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Sharks spark signage questions
Yallingup residents have called into question the protocols surrounding shark signage amid concerns about safety in the area after three sightings within 48 hours at the weekend.
Yallingup resident Antonia Wise raised questions after she noticed signs were only placed at Slippery Rocks and the lagoon, and not at the entries to Rabbits and Shallows.
Mrs Wise said the two spots were main access points for surfers, including her 12-year-old son.
“It was a long weekend and there were heaps of people coming down, and while the locals would have known about the sightings, these visitors might not have,” she said.
Yallingup Residents Association president Graham Greig labelled the issue as “farcical” after it was raised at a meeting on Sunday.
“From what I understand the City can’t put signs up at Dawson Drive and the Rabbits car park because it is Department of Environment and Conservation land,” he said.
“So half the beach is closed and half of it is opened because of this demarcation.”
Mr Greig questioned whether there was a specific protocol to be followed by all relevant agencies after a shark sighting.
He said residents had suggested the association investigate installing its own signs to warn of sightings, but would prefer the signs to be erected under the proper authorities.
City of Busselton ranger and emergency services manager Tim Wall said the City placed signage on Cityowned land, and would also place a sign on area not under the City’s jurisdiction at the request of the appropriate agency.
“Sometimes this is just the most sensible approach particularly if our rangers are actually on location,” he said.
Mr Wall said last weekend’s signs were erected on the advice of the Fisheries Department.
The department’s Busselton district community education officer Michael Burgess said the department did not have a beach safety role, and while signage was one strategy, managing risk and duty of care was the responsibility of land managers.
Mr Burgess said discussions were ongoing with relevant stakeholders to establish enhanced shark hazard procedures.
“Arising from these discussions was to investigate the feasibility of permanent emergency reporting points that could allow for both reporting of shark sightings and also be remotely activated through a siren or lights to notify water users,” he said.
“We have identified the constraints of distance, response time, available resources and other public safety priorities and such infrastructure could be very applicable … in addition to further work with mobile devices to disseminate information.”
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The Forest City Chamber of Commerce and the Forest City Economic Development Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet was held Tuesday night at the Boman Fine Arts Center. The gala annually honors Forest City businesses and community leaders who have helped shape the future of the city and its growth. Forest City Economic Development President Courtney Wooge addressed the audience on the growth of the city so far and the plans for the future. His future concerns included housing.
Wooge also believed that industry will grow in Forest City and he looks forward to its future growth. A third for him is quality of life within the city.
Forest City Mayor Byron Ruiter addressed the audience and echoed the sentiments of Wooge in believing that Forest City was growing and continually improving through business partnerships, like the ones used to construct the Boman Fine Arts Center.
Amongst the confidence in Forest City’s growth, awards were handed out including the Best Business Practice which went to The Paddler’s Tap (pictured below).
The Business of the Year is Lichtsin RV, (pictured below)
and Coloff Digital. (Pictured below)
Volunteers of the Year went to Jim and Roz Hemberger.
It was a special night for Forest City’s “First Lady”, Barb Ruiter,
who presented the John K. and Louise V. Hanson Lifetime Achievement Award to her husband, Forest City Mayor Byron Ruiter.
Finally, the Gaylord Wooge Service Award winners were Dick and Vera Hynes.


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The most frequent allergic diseases involve IgE antibodies and affect a high percentage of the population. These allergies arise a few minutes after contact with the allergen (under 30 minutes). Typical examples are allergies due to airborne allergens that cause allergic conjunctivitis, allergic rhinitis and/or bronchial asthma. Food allergies involving IgE are also very frequent.
Other allergies develop under different immunological mechanisms without involving IgE, the most frequent being contact dermatitis due to very small allergens that pass through whole skin and produce a reaction within 24-48 hours at the place of contact. The celiac disease is another allergic disease that does not involve IgE and is due to sensitivity to gluten (a protein in wheat and rye).
However, what is known as an intolerance (for example, to aspirin or lactose) are not true allergies because they do not act as allergens or depend on an immunological reaction to them.

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Despite the last major of the season having taken place at the Bellerive Country Club, with Justin Thomas collecting a first title, there is still a large amount of golf action to look forward to in the coming weeks, starting with the Made in Denmark tournament. Despite competing with the FedEx Cup this weekend in terms of attracting the world’s biggest names, there are still a whole host of big names to back to be in contention come the back 9 on Sunday afternoon.
Whether it be Thomas Pieters, Martin Kaymer or Soren Sjeldsen in which you are looking to place a bet on, there is no better place than Paddy Power this week. Their latest promotion will significantly enhance your chances of placing a winning bet, with the popular bookmakers paying out on the first six places in Denmark.
Put simply, this means that even if your selection misses out on the outright victory, you can still come out on top with a bet on the tournament. So be sure to take advantage of the latest golf promotion from Paddy Power, with plenty of time remaining until the first tee shot is hit. Let’s take a closer look at the offer, including the terms and conditions that must be met in order to be eligible.
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With betting on the outright winner of a golf tournament generally something of a lottery, Paddy Power’s latest offer is something of an insurance policy in this area. Paying out on the first six places at the Made in Denmark tournament this weekend, this offer applies to bets placed on the tournament outright before the start of play on Thursday 24th August. Simply place part of an each-way bet, with Paddy Power settling bets at odds of 1/5 for the top six places.
All online, mobile and telephone customers are able to take advantage of this offer, with normal Paddy Power golf rules also applying. Whether you are an existing customer or looking for a new betting platform, head to Paddy Power before the first tee shot is hit on Thursday in order to utilise this potentially lucrative offer.
So, sign into your account today, before backing the likes of Pieters, Kaymer or Sjeldsen to lift the trophy come Sunday. This could well be the offer that provides the betting insurance that you have been craving.

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A new study by UTIG Research Associate Joseph Levy used new dating techniques to determine that Antarctic paleolakes that grew during the last ice age stuck around much longer than previously thought. The study, “Luminescene dating of paleolake deltas and glacial deposits in Garwood Valley, Antarctica: Implications for climate, Ross ice sheet dynamics, and paleolake duration was published in The Geological Society of America Bulletin.
“What this means is that the leftover deposits from these paleolakes are telling us a brand new story,” said Levy.
The research used both old-fashioned radiocarbon dating and newer optically/infrared stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating techniques. The OSL technique dates sediment directly, instead of relying on algal mats and other organic matter as used by radiocarbon methods. By using both, the research team was able to compare the ages from the same levels of the ancient lake. What they found was that radiocarbon dates were consistently older than OSL results, in some cases up to 10 thousand years.
So why use a new method? Levy explains that even in the best published radiocarbon studies are limited to the handful of locations where organic matter can be found within the deposits. Large sections of the deposits don’t have enough organic matter in them to decode the complete history. In addition, there were clues that some ancient carbon samples had been naturally contaminated by carbon from local rocks.
“For the Garwood deltas, there was a lot of the delta that had no organic matter in it. Luminescence dating measures when the sediment is deposited directly, so it let us measure dates all the way to the end of the formation of the deltas. This is like “reading to the end of the book” of their history by measuring dates right up to the top of the deltas,” he said.
Levy and the team found that the demise of the ancient lake in Garwood Valley, named Howard Lake, was not directly controlled by the Ross Sea ice sheet grounding line position, as was previously thought. Rather, the ancient lake persisted for thousands of years longer than previously through, dammed up by stranded ice in the Garwood Valley. They conclude that the use of both radiocarbon and OSL dating techniques can help better understand the relationships between paleolakes, glacier melt, and stream discharge in response to climate changes, in the past and today.
Levy hopes that this study will have two impacts:
“I hope that it sheds light on the fact that there were relatively recent, long-lived lakes in the terrestrial parts of Antarctica that could be used to collect paleoclimate proxies for reconstructing what’s going on at the Antarctic coast. We think of Antarctica as only producing climate history information from ice cores, but these lakes were probably much longer lived than previously thought,” Levy said. “The second impact is that this may help reinterpret how folks make sense of ocean sediment deposits. When cores from the Ross Sea region do or don’t show terrestrial sediment entering the sound, it may be because some of it is getting trapped behind these long-lived ice dams. Correlating the ocean and land record in Antarctica is the next big challenge.”
Read the full article in the latest issue of Geological Society of America Bulletin.


