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Christiaan Eijkman Biography

Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician, who is known for his work on the disease beriberi. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, achievements and other facts related to his life.

Christiaan Eijkman
Quick Facts

Birthday: August 11, 1858

Nationality: Dutch

Famous: Bacteriologists Dutch Men

Died At Age: 72

Sun Sign: Leo

Born in: Nijkerk

Famous as: Physician

Spouse/Ex-: Aaltje Wigeri van Edema, Bertha Julie Louise van der Kemp

father: Christiaan Eijkman

mother: Johanna Alida Pool

siblings: Johann Frederik Eijkman

children: Pieter Hendrik

Died on: November 5, 1930

place of death: Utrecht

discoveries/inventions: Beriberi And Vitamins

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education: Universiteit van Amsterdam

awards: 1929 - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and a professor of physiology, who is known for his work on the disease beriberi and the discovery of antineuritic vitamins. The son of a school teacher, he aimed to become a doctor but his family’s financial status did not allow the 6,000 guilds needed for his medical education. Thus he pledged to join the military service which would enable him to study medicine free of cost. Later he was sent to Dutch East Indies, now called Indonesia, as an Army Surgeon. Here he first came into contact with cases of beriberi and was perplexed by it. Later he trained himself as a bacteriologist and returned to Java, where he spent the next ten years investigating the disease. After a long and painstaking research, he was able to prove that unpolished rice contained some ingredient, which could both prevent and cure beriberi, but it was lost when the rice was polished. Unfortunately, he had to return home soon after that, but his discovery set the stage for further investigation, which led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (Thiamine). A year before his death, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the discovery.

