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Colitis refers to inflammation of the inner lining of the colon. Symptoms of the inflammation of the colon lining include diarrhea, pain, and blood in the stool. There are several causes of colitis, including infection, ischemia of the colon, inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, infectious colitis like C. difficile, or microscopic colitis). Treatment depends on the cause of the colitis.
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Overwatch Anniversary event 2019 goes live – Full May 21 patch notes
There are also three new dance emotes, for Baptiste, Hammond and Ashe and players will receive one bonus Legendary Anniversary Loot Box, which will guarantee one Legendary item, just for logging in during the event.[ad name=”article2″]
In addition, players who purchase the 50 Loot Box bundle from the store will receive another Legendary Anniversary Loot Box as well.
All previous Seasonal Event loot and cosmetics will be included in loot boxes during the duration of the event, including things from the most recent Storm Rising event.
Overwatch will also be free to play for a limited time during the Anniversary event, from May 21 to 28.
The Workshop has arrived
In addition to the boatload of new content coming with the Anniversary event, Overwatch’s new Workshop mode will finally be going live for players on all platforms as well.
The Workshop has been on the PTR since it was first introduced with the Storm Rising event, so now that it’s available to even more players, there should be even more great mods and creations coming out of it.
Along with the event Overwatch has put out a brand new patch, and the full patch notes can be found below:
OVERWATCH RETAIL PATCH NOTES – MAY 21, 2019
New Seasonal Event: Overwatch Anniversary 2019
Celebrate Overwatch’s third anniversary with brand new items, including Legendary and Epic skins like Riot Police Brigitte, Academy D.Va, Carbon Fiber Doomfist, Honeydew Mei, Orbital Pharah, Gargoyle Winston, and many more! Did you miss any Overwatch festivities over the previous years? Don’t worry—you’ll be able to unlock items from past events using credits (or by opening Loot Boxes!) Relive the thrill of previous seasonal brawls in the Arcade, with a brawl of the day rotating throughout the Anniversary celebration.
Thank you so much for playing Overwatch with us over the past three years! Your continued support and enthusiasm help drive us to keep creating. We look forward to celebrating with you in-game!
We’re excited to share a new in-game feature called the Workshop! The Workshop greatly expands the game customization features available in the Game Browser by providing a simplified game scripting system. Enhance the Overwatch game modes you know and love with new game rules, new victory conditions, adjustments to the hero movement and abilities, and much more. Once you’ve designed an awesome new game mode, create a code to share it with your friends or the whole community*! To get started using the Workshop, see our Workshop blog post. We’re excited to see what you come up with!
(* Codes created in China cannot be shared with the rest of the world. Codes created outside of China can’t be used by players in China.)
Note that Workshop is a complex feature that we’re still iterating on, so we may need to adjust or turn it off as we work to improve it. Please post any questions or issues in the Workshop forum.
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- Fixed a bug where Immortality Field would become stuck under some objects
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- Fixed a bug where a healing grenade would appear in his Biotic Launcher when it is out of ammo
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On April 28, 2006, five Brethren traveled to Lewistown,
Pa., to present a certificate to Bro. Sherman Eugene
Good (shown front, center) commemorating his 75
years as a Mason. They were, from left to right, back row:
Bros. Walter P. Bobb, W.M. of Middleburg Lodge No. 619;
David L. Reiner, District Deputy Grand Master for District 46;
and Gary E. Narehood, P.M., of Middleburg Lodge No. 619.
Front row, left to right: Bros. Michael Timblin and Gerald
Botdorf, also of Middleburg Lodge No. 619.
On June 8, 2006, Bro. Silas Booz White received
the Grand Lodge 75-Year Certificate in Harry A.
Houseman Lodge No. 717, Bristol, Pa. He was
escorted to the Altar of Freemasonry by his grandsons, Bros.
Aaron Ramson White, P.M., and Jeremy Booz White, both of
Jordan-Martin Lodge No. 673. The award was presented by
Charles T. Graham, District Deputy Grand Master for District
D. Upon receiving the award, Bro. White commented that
when he was a boy, he knew Harry Houseman. Since Bro.
Houseman died prior to the lodge's constitution in 1922, this
created an interesting perspective for everyone present.
Pictured above, left to right: Bros. Aaron White; Jeno B.
Seitz, W.M., Harry A. Houseman Lodge No. 717; Graham;
Silas White; and Jeremy White.