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Renée Fleming with KISS at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
By Dennis Polkow
It’s a busy holiday season for the “People’s Diva,” Renée Fleming: not only has the soprano released her first-ever Christmas album, “Christmas in New York” (Decca), but PBS has produced a television special on the making of the album. As if that weren’t enough, Fleming sang at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and is opening a new production of “The Merry Widow” at the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve, with Lyric Opera music director Sir Andrew Davis at the podium.
Christmas itself, however, Fleming admits, will remain a family affair. “My whole family sings like crazy,” says Fleming. “When we decorate the tree, my daughters and I have a major impromptu scat-singing festival.” It’s this spirit that informs the eclectic approach of “Christmas in New York,” on which Fleming performs with guest artists Wynton Marsalis, Gregory Porter, Kelli O’Hara, Chris Botti, Brad Mehldau, Rufus Wainwright and Chicago jazz singer Kurt Elling.
For those expecting a killer rendition of “O Holy Night” or “Ave Maria,” think again. “That was my expectation as well,” laughs Fleming. “I just assumed when I would finally do a Christmas album, it would be that Karajan-Vienna Philharmonic-Leontyne Price template. But this came together in a different way and Universal had a different idea about it.
“I stayed away from carols for the most part, except for ‘Stille, Stille, Stille.’ I also went to my collaborators and said, ‘What would you like to do?’ I took their lead in many cases. Since this took about nine months to really finish up, I worried for a while about it coming together in a way that would make it feel like a whole, but it did. There was enough variety on it to enable it to have that sense of different things coming together.” Read the rest of this entry »


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50. Claudia Neto
2017 was a big year for Portugal midfielder Claudia Neto in so many ways. The 29-year-old has spent many years in the shadows until her move to Sweden in 2014.
Three years on and Neto has just helped Linkpings defend the Damallsvenskan title, but on the international stage got to lead her team out at a major tournament for the first time.
It was the least the Portugal captain deserved for the quality she shows on the pitch and her commitment to the cause, even if Portugal didn’t make it beyond the group stage.
Neto’s impression in Sweden this year has been so strong that it’s earned her a post-season move to Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg, along with team mate Kristine Minde.
Mariana Cabral, Portuguese women’s football writer says:
“Cláudia is a very hard working and dynamic player, making her an engine in the midfield, mixing strength and technical finesse. She is such a role model in women’s football in Portugal that people here call her CN7, obviously comparing her to Cristiano Ronaldo, not only because they’re both captains and no.7, but also because they’re both hugely influential in our national teams.”
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Delphi financing19 Jul 2007
Revised $2.5bn financing plan for Delphi
The Delphi Corporation and its former parent, General Motors, will lose out on more than $1bn (â‚¬724.2m) under a revised financing plan intended to bring Delphi out of bankruptcy by yearâ€™s end.
Delphi said that it would receive $2.5bn in investments under the new arrangement, which replaces a $3.4bn plan that was scrapped after the primary investor, the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, withdrew. The new lead investor is Appaloosa Management, Delphiâ€™s largest shareholder.
Meanwhile, GM will not receive $315m in Delphi stock that it would have under the arrangement involving Cerberus, although the automaker will get about $100m more in cash.
The Delphi investors have agreed to buy $800m of convertible preferred shares and $175m of common stock in the reorganised company. They will also take up any unsubscribed portion of a planned $1.6bn rights offering to Delphiâ€™s existing common shareholders.


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I met him in front of the Starbucks in San Francisco where my daughter works—the busiest one in the city, where tourists and sight seers wielding shopping bags and cameras and cell phones make up a snaking line that never goes away.
He was a small man, not much bigger than me. His wispy, fair hair brushed the sides of his cheeks when he looked down; he tended to look down a lot, at the dirty sidewalk in front of him, so his hair fell like feathers around his jaw. He told me his name is Sam.
“I’m almost fifty and I’m standing on a corner with a cup,” he told me. “I’m so embarrassed.”
Repeatedly he apologized to me: “I’m sorry I’m so messed up,” Sam said to me five or six times during the half hour we spoke.
It was hard for me to know what to say to him. “Life is really really hard sometimes,” is about all I could come up with.
“Yeah but, the reason—it’s my own fault,” he said. “I did a lot of stupid stuff. I had a job and a wife and kids. And now I don’t.”
Sam told me that two wives have left him, and his daughters—17 and 22—don’t speak to him at all. “I can’t blame them,” he said. “But it still hurts.”
“I guess everybody has stuff they wish they could change about their past,” I said.
Sam looked up and right into my eyes; his were light blue, very round, with little folds of dark flesh around them. “People make it, though. They do.”
He looked across the street where a woman was yelling at another woman, and then he looked back at me.
“I’m gonna make it,” he said, after a long pause.
When I saw Sam again this morning, in front of the same Starbucks, I almost didn’t recognize him. His face was bashed in: one cheek was sunken; one of his eyelids was drooped and red. He had blood all around his lips.
The barista called my name; I turned around to retrieve my latté, and by the time I turned back again, Sam was gone.

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Quantum-size effects in visible defect photoluminescence of colloidal ZnO quantum dots: A theoretical analysis
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018
ZnO has been known for a long time to be a highly efficient luminescent material. In the last few years, the experimental investigation of the luminescent properties of colloidal ZnO nanocrystals in the nanometer range of sizes has attracted a lot of interest for their potential applications in light-emitting diodes and other optical devices and in this work we approach the problem from a theoretical perspective. Here, we develop a simple theory for the green photoluminescence of ZnO quantum dots (QDs) that allows us to understand and rationalize several experimental findings on fundamental grounds. We study the spectrum of light emitted in the radiative recombination of a conduction band electron with a deeply trapped hole and find that the experimental behavior of this emission band with particle size can be understood in terms of quantum size effects of the electronic states and their overlap with the deep hole. We focus the comparison of our results on detailed experiments performed for colloidal ZnO nanoparticles in ethanol and find that the experimental evolution of the luminescent signal with particle size at room temperature can be better reproduced by assuming the deep hole to be localized near the surface of the nanoparticles. However, the experimental behavior of the intensity and the decay time of the signal with temperature can be rationalized in terms of holes predominantly trapped near the center of the nanoparticles at low temperatures being transferred to surface defects at room temperature. Furthermore, the calculated values of the radiative lifetimes are comparable to the experimental values of the decay time of the visible emission signal. We also study the visible emission band as a function of the number of electrons in the conduction band of the nanoparticle, finding a pronounced dependence of the radiative lifetime but a weak dependence of the energetic position of the maximum intensity.


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Forth & Towne aims to open three stores in LA area
21 Jun '06
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Apparel giant Gap Inc announced that Forth & Towne, the company's new apparel concept for women, plans to open three stores in the Los Angeles area this fall.
Located in upscale Los Angeles area shopping destinations, the stores are expected to open in Westfield Century City Shopping Center and The Oaks Shopping Center in Thousand Oaks in September, followed by Westfield Topanga Shopping Center in October.
"The Los Angeles area is a perfect market for Forth & Towne, as women here have a high affinity for style, fashion and trends. We chose these established, well-known centers because they are conveniently located in areas where our customers live, work and shop," said Gary Muto, President, Forth & Towne.
The Oaks is located in Thousand Oaks, just north of Los Angeles, and serves a number of affluent communities including Calabasas, Malibu, Westlake Village and Agoura Hills. Located in the San Fernando Valley, Westfield Topanga caters to shoppers seeking luxury and convenience.
The center is in the midst of a large-scale redevelopment project, set to be completed in fall 2006. Westfield Century City is located in a thriving business and shopping district, and recently completed a redevelopment project bringing new retail, dining and entertainment options to the center.
Forth & Towne announced plans earlier this year to open approximately 10 stores in five new markets this fall: Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco/San Jose and Seattle.