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Christiaan Eijkman
Childhood & Early Life
  • Christiaan Eijkman was born on 11 August 1858 in the small town of Nijkerk, located in the province of Gelderland in Netherlands. His father, also named Christiaan Eijkman, was the headmaster of a local school. His mother’s name was Johanna Alida Pool.
  • Christiaan, born seventh of his parents’ eight children, had several gifted brothers. One of them, a chemist, is credited with isolating shikimic acid from the Japanese flower shikimi. Another brother was a noted linguist while a third one was one of the first Dutch roentgenologists.
  • In 1859, his father was appointed headmaster of a school for advanced elementary education in Zaandam, a large town located in the province of North Holland. It was in this school that Christiaan began his education.
  • Growing up under the guidance of his father, he passed the school leaving examination in 1875. His ambition was to become a doctor; but the financial condition of the family did not permit that.
  • Therefore, he enrolled at the Army Medical School under the University of Amsterdam, pledging that he would join the military service on completion of the course. This enabled him to study medicine free of cost. He was a brilliant student, passing his medical examination magna cum laude.
  • From 1879 to 1881, he assisted Thomas Place, the Professor of Physiology at the University of Amsterdam. It was during this period that he started working on his doctoral thesis.
  • The dissertation, titled ‘Over Polarisatie in de Zenuwen’ (on polarization in the nerves), earned him his MD degree on 13 July 1883. Thereafter, as was stipulated, he joined the Netherland Indies Army.
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Military Service
  • Towards the end of 1883, Christiaan Eijkman was sent to the island of Java, then known as Dutch East Indies, as an Army Surgeon. There he was posted first at Semarang and later at Tjilatjap.
  • At Java, he was surprised to note that a large number of soldiers, previously healthy, were debilitated by a peculiar disease, which caused peripheral neuropathy, muscle pain and atrophy, and cognitive dysfunction, leading to heart failure and death. Locally the disease was called beriberi.
  • However before he could do anything, he himself was inflicted with malaria. It was so severe that in November 1885, he was sent back to Netherlands on sick leave, where he decided to train himself in bacteriology, at that time a newly discovered discipline.
  • He first studied with Josef Förster at Amsterdam. Later, he moved to Berlin to work with Robert Koch, who had by then not only discovered the bacterium responsible for causing tuberculosis, but also the method for growing the bacterium and infecting animals with it.
  • At that time, it was indeed a revolutionary discovery, mainly because the doctors were clueless about the root cause of diseases like tuberculosis and malaria. With Koch’s discovery they began to see the light.
  • Meanwhile, the Netherlands government was worried about the large number of cases of beriberi that plagued their soldiers in the East Indies. They constructed a committee that would study the disease on the spot. It consisted among others, two young scientists, pathologist Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing and neurologist Cornelis Winkler.
  • Sometime in 1886, Pekelharing and Winkler traveled to Berlin to meet Koch and learn about bacteriology. There they met Eijkman, who though not fully cured, volunteered to join the mission. Subsequently, in the month of October, he left for the East with the committee.
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  • On reaching the Dutch East Indies, the team set up a temporary laboratory in the Military Hospital in Batavi, now renamed Djakarta. Before long, Pekelharing isolated a micrococcus, which seemed to cause polyneuritis, from the blood of beriberi patients.
  • However, Eijkman was skeptical about it for it did not match with Koch’s suggestions. Moreover, he tried to transmit the disease by injecting the cultured micrococcus into chickens, rabbits, dogs and monkeys, but failed.
  • In 1887, Pekelharing and Winkler were called back to Netherlands; but before they left they proposed that the laboratory they had set up be made permanent, a suggestion that was readily accepted. Eijkman remained behind as its first Director.
  • Subsequently, Eijkman was also appointed as the Director of the Javanese Medical School, locally known as Dokter Djawa School, where he taught physiology and organic chemistry. With that, his military service came to an end and he was able to concentrate on his research.
As A Researcher
  • On 15 January 1888, Christiaan Eijkman became the Director of the medical laboratory, Geneeskundig Laboratorium, holding the position up to 4 March 1896. It was here that he made significant discoveries.
  • Initially, he tried to infect rabbits and monkeys with microorganisms; but without any success. He therefore concluded that beriberi takes a long time to develop. At the same time, it was not possible to wait too long for the disease to develop.
  • Therefore, he started looking for animals that would quickly develop the disease and at the same time were inexpensive to keep. He then bought a large number of chickens and kept their cages under the extended roof of the laboratory. He injected a few of them with microorganisms, keeping others as control.
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  • Within a month all the chickens became sick. He then examined them closely through autopsy and histological examination, carefully documenting of their symptoms and disease progression. He found the disease identical to beriberi or polyneuritis endemica perniciosa and so he named it polyneuritis gallinarum.
  • As regarding the cause of the outbreak, he concluded that the chickens which had been injected had infected the others. To make sure, he bought a few more chickens and kept them in separate cages, but soon enough, they also became sick.
  • On assuming that the whole laboratory had been infected, he decided to keep new chickens in separate location. However, as he did that, all sick chickens, every one of them, got well without him administering any medicine or doing anything to cure them. He was truly puzzled.
  • He did find the answer, but from an unusual source; it was from the man who fed the chickens. During the outbreak, he fed them with leftover rice from the adjacent hospital. But later it became unavailable and so he fed them with rice bought from the market.
  • On further enquiry, Eijkman found that the rice fed during the outbreak was polished; but the rice bought from the market was unpolished. After much trial and error, he realized that unpolished rice must contain certain nutrient that went missing when the rice is polished.
  • He called this to be ‘the anti-beriberi factor’ that both prevented and cured the disease. He however did not known what it exactly was and thought that it must be a toxin in the rice grain that is neutralized by some ingredient in the hull.
  • On further research, he came to the conclusion that the disease must be caused by some kind of bacteria. He ruled out factors like blood contamination, respiratory metabolism, perspiration, or temperature variation.
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  • In 1895, he was ready for human trial and for that purpose contacted A. G. Vorderman, the supervisor of the Civil Health Department of Java. With his help, he conducted a massive survey on the inmates of the prison and many cases of beriberi were cured.
  • Concurrently, he also worked on fermentation and wrote two textbooks for his students of the Medical College. In 1896, he became ill and returned to the Netherlands, again on sick leave. However, before going home, he asked his friend Adolphe Vorderman to continue the research work.
Return To Home
  • On returning home, Christiaan Eijkman first joined the University of Utrecht as an instructor. Subsequently in 1898, he was appointed Professor in Hygiene and Forensic Medicine at Utrecht, a position he held until 1928. During this long period, he worked mainly on bacteriology, guiding many research projects in his laboratory.
  • Among the research projects of this period, the fermentation test that helped to establish if any water body has been polluted with coli bacilli through human or animal defecation was of prime importance. Later he worked on the rate of mortality of bacteria and as well as its growth in solid substance.
  • He was also a successful teacher and was known for his practical knowledge as well as his clarity of speech. He encouraged free thoughts in his students and warned them against accepting dogmas.
  • However, he did not confine himself to academic life alone. He was also a member of many governmental organizations and involved himself in public welfare measures like water supply, housing, school hygiene, and physical education.
  • In addition, as member of Gezondheidsraad and Gezondheidscommissie, he took active part in campaigns against alcoholism. He also participated in struggle against tuberculosis and established Vereeniging tot Bestrijding van de Tuberculose (Society for the struggle against tuberculosis).
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Major Works
  • Christiaan Eijkman is best remembered for his work on beriberi, which for the first time, demonstrated that the disease is linked to one’s diet and that unpolished rice had both a preventive and curative effect in it.
  • Although he could not finish the work due to ill health, his initial discoveries in this field led to a series of experiments which culminated in the discovery of thiamin – vitamin B1 in the pericarp of the unpolished rice grains as the preventive agent for beriberi.
Awards & Achievements
  • In 1907, he was appointed Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition, he was a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington and an honorary fellow of the Royal Sanitary Institute in London.
  • In 1929, Christiaan Eijkman was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin.” The co-recipient of the award was Sir Frederick Hopkins who received his share "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins."
  • He was also the recipient of several orders of knighthood conferred upon him by the Dutch Government.
Personal Life & Legacy
  • In 1883, before leaving for the Dutch East Indies, Eijkman married Aaltje Wigeri van Edema. She died three years later in 1886. The couple did not have any children.
  • Later in 1888, he married Bertha Julie Louise van der Kemp. The couple had a son, Pieter Hendrik, born in 1890. He also grew up to become a physician.
  • After retiring in 1928, Eijkman began to suffer from various illnesses and by 1929 he was so ill that he could not travel to Norway to accept the Nobel Prize in person. He died on 5 November 1930, after a long period of illness in Utrecht.
  • The Eijkman Medal, established on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his professorship, carries his legacy even today.
  • The research center at Djakarta, where he once worked, has now been renamed Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology by the Government of Indonesia.
  • Although Eijkman has been credited for the discovery of the antineuritic vitamin by the Nobel Committee, it was actually the Polish biochemist Casimir Funk, who in 1912 discovered thiamine and formulated the concept of vitamins. For some reason, his contribution was never given the credit it deserved.