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Live Spanish Music Night ! - for Venezuela
Let’s get together for a night of Live Spanish Music with the amazing band “ Zeta “ .
Enjoy some lively tunes with delicious food & drinks ! The event is a free event and is setup as a pay what you can fundraiser for Venezuela . Any contributions go to charity !
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Measuring 3.25" wide x 57" long and made by hand, this 100% silk satin tie is sure to be a conversation starter.
Our "Knockers of Annapolis" Silk Tie has photos of door knockers located in the Historic District of Annapolis,
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About the Class
Shellfish are vital to recreation, culture, and economic activity in Washington State, but they are likely to suffer as our oceans become more acidic. Our oceans absorb roughly one-third of the carbon dioxide produced by humans, and this absorption is making our local marine waters more acidic. Laboratory studies show that shellfish are most sensitive to changes in water chemistry in early life when they are microscopic larvae. Aquatic Assessment and Monitoring Team (AAMT) has developed an Acidification Nearshore Monitoring Network (ANeMoNe) to investigate ocean acidification issues in the shallow marine areas where most human activity occurs.
In this session learn about ANeMoNe monitoring of water quality, shellfish spat settlement, eelgrass distribution, density and morphology, bird use, and the focused research experiments to develop a better understanding of the impacts ocean acidity has on our marine resources.
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It's interesting, when I read this issue, I thought to myself, "Is this an old series?," because it certainly seemed like this was a longtime production, because there wasn't any setup at all, so I got the impression that I was supposed to have some idea of who these characters were.
Apparently, though, this is the first appearance of these characters.
Anyhow, the idea behind the comic book is basically the same one behind that bastion of television originality, The Flintstones Kids. Yep, this is the misadventures of kid versions of Dracula, Dr. Jekkyl and Mr. Hyde, The Wolfman and Frankenstein's Monster.
While the idea is fairly simple, there is certainly enough material here to milk for laughs.
That's why this issue was fairly disappointing, because I do not think the laughs were milked that much.
I read somewhere that Steve Niles wrote this comic "Marvel Style," basically letting artist Ben Roman go nuts and then Niles would fill in the dialogue later. This may be why the strongest stories in this comic are the one-pagers, where presumably Niles short plots are more controlling, because the longer stories just kind of meander.
Don't get me wrong, Roman is a skilled artist. Here is a sample page.
But while he draws well and designs great characters, he doesn't exactly advance the plot all that well. That might be Niles' fault as well, don't get me wrong, I don't know how much of the story was Niles, but as the shorter stories are funnier, it makes me tend to think that Roman's riffs don't help the book much.
One of the funniest bits in the book is how the wolfman kid's parents are a Wolfman and a Frankenstein's Monster. It's a fun pairing, and it is responsible for most of the best jokes in the issue (including the bit where the kids talk about seeing a sex video between the two).
Basically, though, this is a fun book that just isn't all that funny. The characters are all endearing enough, but it's basically like following around a bunch of actual kids. What kids actually do is not all that interesting.
Still, Roman's art has a great style to it and I love his designs, and the characters ARE pretty darn endearing. But I need some more laughs to recommend this comic.
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Villas for Sale in Thailand
Buying villas in Thailand is a dream for many who have had the chance to witness the local beauty at least once. The country, with snow-white beaches, lush greenery, and azure ocean waters beckons with its relaxed lifestyle, climate and prices. However, the most important thing is that it is quite possible to make such a dream come true since property in Thailand is reasonably priced.
The kingdom is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Southeast Asia. In 2023, it was visited by over 24 million holidaymakers and this is not even close to the largest possible number. Due to the closure of borders during the pandemic, tourist arrivals decreased significantly and have not yet fully recovered. In 2019, this figure reached 38 million per year. Such interest in the country creates real estate demand since many visitors prefer to rent housing. This allows you to consider buying a house for sale in Thailand, not only as a holiday home but also as a potentially profitable investment.
Foreigners can own housing under private ownership or through a long-term lease. The latter is called leasehold ownership and applies to the land plot that the building sits on. The total lease term is up to 90 years. This practice, common in Southeast Asia, does not in any way infringe on the rights of the owner.
