Official release: May 2021
An unexpected encounter
by Isaline Leloup
This album is the story of an encounter between an instrument forgotten by modern music and a musician in love with history and what it awakens in our daily imagination. Let’s explore the Viennese violone !
This instrument also called Viennese bass, is a peculiar type of double bass which saw its moment of glory around 1760, at the height of Classicism. This new instrument has been fretted and has a particular tuning with thirds (from low to high : F-A-D-F#-A), which allows it to both perform chord and harmonic work, and easily execute virtuoso passages in all registers. Several composers, such as Hoffmeister, Dittersdorf, Sperger, and even Mozart, wrote music for this elephant with the voice of a birdsong. Such pieces range from the utmost virtuoso solos to refined chamber music compositions for various ensembles. Two long years have allowed a project to mature and created a desire to enable others to meet this instrument and the infinite possibilities it offers. This journey gave me the opportunity to find the correctness of interpretation of this music, by appropriating its language, by dancing it, by moving away from it and finding it again to make it resonate in you. This recording takes you to one of these Viennese salons to introduce you to this rarely performed literature. Let’s sit down and enjoy a hot chocolate around a quartet, a concerto arrangement for quintet and an unusual duet giving the solo part to the viola. This Viennese bass music is, for me, filled with lightness, inventiveness and virtuosity, awakening, with each new passage, the imagination. It is sometimes dancing with flexibility and passion, sometimes filled with humor, gluttony and tenderness. It takes us to a multitude of feelings that even bring us closer to opera. Enjoy this refreshing concert full of colours and contrasts !!
Many music lovers would be at loss if they were to explain what a violone is. And, as concerns the “Viennese violone”, it is common fare only for very few specialists. This Da Vinci Classics album is therefore a much-needed opportunity for music lovers to familiarize themselves with the history, features and unique sound of this fascinating instrument.
As could be easily imagined, the violone is a large and low-pitched string instrument, belonging in the family of violins, violas, cellos and double-basses. Indeed, under certain viewpoints it might be considered as the double-bass’ ancestor. This attitude, however, reveals an evolutionary concept of music history, seen as a “progress” from less to more perfected instruments. Though undeniably the history of most instruments is punctuated with technological innovations, these, in many cases, represented ameliorations only from the standpoint of a later musical aesthetics. In other words, a louder grand piano is doubtlessly better suited for playing a Brahms concerto than a forte-piano would be; however, it is debatable whether that same instrument is the best option for performing a Mozart Sonata.
Unavoidably, therefore, the history of musical instruments is intertwined with the history of musical taste; new instruments corresponded to new aesthetics and styles, and older instruments might fall into oblivion if the repertory they represented was in vogue no more. Since the interest in performing the musical repertoires of the past is a relatively recent phenomenon, this attitude de facto consigned many fascinating timbres and aural suggestions to the silence of museums of musical instruments. This is sadly true of the Viennese violone, and the work of musicians who carefully reconstruct its repertoire and playing techniques is therefore particularly praiseworthy. In his Violin School, published the same year when his son Wolfgang Amadeus was born, Leopold Mozart wrote about the violone, describing its physical and musical features. However, in the second edition (1769), his significant additions bear witness to a typically Viennese phenomenon which was emerging at the time. In 1769, in fact, he discussed the five-stringed violone, in which “frets of rather thick string are attached to the neck at all the intervals, in order to prevent the strings from rattling on the fingerboard and so improved the tone. One can also perform difficult passages more easily on such a Bass, and I have heard concertos, trios, solos and so forth played on one of these with great beauty”.
From being just a supporting instrument for the orchestral texture, and one substantially confined to the bass part, the violone was claiming the status of a solo instrument. This was made possible through some innovative solutions, typical for the Viennese version of the instrument and for the playing technique and tuning system associated to it. The tuning system proved to be a major advantage of the Viennese violone, but also – competing, as it did, with rival schools of thought – a problem eventually undermining its success. Whereas most German violones were four-stringed, and France, Spain, Italy and England favoured three-stringed instruments (though with different tuning systems), the five-stringed Viennese violone allowed for more agility and freedom of playing. A higher number of strings, in fact, fostered the possibility of quickly spanning large intervals, and consequently of mastering virtuoso passages more easily. Agility was also fostered by the presence of frets and by the shape of the instrument. Frets allowed for a more precise intonation, but also for a technique similar to the guitar’s barré, i.e. the possibility of creating chords by positioning the finger transversely in correspondence of the fret. Moreover, the Viennese violone’s silhouette, characterized by a very sloping upper part, permitted to the player to easily reach the high-pitched notes (obtained by pressing the strings in the instrument’s lower part).
Thanks to these features, the Viennese violone quickly reached the status of solo and chamber music instrument; a scholar researching on these topics went as far as defining the years 1760-1800 as “the Golden Age of Virtuosity” for the Viennese violone. During these four decades, the violone became the protagonist of more than thirty solo concertos and many chamber music works. Even Haydn and Mozart tried their hand in the creation of works for this instrument, and enriched its already large repertoire. After this “Golden Age”, however, the violone’s success began to wane. This was largely due to the new harmonic perspectives of the Romantic era: here, the Viennese violone’s many strings were a hindrance rather than an advantage, since they prevented smooth transitions among distant keys, such as were in demand in Romantic music. The violone quickly became obsolete, and the double-bass was widely adopted in its stead. Actually, the curtain of forgetfulness which now surrounded the instrument was broken only by a rather sensational discovery, in 1955. At that time, a collection of violone pieces resurfaced in the Landesbibliothek in the German city of Schwerin. The collector was Johann Matthias Sperger, a violone virtuoso performer and composer, represented in this album by one of his works. The collection included works by Borghi, Dittersdorf, Zimmerman, Pichl, Stamitz, Vanhal, Capuzzi, Cimador, Hoffmeister, and by Sperger himself. This discovery prompted the pieces’ publication in the Sixties, and the appearance of a treatise on the concertante (i.e. solo) works in the Viennese Classicism, by Adolf Meier. Thanks to the efforts of Meier and of his fellow scholar Klaus Trumpf, interest in this instrument increased, its playing techniques were rediscovered and its golden age was somewhat rekindled.
The first piece recorded here is the last of the eighteen Concertos written for the violone by Johannes Matthias Sperger, presented here in an original and effectful transcription realized by the soloist, Isaline Leloup. As previously mentioned, Sperger was one of the greatest virtuosi of the violone, but he did not limit himself either to the performance activity, or to the composition of violone works. In fact, he was a very prolific composer, who left numerous works such as concertos for horn, trumpet, bassoon and viola, as well as at least forty-five Symphonies, many works of chamber music and of sacred music. He had born in Feldsberg in 1750, and had received his first musical education in the local Franciscan monastery. After moving to Vienna, in 1767, he studied composition with Albrechtsberger (later to become Beethoven’s teacher) and violone with the great virtuoso Pichelberger, for whom Mozart would compose a concertante aria. He was later employed in the musical chapels of several important noblemen of the time, in Pressburg (now Bratislava), in Kohfidish, and in Ludwigslust, where he was appointed a Court Musician by Prince Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg. The concerto recorded here dates to Sperger’s time in Ludwigslust (1807). In between these appointments, Sperger toured extensively (and particularly in Italy), gaining international fame as an astonishing virtuoso. During his life, he was also highly appreciated as a composer; the esteem surrounding him is testified by the fact that Mozart’s Requiem was performed at his burial. In spite of his fifty-three works for solo violone, he would be criticized by later scholars of the double-bass, who found his works exceedingly difficult to perform. This was due to the fact that indeed they are nearly unplayable on the modern double-bass, but are considerably easier and more effective when played on the violone. The performance recorded here allows the listener to appreciate the violone both in its virtuoso features, thanks to the brilliant passageworks and dazzling sequences, and in its lyrical nature, where its expressive and warm timbre is highlighted by the surrounding string instruments in the version recorded here.
