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The infection density of symbionts is among the major parameters to understand their biological effects in host-endosymbionts interactions. Diaphorina citri harbors two bacteriome-associated bacterial endosymbionts (Candidatus Carsonella ruddii and Candidatus Profftella armatura), besides the intracellular reproductive parasite Wolbachia. In this study, the density dynamics of the three endosymbionts associated with the psyllid D. citri was investigated by real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) at different developmental stages. Bacterial density was estimated by assessing the copy number of the 16S rRNA gene for Carsonella and Profftella, and of the ftsZ gene for Wolbachia. Analysis revealed a continuous growth of the symbionts during host development. Symbiont growth and rate curves were estimated by the Gompertz equation, which indicated a negative correlation between the degree of symbiont-host specialization and the time to achieve the maximum growth rate (t*). Carsonella densities were significantly lower than those of Profftella at all host developmental stages analyzed, even though they both displayed a similar trend. The growth rates of Wolbachia were similar to those of Carsonella, but Wolbachia was not as abundant. Adult males displayed higher symbiont densities than females. However, females showed a much more pronounced increase in symbiont density as they aged if compared to males, regardless of the incorporation of symbionts into female oocytes and egg laying. The increased density of endosymbionts in aged adults differs from the usual decrease observed during host aging in other insect-symbiont systems.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of betaine in methionine-and choline-reduced diets fed to broilers submitted to heat stress. In total, 1,408 male broilers were randomly distributed into eight treatments, according to 2 x 4 (environment x diet) factorial arrangement, with eight replicates of 2 birds each. Birds were reared environmental chambers under controlled temperature (25-26 °C) or cyclic heat-stressing temperature (25-31 °C). The following diets were tested: positive control (PC), formulated to meet broiler nutritional requirements; negative control (NC), with reduced DL-methionine and choline chloride levels; and with two supplementation levels of natural betaine to the negative control diet (NC+NB1 and NC+NB2). Live performance, carcass traits, and intestinal morphometrics were evaluated when broilers were 45 days of age. The results showed that all evaluated parameters were influenced by the interaction between environment and diet, except for breast meat drip loss. The breakdown of the interactions showed that birds fed the PC diet and reared in the controlled environment had greater breast drip loss than those submitted to the cyclic heat-stress environment. Birds submitted to cyclic heat stress and fed the PC diet presented the lowest feed intake. Feed conversion ratio was influenced only by diet. The FCR of broilers fed the NC+NB2 diet was intermediate relative to those fed the PC and NC diets. The addition of betaine in the diet, with 11.18% digestible methionine and 24.73% total choline reductions, did not affect broiler live performance, carcass yield, or intestinal morphometrics.
The intensification of livestock have increased the emission of pollutants to the environment, leading to a growing interest in seeking strategies that minimise these emissions. Studies have shown that it is possible to manipulate diets by reducing CP levels and thus reducing nitrogen (N) excretion, without compromising performance. However, there is no knowledge of any study that has focused on reducing N excretion and relating this reduction to individual amino acids. This study investigated the effect of dietary methionine + cysteine (MC) and threonine (THR), the two most limiting amino acids for broiler production, on nitrogen excretion (NE) and nitrogen deposition (ND) and determined the efficiency of utilisation of both amino acids for protein deposition. Six trials were conducted to measure the NE and ND in broiler chickens during three rearing phases in response to dietary amino acid. The efficiency of utilisation of the amino acids was calculated by linear regression of body protein deposition and the amino acid intake. Despite the differences between sexes and phases, the efficiency of utilisation was the same, being 0.60 and 0.59 for MC and THR, respectively. The rate of NE behaved exponentially, increasing with amino acid intake, and can exceed 50% of N intake, being higher than ND. On average, for a reduction in intake of each unit of MC or THR (mg) there is a reduction of 0.5% of NE. Although this reduction seems low, considering that it corresponds to changes in one amino acid only, the impact on a large scale would be significant. Knowledge of how animals respond to NE and ND/protein deposition according to amino acid dietary content may represent new efforts towards reducing the impact on environment.Keywords: amino acids, efficiency of utilisation, environmental pollution, nutrition, poultry ImplicationsThis study shows the effect of amino acids on nitrogen excretion and deposition and on their efficiency of utilisation for protein deposition by broilers. The nitrogen originating from the poultry is an environmental pollutant. Provision of higher amounts of amino acids, besides not increasing protein deposition, also causes increased nitrogen excretion. Meeting animal's amino acids requirements, provides greater efficiency of utilisation of these amino acids, without affecting protein deposition in the animals, and thus reduces nitrogen excretion. In this way, the management of amino acids in broilers diets may allow new efforts to reduce the impact of intensification of livestock. IntroductionThe intensification of livestock have significantly increased the emission of pollutants to the environment, leading to a growing interest in seeking alternatives that minimise these emissions. The European Union has already implemented laws regulating environmental pollution, especially in regard to the emission of nitrogen (N) compounds, considered to be a critical pollutants affecting life on earth (European Commission, 2007). N compounds are responsible for pollution of groundwater due to nitrate lea...
ABSTRACT. The objective of this research study was to evaluate the effect of age on the apparent ileal digestibility coefficient of nutrients, gross energy and digestible energy of corn germ meal for broilers. Four digestibility trials were conducted using 280 broilers (Cobb 500) distributed in a completely randomized design with two treatments and five replications, repeated at four ages (10, 20, 30 and 40 days). The number of birds used in the tests was 10, 8, 6 and 4 birds per experimental unit at the different ages. The results were analyzed considering as dependent variable the apparent ileal digestibility of dry matter, crude protein, ether extract and gross energy, digestible dry matter, digestible crude protein, lipid and digestible energy; and ages (10, 20, 30 and 40 days) as the independent variable. The results for the variables showed that bird age exerted influence only in the ileal digestibility of dry matter and gross energy. The digestible energy of corn germ meal increased by about 13 kcal kg -1 day -1 up to the evaluated age (40 days).Keywords: corn coproducts, digestible energy, fat, ileum, partial collection.Efeito da idade de frangos de corte sobre a digestibilidade ileal do gérmen integral de milho RESUMO. Objetivou-se com esta pesquisa avaliar o efeito da idade sobre os coeficientes de digestibilidade ileal aparente dos nutrientes, da energia bruta e os valores de energia digestível do gérmen integral de milho para frangos de corte. Quatro ensaios de digestibilidade foram realizados com 280 aves de corte (Cobb 500) distribuídas em um delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado, com quatro tratamentos e cinco repetições. Os tratamentos avaliados consistiram das diferentes idades das aves: 10, 20, 30 e 40 dias. A quantidade de aves utilizadas nos ensaios foram: dez, oito, seis e quatro em cada unidade experimental, nas diferentes idades avaliadas, respectivamente. Os resultados foram analisados considerando-se como variável dependente a digestibilidade ileal aparente da matéria seca, da proteína bruta, do extrato etéreo e da energia bruta, matéria seca digestível, proteína bruta digestível, extrato etéreo digestível e energia digestível e como variável independente as idades (10, 20, 30 e 40 dias). Os resultados obtidos para as variáveis analisadas revelaram que a idade da ave exerceu influência apenas nos coeficientes de digestibilidade ileal da matéria seca e da energia bruta. A energia digestível do gérmen integral de milho aumentou cerca de 13 kcal kg -1 dia -1 até a idade avaliada (40 dias).
Níveis de óleo de soja na dieta de poedeiras comerciais criadas em região de alta temperatura RESUMO Com o objetivo de avaliar o efeito da inclusão do óleo de soja em rações sobre o desempenho produtivo, qualidade da casca e parâmetros econômicos de poedeiras comerciais, realizou-se um experimento utilizando-se 160 aves da linhagem Hisex brown, com 40 semanas de idade. As aves foram distribuídas em delineamento inteiramente casualizado com cinco tratamentos e quatro repetições de oito aves por unidade experimental. Os tratamentos consistiram de dietas formuladas com 0,0; 1,0; 2,0; 3,0 e 4,0% de inclusão de óleo de soja e com o mesmo nível energético e nutricional. Os tratamentos não afetaram o peso das aves, a produção de ovos, consumo de ração, energia e proteína, conversão por dúzia de ovos e espessura de casca; entretanto, a inclusão do óleo de soja aumentou linearmente o peso dos ovos e, quadraticamente, às conversões por massa, energética e protéica de ovos, além do que a inclusão do óleo aumentou o custo da ração; conclui-se, então, que o óleo de soja aumenta o peso dos ovos, apresentando efeito a partir de 2% em rações à base de milho e farelo de soja, e que a sua utilização em níveis crescentes pode aumentar o custo da ração e diminuir a renda liquida, razão por que deve ser utilizado após uma análise econômica.Palavras-chave: poedeiras, produção de ovos, suplementação de gordura, óleo de soja Oil levels in the diet of laying hens maids in area of high temperature ABSTRACTThis objective was to evaluate the performance, quality of egg and economics parameters of laying hens feed with different levels of soybean oil in the diets. 166 laying hens, Hisex brown, 40 weekold were used and distributed in a completely randomized design in five treatments and four replications of 8 laying hens. The levels of the soybean oil were: 0, 1, 2, 3 e 4% in the diets with same energetic and nutritional levels. The treatments did not affect the live weight, eggs production, feed intake, energy and protein intake, conversion for dozen egg and shell thickness. However, the inclusion of the soybean oil showed linear effect in the egg weight and quadratic effect for mass, energetic, and protein conversion, besides the inclusion of this oil increased the cost of the ration. It is concluded that the soybean oil increase the egg weight, showing effect with 2% inclusion in the diet based on corn and soybean, and the utilization in increasing levels may increased the costs and decreased the net income, for that reason should be used only after economic analysis.
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THE victims of the crime perpetuated off the coast of Barbados were honored October 6 in Havana’s Colón Cemetery, with floral wreaths sent by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro and President Raúl Castro.
Speaking for victims’ families, friends, colleagues and the Cuban people, Wilfredo Pérez - son of the pilot at the helm of Cuban Flight 455 on October 6, 1976 – called for the extradition of Luís Posada Carriles to Venezuela, to be tried for the crime which he has evaded for 37 years now, as well as for the release of the Cuban Five, convicted precisely for struggling against terrorism.
Among the 73 passengers aboard the aircraft were members of the Cuban national fencing team which had just won the Central American and Caribbean Championship held that year in Venezuela.
Thirty-seven years later, the pain is still visible in the faces of their mothers and the eyes of their children who grew up without a parent. The pain is felt by all. Fidel said it during the victims’ burial, days after the bombing.
"We cannot say that the pain is shared. The pain is multiplied. Millions of Cubans cry with the loved ones of the victims of this abominable crime. And when a forceful and powerful people cries, injustice trembles!"
The procession and ceremony were led by Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power and Lázara Mercedes LópezAcea, vice president of the Councils of State and secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba’s Havana Provincial Committee.
Also present were Hero of the Republic René González, families of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States, members of the diplomatic corps, families of the victims, sports figures and workers from the Cuban Civil Aeronautics Institute.


