Where to find support?
When it comes to seeking support, it's very important to know where to look. As I explained here in 'How-To-Guide or Hoax', there are plenty of time- and money-wasting traps to fall into. I know, because I fell into most of them before eventually stumbling across the resources I'm grateful to share with you below.
I'm here to talk things through at any stage of your RED-S experience, whether it's to help you decide where to seek medical guidance, to answer any questions (no matter how obscure or personal), or to support you with your recovery process.
Medical and Nutritional Support
Doctor: Nicky Keay is a pioneering physician and RED-S researcher with an extensive medical background in endocrinology and sports performance. She has a background in dancing and sport herself and is the author of the Health4Performance website. She is based in London and can be seen privately alone or in a combined appointment with Dietitian Renee McGregor at the EN:SPIRE Clinic. To get in touch with Nicky, head here.
Doctor: Dr Rebecca Robinson is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Consultant with a special interest in RED-S, female athlete health and also oncology. Rebecca splits her time between British canoeing, the NHS and her clinical time at the Centre for Health and Human Performance. An accomplished athlete herself, Rebecca competes in international competitions for mountain and road running. To book an appointment, head here or to get in touch with Rebecca directly, use rebeccarobinson@chhp.com
Doctor: Dr John Rogers is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Consultant, based in Manchester. He specialises in treating people with medical problems related to physical activity e.g. RED-S, overtraining syndrome, cardiac and respiratory problems with exercise, vascular disease, concussion, mental health problems and nutritional deficiencies. To get in touch, head here.
Doctor: Dr Kate Hutchings is a Sports and Exercise Medicine Consultant at Circle Reading Hospital and is experienced in working with both elite and recreational athletes from a wide variety of sports. Her previous positions include working for the English National Ballet as company doctor and she is experienced in looking after the female athlete and related medical issues. To get in touch, head here
Dietitian: Alex Cooke is a registered clinical and sports dietitian with over a decade of experience. Specialising in endurance sports, Alex understands the impact of RED-S and the nutritional changes required to help an athlete reach optimal health and performance. With 20 years of competitive athletics success behind her, Alex provides realistic and digestible advice, individually tailored to your needs.
Exercise Physiologist and Nutritionist: RunScience provides support from someone who not only understands running but also the science behind it too. As a decorated GB distance runner herself, Jess Piasecki has personal experience of RED-S and now combines her experience of elite athletics with her scientific knowledge to create bespoke training and nutrition programmes for athletes.
Menstrual health tracker: FitrWoman the world's first mobile app that provides daily training and nutritional suggestions tailored to your menstrual cycle. Even if you don't currently have one, the app allows you to track symptoms, log training activity and receive nutrition and physiology support. This previous resource is paving the way for girls and women to get the best out of themselves and make smarter, more informed decisions and I am proud to promote them as an Athlete Ambassador.
Community support: #TRAINBRAVE is a campaign aiming to raise awareness of RED-S and inspire more athletes to share their experiences. They work collaboratively with both Renee McGregor and Nicky Keay and run free events, so keep an eye out on social media.
Doctor: Kathryn Ackerman is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician and the medical director of the Female Athlete Program in the Division of Sports Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. Her interests include female athletes, rowing injuries, endocrinology, female athlete triad, optimizing performance and health in athletes with diabetes, exercise-associated hyponatremia, and exercise and bone health in adolescents. Dr. Ackerman sees patients in Boston and Waltham. Get in touch here.
Dietitian: Rebecca McConville is a certified eating disorder dietitian and sports nutrition specialist. She has 25+ years' experience in all-things-RED-S and is also the author of Finding Your Sweet Spot: How to Avoid RED-S by Optimizing Your Energy Balance. Get in touch here.
Community support: Running in Silence, an American-based athletic community, also helps to support athletes in preventing, identifying, and encouraging recovery of eating disorders in sport.
Athlete stories
Are Athlete's Seeing RED-S? By Jess Piasecki here
Climber Mina Leslie-Wujastyk writes openly about her case of RED-S here
'The break in breakthrough' by runner, Anna Boniface here
Mary Cain, professional American middle distance runner, shares her story here
Climber Beth Rodden talks about her experience of eating disorders here
GB distance runner Tina Muir shares a word of advice here
Bobby Clay, European champion and World Junior finalist, shares her experience here and here
Jen Walsh, former English Schools XC champion, speaks to Athletics Weekly here
Tom Fairbrother, a British athlete, shares his eating disorder experiences here and here
The Health4Performance podcast discusses RED-S, hormones, health and performance
Find a podcast discussing menstrual cycles and RED-S here
And another discussing RED-S here
The Trainbrave podcast is an educational platform for all things sports nutrition, fitness and lifestyle
Find Tina Muir's Running For Real Podcast 'A New You Is More Than Just Healthy Eating' here
The Female Athlete Podcast discusses everything you need to know about the menstrual cycle and how it impacts performance - including issues such as contraception, bone health and female physiology
The Period of the Period aims to open up the conversation surrounding female health and performance
Medical journals/papers/articles of interest
2018 UPDATE: Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) here
IOC consensus statement on relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S): 2018 update here
Infographic on RED-S BJSM By Emily Dudgeon, Scottish athlete and RED-S researcher here
Endurance Exercise Training and Male Sexual Libido here
How to identify male cyclists at risk of RED-S here
Male athletes: the bare bones of cyclists here
RED-S recognition and next steps here
For more general info on RED-S, head here
Finding Your Sweet Spot: How to Avoid RED-S by Optimizing Your Energy Balance
No Period Now What: Provides a great explanation of why you may have lost your cycle and how to regain it
Period Repair Manual: Not specifically for athletes but useful nonetheless
ROAR: How to match your food and fitness to your unique female physiology for optimum performance, great health, and a strong, lean body for life
Sick Enough by Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani offers patients, their families, and clinicians a comprehensive, accessible review of the medical issues that arise from eating disorders


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" Rough Night for Statewide Dems in Off-Year Elections, Better Night for Local Progressives: 'BradCast' 11/3/2021	"
Rough Night for Statewide Dems in Off-Year Elections, Better Night for Local Progressives: 'BradCast' 11/3/2021
Guest: John Nichols of The Nation on what went right and wrong; Also: E-Pollbook failures in NJ open door for loser to challenge results...