The kingdom has many sought-after areas. Foreigners can buy house in Thailand in one of the popular resort destinations, the largest being Pattaya and Phuket with their well-developed tourist infrastructure. If you want to find a location with a more peaceful atmosphere, you should consider Koh Samui. This island does not have as active nightlife as Phuket does. Housing is just as in-demand in Bangkok, the capital of the state. A tenth of the country’s total population lives here, and the number of visitors is growing year by year. In Bangkok, you can also consider buying condos in Thailand.
Investment house in Thailand
There are several reasons why investing in villas in Thailand is worth it:
- A steadily developing economy of the country that has not faced a recession, even during the pandemic. Scaling of transport infrastructure, urbanisation of cities and strong tourist arrivals make local real estate in demand. The kingdom continues to develop, increasing the number of roads and attracting foreign investment.
- Lack of seasonality. Even during the rainy season, holidaymakers continue to arrive in the country, since tropical downpours do not interfere with enjoying the warm climate and exploring cultural attractions and national cuisine.
- Rapidly developing real estate sector. According to experts, in the coming years, it will expand by another 6–8% due to growing demand. Prices are still affordable but continue to increase, therefore, in Bangkok and other key areas, they have doubled over the past few years. This allows you to make a profit from the resale of real estate.
- Rental yield amounting to 5–7% of net profit. In premium tourist locations, it can reach 10%.
To make a profit from renting out villas in Thailand, you do not have to reside in the country. Many agencies offer a trust management service: they find tenants and look after the property themselves, while the owner receives a stable income minus a fee.
House prices in Thailand
The cost of villas in Thailand is aimed at different budgets. It directly depends on the type of property and its area. Listings can be two- and three-bedroom Thailand homes for sale or luxury residences with five or more bedrooms. The property must have a plot of land isolated from neighbours. One may use it to set up a tropical garden, a relaxation area or a private pool. The more additional amenities offered, the higher the cost of houses in Thailand. Prices tend to rise, so it is advisable to study them immediately before choosing and booking a specific property.
At the time of publication of the article, when searching for a villa for sale, Thailand’s real estate market offers the following options:
- two bedrooms — USD 45,000
- three bedrooms — USD 75,200
- four bedrooms — USD 150,000
However, these examples demonstrate the possibility of buying houses in Thailand at minimal prices. The average cost is USD 255,000. Luxury houses in Thailand will require an even larger amount. For example, a six-bedroom waterfront home on the island of Phuket is offered for USD 7.5 million.
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Top Composer Web Site: Classical Music Interviews and Feature Articles
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Chamber Music Northwest Reviews: Independent Women
By Matthew Neil Andrews
August 14, 2017
Agócs’s trio was considerably more modern, with roots in and nods to the musical heritage that comes with writing for piano trio. If the 20th-century classical world was about carving up the last of the dissonance and starting radical new schools of composition, the 21st-century classical world seems to be all about synthesis and syncretism, taking up the messy mantle of competing traditions and making something new and personal and beautiful out of it.
Kati Agócs fits right in there: her polystylism has been making waves all over the world for the last decade or so, from 2005’s Hymn for saxophone quartet and 2008’s Requiem Fragments to 2011’s Vessel, 2015’s Debrecen Passion, and last year’s Tantric Variations for string quartet. It would be easy enough to pigeonhole Agócs as yet another post-modern more-is-more composer, but what I hear is an artist with ravenous taste and the skills to match. Compared to her other work, which often includes texts in multiple languages, quotations from earlier composers, grand gestures for percussion, and so on, Queen of Hearts, performed at Chamber Music Northwest, seems positively conservative in its simple neo-Romantic splendour.
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Chamber Music Northwest Preview: Women's Work
By Angela Allen
June 26, 2017
“It will take another generation or two before we establish something analogous to literary women’s canon in music composition,” Agócs emailed from Boston where she lives and teaches composition at New England Conservatory of Music. “There are many fierce women working now, but it will be a long road. Commissioning new works and mentoring young women are ways to bring about a female canon in music.”
Agócs collaborated in 2010 with Shifrin and the Chamber Music Society at New York’s Lincoln Center. Drawing on such composers as Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky and J.S. Bach in her work, she wowed Shifrin with her Immutable Dreams.
“She has a voice of her own,” he said earlier this summer. “She is able to create dreamlike soundscapes, exciting tonal development, and clear architectural structure in her music.”