LONDON, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Deputy Mayor of London for Transport, Val Shawcross, Friday inaugurated Europe's largest fleet of all electric buses built in Britain by a partnership between the Chinese new energy automobile manufacturer BYD and the British bus building company Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL).
The 51 12-meter single deckers in London will service two Transport for London (TfL) routes -- 507 and 521. According to TfL figures, roughly 7 million passengers use buses on the both routes every year. The Enviro200EV buses bring together the battery and electric technology of BYD and the design and build expertise of ADL.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: "The transformation of London's bus fleet will play a key role in making our transport cleaner and healthier."
Isbrand Ho, Managing Director of BYD Europe, said: "Today is the culmination of several years of hard work and we are delighted to be here with our partners TfL, Go-Ahead and ADL inaugurating Europe's largest electric bus fleet."
Colin Robertson, CEO of ADL, said: "These world-class vehicles are a product of partnership -- in collaborating with BYD, our shared vision has been to provide an electric vehicle solution which responds to all of our customers' needs.
BYD and ADL are at the forefront of the revolution which will bring electric buses to the streets of British cities. With 10,000 full size electric buses already produced, BYD boasts advanced, safe and long range Iron-Phosphate battery technology. ADL is Britain's largest bus manufacturer in the midi bus sector.
In Britain, aside from the 51 buses launched in London Friday, BYD is trialling the world's first pure electric double deckers -- five are in service with London operator Metroline on behalf of TfL and future versions will be built in partnership with ADL.


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Surprisingly, not many prose writers know the rules of the game when it comes to writing stories. They flounder about with action and characters until things begin to take shape. Poets know even less about storytelling. No wonder narrative poetry has gone aground.
Narrative poems tell stories about imagined lives drawn from myth, legend, history, or current events. The primary purpose of narrative poetry is to tell a story. The first test of narrative poetry is in its readability. Its elements are recognizable human characters, a propelling plot (complication, action), a life-like setting that furnishes a clear framework for the story, vivid description, compact stimulating language, and a suitable poetic form for the story, The opening lines of a narrative poem should launch the reader immediately into the story (given the who, where, when, and what).
There has been a revival of narrative poetry in recent years. The new narrative is not to be mistaken with the now defunct movement labeled confessional poetry, in which poets mistakenly narrowed their focus upon the autobiographical “I”. Those so-called narratives were really therapeutic at best and narcissistic at worst. The true narrative tradition includes the names of the world’s most renowned poets from Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Attar, Ferdousi, Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Camoes, La Fontaine, Milton, Goethe, Pope, Pushkin, Byron, and Longfellow to Robinson, Frost, and Jeffers.
Storytelling began to move into the provenance of prose writers early in the 18th Century, though many lamented, allowing the presentation of a good tale into artless prose (whence the contrasting adjectives–poetic, artful, and prosaic, artless). Still, until the early years of the 20th century, the history of poetry and the history of narrative were closely bound together.
No two prose writers seem to approach writing a narrative in the same way. John Irving says he begins with characters and then tries to think up as much action for them as possible. William Faulkner states that his stories usually begin with a single idea or memory or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow. John Hawkes declares, ". . .at the outset I’ve never been aware of the story I was trying to handle except in the most general terms." Therefore, he never outlined a story before starting to write.
John Barth, on the other hand, says, "I can’t see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it’s going to end. I usually make a detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth."
As we can see, if we wanted to write a story following the advice of these excellent prose writers, we wouldn’t know clearly how to start. Katherine Anne Porter tells us: "If I didn’t know the ending of a story, I wouldn’t begin. I always write my last line, my last paragraphs, my last page first."
Aldous Huxley stated, "I know very dimly when I start what’s going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write." But Anne sexton says, "I will fool around on the typewriter. It might take me ten pages of nothing, of terrible writing, and then I’ll get a line, and I’ll think, ’That’s what I mean!’ What you are doing is hunting for what you mean, what you’re trying to say. You don’t know when you start."
But if prose writers don’t agree on what rules govern the writing of stories, poets today seem to know even less. They prefer lyric poems to narrative ones. They like to struggle with images and phrases and often mistake tightening their utterances with brevity. During the past decades, their anecdotal lyrics have verbalized, often in a confessional mode, their personal feelings, their relationships, their hopes.
Now largely unaccustomed or mentally indisposed to dealing with imagined lives of characters exterior to themselves, they find story telling an activity that is foreign to the way they want to express their thoughts. No wonder narrative poetry has gone aground.
From Robinson Jeffers, a modern master of the narrative, we can learn a great deal. Jeffers noted that there were no interesting or lasting stories of happiness alone. He said, "People love disaster, if it does not touch them too nearly!" Although in his gripping poems he made use of violence and horror, he believed that narrative poetry had to have a moral purpose. His purposes were to tell the truth, shame the devil, and bring about a freeing of some sort, a settlement, or an adjusted balance.
The current resurgence of narrative poetry may restore a portion of the audience poetry lost when it became too abstruse, private, and esoteric for the majority of readers. Dana Gioia goes farther. He believes that when "poets stopped telling stories, they not only lost a substantial portion of their audience, they also considerably narrowed the imaginative possibilities of their art." Therefore, poets would do well to browse through the works of the master narrative poets to rediscover how story drives the poem. But imitation is not our goal when we return to the masters of the narrative. "Tradition is not . . . a library or museum the artist plunders," Gioia correctly states. "It is the endless conversation between the living and the dead." When we engage in that conversation, our writing can only grow.

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Welcome to the Caribbean!
Situated on the Caribbean Plate, the region is home to more than 700 islands, islets, reefs, and cays that stretch in a 2,500-mile arc. The region has lush, tropical geography that has been greatly shaped by sea temperatures and precipitation.
You will find beaches galore to be able to take advantage of the year-round 80 degree temperatures.
And while in the Caribbean, be sure to take a walking tour of Old San Juan.This beautiful 500-year-old city will put you in step with the history of Puerto Rico. While there, you can take the Old San Juan food tour to sample traditional local dishes and desserts.
Feel just like the pirates that previously roamed this port of call when you shop duty-free in Charlotte Amalie, St.Thomas. Try your luck at the Casino Royale at Maho Village in St. Maarten or take a bus tour of this island that is today part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Explore the world just beneath the surface of the water with a sail and snorkeling tour of the Marine Sancturay at Buck Island in St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Whatever you choose, you are sure to create memories of a lifetime in the Caribbean!