By Brad Friedman on 11/3/2021, 6:24pm PT
Today on BradCast: No, Tuesday's off-year elections were not nearly as disastrous for Democrats as the national media seems to want to insist. But there were both red flag warnings and important lessons they should absolutely pay attention to, and quickly. There were also wholly avoidable voting system failures which, unfortunately, open the door for some results to be challenged. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.]
First up, the latest summary on the marquee Gubernatorial races that seemed to encompass the entirety of the national media's coverage on Tuesday and into Wednesday. In Virginia, decades of modern history repeated itself, as the party that didn't win the White House last year appears to have taken control of the Governor's mansion this year. Trump-endorsed businessman and first-time candidate Glenn Youngkin was declared the narrow winner over VA's Democratic former Gov. Terry McCauliffe, after Youngkin dog-whistled his kinder, gentler not-Donald-Trump-at-all act into office.
His campaign leaned heavily on pretend, Fox "News"-generated phony outrage issues like opposition to teaching Critical Race Theory in public schools, even though there are no public schools in VA who actually teach it. But fake issues are much easier for Republicans to run on than the unpopular ones they actually support. So, with that, it appears Republicans may also have narrowly taken back majority control of the Commonwealth's House of Delegates, though those final numbers were still too close to call as of airtime.
In New Jersey, it appears that history will not repeat itself. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy was declared the unofficial winner by media outlets late during today's show. If officially certified, Murphy will have defeated Republican John Ciaterelli to become the first Democrat to win a second term in the Garden State since the 1970s. But Ciaterelli made clear on Election Night that he plans to challenge the results. Reported electronic pollbook failures across the state on Tuesday (little noticed by most of the media, though we covered the pretty serious issue in some detail on our previous BradCast) may well give him an opening to mount such a challenge --- not that Republican election challengers these days generally need real problems to buttress false claims of fraud when they lose. If Murphy ends up falling behind again, he too could use the failure in his own contest.
We detail what appears to have happened across the state, preventing many voters from being able to vote at the polls for several hours on Tuesday morning, and why we've been warning about issues exactly like this for years when it comes to electronic voting, tabulation and pollbook issues that continue to threaten democracy itself.
But while many Democrats have been beside themselves since the polls closed on Tuesday night, wondering where they went wrong --- at least in those statewide contests --- in truth, if you dig below the national headlines, progressives had a bunch of victories on Tuesday in local races and on ballot initiatives.
We're joined today by one of our favorite post-election guests (following both good and bad nights for Democrats over the years), progressive champion, JOHN NICHOLS, Washington Correspondent for for The Nation, longtime contributor to The Progressive and Associate Editor of Madison, Wisconsin's Capital Times. We try to make sense of where both Dems and national media went both right and wrong during both the election and its aftermath. Why, for example, in both VA and NJ, where Democrats held control and adopted a host of very popular progressive policies in the past several years, did they have such a difficult time turning that record into victories yesterday? We also discuss several progressive wins that flew beneath the radar, and what Dems in D.C. and across the nation should take from what happened on Tuesday.
Finally, we close with a boatload of under-reported progressive wins in Tuesday's elections across the country, including historic mayoral victories from Boston to Pittsburgh to Albuquerque to Cincinnati to Durham, NC and beyond, along with a number of local ballot initiatives that defy the media narrative of the past 24 hours which seems to be arguing that Dems must immediately start acting more like Republicans if they hope to have any chance of victory during next year's critical 2022 mid-terms...
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Walmart announces 4th round of cash bonuses for employees
by: Heath Higgs and Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Dec 3, 2020 / 10:51 AM EST / Updated: Dec 3, 2020 / 10:51 AM EST
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Walmart announced on Thursday that more than $700 million in additional cash bonuses will be paid to its employees based in the U.S.
The retailer's latest announcement — its fourth round of bonuses since the onset of the pandemic — includes $319 in quarterly bonuses paid on Nov. 25 paychecks and an estimated $388 million in special cash bonuses to be paid on Dec. 24.
Walmart said it's in "recognition of associates' sustained commitment to customers during the pandemic."
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"Our associates have stepped up to serve our customers, communities and each other when it was truly needed most, and we're pleased to recognize their efforts with a quarterly bonus for strong store performance and a fourth special cash bonus," John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., said in a release.
We're showing U.S. associates we appreciate all they've done for our customers, members and country in 2020 by paying cash bonuses for the fourth time this year – this time, totaling over $700M. More about how we're supporting associates here: https://t.co/vUEo0xqKpu pic.twitter.com/VilwnChoaU
— Walmart Inc. (@WalmartInc) December 3, 2020
Approximately 1.5 million full- and part-time Walmart and Sam's Club employees will receive the special cash bonus on Christmas Eve, including all U.S.-based hourly associates.
