It would take two to five decades for the destroyed forest areas and eco-systems in the wildfires to recover, said the authorities.
Still, at the moment, the institutions have neither precise data about the areas of forests that were was burned down nor the condition of the areas that were affected by the summer fires.
The director of the PE National Forests Juliana Nikolova said that the damages will be determined additionally but a conclusion can be made even now: It will take a very long time for the areas to recover!
“The evaluations of the Faculty of Forestry show that it would take 20 to 50 years for the burned areas to recover. I’m considering that it is more realistic to expect that it would take five decades rather than two, in order to reach the phase that the forest was in before it was burned down. This is an awfully long period which makes the wildfires catastrophic. In the next period there will be an evaluation of the damages depending on the types and the purpose of the trees that were burned down,” said Nikolova.
Calls for improvement of the possibilities for prevention and quick reaction
The damage is irreparable as existing eco-systems were destroyed that certainly cannot be recovered quickly, reacted the environmentalists Eco-Consciousness. They are pleading to be investigated whether the forests are set on fire purposely but also for the possibilities for a quick reaction and prevention to be improved.
“In the period when we are fighting with climate change and drought it is the ecosystemic services that the old forests are offering are becoming most important. Whether the forest was set on fire due to carelessness or on purpose we can never know that. It is left to the institutions to investigate and sanction. But, the whole situation showed that we are not ready to react quickly and to deal with forest fires,” said Eco Consciousness.
Director Nikolova said there are rumors among the general public that a major percentage of the wildfires during this period of the year was set on purpose haven’t been proven. Still, she is confirming that the burned trees can be used afterward and are used as pellets or are given to the local population to be used as firewood.
“To burn down forests with intent is a monstrous and acceptable act for me. If a perpetrator who has set a forest on fire is caught in the act, the services are obliged to hand over the perpetrator to authorities that will determine the facts and will act in accordance with legal procedures,” stressed Nikolova.
The National Forests informed that from the start of this year, until June, according to the data provided by the Electronic system MKFFIS, through the statistical data that is submitted by the branches and the electronic monthly reports from the forest service, there were 55 wildfires where 761 hectares of the forest was destroyed and over 5000 cubic meters of wood was burned down. The damage is evaluated to over 450,000 EUR. Still, the biggest damages caused by summer wildfires are yet to be assessed.
The environmentalists are alerting for illogicalities at the public enterprise and the national parks
The environmentalists are also alerting to other flaws especially related to firewood woodcutting. Eco Consciousness state that this business is like a golden duck in the domestic grey economy especially if it is taken into account that the sale of firewood is evaluated to closely 140 million EUR annually out of which half arrive from illegal logging. Out of 2,1 million cubic meters of firewood that is annually cut and used for the population’s needs, more than half wasn’t cut legally. They are demanding an urgent and essential reform at National Forests including strengthening the inspections and the field monitoring. According to them, it is problematic that the national parks which have to be the most protected areas, are left alone and most of the assets have to be secured through woodcutting, a situation that has to be changed urgently.
“For the first time after 60 years, a new national park Shar Mountain was declared which represents a great opportunity to see that the models with which the parks themselves are securing the funds from woodcutting is inappropriate and is an exception to examples throughout the world. Over 80% of the National Park Mavrovo’s income comes from commercial woodcutting in the park’s forests. It can be compared to a hospital’s director who is selling his patients’ organs in order to secure funds for the hospital,” said Eco Consciousness.


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Title: 13 Ways to Midnight
Author: Rue Volley
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Sixteen-year-old Echo Navarri, daughter of world-famous archaeologists, Alice and Peter Navarri, had spent her life traveling from one expedition to the next as her parent’s unearthed lost civilizations.
On their thirteenth dig, Midnight, Echo's twin sister, disappears without a trace. This prompts a year-long search that leaves the family nearly broken.
In an attempt to find some closure, they reluctantly host a mock funeral for Midnight without ever recovering her remains.
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For 2,000 years the Jewish people lived in galut, exile from their ancestral homeland, Eretz Yisrael. Though they scattered across the four corners of the earth, they were bound together by Jewish law, living and praying by the same rules. Having established diverse Diaspora communities throughout the world, however, unique customs inevitably arose, differentiating the traditions of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and Sephardic Jews. Such customs were not only relegated to daily life but to death and mourning as well: specifically, the ritual cleansing of the body and the burial shrouds the deceased are adorned in. At the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, “Dressed for Eternity: Jewish Shrouds Through the Ages” is the first major exhibition to examine the evolving traditions behind Jewish burial garments.
Featuring a range of textiles and clothing from Morocco, Yemen, Turkey, Europe, America, Israel, and beyond, the exhibition explores a rich yet understudied aspect of Jewish history: the material relationship between life and death. While burial shrouds historically resembled the cotton undergarments worn throughout life, the two eventually merged over time, as if to forge the connection. As the exhibition’s curator, Efrat Assaf-Shapira, told Air Mail, the burial shroud was often repurposed from “articles originally used for a wedding or in childbirth,” to strengthen this unity.
Viewers also learn how customs and narratives forged in geographical isolation are now part of Israeli intracultural dynamics. “As a consequence of immigration,” Assaf-Shapira explains, “some items became fused, while new local traditions were formed.”
The exhibition brings to light fresh findings on how mourning reflects themes of communal responsibility and the gendered division of labor. In Morocco, where gender segregation was more prominent, men and women would sew shrouds only for their own genders. But in Alsace and Germany, women were entirely responsible for all shroud preparations as a form of repentance for Eve’s original sin, which brought mortality to mankind.
Aesthetic symbolism, the sacred act of garment preparation, and the yearning for a return to Eretz Yisrael—these are all poetic facets of the burial shroud throughout history.
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Band DREAMCAR will embark on a nationwide tour that will be free of animal products next month. The band—referred to as a “supergroup” by some—is comprised of former No Doubt members vegan bassist Tony Kanal, guitarist Tom Dumont, drummer Adrian Young, and AFI member (and vegan) Davey Havok. Kanal revealed that his non-vegan bandmates Dumont and Young have agreed to abstain from meat for the entirety of the tour, and the band will travel in an all vegan tour bus. “It’s an epic rider because it’s a fully vegan dressing room,” Kanal said. “Our bandmates are awesome and they’re cool with it and they are open.” Kanal and Havok met while dining out at vegan establishments in Los Angeles and share similar beliefs when it comes to animal rights. “Dairy and eggs are so cruel, if not crueler, because the suffering is sustained,” Kanal said. “People don’t realize that for a cow to make milk she has to be pregnant, so you do the math—get them pregnant and take away their babies over and over in their lives. It’s emotional suffering, it’s physical suffering—and then they’re slaughtered at the end of it.” Kanal helped organize fellow vegan musician Moby’s Circle V festival in Los Angeles last summer where Havok performed with Blaqk Audio—an electronic music duo he launched with AFI member Jade Puget in 2007. DREAMCAR’s tour kicks off in Washington DC on May 18.
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Throughout April 2021, tensions have been rising between Ukraine and Russia over Russian military deployments into Crimea, as well as to Voronezh Oblast, Rostov Oblast and Krasnodar Krai, located adjacent to the eastern Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk. On 2 April, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced that the Southern Military District, which includes the Rostov, Krasnodar and Crimea areas, had initiated an exercise involving 15,000 personnel and 50 battalion-sized tactical groups, including electronic warfare (EW) units and air-defence batteries for counter-drone training. In addition, a supplemental ceasefire agreement above and beyond the ‘Minsk Protocol’, brokered by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), expired on 1 April. Since that date, the OSCE has noted an increase in ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces amid ongoing armed clashes between Ukrainian military forces and pro-Russian militias.
In the same timeframe, traditional media reporting on the situation in eastern Ukraine along the Ukrainian-Russian border and Crimea has increased significantly, some of which has overstated the size and scope of military activity occurring within these areas. Divisive public statements by officials from the Russian, Ukrainian and Western governments have also played a notable part in inflaming tensions. Osprey’s consistent collection of data on conflict zone dynamics and conventional military activity provides an objective view of the situation. The Osprey:Explore data visualisations, below, help to place the current situation in the context of historical reporting.
The above visualisation shows activity in Russia and Ukraine over 30 days from the end of March to the end of April 2021. The data indicates that activity significantly increased in late March and early April, though daily totals are experiencing a gradual downward trend since an observed single-day high on 2 April.
The above visualisation shows rocket, mortar and artillery fire in eastern Ukraine between April 2017 and April 2021. The data indicates that such activity in March-April is in line with the previous six months of collection and well below levels observed from late 2017 through early 2020.
The above visualisation represents conventional military activity and conflict zone dynamics within Ukraine between April 2019 and April 2021. The data indicates that such activity in March-April 2021 is elevated compared with the previous six months of collection but is below levels observed from 2019 through early 2020.
The above visualisation represents conventional military activity within Ukraine between April 2019 and April 2021. The data indicates that such activity in April is elevated compared with the previous six months, but the spike is not unprecedented as similar peaks occurred during individual months in 2019 and 2020.
The above visualisation shows conventional military activity within Russia between April 2019 and April 2021. The data indicates that there has been a month-on-month increase in such activity in 2021, but the overall levels are within the mean since 2019.
The above visualisation represents the combined conventional military activity of Russia and Ukraine over the past two years. The data indicates that there has been a month-on-month increase in such activity in 2021, but the overall levels are consistent with previously observed monthly levels since 2019.
While the true intentions of the Russians and the Ukrainians are opaque, Osprey Flight Solutions continues to view much of the activity as posturing by both sides and heightened levels of military training, and the airspace operational situation over portions of Ukraine, Russia and the Black Sea remain fluid and subject to rapid change. Russia has announced that exercises in the Southern Military District will end in the week ahead and that the majority of deployed units will return to their originating bases by 1 May. Ukraine has welcomed the announcement indicating a potential reduction in the border tensions. NATO stated it has taken note of the planned Russian end to military exercises near Ukraine and ‘remains vigilant’. The US has also said it is looking for ‘action’ on the claimed plan to end Russian military exercises near Ukraine.
Despite the above, some units deployed to the Central Military District areas, such as Voronezh near the border with Ukraine, will remain in place through autumn for the Zapad 2021 exercises, according to Russia. Osprey will continue to monitor Russian statements regarding the above exercises, as well as the associated redeployment of forces, and we will provide updates as the airspace risk environment over these areas evolves.

