian, Bolivian and Austrian landscapes courtesy of director of photography Roberto Schaeffer, as well as some original and dynamic music by David Arnold. But the story seems dull, uninteresting and full of badly shot scenes with Forster trusting many scenes to his second unit director, Dan Bradley.
Many moviegoers and Bond aficionados felt that the reboot and the idea of bringing up a redefined 007 went a bit too far with the 2008 film, that didn’t gross as much worldwide as its 2006 predecessor.
An original ending, where Bond faced of Mr .White one last time, ended up in the cutting room floor and was replaced by a final scene of the secret agent capturing Vesper’s treacherous boyfriend and throwing her distinctive necklace on the snowy ground.
James Bond wouldn’t return until 2012’s Skyfall.
Once again, Daniel Craig returned as Bond. It was the longest gap between two Bond films with the same actor playing the main role.
As the series celebrated its 50th anniversary, the propaganda machine opted for leaving the Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace story behind and going for a completely different plot in which the secret agent would have to protect M (Judi Dench) from the hands of Tiago Rodrigues aka Raoul Silva, a dismissed MI6 field agent with a desire of revenge towards his former boss.
The first Bond movie directed by Sam Mendes promised a lighter Bond film, with many winks to the first adventures of the series and more humoristic situations: a gadget-laden Aston Martin DB5 and references to an exploding pen, as well as the re-establishment of Q and Moneypenny, left apart after Pierce Brosnan was separated of the role, now played by Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris.
The idea for Skyfall was, apparently, steering away from the story arc started in Casino Royale and apparently closed in Quantum of Solace. In a very similar case that Goldfinger, Skyfall seems completely unrelated to its two predecessors: the 1964 film didn’t have SPECTRE as the enemy but the self-employed Auric Goldfinger and his plan to irradiate Fort Knox.
The 50th anniversary Bond film proved to be a great success, providing a story balanced between the classic Bond humor with dramatic and violent situations, plus elements taken from the two last Ian Fleming novels: You Only Live Twice and The Man With the Golden Gun.
The film has also had five Oscar nominations, including Adele’s main title song that got the Best Song award. The film also shared an Oscar for sound editing with Zero Dark Thirty.
In a couple of weeks, the 24th James Bond films will hit theatres. It’s simply called SPECTRE, as the old criminal organization led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Eon Productions convinced Sam Mendes to return one more time to the director’s chair, as well as many of his crew members. The base of the script was written by Skyfall’s John Logan, with the return of Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and additional scripting by Jez Butterworth.
The script was leaked shortly after the film was announced on December 2014. While producers claimed it was only an old draft, it is understood that the story inside this leaked script featured many classic elements of the franchise, resulting in probably the most “traditionalist” Craig Bond film.
In SPECTRE, Bond travels from Mexico to London, Rome, Austria and Morocco to uncover the truth behind a criminal organization known as SPECTRE (according to Mendes, this SPECTRE is not an acronym, thus not related to Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). The organization’s leader, known as Franz Oberhauser (Cristoph Waltz) is someone from Bond’s past and has a vendetta against him.
The film apparently ties the story left over from Quantum of Solace, as 007 meets again with Mr. White, and there are a few connections with Skyfall’s plot. The movie sees the return of Ralph Fiennes as the new M, Ben Whishaw as Q and Naomie Harris as Moneypenny. New characters include Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann, Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra, the widow of a SPECTRE assassin, and Andrew Scott as Denbigh, a bureaucrat rival the new M will have to face.
The sixth Bond actor also is as co-producer with Andrew Noakes and David Pope. It is understood that this is due to his collaboration in the making of the film and his strong bond with director Sam Mendes, a closer friend of him since both met during the shooting of Road to Perdition.
Stephanie Sigman, playing Estrella in the upcoming film, said on an interview with News.au that she learned a lot with Craig, since we was very technical with the shooting: “He’s very experienced doing films. He was helping me with how to move with the camera.” On the other side, The Telegraph claims that the British actor saw his films as a big story arc and had the idea of introducing the Bond folklore elements gradually.