If Sperger was highly appreciated at his time, Carl Ditters was such a successful musician that he earned a noble title (“von Dittersdorf”) as well as the highest Papal honours. Also in Ditters’ life, his first musical education was due to a religious context, in this case to the Jesuits. He was a child prodigy as a violin player, who was engaged by numerous courts of the era; however, he also studied composition and counterpoint under the guidance of an Italian musician. As the Chapel Master of the bishop of Großwardein he composed plentifully, including numerous operas and oratorios; later he was appointed by the Bishop of Breslau, in Johannesberg, while, between 1784 and 1787, he resided in Vienna where he played in a string quartet with Haydn and Mozart. This Duet for viola and violone is one of his works which have achieved immortal fame, due to its breadth of vision, to the knowledgeable interplay of the two instruments, to the mellow overall sound they achieve, as well as to its intensity of expression and, at the same time, levity and grace.
Vienna was also the background of Franz Anton Hoffmeister’s life; however, his core activity became that of music publishing, through which he befriended Mozart. His utter ability in the field of music publishing did not diminish his skill as a composer; rather, his first-hand knowledge of the best works of the contemporaneous composers encouraged his own creativity. He wrote more than fifty Symphonies, about sixty concertos as well as chamber music and German comic operas (Singspiel). His four Quartets with Double Bass employ the Violone as the true protagonist of the quartet’s fabric. Indeed, the lowest-pitched instrument takes here the place of the highest, the first violin. In the Quartet recorded here, the first movement’s main themes are always introduced by the violone, as happens with the principal theme of the concluding Rondo. This work illustrates the violone’s capability to enter into a fascinating dialogue with the other members of the string family, and its attitude to both soloism and interplay.
Together, these three works display the full palette of this long-forgotten instrument, and will doubtlessly foster renewed interest in its fascinating potential.
Isaline Leloup: Isaline is an early music bass player specialized in the Viennese bass and is leading the project « A Viennese afternoon », which consists of putting back on stage the solo repertoire of the Viennese double bass in chamber music formation on historical instruments.
Currently, she is busy with a new edition of Dittersdorf’s duet for viola and violone and an arrangement for quintet of the 18th Sperger Concerto, both recorded on this album. After receiving her master’s degree in modern double bass at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, she studied the classical and romantic repertoire of the historical double bass. She joined a master’s program with the members of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées in partnership with the Poitiers University. During this period, she discovered the Viennese double bass and decided to devote her career to it. She studied with David Sinclair at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (CH) where she obtained her Master in Spezialisierter Musikalischer Performance in June 2019. She has performed in several historical ensembles such as Ausonia, Les Agrémens, Insula Orchestra, La Chambre Philharmonique, Parnasso in Festa, I Pizzicanti, Cantus Firmus. She is also principal double bass in the BOHO Strings Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she regularly collaborates with the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. Because the transmission of musical knowledge is important to her, she is also teaching early and modern bass.
Jean-Philippe Gandit: Jean-Philippe studied at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris in the class of Pierre-Henry Xuereb where he won a first prize in viola.
Since 1993, he teaches at the Caen Conservatory and leads the viola section of the Caen Orchestra. He has been a regular participant in the Caen’s Today's Aspect Music Festival since 1994 and rubs shoulders with many contemporary composers such as Bério, Penderecki, Ligeti.
Eager to enrich an ever-expanding repertoire, he also plays baroque music on an ancient instrument and performs with the Orféo55 ensemble. He participates in many Festivals (London, Istanbul, Salzburg Evian, Gstaad, Sablé sur Sarthe).
Martha Moore: Martha was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (NL). She is a member of Les Arts Florissants, and plays regulary with Les Talens Lyriques, Le Concert d’Astrée, Orfeo 55, among others. In 1992, she has recorded Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli's 12 Sonatas for violin and basso continuo for The Syncoop label. She is music director of the baroque chamber music ensemble La Tierce Picarde, which she founded in 2006.
In parallel to her concerts, she participates in several educational projects as violin teacher and coach for the DEMOS project, led by La Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Patrick Oliva: Patrick studied violin at the Geneva High School of Music. His meeting with Michel Kiener led him to specialize at the Centre of Ancient Music with Florence Malgoire, and then at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris. He plays with many ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Artaserse, Orfeo 55 or Rosasolis. In 2020, he founded the ensemble La Chandelle to explore the repertoire of baroque sonatas and cantatas. Patrick is also passionate about unwritten music, especially ornamentation and improvisation. He also plays the viola d'amore, having at heart to make known to a wide audience this fascinating instrument.
Ronan Kernoa: After his studies at the CNR in Rouen, Ronan Kernoa obtained a master's degree in historical cello at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. He then studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken and Philippe Pierlot at the same institution and earned a master's degree for this instrument.
He collaborates very regularly with many ensembles such as La Petite Bande, Bach Concentus, Les Muffatti, Les Agremens, Vox Luminis, Il Gardellino. He is often asked to transmit the different aspects of historical bowed instruments by various institutions such as the Hochschule f-r Musik und Theater Leipzig (Germany), Hogeschool Antwerpen (Belgium) or the University of Veracruz (Mexico).
In 2018, he created the historical cello class at the IMEP in Namur.
Franz Anton Hoffmeister (b Rothenburg am Neckar, 12 May 1754; d Vienna, 9 Feb 1812). Austrian music publisher and composer. He went to Vienna in 1768 to study law, but after qualifying, devoted his time to music, especially publishing and composing. As early as 1783, when Viennese music publishing was still in its infancy, he began to publish two series of symphonies in Lyons (printed by Guéra), and some quartets and duets for flute. On 24 January 1784 he announced in the Wiener Zeitung that he planned to publish all his musical works at his own expense and under his own supervision from Rudolf Gräffer’s bookshop (see illustration). But in a large advertisement on 6 August 1785 he no longer mentioned Gräffer, having established a firm in his own name at his home. This advertisement gives a list of works which had already appeared as well as a new publishing programme of three different series, including orchestral and chamber music by Haydn, Mozart, Vanhal, Albrechtsberger, Pleyel, Miča, Ordonez and other foreign composers, besides Hoffmeister’s own works. Although he did not maintain his announced schedules, the business evidently flourished. Hoffmeister had connections with the Speyer publisher Bossler, whose firm acted as a kind of agent for Hoffmeister. Hence a series of announcements and some detailed reviews of works published by the Hoffmeister firm appeared in Bossler’s Musikalische Realzeitung (later Musikalische Korrespondenz), particularly in 1789–91.


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Last February, I went to Mardis Gras in New Orleans for the first time. My friend who lives in the French Quarter took me around the city so I could see how the recovery is progressing and places where nothing has changed since Hurricane Katrina broke levees and flooded the city seven years ago this month. Touring the city, I remembered watching the news coverage of Katrina, and thinking that the areas that had flooded should be leveled and returned to floodplains. Being there in person, experiencing a city so rich in history and culture and–still–community, changed my mind. It would be a tragedy to let it die. Helping New Orleans recover is an important national goal, but it’s a goal that should be achieved through new ways of thinking that will make the city healthier and more resilient.
Two organizations–the Recirculating Farms Coalition and the New Orleans Food and Farm Network–are going to do just that. Last week the groups announced plans to build the new Urban Farming and Food Center, which will join innovative water-based recirculating farming with traditional soil-based growing in downtown New Orleans. The organizations have received significant support in the form of grants, and organizational assistance to create a hub for research, education, training and community interaction on growing, marketing and preparing healthy food in the city and beyond. According to Marianne Cufone, executive director of the Recirculating Farms Coalition:
The new Center is all about empowering people to grow healthy fresh food for themselves and for sale at affordable prices to their neighbors and communities, creating green jobs and preparing delicious, nutritious meals.