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I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetty Monster Story
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau
Unsurprisingly the Stanley version sounds like a much better film. More surprisingly, it seems everyone involved thinks of the Frankenheimer movie as one of the worst movies ever, which I think implies they’ve lived sheltered lives, indeed.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
And this is allegedly the less nutty alternative.
Oh sweet Lard… The shakycam! I thought we’d given up on that by now. Other than that, I thought it was pretty good. Don’t know why the Internet hates it. Well, apart from the shakycam.
Nicolas Winding Refn
Ain’t nothing wrong with that!
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Amazingly pretty fun. Not like that first piece of shit movie at all.

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The Lobatse High Court yesterday ordered law firm, Kanjabanga and Associates to secure the P1,241,000 that they were paid by the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS).
Kanjabanga and Associates have been ordered to secure the more than P1 million that they were paid by Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS).
BURS paid the firm this week pending the outcome of their case at the Court of Appeal.
The revenue service was on Tuesday running helter-skelter trying to fend off deputy sheriffs sent by the law firm to attach their movable property. These included computers and vehicles for failure to shell out money they were ordered to pay by the High Court early this year. The issue arose from a joint operation between BURS and agents of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security when they confiscated a consignment of cigarettes belonging to one Yadwesh Singh Ramjeet, which they said was illegally imported. The cigarettes were confiscated sometime last year at one of the border gates between Botswana and South Africa. Yesterday, BURS through its lawyer, Ompatile Ngoma, filed an urgent application seeking for stay of execution.
“In the event that the defendants are unsuccessful in the Court of Appeal proceedings, such amount of P1,241,000 shall be dealt with in accordance with the directions of the Court of Appeal judgment,” Ngoma said.
Ramjeet’s lawyer, Tsaone Sebinanyane said the matter was not urgent and opposed the return of the funds.
However, Justice Modiri Letsididi said the matter was urgent and the funds paid by BURS needed to be secured until the matter is over. “The issue of attachment has now fallen out because it is overtaken by events. The money will be secured at FNB (First National Bank) at Old Lobatse Road, not at the BURS account or the law firm’s.
“The new account, which the fund would be secured at, should be opened within seven days. I order that the money should be in that account within seven days,” Letsididi said.
He said the money would be released after the case is heard at the Court of Appeal.

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This enemy is both Legendary and higher level. Unrestricted Legendary Weapons, Armor & Enemies! Both locations can spawn legendaries. Anyone else think Cait looks AMAZING in Kelloggâs armor? Be prepared for anything the wasteland throws at â¦ I just use a mod that allows me to craft legendaries. This Fallout 4 Legendary Creature Location Guide will help you find them all so you can hunt them down! By Shabana Arif, Iain Wilson 26 October 2020. Legendary items are the best Fallout 76 Item in Fallout 76. What makes this route great is that there is no chance of merchants or NPCs spawning. [â]Ganjookie 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago (1 child), [â][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago (0 children). ... 26 in 1 Outdoor Survival Kit â¦ Survival: Unlimited Legendary Farming (Keep Every Drop). BONUS - Between the 1st and 2nd locations, there is a hole with a dead raider on it. Also, it is well-known that you can lock any potential encounter; the value of this particular encounter is that it is well-defined and easily reapeatable. VATS enhanced gun) repeat till I get the legendary on a worthwhile gun. Appreciate the video clip? Promote discussion, not attacks. Parking with 2 Houses - The location is just outside the Galactic Zone (Northwest). Thicket excavations. Most of the ones you get randomly are crap, right? Repeatable lockable high level legendary farming near Cabot House. Intentional spoilers will result in a ban. Drop the item on the ground. I have never seen such a place described on any forum, so I will explain the one I discovered. It was good but the walk was too long. Clickbait or extremely vaguely-titled posts will be removed. Since we can't use the loot-locking method, all of the tips on the sticky post seemed a little irrelevant to me. 6. Bungie.net is the Internet home for Bungie, the developer of Destiny, Halo, Myth, Oni, and Marathon, and the only place with official Bungie info straight from the developers. Is there a little map showing the path to take? If any are what I'm looking for (e.g. End Notes - The 1st and 2nd random encounter points will have refreshed when you get as far as Hub City Auto Wreckers and also the Raiders at Revere Beach Station. Hub City Auto Wreckers - Gunner mobs here will have a chance of spawning a Legendary. Cheers,-Klevs 4. This method will ensure that you would be jumping from loot table to loot table while also being able to keep every drop; no save-scumming needed. And with the nature of random encounters, it could spawn anything from enemies, allies or merchants. North west of that house is the shovel museum and it will also spawn a battle. You can loot-lock in Survival Mode. In exchange, the spawn rate of legendary creatures is increased. Unless you have enough charisma you won't be able to pass the the speech check. REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 28011 on r2-app-08607d0c6d463a307 at 2020-12-03 00:55:44.237514+00:00 running a42a821 country code: US. Is there a way to farm for legendaries effectively when you're only limited to Autosaves on a mattress/bed? Do not fail to remember to subscribe! In response to the comments, I will point out the obvious--this is useful for survival mode or game consoles. [â]heartscrewFO4: Fisto's Revenge 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago (0 children). © Valve Corporation. Travel south to Reeb Marina. Fallout 4 [edit | edit source] In Fallout 4, fatigue is displayed in Survival mode. We currently have megathreads for: Your account must be older than 2 days, to prevent spam. Then instead find legendaries in places that are not convenient for farming. Posts must be directly related to Fallout 4. These are normally in the form of stronger normal enemy, like a Ghoul or Radroach. Unrestricted Legendary Weapons, Armor & Enemies! Rendered by PID 28011 on r2-app-08607d0c6d463a307 at 2020-12-03 00:55:44.237514+00:00 running a42a821 country code: US. You can however stealth kill them and as long as you aren't noticed the raiders will not be hostile. For example, a random encounter point near Cambridge doesn't work for me but it worked in my previous save file. 0. 4. Since you are forced to stick with a set difficulty and must use the games survival mechanics, getting to grips with this new wasteland may need some getting used to, even for those who have spent 100s of hours playing Fallout games in the past.
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Amanpour and Company As rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s efforts to send in state police and the National Guard were blocked by the federal government for a full 90 minutes. Now, Hogan – a Republican – is calling for President Trump to resign or be removed from office. Joining these calls is the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump Republican group formed in 2019. Its co-founder Rick Wilson calls the violence “sedition and insurrection,” and speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about what’s at stake. Originally aired on January 8, 2021. ————————————————————————————————————————— Subscribe to the Amanpour and Company. channel here: https://bit.ly/2EMIkTJ Subscribe to our daily newsletter to find out who’s on each night: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-… For more from Amanpour and Company, including full episodes, click here: https://to.pbs.org/2NBFpjf Like Amanpour and Company on Facebook: https://bit.ly/2HNx3EF Follow Amanpour and Company on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2HLpjTI Watch Amanpour and Company weekdays on PBS (check local listings). Amanpour and Company features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports. Christiane Amanpour leads the conversation on global and domestic news from London with contributions by prominent journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin, Alicia Menendez and Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City.
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GLEN BURNIE, MD. (WJZ) — Police in Anne Arundel County are searching for three suspects who allegedly stole medication at gunpoint from a store in Glen Burnie on Wednesday.
Officers responded for a robbery at the Medicine Shoppe on Crain Highway in Glen Burnie at around 6:20 p.m. Two suspects went into the store, implied they had handguns and demanded medications from the clerk.
According to police, the suspects then removed some type and amount of medication from behind the counter and fled.
A third suspect stayed outside the store as a lookout during the robbery. All three suspects- all men- then fled in a white Chevrolet Impala.
Officers searched the area but could not find the vehicle or the suspects. No one was injured during this incident, police said.
The suspects are all described as Black men between 20 and 30-years-old. They were wearing gray, black and white hooded sweatshirts respectively.
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New methods of electoral fraud are being introduced in Pakistan which can astonish the world. Votes and ballot boxes were not stolen in NA-75 Daska Sialkot but the Election Commission staff was stolen or disappeared. For the Shortcoming of the commission, the punishment was given to those contesting the election in such a way that the result was withheld. It will now be easier for the Commission to give a readymade result.
The Election Commission has announced that the results of 20 polling stations are likely to change. It is not possible to release results without a full inquiry. A spokesman for the EC blamed the administration and law enforcement for the problem, saying it was due to their weakness. But the ECP said it did not know why the staff was missing. It is not happening for first the time as the PML-N is saying but this process has been repeated from Karachi to Parachinar to Kashmir to Balochistan.
The staff of the Election Commission is held hostage and that is why he disappears. Most of the ballot boxes, box locks, ballot paper books, ink, form 45, and other items were missing. This is because the Election Commission is mired in corruption at the lower or upper levels. Ameer of Jamaat-e Islami Pakistan Siraj-ul-Haq has said that electoral reforms have become inevitable as the country is on the verge of dangerous political division. He said that what happened in the by-elections was proof of the incompetence of the EC. And Siraj-ul-Haq was right in saying that if the Election Commission could not hold elections in a few constituencies peacefully, then it was not qualified to hold general elections.