So Shifrin commissioned Agócs to write a piece for this summer’s festival, and insisted that she orchestrate it any way she wished Her 14-minute Queen of Hearts, which debuts July 13 at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium, is based on a chaconne (a repeating chord pattern as an underpinning — think of J.S. Bach’s famous Partita for Violin No. 2). “Everything that Bach does is so deeply spiritual, even when he is not trying to write religious music,” Agócs said. “It is awe-inspiring and deeply humbling to wake up every day and to have that as a model.”
Mentor, Me: Sustained Musical Mentorship
NEW MUSIC BOX
by Katherine Balch
10 July 2017
Dr. Kati Agócs’s office was a small, narrow room on the third floor of NEC’s Jordan Hall. It was a modest space with a large rectangular desk at one end and a clanky upright piano perpendicular to it. The desk’s surface was almost entirely clear, welcoming the mess of papers that would often accumulate during my lessons. This unremarkable room, which I saw once a week for four years, was like a magic wardrobe for me. I recall this room as the space where worlds of sonic possibility opened, and where I gathered fundamental artistic values and musical techniques. Agócs was a patient and thorough teacher who guided me like the complete beginner I was but treated me like a professional. She encouraged me to write by hand and ditch the notation software for a while, so for my first few lessons, I brought in some haphazard pages of meandering scribbles on bleached white notebook manuscript paper.
THE BOSTON GLOBE: Top 10 classical albums
By Zoë Madonna Globe Staff
December 23, 2016
ÁGOCS: THE DEBRECEN PASSION
Boston Modern Orchestra Project with Lorelei Ensemble, Lisa Bielawa and others; Gil Rose, conductor
The first recording of assorted works by NEC faculty composer Kati Ágocs. The record’s core is “The Debrecen Passion,” a mystical confluence of the sacred and secular illuminated by the superb Lorelei Ensemble and BMOP. Also sublime is “Vessel,” which utilises the medieval technique of multiple simultaneous texts to create something unmistakably modern.
MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL Recordings of the Year 2016
by Stephen Greenbank
Kati AGÓCS The Debrecen Passion - Lorelei Ens, Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose rec. 2010-15 BMOP SOUND 1046 SACD
This is my first encounter with the music of composer Kati Agócs. All of these highly imaginative and compelling scores are beautifully recorded and superbly engineered. The Debrecen Passion is the centerpiece, and delivers a moving, spiritual experience, both powerful and uplifting. The BMOP acquit themselves with distinction under Gil Rose’s charismatic direction. An amazing discovery for me, and music I will return to often.
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Music Review by Joe Banno
18 December 2016
The U.S. premiere of Kati Agócs’s 2015 “Tantric Variations” sounded, in a way, like the mirror-image of Gubaidulina’s quartet. Here the musicians begin the work with toneless scraping that gradually coalesces into musical form. Troubled, searching conversations take shape among the four instruments. At times, they are jagged and confrontational, at others blossoming into the kind of unashamedly soaring, tonal melodies that would not be out of place in the Mozart or Mendelssohn quartets on the program. They conclude in euphonious concord. It was as if the very string-quartet structure that Gubaidulina had dismantled in her piece were being reconstituted here and given a sense of hope by Agócs. The Cecilia, which commissioned “Tantric Variations,” played it gorgeously. The concert marked the 60th anniversary of the gift of the first of five Stradivari to the Library of Congress.
MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL RECORDING OF THE MONTH: THE DEBRECEN PASSION
By Stephen Greenbank
The genesis of this project makes for an interesting read. Gil Rose and the composer decided to assemble this CD over a period, recording the works as they were written and on the back of concert performances at Jordan Hall, Boston and Distler Performance Hall, Somerville MA. The venture took five years to complete, the culmination being the premiere performance and recording of The Debrecen Passion in 2015, the only work here specifically commissioned by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project....
THE BOSTON GLOBE: Hub New Music Transports with All-Agócs Program
By Zoë Madonna Globe Staff
January 27, 2016
Ursula K. Le Guin writes that after having read a good novel, “we may find that we have been changed a little, as if by having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.” The same can be said for having heard Hub New Music’s sampler of NEC faculty member Kati Agócs’s evocative works at Jordan Hall on Sunday night. The concert was one of firsts: the first evening solely dedicated to Agócs’s chamber music; Hub New Music’s first appearance at Jordan. (The group, which formed at NEC in 2013, debuted in a classroom.) Notes on the page and young musicians onstage meshed, enfolding innumerable stories and images into the sounds.