The Center will include recirculating hydroponics using continuously recycled water with nutrients, in place of soil, to grow fruits, vegetables and herbs. Recirculating aquaponics G combines hydroponics (growing plants) with aquaculture (raising fish). Both systems are ideal for cities because they can be built indoors, on rooftops or on oddly shaped and even paved lots. The Center will also have a community garden, with raised soil beds and fruit trees. Sanjay Kharod, Executive Director of the New Orleans Food and Farm Network, explains:
We want to incubate neighborhood-led projects and the regional food economy by working at all scales, from backyards, to city lots, to a network of commercial farms, with a goal of promoting food justice.
New Orleans has the second highest obesity rate in the country and is one of the worst food deserts. The Center hopes to change that through numerous avenues:
- The farm will source fresh food to local distributors, restaurants and grocers, as well as direct to consumers through an on-site farmers' market;
- A wide range of gardening, farming and farm-to-table cooking classes, programs for youth and seniors, and demonstrations, lectures and presentations will be offered; and
- The Center will host special events like harvest dinners and private parties.
The Center will collaborate with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. In addition, the Tulane City Center will provide planning expertise.
Hopefully I'll be able to check it out myself. I'll be at Mardis Gras again this coming February. This year, I'll include a stop at the Urban Farming and Food Center to check out the space, find out what progress has been made and delight in the rebirth of a city, right before my eyes.
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A "heavy user" of ice and GHB allegedly involved in a Melbourne enterprise that traded in drugs and guns has been bailed on the proviso he go to drug rehabilitation.
Magistrate Belinda Wallington released James Bau, 26, on a $200,000 surety on Tuesday, as long as he attends drug treatment and avoids contacting his co-accused.
"One step wrong and court is not going to re-bail you," she warned.
Police allege Bau sold and facilitated drug sales to multiple customers as part of an enterprise run by alleged kingpin Francesco Molinaro.
Molinaro was arrested in raids on his Noble Park home on Sunday after a five-month police sting, which allegedly uncovered 3D printed guns and other firearms.
Bau, of Mt Waverley, is charged with trafficking commercial quantities of the drug ice and GHB.
The court heard he was a heavy user of ice and GHB, and police uncovered drugs and drug paraphernalia, including 82 ecstasy tablets, at his home.
Police opposed bail, alleging 45 of more than 17,000 calls and texts relating to the drug enterprise involved him.
The prosecution said the amount of drugs Bau is alleged to have trafficked was significant.
However, defence lawyerl Rob Melasecca cited a delay in his client's case while prosecutors have call records transcribed.
He said Bau had his family's support and would go straight to residential drug treatment, if released.
Magistrate Belinda Wallington said it was "not a weak case" but acknowledged the delay.
She also noted Bau's youth, supportive family and pledge to undergo drug treatment.
Bau will reappear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court in April for a committal mention hearing.
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Gums play a vital role in keeping the teeth in their place; they give the teeth toughness and strength to remain stable in one place. But what happens if they catch some infection? The tooth loss will start to happen. Currently, half of the American adult population is suffering from it. In this article, we will equip you with all the necessary information that you will require to prevent periodontal disease and can encounter it before it gets to a severe stage. So read till the end to know more, and you can visit the dental office near me in Houston, TX, for a personalized checkup session.
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EMR aims to enable physicians to communicate with each other efficiently to create better care.
The paper trail is fast becoming a dinosaur in health care as electronic medical records replace traditional charts. The results, according to local hospitals, are far reaching and benefit patients in more than just convenience.
“Only one person can do something at a time with a [traditional] chart,” says John Marker, Women’s & Children’s and Regional Medical Center of Acadiana’s Chief Nursing Officer. “Now multiple people can be working and document a patient — the timeliness, especially in emergency — the safety implications of an electronic record are extensive.”
In a world that connects everything in the mysterious “cloud,” to the layperson an electronic medical record or EMR may not sound like a great feat. The idea of taking a chart from doctor to doctor and clinic to clinic may sound archaic. But marry the cost of digitizing and maintaining records with the complexities of protecting said records plus the sheer volume of them (Women’s alone has 100,000 physician orders ever month), and many hospitals are now implementing full digital systems years after some patients may assume they’re already online.
“We go digital for continuity of care,” says Daryl Cetnar, director of community relations at Lafayette General Health, where implementation began years ago. “There’s no greater example of the ‘before’ than the former UMC, which had a complete paper charting system. They had employees that would ‘run’ the patient’s chart around the hospital everywhere the patient went. For example, runners would go to the family medicine clinic, get a chart and run it to the emergency room, then the ER would chart and run it back to medical records. This could happen over 100 times in one day. Now, UHC has a full electronic medical record that gives care providers instant access to the complete medical history of a patient. It also connects the patient together throughout our health system. There is no reason to look for paper charts and bring them to another hospital,” he continues. “This increases staff efficiency and gives the physician a more complete look at the patient regardless of which Lafayette General Health facility they received care.”
With the old paper records, tests were sometimes repeated unnecessarily, and there was the possibility for vital information about patients to remain unknown by providers as that patient moved through the system.
“By instituting a full electronic medical record everything is at the tip of the doctor’s fingers — every X-ray and reading and medication,” says Cetnar.
The system at Women’s also includes a medication safety component that checks new orders against a patient history for interaction. While none of the three major systems is linked — LGMC, Lourdes and Women’s — all are linked within their own systems and each have patient portal options.
“It’s the tower of Babel,” says Elisabeth Arnold, assistant vice president of marketing and corporate communication at Our Lady of Lourdes, of the connection from one hospital system to another.
A patient portal is the interpreter.
Patients are able to log in and view test results, look at their history and check dates they had a procedure done with a password and username.
“Just at Lafayette General, 46,000 people have signed up to see their own patient records,” says Michael Dozier, LGMC’s chief information officer and vice president of IT.
The efforts to go digital at LGMC garnered the hospital system the Most Wired award in 2014 in the Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine annual awards. Physicians can pull records from 2000 for patients within their system. And LGMC was the first to link two hospitals when it joined with Opelousas General.
Cetnar says while the link between health care providers is of great benefit, there’s also the vital component of patient portals that give each individual a new kind of access in their health care.
“It can empower you to take your health care in your own hands,” he says. “When you go to a doctor not affiliated with your network you can look it up on the phone.”
Bill Ferry, Women’s director of advanced clinicals, says a doctor treating you needs but one thing to pull your records within their system — Internet access. (The caveat being the doctor must be treating that patient. The burden to stay in line with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and protect patient privacy is another component of EMR.)
Per Ferry’s experience, orders that once took hours to get from doctor to patient now take minutes, thanks to EMR implementation.
“We are now capturing detailed data, and you can read every one of them,” Ferry says. “There’s no such things as bad hand writing … it goes to the pharmacy immediately, the lab immediately. It’s really improved what people disliked about health care — how long it takes to get anything done. We’ve seen this turnaround.”

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CHARLES CITY, Iowa — A Charles City man’s second sex abuse trial has been scheduled for October in a different county.
The Charles City Press reports that a judge Monday set Oct. 30 to begin the trial of Douglas Lindaman. It will be held in Franklin County, because Lindaman contended he couldn’t get a fair trial in Floyd County because of publicity.
Lindaman was sentenced last year to up to 10 years in prison. But prosecutors later asked the Iowa Supreme Court to vacate the conviction, because Lindaman was allowed to represent himself without knowingly waiving his right to an attorney.
Lindaman is accused of performing a sex act in 2011 on a 17-year-old boy without the boy’s consent. Lindaman was running for a school board spot at the time of his 2015 arrest.