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Hair dyes, analgesics, tranquilizers and perineal talc application as risk factors for ovarian cancer.
In a hospital-based case-control study of ovarian cancer conducted in Athens (1989-1991), 189 women with histologically confirmed common malignant epithelial tumors of the ovary were compared with 200 hospital visitor controls.
All interviews were conducted by personal interview in the 2 participating hospitals and the data were analyzed by modelling through logistic regression, controlling for demographic and reproductive variables.
Tranquilizing and hypnotic drugs (mostly diazepam) were not associated with risk of ovarian cancer: the adjusted relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were 0.96 (0.57 to 1.63), whereas use of analgesics (mostly salicylates) was associated with significantly reduced risk of the disease (RR 0.51; CI 0.26 to 1.02).
Mots-clés Pascal : Tumeur maligne, Ovaire, Facteur risque, Teinture capillaire, Analgésique, Tranquillisant, Talc, Périnée, Grèce, Europe, Epidémiologie, Homme, Ovaire pathologie, Appareil génital femelle pathologie, Etude cas témoin
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Malignant tumor, Ovary, Risk factor, Hair dye, Analgesic, Tranquillizer, Talc, Perineum, Greece, Europe, Epidemiology, Human, Ovarian diseases, Female genital diseases, Case control study
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America’s Got Talent’ welcomes ventriloquist Jack Williams and his bunny puppet Foster on stage during Tuesday’s upcoming episode. In the short video, the 25-year-old performer wows the judges by poking fun at his “good buddy” while adding patter and a few surprises to his performance. Williams, who has been performing for 12 years, has 1.1 million followers on TikTok and is looking to take his performance to the next level.
The Indianapolis native joins fellow season 17 ventriloquist Celia Munoz and hopes to follow in the footsteps of past “AGT” ventriloquist winners Darcy Lynn (Season 12), Paul Zerdin (Season 10) and Terry Fator (Season 2) who inspired him. “I want to do it live in Las Vegas,” Williams told judges Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandela.
Part of the grand prize of the talent competition is headlining performances in Las Vegas. Tune in to America’s Got Talent on June 14th to hear from the judges and see if the puppet and puppeteer make it to the next round.

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What’s old is new, the saying goes. Trends in fashion, politics and entertainment are, in many ways, as predictable as the change of seasons.
We’re never quite sure what form the weather will take, but inevitably there is sunshine and rain, there are conservatives and liberals, and vampires and wingtips never go out of fashion.
So it is with music, with sensibilities ping-ponging back and forth between classicism and romanticism, and critical favor endorsing the Apollonian (emphasis on clarity and restraint) or the Dionysian (emphasis on spontaneity and excess). The cycle renews itself, even as time moves inexorably forward.
Composers, like the rest of us, are caught up in the flow. However, none of us exists in a vacuum. Creative artists may, from time to time, reflect on the achievements of their predecessors. They may do so in admiration, or with scorn; with nostalgia, or in homage. The astute composer will recognize how to borrow a good idea or a melody of worth.
With this in mind, the Princeton Chamber Players will present a concert Sunday afternoon titled “Looking Forward and Back.”
The program will include Beethoven’s tribute to Handel (his variations on a theme from the oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus,” for cello and piano) and Brahms’ nod to one of his illustrious forebears (the “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” in its original version for two pianos).
Also on the program will be Stravinsky’s Octet, composed in 1922. Scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass instruments, the work is built on traditional forms of the 18th century. It is a watershed piece in the composer’s output, in that it marks the beginning of Stravinsky’s neo-classical period.
This kind of about-face for the composer of the orgiastic “Le sacre du printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”) was considered controversial at the time. The premiere of “Le sacre” had caused a riot. The Octet brought disdain from the very revolutionaries who had rallied to its defense. Musicians like Pierre Boulez dismissed the move as a sellout and a creative dead end. He and his fellow students would show up at Stravinsky concerts just to boo.
Such stylistic shifts are now viewed as a matter of course. Then again, we’re living in more pluralistic times. There is no shame in writing in a variety of styles, and a strong voice makes itself discernable no matter what form it takes.
The synthesis of old and new might be said to be a current occupation of
Princeton composer Paul Lansky, whose “Ancient Echoes” will be at the core of Sunday’s concert.
Lansky is a former pupil of George Perle, Milton Babbit and Edward T. Cone. His artistic development has taken him from experiments in serialism, through a kind of personalized minimalism, to a comfortable-in-its-own-skin sort of lyricism.
However, he has made his biggest splash as a pioneer in the world of electronic music. His works for computer have developed a cult following. Among his high-profile admirers is the alternative rock band Radiohead. The Radiohead song “Idioteque” takes its harmonic structure from Lansky’s computer tape piece, “Mild und Leise.”
What sets Lansky apart from most other electronic composers is his sense of humor. It can be gleaned from the mere titles of his pieces, which include “Idle Chatter” (for sampled voice), “Table’s Clear” (for “kitchen percussionists”) and the “Semi-Suite” (for guitar, with obvious homophonic significance).
In his liner notes to the album “More Than Idle Chatter” (Bridge 9050), he endorses more than once the idea that the listener should have a good time. To his credit, it is a message that can be grasped simply by listening to the music.
Lansky has always managed to put a human face on his work, whether through electronically sampling the conversation of family members and friends (especially his wife, Hannah McKay) or collecting the sounds of his children banging on bottles and pans. In “Table’s Clear” (Bridge 9035), he manipulates sound until his sons’ playing comes to resemble at times a Balinese gamelan orchestra, at others the Kukuana drumming from “King Solomon’s Mines.”
The focus in these pieces is not on creating otherworldly sounds, but in revealing the extraordinary within the everyday, training the ear to pay attention to the natural music in our surroundings, especially that inherent in speech.
In more recent years, Lansky has begun to write more for traditional instruments. For guitarist David Starobin, he composed “Crooked Courante,” an exploration of a Renaissance dance form in strictly contemporary language. Wholly accessible — infectious, in fact — the piece succeeds in capturing the spirit of what was, after all, a popular style.
The greatest thing about “Crooked Courante,” however, is that it spawned the “Semi-Suite” (Bridge 9222), a collection of likeminded dance movements, including the lovely “Aimless Air” and the irresistible “Shameless Sarabande.” The suite culminates in “Partly Pavane,” a piece which is at once heartwarming in its simplicity and profoundly human.
A former guitarist himself, Lansky composes beautifully for the instrument, and the suite really highlights his unusual — and unusually touching — lyrical gift. It deserves to be in the repertoire of every acoustic guitarist.
A new disc of Lansky’s music, “Imaginary Islands” (Bridge 9366), is imminent from Bridge Records, a label founded by Starobin in 1981. It is scheduled for release on March 13. The program will include concertos for guitar and two pianos, respectively.
“Ancient Echoes” is scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion. The piece actually grew out of a single movement composed for eighth blackbird, the award-winning “new music” ensemble, which humbly promotes itself in the lower case. The group was honored at the Grammys a few weeks ago, for its recording of “Lonely Motel” by Princeton composer Steven Mackey.
“I had written a piece a couple of years ago for a festival,” explains Lansky. “I was sort of basing it on ‘echo music.’ You know, like Gabrieli. That sort of thing. So the electronics were echoing the music. But I never like doing electronics in instrumental pieces…. So as I was composing the piece, I sort of kept in the back of my mind the idea of doing a piece that would stand without the electronics.
“And I put it aside, and then about a year or so ago, I got the idea of writing some more movements. It’s basically taking off on late Renaissance dance music.”
“The first two movements are variations. The first movement is a variation on a piece by [Erasmus] Widmann. The second movement is a variation on an old tune. And the third movement… uses kind of dance music.”
Lansky will be on hand to introduce the program. Of the concert as a whole, he comments, “The idea is, sort of, other composers borrowing. You know, using other people’s pieces. All of these pieces sort of refer to other music — to older music — in a way.
“One of the things that I teach my graduate students is the music that you really like and admire, you can learn something from it. You know, sometimes by getting your hands on it and sometimes by massaging it and doing various things.
“I’m really thrilled that the Richardson Chamber Players wanted to do something like this. I think they try to make their concerts thematic in general. And this is sort of an interesting way to do it.”
“Looking Forward and Back”
Richardson Chamber Players, with spoken introductions by Paul Lansky
Music by Beethoven, Lansky, Stravinsky and Brahms
When: 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University
Admission: $5-15; (609) 258-2800 or firstname.lastname@example.org

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COTTLEVILLE, MO. — St. Louis-based Paric Corp. has been selected as construction manager for a new $6 million city hall and police facility located in Cottleville. The 15,888-square-foot, two-story facility will contain sustainable features such as a storm water capture and treatment system to reduce run-off into a nearby creek, as well as the use of the property as a trailhead to a comprehensive biking/walking path and interpretive nature trail. Kostecki Architects is providing design services for the project. The project broke ground at the end of September, and should be complete in September of next year.