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I have made this argument lots of times, but I must keep on repeating it until the majority of my acquaintances have heard it at least once.
If you look at the main terrestrial TV networks in Britain, there are two basic models of operation. There is the BBC, which is fundamentally a subscription service; ie the license fee. Most of the license fee goes to the Beeb for their TV and radio programming. The other model is of course independent commercial content, funded by advertising.
However, satellite TV such as Sky exploit both income streams, and stretch the revenue so that the mugs who watch the content have a higher price on their heads.
It currently costs £145.50 for a TV license, which is about £12 per month. A basic subscription to Sky costs £20 per month, or £240 per year. Add sports and movies and you’re looking north of £672 per year.
My next argument is not easily quantifiable so I rely on others to back me up on this. The traditional 2-minute ad break has recently become more like 3 minutes, and on a terrestrial station you are likely to get 5 or 6 ads in the middle of a typical 30 minute programme slot. On satellite stations, however, you can expect about twice as many. Why should they get away with watering down the programming by extending the amount of ads?
So if you have a basic Sky TV package you are paying a premium AND having to sit through more adverts. £12 per month for award-winning British programming on a multimedia platform without adverts vs up to 5 times that for sports, imports and epic ad breaks. I know which one i prefer.
So next time you hear someone complaining about the license fee, give them a stern look.


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Pathways to transformation : learning in relationship
- edited by Carrie J. Boden McGill, Sola M. Kippers.
- Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub., c2012.
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- Innovative perspectives of higher education.
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship is an edited collection that synthesizes current research on transformative learning and expands the current knowledge-base. This book is timely and significant as it provides a synthesis of some of the most exciting research in two fields: adult education and human services. The objectives of this themed edited collection, Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship, are threefold. First, this collection serves as a space to synthesize current research on transformative learning. Through an extensive literature review, the editors have discerned several important strands of research in the area of transformative learning and solicited chapters dealing with these topics. The second objective of the collection is to expand the current knowledge-base in the area of transformative learning by creating a space for dialog on the subject and bringing together diverse voices. The third objective of the collection is to transcend the field of adult education, with a specific goal to reach an audience in human services (psychology, counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy).
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text: I began work on several 3D pieces at the same time beginning in mid-March. This one definitely has its roots in the lockdown due to the coronavirus. The Styrofoam I used for the 'space' or tunnel/cave is from a shipment I got in February from China. Also I think it is interesting to note that I use toilet paper not newspaper print in my 21st Century paper mache formula. This fact is one reason it has taken so long to complete this piece. There was a TP shortage for awhile. This sculpture is 12. 5 inches high, 5.75 inches wide and 5.25 inches deep. Its stand is made entirely of the compound. The addition of the heart came late as I'd already made the heart and had it lying about. I thought at first to have a swirling black ball inside but it seemed too cluttered and distracting. When I placed the heart inside on a whim, it contrasted so nicely with the off-white finish of the piece that I left it in place. This is more of that Original Jones Art putting his heart (and mind) into his work in northwest Austin, Texas. Addendum: This piece has been chosen to be part of a pandemic-themed exhibit to be displayed at the Downtowner Gallery in Round Rock, Texas from September 16th to November 22, 2020.


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Biotic eyes helping the blind to see
It sounds like something from science fiction, but the first ever prosthetic eye, being developed by California firm Second Sight Medical Products, has been approved for use by European regulators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to follow suit.
The eyes have two separate parts. The first is a series of electrodes and a chip that is surgically placed inside the eye and attached to the retina. Recovery time from this procedure is about a week.
After recovery, patients need to wear a pair of special glasses with a camera in them that wirelessly transmits information to the chip planted inside the eye, which stimulates the electrodes attached to the eye. The brain then interprets that as an image.
The results have not been perfect, but all patients have seen some improvement.
“We had some patients who got just a little bit of benefit and others who could do amazing things like reading newspaper headlines,” Brian Mech, vice president of business development for Second Sight Medical Products, told Discovery News.
Where you can find out more: www.forbes.com
Will Sochi be ready in time?
The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia. The Olympics always cause large-scale construction to accommodate the influx of athletes and tourists, but doubts are being raised about whether it will be ready in time.
Russia is facing a lack of manpower in its construction efforts. According to documents from the International Olympic Committee, Russia needs an additional 22,600 workers to complete construction on time.
In addition to manpower problems, Russia is facing financial problems with the construction. Six of the 43 planned hotels have been cancelled so far due to problems with investors.
The Sochi Olympics are already over budget and set to be the most expensive in history. Costs are now estimated to be 1.5 trillion rubles, or $50 billion.
Where you can find out more: www.worldcrunch.com
Opposition leader assassinated in Tunisia
An unknown gunman killed Chokri Belaïd, a member of Tunisia’s political opposition party, as he left for work on Feb 6.
Belaïd was a secular political figure who had been openly critical of the current Islamic ruling party, Ennahda. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the killing.
Despite Ennahda claiming no involvement, supporters of Belaïd set fire to its headquarters.
“Criminals assassinated Chokri’s body, but will not assassinate Chokri’s struggle,” Belaïd’s widow told Reuters.
Belaïd spoke openly against the ruling government that has been in power since the Arab spring of 2010, claiming a lack of social progress.
Prime minister Hamdi Jebali has put forward a motion to dissolve the government, name a non-partisan cabinet of technocrats and hold early elections as a result of this tragedy. The motion has yet to be approved by parliament.
Where you can find out more: in.reuters.com