Information from: Charles City Press, http://www.charlescitypress.com


WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – U.S. business inventory accumulation slowed in July as motor vehicle retailers struggled to restock amid an ongoing global semiconductor shortage, which is forcing automobile manufacturers to scale back production.
Business inventories rose 0.5% after increasing 0.9% in June, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. Inventories are a key component of gross domestic product. July’s increase was in line with economists’ expectations.
Inventories rose 7.2% on a year-on-year basis in July.
Retail inventories gained 0.4% in July as estimated in an advance report published last month. That followed a 0.5% rise in June. Motor vehicle inventories climbed 0.2% instead of 0.3% as estimated last month.
Retail inventories excluding autos, which go into the…


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Glen Campbell: DNA
With 21 top 40 hits, 27 top 10s and nine number one albums, the late Glenn Campbell was a well-loved and respected icon in country music and beyond. These are the songs and the stories from the artists who influenced Glen, who collaborated with him, and who name him as an influence. This is Glen Campbell: DNA.


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text: Benriach 10 Years Single Malt Scotch 750 ML with original box. This is the discontinued 1990's 10 year old Benriach that was the only bottling Seagram could be bothered to put out when they owned this fantastic distillery.Built: 1898. Current owner: The BenRiach Distillery Company Limited. Production Capacity: 28,000,000 litres. House style: Michael Jackson describes it as cookie-like! Certainly a sweet, easy-going Speysider although there are heavily peated exceptions. John Duff, the owner and founder of the Longmorn Distillery, built Benriach in 1898. The distillery is situated a quarter of a mile away from Longmorn, just three miles south of Elgin. The distillery was only open for two years before it was closed. Although the distillery was closed until 1965 the maltings at the distillery continued to provide malt for the Longmorn distillery. Glenlivet Distilleries Ltd then rebuilt the distillery in 1965 before the company joined the Seagrams Group in 1977. An official distillery bottling was introduced in 1994 with the majority of production being used as a component of the Chivas Regal blend. BenRiach is located in Speyside, mid-way between the village of Rothes and the town of Elgin, in the North-East of Scotland. The distillery sources its water from springs located underground, deep below the distillery and has the capacity to produce over 2 million litres of pure alcohol per annum. Approximately 10% of new production is peated / 90% unpeated. The distillery is managed by Alan MacConnochie, who has worked at Tobermory, Laphroaig, Bunnahabhain and Ben Nevis distilleries. he has also worked at the Plymouth Gin distillery. In April 2004 a consortium bought the distillery led by Billy Walker, a highly respected gentleman who has worked in the whisky industry for over three decades. The new owners have treated malt lovers to an impressive and imaginative range that received rave reviews from Jim Murray, and included a fascinating pair of bottlings made up of peaty spirit. Interestingly, this is a return to the traditional production methods employed over 100 years ago, when peat represented a cheaper fuel option than coal and all Speyside malts were peated. It was only with the development of the rail roads that improved infrastructure meant that, certainly for mainland distilleries, it was more economical to use coal instead of peat to fire the kiln. As such all Speyside distillers switched from peat to kiln and only the island distilleries continued to use peat, explaining why Islay malts, to this day, tend to be heavily peated.

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The soon to be largest recreational cannabis market will soon become the largest cannabis job creator.
According to ZipRecruiter, an online job search hub, two cities in California, Los Angeles, and San Francisco have advertised the most cannabis-related jobs of any legal marketplace.
“When it comes to growth in this industry, we see the most significant growth in states that recently loosened their marijuana laws,” ZipRecruiter’s report said.
The report highlighted the fact that cannabis is outpacing the growth of other industries.
“Our data also shows that the cannabis industry is growing more rapidly than some of today’s fastest-growing fields. Year over year growth of job posts in the cannabis industry is outpacing both tech (254% growth) and healthcare (70% growth)— by some reports, there are 14% more legal marijuana workers than there are dental hygienists in the U.S.” the report said.
ZipRecruiter found that in the final quarter of 2017, just before recreational cannabis was set to become legal on Jan. 1, the growth was especially pronounced.
“Our Q4 data for 2017 revealed an especially dramatic leap in the number of new cannabis industry job posts. The number of cannabis industry job posts increased 693% year over year and 79% quarter over quarter. This impressive growth can probably be attributed to SMBs preparing for the kick-off of retail cannabis sales in Q1 of 2018 in huge markets like California,” Ziprecruiter said in the report.
While California has a deeply rooted culture of cannabis use and cultivation, the growth of the industry is expected to be universal. According to Forbes, the industry will be worth $31.8 billion worldwide by 2021.
But what if the federal government legalized cannabis? If given access to banking, and a proper regulatory stucture, the cannabis industry could “create $132 billion in federal tax revenue and inject over a million jobs into the US labor market by 2025 if it becomes legal nationwide,” Business Insider reported using data from New Frontier Data, a cannabis analytics firm.
With bitter partisan debate over how to fund the government and whether or not social services like medicare, medicaid, foodstamps and other progams will remain funded, the trend of legalizing cannabis could be happening at just the right time. While legal cannabis cannot cure all financial woes, like its effectiveness as a medicine, it seems positioned to provide relief in the form of additional tax revenues and jobs.


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Candlewicking is a term applied to a certain style of embroidery. The yarn used in the origins of this embroidery style was a course white yarn which was also used for homemade candle wicks. This style was popular among colonialists during the early ages of America. A candlewick bedspread employs the unique embroidery and is often given as a traditional wedding present.
Candlewicking is traditionally a form of whitework embroidery. Whitework became popular after the invention of the cotton gin in 1792. The embroidery involves the tufting or knotting of the candlewick yarn, also known as roving, on top of a muslin fabric to create patterns. The raised embroidery included traditional styles, such as the French knot stitch, running stitch, stem stitch, back stitch and satin stitch. Two important knots used in candlewicking include the colonial knot and the stem stitch. An old story tells of embroiderers wrapping the yard around a small stick and then taking the stick out and leaving a loose loop or cutting it for a fringed effect.
Bedspreads were only one item adorned with the embroidery. Other items included pillows and tablecloths but the bedspread has become a traditional representation of candlewicking. Aside from the raised embroidery on the body of the spread, candlewick bedspreads are also known because of their fringe. Made of the same yarn used for the embroidery, the fringe of a candlewick bedspread is traditionally long and dramatic. According to an article by Oldandsold.com, no machine work can simulate the traditional candlewick fringe. A candlewick bedspread is usually a cream color to symbolize the muslin of the colonial period.
Though candlewicking is older than America, the style became a sensation in the late 1700s. Though some would attribute the popularity to the frugality of colonial life it was ultimately the industrial revolution that gave power to the growing art. The businesses of spinning and weaving were taking great leaps in technology and efficiency and that, combined with the booming cotton industry, paved the way for the embroidery style.
In the beginning embroiderers would often depict English and Scottish countrysides in their designs. This evolved as the art became popular in America, and a common symbol found on a candlewick bedspread is an American eagle. Other popular patterns include baskets of flowers and the cornucopia. A bedspread usually has a central design and then a border, surrounding the design. The borders are often leaves or geometrical shapes.
Decline and Demand
In the 1840s the popularity of candlewicked bedspreads began to decline. With the invention of the machine-made bed cover, the hand stitched bedspread was a thing of the past. The Bolten woven coverlet was a similar reproduction of traditional candlewick designs but it was made on loom in England. They were imported to the Unites States in the early 19th century. Today there has been a revival of the demand for hand-stitched candlewick bedspreads and current craftsmen often use the same materials that have been used for 250 years.
Michaelyn Erickson has been writing since 2005 and has been published regularly in a variety of northwest publications. She has written a science fiction novel and is now working on a children's book series. Michaelyn attends Evergreen State College where she is pursuing a degree in sustainable living.