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Raptors get Siakam back as they reach quarter mark with win over Cavs
TORONTO – Generally, Nick Nurse likes to wait until the 20-game mark before making any overarching conclusions about his team and what it’s capable of, but you can understand if he needs a bit more evaluation time this season.
Over the 10-game stretch that followed Pascal Siakam’s groin strain earlier this month, 10 different Raptors players – or two-thirds of their regular roster – missed at least one contest due to injury, illness, or both.
Toronto played seven straight games without at least two rotation players, six straight games without at least three rotation players, five straight games without at least four rotation players, and three straight games without at least five rotation players.
Monday was notable, not just because it denoted the quarter point of the season, but because it was the first time they had their five-best players available since October 28 – the sixth game of the 2022-23 NBA campaign. With Siakam returning from his three-week absence and Scottie Barnes back after a knee injury cost him a couple games, the Raptors finally looked whole again, or closer to it than they’ve been in a while.
They still have a lot to learn about themselves over the remaining 62 games, but Nurse has seen enough to feel encouraged about who they are and what they can become, provided good health.
“We’ve looked like we can be pretty good,” Nurse said just before his club improved to 11-9 with a decisive 100-88 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. “We need to get these health issues behind us so we can grow a little bit from where we [are]… That’s what I look forward to. Your team needs to improve during the season to get to where it can go. We haven’t really been able to get that part of the train rolling yet.”
“It felt like the first game of the season all over again, it was a little déjà vu there,” said Fred VanVleet, noting that they also opened the campaign at home against the Cavs nearly six weeks prior. “It was good to have some familiar faces back. It’s always a learning process, just trying to figure out who you’re going to be as a team.”
Keeping with the opening-night vibes, Nurse was in full mad scientist mode, tinkering with his rotation, seeing what might work and what may not. The most notable and surprising change came in the starting lineup, where Juancho Hernangomez and Thad Young replaced Barnes and the struggling Gary Trent Jr.
Using their 11th different starting unit of the season, tied with the Lakers for most in the league, the Raptors took an early lead thanks in large part to Siakam, who picked up where he left off.
The All-NBA forward scored his team’s first two buckets, the first of which came on a spin move and floater in the lane. All night long, he got to his spots with ease and made plays for teammates, thwarting Cleveland’s ill-conceived plan to guard him straight up with the athletically inferior Dean Wade.
After knocking down a corner-three early in the second quarter Siakam posted up Cedi Osman, waited for the double to come, passed out of it, got the ball back from VanVleet and then patiently drilled a step-back jumper. In the third, he waited for the double again, this time skipping a bounce pass along the baseline and finding Young, who converted the layup and drew a foul.
He put on a clinic, and not to oversimplify things, but the Raptors are a different team when their best player and leading scorer is on the floor.
“The things he brings to the game, it’s amazing to see,” Barnes said of Siakam, who finished with an efficient 18 points, 11 rebounds and five assists in 30 minutes. “Watching Pascal play is like, wow, damn. Every move he makes, the step backs, the spin moves, double spin moves, you know it’s coming but still, bang. It’s great to have him back out there.”
Without him for almost half of these first 20 games, this Raptors team is hard to get a good read on. The underlying numbers are solid, albeit a bit unusual. Coming into Monday’s game, they ranked 13th in offence, despite ranking 27th in field goal percentage and 25th in three-point shooting. They were 10th in defence despite allowing opponents to hit 48 per cent of their shots.
But, more often than not, their relentless pursuit of securing extra possessions – an identity that they established late last season – has made up for poor shooting, defensive lapses and injured stars. Toronto leads the league in offensive rebounding and forcing turnovers. As a result, they attempt nearly 10 more shots than their opponent on a per game basis.
This is how the Raptors want to play, regardless of who’s in or out of the lineup, but they’re hoping that getting Siakam back will make them less reliant on winning the possession battle every night. Prior to Siakam’s injury, Toronto was shooting 38 per cent from long distance. Without him, the team hit just 28 per cent of its three-point attempts. Some regression was to be expected, and their slumping shooters haven’t helped, but the absence of Siakam and his ability to get in the paint, suck in the defence and generate good looks for his teammates was surely a factor.
For only the second time all season, the Raptors attempted fewer shots than their opponent on Monday night. However, they hit 12 of their 28 threes, with Siakam assisting on a couple of them and his presence creating several others.
While the Cavs were on the second night of a back-to-back and missing some key pieces themselves, including all-star centre Jarrett Allen, Toronto held Donovan Mitchell to eight points on 3-of-11 shooting and a very good Cleveland team to 7-of-38 from three-point range.
“We didn’t have our normal team and we were losing games we felt like we should win,” Siakam said. That will happen. You just have to stay positive, continue to work and just find our rhythm. Having everyone back just feels good. The bench just feels full. Sometimes you would watch the bench and there was nobody on the bench. That felt depressing by itself. We are going to get on a run and as long as we stay together and play together, we’re going to be OK.”
Perhaps it was because we got used to seeing them play without a fraction of their roster, or maybe it was because of how they staggered minutes with a couple starters coming off the bench, but the Raptors had an embarrassment of riches when it came to talent on the floor. Now that they’re getting healthier, it’s easier to see some of those silver linings that can come with injuries.
O.G. Anunoby took his game to another level as the de facto No. 1 option these past few weeks, and it carried over even with Siakam back in the lineup, scoring a team-leading 20 points on 8-of-13. Then, Young and Hernangomez, who were barely playing early in the season, have emerged as viable depth pieces, whether they continue to start or return to the bench.
Trent and Barnes both found out they would be coming off the bench earlier in the day. With a couple guys coming back, including Barnes, and a few more still searching for their rhythm, including Trent, Nurse wanted to split them up between units, hence the lineup change.
Barnes had started the first 90 regular-season games of his career and didn’t seem thrilled about his demotion, though it’ll likely be temporary. The bigger question for Nurse, who was non-committal when asked about what his first unit will look like moving forward, is whether Trent might be best suited as a reserve.
Coming in shooting two for his last 22 from beyond the arc, Trent knocked down his first three-point attempts shortly after checking into the game. While he hadn’t come off the bench since opening night of last season, he responded, scoring 14 points and grabbing seven rebounds in 26 minutes.
The Raptors may not be at full strength yet – they’re still two or three weeks away from having a clearer picture of when Precious Achiuwa might be able to return from his sprained ankle, and Otto Porter Jr. just got out of the walking boot that he was wearing to protect a dislocated toe – but suddenly, Nurse has options to work with. After treading water for the first quarter of the season, that’s not a bad place to be.
“We've got a little bit of everything, which is good,” VanVleet said. “We’ve got to figure out how we're going to put that together to be the best version of what we are, whatever that is. We're in a good spot. I like our team. I like where we're at. I like where we're headed. It's probably time to start putting together some nice stretches of basketball here going forward.”