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Dive right into the water wars, where water is the new oil, a limited resource that’s critical to life on the planet. In Aqua Shock, award-winning journalist Marks illuminates the multifaceted challenges and perspectives on water, or “liquid gold.” The complex problems that cloud this vital resource are gathering in a perfect storm, according to Marks’ research.
Making the impending water crisis understandable to everyday citizens, Marks lays out the data explaining where water comes from, the global context, the complex, contradictory laws governing water, the dangers of contamination, cost and infrastructure issues, leaders and organizations (called “water gods”), and possible solutions to mitigate the crisis.
Water challenges vary by region: development and population growth in the arid West; drought in the Southeast; agricultural runoff in the Mississippi basin; naturally-occurring arsenic leaching into East coast water supplies; and aging water infrastructure everywhere. These water problems are exacerbated by climate change. Fresh water, once considered a renewable resource, is shown to be increasingly at risk.
Even now, most people don’t see or can’t understand the problems. After all, leaks from aging pipes are usually buried underground. In addition, “Water and laws that regulate it are complicated at best and confounding at worst.” For example, in some states, it is illegal to capture rainwater or snowmelt from the gutters.
Scouting out diverse perspectives from regional experts, government statistics, court disputes, and conservation successes, Marks marshals a wealth of resources that show just how contentious and complex water issues remain, even when the particulars point to a looming crisis without prompt action.
Some localities are making headway in water stewardship. New Mexico created a fifty-year water plan, as did El Paso. A mention of Brisbane, Australia’s water reduction success is tantalizing but brief. A list of tactics, such as how to reduce groundwater contamination, in the final chapter begins to address solutions. A more vigorous call to action might have strengthened the final chapter.
As a wake-up call, Aqua Shock is an admirable overview of the complex issues, long-standing water wars, and multiple perspectives on water. It also includes resources and notes for further exploration. It provides businesses, citizens, and policy makers who aren’t water experts with an inside look at understanding the roots and scope of the im-pending water crisis.
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Islamabad: Parliament should complete its tenure whether we are in the government or not, said Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani while addressing a public meeting after unveiling the commencement of the Diamir-Basha Dam, 35 KM downstream of Chilas district, Gilgit/Bilstan.
The Prime Minister said that economic development was inconceivable without the political stability and political stability comes with the completion of the tenure of the parliament which ensure consistency of the political process, so critical to inculcate confidence of the people in their elected representatives.
The Prime Minister said due to inconsistency the precious resources of the nation had gone down the drain because in the past the rulers started the projects and those who followed them scrapped the same without taking into account the well being of the people. It is only through the democratic process that country achieves political stability so critical for the economic development, the Prime Minister said.
The Prime Minister said that his government’s development strategy was to complete the ongoing project which have already been completed up to 60 percent and avoid undertaking the new projects unless absolutely necessary. It is for this reason that he had inaugurated the completion of many projects during the last three and half years of which he laid the foundation stone.
The Prime Minister said that no single party can steer the country out of the challenges facing the country. It was for this reason that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto gave her vision of policy of reconciliation and the democratic government of the PPP had been following it and its coalition government was the culmination of the same vision.
The Prime Minister said that there was a need for collective wisdom and if some party believed that it could scramble the country out of the hole was sadly mistaken. The Prime Minister said that those who did not agree with the policy of reconciliation they would eventually accept this truth and time would vindicate it.
The Prime Minister said that the opponents were obsessed with the march syndrome and were bent upon to deprive the PPP from gaining majority in the senate but they would not succeed. Their desperation stems from the fact that after March next year, the PPP government would present fifth budget to serve the nation for another year by undertaking more people’s friendly development projects.
In that case, the Prime Minister said, that the present democratic government would be the first government in the history of Pakistan that would present the fifth budget and also complete the tenure.
The Prime Minister suggested the political aspirants to go to the people and present their manifesto and win the hearts and minds of the people before going to the election in 2013. They should leave it to the people of Pakistan as who would get the right to govern them during the next five years.
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By Daniel Finn
Since 2015, the British Labour Party has stood apart from the wider picture of Europe’s centre left. Under a leadership derided from the start as a fossilized remnant whose strategy was bound to result in calamity, Labour clawed its way back from electoral and organizational decline, during a period that saw its sister parties in France and Germany slump to unprecedented troughs; its dramatic increase in membership has made it the largest political party in Western Europe. The party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing veteran who was on a path towards retirement when the 2015 leadership contest catapulted him to centre stage, is currently in contention to become the next British Prime Minister. The turn-around has been all the more remarkable given that, for a quarter of a century, Labour was the most hawkishly militarist and neoliberal centre-left party in the developed capitalist world.
Yet the Corbyn project faces a number of obstacles that may prove insurmountable. The Labour Party itself is far from being a reliable instrument in Corbyn’s hands: while the leader and his allies have strengthened their position since the electoral breakthrough of 2017, they still face unremitting hostility from the party’s right wing, to supplement that of their Tory opponents and the mainstream media. Labour’s programme of social-democratic reform may be modest in historical perspective, but it represents enough of a departure from established orthodoxy to provoke fierce resistance from business and the state machine—especially if Corbyn also tries to recalibrate British foreign policy after taking office. Before it can reach that point, Labour has to navigate an issue—Britain’s departure from the eu—that cuts through the heart of its electoral coalition and has no precedent in post-war British experience. Brexit has thrown the whole political field into confusion, and Labour will struggle to achieve a majority in parliament after the next election, even if it emerges as the largest party. The conditions of its likely coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party, could include the extinction of any distinctive Corbyn project.
All factors seem to point towards ultimate defeat, except one: the fact that Corbynism has already survived against the odds to reach its current position. After nearly four years of a surprisingly tenacious political experiment, it should be possible to draw up a provisional balance-sheet. This article will examine the extent of Labour’s internal transformation under Corbyn, as the necessary precondition for any wider success. What is the present state of play within the party? How has the Corbyn leadership coped with its treatment by the British media, and with the challenges of the Brexit process?
Actually existing labourism
In contrast with the new left-wing movements that have come to the fore in Greece, Spain or France since the financial crisis, comparable energies in Britain have been channelled through a long-established party with a century’s worth of organizational baggage to weigh it down. The British Labour Party was a late arrival: in the early 1900s, at a time when the German Social Democrats had already become the largest force in the Reichstag, Labour was just beginning to emerge from the shadow of the Liberal Party. The party adopted from the start a reverential attitude towards the Mother of Parliaments. A constitution drafted by Sidney Webb in 1918 codified its ideology and organizational form. Constituency Labour Parties (clps) permitted individual membership for the first time, mirroring parliamentary boundaries rather than workplace or residential communities. A new constitution, its Clause Four nominally committing Labour to ‘common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange’, appealed to those radicalized by the temper of the times. But real power within the party lay with the trade-union leaders who supplied most of its funding, expressed through a block vote at Labour conferences and on the National Executive Committee (nec), while deference to Westminster gave the Parliamentary Labour Party (plp) full autonomy from the rank-and-file.
After two minority administrations—the second of which ended in catastrophe for Labour—and membership of national-coalition governments in both world wars, the party finally had the opportunity to govern from a position of strength after its landslide victory in 1945. Clement Attlee’s government showed the limits of Labour’s reforming ambitions, even at its high point. At a time of enormous popular desire for change, its agenda remained within strict limits. Nationalization of certain industries was never intended to be the first step towards a socialist economic system: Labour’s goal was to preside over a ‘mixed economy’ where private ownership was predominant. Attlee’s government also illustrated another perennial feature of Labourism, from Ramsay MacDonald to Tony Blair: its unflinching commitment to Britain’s ‘global role’. In the days of empire, that meant dogged support for the Great War and the Colonial Office; after 1945, all-round Cold War Atlanticism, fervent pursuit of the A-Bomb, and cuts to social spending to fund military operations in Korea and Malaya.
Labour possessed a left wing that took the ideas embodied in Clause Four seriously but was unable to challenge the leadership to any great effect. From the Socialist League of the 1930s to the Bevanites two decades later, socialist currents broke against two immovable rocks: the trade-union block vote and the autonomy of the plp.footnote1 The most determined effort came after the election defeat of 1979, in an attempt to draw a line under the Callaghan government’s imf-mandated austerity budgets. The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy proposed constitutional reforms that would make all mps subject to mandatory reselection by their clps and change the system for electing the party leader: from now on a tripartite electoral college, representing mps, trade unions and party members, would make the choice, rather than the plp alone. The left current grouped around Tony Benn hoped that these organizational remedies would create a parliamentary cadre sufficiently combative to implement a more radical programme.
However, the existing mps had other ideas. A liberal-Atlanticist section of the Labour right broke away to form the Social Democratic Party (sdp), anathematizing their former colleagues and splitting the anti-Conservative vote. Internal divisions, the sdp split, Michael Foot’s ham-fisted leadership, and the ‘Falklands factor’ accruing to Margaret Thatcher after her South Atlantic triumph knocked Labour out of contention for the 1983 general election. A ceaseless vendetta against the Bennite left ensued, under the direction of Neil Kinnock. By the time Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997, Labour’s programme stood well to the right of anything put forward by his most conservative predecessors. Blair and Gordon Brown, his Chancellor and eventual successor, upheld the main features of the post-Thatcher settlement, preserving her draconian anti-union laws and keeping privatized industries out of state hands. In some respects they went further than Thatcher had dared: imposing university tuition fees, making the Bank of England independent, and extending ‘marketization’ into the fields of education and health care. Brown also encouraged the worst proclivities of Britain’s financial sector under the rubric of ‘light-touch regulation’. On the international stage, Labour took on a belligerent role not seen since the last days of empire, serving as Washington’s loyal attack-dog from the Balkans to Afghanistan and Iraq.footnote2
Radical opposition to Blair and Brown’s policies mostly bypassed the Labour Party altogether, leaving its residual left faction becalmed. By 2010, when the Tories returned to office in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, mps like Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell looked more like refugees from a Bennite Atlantis than the vanguard of a future left-wing revival.footnote3 On the very eve of Corbyn’s accession to the Labour leadership, McDonnell described the current moment as ‘the darkest hour that socialists in Britain have faced since the Attlee government fell in 1951’, characterized by ‘the overwhelming incorporation of so much of the Labour Party into the political and economic system that the Labour Party was founded to transform’.footnote4 In order to grasp the scale of the challenge that Corbyn and his supporters have faced, it is vital to recognize that this analysis was in most respects quite accurate.
Nevertheless, by the summer of 2015, in the aftermath of a Tory election triumph, three factors were about to transform that situation. The first, hardest to quantify, was growing anger at the post-crisis austerity policies of David Cameron and George Osborne, especially among the economically vulnerable young; with this—catching the winds blowing from Greece and Spain, the ‘movement of the squares’ and Occupy—went a willingness to contemplate more radical and egalitarian solutions to the crisis. Secondly, when Brown’s successor Ed Miliband tried to reform the process by which a Labour leader was chosen, it proved to be a dramatic own-goal for the party elite.
The Unite trade union had been promoting the selection of sympathetic candidates as a mild corrective to years in which right-wing loyalists had been parachuted into safe Labour seats. Largely fictitious claims of organizational skullduggery by Unite officials in the Scottish constituency of Falkirk prompted Miliband to commission a report into the party–union link. The Collins Review urged a number of steps to weaken the power of the unions, including the withdrawal of their one-third vote share in the electoral college for the leadership election. The Unite general secretary Len McCluskey accepted this in return for a symmetrical move by Labour’s parliamentary representatives: Labour mps could no longer serve as gatekeepers for the leadership, apart from the requirement that any candidate would have to be nominated by 15 per cent of the plp.footnote5 For the first time, Labour leaders would be chosen on a one-member, one-vote basis. The Blairite faction added the suggestion that non-members be allowed to register as supporters for a £3 fee and cast a vote of their own—a move towards the American open-primary model.footnote6 Unsuspected at the time, the organizational preconditions for Jeremy Corbyn’s ascent were now in place.
Finally, the outcome of the 2015 leadership contest owed as much to the manifold weaknesses of the Labour establishment as it did to the discovery of unexpected strength among its left-wing critics. Following Miliband’s resounding defeat in the 2015 election—232 seats, compared to Cameron’s 330—members, supporters and unions alike asserted the need for a change of direction. Labour’s calamitous performance in Scotland, where the snp had trounced it after linking the cause of independence with opposition to austerity, offered an especially sharp lesson. Yet the mainstream candidates all proposed to tack right in response to Miliband’s failure, leaving Corbyn as the only standard-bearer for a different approach.
Born in 1949, raised in a radical-bohemian family in rural Shropshire, Corbyn was a local anti-racist activist from his early teens. By his mid-20s, he was a hard-working stalwart of London’s Labour left. Elected to the House of Commons in 1983 from an inner-London constituency, Islington North, that contains in miniature form many of the capital’s polarities—between wealth and poverty, native-born and immigrant communities—he was known as a diligent constituency worker with a particular interest in international affairs. During the Blair years, he consistently voted against New Labour’s economic agenda, from welfare cuts to the marketization of public services, and against its encroachments on civil liberties. Corbyn’s public profile stemmed above all from his opposition to Blair’s foreign adventures: he condemned nato’s bombing of Yugoslavia and steadfastly opposed the serial invasions and regime-change projects of the ‘war on terror’, endorsing the Stop the War Coalition and later serving as its chair. He took a keen interest in Latin American politics and shared the hopes of the ‘pink tide’. The extraordinary vitriol that Corbyn inspires in his opponents, seemingly out of all proportion to the content of his programme, is mainly a reaction to his record of consistent heterodoxy on foreign-policy questions.
The format of the 2015 leadership election played to Corbyn’s strengths. Never an especially rousing orator, he was nonetheless perfectly comfortable addressing large crowds, or taking questions from an audience of Labour supporters. His rivals had lost the ability to do so—if they ever possessed it in the first place—having trained themselves to speak in robotic sound-bites, with news anchors as their main sparring-partners. Corbyn’s paucity of experience in television studios placed him on a steep learning curve when he ascended to the leadership, but his unpolished demeanour was more of an asset than a liability during this opening phase. His campaign relied upon unorthodox methods, with mass public rallies and the use of social media to by-pass established outlets.footnote7 In the summer of 2015 the first opinion poll put Corbyn at the head of the field, an advantage that he never surrendered. The most popular candidate with full members (almost 50 per cent voted for Corbyn—more than the favourites Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper put together), he also won by a crushing margin among registered supporters. More unexpectedly, he received backing from some of the big trade unions, not least because Burnham, the erstwhile front-runner, had made a point of giving them the cold shoulder.footnote8
Baffled by the scale of Corbyn’s victory—59.5 per cent of the vote on the first round, 40 points clear of the nearest challenger—his Labour opponents soon fell back on comforting myths. The fault, they suggested, lay with Miliband’s £3 supporters scheme and an influx of ‘Trotskyite entryists’ who had hijacked Labour’s internal processes. It was laughable to suggest that the dwindling membership of Britain’s Trotskyist groups could be numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Whatever else might happen, the fresh wave of political enthusiasm that now flooded into the Labour Party constituted a novel force on the British scene.