THE BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER: Hub New Music Debuts With “Strength in Fragility”
By Brian Schuth
January 28, 2016
Hub New Music debuted at Jordan Hall Sunday night with a concert dedicated to one composer, Kati Agócs. For someone who was new to Agócs, the evening was nearly ideal: short enough (about an hour, without intermission) that fatigue never set in, and consisting of stunningly varied works that clearly from a single personality. [BMint’s introductory article is here.]
Agócs has been on the NEC Composition faculty since 2008, and Hub New Music is in its second full year of concertizing. The concert carried a paradoxical title, “Strength in Fragility”, which was misleading: “fragility” is not a term I think applied to this music, which even in its quietest moments displayed an unshakeable emotional core. It is often delicate and hushed, but never brittle or unstable.
THE BOSTON GLOBE Classical Notes: Looking Ahead to Bounty of 2016 Concerts
By David Weininger Globe Correspondent
December 24, 2015
The end of a year invariably has a retrospective feel, awash as it is in lists of the best and most notable. Backward glances are all well and good, but this is also the right time for looking forward, anticipating the pleasures and new vistas promised by the new year. So for its final iteration of 2015, Classical Notes anticipates some notable musical offerings of 2016, listed in chronological order...
HUB NEW MUSIC (Jan. 24) This inventive ensemble, which earlier in the season gave dynamic performances of music by Andrew Norman, makes its Jordan Hall debut with an evening of works by Kati Agócs, a composer on the faculty of New England Conservatory. The program will include the premiere of a work for two sopranos and percussion. (Agócs’s music will also appear on a new CD by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project this month.)
More outstanding vocal work from this emerging contemporary voice.
The more I hear of Kati Agócs’ music, the more I like it. She has an amazing way of setting texts, both and sacred and other inspirational, and giving them a “modern” but captivating context.
Agócs typically assimilates several different cultural influences and multiple languages into her powerful and attention getting style. A perfect example is the amazing Debrecen Passion. Thematically centered on the work of contemporary Hungarian poet Szilárd Borbély and influenced by the particular qualities of the Hungarian language and culture, The Debrecen Passion takes Christian and humanist texts and utilizes them in a unique read of the Passion story but without the usual voices in roles. In many ways I found this approach both refreshingly different and quite moving. This is a strong, dramatic and, occasionally unsettling work.
Q2 Album of the Week: Kati Agócs's high-drama setting of love and devotion
January 25, 2016
By Hannis Brown : Q2 Music
The latest in the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's composer portrait series focuses on Kati Agócs, a Guggenheim-winning Boston-based, Canadian-born composer of Hungarian and American descent. The cross-cultural angle plays strongly into her latest project for the omnivorous Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which hurtles themes of love and devotion through a particularly intense prism of influences and language.
The album's main course and most recent composition is The Debrecen Passion, a spiraling work for 12 female voices and chamber orchestra. A glimpse of any given moment exposes waves of Krzysztof Penderecki-like vocal clusters, pulsing chant, flurries of Baroque trumpet and sumptuous Late-Romantic orchestration.
It's an overwhelming plate of emotion and color – the music's subject matter is, after all, the Passion of Christ. Agócs filters and rearranges the story through lenses of Hungarian poet Szilárd Borbély, Kabbalistic prayer and ancient Latin, Hungarian and Georgian religious texts. But it's more than a sum of disparate influences. The Debrecen Passion is high-craft, high-drama music that, in certain ways, goes down like an old-school Hollywood score cut to fit the fast, ADD-inspired edits of modern television: think chase-scene drums against big-band orchestral statements, intensely unsettling a cappella drops and religious fervor at its most intense, all within a few bars... or at the same time.
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A Tribute to Borbély, a Poet of Our Time (Interview with Kati Agócs)
by Samuel Kjellberg
January 21, 2015
Kati Agócs, whose The Debrecen Passion comes to Boston Modern Orchestra Project this Saturday night, has been making quite an impression on the global music community. But beyond her extensive curriculum vitae and skill as a composer, Kati is also a warm and compassionate person, extremely self-actualized with a fluid ability to describe her experience.
This past weekend I was able to speak with Kati over the phone shortly after she had arrived from Minneapolis where she worked with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra. After speaking very highly of the compositional and rehearsal process with BMOP and Lorelei, her Guggenheim Fellowship and the commissioning group The Jebediah Foundation (with the help of Robert Amory), and applauding the incredible musicians involved (BMOP and the Lorelei Ensemble) she answered a few questions about her upcoming premiere.