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Joan of Arc by Helen Castor review – a triumph of history

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‘In the firmament of history, Joan of Arc is a massive star. Her light shines brighter than that of any other figure of her time and place.” After this assertively blazing start to a book subtitled “A History”, Helen Castor settles down seriously to the two problems faced by every historian of Joan. The first is the evidence, which has the typical drawbacks of all medieval records of trial for heresy. It is written in lawyer’s Latin, translating the vernacular words of the accused as shaped and constructed by inquisitors’ questions. In Joan’s case, compounding this problem, are slippages between two sets of records. One is of Joan’s original ecclesiastical trial of 1431 at Rouen in English Normandy, set up by the advisers of the boy-king who ruled England and claimed to rule France, in which Joan’s is the only lay voice. The other is the retrial of 1456, its outcome the foregone conclusion of rehabilitation at the behest of the now firmly established king of France. In this fresh trial at Paris, there are witness-statements aplenty, but recalled 25 years after Joan’s death.

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In February 1429, Joan arrived, dressed as a man and with half-a-dozen male companions, at the court of Charles VII of France at Chinon near Tours, after a journey 250 miles west from Lorraine. In 1456, Joan’s arrival was recalled by witnesses as quite unexpected – a wonder. Yet, as Castor shows, Joan already had a powerful supporter in the Duke of Lorraine, who believed in her “voices”, the voices of her patrons, Saints Catherine and Margaret, and her mission from God; and among her riding companions was a messenger from Charles’s court.

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Benteke was signed by Brendan Rodgers from Villa and scored nine Premier League goals in his first season. However, Klopp made it clear that he is no longer part of his plans before Saturday’s friendly victory against Barcelona.

“Christian already said it maybe makes sense for him to go to another club and that’s the situation at this moment,” he said. “Christian is still a great striker and that’s how it is, but we have a few more strikers and in this moment it makes more sense to give them match time and that is what we did.

“If there are clubs that want a striker from us they have to make real offers and are not hoping for anything else, otherwise we will find solutions.

“If there is a need on the other side then go for it – but not as a present. That’s how transfers are. A few clubs try to gamble but we are not part of the gambling side. We are serious people, and if there is an offer we will think about it.

“We will see what happens but at the end if someone wants a player from us he has to pay as we have only good players.”


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Morrissey, You Are the Quarry

2 / 5 stars 2 out of 5 stars.

In the world of music, 2004 is shaping up to be the Year The Implausible Happened. Who could have predicted the return of Peter Andre, or the fact that the hottest new guitar band in Britain would be four Glasgow art students with an image seemingly based on the guy in the Yakult advert who is interested in friendly bacteria? And who could have guessed that Morrissey's seventh solo album would open with a hip-hop breakbeat?

Never has a mere rhythm been more likely to cause widespread consternation. This is Morrissey, bequiffed scourge of dance music and erstwhile hanger of DJs, who topped the charts during 1988's acid house Summer of Love with an album called Viva Hate. Any nod in the direction of urban music constitutes a dramatic change in outlook. What else, you wonder, is the revitalised Smiths frontman capable of? Rapping? A patois-heavy ragga duet with Beenie Man? His own range of bling-bling sportswear?

You are jolted from such reveries by the song's lyrics. Morrissey fans expect to be shocked by what he has to say. He once bravely led the listener to places that pop music never dared venture before: this way, please, for child murder, regicide and the world-view of a racist football thug. Morrissey fans are certainly likely to be shocked by America Is Not the World, which takes four minutes to deliver the excoriating announcement that some Americans are overweight and that George Bush's foreign policy may not be entirely motivated by altruism.

You can't help feeling deflated. Morrissey broke a seven-year silence in order to state the blindingly obvious? It is the first sign that his comeback may rest on shakier foundations than was first thought.

The time seemed so right for Morrissey to return. The Smiths currently cast a longer shadow over British alt-rock than at any time since their 1987 split. You can hear their echoes in Franz Ferdinand and British Sea Power, while the Libertines appear to have been formed specifically to appeal to Morrissey: songs about a lost Albion and an on-stage penchant for gorblimey shirts-off male-bonding that frequently leaves them looking less like a rock band than something invented by Joe Orton. But just when he seems more relevant than ever, Morrissey has somehow contrived to make an album that sounds incredibly dated.

The production is partly to blame. Once you have got over the initial shock, the breakbeats just seem incongruous, giving I'm Not Sorry and I Like You the awkward air of a 1980s rock band forced by their record label to "go baggy" in the wake of Madchester. Meanwhile, the cheap synthesised strings on I Have Forgiven Jesus and Come Back to Camden are flatly horrible.

Worse, the lyrics seem trapped in the past: not the mythic pre-Beatles England that Morrissey's songs usually evoke, but the less romantic environs of the mid-1990s. He drones on and on about the 1996 court case in which he was successfully sued by Smiths drummer Mike Joyce until you begin to wish that the judge who famously dubbed Morrissey "devious, truculent and unreliable" had locked him up into the bargain and thus spared your ears.

Irish Blood, English Heart makes a fuss about "standing by the flag not feeling shameful, racist or partial", unaware that everyone else worked that one out around the time Geri Halliwell turned up at the Brits wearing a union flag miniskirt. Come Back to Camden offers a vision of Englishness so caricatured it would have caused the lowliest Britpopper to scoff: cockney cabbies, bad weather, tea. The urge to hit fast-forward before he mentions bowler hats, Yorkshire pudding or lovable chimney sweeps is quelled only by the song's enrapturing melody.