Part-time and temporary hourly employees will receive $150, and full-time hourly employees will get $300. According to the company, more than 60% of Walmart's hourly associates are full-time.
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Drivers, coaches and assistant managers will also receive the cash bonus.
The company is also extending its COVID-19 emergency leave policy, which provides employees with up to two weeks of pay if they need to remain home for a COVID-19-related reason, including quarantines, symptoms or illness through July 5, 2021.
100-megawatt solar farm in Lumpkin set to begin construction immediately, bring 300 jobs to area
by Sam Sachs / Jan 15, 2021
LUMPKIN, Ga. (WRBL) - Lumpkin, Ga., a city with just under 1,300 residents, is set to become the site of a 100-megawatt solar farm built by Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc., a leading infrastructure construction company for renewable energy. Estimates for the project expect 300 jobs to come to the area for construction of the solar farm.
IEA was awarded a solar contract to Lumpkin Solar Farm in Stewart County, where Lumpkin is the county seat, to build the 100-megawatt solar farm.


Mitchell v. Morris
Southern Pac. Co. v. City of Los Angeles
In other decisions involving land development, though not pertaining to subdivisions as such, the courts have…
Steiger v. Board of Supervisors
(Stats. 1937, ch. 665, § 14, p. 1824; Stats. 1947, ch. 807, § 71, p. 1919, now Gov. Code, § 65540; 2…
Full title:DELVIN J. MITCHELL, Appellant, v. GILBERT MORRIS, as City Superintendent…
Court:Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division One
Date published: Nov 3, 1949
Copy Citations
94 Cal.App.2d 446 (Cal. Ct. App. 1949)
210 P.2d 857
Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division One
In Mitchell v. Morris, 94 Cal.App.2d 446 [ 210 P.2d 857], a permit to erect a residence on a lot was denied because of lack of access.
Summary of this case from Fascination, Inc. v. Hoover
Docket No. 17192.
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Clarence M. Hanson, Judge. Affirmed.
Proceeding in mandamus to compel city building superintendent to issue a building permit. Judgment denying writ, affirmed.
A.K. Phelps for Appellant.
Ray L. Chesebro, City Attorney, Bourke Jones, Assistant City Attorney, and Alan G. Campbell, Deputy City Attorney, for Respondent.
WHITE, P.J.
Appellant herein sought a writ of mandate to compel respondent Superintendent of the Department of Building and Safety of the City of Los Angeles to issue a building permit pursuant to an application therefor. Upon presentation of the petition to the superior court an alternative writ was denied, no hearing being had or evidence taken.
The allegations of the petition for a writ of mandate are that in December, 1948, plaintiff filed with the Department of Building and Safety plans and specifications and an application for a permit to build a dwelling house, and paid the fees required by law; that plaintiff amended the plans and specifications "and caused them to fully comply with all lawful requirements of the Department of Building and Safety and with all lawful provisions of the Building Code of the City of Los Angeles."
It was then alleged:
"That nevertheless the officials and employees of the Department of Building and Safety refused and continue to refuse to issue to plaintiff a building permit, stating and giving as the reason of such refusal that the lot upon which plaintiff proposes to construct the dwelling house, as shown upon the said plans and specifications, does not front upon a public street nor upon a private easement determined by the City Planning Commission of the City of Los Angeles to be adequate.
"That plaintiff thereafter requested the City Planning Commission to approve the private easement upon which plaintiff's proposed building lot fronts, but that said City Planning Commission wrongfully, arbitrarily, and capriciously has refused and continues to refuse to approve said private easement.
"That the ordinances of the City of Los Angeles purport to invest the City Planning Commission with the power to determine whether or not a private roadway easement is adequate; but that the ordinances of the City of Los Angeles wholly fail to set up any standards of any kind whatsoever upon which said determination of the City Planning Commission is to be based.
"That there is no lawful authority directing and empowering the officials and employees of the Department of Building and Safety to withhold and refuse the granting of a building permit upon the grounds specified in the rejection of plaintiff's application. That the action of the defendant and the various employees acting under his direction in refusing to grant the said building permit in accordance with plaintiff's application is wholly unreasonable, arbitrary, capricious and wrongful."
[1] Appellant in his brief states that this appeal is based "upon the sole ground that the ordinance requiring that private easements be approved by the City Planning Commission is unconstitutional." It is asserted that the legislative body, the city council, has attempted to delegate its lawmaking powers to the planning commission, in that it has left to the commission the determination of whether a private easement is "adequate for purposes of access" without establishing any standard by which the commission might determine, as a fact, whether such easement is adequate, and thus has attempted to vest in the commission the power to enact laws and determine policy.
The applicable ordinance was not brought here on this appeal, but we deduce from the statements in the briefs that under the building ordinances of the city, a dwelling house may be constructed only upon a "lot"; that section 12.03 of the zoning ordinance defines a lot as "A parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by a use, building or unit group of buildings and accessory buildings, together with such yard, open spaces, lot width and lot area as are required by this article, and having frontage upon a street (other than an alley) or a private easement determined by the (Planning) Commission to be adequate for purposes of access." (Emphasis added.)