SK: I have never heard of Szilárd Borbély before. Who is this poet?
KA: Ah yes, most people have not heard of Borbély yet in the West. He is well known in literary circles within Hungary, but his work hasn’t been translated that much yet, so he isn’t as well known here. I am sure he will be soon. Unfortunately, we did lose him in 2014, so he is something of a canonized contemporary within Hungary.
Would you be willing to explain your personal relationship with this poet? How did you discover his work and what effect has it had on your life?
Yes, so I found out about him through friends inside Hungarian literary circles. I was looking for a contemporary poet.... I just found it so hypnotic and so elusive; it just captured my imagination. I lived for months with his words and they suggested this sound world to me and it just hypnotized me both day and night. Of course I was working with it in the Hungarian language so the sound of the language had a lot to do with it. I found that by writing it, by setting it, I could really apprehend the poetry.
Composer-Performer Kati Agócs Intermingles Sacred And Secular In First Recording
by Keith Powers
January 21, 2016
Kati Agócs can best be described with hyphens. Plenty of them. As in Canadian-Hungarian, composer-performer, sacred-secular. Poly-interested perhaps as well, across the arts. And every hyphen is relevant to her music.
Which seemingly is everywhere. Like the just-out CD release of her works on BMOP/sound, “The Debrecen Passion.” Like the Hub New Music appraisal of her chamber music, Sunday, Jan. 24 at Jordan Hall. And, further afield, the two concerts featuring her work in Toronto in April, including the premiere of her first string quartet.
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New York-based Third Sound ensemble debuts in Old Havana
By Larry and Arlene Dunne
December 15, 2015
When American Composers Forum was invited by festival director Guido López-Gavilán to bring an artists delegation to the 28th Havana Contemporary Music Festival, it coalesced perfectly with ACF board vice-chair Patrick Castillo’s recent efforts to form a new performing ensemble with his wife, violinist Karen Kim. “We wanted to assemble a group of musicians whom we could trust with the broad sweep of chamber repertoire,” Castillo reports, “to take everything from Mozart to Schoenberg to stuff with the ink still wet equally seriously, with total curiosity, and absolutely kill it, no matter what the program.”
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Music Review: From BMOP, New Music with a Hungarian Accent
by Jeremy Eichler
January 25, 2016
Hungarian music, Liszt once wrote, “is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.” Saturday’s ambitious “Magyar Madness” program, presented by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, had representatives of both. It also had two alluring world premieres.
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BMOP’s “Magyar Madness” delivers rewarding range of music with two premieres
By David Wright
January 25, 2015
Effective writing for women’s voices–solo, and in trios and choruses—also characterized the evening’s other premiere, The Debrecen Passion by the Hungarian-American-Canadian composer Kati Agócs. Commissioned by the Jebediah Foundation for BMOP and the Lorelei Ensemble (a Boston-based group of nine female singers, increased to twelve for this performance), this ambitious, wide-ranging piece bore the date 2015 in the program, making it the newest of new music, maybe even a wet-pixel premiere.
The word “passion” in the title might lead one to expect a retelling of Christ’s Crucifixion. While not attempting that, the new work did aim for emotional and spiritual ties to the great choral works of that name by Schütz, Handel, Bach, and many others, as it set poems on love and lamentation from ancient sources and by the poet Szilárd Borbély, who lived in Debrecen, Hungary’s second largest city, until his death last year.
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Last came the other premiere, The Debrecen Passion by Kati Agócs, a Canadian of half-Hungarian-extraction who now teaches at New England Conservatory and has garnered a good deal of attention. Her work is not a passion in the sense of the oratorio-sized works of Bach and other Baroque composers, or in the revived style of Penderecki’s, but is a setting of seven lyric-sized texts, three by Hungarian poet, novelist and literary historian Szilárd Borbély (1964-2014; he committed suicide in Debrecen, where he had lived and worked), two contemplations of Mary, one Latin the other Hungarian, one Kabbalistic prayer and one medieval Georgian hymn. In these settings Agócs examines passions of several sorts, the fragility of love, the greatness of God, and, oh yes, the death of Jesus. In the panel discussion, Agócs said that her funding source, the Jebediah Foundation, had given her carte blanche to create as big and as long a work as she felt like, and this 20-plus-minute piece (her longest to date) is fitted out with impressive orchestral forces, plus the Lorelei singers. While far from inaccessible, her writing is intricate and layered. Much of the choral treatment draws on earlier Ligeti techniques of “micro-polyphony,” densely packed, close dissonant harmony that, in the vocal writing, sounded ravishingly beautiful.