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1/2-3/4 cup cherupayar/ green gram
1 cup muringayila / drumstick leaves
1 cup grated coconut
salt to taste
- Wash the rice and green gram in water. Grind the grated coconut adding about 3/4 cup of water and keep it aside.
- In a pressure cooker, cook the rice and green gram by adding about 4-5 cups of water on medium flame for 4-5 whistles until the rice is cooked well.
- Once the pressure releases, open the lid and add the cleaned drumstick leaves, little water and salt and mix well.
- Then add the ground coconut to the cooked kanji and bring it to boil on medium low heat, stirring in between.
- Check for salt and if the kanji is too thick, add little more hot water and mix well. Remove from flame and serve hot….
- While serving if the kanji is too thick, you can add warm water according to your choice of consistency…
- Instead of grinding the coconut, you can also add coconut crushed well with your hand..

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Defending champion Jason Day lasted only six holes at the Dell Technologies Match Play until a heavy heart forced an early departure.
SEATTLE (AP) Mike Hopkins watched the NCAA Tournament tinged with the slightest bit of jealousy. He saw coaches he had come to know - Chris Collins at Northwestern specifically - who had left behind stable careers as an assistant coach and took the leap to being a head coach.
Michigan has won seven in a row
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) In signing Kevin Keirmaier to a $53.5 million, six-year contract, the Tampa Bay Rays ensured the center fielder's salaries will stay relatively low in the first three years after he would have been eligible for free agency.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) Virginia coach Tony Bennett says junior Marial Shayok and sophomore Jarred Reuter are transferring.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The Philadelphia 76ers say center Joel Embiid will undergo surgery on a torn meniscus in his left knee.
Pete Hamilton, winner of consecutive Daytona 500s, died Wednesday. He was 74.
Justin Verlander and Kate Upton support Floria SPCA
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) The Jacksonville Jaguars have signed free agent tight end Mychal Rivera to a two-year contract.

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Diana Penty's laid-back look on magazine cover gives wardrobe goals
Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 8:18 PM
Diana Penty's easy breezy summer outfits have mostly been a style inspiration for fashion enthusiasts. This time, Penty was spotted on the cover of Grazia India's July issue, clad in a pastel shaded, balloon sleeve maxi dress featuring lace detail on the neckline. The 32-year-old seemed quite comfortable in the outfit. Giving accessories a complete miss, her bronze make-up palette complemented her outfit well.