There can be no quarrel with the rule of law upon which appellant relies, that an attempted delegation of power to an administrative board, where no standards are established by which the board shall be governed in its actions is in effect an attempted delegation to such board of the power to enact a law. ( Dominguez Land Corp. v. Daugherty, 196 Cal. 468, 484 [ [ 238 P. 703]; Tarpey v. McClure, 190 Cal. 593, 600 [ 213 P. 983].) Nor would there be any useful purpose served in attempting to distinguish cases cited by appellant, such as In re Peppers, 189 Cal. 682 [ 209 P. 896], where an act purported to empower the Director of Agriculture to prohibit the shipment of oranges "`frosted to the extent of endangering the reputation of the citrus industry'"; or Hewitt v. State Board of Medical Examiners, 148 Cal. 590 [ 84 P. 39, 113 Am. St.Rep. 315, 7 Ann.Cas. 750, 3 L.R.A.N.S. 896], authorizing revocation of a physician's license for using "`grossly improbable statements'" in advertising.
As pointed out by respondent, a more necessary regulation could hardly be imagined than one which forbids the erection and maintenance of a dwelling house in a modern city except where such dwelling has adequate and permanent access to a public street. A municipality is properly interested that every dwelling house within its limits may be reached by the fire department, police department, and other agencies charged with the responsibility of protecting the public peace, safety and welfare. A municipality might properly prohibit entirely the erection of a dwelling upon property which had no access to a public street except through an easement upon land of another, or might impose conditions of resubdivision or public dedication of the means of access, which would be much more onerous than the requirement here that the private easement be "adequate for purposes of access."
We are in accord with the contention of respondent that the city council has by its ordinance set up as complete a standard as could be devised, having regard to the complexity of situations that could arise. Indeed, had the council set up more detailed standards, by specifying, for instance, the width, pavement, grade, drainage, length and other matters which would affect adequacy, as well as standards as to the creation and assured indefeasibility of such easements, the result might well be that the many otherwise meritorious applications would have to be rejected for failure to comply strictly with such standards. Further, in answer to the objection that no sufficient standard is provided, it can be suggested that the policy of the legislative body can be found in its enactments of a zoning plan, standards for public streets and alleys, and a host of other regulations.
Adopting the view, as we do, that the city council could lawfully have prescribed rigid standards for easements to serve as substitutes for streets, the authority granted the planning commission is analogous to its authority to grant variances from zoning regulations. A proper construction of the ordinance would appear to be that a dwelling house may not be built upon a lot which does not front upon a street, but that the planning commission may determine that the ordinance shall not operate when a private easement provides adequate access to the lot from a public street.
Concededly, discretion is vested in the planning commission, but it is not an uncontrolled and unguided discretion, even though it may call for the exercise of "judgment of a high order." ( Tarpey v. McClure, 190 Cal. 593, 600 [ 213 P. 983]; see also Riley v. Chambers, 181 Cal. 589, 595 [ 185 P. 855, 8 A.L.R. 418].) The legislative policy has been declared as definitely as is practicable. The commission is, in effect, empowered to grant what amounts to a "variance" in any case where it finds that a private easement is an adequate substitute for frontage on a street. The protection of appellant and others similarly aggrieved lies in the right to resort to the courts against arbitrary or discriminatory action by the commission.
So far as we can ascertain from the briefs on file herein, we are convinced that the discretionary powers vested in the city planning commission to ascertain the necessary facts to justify the granting of a permit under the ordinance is an exercise of quasi judicial, or perhaps administrative power, and does not amount to an exercise of legislative power. ( Wheeler v. Gregg, 90 Cal.App.2d 348, 362 [ 203 P.2d 37]; Nider v. Homan, 32 Cal.App.2d 11, 15 [ 89 P.2d 136]; Swars v. City of Vallejo, 64 Cal.App.2d 858, 864 [ 149 P.2d 397]; Wallace v. Board of Education, 63 Cal.App.2d 611, 616 [ 147 P.2d 8]; Irvine v. Citrus Pest District, 62 Cal.App.2d 378, 385 [ 144 P.2d 857].)
As was said by this court in Wheeler v. Gregg, supra, at page 362 of 90 Cal.App.2d, "The essential requirement of due process is met when the administrative body is required to determine the existence or nonexistence of the necessary facts before any decision is made. Such a discretion is not arbitrary or so unguided as to invalidate the statute or ordinance ( People v. Walton, 70 Cal.App.2d Supp. 862, 870 [161 P.2d 498].)
"As was said by the Supreme Court in Gaylord v. City of Pasadena, 175 Cal. 433, 436 [ 166 P. 348]:
"`Even a casual observer of governmental growth and development must have observed the ever-increasing multiplicity and complexity of administrative affairs — national, state, and municipal — and even the occasional reader of the law must have perceived that from necessity, if for no better grounded reason, it has become increasingly imperative that many quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions, which in similar communities and under more primitive conditions were performed directly by the legislative or judicial branches of the government, are intrusted to departments, boards, commissions and agents. No sound objection can longer be successfully advanced to this growing method of transacting public business. These things must be done in this way or they cannot be done at all, and their doing, in a very real sense, makes for the safety of the republic, and is thus sanctioned by the highest law. For, as the supreme court of the United States declares: "Indeed, it is not too much to say that a denial to Congress of the right, under the Constitution, to delegate the power to determine some fact or the state of things upon which the enforcement of its enactment depends, would be `to stop the wheels of government' and bring about confusion, if not paralysis, in the conduct of the public business" ( Union Bridge Co. v. United States, 204 U.S. 364 [51 L.Ed. 523, 27 Sup.Ct.Rep. 367].)' See, also, Dierssen v. Civil Service Commission, 43 Cal.App.2d 53, 59 [ 110 P.2d 513], and Carter v. Stevens, 211 Cal. 281, 289 [ 295 P. 28]."