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As if the negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement aren't tough enough and chock full of issues where the NFL owners and players stand on polar opposite sides. Now it appears that the owners may be insisting that HGH testing be included in the new agreement. With all the testing already in place for performance-enhancing drugs, HGH testing was never part of it, mainly because the other tests are all urine-based, while HGH testing must be done through blood draws.
The players have always balked at having their blood tested, and this news is surely not going to make their ability to work out a new deal any easier. HGH is produced naturally by the body and therefore, is tough to detect unless the hormone count is unusually high according to what is considered normal therapeutic levels. HGH can make a person build muscles faster and bigger, as well as improve a person's general well-being. It is also widely hailed as an anti-aging drug based on its reported various benefits, although the medical community is split about the long lasting possible negative side-effects.
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Kaytranada 10/6 @ Concord
Electronic producer Kaytranada is known for putting out chill, soulful music that also incorporates the wonky beats of hip-hop and R&B. He played Chicago earlier in the summer at the Mamby on the Beach music festival, and will be at Concord Music Hall in early October.
His debut album, 99.9%, was released earlier this year and received praise for collaborations with artists such as Vic Mensa, AlunaGeorge and Anderson .Paak. He is well-known for tracks like “GLOWED UP” and “DRIVE ME CRAZY.”
Apart from his musical talent, he brings an alluring, goofy charisma to his live performances.
GRiZ 9/12 @ Navy Pier
Grant Kwiecinski can do amazing things with his saxophone. The future-funk artist, more commonly known as GRiZ, will be at Navy Pier, one of Chicago’s largest venues, on Saturday, November 12th.
Known for tracks like “Good Times Roll” and “A Fine Way to Die,” the Detroit native will be travelling the States on his Good Will Prevail tour, supported by openers Louis Futon, Brasstracks, Haywyre and more. He visited Chicago earlier this summer for a set at Lollapalooza, gracing the audience with an unforgettable performance.
His music is sure to appeal to a variety of music tastes – jazz, EDM and funk – but one thing’s for sure, it will certainly get you dancing.
Louis the Child 9/26 @ Metro
Robby Hauldren and Freddy Kennett, both recent graduates of New Trier High School in Winnetka, have accomplished more by their freshman year of college than most of us probably did. The electronic music duo first gained popularity when their track “It’s Strange ft. K. Flay” received support from Taylor Swift and Lorde, and even performed at Northwestern in 2015 for a fundraising event hosted by Zeta Beta Tau.
Since then, they’ve released many popular remixes of songs by Zella Day, Miike Snow and Ty Dolla $ign. They’ve toured with Big Gigantic, performed at Coachella and have their own tour lined up for the fall.
The duo loves playing their hometown, opening for Lido in late 2015, hosting their own show at Lincoln Hall in March 2016, playing a set at Lollapalooza and even making a surprise appearance at Mad Decent Block Party when performer Oshi dropped out at the last minute.
Their first show at the Metro sold out quickly, so they added a second show for the night before. Grab your tickets quickly before it sells out again!
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A debut novel set in 1944 war-torn Czechoslovakia amid the extreme privations of a prisoner of war camp. Based on a true story, passion, heroism and a love that transcends overwhelming odds.
Maggie Brookes is an ex-journalist and BBC TV documentary producer, turned poet and novelist. She's also an associate professor at Middlesex University, and an advisory fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. The Prisoner's Wife is based on a true story told to her in a lift, by a World War II prisoner of war. Maggie visited Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany as part of her research for the book, uncovering largely forgotten aspects of the war. Although the story can be harrowing at times, it's also about the power of friendship and of love.
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Minister accuses Pakistan Army of killing Benazir Bhutto
A Pakistani minister was dismissed yesterday after alleging that the Army killed Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister.
Abdul Qayum Jatoi, a junior minister for defence production, was speaking at a news conference in Quetta, where he was visiting the family of Akbar Bugti, a former governor of Baluchistan who died in an army operation in 2006. The minister said that it was the Army’s job to defend the country and not to assassinate political leaders.