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ANTONINE UNIVERSITY CHOIR
One of the leading choirs in Lebanon, Antonine University Choir was founded in Baabda-Lebanon 1978. It has contributed since the eighties in the cultural enrichment of the Lebanese musical life with its repertory.
UA choir has performed in Rome, Milan, Nice, Lyon, Monaco, St. Étienne, Doha, Dubai, Al Aïn in United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Tbilisi, Paris, New york, Los Angeles, Muscat, Naples, Venice, Helsinki and Manhaus Brazil. It has participated in the Classical Music Festival of Al Ain(United Arab Emirates 2008-2009), Al Bustan International Festival (2009 to 2019), Byblos International Festival (2010-2011-2013-2014), Baalbeck International Festival (2011-2018-2020), Beirut Chants Festival-Lebanon (2008 to 2021), Ehdeniyat (2016), Tbilisi Opera Festival (2012), Festival d’Ile de France (2012-2013), and Bahrain International Music Festival (2013) Abu Dhabi Festival (2022). In May 2010, April 2013 and May 2015, the choir performed at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York. It made its Los Angeles debut in April 2014, performing at the LA City Hall. In November 2016, the choir also made its debut at the San Carlo opera house. In addition, the choir has represented Lebanon in the opening of the Lebanese Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in May 2017. In October 2019, Antonine University Choir performed at the Manhaus Opera House in Brazil. In December 2022, the choir will perform Handel’s Messiah in Jordan with the Amman Chamber Orchestra.
NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY CHOIR
With more than a dozen concerts per season, numerous recordings and publications, as well as many international awards, the Notre Dame University Choir is one of Lebanon and the region’s outstanding choirs. A broad repertoire, a richly warm sound, an unmistakable interpretation all contributes to make it a permanent partner of the international festivals, and the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra and its conductors, where it functions as a musical ambassador for Beirut in the great concert halls around the world.
Along with the symphonic choral central repertoire, the annual season programing of the choir includes a wide range of Lebanese music, in close cooperation with celebrated composers, such as Iyad Kanaan, Gabriel Yared and Valentino Miserachs Grau, with the aim of developing and growing the Lebanese choral repertoire. Furthermore, Notre Dame University Choir is constantly developing new and unusual ways of experiencing choral music.
Since its establishment in 1993, it has been shaped by Reverend Khalil Rahme, a Maronite Mariamite monk, who returned to Beirut after completing his music studies in Rome, to found the choir and the School of Music at Notre Dame University, in addition to his numerous entrusted tasks at the Lebanese National Conservatory of Music.
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra:
Now a celebrated symphony orchestra at home and overseas, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra emerged from a group of devout enthusiasts of classical music with the shared vision of championing spiritual excellence through music and upholding the musical traditions of their native Armenia. Reputed to have finely distinct quality of sound and emotionally charged performance style, the orchestra has long become an awaited guest in leading concert halls around the world.
The orchestra performs over 50 concerts in Armenia and across the world annually. The rich and diverse repertoire of the orchestra covers multiple genres and performance formats, ranging from symphonies to ballet and opera music to symphonic arrangements of popular and cinematic music or jazz interpretations of classical music. Along with recurrent debut performances of great masterpieces from the world heritage of classical music, the orchestra places a considerable importance in exposing contemporary and young composers as well, featuring new works in its mainstream programming throughout concert seasons.
Together with its Founding Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Sergey Smbatyan, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra has established four annual classical music festivals, hosting in Armenia a multitude of internationally renowned virtuoso performers and conductors over years, including artists such as
Gil Shaham, Mischa Maisky, Steven Isserlis, Maxim Vengerov, Mikhail Pletnev, Gautier Capuçon, Sergey Khachatryan, Andreas Ottensamer, Ning Feng, Jօseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson, Dmitry Yablonsky, Hannu Lintu, John Malkovich and many others. The orchestra treasures years of friendship and cooperation with remarkable contemporary composers such as Arvo Pärt, Tigran Mansuryan, Krzysztof Penderecki, Giya Kancheli, Sir Karl Jenkins and Qigang Chen.
By virtue of its belief in the meaningful dialogue between classical music and modern technologies,
the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra is profiled as a highly tech-driven and innovative orchestra, with a perpetual pursuit of experimental diversity by leveraging AI and other high-tech solutions in its artistic endeavors.
The orchestra has a growing input in the education of young people in Armenia. Launched in 2018, the DasA program strives to incite curiosity, understanding and liking for classical music among high school students. The program is designed to bring the youth and high quality musical art closer together and share entertaining knowledge about classical music. The orchestra also targets university students in the framework of the “My Symphonic” project, conducting focus group discussions, meeting sessions and providing invitations to concerts, adopting them to meet to the needs of the new generation. Aside from educational programs, master classes with prominent artists are held frequently for young musicians.
With a committed awareness of its social responsibility, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra ensures the cultural engagement of vulnerable social groups by regularly issuing invitations and making available complimentary attendances to the orchestra’s performances, along with involving in charity concerts and events for fundraising purposes.
CESAR NAASSY, BARITONE
Known for his striking stage presence and deep warm voice, Cesar finds himself particularly well in the works of Mozart. His notable vocal agility and cantabile voice, also allow him to tackle the Belcanto repertoire of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. Some of the roles he performed on stage include Raimondo in “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Dulcamara in “Elisir d’amore”, Don Alfonso in “Così fan tutte”, Bartolo in “Le nozze di Figaro, Sarastro in “Die Zauberflöte”, The king of Scotland in “Ariodante” and newer works, such as Superintendant Bud in Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring”.
Since the start of his singing career, he has performed on the international stage in renowned theatres, such as “Teatro San Carlo” in Naples, “Teatro Flavio Vespasiano” in Rieti, “Auditorium della Concigliazione” in the Vatican, “Teatro di Ostia antica” in Rome, all the way to “Théatre de l’Opéra de Montreal” and “Théatre Monument National” in Montreal.
He has had the privilege to work with world renowned directors such as Charles Binamé, and has studied with international artists such as,Elisabeth Norberg Schultz, Caterina Ditonno, Cinzia Forte, Roberto Frontali and Toufic Maatouk. He also holds two Masters degrees in Musicology and Performance from the prestigious McGill University in Montreal.
Joseph Dahdah, Tenor:
Tenor Joseph Dahdah was born in Zgharta, Lebanon in 1992. He began studying singing and piano at the age of 12 with Camille Hanna. After arriving in Italy, he continued his studies in Rome with Raina Infantino and later at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Briccialdi in Terni, where he obtained a three-year diploma in 1st level and a 2nd level diploma in Lyrical Singing with honors (110/110) under the guidance of mezzo-soprano Ambra Vespasiani. He has participated in numerous masterclasses with renowned artists such as Richard Barker, Luca Salsi, Eva Mei, Bruno de Simone, and Tatiana Chivarova. Joseph has performed in numerous operas, oratorios, concerts, and festivals in Lebanon, Italy, Germany, Venezuela, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria. He then joined the Academy of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. As a solo tenor, Joseph has performed in the world premiere of Luca Francesconi’s “Per lo corpo luce” conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, Beethoven’s “Fantasia” conducted by Manfred Honeck, and Liszt’s “Faust Symphony” conducted by Marc Albrecht. Among his operatic roles, he has portrayed the Sergeant in Umberto Giordano’s “Siberia” at the Teatro del Maggio, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda; Barbarigo in “I due Foscari” alongside Placido Domingo at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2022; Radamès in a production of “Aida” for Venti Lucenti at the Cavea del Teatro del Maggio; Ein Uffizier in “Ariadne auf Naxos”; Un messo in “Il trovatore”; Don Riccardo in “Ernani”; Araldo reale and Conte di Lerma in “Don Carlo” conducted by Daniele Gatti; Soldier and Herzog von Parma in Ferruccio Busoni’s “Doktor Faust” conducted by Cornelius Meister; Gastone in “La Traviata” conducted by Zubin Mehta; and various solo tenor roles including Pulcinella in Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” conducted by Daniele Gatti, the Te Deum by A. Bruckner, Cassio in Verdi’s “Otello,” and lately he made his debut in Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville singing Pollione in Bellini’s Norma.
Kyubin Chung, Piano:
Kyubin Chung was born in Korea in 1997. He studied at the Korea National University of Arts with Prof. Daejin Kim and completed his bachelor’s degree in 2020. He also studied orchestra conducting as a minor.
He has won numerous prizes, including 1st prize at the Isang Yun International Competition, 1st prize at the Tokyo International Competition, 3rd prize at the Ettlingen International Piano Competition and 6th prize at the Vienna International Beethoven Piano Competition.
He has appeared as a soloist with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and others.
Since October 2020 he has been studying his Master of Music with Prof. Antti Siirala at the University of Music and Theater in Munich.
TOUFIC MAATOUK, CONDUCTOR
Toufic Maatouk, is one of the most compelling conductors of his generation. In the 2012 season, Maatouk began his tenure as Artistic Director of the Beirut Chants Festival in Lebanon. He is also Guest Conductor of the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra since 2013 and a Guest Conductor of the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra Orchestra since 2017. Maatouk was appointed Artistic Director and Choir Master of the Antonine University Choir, in August 2005 and Head of the vocal department in the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music since October 2015. Maatouk has been Head of Academy of the Saudi Music Hubs in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) founded by the Saudi Ministry of culture and been selected as Academic Board member at the Global Leaders Program (USA). Lately, he was appointed Executive Manager for Programming at the Abu Dhabi Festival (UAE).
He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the Istituto Pontificio di Musica Sacra (Pims) in Rome where he conducted and published different studies on the syro-maronite chants. As chief conductor, Toufic Maatouk has led the Antonine University choir for more than 18 years.
In 2020, Maatouk was knighted by the President of the Italian Republic as “Cavaliere dell’Ordine Della Stella d’Italia” and been nominated by the Peace and Prosperity Trust (UK) as Artistic adviser to the Trust.
He collaborated with several orchestras, festivals and theatres including Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo (Napoli), Orchestra Giovanile Mediterranea (Palermo), Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta (Rome), New England symphonic ensemble (New York), Los Angeles Sinfonietta Orchestra (Los Angeles), Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Kiev Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), Al-Bustan International Festival, Baalbeck International Festival, Byblos International Festival (Lebanon), Festival d’ile de France (Paris), Carnegie Hall (New York), Global Leaders Program (New York),Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Roma), Teatro di San Carlo (Napoli), Académie de l’Opéra de Paris, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (France), Romanian Radio (Bucharest), Al-Ain Music Festival (UEA), Bahrain International Music Festival (Bahrain).
He performed also with world-renowned artists such Maria Agresta, Jessica Pratt, Joyce El Khoury, Daniela Barcellona, Carmen Giannatasio, Laura Giordano, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Paolo Fanale, Giorgio Berrugi, Krzysztof Baczyk, Mirco Palazzi, Seong-Jin Cho, Dmitry Masleev, Jack Swanson, Anna Maria Labin, Eric Le Sage, Xavier De Maistres, Faycal Karaoui, Gabriele Ferro, Francesca Dego, Modigliani Quartet, Kodaly Quartet, Boris Andrianov, Alexander Ghindin, Caterina Di Tonno, Rosa Bove, Leonardo Cortellazzi and others.
He has been invited as a jury member to several prestigious competitions as the Ottavio Ziino International Liric Competition (Italy), Voce Verdiane International Competition (Italy) and the Biennale des Quatuors à cordes (Philharmonie de Paris).
He collaborates with many Orchestras such as Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra (Lebanon), Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo (Italy), Orchestra Giovanile Mediterranea (Italy), Roma Sinfonietta (Italy), New England Symphonic Ensemble (USA), Los Angeles Sinfonietta Orchestra (USA), Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Kiev Symphony Orchestra (Ukranine), Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra (Bucharest).