There is one unqualified success. The First of the Gang to Die is a magnificently breezy tribute to his Mexican fanbase - bizarrely, they can't get enough grainy Mancunian solipsism down in Puerto Vallarta. Far more typical, however, is the closing You Know I Couldn't Last, bitterly raining brimstone down on journalists, fans and indeed anyone who has had the audacity to suggest that some of Morrissey's records might be better than others.

That seems particularly disingenuous, because it is difficult to think of another artist who currently enjoys such public goodwill. Everyone wants Morrissey to be great again, from journalists hungry for a good quote, to teenagers for whom the Smiths are the stuff of legend, to the much-vaunted figure of Fifty Quid Man, the middle-aged CD buyer who was more than likely a Smiths fan in his youth. But you can't make You Are the Quarry a staggering return to form just by wishing hard. There are a couple of great songs, a handful of beautifully turned lines and not much else: a formula that recalls not the glory days of the Smiths, but the 1990s albums that sent Morrissey hurtling into oblivion in the first place.


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Jamaica split by dancehall feud

War of words between Vybz Kartel and Mavado has drawn in Jamaica's PM and its most famous sportsman

The Jamaican music industry has always been a law unto itself. It makes stars of people who wouldn't get past a record company reception desk elsewhere: the cross-eyed, toothless DJ King Stitt, the eccentric producer Glen Brown, famed for releasing singles with the wrong labels deliberately attached.

So it stands to reason that it should produce a feud that dwarfs all others: one that involves both the prime minister and the country's most famous Olympian, Usain Bolt.

Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur's war of words may have sold more records, but Bill Clinton didn't convene a meeting involving four government ministers and a bishop. Blur and Oasis may have made the evening news, but at least Steve Redgrave managed to stay out of it.

The argument is between dancehall stars Vybz Kartel and Mavado. Kartel claims to have had sex with Mavado's mother and once carried a coffin with his rival's name on it onstage. Mavado claims Kartel is a closet homosexual, has had his skin bleached and doesn't believe in God – the latter a serious slur in a country with more churches per capita than anywhere else on earth.

But what sets Kartel and Mavado's feud apart is that it is linked to two different neighbourhoods – the Kingston neighbourhood, known as Gully, where Mavado was born, and an area of Portmore nicknamed "Gaza" by its most famous inhabitant, Kartel. Some say the row is linked to Jamaica's warring political parties: Gaza supports the PNP, Gully the JLP. Others say the feud has been stoked by a music industry suffering a slump in sales.

Whatever the reason, it is being blamed for fights in dancehalls, attacks on tourists and violence in prisons and schools. Usain Bolt is said to have decreed that no Gully music be played at his post-Olympic homecoming party. Finally, back in December, Prime Minister Bruce Golding called for a meeting with both artists to broker a truce.

Now, say some reports, the feud has spread to West Indian communities in New York. Meanwhile, back in Jamaica, Kartel and Mavado appear to have moved on. "Somebody tell me why Gully and Gaza fight," pleads Mavado on a new track called Starlight, to which the obvious answer is: the fact you called Kartel a skin-bleaching atheist probably didn't help.

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‘It’s terrifying’: can a scrappy production of In The Heights scale to be bigger than Broadway?

The lack of midsized venues in Australia is presenting challenges for local productions – but the show must go on

In The Heights at the Hayes.
At the Hayes, the production played to a room with 110 seats. This week it opens in a venue with 2700. Photograph: Grant Leslie

It’s two days after Christmas and Damien Bermingham is anxious. His company, Blue Saint, is set to reprise its production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 musical In The Heights by taking it to one of Australia’s most prestigious stages, the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House.

In its initial 2018 run the musical was a critical and box office success, which sold out before it opened. The Australian take on Miranda’s ebullient precursor to Hamilton – a slice of life set in an immigrant community in New York’s Washington Heights – is consciously diverse and authentically cast, with ambitious choreography by Amy Campbell and thoughtful direction by Luke Joslin.

And at the Hayes – a small theatre in Sydney, where the tiny stage was so crammed with the cast it couldn’t help but evoke an overcrowded neighbourhood – it all worked together: that strange, rare musical theatre alchemy that had punters guessing the production would resurface.

But this is no mere remount. The first season of Blue Saint’s In the Heights took place in a venue you would affectionately call intimate: the Hayes has only 111 seats. The Opera House Concert Hall? 2,700.

That’s a lot of extra space – more than double the size of the show’s original Broadway house, the Richard Rodgers – and with that extra space comes increased expectations.

Libby Asciak and Olivia Vasquez in In The Heights at the Hayes, Sydney
‘How can I be in the double-X exit row and feel like I’m sitting on my stoop watching my suburb?’ Photograph: Grant Leslie

“The beauty of the Hayes was to have the audience [feel like they’re] sitting on a stoop and watching the street go by,” Bermingham says. “The challenge with the Opera House Concert Hall is what we’re working on now: how can I be in the double-X exit row and feel like I’m sitting on my stoop watching my suburb?”

Bermingham is speaking to me from rehearsals. Behind him the determined, muffled sounds of a chorus filter down the line: salsa beats from the band, voices rising and falling in song. So far, the plan is to preserve as much of the heart of the show as possible while they “blow it all up times 10” and try to do its spirit justice. On a practical level, that means two more dancers and beefing up the band.