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Northern Irish rockers Therapy? celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the band with Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session) out now!
To coincide with the bands So Much for the 30 Year Plan Tour, the band re-recorded 12 of their UK Top 40 hits, many of which have become standout anthems, in Abbey Road to bring the tracks into the present. The band worked with producer Chris Sheldon, who produced the original Troublegum album as well as working on Semi-Detached, High Anxiety and the band’s latest record Cleave, to record the 12-track album that includes all their UK hits including Screamager and a reworking of Diane; Featuring James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers on one track, the band reflect on their great time touring and growing as a band over the past thirty years.
XS Noize have a copy of the new THERAPY? album Greatest Hits (2020 Versions) on limited edition Translucent Green 12″ vinyl to giveaway. For a chance to win, simply LIKE, SHARE & RETWEET via the social media links below. Competition closes on Monday 23rd March at 3 pm.
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KATHARSYS: CHARACTER CREATION
DEGENESIS is all about making choices. In game, as well as during character creation. Seven Cultures and 13 Cults are locked and intertwined in the conflicts of the world in the year 2595.
Between them lies an ocean of dirty secrets, idiosyncrasies and resentment, that is now contained by the rise of the clans. A player character needs to fit this world, where political entanglement as well as uncovering bunkers of the Recombination Group is part of the daily business. A character needs to be part of such a society full of prejudice, arrangements and opinions.
That’s why the character creation system in KATHARSYS is more than just a collection of dice rolls or randomly distributed skill points. It’s about making the right choices:
CULTURE, CONCEPT, CULT
The three big “C’s” make up the foundation of a character. Each step in the decision making forms the character culturally, morally and ideologically.
CULTURE: Culture describes the mentality and geographical background of a character, his heritage and the customs he grew up with. A childhood in wealthy streets of Tripol, where the air is full of fragrant odors, will lead to a different worldview than someone’s who grew up between the dust ruins of Borca.
CONCEPT: The concept describes the archetypal characteristics of a character, his deeply routed moral instincts. concepts are represented by the 22 major Arcana of the Apocalyptic Tarot. Choosing a concept adds principal standards which the character chooses to live by.
CULT: The final choice is the cult. They resemble ideologies, religions and economies. What the character stands for, what he strive for and what larger goals he feels appointed to. A cult is a destination for doing greater things, belonging to one gives a character a purpose in life.
Every Culture, Concept and Cult allows for certain Attributes and Skills that can be trained more easily. A Spitalian can easily afford to spend a point more on the skill, “Medicine”. A Hellvetic can do that with the skill, “Firearms”. But they don’t have to do so out of necessity. All bonuses granted on attributes and skills only enlarge the maximum available value for the increase during character creation. It’s the players choice if he wants to spend his points to max out an available skill or apply them sparingly across a larger skill set.
In general, the distribution of points is rather uncomplicated: 10 points are granted and divided among 6 attributes. 28 points are available to raise skills. The maximum level available is limited but expanded for each of the choices of the 3 “C’s”. Generalists don’t care about maxima and distribute the points to their liking among a vast set of possibilities. Specialists invest their points into the skills that are preferred by their Culture, Concept or Cult.
FOCUS VS PRIMAL
Does a character draw his strengths from ferocity? Is he choleric? Does he push forward against all odds? Then he must choose the skill “Primal”. Is he calculated, concentrated, a clear thought behind the bars of intellect? Then his choice must be “Focus”. Savage explosiveness vs cold blooded reaction. Primal and Focus eliminate each other.
Again, the player must make a choice which path of life his character follows. Once Primal or Focus is chosen, it excludes the other skill and is blacked out on the character sheet.
Some of the special skills a character can learn over the course of the game – the so-called “Potentials” -will be influenced by this choice. Also, both Primal and Focus determine the Ego pool of a character. Ego describes the amount of self-confidence, inner strength and will to survive. With Ego, the rules of combat can be bent to ones advantage and incredible feats can be achieved.
FAITH VS WILLPOWER
For some, psychological strength derives from Faith, others draw it from pure willpower. In the conflict of religion and ideology a character has to make his stand. The choice between the two eliminates the other skill which again is blacked out on the character sheet. As with Primal and Focus, the choice will have consequences on the Potentials that a character will have available during character progression. Furthermore, faith and willpower determine the maximum of Spore infestations a character can withstand before the call of the chakras begins to lure him in and follow him in his sleep. Whenever the character is exposed to the Primer’s powers, faith or willpower will be used to resist the threat.
When a character starts a game he has already left his footprint on the world. He has excelled within his cult or gained respect from people he was in contact with. These topics are reflected within the six Backgrounds: Allies, Authority, Network, Renown, Resources and Secrets. The more a character does for his cult, the easier it will be for him to draw comrades to his side, unlock upgrades for his own equipment or influence the cult’s agenda.
Every character has access to a rank within his cult, that is determined by a combination of skills, backgrounds and achievements. Every rank grants advantages, upgrades, bonuses and specific cult equipment that can only be obtained by a certain ranking. The ranks are described through different hierarchy trees within each cult. The further a character progresses, the further he branches out from the trunk.
The ranks in each cult are as unique as the cult itself. Here are the hierarchy trees for two cults: The Spitalians and the Jehammedans.

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Intel RealSense with XSplit
March 1, 20161 min read
- Operating System
F200: Windows 8.1 or later (64-bit)
SR300: Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
- Intel RealSense SDK – XSplit 3.x uses 2016 R3 RSSDK. Essentials and User Background Segmentation individual components must be installed.
- Intel RealSense camera DCM – Download the latest camera driver.
What to do when Intel RealSense background removal option is still not working even after installing the SDK and DCM?
- Make sure that the camera driver or DCM is installed – Different Intel RealSense SDK versions should be compatible with different camera DCM’s, so it is recommended to always install the latest DCM. (We are going to follow up with Intel to check for any possible incompatibilities between SDK versions and DCM versions)
- Restart the camera DCM service – This may be necessary after RealSense SDK installation or DCM update. Run services.msc and look for Intel RealSense Depth Camera Manager or Intel RealSense SR300 Depth Camera Manager and restart the service. It is also recommended to restart the XSplit application if it was running while executing the steps above.


New Mexico at No. 6 Nevada
Feb. 9, 2019, 4pm MT
Watch: CBS Sports Network
New Mexico’s biggest victory this season came on Jan. 5 when the Lobos sent the Nevada Wolf Pack home with an 85-58 loss. New Mexico was the underdog and stunned college basketball fans by upsetting the then-No.5/6 team.
That loss is the only one the Wolf Pack carries in its 22-1 overall record, 9-1 in the conference. The team will be looking for revenge this weekend as the Lobos travel to Reno for a Saturday game.
Since losing in Albuquerque, Nevada picked up eight victories. Meanwhile, the Lobos have gone 2-6.
Last encounter recap: New Mexico 85, Nevada 58
Maluach with the 3ptr! It’s 64-45 Lobos with 7:41 to go. pic.twitter.com/PHbIGvK2h2— The Lair New Mexico (@thelairnm) January 6, 2019
New Mexico (10-12, 4-6 Mountain West)
At the beginning of the season, New Mexico’s biggest struggle seemed to be the defense. The style keeps constantly changing to adjust based on the situation, but now the team seems to be struggling when it comes to offense.
During their 68-66 loss to Utah State on Jan. 26, the Lobos shot at 27.59 percent during the first half. Things didn’t improve with their 70-82 loss to Fresno State last week as New Mexico only managed to shoot at 31.9 percent from the field. The Lobos attempted 37 shots from beyond the arc but only made eight.
Their shooting improved during their 83-70 win over the San Diego State Aztecs. New Mexico shot over 50 percent during each half and finished at 53.8 percent from the field. The Lobos held the Aztecs to 38.24 percent during the second period.
Senior Anthony Mathis leads the team in scoring, averaging 15.8 points per game. Mathis scored 17 points during the SDSU game, but all of these points came during the second half.
Anthony Mathis, ladies and gentlemen 😎🔥 pic.twitter.com/Lsw9lZdGAb— The Lair New Mexico (@thelairnm) February 6, 2019
Nevada Wolf Pack (22-1, 9-1 Mountain West)
The Wolf Pack, currently ranked No. 6 in the AP and USA Today Coaches poll, is one of four teams in DI basketball with only one loss this season. The 22-1 record is the best in school history.
The team will be enjoying home court advantage, which has allowed the Wolf Pack to win its last 14 games (11 this season) at Lawlor Events Center.
Nevada’s latest victory was a 98-82 win over Colorado State. Senior Jordan Caroline scored a season-high 40 points, 30 of these came during the first period. His career high is 45 points, which he got at New Mexico during his sophomore season.
Caroline and teammate Caleb Martin lead the team by averaging 19.3 points per game each. Both have earned the Mountain West Player of the Week honor three times each.
When Nevada lost in Albuquerque in January, the Lobos’ zone defense limited Martin to only eight points. He missed his first seven field goal attempts. This same defense made the Wolf Pack finish the night with 33.3 percent shooting from the field and only four successful three-pointers. That type of struggle doesn’t sound like the team who currently leads the conference by averaging 82.1 points per game, but that struggle allowed the Lobos to pull the upset in January. Can the Lobos shake the Wolf Pack again?