Maatouk published his new book on the Syro-Maronite tradition with Geuthner’s edition in Paris. Different articles are published in international musicology journals and 13 CD on the Maronite tradition with the Antonine University chorus.
Lately, he has been Jury member at the 21st edition of the Ottavio Ziino International Competition in Italy (September 2022). Upcoming schedule includes two concerts with the Radio Romania Chamber Orchestra (March 2023).
100th Anniversary of Puccini Death
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
Messa di Gloria (45’)
Puccini is justly celebrated as one of the greatest opera composers, renowned particularly for La Boheme, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly. He was the fourth generation of a family of church musicians from Lucca in northern Italy and held the position of town organist and maestro di capella at the cathedral of San Paolino. He studied at the nearby Institute Musicale and in 1876 walked twenty miles from Lucca to Pisa and back to hear a performance of Verdi’s Aida. It was this experience that finally decided him to pursue a career in the theatre rather than the church. Whilst he was still only eighteen, he composed a setting of the mass for choir and orchestra as his graduation piece More than a glimpse through that window into the future was offered by Puccini in his graduation exercise for the Pacini Institute, composed to be performed, as had been his earlier motet, on the eve of the Feast of San Paolino, in July 1880, entitled simply Messa a Quattro Voci. The first performance in 1880 was a great success, praised by critics and the public alike, but Puccini filed it away and it was not heard again in his lifetime.
In 1951 Father Dante del Fiorentino, an émigré Italian priest living in New York who had known Puccini when he was a young curate, was visiting Lucca to collect material for a biography of the composer. He came upon a copy of the mass and on his return home organized the first American performance of it in Chicago in 1952, seventy-two years after its premiere in Lucca. Regrettably, the notes in the preface of the published score perpetuated the fiction claimed by Father Dante that he had ‘rediscovered’ the ‘lost’ manuscript amongst the large collection of Puccini’s works held by the family of his musical secretary, Vandini. In fact, the work was never lost; Puccini scholars had always known of its existence and Father Dante was by no means the first to have seen the manuscript. The real reason why it was not performed after its premiere was because Puccini quite clearly intended it to be a farewell to his association with liturgical music.
Since its publication in 1951, it has been universally known as the Messa di Gloria and has become a firmly established part of the choral repertoire. It comprises the usual mass sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus, and Agnus Dei. Puccini uses a standard classical orchestra, with tenor, baritone, and bass soloists. The Messa di Gloria is an uncomplicated work. Its style is direct and unashamedly operatic, and it is clearly influenced by Puccini’s hero, Verdi. As a liturgical work written in an overtly operatic style, its most obvious antecedents are Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle (1863) and Verdi’s Requiem (1874). It is a remarkably assured work for an eighteen-year-old, full of colour, vitality and musical surprises such as the many sudden key changes.
The work’s operatic credentials are not immediately revealed. The Kyrie begins with a luminous string introduction leading to a lyrical ‘Kyrie eleison’. The music becomes more forceful halfway through the ‘Christe eleison’ before returning to the peaceful opening mood.
The Gloria, a real tour de force, takes up nearly half the entire mass, hence the title by which the work has become known. It could easily be performed as a complete work and abounds in rhythmic energy, soaring melodies, and arresting dramatic gestures. Here Puccini’s operatic instincts are fully expressed. There are several sections, starting with a joyous opening theme that defines the movement. A dramatic tenor solo at ‘Gratias agimus’ is followed by a reprise of the ‘Gloria in excelsis’ theme, and then for ‘Qui tollis’ a truly Verdian melody is introduced by the chorus basses. ‘Cum sancto spiritu’, as custom decreed, is set to an exuberant fugue, the final section of which combines the fugue subject with the opening ‘Gloria’ theme, building to a compelling climax.
Like the Gloria, the Credo is divided into several sections. It begins with strong, unison choral phrases answered by rising orchestral interpolations. A beautiful section for tenor solo and unaccompanied chorus ensues at ‘et incarnatus est’. After an extended bass solo for ‘Crucifixus’ the music explodes into life for the energetic ‘et resurrexit’. The solemn tones of ‘et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum’ usher in the concluding section of the Credo – a surprisingly light and dancelike ‘et vitam venturi’.
The Sanctus is short and simple. The stately opening is followed by a brisk ‘Pleni sunt coeli’ and ‘Hosanna’. The Benedictus is given over to the baritone soloist, the chorus then returning with a brief ‘Hosanna’. The Agnus Dei is also straightforward. A lilting melody for the tenor soloist is answered by the chorus with ‘miserere nobis’. This pattern is repeated with the baritone soloist and finally with both soloists, until the Mass comes to an untroubled close with an innocent triplet phrase.
L.V. Beethoven (1770-1827)
Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra (“Choral Fantasy”) Op. 80 (24’)
This work, completely original in concept, has been devalued both by its unfortunate debut and by unfair comparisons with the Ninth Symphony, composed some sixteen years later. Thoroughly rehearsed and passionately performed, however, the Choral Fantasy can evoke much of the spirit of the later work, a sort of Ode to Joy Lite. First, it gives us a rare glimpse of Beethoven freely improvising at the piano; though we have no record of what he might have played in the premiere, he wrote down the introductory fantasia some years later.
The opening Adagio tests the limits of the performer and the instrument; the score blackens, first with 32nd notes, then 64th, and even 128th notes! Like the second movement of the Fourth Piano Concerto, which premiered before intermission in the 1808 concert, the Finale begins with a dialogue between ominous martial strings and a conciliatory piano response. Like the Ode to Joy, the heart of the work is a series of variations on a simple stepwise theme. (Why this catchy tune didn’t find its way into hymnals and Suzuki violin methods is beyond me.)
A three-note fanfare precedes the introduction of the theme, played in the simplest Classic style. Beethoven had used the same melody in 1794 for his lied entitled Gegenliebe. Delicate variations follow for flute, two oboes in parallel thirds, a trio of clarinets and bassoon, and a string quartet before the full orchestra takes up the theme. The piano leads into new territory: a gruff C minor episode evocative of “Turkism” and an offbeat march in C major. Some of the celestial modulations Beethoven will use in the Ninth Symphony are also tested here.
The chorus enters in the final quarter with an exuberant paean to the harmony of life, the power of music, and the gift of art. (Because their poetic scansions are identical, you may catch your subconscious singing along to Schiller’s Ode to Joy). The poet is uncertain—either Christoph Kuffner (1780-1846) or perhaps Georg Friedrich Treitschke, reviser of the libretto of Fidelio—but Beethoven is likely to have also contributed.
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On a recent Friday night at a shared workspace in the boonies of Chelsea, VICE Impact got invited to a party. The space was impeccably designed: hip and vast enough to house the artists, activists, and workers from the more than two hundred and forty non-profits, b-corps and start-ups that are members of the Centre for Social Innovation, even if they all showed up at once for the shindig and started dancing. Things didn't get that wild, though, and anyway everyone was pretty focused on the talent show. Yep, the talent show: someone sang the Dixie Chicks. Someone read from a piece they had written when they were seventeen. One lady busted out some socially conscious hip-hop (with decent flow), and a dude played his face like an instrument. Don't giggle: where in some New York start-up circles this sort of goofball earnestness would be snickered at, ignored and talked over, the people here were sitting, laughing, applauding, (even shushing!) and shouting their support. The feeling was that they were all in this silliness together. And that is no accident.
CSI is New York's only shared workspace devoted to the build up of socially responsible, impactful, and, yes, innovative companies, both for- and non-profit. If you think that the net that casts is pretty wide, you're not wrong. The map on a large blackboard at the entrance of the workspace colors the different sections that occupy each "bay." "Prison Reform," "International Development," and "Civic Engagement" are right down the way from "Hospitality" and "Brand & Marketing."
THINX, the maker of women's hygienic undergarments (which got its start here), is near Partners For Progressive Israel. Like any shared workspace in 2017, some of the start-ups are operating on a Twitter feed and a dream while others are, well, THINX, whose controversial ads are papered all over the subway system and who has already been the victim of an honest-to-god founder/executive boondoggle. This is a big space, and the representation, by design, is vast.
But cynicism seems a foreign concept, and it is far from dog-eat-dog.
"We have some people who have the fire in their belly, but might not have the savvy or expertise to develop their concept, and then we have people who have the nuts and bolts worked out," CSI Community Animator Chelsea Simpson told VICE Impact.
It's her job to facilitate the events (talent shows, Salad Parties) and meetings that serve to bind together disparate goals into common purpose.
"We're mindful of the balance of what we have in the space, and my concern being in Animations is how do we foster that permaculture," she said. "How do we entreat different species of organizations to cross-action?"
Indeed, the word one runs into a lot is "community."
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"The most helpful part is the emotional support," Rohit Acharya told us. First Access, the microloan company he co-founded, "graduated" from CSI: in effect, by hiring people and becoming too big for the hot desks and small offices of the workspace to contain. But growth is never guaranteed in business, much less when you're also trying to make a positive mark on the world.
"There are scant resources for this industry to begin with," Acharya said. "So you realize that you're trying to do something where you're up against a lot of obstacles, but you're not alone—and I mean physically not alone. You're in a space with people who have chosen a similar path, that you can talk to, that you can blow off steam with."
The Centre was founded in Toronto in 2004 (notice the Canuck-style spelling in the name). Bringing it to NYC was the brainchild of David Gise, who in 2013 had been offered to take over a 13,000 foot space in the Starrett-Lehigh Building, one of the largest structures in the city, and since then CSI has only expanded more and more. It is now a 24,000-ft. space, and just recently opened up its fourth bay, which is dedicated to forty companies that comprise a Women's Lab, including a handbag company that devotes proceeds to victims of human trafficking, an empowerment workshop for teens, and an incubator for women entrepreneurs and non-profits that remarkably mimics CSI in microcosm, like a Russian nesting doll of social impact movements.
"A lot of other places are much more transient," Dylan Alban, Director of Implementation and Support for American Prison Data Systems, a b-corporation who brings tablets to prisoners in order to educate and reduce violence and recidivism. "People stay a long time here. It's not a quick incubator where you get in and boom you're out the door. The network is great. There a lot of like minded people who are willing to pitch in and help."
There's a certain amount of kismet going into these connections. In the wake of the Philando Castile shooting, Ms. Simpson and others at CSI were brainstorming ways to affect real, positive change in their local community. In November of 2016, Blowback Productions screened their HBO documentary "Class Divide" at the space; the film follows the lives of people on either side of 10th Avenue and 26th street, a block that houses both a private school and the Elliot-Chelsea Housing projects. Hyisheem Calier, a social worker (and subject of the film), was at the screening. He met Ms. Simpson and together they spent weeks figuring out a project, and soon discovered that Mitchell Grant, manager of the Lehigh building that houses CSI, had also been at the screening and was looking for a way utilize the vast corporate resources housed in the complex to affect change. Thus the Chelsea Alliance was born. It kicks off the first phase of its pilot program in three weeks: providing ten residents of the projects with paid internships at Johnson & Johnson, THINX, and other corporations in the building.
"We hope to set an example for communities like Elliot Chelsea where many corporations live but may not provide opportunities for the underrepresented youth and marginalized populations in their neighborhood," Calier said.
Residents of the Elliot Chelsea houses benefit from the opportunity, and the corporations benefit by gaining access to untapped local talent. Part of the Alliance is formal and structured: the internships. But part of it is inviting the participants to hang out at talent show parties and develop genuine relationships with members of CSI. Mr. Calier and a few of his friends were there when the music started pumping. Like everybody else, they seemed to be having a great time.
To learn more about the work of CSI check-out this list of all the organizations involved in their NYC Women's Lab. If you or your impact organization would like to work through CSI, fill out their online inquiry form for meetings and events.