Whether they will pull it off is impossible to know before the brief five-night run opens on Wednesday night, but Bermingham – as curious as any patron to find out – feels they’re in “pretty good nick”.

For independent and boutique shows, success can be a double-edged sword. Home-grown productions packed with fresh ideas and top-tier talent are far from rare, but these shows are often scaled for small houses and small seasons. As any international theatre mogul attempting to penetrate the local market will tell you, Australia’s lack of medium-sized venues in major cities – between 600 and 1,500 seats – is a real problem, particularly outside Melbourne. At larger venues like the Sydney Opera House, scrappy shows can struggle to fill seats; teams used to working lean have to suddenly readjust; and all the while the audience and industry raise their expectations, looking forward to a Broadway-quality hit straight out of the box.

Of course, it works for some. The Book of Mormon, currently playing in Sydney’s Lyric Theatre (2,000 seats), started with a cast of 32, imported creative direction and a design that had been tried and tested on Broadway and didn’t deviate. It also had millions of dollars in investment backing.

The Book of Mormon on Broadway
The Australian iteration of the Book of Mormon started with scale – and a design that was tried and tested on Broadway. Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images

But Olivia Ansell, head of contemporary performance for Sydney Opera House Presents, the venue’s producing arm, is confident the team can pull off the massive task. She was immediately taken with the Hayes production of In The Heights, from its cast to its new direction and choreography.

“I know it’s crazy, but I thought, ‘I think this show could upscale to the Concert Hall’,” she says.

Joslin freely admits that he’s terrified at the prospect of moving his small but ambitious darling to the grand stage.

Adding to his anxiety, he had to miss the early and critical days of rehearsal. Joslin is also an actor, and is starring in Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Playhouse in the Arts Centre Melbourne (for the record, a great size – 884 seats).

“It’s terrifying for me, and I won’t know if we’ve done it until we hit that venue, which I guess will be far too late. But for us, I have to track it the whole time, keep it truthful. I think that honesty is key.”

Having appeared in the cast of many of those mainstage musical blockbusters over his career, Joslin is sensitive to the reality that sometimes authenticity is sacrificed for spectacle when shows go big.

“We don’t ever want to get it into that presentational world, where you know: ‘It’s a musical, spirit fingers, it’s a MUSICAL!’ It’s still got to feel as though we’re on the block with this community,” he says.

“We don’t want it to become a flat musical, which is hard to do in a cathedral like the Concert Hall. I have reservations, but we’re just trying to get the energy up: energy, energy, think energy, not trying to present something. Just attack those lyrics, and hopefully it’ll translate.”

These questions of scaling up are squarely Joslin’s concern. “[It’s] never really taken into consideration, when you transition into a new venue. The powers that be make those decisions, and it’s like, all right, that’s great. But we have to make it serve this adaptation, make some drastic changes, to make sure it still works.”

Stevie Lopez as Usnavi and Joe Kalou as Benny, two new leads for In the Heights at the Sydney Opera House.
Stevie Lopez as Usnavi and Joe Kalou as Benny, two new leads for In the Heights at the Sydney Opera House. Photograph: Prudence Upton

And there are more challenges. Since its Hayes run, In The Heights has lost its two charismatic leading men: Ryan Gonzalez, who was nominated for a Sydney theatre award for his turn as Usnavi (the Miranda role) is currently starring as Frankie Valli in the Jersey Boys tour; and Tim “Timomatic” Omaji, who played aspiring entrepreneur Benny (a role originated by Christopher “George Washington in Hamilton” Jackson) is contracted to mainstage tourer Madiba the Musical.

They have been replaced by Stevie Lopez, a vocal dead-ringer for Miranda who has played Usnavi in a popular independent Melbourne production in 2015 (at Chapel Off Chapel: 240 seats); and Joe Kalou – known to thousands of children as a member of Hi-5 – as Benny.

And so, the team keeps working. The weekend before In the Heights starts performances at the Opera House, I take a train to Wyong on the New South Wales central coast. In the Heights is playing an four-performance test run in the Art House, a new touring venue. It’s Kalou’s home town, and the bright, spacious foyer is bubbling with energy. There are men in Hamilton T-shirts, little girls in their best dresses, and several multigenerational family groups – not to mention Sydney-based actors, directors, and other industry types – turning out for the occasion.

In this venue, the audience roars. The larger cast brings fresh dynamism to the show’s already dazzling choreography; the principal cast – especially the women – are in fine voice. In the second act, I see many people around me wipe away tears.

The authenticity Joslin is so concerned about seems to have survived the changes. However, the Art House seats just 500. There’s still a long way to go before opening night.

In The Heights runs until Sunday 20 January at the Sydney Opera House


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On 8 December, The Hague Institute hosted the inaugural Distinguished Lecture of The African Foundation for International law (AFIL) and the African Association of International Law (AAIL). This was the occasion for renowned experts to convene and compare the International Criminal Court (ICC) and The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

The keynote lecture was delivered by Fatsah Ouguergouz from Algeria, Judge of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights.

Judge Ouguerguouz participated in a panel featuring H. E. Judge Sanji Monageng from Botswana, Vice President of the International Criminal Court; Dr. Prof. André Nollkaemper from The Netherlands, Professor at the University of Amsterdam and President of the European Society of International Law (ESIL).  Moderating the lecture was Dr. Jumoke Oduwole from Nigeria, Holder of the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity (2013 – 2015), Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, and Lecturer at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba.