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Clinical Prediction Guidelines
In a collaborative effort by the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and the Academy of Pelvic Health Physical therapy of the APTA, the clinical practice guideline for physical therapy management for pelvic girdle pain in the antepartum population was published in 2017. This open access document offers recommendations for clinical reasoning in the management of females with prenatal pelvic girdle pain within the ICF framework, ranked by strength of supporting evidence. The recommendations also serve to guide future research to address areas in which evidence is sparse.
Pelvic Girdle Pain in the Antepartum Population – Physical Therapy Clinical Practice Guidelines Linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
Brief overview of findings:
- “Risk factors. Based on strong evidence, risk factors for the development of PGP include previous pregnancy, orthopedic dysfunction (such as hip and/or leg dysfunction), increased body mass index, and smoking. Risk is also higher for patients with work dissatisfaction and those who don’t believe that their condition will improve.
- Clinical course. Several factors can help to identify women who will have persistent problems. These include PGP developing early in pregnancy, multiple pain locations, and abnormal results on multiple physical therapy assessments.
- Examination and diagnosis. The guideline highlights the importance of recognizing other pregnancy-related conditions that may appear similar to PGP. Important clinical tests and outcome questionnaires for assessing women with PGP are identified as well.
- Physical therapy interventions. Physical therapy recommendations for PGP may include the use of a support belt, exercise programs, or manual therapy techniques. Yet so far there is only weak or conflicting evidence to support these recommendations. While strong evidence shows that women with PGP are at high risk of falls, there is little evidence on measures to assess balance or reduce the risk of falls, including activity limitations.”2
The Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapy continues to develop evidence-based practice guidelines following the APTA’s mission. The APTA states, “[Clinical prediction guidelines] are key to decreasing unwarranted variations in practice, decreasing the knowledge translation gap, and optimizing movement.3 The Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapy has the following evidence-based practice guidelines currently in development:
- Functional Lower Gastrointestinal Disorders: Constipation
- Pelvic Girdle Pain in the Postpartum Population
- Pelvic Pain (in cooperation with the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy)
- Physical Therapy Intervention for Adult Women With Urinary Incontinence
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Physical Therapy and Exercise
- See the complete list of APTA clinical prediction guidelines in development
- Clinton S, Newell A, Downey P, Coleman-Ferreira K. Pelvic Girdle Pain in the Antepartum Population Physical Therapy Clinical Practice Guidelines Linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health from the Section on Women’s Health and the Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy. 2017; 41(2): 102-125.
- Hughes, Connie. (2017, July 5). New guideline on pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy — Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy presents evidence-based recommendations. Retrieved from <https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/wkh-ngo070517.php>.
- APTA. (2018). Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs). Retrieved from <http://www.apta.org/EvidenceResearch/EBPTools/CPGs/>.

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The technology group Wärtsilä is introducing its Voyage Emissions Reduction (VER) system as a means for increasing oil tanker revenues, while also significantly aiding the environment through reduced emissions. The system effectively eliminates the problem of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from tankers during laden voyages.
VOC’s are organic chemicals having a high vapour pressure resulting from their low boiling point, which leads to extensive evaporation. On average, an oil tanker will emit 0.085 percent of its contained cargo per each week. For a 320,000 DWT Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), this amounts to 270 tons of lost cargo per week.
The Wärtsilä VER system is being made available in two versions. The ‘reabsorption’ version is a simple to install, ‘plug-in’ system that re-circulates the VOC back to the cargo tanks. It represents a technology for eliminating cargo losses, which operates automatically and without manual intervention. The Wärtsilä system demands far less power to operate than available alternative systems.
The ‘fuel’ version utilises the VOC as fuel for the vessel. This is a new, unique and patent pending innovation from Wärtsilä with significant fuel cost saving advantages. Both versions promote environmental sustainability by reducing VOC emissions by up to 75 percent.
“Wärtsilä is dedicated to developing innovative solutions that reduce operating costs for owners, while at the same time contributing to a cleaner environment. The VER system follows this philosophy by eliminating cargo waste and optimally lowering tanker fuel costs, thus enabling a payback time that can be less than one year,” says Timo Koponen, Vice President, Flow and Gas Solutions, Wärtsilä Marine Solutions.
The Wärtsilä VER system meets all the regulation 15 requirements of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) MARPOL Annex VI protocol. It also fulfills port specific requirements for terminals with regards to VOC emission reductions.