This peculiar, pocket-sized pal is packed with handy features that should appeal to travelers. The HooToo TripMate Titan is primarily a travel router that you can use to create your own private Wi-Fi network to connect up to five devices. It’s an ideal solution for hotel stays, offering easy multiple connections and an extra layer of security.
The TripMate Titan can also act as network-attached storage (NAS) if you plug a flash drive, card reader, or external hard drive into it via USB. And that’s not all, because it also boasts a 10,400mAh battery that you can use to charge up your phone or tablet on the go.
Compact and sturdy
Open the box and you’ll be surprised by the diminutive stature of the TripMate Titan. It’s an impressively compact device, measuring just 3.74 inches tall and 1.73 × 1.73 inches across. It feels solid in hand, and weighs in at around 9 ounces (255g). You get a short Micro USB to USB cable and a user manual in the box with it.
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The world of mixed martial arts (MMA) is no stranger to controversy, but the latest uproar has nothing to do with the sport itself.
Instead, it centers on a oddball offshoot of MMA called slap competition, and specifically, the actions of Romanian promotion RXF.
RXF has been at the center of the slap competition controversy for some time now.
In a previous event, one of its competitors, Sorin Comsa, suffered massive swelling to his face after competing in a slap contest. The video of the event went viral, attracting millions of views and sparking outrage on social media.
Despite the backlash, RXF has continued to promote its slap competitions, and in a recent event, the organization featured two kids.
The video of the girls’ competition quickly drew criticism from fans and observers around the world, with many expressing outrage at the idea of young girls participating in such a dangerous and violent activity. Some commentators suggested that the girls were too young to fully understand the risks involved, and that they were being exploited by the promotion for the sake of spectacle.
The controversy surrounding slap competition has been brewing for some time now. Many people believe that the activity is too dangerous, and that it should not be regulated as a sport. Unlike other combat sports like boxing or MMA, slap competition requires competitors to stand still and take vicious hits without being able to defend themselves.
Despite these concerns, slap competition has become increasingly popular in recent years, with UFC president Dana White even launching his own slap competition promotion earlier this year. However, RXF’s decision to feature young girls in its competition has taken the controversy to a new level, and many are calling for the promotion to be held accountable for its actions.
However it turned out that the outcry was premature – one of the girls featured was a national wrestler, while the other was an Instagram celebrity. Teodora Sirbu is a Romanian national champion up to 62 kg. She’s 19 years old and therefor of age and not a minor.
In the end, the controversy surrounding slap competition raises important questions about the limits of combat sports and the responsibility of promoters to ensure the safety and well-being of their competitors. As the debate continues, it remains to be seen whether slap competition will continue to attract controversy, or whether it will eventually be regulated out of existence.
Ezra Samuel is a passionate freelance writer with a particular love for covering MMA news. His interest in the sport dates back to his college days, and he has since established himself as a respected voice in the MMA community. Over the years, Ezra has contributed his writing to a variety of digital outlets, including the popular site calfkicker.