During his welcoming remarks, Dr. Abiodun Williams, President of The Hague Institute, described the African association as one of the first academic societies in international law in the continent and briefly illustrated its aim, which is to foster development of African perspectives and practices of international law.  He also highlighted the relevance of its activities, since the most contentious debates on international criminal law are nowadays taking place in Africa.

Judge Ouguergouz´s lecture mainly focused on Elimination of impunity in Africa and how The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights will greatly contribute to this objective. The new Court, he stressed, will play a relevant  role, as it will result from the fusion of the African Court of Justice and the African Court of Human and People’s Rights. Furthermore, Mr. Ouguergouz underlined the fact that the African Court  is going to cover also criminal jurisdiction. Such ambitious decision to extend the Court’s mandate to criminal jurisdiction, he explained, is rooted in the deteriorating relationships between the ICC and the African states since July 2008, when the ICC prosecutor requested an arrest warrant for Omar  Al Bashir. Moreover, problems between the ICC and African states are reinforced by the fact that all of the situations pending at the ICC concern African states – he added. Mr. Ourguergouz concluded his lecture by illustrating the future challenges of the new court. The first being the lack of complementary with The Rome Statute, which doesn’t include articles regarding cooperation with continental courts, and the vague definition of immunity of head of states of the African Union in Art. 46A-bis of the Protocol establishing the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter: the Protocol).

Judge Monageng focused on the possible problems the newly established Court could face. Due to the fact that international criminal law is still a developing area, she warns that the African Court will need to be extremely innovative. In the best case scenario, the Court could enhance the accountability for the crimes included in the Protocol. Nevertheless, investigation and fact-finding of such crimes would require a larger amount of financial and human resources compared to what is needed for human rights investigations. For this reason, the court could face financial challenges. Moreover, issues of cooperation, complementarity, harmonization of national law as well as efficiency and efficacy of the court are mentioned.  She raised crucial questions regarding the court granting immunity to State officials. If they are not be prosecuted, who is left to prosecute? Does it not bring an end to the jurisdiction of the ICC? She concluded her speech by stating that the ICC is ready to engage in a practical dialogue.

Dr. Nollkaemper claimed that the Protocol is a reaction to the exercise of universal jurisdiction of some states. He believes that the list of crimes in the Protocol is a valuable add to the list of international crimes and that deviating from a global instrument to have a regional framework is not something unprecedented. Moreover, he declared himself sympathetic to the call for this framework. Nonetheless, he listed some critics mainly involving complementarity with the ICC. Normative conflicts such as immunity of State Officials, would arise. Moreover, States parties would be under competing and incompatible obligations to cooperate with the ICC and the new Court. He finally called for both courts to start a dialogue as it is the only solution to such problems.

During the Q&A session, the panelists opened the discussion to the audience and answered a broad range of questions, including the process of fusion establishing the new African Court, complementary issues arising between this and the ICC as well as the enforcement of the new rulings in Africa.

Africa Celebrities Magazine (ACM), the most influential international African magazine published in Europe, reported on this inaugural lecture. To read the full article, click here.

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In a controversial move, the legal team of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has cited the writings of two Australian scholars to make the case that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo used New Order tactics to rig the April 17 election. Scholars, however, have said the quotations were taken out of context. In its legal petition that was read out in the court on Friday, the Prabowo camp accused the Jokowi administration of leaning toward authoritarianism. Jokowi, it said, had committed violations during the election process that were similar to what happened under Soeharto, the New Order leader who led the nation for 32 years. One of the scholars is Tim Lindsey of the Melbourne Law School, who wrote a paper titled “Jokowi in Indonesia’s ‘Neo-New Order’”. Teuku Nasrullah, one of Prabowo’s lawyers, highlighted the fact that Linds...


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Facebook Names Tucson the ""Swimming City""

Congratulations Tucson! Facebook has honored you one of the fittest cities in the United States! Based on a study of fitness-related posts performed by the largest social media site in the world, Tucson was the one city in all of America to have posted on Facebook the most updates regarding swimming and has fittingly been named the “Swimming City."

The city of Tucson has opened eight additional pools since the end of May, and offers a wide array of aquatic programming for both adults and children to enjoy.  The parks and recreation department of Tucson even has lifeguard training and water safety classes so that residents can stay safe and educated this summer.

Swimming is a great choice for a fun workout that does wonders for your heart and lung health. It also helps to build lean muscles that burn fat. The water can actually work to your physical benefit in two ways: both as a gravity repellant which lessens the amount of potentially harmful impact on your bones, ligaments and muscles and also as a weight, forcing your body to use more muscle strength to move through the water. So, whether you swim laps, do water aerobics or just splash around, swimming is a spectacular choice for anyone of any age to have so much fun, it doesn’t feel like a workout.  Just be sure to consult your doctor to make sure you're healthy enough for this activity.

America is on its way to a healthier culture and Tucson should be proud to be one of the nation’s fitness leaders. By participating and publicizing your dedication to fitness, you are an inspiration to the rest of America to keep moving toward healthier, happier lives. Great job, Tucson! Keep up the good work!

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I am a certified English teacher. My major at University was Teaching English language and foreign literature. My minor specialty is an interpreter, and after my studies, I worked for 8 years as a translator and interpreter. In 2012 I completed the online course provided by the International Teacher Training Organization (ITTO) and received the TEFL certificate and later in 2013 – the certificate in Teaching Business English.