[2] Appellant here makes no charge that the commission abused its discretion, or that its action was arbitrary or discriminatory, in refusing to approve his easement. In fact, there is no allegation as to what sort of easement appellant has, and the members of the commission are not joined as defendants. Appellant's proper remedy would be to allege and prove facts concerning the nature of his easement which will support a finding that the action of the commission was, as to him, arbitrary, discriminatory, and an abuse of discretion.
The judgment or order appealed from is affirmed.
Drapeau, J., concurred.
Doran, J., concurred in the judgment.


2024 Acura Integra Type S is a Civic Type R in disguise
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More powerful Acura Integra Type S gets Civic Type R's 2.0L VTEC Turbo
Acura December 7, 2022 - 10:14 AM
When Acura announced last year they were going to bring back the Integra name, it generated plenty of hype, particularly with enthusiasts who have longed for its return. When they officially launched it earlier this year, fans and enthusiasts were somehow divided.
While it was nice to see the Integra make a comeback, some felt it was a rather half-baked attempt by Acura. Sure, the exterior looks every bit like an Acura, but the cabin is essentially borrowed from the all-new Civic. Even the 1.5-liter VTEC Turbo is shared with the Civic Si as it makes 200 PS with 260 Nm of torque. Transmission options, on the other hand, include a 6-speed manual and a CVT.
Fast forward to the tail-end of 2022, and Acura has made a surprising announcement – they will be launching a more powerful version of the all-new Integra. Simply dubbed the Integra Type S, it's set to join the lineup for the 2024 model year and will produce over 300 PS.
That's right, the Integra Type S will be powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged VTEC engine derived from the all-new Civic Type R. While official output figures have yet to be revealed, it will likely crank out similar figures as the US-spec Civic Type R which puts out 320 PS and 420 Nm of torque. Last but not least, it will be coupled to a good ol' 6-speed manual gearbox and a limited-slip differential.
As for the rest of the vehicle, Acura is not yet ready to take off the camouflage livery. However, the more powerful Integra Type S will come with larger alloy wheels painted black, three massive center tailpipes reminiscent of the Civic Type R, and rear diffuser, and a more aggressive front bumper.
For enthusiasts who still find the Civic Type R's looks too edgy, perhaps the Acura Integra Type S will offer a more mature-looking design while still sporting a 2.0-liter VTEC Turbo under the hood.
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When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors
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When You're Strange, written and directed by the award-winning Tom DiCillo, is the first feature documentary released on The Doors. Graced by the narration of Johnny Depp, it carries the audience through the journeys of vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. This 90-minute presentation features never-before-seen rare archival film, pulled from their inception in 1966 to Morrison's passing in 1971. These snapshot scenes of the band's history is as much an intimate experience, as it is revealing. After being featured at the Sundance, Berlin, Deauville, and San Sebastian Film Festivals, music fans who didn't catch this in theaters can now relish in this extraordinary documentary. It celebrates the collaborative power of this illustrious rock quartet and their revolutionary fusion of creativity and thought-provoking rebellion.
Length 1 hrs. 36 mins.
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Released: Jun 29 2010
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Resident Evil: Afterlife Music By Tomandandy
"At every turn, the director Paul W. S. Anderson encouaged us to avoid cliché. He had little interest in traditional orchestral colors, encouraging usinstead to explore the edges of noise and modern sound synthesis."
– Tomandandy
Action packed Resident Evil: Afterlife directed by Paul W.S. Anderson is the fourth installment of the hugely successful video game turned film franchise. Afterlife is the first film in the series to be released in 3D using James Cameron's Fusion Camera System. It features an exciting and fast-paced score by producing duo TOMANDANDY.
In a world riddled with the T-virus outbreak, turning victims into the Undead, Alice (Milla Jovovich) continues her search for survivors. As her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, she gets unexpected help from an old friend.
A new lead that promises a safe haven takes the two to Los Angeles where they find more survivors and team up to fight against Albert Wesker, the head of the Umbrella Corporation. As the city is overrun by thousands of Undead, Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.
Chris Redfield, a primary character from the video games, is featured for the first time in the film franchise. Returning characters include Clair Redfield, Jill Valentine, and Albert Wesker.
Producing duo TOMANDANDY delivers an enthralling electronic score capturing the energy and vigor of the film. Exciting musical sequences, dramatic, suspenseful or action-packed, are prominently featured throughout the film and play an essential role in defining the film's universe. The essence of Resident Evil: Afterlife can be felt musically from start to finish.
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Five more Wisconsin communities join statewide downtown revitalization program
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) has accepted five new municipalities into its Connect Communities Program, an initiative that works with communities to advance downtown and urban corridor revitalization efforts.
With the latest additions, there are now 66 participants in the Connect Communities Program, which provides access to resources and training to help downtown organizations pursue revitalization and redevelopment efforts. Since the program was launched in January 2013, participating communities have reported adding 223 net new businesses and more than 1,151 net new jobs, as well as $60.6 million in private investment.
The new Connect Communities participants are:
City of Manawa
Milwaukee Marketplace BID #32
City of New Richmond
City of Stevens Point-Northside Business District
"Economic development is about leveraging our assets. Many of our downtowns have the ability to be a catalyst for local job growth," said Barb LaMue, vice president of business and community development for WEDC, the state's lead economic development organization. "Communities selected for this program will receive critical support from WEDC's downtown team and valuable input from other members."
The program is designed to support and complement the Wisconsin Main Street Program, which has supported projects statewide resulting in the creation of more than 2,559 net new businesses and 13,498 net new jobs since its inception in 1987.