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For this concert, we celebrate the YSO string section, with three of the most celebrated string orchestra pieces ever written, and outstanding new works by two exciting living composers.
(b. February 10, 1970)
Peter Boyer was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and began composing at the age of fifteen. He has received a Grammy nomination as well as numerous national awards. In addition to his work for the concert hall, Boyer has orchestrated music for more than a dozen major feature films as well as music for the Academy Awards.
Commissioned by the Conductors Institute in 2000, Three Olympians reflects the composer’s interest in Greek mythology. Boyer says:
The word ‘Olympians’ in the title is not be understood in the modern-day ‘athletic’ sense of the word, but in the ancient Greek sense: an Olympian was a resident of Olympus, the home of the Greek gods…The three which inspired the music in this case—Apollo, Aphrodite, and Ares—were all children of Zeus, but each had a different mother…For me, Apollo meant ‘classical’ harmony and phrasing, and a great deal of energy. Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, which to me unambiguously called for lyrical melody. Ares was the god of war, which to me translated as relentless rhythm, as well as a chance to exploit some of the more menacing effects of which strings are capable…This work is unabashedly tonal, straightforward, and hopefully a good deal of fun.
Three Olympians has had an active performance history and a significant record of broadcasts by classical radio stations throughout the United States and Europe.
Samuel Osborne Barber
(March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981)
Adagio for Strings
Adagio for Strings is arguably Barber’s best-known work, arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year that he wrote the quartet. It was performed for the first time on November 5, 1938, by Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast. Barber also used the music for his 1967 choral arrangement of Agnus Dei, and the piece has been arranged for numerous instrumental and vocal combinations.
Adagio is constructed in a long musical arch, beginning with heartfelt strains that gradually build and peak at a fever pitch that, for many, creates a feeling of ultimate release of anguish and deep sadness. The association of the piece with deep sadness has come about through its use by the media at key moments in history, which have given it iconic status in American culture. Performances and broadcasts of this piece have used to commemorate the deaths of such figures as Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein and Princess Diana, and events such as the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as other tragic incidents. Adagio for Strings can also be heard on many film, television, and video game soundtracks.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
(October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958)
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Vaughan Williams was an organist, composer, writer, editor and folk song collector. The study of folk music profoundly affected his compositional style, but another important influence was his interest in history. It is no surprise that he would draw upon a work from one of England’s most important early composers.
Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) was a court composer for British royalty from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I. He was a versatile composer who created numerous sacred and secular works that are important to England’s musical heritage. It was a melody by Tallis in an English hymnal that Vaughan Williams was editing, Why Fum’th in Fight?, that inspired him to compose this Fantasia, which was premiered at the 1910 Three Choirs Festival with the composer conducting.
The work is written for a combination of three separate string ensembles: a full string section, a group of nine players, and a quartet. Tallis’s melody is presented fully intact three times during the work, and the rest resembles a set of variations or improvisations on the theme and its motives. Toward the middle of the piece, contrasting material is introduced by the solo viola that is then combined with Tallis’s theme. The lush harmonies and orchestration have also tapped into England’s long tradition of string ensembles, making this piece one of Vaughan Williams’s most beloved works. A review of the premiere captures the piece very well:
One is living in two centuries at once… Throughout its course one is never quite sure whether one is listening to something very old or very new. The work is wonderful because it seems to lift one into some unknown regions of musical thought and feeling.
(b. March 9, 1980)
Within Her Arms
London-born Anna Clyne is a Grammy-nominated composer. Clyne has been commissioned by a wide range of ensembles and institutions, including BBC Scottish Symphony, Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Houston Ballet, London Sinfonietta, Seattle Symphony and the Southbank Centre. Clyne is currently a member of the composition faculty at Mannes / The New School.
Within Her Arms for string orchestra was commissioned by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The piece was composed in memory of Clyne’s mother, who died in 2009, and was first performed on April 7 of that year. The work is a powerful expression of grief and sadness. The music is prefaced by the following poem by Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh:
Earth will keep you tight within her arms dear one—
So that tomorrow you will be transformed into flowers—
This flower smiling quietly in this morning field—
This morning you will weep no more dear one—
For we have gone through too deep a night.
This morning, yes, this morning, I kneel down on the green grass—
And I notice your presence.
Flowers, that speak to me in silence.
The message of love and understanding has indeed come.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(May 7, 1840-November 6, 1893)
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
The late 1870s and early 1880s was a transitional time for Tchaikovsky. He gave up teaching at the Moscow Conservatory for a more nomadic existence, looking for places to live that would allow him to compose more freely. This was not without its own difficulties—financial and personal insecurities ebbed and flowed freely. His works during this time include opera and solo songs, but he also sought newer challenges, including the orchestral suite. This genre offered him more freedom from the expectations associated with music for full orchestra, especially in terms of expression and combinations of musical characters. Music on the lighter side also seemed to interest him, as evidenced by his Serenade for Strings.
This suite is an interesting combination of Russian and Western European musical styles. It is normally performed without a break between movements. Musical materials introduced in the first movement are transformed from an opening chorale followed by contrasting spritely Mozartean flavor to a lush waltz in the second movement, to a gentle lyrical elegy in the third, and finally recast in the finale as a lusty Russian dance as if to emphasize or confirm his Russian roots. The music eventually circles back to the opening chorale for a reminder of where he started before a final rush to a satisfying end. The Serenade was given a private performance at the Moscow Conservatory on December 3, 1880, followed by its first public performance in St. Petersburg in October, 1881.
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A heating facility being developed by the Fort Smith Métis Council could have wide-ranging implications for heating Northwest Territories buildings. The council expects a new biomass heating system to reduce its annual heating costs by two-thirds.
The project, expected to break ground this month, is one-of-a-kind in the NWT, but council took its cue from a similar project in Alaska, according to George Kurszewski, economic development manager for the Fort Smith Métis Council. Using a smokeless biomass heating system from Garn, a Minnesota-based company that developed the unique “hydronic boiler system” in the 1980s, it will be fueled by local timber that is cut and dried as cordwood. The council expects the new heating plant to be operational by late summer and plans to be ready to switch from oil heating by winter.
The biomass heating system will, when construction is completed this summer, be used to heat four Métis council buildings – its headquarters, Roaring Rapids Hall, the Evergreen Building and the Secretariat Building. All four reside on the same block.
“We’re converting all four of them through a district heating project that is going to be taking the place of oil, so we’re going to actually be using cordwood,” Kurszewski said.
According to him, the Garn boiler runs efficiently on dry wood and doesn’t produce any smoke. The system uses an internal fan system as a bellows to produce a very hot fire, which heats a water tank. Unlike some biomass heating systems, it doesn’t waste any energy, he said. Although he noted there are comparable systems on the market, the Métis council chose the Garn system because it has already been proven workable in the North.
“So it seemed like a natural fit for us to do something with it in terms of utilizing some of our resources and addressing some of the energy issues because all of these buildings are heated by fuel oil,” Kurszewski said. “There’s a cost to that, and that cost, of course, leaves town because the multinational companies that provide the supply up here aren’t even from Canada.”
Kurszewski projects the total retrofit cost to be $180,000, but with federal and territorial alternative energy program funding, the total out-of-pocket cost to the council is $30,000 – the cost of a year’s worth of oil to heat the facilities. For council, should the project be successful (and Kurszewski said there is no reason to think it won’t be), it will almost pay for itself in the first year of operation.
“There’s not much risk and there’s quite a lot of benefit,” Kurszewski said.
Using 300 cords of locally-cut wood per year as fuel, Kurszewski said he expects heating costs to be $10,000 per year, but won’t know for sure until after the first year of operation. It will also create woodcutter jobs for people in Fort Smith, he said.
“The cost of acquiring the resources is very low. It’s just a little bit of human labour. And that aspect is good, too, because it’s job creation,” Kurszewski said.
The council will keep its oil heating system in place as a backup to the new biomass boiler.
The Fort Smith Métis Council investigated other heating systems while looking for an alternative to oil. One of those alternatives was a wood pellet stove, but Kurszewski said the Garn system looked to be more cost-effective while being as efficient as burning pellets. Additionally, wood pellets have additional costs in processing and transportation.
With the unstable price of oil, Kurszewski said the council’s project could pave the way for similar projects throughout the NWT. He said he’s looking at the biomass heating facility as the first step towards providing a cost-effective heating option for everyone in the North. For instance, Garn systems (or similar ones from other manufacturers) could be used to heat public housing units at a greatly reduced cost, he said.
“The potential for significant impact from this project is there. If it proves itself, it’s going to present lots of good options to other people besides ourselves,” Kurszewski said.


