Lost The Way In Dream

[Marketta Filipovich]

LostIn A Dream is a dreamy, decadent and delicious fragrance leaving the wearer with a unique and enchanting sillage. The opening uniquely blends a milk accord with cinnamon and bergamot leading into the heart with a medley comprising a croissant accord, marshmallows, fig milk, almonds, jasmine, coffee, amberwood and orchid flower. The base notes of the fragrance add depth and richness with Madagascan vanilla, tonka bean absolute, sandalwood, musk and oakwood absolute.

The Italian government made the decision to pull the ship up off the sea floor and bring the bodies back to Italy for identification and burial. Most of the details are in my story but stories for AP have to be fairly short, so I am posting a longer, unabridged version and a few photos.

Then it took all sorts of bureaucratic pushing and shoving to get the permission to enter the navy base in Melilli, Sicily to film Professor Cattaneo and her team doing their work last weekend. Below are a few photos I took while I was there with AP video-journlist Mystslav Chernov and AP stringer Salvatore Cavalli.

Cattaneo, a professor at the University of Milan, is leading a team of forensic pathologists who have volunteered to identify and catalogue roughly 800 migrants who lost their lives in one of the worst tragedies in the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Her work is a unique, historic project expanding the field of humanitarian legal medicine and also a multi-million euro effort on the part of the Italian government to shame Europe into paying attention to migrants lost at sea and help Italy face the inundation.

After months of work, the team expects to complete the autopsies this month. In December the second stage of the process will begin, contacting relatives of those who had IDs on them, and reaching out to others who are looking for their missing kin.

When the autopsy was completed on PM3900421, the team wheeled the body bag out of the tent, and loaded it into a metal container that would go inside a wooden coffin for burial. Using a black magic marker, Cattaneo carefully wrote the serial number on the outside of the container and taped it to the side. A metal plate with this number will be nailed to the outside of the coffin and also placed above the grave.

Despite the tragedy, the business of trafficking in human lives shows no signs of letting up. Traffickers in Libya continue to reap a fortune by taking their cash then shoving migrants on top of each other in rickety vessels unfit to cross the Mediterranean. According to the International Organization for Migrants as of October 14th, 316,899 people have reached Europe by sea in 2016, and 3611 have either died or are missing.

Shortly after the shipwreck, Italian Premier Matteo Renzi announced that Italy would recover the sunken ship even if the operation were expensive. He said that the victims deserved a burial and he wanted to send a warning to Europe. His government allocated 9,5 million euros for the project. He has repeatedly called for the shipwreck to be placed in front of the EU office in Brussels as a reminder of the lives lost trying to reach Europe.

The Italian government has frequently called for the European Union to do more to Renzi to he test as he has faced domestic resistance from anti-immigrant parties and reluctance from EU partners to take asylum-seekers.

A year after the sinking, the Italian Navy, using a complicated pulley system fixed to a metal frame attached around the shipwreck, pulled it up to the surface and brought it to a Sicilian port. A crane then lifted the rusting carcass off the transport ship and put it on the dock.

Amazing people these forensic pathologists and their teams! From Sarajavo to the Med to so much of Africa to the teams of volunteers in Russia who recover and, where possible, identify the remains of German and Soviet soldiers and help bring closure for families and dignity to the dead. Unsung heroes to a man and woman so well done to you and AP for putting it out there.

Trisha,

Thank you for covering this story, an unknown chapter for most of the world, with such a caring attitude. The work of Dott.essa Cattaneo is remarkable! Italy can scarce afford to deal with this crisis and yet it has devoted resources to do so.

Give yourself enough time to let the old dream die first. Allow yourself the emotions of grief, anger, depression, and loss. It can be tempting to dismiss those feelings and jump headfirst into a new project, but process the death of the old dream first.

Your new direction and purpose might be radically different to your old one. Give yourself an opportunity to explore completely new things. Mingle with different people, travel to new places, read books you would have never touched before.

Maybe you want more time, not more money. Maybe you crave more freedom, not a more demanding job. When you become really clear about what is important to you in life, you will find the first clues about what your new dream will look like.