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Actor Michael Cera has just released a surprise indie/folk album. Actor Jonah Hill tweeted a link to Cera’s debut full-length album and said that Cera is “not only a brilliant actor, he also makes great music.” The 18-track album is titled True That and is available via bandcamp.
You can check out Jonah’s tweet and stream the album below.
Cera isn’t touring but in the meantime, you can purchase a CD here.
My great friend Michael Cera not only is a brilliant actor, he also makes great music. Check it out: http://t.co/lbc8sDcSco
— Jonah Hill (@JonahHill) August 13, 2014

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From April 16th 2024 until August 18th 2024
How can we take better care of each other and the planet? That question is central to RE/SISTERS, a major exhibition about climate justice and gender equality. Together with a FOMU guide you will look for answers and new visions of the future.
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology is an international themed exhibition featuring 50 female and gender non-conforming artists. Through photography, film and installations, these artists show that the exploitation of the planet cannot be viewed separately from the oppression of women and minority groups. They question existing capitalist power structures and look for solutions to restore our fragile ecosystem.
To see if the desired time slot is available, enter the number of participants under ‘Group size (Group ticket)’, choose de guide language and select the date.
From 15/04/2024 10:00 pm (UTC) until 18/08/2024 9:59 pm (UTC)

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It is the seat of a major state university and includes neighboring towns such as Johnson City and Vestal. And, it’s a place of Townsquare Media –owned radio stations and local digital properties serving the southern part of New York.
Effective today, the Townsquare operation has a new Marketplace President, rising from Director of Sales.
Winning the promotion is Mary Beth Walsh, with the news shared by Townsquare via a Tweet made on June 13. She reports to RVP Matt Kiger, who tweeted, “Mary Beth is a beacon in the community and leads our efforts with all key agencies and advertisers and is a total difference maker for our team and our business.
Walsh knows a little about the stations in Nielsen Audio’s Market #196, made up of the best Country WHWK-FM 98.1 “The Falcon”; Top 40 WWYL-FM “Kiss 104.1”; News/Talk WNBF-AM 1290 and its 92.1 MHz FM translator; WYOS “CBS Sports Radio 1360”; and Rocker heritage WAAL-FM 99.1 “The Whale”. That’s because she served as market manager for Citadel Broadcasting properties and through that company’s merger with Cumulus Media. Walsh also stayed on during the cluster’s ownership transition to Townsquare.
Walsh hails from the Southern Tier and is a Broome Community College alumnus who started in radio in 1992 at the former Stoner Broadcasting, later working for American Radio Systems. She then spent time with Wicks Broadcasting before joining Citadel.
Walsh succeeds Barbara DeGonzaque Meaney, who became director of sales and customer success for Citadel properties in Syracuse, northbound on I-81. She had run Townsquare Media’s Binghamton stations since January 2016.


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Which Are The Top Cities That Revellers Will Be Celebrating New Year's Eve in?
Las Vegas has edged out New York as the most popular New Year's Eve destination in North America. The most popular destinations for New Year's Eve revellers in Europe, meanwhile, is Paris, and for Asia, it's Tokyo. In the Asia-Pacific region, Thailand has emerged as the most popular country destination, with Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Pattaya also featuring in the ranking.
In Europe, Milan was the top climber this year, with its free public celebrations, fireworks displays and buzzing nightlife.
Rankings are based on booking data at Agoda.com. The ranking of overall most popular destinations of 2019 is similar to the New Year's Eve destinations with the exception of Asia-Pacific, where Bangkok outranks Tokyo as the top city destination of 2019.
Here are the most popular destinations for celebrating New Year's Eve this year:
Top cities in Europe
Top cities in Asia
Top cities in North America
1. Las Vegas
2. New York
3. Los Angeles
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The victims of a gang of “millionaire muggers” who targeted some of London’s richest businessmen, bankers and celebrities, including Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, said justice had been done as they recounted their ordeals.
The gang are believed to have raked in £2 million by following their targets’ movements on the internet before robbing them near their homes.
Victims included Sir Nigel Rudd, the chairman of BAA and his wife Lesley, Tory peer Lord Leach of Fairford as well as the Formula 1 boss and a string of wealthy women.
Jennifer Boschetto, 60, was among three women attacked in May last year, as she walked to her front door in Hampstead from a taxi after spending the evening in a Mayfair restaurant.
She told the Evening Standard: “It’s a relief that they have been given a decent sentence and I am very glad they are behind bars, but the attack has had a significant impact on my life and on my daughter who watched it happen from the upstairs window.”
Mrs Boschetto has had to undergo two operations on her hand after she had her wedding and engagement rings ripped violently from her finger in a £12,000 robbery.
She added: “I’m a strong person and I am quite particular about not letting these things get to me. At first I was very nervous about coming home but I refuse to let them beat me.
“My daughter was 16 at the time and it has affected her quite badly. She calls me every time she is walking up the drive. No matter what time it is, whether it is two in the morning or four in the afternoon, I have to be standing there in the window. It that respect it has changed our lives for ever.”
Lord Leach of Fairford, believed to have been the first victim of the crime spree, was targeted by the gang two years ago when he had his watch stolen.
He said: “I was walking near Hammersmith along a dark passage and two people saw an opportunity for a bit of extraction. I always welcome anyone being brought to justice.”
Gulam Gani, 47, Nicholas Lewis, 34, and Shaun Wallace, 30 were found guilty by a jury at Southwark crown court of four robberies last year and were branded ‘hardened criminals’ by Judge Beddoe as he sentenced them to a total of 53 years yesterday.
A fourth man Radcliffe Benjemin, 55, owner of Hush Jewellers in Clerkenwell, north London, was cleared unanimously by the jury of fencing the stolen loot for the gang.
Banker Elizabeth Kaye, 46, was dragged to the floor and stripped of jewellery worth over £40,000 outside her Hampstead home including diamond earrings worth £4,000, a Cartier Cougar watch worth £4,000, a diamond pendant and ring worth £6,500 and diamond ring priced at £25,000.
She had told the jury: “I didn’t want to be hurt so I just said ‘let me help you.’
“They tried to take my earrings out but they couldn’t do it. I didn’t want to be hurt so I took my earrings out.”
Sir Nigel Rudd, 63, the chairman of BAA and his wife Lesley, 64, lost £84,000 of jewellery at knifepoint.
Mr Ecclestone, 82, was stripped of £200,000 of jewellery and left battered and bruised during the mugging in front of his then girlfriend, now wife, Fabiana Flosi in Knightsbridge.
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Il passe son enfance en côtoyant le trompettiste Baba Brooks et commença à apprendre la musique. À l’âge de huit ans, il va à l’Alpha Boys’ School, et se met à l’apprentissage de la clarinette, et du saxophone ténor qui deviendra son instrument de prédilection. Il s’associe avec David Madden en 1968 et forme The Mystics; il enregistre So long rastafari calling avec Count Ossie, et rejoint The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari en 1974.
Plus tard, il forme « The light of Saba » et sort Cedric Im Brooks & The Light Of Saba.Lié au célèbre Studio One, il est imprégné de tous les courants qui cohabitent aux Caraïbes : mento, rocksteady, free jazz, calypso, funk et nyabinghi. The Light of Saba est l’un des flambeaux du métissage musical afro-caribéen. Cet album est un chapitre de l’histoire musicale de la Jamaïque. Un jazz tirant parfois vers l’afrobeat cher à Fela ou mâtiné tantôt de calypso de percussions latines, de rumba et même de disco, parfois de funk, le tout posant les bases de cette musique qu’est le reggae. Il a maintenant rejoint les Skatalites. Sa vision profondément mystique de la musique en fait un musicien incontournable de l’histoire de la musique jamaïcaine. In http://fr.wikipedia.org
Jamaican musician Cedric Brooks dies at 70
Cedric Brooks, a Jamaican saxophone player and influential roots reggae musician, has died. He was 70.
One of Brooks’ sisters, Paulette Keise, said he died Friday of cardiac arrest at New York Hospital Queens. She said Saturday that he suffered from high blood pressure and diabetes and fell ill several years ago, losing his ability to speak. Brooks began his music career in the late 1960s as a studio musician, playing in songs such as Burning Spear’s « Door Peep. » He also had hits with trumpet player David Madden including « Money Maker » and « Mystic Mood. ». Brooks also was a member of the Jamaican ska band The Skatalites. He is survived by seven children and four sisters.
Brooks became a pupil at the renowned Alpha Boys School aged 11, where he learned music theory and clarinet. In his late teens he took up tenor saxophone and flute. Brooks was a member of groups such as The Vagabonds and the Granville Williams Band in the early 1960s, but it would be the late 1960s when he would find his first major commercial success, as part of a duo with trumpeter David Madden, Im & David. The duo released a series of instrumental singles for Clement « Coxsone » Dodd‘s Studio One label. Brooks also became a regular studio musician at the Brentford Road studio, playing on many recording sessions, and released several solo singles in the early 1970s.
In 1970 he first teamed up with Rastafarian drummer Count Ossie, releasing tracks such as « So Long Rastafari Calling », « Black is Black », and « Give Me Back My Language and Culture » as Im and Count Ossie. The pair would later form The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, with Brooks acting as musical director and leader of the horn section. From this collaboration resulted the triple LP-Set Grounation. Brooks left in 1974 to form a new band, the Divine Light (later called The Light of Saba). After a single, « Demauungwani », the group recorded their first album for the Institute of Jamaica, From Mento to Reggae to Third World Music, a collection exploring the history of Jamaican music, incorporating mento, junkanoo, ska, rocksteady, and reggae. The band made two further albums of jazz-influenced Rastafarian reggae,The Light of Saba and The Light of Saba in Reggae, before Brooks left, again going solo with his 1977 album, Im Flash Forward, featuring Studio One rhythms from the early 1970s, and regarded as one of the greatest Jamaican instrumental albums. The following year, Brooks assembled a new band of musicians to record the United Africa album.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks released a few singles but largely worked as a session musician. In particular, he worked with Carlos Malcolm in San Diego, California, in 1998 as part of a 20-piece ska and mento orchestra known as « Zimbobway’s King Kingston Orchestra ». These albums featured Im both on saxophone and percussion in many of the 24 recordings. In 1999, after the death of Rolando Alphonso, former saxophonist of the Skatalites, Brooks joined the band. Brooks died in the New York Hospital, Queens, New York on 3 May 2013 after suffering a cardiac arrest.In http://www.huffingtonpost.com