Prior to being accepted to the Connect Communities Program, applicants had to describe the type of activities they hope to undertake and what assistance they hope to receive as part of the program, and identify a local team that will be responsible for carrying out activities and participating in program events and training.
Connect Communities participants benefit from a variety of assistance and resources simply by being part of a broad-based network of communities with similar objectives, but specific program services include:
Access to an online discussion group to share challenges and successful strategies with staff and other participating Connect Communities;
Participation in Main Street workshops focused on a downtown revitalization topic;
An on-site visit from a member of WEDC's community development staff to assist in identifying needs;
Training for each community's downtown director or board president;
Roundtable discussion groups on pertinent topics;
Access to WEDC's downtown development library;
Access to resources and training materials developed for Wisconsin Main Street communities;
Invitation to the annual Main Street Awards program, plus eligibility to nominate a project for a Connect Communities award;
Quarterly webinars/regional training
About the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation:
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) leads economic development efforts for the state by advancing and maximizing opportunities in Wisconsin for businesses, communities and people to thrive in a globally competitive environment. Working with more than 600 regional and local partners, WEDC develops and delivers solutions representative of a highly responsive and coordinated economic development network.
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New Orleans Rhythm and Blues After Katrina
Michael Urban — 2016-04-08 in Music
Author : Michael Urban
Music, magic and myth are elements essential to the identities of New Orleans musicians. The city's singular contributions to popular music around the world have been unrivaled; performing this music authentically requires collective improvisation, taking performers on sonorous sojourns in unanticipated, 'magical' moments; and membership in the city's musical community entails participation in the myth of New Orleans, breathing new life into its storied traditions. On the basis of 56 open-ended interviews with those in the city's musical community, Michael Urban discovers that, indeed, community is what it is all about. In their own words, informants explain that commercial concerns are eclipsed by the pleasure of playing in 'one big band' that disassembles daily into smaller performing units whose rosters are fluid, such that, over time, 'everybody plays with everybody'. Although Hurricane Katrina nearly terminated the city, New Orleans and its music—in no small part due to the sacrifices and labors of its musicians—have come back even stronger. Dancing to their own drum, New Orleanians again prove themselves to be admirably out of step with the rest of America.
Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans
John Broven — 2016-01-01 in Music
Author : John Broven
A chronicle of the rise and development of a unique musical form. Inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame under its original title Walking to New Orleans, this fascinating history focuses on the music of major R&B artists and the crucial contributions of the New Orleans music industry. Newly revised for this edition, much of the material comes firsthand from those who helped create the genre, including Fats Domino, Ray Charles, and Wardell Quezergue.
A Blues Bibliography
Robert Ford — 2019-09-02 in Music
Author : Robert Ford
This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive reference work A Blues Bibliography, the second edition of which was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of resources up to date, this volume covers works published since 2005, complementing the first volume by extending coverage through twelve years of new publications. As in the previous volume, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations, and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. With extensive listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade journals, books, and recordings, this bibliography offers the most thorough resource for all researchers studying the blues.
Jimi Hendrix and the Cultural Politics of Popular Music
Aaron Lefkovitz — 2018-03-28 in Social Science
Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
This book, on Jimi Hendrix's life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix's relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant "Gypsy" and "Voodoo child" whose racialized "freak" visual image continues to internationally circulate, exploited the exoticism of his race, gender, and sexuality and Gypsy and Voodoo transnational political cultures and religion. Aaron E. Lefkovitz argues that Hendrix can be located in a legacy of black-transnational popular musicians, from Chuck Berry to the hip hop duo Outkast, confirming while subverting established white supremacist and hetero-normative codes and conventions. Focusing on Hendrix's transnational biography and centrality to US and international visual cultural and popular music histories, this book links Hendrix to traditions of blackface minstrelsy, international freak show spectacles, black popular music's global circulation, and visual-cultural racial, gender, and sexual stereotypes, while noting Hendrix's place in 1960s countercultural, US-exceptionalist, cultural Cold War, and rock histories.
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present J N
Paul Finkelman — 2009 in African Americans
Author : Paul Finkelman
Alphabetically-arranged entries from J to N that explores significant events, major persons, organizations, and political and social movements in African-American history from 1896 to the twenty-first-century.
Up from the Cradle of Jazz
Jason Berry — 2009 in Jazz
Author : Jason Berry
Up from the Cradle of Jazz is the inside story of New Orleans music from the rise of rhythm and blues through the post-Hurricane Katrina resurrection.
The Musical Human
Michael Spitzer — 2021-04-13 in Music
Author : Michael Spitzer
"Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music." --Daniel Levitin A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years ago was the first melody. 40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet music is an overlooked part of our origin story. The Musical Human takes us on an exhilarating journey across the ages – from Bach to BTS and back – to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. With insights from a wealth of disciplines, world-leading musicologist Michael Spitzer renders a global history of music on the widest possible canvas, looking at music in our everyday lives; music in world history; and music in evolution, from insects to apes, humans to AI. Through this journey we begin to understand how music is central to the distinctly human experiences of cognition, feeling and even biology, both widening and closing the evolutionary gaps between ourselves and animals in surprising ways. The Musical Human boldly puts the case that music is the most important thing we ever did; it is a fundamental part of what makes us human.