I’ve been teaching English online since 2010 or so and I still find it exciting! I am learning every day and am convinced that a good teacher is a passionate learner as well. I enjoy communicating with people from different countries. I love learning about new cultures, customs, and traditions. I enjoy reading, listening to music, watching movies. One of my hobbies is painting (or decorating) of traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs.

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The Shining

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

  1. Stanley Kubrick

    Director, Screenplay

  2. Stephen King

  3. Diane Johnson

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  1. Jack Nicholson

    Jack Nicholson

    Jack Torrance

  2. Shelley Duvall

    Shelley Duvall

    Wendy Torrance

  3. Danny Lloyd

    Danny Lloyd

    Danny Torrance

  4. Scatman Crothers

    Scatman Crothers

    Dick Hallorann

  5. Barry Nelson

    Barry Nelson

    Stuart Ullman

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The Shining
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  • May 23, 1980

    Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.

Original Language English

Runtime 2h 24m

Budget $19,000,000.00

Revenue $44,017,374.00

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It's 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life - Steve Rogers.

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  1. Hayley Atwell

    Hayley Atwell

    Peggy Carter

    18 Episodes

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Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster Vintage Blonde 2008

This Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster boasts some tasteful upgrades and a nice and warm Vintage Blonde finish. The pickups have been upgraded to Seymour Duncan Vintage Tele pickups (the originals are included). Other '50s inspired features include the vintage style tuners and brass saddle bridge, and the comfortable tinted maple neck. This guitar is in very good condition, it does have a few dings and some oxidized hardware, but it's a player and sounds great! Includes a Fender gig bag.

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March 15, 2019

Faculty wants KP governor to probe wrongdoings in Edwardes College

March 15, 2019

PESHAWAR: The faculty members of Edwardes College have expressed serious concern over the 'deteriorating' situation in the institution and submitted a formal request to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor to seek an early meeting with the heads of departments of the college.

The faculty members also submitted a detailed document to the governor demanding an impartial inquiry into the alleged wrongdoings in the historic educational institution of the province. Through the letter, they also demanded introduction of a proper service structure for the college employees.

According to the letter, the college has been converted into a kind of sub-jail for the employees and students. It maintained that they are denied all their fundamental rights and academics and administrative functions have shown a sharp decline.

They complained that the Edwardes College Teachers Association (ECTWA), a representative body of teachers, has been banned without any justification. They alleged that the teachers have been banned from even sitting together.

The faculty members argued that serious financial irregularities have been observed due to the absence of independent audit.

Principal of the college Dr Nayer Fardows, however, in an earlier conversation with The News had claimed that due to his best financial management the finances of the college have shown substantial increase.

The faculty members, though, pointed fingers at the college finance committee, which has been reconstituted by the current administration.

The committee, according to the letter written by the faculty, had been formed in 2008 to look into the financial embezzlement worth Rs60 million. The faculty members through the letter asked the governor to order an inquiry into the legal standing and decisions taken by the finance committee.

They also asked the governor, who is chairman of the board of governors of the college, to order a separate inquiry into the alleged nepotism and violation of merit in the institution. The letter demanded that the matter of appointment of the son, daughter and daughter-in-law of the incumbent principal in the college should be thoroughly probed.

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Duplexes and ‘duet homes’ might be another answer in the quest for affordable housing

The kitchen in the Evia model home in Trilogy at Tehaleh. There is an open house to view the models March 16 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The kitchen in the Evia model home in Trilogy at Tehaleh. There is an open house to view the models March 16 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Trilogy by Shea Homes

Duplexes, triplexes, “duet homes” or townhomes could enjoy new popularity amid rising home prices in the Puget Sound area.

Pierce County’s median closed home sale price in February was at $355,000, up 9.23 percent from February 2018. At the same time, affordable housing remains challenging for buyers not earning top dollars, or those downsizing, entering retirement or trying to purchase for the first time.

Tacoma’s Affordable Housing Action Strategy makes mention of duplexes, along with accessory dwelling units, as a way to increase affordable housing in the city.

The state Legislature also has considered bills this session geared toward encouraging duplex development, along with triplexes, accessory dwellings and courtyard apartments, to increase affordable housing inventory.

In Pierce County, new duplex-style units are coming to a portion of Tehaleh, the residential development south of Bonney Lake and Lake Tapps.

Even though “duplex” comes to mind as a way to describe them, they are officially considered attached single-family homes with zero lot line — each side can have a different owner. Duplexes typically come under single ownership.

Tehaleh/Trilogy’s website refers to them as townhomes. “Duet homes” is another term sometimes used by agents.

No matter the description, the goal is to offer smaller spaces at lower cost in a challenging market.

Two model units will be on display Saturday in the Resort Collection in Trilogy at Tehaleh, a community for those 55 and older.

“The (Resort) Collection delivers more functional, livable spaces in a smaller design at attractive price points,” said Mark Gray, Washington Area President of Shea Homes’ Trilogy communities in its news release. “Our objective was to meet the desired functional needs homebuyers’ wish for downsizing while making easier than ever before to live at this lifestyle-driven community.”

The floor plan for each unit includes two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a den.

Its Resort Collection will have three model types for buyers to choose from: Muros (1,342 square feet) starting at $344,900, Evia (1,552 square feet) starting at $364,900 and Valletta (1,678 square feet) starting at $379,900.