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Monday, 23 September 2013
Ann Summers Party and Cupcakes
Last weekend I went to my first ever Ann Summers party. And of course, being me, I was in charge of the cupcakes (pictured above).
While I think I'm pretty good with the baking part (totally modest I know), I am not usually that good with decorating cakes. That is actually the main reason I wanted to do the cupcakes for this party - I knew it would challenge me, but without the worry of what will happen if I fail (after all, cakes that look terrible, still taste just as good). As you can tell, that was an unfounded worry anyway, and I'm super proud of how they turned out. It was my first time using roll out icing (bought on Ebay!), and I got on okay with it once I figured out to make sure everything is coated in icing sugar so it doesn't stick. I am looking forward to using it again, and getting better and better. As for the ideas, I simply Googles 'ann summers cupcakes' and was rewarded with plenty of inspiration.
As for the actual party, I have to admit I was a little disappointed, though I definitely enjoyed myself and as it was a chance to see other people (even if I only knew the host), it rates pretty high on the list of what I've been up to so far this year. And of course, having an excuse to bake (and eat what I've made), was certainly a pro-point. In all, I would go to another if I was invited, but I honestly wouldn't care that much if I don't get to go to one again (and I'm sure my bank balance would probably appreciate it), as, to me, it simply felt like I was simply being shown the catalogue. Okay, that is possibly a little harsh, as I was grateful for the chance to try on a couple of things before buying - but if I was a regular, healthy person, it would make more sense to go straight to a shop as that's the way to ensure you'll be able to try on the right size.
Have you ever been to an Ann Summers party? Did you love it/hate it? Let me know in the comments.