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In an interview two years ago, Democratic power broker George Norcross III, considered the most powerful non-elected official in New Jersey, argued the Democratic Party “has not been attractive to certain elements of the working class" in America because it has been too soft on immigration.
A video of the interview the wealthy insurance executive and Camden County political leader gave to the county’s chamber of commerce in 2017 was first reported by The Intercept on Wednesday afternoon.
The interview surfaced as immigration is once again at the forefront of the political conversation in America. News reports say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — or ICE — plans to begin raids Sunday to arrest thousands of migrant families in 10 cities who have been given court orders to be removed.
The issue is especially critical in New Jersey, a Democratic-leaning and diverse state with more unauthorized immigrants than 45 other states — and where polls show Trump is deeply unpopular.
Norcross’ remarks were also unearthed at a time when New Jersey’s Democratic Party is caught in an ever-escalating civil war pitting moderates like Norcross and legislative leaders against Gov. Phil Murphy and fellow progressives who support him.
Progressive advocates released statements Thursday condemning Norcross for his comments about immigration.
Norcross made the remarks as he was discussing “street smarts” and learning from mistakes in the 2017 interview. He began speaking about now-President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, in which the Republican advocated for building a wall to stem illegal immigration and described some immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists."
Many Democrats across the country have condemned Trump’s hard-line stance.
Norcross said Trump “borders on genius and insanity.” He noted how Trump spent the last three weeks on the campaign focusing on “what people were thinking," while Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton “did not.”
“He came up with crazy ideas, like building walls, that people embraced, amazingly,” said Norcross, who is a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and has golfed with the president. "Because they were so angry with what’s going on.”
Norcross then stressed that he’s a “proud Democrat” and “a conservative Democrat.”
And he said he has often asked Democratic leaders in Washington, D.C. like then-U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “Why is the Democrat Party supporting criminals that are here illegally?”
“I think a path to citizenship is the right thing," Norcross continued. "But if you’re a criminal, you do not belong here. And the American public doesn’t want any. Why do we as a party support that? I don’t understand it. And that’s why the Democratic Party has not been attractive to certain elements of the working class of our country.”
Norcross was then critical of Trump’s proposal for a wall, saying “it tells you how bad we are as a country, how disgusted we are with out government when we turn around and elect somebody who says, ‘I’m going to build a wall, and that’s how I’m going to keep people out.'"
“How do you accept that idea?” he asked. “How do a majority of a certain class of women vote for Donald Trump over the first woman who could have been president of the United States. It’s hard to fathom and understand."
"But when you analyze it, you realize why. Because people are so disgusted with what’s going on in the country. They don’t believe anybody at any time. They think everybody in public office is a fraud.”
Daniel Fee, a spokesman for Norcross, told NJ Advance Media on Thursday that Norcross did not mean to imply that all undocumented immigrants are criminals but that Democrats should not embrace people who have a criminal record who come to the U.S. illegally or who come here without documentation and subsequently are convicted of a crime.
“That’s why he drew a distinction between having a ‘path to citizenship’ is the right thing, but if you’re a criminal, you do not belong here,” Fee said in an email. “If someone thought that an undocumented immigrant was a ‘criminal’ (who does) not belong here, there’d be no reason for a path to citizenship."
Fee said Norcross “has always supported legal immigration, explicitly called for a path to citizenship for any undocumented immigrants here now, and disagrees with the actions taken in the last few years to limit it without seeming justification or process.”
Fee also said Norcross’ "analysis of the Trump win wasn’t particularly groundbreaking either — people are mad, he came up with nuts things mad people reacted to.”
“(Norcross) recognized, as both liberal Democrats like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Tea Party Republicans like Republicans Justin Amash have, that parts of our government aren’t working and people across the country are angry about that fact,” Fee said.
Johanna Calle, director of New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, said in a statement Thursday that it’s “disconcerting to see such an influential figure espouse Trump’s political dogma and give air to anti-immigrant stereotypes.”
Erika Nava, a policy analyst for left-leaning think tank New Jersey Policy Perspective, noted that immigrants are are neighbors, classmates, and co-workers who own small businesses and pay taxes.
“Instead of inciting resentment towards immigrants, elected officials and political leaders should stand with immigrant communities and support policy measures that help them thrive, because when immigrants succeed, the entire state succeeds,” Nava said.
Olga Armas of advocacy group Make the Road New Jersey said as the Trump administration launches raids, “we need our elected officials and leaders to stand with immigrant communities and denounce this vile rhetoric.”
Norcross is the leader of a powerful South Jersey Democratic machine, helping to bankroll candidates and thus having influence over a large voting bloc in the state Legislature. He is also the brother of U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st Dist., and close allies with state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester.
Both Norcross and Sweeney often clash with Murphy, a more progressive Democrat who frequently criticizes Trump and has made helping immigrants a cornerstone of his administration.
Recently, Norcross has been at the center of controversy over New Jersey’s corporate tax incentive program, further souring his relationship with Murphy. The governor formed a task force to examine whether the program was abused, and four companies with ties to Norcross have been targets.
Norcross insists he did nothing wrong and has accused Murphy of being a “liar."
Watch the full Norcross interview below. The comments about Trump and immigration begin around the 41:30 mark:
NJ Advance Media staff writer Jonathan D. Salant contributed to this report.
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Editor needed for upcoming Halloween contest
I have a good draft for my contest entry, but I'd love feedback, criticism, suggestions, and copy-editing.
The story is short (one Literotica page) and in the Fantasy category.
Years ago, Bronwen asked the faeries to bring her the man she coveted for a lover. The faery queen granted her desire, but the price was one year under the mountain. Bronwen assumed she would be the one to pay the price, but upon consummation of the union, the queen took the man instead. When the year elapsed, Bronwen awaited the return of her lover, but the queen demanded a replacement in exchange for returning her love toy. Bronwen had to entice another manů Worse, when Bronwen got her coveted lover back, the spell was broken and he no longer wanted her. Each year, Bronwen lures another man out of pity for the last one. If she ever stops, the last man will be trapped under the mountain forever. She can't form her own lasting relationship because she doesn't dare sacrifice a true love, and what lover could forgive her for sacrificing a stranger?
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An externally imposed regime change is invariably a catastrophe, destroying self-respect among the people and wrecking local networks of cooperation that produce stability. The substitution of one regime for another cannot carry endorsement with a people unless it is brought about by the people themselves in a manner dictated by locally intelligible patterns of just administration.
The people of Iraq see the US as responsible for a crippling policy of sanctions punitively enforced by the US through the use of its veto in the UN. Neither a US-led programme of reconstruction funded by Iraqi oil money, nor a caretaker administration made up of exiled Iraqis with a range of grudges and vested interests, will command the assent of the populace in Iraq. The military invasion of Iraq and the subsequent exploitation of its assets can be understood only as a shameful and reprehensible colonial act motivated by the self-interest of the US and the UK.
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Tel Aviv University
Prof Dr Jan Houben
Prof Christopher Minkowski
Prof Sheldon Pollock
University of Chicago
Prof Jonardon Ganeri
University of Liverpool
Prof Dr Karin Preisendanz
University of Vienna and 272 others
· We protest at the illegitimate detention of protesters who were en route to Fairford air force base on March 22 (Letters, March 24). The 1994 Criminal Justice Act was used for the supposed aim of searching for weapons. The police stopped three coaches, took away items such as food and scarves - on the pretext they could be used to disguise faces - and then forced everyone back to London. Drivers were threatened with arrest if they stopped on the way.
This mass detention attacked the right to protest. The police bypassed any judicial procedure, since no one was even arrested for supposedly processing a weapon. Their action illustrates an alarming tendency to use the law as a pretext to harass and detain people, in the name of preventing disorder or terrorism. We oppose such disregard for democratic rights.