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TO THE LAKELAND GEM CLUB !!!
Come on inside
and see all the exciting things
this Club is involved in. . .
NOTE TO MEMBERS
This year the Club holiday get together will be catered but we all agreed that all members attending would bring cookies and dessert goodies.
Argggg that’s pirate talk for ummmmm fun times after all the holiday demands.
The deal on dates for Lakeland Gem Club meetings for the remainder of 2013
There will be no meetings of the Lakeland Gem Club in
November and December
Mark your Calendars with 2014 meeting dates
Jan 5, 2014 Club Holiday Get together
2014 Meeting Dates
Meeting held the 4th Tuesday of the month, 6:30pm,
Church of the Pines, Minocqua, WI
July show 18 & 19 theme: Wonderful World of Crystals
(show co-chairmen are: Ron Zimmer and Sarah Sloan)
Nov and Dec to be determined
There you have it. There are great plans for 2014, more activities, more presentations, more rock/gem talk. We hope you will continue your participation with the Lakeland Gem Club.
Membership for 2014 will be sent in January for the year 2014.
Lakeland Gem Club
was founded in 1964 and incorporated in 1970,
to promote general interest in and education
of Earth Sciences, Geology, and Mineralogy.
To educate in the Art of Lapidary,
to aid in Gem material and mineral indentification
and for instruction in Geological Hobbies.
If you are interested in
geology, earth sciences, mineralogy and lapidary,
the Lakeland Gem Club is an educational, fun way
of sharing your hobby with a variety of people who
share your interest.
The Lakeland Gem Club meets the 4th Tuesday of the month
at 6:30 p.m. at the
United Methodist Church of the Pines, Chicago & Chippewa Avenue,
Visitors are always welcome !!
- Monthly meetings to stimulate interest in collecting gems, minerals and rocks.
- Field Trips and educational events that enhance collecting skills and knowledge with respect for our natural resources.
- E-Newsletters providing useful information about gems, minerals and club related topics.
- Annual gem and mineral show.
General Membership: $5.00 individual;
$10.00 per family, per year
which includes the club e- newsletter,
club picnic and annual banquet.
Mail application with your check to:
Lakeland Gem Club
P. O. Box 125
Eagle River, WI 54521
For More information contact:
Pattie Hartmann, Public Relations
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The band behind the hit “Take It All Back” is on tour this year and their next stop is Colorado.
Breakout alt-rock stars Judah & The Lion will be performing at the Ogden Theatre in Denver on Tuesday, April 11. Their set will include tracks from their most recent album “Folk Hop N’ Roll.”
For those who bought tickets for the cancelled Judah & The Lion at the Gothic Theatre, your purchases will be honored at the Ogden instead.
While the show is sold out as of now, tickets for the 8 p.m. concert can be found for resale on StubHub.
Judah & The Lion’s most recent tour had them headlining Twenty One Pilots for the Going To Mars tour, and just last month they premiered as special guests on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Members Brian Macdonald, Judah Akers, Nate Zuercher and Spencer Cross all hail from different places and musical traditions, eventually crossing paths in Nashville, Tennessee. The sound they developed has been called “jaunty art-folk abetted by heavy beats, fuzzed-out synths and gigantic choruses” by Rolling Stone Magazine.
Kids These Days, the band’s debut album, peaked high up on Billboard’s Folk Chart. After getting picked up by producer Dave Cobb, also behind Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton, Judah & The Lion released “Folk Hop N’ Roll.”
2016’s “Take It All Back” spent three weeks at the top of Billboard’s Alternative Radio chart and quickly made the small time independent band known.
Judah & The Lion appear to be far behind their days as a startup Nashville gig. Their eclectic mix of indie, folk and pop essentials is quickly gaining them recognition.
Collegian reporter Matthew Smith can be reached at email@example.com or on Twitter @latvatalo.


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While much of the current discussion surrounding the Jurassic Park franchise has to do with next summer’s Jurassic World, the fascination with Steven Spielberg‘s original technical marvel still continues some 20 years later. We recently highlighted documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage from the production and today we have a new look at a different aspect of the dino feature: the marketing.
The final poster used for the film played it simple with the unforgettable logo and tagline, but artist John Alvin created many different versions. Thanks to a new book coming out later this month exploring the late talent’s work, a variety of these unused, never-before-seen one-sheets have made their way online.
Ranging from a a few impressive color sketches to a batch of black-and-white scans, it’s interesting to see what (“THINGS”) Universal played around with before they settled on the final design. Amounting to over two dozen, check out some of our favorites below and head over to IGN, Movies.com, THR and Flavorwire for more unused posters by Alvin, including Blade Runner, Cape Fear, and more.
The Art of John Alvin is now available to pre-order ahead of an August 26th release:
John Alvin’s movie poster art is among the most iconic of the last 40 years, from Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast, Mulan and Pinocchio, to Empire of the Sun, Gremlins, Blazing Saddles, Predator, and the Star Wars 30th anniversary posters. This book not only collects some of Alvin’s finest work, but also includes previously unseen comprehensives and in progress sketches. With the text including commentary from Alvin’s widow, this is a unique insight into the work of one of the 20th century’s great artist/illustrators.
What’s your favorite? Do you like any better than the official one?