It is still unknown if Daniel Craig will return for a fifth Bond: in some interviews he claims he’ll play the character as long as he can while sometimes he points out he’s way too physically tired from playing Ian Fleming’s character.
What is true is that the blonde guy who ten years ago raised some eyebrows as he wore a life vest while being taken on boat to the HMS President vessel for his introduction has made many achievements in the franchise and became a member of the James Bond family.
Sam Smith’s awaited main title song for SPECTRE, titled “Writing’s On the Wall,” was finally released last Friday.
As expected, the Bond fandom was divided between those who called it “an instant classic” and the ones who opened a petition drive to banish it to the end credits.
Still, even when Smith’s voice may not be the most appropriate, the orchestration and lyrics excel in examining James Bond’s feelings and emotions, something only given before by a discarded end title song, Scott Walker’s “Only Myself to Blame,” put away from 1999’s The World Is Not Enough in favor of the triumphant James Bond Theme.
“I walked way past midnight, I’ve driven for days I tried to forget in so many ways,” the vocalist sang Don Black’s lyrics. “From city to city, I still see your face… it follows me ‘round, all over the place. I shouldn’t look back, but I do just the same. And I’ve only myself to blame,” the song continues.
The composition, still available on track 19 of David Arnold’s soundtrack, was the first song to narrate the misfortune of a heartbroken Bond, far away of the “Nobody does it Better” or “Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” fanfares.
As a vocal version of Elektra’s Theme (Black told composer Arnold “there was a song” hidden in it), it laments the ill-fated romance between James Bond and the young oil tycoon played by Sophie Marceau: an innocent girl, corrupted after being kidnapped, turning into a criminal mastermind capable to use both Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and her former kidnapper/lover Renard (Robert Carlyle) as fools.
As we know, the story ended with the cold shot of a 007 who “never misses,” but also takes a minute to caress her dead body.
Much like “Only Myself to Blame,” Sam Smith’s song “Writing’s On the Wall” tears miles away of the triumphalist conception of James Bond and dives into his biggest weakness: his inability to enjoy a lasting relationship due to the hazards of his violent job.
Times had been tough for Daniel Craig’s version of 007: in Casino Royale, his love interest Vesper Lynd commits suicide. That leads him, in Quantum of Solace, to Mr. White and subsequently to ecologist Dominic Greene to unravel a secret criminal organization while seeking the help of the vengeful Camille, who barely kisses him before walking away after the mission is over.
In Skyfall, all this story arc seems put away but Bond still has to face another challenge to his emotions: Judi Dench’s M dies on his arms after being wounded during the attack led by former agent Silva.
“I’ve been there before, but I always hit the floor,” Smith sings, evoking these fateful events between 2006 and 2015: the deaths of a love interest and a mother figure, facts that are supposed to come back with a vengeance in SPECTRE.
Back at the beginning of September, Smith described his song for the film as “a love song,” a category that could very well fit older pieces such as “From Russia with Love”, “You Only Live Twice” or “We Have all the Time in The World”. Yet, Jimmy Napes’ lyrics go one step further by revealing the inner feelings of 007 facing the possibility of putting his heart at stake once more.
More than a love song, “Writing’s On the Wall” proves to be a declaration of love. The song goes: “But I feel like a storm is coming if I’m gonna make it through the day. Then there’s no use in running, this is something I gotta face.” Is it insinuating that, even if a disaster occurs again, he can’t run away of his feelings?
There’s almost a month to wait until we see if, this time, Daniel Craig’s Bond will have a happy ending with Léa Seydoux’s character. So far, it’s interesting to see “Writing’s On the Wall” as the comeback of an idea put away from a 1999 Bond film, a nostalgic song that wouldn’t have fitted the victorious ending of that story and would have raised the eyebrows of the fans, in a historical context where Pierce Brosnan’s 007 was meant to win.
Now, as Daniel Craig’s 007 ran away of many emotional battles that didn’t seem to be healed, an introspective Bond song will get the main titles treatment. We don’t know if this will turn out to be good or bad, but interesting for sure.