The Great Music City
Andrea Baker — 2019-03-01 in Music
Author : Andrea Baker
In the 1960s, as gentrification took hold of New York City, Jane Jacobs predicted that the city would become the true player in the global system. Indeed, in the 21st century more meaningful comparisons can be made between cities than between nations and states. Based on case studies of Melbourne, Austin and Berlin, this book is the first in-depth study to combine academic and industry analysis of the music cities phenomenon. Using four distinctly defined algorithms as benchmarks, it interrogates Richard Florida's creative cities thesis and applies a much-needed synergy of urban sociology and musicology to the concept, mediated by a journalism lens. Building on seminal work by Robert Park, Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs, it argues that journalists are the cultural branders and street theorists whose ethnographic approach offers critical insights into the urban sociability of music activity.
Encyclopedia of African American Music 3 volumes
Tammy Kernodle — 2010-12-17 in Music
Author : Tammy Kernodle
African Americans' historical roots are encapsulated in the lyrics, melodies, and rhythms of their music. In the 18th and 19th centuries, African slaves, longing for emancipation, expressed their hopes and dreams through spirituals. Inspired by African civilization and culture, as well as religion, art, literature, and social issues, this influential, joyous, tragic, uplifting, challenging, and enduring music evolved into many diverse genres, including jazz, blues, rock and roll, soul, swing, and hip hop. Providing a lyrical history of our nation, this groundbreaking encyclopedia, the first of its kind, showcases all facets of African American music including folk, religious, concert and popular styles. Over 500 in-depth entries by more than 100 scholars on a vast range of topics such as genres, styles, individuals, groups, and collectives as well as historical topics such as music of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and numerous others. Offering balanced representation of key individuals, groups, and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and other perspectives not usually approached, this indispensable reference illuminates the profound role that African American music has played in American cultural history. Editors Price, Kernodle, and Maxile provide balanced representation of various individuals, groups and ensembles associated with diverse religious beliefs, political affiliations, and perspectives. Also highlighted are the major record labels, institutions of higher learning, and various cultural venues that have had a tremendous impact on the development and preservation of African American music. Among the featured: Motown Records, Black Swan Records, Fisk University, Gospel Music Workshop of America, The Cotton Club, Center for Black Music Research, and more. With a broad scope, substantial entries, current coverage, and special attention to historical, political, and social contexts, this encyclopedia is designed specifically for high school and undergraduate students. Academic and public libraries will treasure this resource as an incomparable guide to our nation's African American heritage.
A Place at the Nayarit
Natalia Molina — 2022 in Business & Economics
Author : Natalia Molina
"In 1951, Doña Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit, historian Natalia Molina traces the life's work of her grandmother, remembered by all who knew her as Doña Natalia--a generous, reserved, and extraordinarily capable woman. Doña Natalia immigrated alone from Mexico to L.A., adopted two children, and ran a successful business. She also sponsored, housed, and employed dozens of other immigrants, encouraging them to lay claim to a city long characterized by anti-Latinx racism. Together, the employees and customers of the Nayarit maintained ties to their old homes while providing one another safety and support. The Nayarit was much more than a popular eating spot: it was an urban anchor for a robust community, a gathering space where ethnic Mexican workers and customers connected with the tastes of their patria chica, one another, and the city they now called home. Through deep research and vivid storytelling, Molina follows restaurant workers from the kitchen and the front of the house across borders and decades. Their stories illuminate the many facets of the immigrant experience, from the pressures of racism and segregation, to the complex networks of family and community, the cross-currents of gender and sexuality, and the small but essential pleasures of daily life. The Nayarit was a local landmark, popular with Hollywood stars as well as restaurant workers from across the city, and beloved for its fresh, traditionally Mexican food. But as Molina argues, it was also, and most importantly, a place where ethnic Mexicans and other Latinx L.A. residents could step into the fullness of their lives, nourishing themselves and one another. A Place at the Nayarit is a stirring exploration of how racialized minorities create a sense of belonging, and will resonate with anyone who has felt like an outsider, but had a special place where they felt like an insider"--
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My Sister's Mother
A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin's Siberia
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A Family's Gripping Tale of Surviving the Second World War
Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the Midwest during the golden years of the American century. But her Polish-born mother and half-sister endured dehumanizing conditions during World War II as slave laborers in Siberia. War and exile created a profound bond between mother and older daughter, one that Donna would struggle to find with either of them. After the war, the older daughter, mother, and her new husband—a Polish Army officer who had helped them escape the Soviet Union—are haunted by the past. Baby boomer Donna, born in postwar England and growing up in 1950s Chicago, yearns for a "normal" American family. In this unforgettable memoir, Donna recounts her family history and her own survivor's story, finally understanding the damaged mother who had saved her sister.
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With Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, World War II began. Shortly after, on September 17, 1939, Russia attacked Poland under a secret pact with Germany to divvy up Poland.
At four o'clock in the morning on February 10, 1940, Janina Ślarzynska and her five-year-old daughter, Mira, were taken by Soviet secret police from their small family farm in eastern Poland and sent to Siberia with hundreds of thousands of others. So began their odyssey of hunger, disease, cunning survival, desperate escape across a continent, and new love amidst terrible circumstances.
Arrested and imprisoned in Kozelsk by the Soviets, Lieutenant Solecki narrowly escaped death among over 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals murdered by the Soviets in the infamous Katyń Forest massacres.
When Hitler attacked Russia in June 1941, Britain forced the Soviets to provide "amnesty" for all Polish prisoners, and Janina and Mira escaped through the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
Saved by Lieutenant Solecki as they pursued the Polish Army's Second Corps of General Władysław Anders, they settled in Tehran. Lieutenant Solecki was deployed to fight in the Middle East and Italy at the battle at Monte Cassino in 1944. During the war, Janina and Mira found safety in India.