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Detectives attached to the Lagos Police Command have arrested a man, David Idibie, for allegedly beating his wife, Juliana, 42, to death in Ajah.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
Adejobi said the incident occurred on Tuesday night at their Joado Street, Oke Ira Nla residence.
The statement read, “The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one David Idibie, male, of Joado Street, Oke Ira Nla, Ajah area of Lagos State, for the murder of his wife, one Juliana Idibie, female, 42, of same address, on 16th February, 2021 at about 10pm.
“It was gathered that the deceased had engaged the suspect in a hot argument on certain matrimonial issues and in the process, she slumped and sustained severe head injury. While lying in a pool of blood, the angry husband refused to rescue her until she gave up the ghost.
“The police operatives attached to Langbasa Division, Ajah, who were informed of the ugly incident by a neighbour of the couple, raced to the scene, arrested the suspect and evacuated the corpse to the mortuary.
“The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has condemned the act and vowed to work with other relevant government agencies and non-governmental bodies to tackle domestic violence to a standstill in the state.
“The police boss has ordered that the matter be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, for proper investigation. While reiterating his zero tolerance for crimes and criminality, especially domestic violence, CP Hakeem Odumosu admonishes couples to always resolve their differences and conflicts with decorum and maturity as the law will not spare anyone who kills his or her spouse.”


Advantages Good value, good mpg and good looking
Disadvantages Reliability, insurance and its an MG
I bought my MG TF 160 13 months ago. I'd looked at a few difference alternatives for months before and it came down to the following:-MG TF160
The bottom line was that I wanted an affordable sports car which wouldn't be overly expensive to insure and maintain, too often people get cars and then have nasty suprises when its comes to servicing.I bought mine privately through Autotrader and after some negotiation and checking the cars history with Experion for £40 I made the decision to go for the 160.
Since the launch of the TF range I was impressed with the looks of the car and the performance. I test drove the 135 and the 160 and too be honest its a no-brainer as far as I'm concerned. The 135 is a fair amount slower than the 160 and its nice to have the little extra zip when its needed.So overall how would I rate the year I've had with the 160..... Mixed! The drivability of the car is great, its lively in corners, handles really well and isn't bad on petrol (averages about 36mpg). However there have been problems - Head gasket failed (replaced under warranty), Windscreen wipers failed (replaced under warranty) and Slave Cylinder failed (clutch basically - replaced at a cost of £135 due to warranty expiring).
So the reliability of the car has to be questioned, its only 4 years old but without the warranty the Head Gasket would cost over £500! This is a known fault with the K series engine and occurs on the Lotus Elise as well.However compare the MG 160 to the Mazda RX8. The wankel engine used by the RX8 has been known to fail and use lots of oil - it does use oil to lubricate the engine anyway but the mpg is around 18. They have also fallen in price from just over £20,000 to around £17 -18K for a good 1-2 year old model.
All in all I'd give the MGTF 160 7.5/10. I've found the overall cost of servicing (£171), insurance (£750) and tyres (£85 each) reasonable for an out and out sports car. Also its not ludicrously quick so you can learn how to drive a car correctly and move up to something quicker if you still have the desire to go quicker.
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The red BlackBerry Passport has finally gone on sale in the UK. This version of the phablet/smartphone device with its physical keyboard and touchscreen won't be available in the UK for long though as it is only getting a limited-edition run in this country.
The BlackBerry Passport launched in the UK and US in September last year and features a 4.5in display, quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, 3GB of RAM, 32GB internal storage and a reported 30 hour-battery life. Its 13-megapixel rear camera is also capable of recording video in full HD.
The device in red retails for around £525 but customers that opt for a black and white colour scheme can pick one up for a more wallet friendly £380. You can, of course, get it for less upfront, or even free in some cases, if you pick it up on a pay monthly plan.
New Passport users will also get the latest version of its operating system - BlackBerry 0.3.1, which comes with a raft of new features, including the ability to download Android apps from the App store.
The new update will also add a new 'Blend' service that will allow users to sync content and messaging across a range of devices, including tablets and desktop PCs, and includes its own take on Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana in the form of the ' BlackBerry Assistant'.
BlackBerry 10 OS 10.3.1 is also now available to download for users with the Q5, Q10, Z10, Z3, Z30, P'9982, P'9983 and the new Passport handsets.
If you fancy getting your hands on the limited edition red BlackBerry Passport, get in there quick before it disappears again!
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People often get confused between teeth and bones. Are teeth bones? The simple answer to this question is NO. The reason why People often confuse teeth as bone is due to its composition. Both the teeth and bone have calcium phosphate as one of its important components. Teeth and bone have some commonalities, including being the hardest anatomy in a human body containing calcium phosphate. But the truth is teeth are not bones. Bone gets repaired and regenerated over time which is not a case with a tooth. (1)
A tooth must be either restored or extracted completely to prevent infections or gum disease. Moving further you will understand what are teeth made of and the difference between a tooth and the bone including a few other interesting facts.
What makes a tooth similar to a bone?
- Both teeth and bones are hard and strong
- Both are white in color
- Both contain a massive amount of calcium and phosphorous
- Both contain nerve at the core. Nerves run through the pulp of the tooth and in bones nerve run through the periosteum
- Both teeth and bones get nourished by Calcium and vitamin D supplements. (2)
What differs a tooth from a bone?
Teeth and bones share many similarities including being hard, white and strong. The presence of minerals likes calcium and phosphorous are also some among those similarities. People usually have a misconception that teeth and bone are same.
- Teeth cannot repair or heal itself whereas bone can repair and regenerate due to the presence of protein collagen
- Teeth are the hardest part of the body whereas bone is the second hardest
- Teeth are hard and fixed whereas bones are movable
- Bone produces red blood cells and white blood cells, unlike teeth
- Bone is present deep inside our skin, but teeth are bare and on display
- A tooth is made up of calcium phosphate, and bone is made up of collagen protein, calcium phosphate, sodium and other minerals
- In a lifetime, humans are provided with two sets of teeth. As a child, we have deciduous or primary dentition which fells off gradually as we grow up, and then the permanent set of teeth erupts, but it does not happen in the case of bone (3)
- Teeth are white and strong due to enamel. Enamel is the hardest and strongest tissue of the human body
- Teeth do not grow in size after the eruption, but bone can grow to support our bodies
Know your tooth in detail
Parts of a tooth include –
It is the hardest tissue of the tooth. It is white colored. It is the outer surface of the teeth. It comprises calcium phosphate, which makes it the hardest tissue.
Enamel is made up of the mineral like hydroxyapatite, which is crystalline calcium phosphate. It does not contain water. It is light yellow or grayish white in color. During mastication, enamel is the only tissue which comes in direct contact with food.
It is the tissue underlying the enamel. It is harder than bone but softer than enamel. It is made up of phosphoric apatite crystallites.
It is a calcified tissue which has microscopic dentinal tubules. Pain, pressure, and temperature are delivered to the nerves in the dentinal tubules via channels of odontoblasts.
Exposure of these tissues to hot or cold food may cause pain in the tooth which is known as sensitivity.
- Suggested read: How Many Teeth Do Humans Have?
It is a type of connective tissue. It covers the root of the teeth. The Cementum is light yellow and slightly light in color than dentin. It is avascular and non-innervated.
It has the highest fluoride content than any other mineralized tissue. It can be formed throughout the life. It binds the root of the tooth with the gums and bones.
It serves as an attachment for the periodontal ligament fibers, thereby holding the teeth in their sockets.
It is a soft living tissue of the tooth which lies in the inner space of the tooth called pulp cavity. It is highly vascular and also innervated.
It is the only tissue that is better studied in decalcified sections because it is safely located in dentin. It has a number of cells like fibroblasts, odontoblasts, macrophage, granulocytes, mast cells and plasma cells.