Double those amounts if you want ownership of both units.

Thirteen of the structures are planned, for a total of 26 units, with possibly more added in the future depending on demand.

Open house

When: Saturday, March 16, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Trilogy at Tehaleh, 14218 Knoll Park Dr. E., Bonney Lake.

Information: https://bit.ly/2DxFqAQ


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Seahawks lifting FB Derrick Coleman’s suspension after talking to him about his two-car crash last week

The Seahawks are lifting their suspension of Derrick Coleman after talking to the fullback this past weekend about his two-car crash last week in suburban Bellevue.

Coach Pete Carroll announced Monday that Coleman will be returning to the active roster after he spent a day and half in King County Jail into Friday afternoon.

“We will lift the suspension on Derrick Coleman. We will find out the timing on that as soon as we can,” Carroll said.

“We really don't have a lot of information for you -- we don't have any information for you -- about what's going on and issues. We've not received stuff, other to know the basics and the fundamentals of it. So we will do that, and then we will move from there."

Coleman remains under investigation by the Bellevue Police Department on potential charges of felony vehicular assault and felony hit-and-run. The King County prosecutor’s office is deciding whether to charge Coleman. It said Friday that process might take a month while it waits for full results of toxicology tests to come back as to whether alcohol or other drugs were involved in the accident.

Coleman’s Dodge Ram pickup truck allegedly slammed into the back of a Honda Civic on a Bellevue street with a 35-mile-per-hour speed limit, sending the Honda up an embankment and upside down onto a retaining wall. The driver of the Honda was hospitalized with what the Bellevue police chief described as “serious but not life-threatening” injuries.

Carroll said he spoke to Coleman and based on what the fullback told him “we feel like we are doing the right thing, obviously” in lifting his suspension.

Coleman reported no injuries to police, Bellevue PD said. Carroll said Coleman has since seen a doctor outside the team -- he couldn’t see Seahawks doctors while suspended -- and that the team does not yet know if he is healthy enough to play Thursday at San Francisco upon his return. Team doctors need to check him out to determine that.

“He was seen by a doctor on the outside that isn't one of our guys, so I don't want to comment right now,” Carroll said. “But we are gathering that and figuring -- that will weigh in to whether he will play this week or not.”

Will Tukuafu started at fullback Sunday for Coleman in the 27-23 loss to Carolina that leaves Seattle 2-4.


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A few years ago, when I was in Prague, I met these two Norwegian girls, and one of them told me that her teenage brother created his own hip-hop on his computer, an idea that seemed endlessly hilarious to me.

Flash forward five years, and four Eminem albums later, and this debut by The Streets doesn’t seem quite as unlikely. In fact, it sounds like it just might be the future of music.

Mike Skinner (a.k.a. The Streets) is a 22-year-old from Birmingham, England who builds beats on his home computer and raps about playing video games and smoking pot and being late for appointments.

The obvious comparison is to Eminem, but other than skin color and drug references, there are few similarities. Few rappers of any race can match Eminem’s dazzling lyrical skills, but what makes The Streets so groundbreaking is that anyone could do it.

The beats draw heavily on garage, or 2-step, a sound that is huge in a Neptunes-size way in the U.K. Using only two beats in 4/4 time, garage sounds a lot like ’80s New Jack swing mixed with house and drum-and-bass, and makes a surprisingly good foundation for rapping.

Not that Skinner really raps; it’s more talking rhythmically with occasional flashes of flow, full of inside jokes and slang. (Actually, the British slang is hilarious – even after repeated listens, I still crack up that he uses “oy” to fill in syllabic blanks the way most rappers use “yo.”)

He makes up for his verbal deficiencies with a keen eye for detail and sharp humor, making his songs about his life refreshingly personal but remarkably familiar to blokes on both sides of the Atlantic.

He’s not a playa, but most guys aren’t. He’s more likely to agonize over whether he should let a girl know if he likes her, take some bad advice from his friends about it and then blow the whole thing by showing up late for a date.

If that chain of events sounds familiar, this could be the album for you.

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Vassell Helps Launch Of Literacy Campaign

24 November 2014

Kyle Vassell Helps Launch Of Peterborough Literacy Campaign.

Peterborough United striker Kyle Vassell was on hand to help launch the Peterborough Literacy Campaign at Leighton Primary School on Thursday (20th November) afternoon.

The National Literacy Trust has joined forces with Peterborough City Council with funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to launch a new scheme to boost literacy levels in Peterborough.

To celebrate the launch of the Peterborough Literacy Campaign, local storytellers, sports stars and campaign ambassadors will tour the city, delivering fun storytelling sessions and handing out free books to children from local schools and local children’s centres across Peterborough.

Local television presenter and Hollywood actor Warwick Davis supports the launch of the Peterborough Literacy Campaign; “Learning about the world through reading for enjoyment from a young age and being able to express myself though writing and speaking has been essential for finding a career I love.

"As a parent, I know that sharing books with my children is a fantastic way to spend time as a family, so I fully support the Peterborough Literacy Campaign’s vital work in promoting the joy of reading and creating new opportunities for all young people in this city to develop their literacy skills and realise their potential.”

Any organisations or businesses interested in getting involved with Peterborough’s literacy hub and the Peterborough Literacy Campaign are asked to email the National Literacy Trust’s Peterborough Hub Manager, Sally Atkinson,

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