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Drinking water Gardening - A fish pond full of lilies, a fountain, small cascading stream in an exclusive garden are perfect places for pleasure and serenity. If space is not factor, then water gardening is one garden idea to cherish. The tiny fountains in the center of your garden, a stream operating across the garden have an instant impact on its exquisiteness. This particular gardens are getting on popularity for their charm and electricity. They attract a sizable number of birds. Ponds can be dug in to the earth and fountains can be purchased in all sizes and shapes. To be more economical, old cisterns or washtubs could be used to grow water lilies in them.
Organic Gardening - Started in america during the 1940s and 1950s, organic and natural gardening is actually based on the concept of feeding the ground rather than the herb. It feels that trees, crops are part of a system in nature. Organic gardeners do not use any man-made fabricated fertilizers, nutrients or pesticides. They effectively apply the natural manure, compost or homemade infestation controls for vegetable nutrition. They develop plants suited to the conditions available. The organic garden ideas follow decorum with the nature, for a wholesome environment.


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This last week I had four people ask me the same question: What’s the easiest way to go low-carb and stop these blood sugar swings?
Most people plunge in by cutting out all the pasta, the fruit, the bagels, the cheese cake, the garlic bread, the fruit juice, the pancakes, the colas, the french fries, the waffles, the popcorn, the ice cream, the pretzels, the chocolate, the rice, the Cheerios… and realize they haven’t much left to eat.
Days follow as they go mad with hunger. One type-1 diabetic told me that she was turning into a skeleton following a low-carb diet.
Not just Nicole (my type-1 diabetic wife) but also myself and our eight year old son, Jonah, have followed a low-carb diet for two years. We’ve all maintained normal weight. The low-carb, moderate protein, high-fat approach has neither turned us into skeletons or elephants.
The trick is replacing the carbs with something better.
I typically recommend that type-1 diabetics starting a low carb diet should just go on eating the same amount of carbs they always have. Lets not start this journey with self-sacrifice and deprivation.
Instead of pulling the carbs out of your diet, I suggest pushing them out.
You need calories. If you’re not getting them from carbohydrates, then you need to get them from protein and fat.
Here are three easy steps a type-1 diabetic can take to start a low-carb lifestyle:
1. Eat three meals a day. Preferably five hours apart. E.g. 7am. 12pm. 5pm.
2. Eat at least four ounces of animal protein at each of those meals. If you’re extra tall (or hungry) than five, six or seven ounces. Animal protein includes foods such as fish, chicken, eggs, cheese, beef, lamb, goat, duck or pork. Some people even like kangaroo tails.
3. Eat at least 4-6 tablespoons of butter (or lard or tallow) at each meal.
One might want to follow this approach for at least 30 days before consciously reducing carbohydrates. Eat those protein and fat meals first. Then eat whatever carbs you feel like. Chase that salmon down with a chocolate sundae if you must (not recommended).
Protein will diminish your desire to devour cupcakes. Fat will fill you up like pasta cannot. I think most people will find their carbohydrate intake naturally decreasing before the thirty days are up.
Thinking outside the type-1 diabetic matrix,
– John C. A. Manley
P.S. I think there are many factors that should be adjusted before a type-1 diabetic starts lowering their carbohydrate intake. For example, if your basal insulin dose is too high, there’s no way you can lower your consumption of ice cream without falling unconscious. If you would like some one-on-one coaching to help balance your blood sugar please contact me.
P.P.S. We haven’t found that type-1 diabetics need to go super-low carb to obtain a HgbA1C under 5.5%. I explain more in Carrot-Eatng Type-1 Diabetic Maintains 5.2% HgbA1C and Millet Experiment: Keeping Blood Sugars Stable After a Bowl of Porridge.

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This involves delivering Earth observation data services to Copernicus from the Sentinel satellites, our Metop and Meteosat missions, from the ocean-monitoring Jason-2 and Jason-3 satellites, and from missions of its international partners (e.g. USA, China, India and Japan).
We are responsible for operating the Sentinel-3 satellites, with ESA support, and delivering the marine data, and will operate and deliver products from the Sentinel-4 and Sentinel-5 instruments, and the Sentinel-6 satellites.
We are also responsible for delivering data and products from Sentinel missions to third parties around the world.
Sentinel-3 supports the monitoring of the Marine Environment with products, including altimetry, sea surface temperature and ocean colour.
Jason-3 high-precision ocean altimetry satellite delivers sea surface height measurement data in near-real time.
The key products for ocean monitoring are sea levels measured by altimetry instruments; sea surface temperature derived from image data, and detection of changes in sea-ice cover.


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Development of the game has been funded by the release of previous titles; netKar Pro & Ferrari Virtual Academy. The game will include ten tracks (currently confirmed are Magione & Monza), and will be sold for a fixed price offering unlimited multiplayer.
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If you like to fish, then you might also be the kind of person who might think about sport fishing charters, marlin fishing charters, or maybe even a san diego fishing charter. If you think that you might find yourself going on a fishing trip in the near future, then here are a few fishing facts to get you prepared.
1. Did you know that fish are one of the only animals that have the ability to taste without opening their mouths?
2. Though they are not usually one the shortlist for deep sea fishing tips, the lion fish is one of the more interesting fish in the sea. In fact, the lion fish can have up to 18 dorsal fins and it is extremely venomous. Its venom is one of the factors that makes it less than ideal for deep sea fishing.
3. Though this might not be something that you had ever considered, triggerfish and electric eels are more unique than other fish because they can swim backwards. The majority of fish have a body that is built to exclusively propel forward.
4. Blue Marlins got their name because of the fact that they spend the majority of their lives far out at sea. They, like great white sharks and other large deep sea animals that you might come across during sport fishing charters, are highly migratory and will follow warm ocean currents for hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles.
5. Though this is something that you might have learned on Shark Week in the past, did you know that the only fish that have eyelids are sharks? Continue reading here.


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Although considerable attention is paid to the problem of hotflashes, a quarter of premenopausal women in their forties and early fifties experienced a range of moderate to severe physical and psychological symptoms , according to a study published in the open access journal Women’s Midlife Health. Addressing these symptoms early is critical to reducing women’s risk of women developing chronic disease and disability.
Dr Siobán Harlow, lead author of the study from the Center for Midlife Science at the University of Michigan, said: “We were surprised to find that a quarter of women in this relatively healthy cohort, reported a broad range of often severe symptoms prior to the onset of the menopausal transition, which influenced their perception of their own health as being fair to poor. Importantly, we observed that some women’s symptoms get worse, while others improve as they transition through menopause, so this is a critical life phase for intervention.”
Dr Harlow said: “Increased attention to the promotion of physical and mental health in early midlife – in the early to mid-forties – is needed, as women’s health needs and concerns extend far beyond menopausal hot flashes. The way in which some symptoms cluster together may suggest underlying mechanisms, such as inflammation, that put women at risk of disability and chronic disease. It is thus important that the health care community pays attention to the health needs of the one quarter of women who are already highly symptomatic prior to the menopausal transition.”
The authors used a mathematical model to group women going through the different stages of menopause into one of six symptom classes. Women in the highest symptom class (LC1) tended to report a high intensity of most symptoms, including physical and psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety, followed by women with moderate intensity of most symptoms (LC2). Lower symptom classes included women with moderate intensity of a subset of symptoms (vasomotor symptoms, pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and physical health symptoms), women with numerous milder symptoms (LC3 – LC5), and women who were relatively asymptomatic (LC6). In pre-menopause, 10% of women were classified in LC1, 16% in LC2, 14% in LC3, 26% in LC4, 14% in LC5 and 20% in LC6.
Dr Harlow added: “Unlike in previous studies, symptoms such as night sweats, hot flashes, and flushes did not stand out as the most severe symptoms in our broader analysis of women’s symptom experience. Rather, they were present in most women at all stages of menopause; often together with other symptoms, especially sleep disturbance and fatigue.”

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New model positive for SBS Transit, SMRT
[SINGAPORE] The new government contracting model for public buses is expected to be positive for both SBS Transit and SMRT, although things are likely to be rosier for the former.
"Overall it's a long-term positive given that both the bus operators are currently making operating losses of more than $40 million a year," said DBS Bank's Andy Sim. "With the transition to this new contracting model, that will be taken off their income statements."
Last year, SBS Transit's (SBST) bus business suffered a loss of $14.3 million, while SMRT Buses bled $28.4 million. SBST operates about three-quarters of the approximately 4,500 public buses in Singapore, while SMRT accounts for the remainder.
After August 2016, when the Bus Service Operating Licences for the two public bus operators expire, operators will be contracted to run services through a competitive tendering process.
As part of this new bus industry model, the government will own all buses as well as infrastructure such as depots. SMRT's bus assets are estimated at $250 million while SBST's are valued at $800 million.
So an asset-light SBST and SMRT, with depreciation off their balance sheets, are expected to be strong even with the introduction of competition.
For a start, 20 per cent of bus services will be tendered out, with implementation from the second half of 2016. The remaining 80 per cent of buses will continue to be operated by the incumbent operators at negotiated rates.
"Because of the phased approach, in the intermediate term, it will take some time for both operators to see the actual financial benefits flow to the bottom line," says Mr Sim.
But the tendering system is likely to reverse losses and Maybank-Kim Eng estimates the two operators' profit next year will rise by 18-22 per cent if they retain their current market share and their bus units achieve a 10 per cent margin under the new business model.
But of the two, OSK DMG's Edison Chen believes ComfortDelGro will fare better.
"ComfortDelGro stands a high chance because of its track record of operating under the tender model in Australia and the United Kingdom, so SBST will have an edge," he says.
Mr Chen adds that with ComfortDelGro's 2013 earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) margin of 8.4 per cent in the UK, it should be able to earn 8-9 per cent here from 2017 onwards, assuming the negotiated rates are in line with the operator's expectations.
"Compare that with SBST's 2013 margin of 1.7 per cent, including advertising," he says.
Apart from its overseas experience, ComfortDelGro is also expected to benefit more than SMRT because of SBST's bigger bus fleet.
But the downside is that with increased competition, there is a risk of losing market share.
"The whole point of moving to this model is to introduce competition, so the government will make it attractive enough for new players to come in," says Maybank-Kim Eng's Derrick Heng.
But he does not see a parallel with the ground handling industry here where two strong incumbents dominated at Changi and the new third player had to eventually exit.
"The new player does not have to spend on capital expenditure and staff. Both labour and assets can be taken over by the new tenderer if it wins the package," says Mr Heng.
DBS Bank's Mr Sim agrees.
He says: "With 20 per cent of bus services tendered out, we will see new players come in. But given the incumbents' natural benefit because of their experience, they should still be well-positioned."
This is especially so because with the other 80 per cent intact, there is little risk of losing market share.
Another factor is that tender awards are unlikely to be based on pricing alone; track record and service quality are equally important.
But as one analyst says, even if some market share were lost, it should be put in perspective.
"It's okay to lose some lines that were unprofitable in the first place."