Having witnessed Communism firsthand and fearing return to then Communist Poland, Lieutenant Solecki went to England after the war, while Janina and Mira left India for England as well. Communist Poland had come under control of Soviet Russia at the 1945 Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. In a chance meeting, Janina was reunited with her lieutenant.
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"This stunning, heartfelt memoir looks unflinchingly at the scars borne by one Polish immigrant family as their daughter tries to become a normal American girl in Chicago. A gripping study of family dynamics, this is also a must-read for World War II history buffs."
—Leonard Kniffel, author of A Polish Son in the Motherland
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"After the Soviets invaded eastern Poland in September 1939, they deported nearly half a million people into the interior of the USSR. The sufferings of these captives did not end with their release from labor and concentration camps but continued throughout their lives, affecting their families drastically. This poignant and moving memoir is essential reading for all who want to understand the nature of the Soviet Gulag system and the problems faced by its former inmates in adapting to a normal life."
—Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw
https://www.brandeis.edu/search/index.html?q=antony+polonsky
"Superbly records the bitter suffering both of victims of the Soviet Gulag and of displaced emigrants. And, we witness the enormous problems of traumatized parents in connecting and sharing their experiences with their American-raised children. In this context, Donna's teenage 'tragedy' of failing to make the cheerleading squad is particularly poignant."
—Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, author of Between Nazis and Soviets
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"An unprecedented saga of a loving mother and her two daughters raised years and oceans apart: the older one in Soviet slavery during World War II, the younger in freedom and safety in the United States. The demons that possessed the mother in slavery—fighting like a tigress to protect her child—never left her in freedom, emotionally harming her younger daughter. A unique perspective on the tragic deportation of Poles to Siberia."
—Wesley Adamczyk, author of When God Looked the Other Way
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"A primer for all who seek to understand the harrowing journey of Poles during this fateful period."
—Allen Paul, author of Katyń: Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth
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"Shows not only how love, loss, fear, and hope intersect in the lives of refugees, but also how they reverberate—for good and for bad—in the lives that follow. Enlightening."
—James Conroyd Martin, author of The Poland Trilogy
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The Two Kolkata Giants Need Each Other More Than Ever
Posted on December 8, 2017 January 26, 2018 by flyinggoalie
In January 2016, I visited Kolkata for the first time. A couple of friends were getting married and I got a taste of the derby obsessive nature of Bengalis when the father of the groom turned up late at the wedding reception because he had a Mohun Bagan – East Bengal game to catch. There seemed to be a casual acceptance about the whole thing, in a way that suggested that it would have been abnormal if events had panned out any other way.
This was my initiation to India's oldest footballing rivalry dating back to 1921, without getting anywhere close to the stadium. Over the years, I have read about the exploits of both clubs, and the sadly in decline Mohammedan Sporting Club, in newspaper match reports without truly understanding how the rivalry is woven into the socio-economic milieu of West Bengal. As my interest in Indian football deepened, there really was no other place that I could start.
It is some story and it has got everything. The natives and the immigrants, not unlike the Old Firm derby in Scotland. A disgruntled club official parting ways to start a new club much like John Houlding did at Liverpool FC. The prices of hilsa and prawn being determined by the team winning the derby, celebratory meals being the order of the day. Of course, a lot of the stories I have heard from Bengali friends over the years could be over simplifications of a phenomenon that has ingrained itself into popular culture for the best part of a century, which makes it the most fascinating fanbase story to follow. Peeling through all the layers would be a worthwhile exercise for all football lovers.
For all the good stories in popular mind space about the Manjappadas and the West Block Blues, fans of the Kerala Blasters and Bengaluru FC respectively, they do not (yet) capture the imagination in a similar way. In Kerala, they joke about how fans hop on to the ISL bandwagon for a few months every year before shifting their attention back to the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of the world. If there are indeed deep rooted affiliations for football teams in the state, they would be for Brazil and Argentina. There is a story that goes back a few decades.
The biggest anomaly in Indian football these days is that both these Kolkata clubs are yet to grace the ISL, where they would get the visibility that they deserve. They have been accused by detractors of harping about the past without accounting for the realities on the ground. The clubs on their part believe that current stakeholders in Indian football do not give them the respect that they believe they've earned. There is merit to both sides of the argument.
For all their glorious history, the clubs have failed to capitalise on the passion and fervour of their fans. Progress on and off the field has been slow and it is dumbfounding that two clubs who have been around for so long still do not fulfil criteria for an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) license. For their part, the All India Football Federation (AIFF), ISL custodians and prospective partners have expected the clubs to compromise over their name, logo and kit colours, which is a shame because these elements contribute heavily to their identity.
It might well be that answers will be found by 2019, when the league will be expanded further. The protection afforded to ATK for the first five years of their existence shall be removed and the contentious requirement for Mohun Bagan and East Bengal to play their home games outside Kolkata shall no longer stand.
64630 people thronged the Salt Lake Stadium last weekend for the first Kolkata Derby of the I-League season, despite a 2 pm kickoff. Given that they exist outside the collective consciousness of most Indian football fans elsewhere in the country, it was an opportunity for them to serve notice to observers about their relevance. In these uncertain times, it is hard for them to do that in isolation. Together, they continue to serve quite a spectacle. The two grand old clubs of Indian football need each other more than they know.
Tags: East Bengal, I League, Mohun BaganCategories: I League
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Shakeel Ahmed says:
Good Job…..keep up the good work…
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