Nerves and blood vessels run through this tissue of the teeth
It is a soft connective tissue which holds the tooth firmly in the jaw. It is attached on one side to the Cementum of the teeth and to the other side to the alveolar bone.
It has both neural and vascular components. Periodontal ligament performs supportive, remodeling, sensory and nutritive function.
Anatomy of a tooth
Anatomically tooth is divided into –
It is the functional part of the tooth which is usually visible to naked eye. It is covered with enamel. The crown of the teeth has ridges and cusps.
The crown of different teeth may be of different shape. Incisors have square shaped crown and canines have chisel-shaped crowns.
It is the junction between the crown and root. It is the part of the tooth where the enamel of the crown and the cementum of the root meets. It is also known as the dental cervix or cervical line or cementoenamel junction.
It is the part of the tooth which is embedded inside the alveolar bone. It is not visible to the eye. It is covered with cementum. The root portion of the teeth may be single, with one apex, as usually found in anterior teeth or multiple, with bifurcation or trifurcation as found in posterior teeth.
Functions of teeth
- Teeth play a significant role in mastication of food. The first step in digestion of food involves the mouth and teeth. Teeth help in cutting the food, chopping and grinding it further into smaller pieces for better digestion.
- Teeth, lips, and tongue reused to form words by controlling airflow out of the mouth. For the example, the sound of ‘the’ is made when we slip our tongue against the upper row of teeth.
- Teeth play a significant role aesthetically and provide facial fullness. An absence of teeth due to any reason affects the facial features to a great extent.
- Teeth play an essential role in creating facial expression. With the help of teeth, we can show facial expressions such as smile, frown, etc.
Over to you on what are teeth made of
Irrespective of a few similarities between bones and teeth, in a broader sense both are poles apart. Like bones, teeth do not have regenerative or healing property. So, it is vital to maintain proper care of your teeth and see your dentist if your teeth have caries or decay.


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Meghan Markle risks losing ‘Duchess’ title if she runs for US President
Meghan Markle has been told by a royal expert that she risks losing the Duchess of
Sussex title if she plans on running for the role of US President in 2024, as per
The Daily Star.
The warning came from royal expert Daniela Elser who, writing for
said that the Duchess of Sussex may not only have to give up her royal title but
also many other things if she wants to be in the White House.
Elser said: “The appeal of being number one on the Pope, Joint Chiefs of Staff and
Beyonce’s call list would look pretty good in that context.”
“However, the sacrifices that Meghan and Harry would have to make if she truly
harboured a desire to one day hold the nuclear codes would be immense,” she added.

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Public servants should beware the temptation to enter into “fire and forget” contracts to get rid of a problem, warned Tom Gash from the UK’s Institute For Government at the Institute of Public Administration Australia national conference last week.
A common reason contracting out to the private sector fails is departments forgetting the reasons outsourcing to the private sector is useful in the first place: the competition and choice that markets can introduce.
“I think the examples of failure show that you do have to remember the fundamentals about how you do make competitive systems work,” Gash said.
“You can’t forget about things like whether actually when push comes to shove you’re happy to let the hospital close, the service stop, and other provider to move on. You have to think out those questions really carefully.”
It’s important to ensure healthy competition actually exists and to ask the question of whether the public is going to have informed, motivated and engaged choice — a key feature of the design of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme — he pointed out.
Contracting out requires the public service to monitor the services being provided, rather than assuming that once the paper is signed, good outcomes will automatically flow. “What hasn’t worked in the UK is fire and forget, thinking you can get rid of a problem,” he explained. “Outsourcing because you can get rid of a problem, that hasn’t worked.”
One example he gave was of the UK government purchasing court translation services — for police suspects or prisoners, for example, who don’t speak English — as one big national contract from a private provider. Traditionally, they would rely on local networks of translators, which led to problems getting people at the right time.
“The solution we thought would work for this in the UK — clearly entirely wrongly, as it turns out — was to do one big bulk contract with a new provider who would then subcontract the elements of the work to different translators,” he said.
“And we decided we’d really focus on cost here, we’d drive the cost down. That was really important. The model they used actually resulted in very few translators being able to be found by this company.
“One of the reasons for that was of course that they didn’t have enough money to tempt translators, who are often highly skilled people working part time who can take or leave work if it’s not at the right point.”
Inevitably, this had significant knock-on effects in the justice system, causing delayed trials and other problems. Eventually the contracted company started having financial difficulty and went under — though the owner of the company still “walked away a very wealthy man from it for various reasons to do with how the contracting was designed”.
The lesson here, he thinks, is that “when someone says ‘I can take all these problems off your hands, you don’t need to worry about it anymore’, and you say ‘let’s try and do that and make it cheaper at the same time’, lots of things can go wrong.”
While it’s important to ensure good value for the public by not spending too much, budgeting too little can cause private companies to collapse, leaving the government with one fewer provider to deal with in what are often already markets populated by only a few real competitors. Unlike private companies, the government cannot simply decide not to take responsibility for that service anymore, meaning that government may end up in the position where it’s already paid to contract out a failed service, but is still liable to pick up the cost of fixing the problem at the end.
Failing and still getting rich on public purse
Another example given by both Gash and former departmental secretary Lord Bob Kerslake was that of the tagging scandal, surrounding a contract to tag prisoners out on bail with G4S and Serco.
“This contract came up for renewal and when they were preparing for renewal of the contract they found that the two companies involved had actually substantially overcharged government for these contracts. Double charged, in effect,” explained Kerslake.
Not only did the government not have a central register outlining where other contracts with these companies lay within government which may have also been subject to poor performance — leading to “a very, very intensive exercise of reviewing our relationship” — a key problem was that once the contract had been set up “the senior people said that’s a job done, we’ll move onto the next interesting thing, and the capacity to manage that contract was moved down the hierarchy to quite junior levels,” he said.“What value did the public sector get from that fall in technology costs? Very little … ”
Significant government cuts to oversight capacity and a preference for monitoring based on data in place of field observations led to a bad situation remaining undiscovered for longer. “What you can’t do is just rely on data,” argued Gash.
“The Ministry of Justice was getting data feeds about how many people were on tags all the time and what was happening in that service for a very long time, it just happened the data wasn’t necessarily right. And who was going to the frontline and saying how does this feel? How does this look? Who was engaging with providers and talking to them about what was actually going on? The answer was not enough people, for various reasons — one of them was the constraints that were happening financially and the decision to make cuts in the oversight. Again, a false economy that I would really warn you in Australia against,” he warned.
Contracts are too often made without proper regard for the fact that things will change over time, thinks Gash. The tagging contract was for both the technology and the services surround the technology.
“What happened to the technology costs over the nine years that that contract ran before it was retendered, was obviously they fell very very dramatically. What value did the public sector get from that fall in technology costs? Very little,” he stated.
Change is a certainty,”and yet too often when it comes to public services we try to design systems and contracts as if the future will stay the same as it is today. So we do need to have much more flexibility in our contracting models.” Inflexible, long-term contracts often mean the private sector pockets the falling cost of technology while government continues to pay a high price. More flexibility is needed, while also respecting the needs of companies to be able to plan.
Kerslake — who has experience as both permanent secretary for the United Kingdom’s Department for Communities and Local Government and head of its Civil Service — offered six learnings from his experience with commissioning.
- Absolute clarity about what you’re trying to achieve from the process.
- Capacity and capability — it’s not just about the number of people you have, it’s the skills they have to do the job.
- Ruthless, rigorous program or project management.
- An open project that allows people within the system to say ‘this isn’t going right, we want to stop what we’re doing’.
- Knowledge of the market.
- Once you’ve let the contract, don’t take your eye off the ball, keep the contracting process in place.
“If you get the key elements right in those places, there’s every chance it’ll go well. If you don’t, if you fail on any one of those, something will seriously fail,” he said.