Mortgage applications are also on the rise, which makes it even more important to get pre-approved now.
On Thursday, HousingWire reported that the average U.S. rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.15%, the lowest ever recorded by Freddie Mac dating back to 1971. The rate fell from 3.24% last week, setting a new record low for the third time in three months.
Meanwhile, applications for mortgages to purchase homes gained for the sixth consecutive week to a level that was 6.7% higher than a year ago, when the U.S. was having a normal “spring homebuying season”.
This combination of factors means two things: people are clearly still buying houses, and the competition for those houses is becoming increasingly fierce. Making a game plan is the best way to put yourself in position for a successful homebuying experience.
We can help you execute that plan by having all of your application information in hand before you decide to buy or refinance. When mortgage rates change favorably — or in this case, reach new all-time lows — we can get you pre-approved for financing, monitor the markets and contact you right away so you can seize the moment and get the rate you want on the loan you want.
It bears repeating: If a low rate is your top mortgage priority, there has never been a better time to buy or refi than right now — especially as many Americans are re-evaluating their household finances and considering ways they can be smarter about how they spend and invest their money.
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The alleged “financial irregularities” that led to 128 redundancies at Alfred McAlpine’s Welsh Slate subsidiary this year referred to products sold at half their break-even price, it has emerged.
It was known that the misrepresentation of sales and production volumes were behind McAlpine’s decision to sack senior managers and close a quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog. However, the details were not known.
A source said McAlpine had concluded that managers initially underpriced the slate, then issued invoices that overstated the amount sold so turnover targets could be met. It is also believed that managers discounted slate in return for a quick cash sale.
It is thought McAlpine will take a £40m hit as a result of the underpricing.
Events at the quarry are being investigated by police, although it is not though that managers benefited individually.
The source added that the police investigation into the incident would not be completed for “months or years”.
Alan Smith, interim manager of McAlpine’s slate division, said the company was in talks to sublet the quarry to a local stone supplier.

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He is the sports editor for the school newspaper and started to show interest in Alice in Alice on Her Way. The crush shortly ended after Alice invites him to the Sadie Hawkins dance and realizes that he does not like her that way. No matter what Alice does, she's bound to find adventure and a good sense of humor. When Naylor was 18 years old, she married her first husband and they soon moved to Chicago where she worked as a clinical secretary in a university hospital. In fact, working on the school play and becoming increasingly involved in the newspaper have Alice so busy she doesn't have much time for her best friends Pamela and Elizabeth -- and they resent it. He is considered very handsome and most of Alice's friends have a crush on him. Lester has a number of girlfriends, having dated 14 girls by book number 5, All but Alice.
This is the most interesting storyline and leads to some rare moments of real Lester anguish. Two major things happened, there was a build up to her step-mom to be coming back from a one year teaching job in England, and the other, which was really compelling was her developing crush on a boy who stutters but they both know he's moving away at the end of the school year. During most of the series, Lester is studying philosophy minoring in psychology, switching from a business major. Possible ex library copy, thatâll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. She has said that she never felt poor, as her parents had a book collection and read stories aloud to her and her siblings until adolescence. Assorted Subplots Alice observes her crew mate Faith being controlled by a potentially abusive boyfriend but doesn't and really can't do anything about it , Alice gets appendicitis also not significant, but at least it's something that happens , Lester takes Alice to an interactive play and Alice lauds her own heroism at dousing one of the performers with Sprite.
The conflict of the book is that Alice does not want to tell her friends a secret about a guy online but then Alice makes her choice and tells her friends about him. A bunch of stuff happens in this book, but none of it goes anywhere or seems to lead up to anything in particular. This theme can be seen when Alice was confused on how to tell her friends the secret about the online guy. He forms the Naked Carpenters with Mark dressing in briefs and work boots, playing instruments on the local metros which gains attention of local media coverage. In this book Alice is learning how to live her life without her boyfriend, Patrick.
Please note, I do not really think books should have an age limit. It was kinda sad, but I think it was cool to see how her life turned out. This is the problem with some of the later Alice books - they don't have an overarching story. He works as an assistant director for the Basswood Lodge and Convention Center and then as a head personnel at George Mason University by the time he is 46. Her brother, Lester, is plunging headlong into a risky romance with a professor. And if Alice ever needed friends, she needs Life After Patrick It isn't Alice and Patrick anymore; it's simply Alice, and much to her surprise, Alice is finding that's okay.
Her first children's book was called The Galloping Goat and Other Stories and was published in 1965. I sort of wish the whole Faith storyline with her abusive boyfriend could have been explored a little more. Elizabeth's first serious boyfriend is Ross Mueller whom she met during their summer job after 9th grade as assistant counselors in Camp Overlook. For the 1907 novel by John Kendrick Bangs, see. She has long straight brown hair and brown eyes, plays the guitar and sing. Why were these boys not at least expelled? Synopsis When they first broke up, Alice couldn't imagine life without Patrick in it.
Alice throws herself into new activities, like the school newspaper and working on the set for the spring musical. Her old friends feel abandoned while she makes new friends and for once Lester, her older brother, is the one to be dumped by a woman. But Alice and her realistic, if ever-so slightly sugarcoated teen world will always ring true and hold a special place in my heart. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. This book picked up right where the previous one left off at the start of the second semester of Alice's freshman year of high school. Complications arise when Pamela and Elizabeth are jealous Alice isn't spending as much time with them. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.
Everyone likes her due to her easy and lovable personality. Remember when Alice tripped down the stairs and had an accident? Both backstage crew and the school newspaper are proving to be fun and exciting. She's got a secret e-mail admirer she's not sure how to handle. Despite the book being written by a female about teenage girls, there were still scenarios where gender could've been reversed and I found myself relating to stuff, despite having graduated from high school 9 years ago. Alice has a hard time at first growing up in an all-male household but her father and brother, Lester, prove to be honest and open about almost everything Alice has to talk about.
I guess the most significant thing that happens is Alice dates a guy who stutters. My 2 granddaughters have read and thoroughly enjoyed all of the Alice series books up to and including Simply Alice. Alice is a really cool girl and you can learn a lot from her. Early on after she joins the stage crew for the drama production, two boys on the stage crew sexually assault Alice backstage. Alice sometimes mistakes her memories of her mother with memories of Aunt Sally as she took care of the family in Chicago for a few period of time after Marie Alice's mom died. Alice and her friends get a job on a Chesapeake Bay cruise ship before going off to college, working as maids and waitresses.

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