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Lost in the Dream is the third studio album by American indie rock band The War on Drugs, released on March 18, 2014 through Secretly Canadian. The recording session, which took place over a two-year period, was characterized by numerous rewrites. The album's lyrical themes were influenced by the loneliness and depression Granduciel faced after he finished touring. Musically, the record was inspired by 1980s rock, as well as Americana, with influences coming from Bruce Springsteen, Spacemen 3 and Neil Young & Crazy Horse.

The album debuted at number 26 on the Billboard 200 and received universal acclaim from critics upon its release, appearing on and topping numerous end-of-year lists of the best albums. Five promotional radio singles were released: "Red Eyes", "Under the Pressure", "Burning", "Eyes to the Wind", and "An Ocean in Between the Waves".

After The War on Drugs' second album Slave Ambient was released to much critical acclaim, primary songwriter Adam Granduciel spent much of 2011 touring. After the tour was finished, Granduciel had a hard time adjusting to everyday life, later recounting that such feelings "started to spiral into emotional distress and physical manifestations of depression and paranoia."[5] This depression and paranoia served as an inspiration to the lyrical theme of Lost in the Dream.[5][6]

Recording on the album began in the summer of 2012 and took place over a two-year period in Philadelphia, New York City, North Carolina, and New Jersey.[7] Granduciel wrote all the songs on the album.[8] The album's recording was characterized by Granduciel's anxiety and second-guessing, with Granduciel remarking "I started going off the rails a little bit in my own head, getting a little too sucked in."[9]

Songs on the album went through several versions. Granduciel scrapped the original demo for "An Ocean in Between the Waves" two weeks before the album was supposed to be turned in to the record company after spending a year writing the song, saying that "it wasn't the vibe of the song that I was searching for."[8][9] "Suffering" went through several variations before Granduciel decided to go back to the original demo.[9]

The music on Lost in the Dream is inspired by 1980s rock, as well as Americana and Krautrock.[10][11][12] Artists who have been cited as influences on the album's overall sound include Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, The Waterboys and Spacemen 3.[10][13][14] The album's sound is characterized by synthesizers, keyboards, horns and "ambient guitars".[13][15] Whereas the previous albums by The War on Drugs contained several instrumental tracks, Lost in the Dream only has one instrumental track, "The Haunting Idle".[16]

Critics have compared the song "Burning" to Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" and Rod Stewart's "Young Turks".[10][13][16] Fleetwood Mac's influence was noted on "An Ocean in Between the Waves",[2][13] while Pitchfork compared "Disappearing" to Tears for Fears' "Pale Shelter".[10]

The album cover features an image of Adam Granduciel standing in front of a window in his home. Granduciel commented on how the album's artwork was a reflection of his involvement in the recording process, saying "This wasn't a band record. This was a solo record. I knew that. They've all [The War on Drugs' albums] been solo records."[8]

The album was announced on December 4, 2013. That same day, the first single from the album, "Red Eyes" was released.[7] The band debuted the tracks "Under the Pressure", "Eyes to the Wind", and "Burning" during the band's December 2013 tour of Australia.[8][18] On March 5, 2014, a music video for "Red Eyes" was released.[19] The album was streamed in its entirety on March 10, 2014 on The Guardian's website.[20] On August 20, 2014, a music video for "Under the Pressure" was released.[21]

Lost in the Dream received acclaim from contemporary music critics. On Metacritic, it holds a score of 86 out of 100 based on 40 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[24] Pitchfork's Stuart Berman gave Lost in the Dream a "Best New Music" designation and remarked that the album is "loaded with songs whose greatness is revealed slowly, where the simplest, most understated chord change can blow a track wide open and elevate it from simply pretty to absolutely devastating."[10] AllMusic's Fred Thomas called Lost in the Dream "the War on Drugs' Daydream Nation or Disintegration" and wrote of the album: "It's a near flawless collection of dreamy vibes, shifting moods, and movement, and stands easily as Granduciel's finest hour so far."[13] Dan Caffrey of Consequence of Sound felt that over repeated plays of the album, one gradually realizes "that Granduciel is discovering the problems of his life, not figuring them out or even reflecting on them. This all makes for an album that truly sounds like it's coming to life."[16] Ross Horton of musicOMH called Lost in the Dream "a tender, inviting, consoling, comforting record that you'll play again and again (stoned or not)" and "perfect in every way".[14]

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