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A Stamford couple was arrested for telling police a false story that they had been victims of an alleged robbery and stabbing at McDonald's in Greenwich. Officers met the two at Greenwich Hospital, where Carlos Martinez, 22, of 501 W. Main St., Stamford, was being treated for an injury he told police was the result of a stabbing at the East Putnam Avenue fast-food location. Martinez and his wife, Liliana Martinez, 26, had made up the story. Martinez admitted to officers that his injury was self-inflicted. Both were issued misdemeanor summons on charges of filing a false report and interfering with an officer. Both are due in court Sept. 23.
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Raul V. Lituma, 45, of 349 Greenwich Ave., was arrested on charges of risk of injury to a minor and disorderly conduct after a verbal argument turned physical. Lituma had been arguing with an unidentified person when he began pulling the victim's hair and shoved the victim onto a bed, almost striking a minor child. He was released on a $1,000 bond and was due in court Friday.
Robert M Paul, 43, of 200 Broad St., Stamford, was arrested on charges of second-degree harassment after continuing to contact his ex-girlfriend via text message and phone after police and the woman told him to stop. He was released on a $237 cash bond and was due in court Friday.
Kristen Montanez, 29, of 236 Joshua Town Road, Lyme, was arrested on a warrant for allegedly participating in credit-card theft. Montanez allegedly used illegally obtained credit cards to make purchases in Greenwich in April. She turned herself in to the police on charges of third-degree larceny, theft of a credit card and risk of injury to a minor. She was released on a promise to appear in court Sept. 24.
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A Black woman had amoebic dysentery for 5 days before the delivery of her 7th child. The day after delivery at home she was admitted to hospital with puerperal sepsis, vaginal bleeding and dysentery. The patient received gentamicin from the 4th to the 10th day after admission and the diarrhoea continued until the 11th day, when she developed tetany. Investigation revealed hypocalcaemia, hypomagnesaemia and hypokalaemia; urinary magnesium excretion was at the upper limit of the reference range; infusion of parathyroid hormone resulted in a 12-fold increase in urinary cyclic adenosine monophosphate excretion. Magnesium replacement therapy was instituted and normal serum calcium, magnesium and potassium levels were re-established on this treatment alone. These findings are interpreted as being consistent with magnesium depletion by diarrhoea and gentamicin therapy, resulting in the induction of a functional hypoparathyroidism.
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A Dutch father held his children in captivity for almost a decade in an isolated farmhouse in Ruinerwold, two hours northeast of Amsterdam. They were cut off from the rest of the world and were physically and mentally abused, prosecutors told a court on Tuesday.
Gerrit Jan van Dorsten, 67, is charged with unlawful detention, child abuse and money laundering. The court ordered him and a suspected accomplice to be detained for another three months while further investigations are carried out.
He had held six of his nine children captive and beat them to drive out "bad spirits," prosecutors said. He also told his children that the spirits would enter their bodies if they talked to outsiders and subjected them to "very serious physical punishment" if they were what he considered to be "unclean."
Prosecutors said the man deprived the children of their liberty from 2007 to 2019, as well as "punching, kicking and denying food and drink" to the six children. Dorsten is also charged with sexually abusing two of the older three children.
"All the children report physical punishment if they were deemed to be under the influence of spirits. This happened from a very young age, with children as young as four or five years old," prosecutor Diana Roggen told the judges.
Prosecutors said the youngest six of Dorsten's nine children "lived in seclusion from birth, were kept indoors and had to be quiet so that no one would notice that they existed."
The youngsters were not registered with Dutch authorities and had never been to school, prosecutors said.
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Dorsten did not attend the opening of the preliminary court hearing in the northeastern Dutch city of Assen. Due to a brain hemorrhage, he is no longer able to talk and is currently in a prison hospital in The Hague, according to Dutch broadcaster NOS.
Prosecutors depicted Dorsten as a religious man who saw his family as "chosen by God" and did everything in his power, including physical beatings, to keep them away from what he believed to be evil external influences.
"The punishments would consist of beatings, sometimes with a stick or other objects, pulling of their hair, sometimes making them sit in a cold bath for hours. Sometimes they were chocked to the point where they became unconscious," Roggen said.
Prosecutors also said one child was tied up by his hands and feet as punishment, while another child was forced to spend an entire summer in a doghouse at the farm in northern Drenthe province.
The family was first discovered in October last year when the eldest son, who was still living on the farm, went into a local bar in a confused state, sparking concern about the welfare of his siblings.
Police raided the farm and arrested Dorsten and a 58-year-old Austrian man, Josef Brunner.
Brunner, who appeared in court Tuesday, is accused of complicity and charged with depriving the children of their liberty. He had rented the farmhouse in Ruinerwold to the father, brought the family food and helped with the farm's vegetable garden.
"Without the suspect ... this situation could not have happened," prosecutors said.
"I feel like this is a witch hunt," Brunner told the court. "I have a clear conscience ... I have not robbed anyone of their freedom."
Defense lawyers will also question the children behind closed doors.
Prosecutors said the three oldest children were not permitted to talk about the existence of their brothers and sisters.
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Nigerian reality star cum entrepreneur, Cynthia Nwadiora aka Cee-C, recently took to Instagram page to share an interesting conversation she had with her stepmom about her fitness routine.
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WASHINGTON – The American Federation of Government Employees rejects a new report that recommends overhauling the personnel system for civilian employees in the Department of Defense, since it largely rehashes failed policies of the past and would undermine the government’s merit-based civil service system.
“The importance of maintaining a nonpartisan, apolitical civil service in an increasingly partisan environment cannot be overstated,” AFGE National President J. David Cox Sr. said in a statement to the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel.
“Calls to make it easier to fire a federal employee by decreasing due process rights or speeding up the removal process are ‘dog whistles’ for making the career service subject to the partisan or personal whims of a few supervisors or political appointees.”
A new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center recommends moving DoD civilians from Title 5 to Title 10 of the U.S. Code, which would eliminate most civil service protections and give the Secretary of Defense total discretion to set and adjust pay.
The proposals largely mimic reforms that have been rejected in the past – specifically the National Security Personnel System, a pay-for-performance scheme that was repealed by Congress after just three years because it discriminated against employees who were non-white or worked outside the Pentagon. Undeterred, DoD leaders attempted to resurrect NSPS a few years ago with a plan called Force of the Future, which proposed moving employees to Title 10.
“AFGE strongly opposes any and all efforts to restore NSPS, whether under the guise of Force of the Future or by any other name, including the just released report of Bipartisan Policy Center. The flaws of that system were well-documented and there is certainty that a revival would reproduce all the discriminatory effects of its earlier incarnation,” Cox said.
Cox said these proposals must be rejected because they violate the fundamental principle of having a merit-based civil service system, which ensures personnel decisions are based on an employee’s ability to do the job and not his or her political connections.
“Due process rights, including union rights, for civil servants at DoD or other agencies provides accountability to the public for both managers and political appointees and is a cornerstone of our system of democracy and should not be treated as expendable,” Cox said.

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For those who want to make great videos, but don't have a full-scale video editing application, Photoshop CS4 Extended can save the day. In Photoshop CS4 Extended for Video, Chad Perkins shows how Photoshop can be integrated into a video development process. Chad applies his video production know-how to the software's feature set in order to complete intermediate and advanced video tasks, including working with 3D objects and making slip edits. He also presents a real-world project demonstrating the popular technique of isolating and animating the components of a still image. Exercise files accompany this course.
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With votes still being counted for this year’s midterm elections, countless U.S. citizens have enacted their voting plans. Options like voting early or by mail made it easier for people to fit voting into their schedules. This is especially helpful when people are already dealing with life’s everyday demands like childcare, relationships and work. Luckily, most states also require workplaces to give employees time off to vote. Every election cycle, these labor laws ease the voting process for millions of workers throughout the country. Without such laws, voter turnout among the employed could be much lower.
Colleges, on the other hand, aren’t required to give students time off to vote. They can hold classes on Election Day with no consequences—and the majority of them do.
University students face many barriers to voting, most notably busy school schedules. It’s difficult for students to make it out to the polls if they’re stuck in lecture halls all day or have important assignments due. Moreover, college students are usually less experienced voters, so it can take them more time to figure out when, where and how to vote. By not giving students time off to vote, colleges dismiss the importance of their student body’s civic participation.
Saint Louis University (SLU) is a university that doesn’t cancel classes on Election Day. This year, 36% of SLU’s undergraduate students are from Missouri, which adds up to over 2,900 voters. This figure doesn’t even consider the large group of students from nearby Illinois towns who could easily drive home to vote if given time off. If SLU canceled classes on Election Day, hundreds of local students would suddenly have plenty of time to vote in person.
On top of this, SLU is a mid-sized school with a majority of out-of-state students. Think about the effect of canceling classes at a large state school like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which enrolls more than 25,000 in-state undergraduate students. Since Election Day is a state holiday in Illinois, UIUC cancels classes for federal elections, benefiting thousands of students. Doing so nationwide on Election Day would make voting easier for millions of students.
Furthermore, it should be noted that voter turnout is lowest for people between the ages of 18 and 24, a group that encompasses most college students. This makes it even more vital to encourage students to vote. In any case, the best way to become a lifelong voter is to start voting young, so any opportunity to get more young people to the polls is worthwhile. If young people are not easily able to vote, their voices will not be heard. By not taking such an opportunity, universities trivialize young people’s opinions and put the future of the U.S. democracy at risk.
By holding classes on Election Day, colleges send a dangerous message that voting is not important, a statement far from the truth. Voting is at the center of American democracy, and not emphasizing this to students undermines voting’s impact on the nation. The easiest, most effective way to reject this idea—and get more students to the polls—is to cancel classes on Election Day.


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A former president of Manchester University has died. Parker Marden led the university from 1994 until his retirement in 2004. He was 77.
In an email to Manchester students, faculty and staff, current President Dave McFadden says during Marden’s tenure, the university saw an increase in diversity among students and faculty. Marden was also part of "The Next Step" campaign, which led to to many capital improvements on campus and a boost in the university’s endowment.
"Parker was a wonderful writer and communicator, who brought people together in common purpose," said McFadden. "He was a true believer in and articulate advocate for the value of a liberal arts education. Above all, he loved Manchester students and embraced his role as their champion. In turn, he was known to many students as ‘Papa Parker.’"
McFadden says funeral arrangements for Marden are pending. He is survived by his wife, Ann, and children, Jon and KerriAnn.


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