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In June 2016, the Self-Insurance Institute of America submitted comments to proposed changes that were undertaken at the time by the Treasury to revise TRIPRA
, arguing that captives should not be treated differently than other insurers with regard to participation in the act, and that such arrangements provide a valuable risk transfer mechanism within the current terrorism risk lines of insurance, Work said.
For some companies, the property damage, business interruption and liability coverage provided by TRIPRA
may not be sufficient or even advisable.
The report found that the overall take-up rate for TRIPRA
coverage in the U.
originally was developed in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept.
However, Congress passed TRIPRA
in early 2015 and buyers of terrorism insurance have generally experienced a favorable rate environment that is expected to continue barring unforeseen events.
Much like the TRIPRA
2007 program, TRIPRA
2015 requires that certain criteria are met to qualify for federal coverage.
If the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act is not reauthorized, the agency has determined about 4 percent of an overall 889 rating units are too reliant on TRIPRA
and "materially exposed to terrorism risk," says Michael Russo, senior analyst and author of a briefing.
Value of adding TRIPRA
coverage to existing captives
Uncertainty around TRIPRA
is also impacting Workers Compensation coverage and continues to be the gorilla in the room, the report said.
The language regarding the 15-day notice, which was added to the statute as part of TRIPRA
, does not allow for any discretion: either the secretary provides such a notice to Congress or does not.
There were other areas where people explored expanding coverage, such as the terrorism coverage within their contract because of the uncertainty of what would happen with TRIPRA
[the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act] going forward.

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"It's a long way to go, but hope is the fuel to fire his heart."
Outside, fires raged. Guns rumbled. Storms, both manmade and natural, washed over the face of the Earth, a bloody tumult.
Inside, the dying groaned with the burden of death. While the living watched those that would perish and wailed or whispered or sat slack eyed when the end finally came, individually wishing such reprieve should soon be granted for them all. An acidic, radioactive rain dripped through cracked floors and ceilings, from level to level of their refuge, a tidal flow of slow death to bind them, survivors all, as brothers and sisters in a mutual grave. A barrage of shells burst nearby. Or maybe it was thunder. In its aftermath, a dull moan of fear and abandonment swept through the rooms, born softly on the still, poisoned air as a billowing front of debris exhaled from a distant, unseen explosion.
Eight year old Allele cradled his dead sister in the crooked pillow of his lap and wept without shedding tears. Potable water was precious, and not to be wasted on silly emotional displays. Still, she had been a good sister to him, a worthy person, a memorable person. Someone should mourn her passing in some manner, however obscure the person, however pathetic the manner. So Allele's shoulders rose and fell. His head was bowed. His face flushed with blood, and he made tiny, shrill noises of sorrow and surrender far back in the soft tissues of his throat. It was the best he could do. Crying was an unpracticed art to him. He hadn't cried since their parents had been requisitioned by the Interim Government, never to be seen again.
What was the point of crying? Lots of people cried, were crying now, but what good would it do them? Would it return them their murdered sons? Would it free their enslaved daughters? Would it make whole maimed fathers and ravished mothers? Could crying reanimate Allele's poor, dead twin sibling? No. So why cry? He didn't know why, he just was. He cried for a long, long time it seemed to him, without shedding tears.
When he was finished, he rolled Sugar's head gently off his legs and stood tall and straight. He tossed back his head, closed his eyes, and breathed deeply of the reek. These were his last hours in hell. He could live here no longer.
He and Sugar had made a pact to cross the Badlands from the Damaged Zone, and together find a safe passage to the green havens of New Liberty. As soon as they had gathered enough supplies to do so. During the months that had followed their parents' arrests, he and she had horded and scavenged and scrounged and begged from people they knew and didn't know to fill their haversacks. They knew the I.G. would never return their mother and father to them, alive or dead, so nothing had remained save each other to bind them to the Ghettoes of the Zone. Now Sugar was gone.
They hadn't had enough to make the trip between two of them. But now . . . now, being one and alone in the world, Allele had enough to make a decent go of it. He hoped.
He hoped not only for his sake, but for his sister's. Hers had been the driving force of their determination; hers the will that had led him to forebear his grumbling stomach; hers the strength that had coached him to overcome his fears and shames, to sacrifice the last shreds of his humanity in the name of the cause . . . the cause of freedom. In the name of a longing to be free.
Allele had never felt it much, really. The Zone was all he deemed he deserved from the world, it was all he knew. He had no real, firm vision in his head of any place other than the god forsaken ruins of his childhood home. But Sugar had known differently. She had learned from others, learned to teach herself. Sugar had known where to find the answers to all the nagging questions inherent in their way of life. Why were things the way they were? Why was there so much pain and suffering? So much heartbreak? Is it necessary that our existence be what it is? Are there better ways? Were there ever better days? What is 'FREEDOM'? And does it exist anywhere in the world?
Her dream had always been the green fields of New Liberty. She had dreamed of its starry night skies and evergreen forests, of its mountains of stone, of its absence of concrete and steel, of its animals, large and small, that actually lived right out in the open, free from the poisonous rains that plagued them in the Zone. There, she had claimed, FREEDOM could be found. Absolute personal freedom, and plenty of space to live and grow and prosper.
Nobody prospered in the Zone, or could be said to be prosperous. Not even the warlords. Constant battle ate away at whatever resources or wealth they managed to wrest from the land and its poor inhabitants, so not even the top of the food chain could be said to be fit or happy or comfortable here. Life was a bloody, dangerous thing in the Damaged Zone, and it was only getting harder, day by day.
Still, nobody was in a hurry to leave the Cities. Few made exodus beyond the Zone's defensive barriers, and not many of those that did were thought to have survived their experiences. Few traveled in that terror land called the Badlands and survived to remember it.
What could be so deterring? What could be worse than a City Shelter? What could be worse than living amid the filth and carnage of these unreasonably morbid bunker tombs? The answer to that, as every Zoner knew, was simple; not living at all.
Death reigned in those wastelands that gathered about the Zone's massive gates, death that was savage and efficient, even as it was sanguine and excruciatingly slow. It was a certain death of disease and genetic deterioration, and a less certain death at the hands of starving scarecrows that were unashamed to be cannibals and murderers of infants. The Badlands were uncharted territory. No organized expedition had journeyed into them for one hundred and fifty years, and the last that had was never seen again. There were no maps of its brutal, misshapen terrain, of its pitfalls or hot sites. No lore was known that could divine water from its deserts, or edible sustenance from its ravaged soils. Nothing and no one could long resist its corrosive weather or its wasting diseases. Machines were rendered to scrap by its abuses. Men were reduced to skeletons in its draining embrace. Memories of the Badlands' histories were all forgotten, save one; that it was a place of much bloodshed and dying, and that its dead haunted it still.
But the 'lands were not content to lie about uselessly, a mere deterrent to wayward spirits. More, it was a source of eternal hardship to the Zone's inmates, a source of furious rogue weather patterns and hot, undying winds. It was a breeding ground for hungry animals and savage men that stormed the Cities' walls from time to time, armed to utter lethality with claw and relic weaponry, ravenous for the taste of flesh of any kind.


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Authorities: Man fired shot at Burt County deputy
TEKAMAH, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been arrested after officials believe he fired a shot at a Burt County sheriff’s deputy in northeastern Nebraska.
Omaha television station KETV reports that family members of a 23-year-old man called the sheriff’s office Wednesday night concerned about his well-being. A deputy sent to a rural farm to check on him says the man fired a shot at him when he was asked to get out of his vehicle. The deputy was not injured.
Officials say the deputy requested backup, and the 23-year-old man fled. He was later found in an outbuilding and arrested around 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
He was taken to a mental health treatment facility and is expected to face charges.
Information from: KETV-TV, http://www.ketv.com