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In this season of compassion, please send thoughts and prayers to Lauren Boebert.
The Republican congresswoman from Colorado says she’s the victim of senseless violence.
She’s not the type of victim killed or maimed at Club Q in Colorado Springs, a place for LBGTQ individuals and friends. Her victimhood is nothing like those harmed and killed in countless scenes of indiscriminate horror because of where they were, or who or what they were.
They died because, though certain politicians talk a big “pro-life” game, nothing is so inviolate as the right of a maniac to have military manpower to lay victims to waste.
Real victims, not whiny, loud members of Congress.
Nonetheless, pursuant to such horrors, Boebert told a right-wing radio host she felt set-upon.
“I’ve been accused of every mass shooting there has been since the left learned my name,” she said. “It has to end.”
The “it” of reference wasn’t all of the dying at the ends of blazing military arms that shouldn’t be in civilian hands. It was the “blame game” aimed at her. Poor woman.
Maybe she was referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s response when Boebert issued the standard cardboard response to the Club Q horrors – that the victims and their kin were “in my prayers.”
“You have played a major role in anti-LGBT+ rhetoric and anti-trans lies,” tweeted AOC. “You don’t get to ‘thoughts and prayers’ your way out of this.”
AOC observed that in addition to non-stop exploitive slurs of LGBTQ individuals, Boebert’s very being is one of fanatical devotion to the god of firearms, particularly the types of assault weapons used in Colorado Springs and so many mass murders.
Nonetheless, thoughts and prayers go out to Rep. Boebert. She’s had a traumatic few days. She almost lost her political pulpit when Democrat Adam Frisch came within an infant’s eyelash of defeating her Nov. 8.
This near-upset came in a solidly red, mostly rural, “Drill, baby, drill” district.
Boebert was expected to cruise to re-election. Where did all of her support go?
Maybe she lost some when she butchered Bible phrases trying to impress audiences with her phony piety.
Maybe it was cheering on vicious Capitol insurrectionists.
Maybe it was her suck-my-thumb protest when she couldn’t carry a gun on the House floor.
And maybe, just maybe, it was former supporters acknowledging that gay and transgender people are – people.
The Denver Post flayed Boebert after the shooting at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ gathering place, saying to Boebert, “We’re looking at you,” in contemplating the causes of events like the Club Q massacre:
“The gunman is responsible for firing those bullets, but we provided the tools, and there are those among us who fed a narrative of hate and intolerance, failing to either understand or care where those words may lead.”
To that charge, Boebert, and too many Republican politicians and evangelicals, have no plea but “guilty.”
One of the favorite slurs of the right is that programs promoting understanding of LGBTQ individuals are “grooming” children to become victims.
Yes, a lot of the people who dismissed the real dynamics of a killer virus want you to believe gayness can transmitted through the air.
Those same people refuse to acknowledge the reality — and realities — of LGBTQ orientation are playing the same tune as forebears who believed race-mixing defied God’s commands.
They make a transgender athlete in the pool a “Jaws”-like menace against all swimmers.
The fact is that demagogues like Boebert are not interested at all in governing. They are interested in riling up “the base” with debased appeals. “Angertainment” is what her opponent called her schtick.
Again, thoughts and prayers to the congresswoman. The day after conceding to Boebert based on a micro-thin 558-vote difference, Adam Frisch filed the papers for 2024.
I bet he’ll find those votes and more.
Longtime newspaperman John Young lives in Colorado. Email: firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Canon has unveiled three NFC-enabled PowerShot digital cameras at CES 2014. After an initial one-time set up, N100, SX600 and ELPH 340 HS owners can automatically launch Canon's CameraWindow App on their Android NFC device by tapping it to their camera, enabling them to "share images from the camera to the phone with ease."
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In the New York Times last week, Robert J. Shiller, one of the creators of the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, acknowledged that the current “housing boom” is not sustainable, but fallaciously deflects responsibility for this unsustainability away from the Federal Reserve.
Low interest rates — imposed by the Federal Reserve and other central banks in reaction to the financial crisis — are the most popular culprit in the current boom. There is some apparent merit to this view, since these three biggest nationwide housing booms all included very low interest rates.
But the market reaction to interest rates is hardly immediate or predictable. The housing market does not react as directly as you might expect to interest rate movements. Over the nearly seven years of the current boom, from February 2012 to the present, all major domestic interest rates have increased, not decreased. So, while interest rates have been low, they have moved the wrong way, yet the boom has continued.
Shiller’s logic here is straightforward: The Fed has increased interest rates since 2012, so therefore low rates cannot explain the “housing boom” that has continued during this time.
But this is a logical fallacy. It does not follow from the fact that rates have increased during this time that therefore the Fed is not the principle “culprit”—to use Shiller’s description—for the admittedly unsustainable boom. Rates might be higher than they were then, but they are still artificially low.
The key fact that Shiller is ignoring here is that the Fed has been keeping rates lower than they would otherwise be, if they were determined by the market rather than fixed by a group of technocrats operating a government-legislated monopoly over the currency supply.
And that suffices to explain why the Fed is indeed the culprit for the current housing boom—just like it was the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy that caused the last housing bubble.
After employing this fallacious argument to deflect blame from the Fed for the inevitable bust to come, he illustrates cognitive dissonance by characterizing housing prices before the last bubble burst as “normal”. In this characterization, housing prices were sailing along “normally” until the bust come for some unexplained reason.
The simplest narrative being given for the current boom is just that the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the so-called Great Recession are over and home prices are returning to normal.
But that explanation does not cut it either. In September they were 11 percent higher than at the 2006 peak in nominal terms, and almost as high in real terms. This is not a return to normal, but a market that appears to be rising to a record.
Note that what Shiller is saying here is that prices today appear to be even higher than they were then and therefore can’t be “returning to normal”. He’s not challenging the assumption that housing prices in 2006 were “normal”, but implicitly accepts that characterization.
This is typical of mainstream economic thinking. The conceptualization is that the supposed “boom” is “normal” and the following recession is the disease that must be treated by the Fed by lowering rates, so as to stimulate another “boom”.
The reality is that the supposed “boom” is the symptom of the true disease since it is not reflective of sustainable growth and a fundamentally sound economy, but an illusion caused by the Fed’s artificially low interest rates. It is the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy that is the disease, and the recession is the distasteful but necessary cure—the market correction required to restructure the economy toward sustainable growth.
But the Fed refused to allow the market correction to occur last time, instead responding to the bust by doing even more of what caused the bubble in the first place, only on a massively greater scale. This has not created true economic growth, only more illusions of growth, including in the housing market.
That Shiller can implicitly acknowledge that the current “boom” is unsustainable yet maintain the façade that prices were “normal” in 2006 before the housing prices collapsed and the recession hit, all the while deflecting attention away from the Fed’s role in causing unsustainable so-called “growth”, is simply an illustration of the institutionalized cognitive dissonance that exists within the economics profession.
To learn more about how the Fed’s low interest rates were the primary cause of the 2008 financial crisis—and why the current supposed “boom” is just another Fed-created bubble—read my book Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian Economics in the Financial Crisis.


Yes there is, and this set of five easy mandolin chords covers the majority of songs and is at the same time easy to play. Playing two-finger “open” Easy Mandolin Chords. The left hand is the difficult one when trying to play chords. So, a good idea is to focus on the simplest chords, i.e the ones that require only two fingers of your left hand. Apr 29, · This makes a mandolin very easy to play. While larger adults may think that the neck seems too small, remember that it is played as a four string instrument. By default, it would be at least one third smaller than a guitar neck, as it only has one two thirds the scottdwebgraphics.com: Sales. But in the late 's, an instrument maker in Kalamazoo, Mich., named Orville Gibson designed an easy-to-hold, flat-backed model that dramatically increased the mandolin's popularity. Mandolin. You can use this pattern to practice playing rhythm on mandolin-and-guitar practice tracks for a couple of the tunes you’ve learned. MORE MANDOLIN TUNES Get deeper into mandolin technique with these great bluegrass and old-time tunes. With play-along tracks and chords for every tune. FREE EASY BEGINNER MANDOLIN CHORD CHART. This is a set of basic beginner mandolin chords. Start here and when you learn them go back and start learning to play the other chord sets. Be sure to watch the free videos on this page which show you how to play easy mandolin chords. Note: An X over a string means don't play that string. May 25, · Mandolin. Tiny does not equate to easier to play. The mandolin has various right and left hand techniques that you will also learn if you play guitar or banjo, yet they may be more prevalent in some cases. The terms tremolo, cross-picking and chops should ring a bell for a seasoned mandolin player. Jan 03, · Mandolin is one of those instruments that's fairly easy to pick up and learn a few chords on. These would be the so-called "open chords", because they incorporate some of the strings played open, with your fingers holding down two or three notes. May 14, · OTOH, guitar is useful in just about any style of music you might want to play, whether it be rock, jazz, country, blues, folk, bluegrass, oldtime, whatever. So if you love the sound of the mandolin and are sure that's what you want to play, play mandolin. Otherwise you might want to think about playing guitar scottdwebgraphics.comers: 3.
Ha, ha! My best advice would be to keep a flatpick with you at all times. To learn how to play songs and other chords on the mandolin, keep reading! If you need help or have any questions, you have come to the right place. The style of music you choose to learn will affect several aspects of the mandolin you should purchase. Money-Saving Tips in Every Issue!
To create a G chord, fret the second, or A, string at the second fret with your index finger, and push the first, or E, string down on the third fret with your middle finger, as shown in photo 9. You can use a shoulder strap to keep the mandolin in place as you play. The instrument's heyday continued up until the time America entered World War I. The style of music you choose to learn will affect several aspects of the mandolin you should purchase. Strum four times on the C chord, then transition to the G chord and strum four more times. He has compiled and produced eight instructional books on CD as well as numerous instrumental arrangements.
Related Posts. So while the tablature for the mandolin reads like any other four string instrument, in reality you will have to press down two strings every time you want to play one note. Try going partway up the scale and then back down. Hannah, there was a wonderful thread on getting better as a musician some time back. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 3. If not it should be. Whenever you can, have it in your hand in the picking position, just to get used to the feel of it and practice a pendulam-type motion with your wrist. Fortunately that book homed in on fingerstyle right from the start. Overall, it is undeniable that a guitar is an essential instrument for creating rhythm.


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A)It is classic DR. Seuss B)It is VERY relaxing!
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A sweeter, gentler Dr. Seuss that is guaranteed to make your little one drowsy - this book will put you to sleep, and I mean that in a good way!
My daughter fights sleep like it is an enemy. The sleepier she gets, the more frenetic she becomes. This book has saved many a bedtime from becoming a complete screaming disaster.
Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book starts with a yawn which is somehow just as contagious as a real yawn, and I guarantee that you and your child will be yawning by the third page. The pace is not at all the usual rather madcap romp that you get with a Seuss book - the endearingly bizarre critters are there, and the wonderful wordplay, but the pace is wonderfully relaxing.
Basically, the yawn spreads until everyone from the Collapsible Frimp (my personal favorite) to the Laguna Babboons are asleep, with periodic updates about how many people and critters are currently asleep. There are even mentions of the "sports" of sleep walking & talking, and snoring concerts (Hey kid, sleep is fun! Hint, hint). It gently leads your child through a very drowsy world until it mentions that when you turn out your light, the number of sleepers will be "Ninety-nine Zillion, Nine Trillion and Three" and ends by saying good night. My little one has usually melted into a limp bundle of cuddle by that point.
This book should be on every toddler's bookshelf. Thank You Dr. Seuss!!!