“The Army killed Bugti and Benazir Bhutto,” he added.
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I’m great now – “The magical experience of the Arena gave me the right determination to better face the operation and the announcement of the live shows in Milan and Rome spurred me on to rehabilitate. A heartfelt thanks to Professor Fussi who with all his experience and professionalism followed me along this path “continued the artist. Reassuring the fans: “Now I’m really great! So I can’t wait to go back to singing with all of you”.
Live nel 2022 – Francesco Gabbani will return live in 2022 for two dates: May 6 in Assago (MI) at the Mediolanum Forum and May 8 in Rome at the Palazzo dello Sport. The singer is also working on an unreleased track that will be released on radio and digital platforms in September. It is a song that will show, once again, his great ability to play, with irony, with words. The song will be part of his new recording project, his fifth album of unreleased songs currently in production.


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'We'll make you bleed': Queen's University investigating racist and homophobic note posted inside dorm
WARNING: This story includes language that may be offensive to some readers
Queen's University is investigating a racist, homophobic and violent message posted inside a student residence building where some Indigenous students reside.
The note, written in the form of a poem, was addressed to "Chown Four," referencing the fourth-floor dorms at the university's Chown Hall residence. It was attached to the door of a common room, Queen's said, and found Thursday morning.
CBC Toronto has seen a copy of the note, which contains several epithets directed at Indigenous and LGBTQ students, such as the word "f---ots."
"We took your flags and you wailed and cried," it reads. "We'll scalp you all.… We'll make you bleed."
The fourth floor at Chown Hall is designated as an Indigenous & Allies community area, which includes about 50 Indigenous students and others with an interest in Indigenous culture.
Queen's University and Kingston, Ont., police are investigating the incident.
In a statement, principal and vice-chancellor Patrick Deane called the note "a cowardly violation of human rights and the dignity of individuals."
Deane said the note was immediately removed. The university has also sent support staff to assist students at the dorm, which is home to around 200 students.
"Queen's has worked hard — and continues to work hard — to support and implement a wide array of initiatives aimed at increasing diversity and inclusion and combatting racist hatred. Clearly there is more work to be done," Deane's statement continued.
The director of the Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre, an organization that provides services for Indigenous students at Queen's University, said the note clearly targeted Indigenous and LGBTQ students at the dorm.
"I think it's disgusting, I think it's horrific and I think it's not acceptable," said Kandice Baptiste. "It was intentionally written to make the strongest impact and to cause the most harm."
"A lot of the Indigenous students I spoke to yesterday were feeling like 'This is why I didn't want to join this floor, because then maybe I'd be a target,'" she told CBC Toronto.
After the note was removed, the student association performed a smudging ceremony at the residence.
Queen's is asking any students with information about the incident to contact campus security or police.

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Christmas is a time for tradition – presents, decorations, carols, and mince pies. But what better tradition to celebrate than the Christmas movie? Join The Hollywood News for the Movie Advent Calendar – a film each day ’til Christmas. For the full Advent Calendar so far, click here.
Will Ferrell. Just that name should give you a good idea of where this is going already. ELF may be crazy, a little silly and beyond bizarre in places but this Ferrell-led comedy seems to have staked a place in the heart of Christmas.
The story is that as a baby, Buddy the Elf (Ferrell) crawled into Santa’s sack and accidentally grows up at the North Pole, working in Santa’s workshop and believing he is an Elf who’s just slightly different to all the other Elves. One day when he finds out that he is actually human, Buddy goes off to New York to find his real father who is played by a rather mardy James Caan, a children’s book publisher called Walter Hobbs who’s in dire need of some Christmas spirit.
The whole opening of the film is a homage to American Christmas films of time gone by, an innocent look into animations such as RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER (1964), and ELF even includes a cameo of Sam the Snowman from that classic who was originally voiced by Burl Ives, an absolute legend from the 1950s and 60s film era who starred in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and much more.
ELF is directed by Jon Favreau who is the force behind the mighty IRON MAN. Here Favreau unravels a jaunt of insanity with little focus on a balanced narrative but none of that really matters. Watching a man dressed in green tights and a pointy hat as he tries to adapt to city life is simply an absolute guilty pleasure. There is a glut of visual and physical comedy gags, the type only Ferrell – the man with comic bones – can achieve effectively and they work brilliantly.
Buddy the Elf is an outcast in a world that doesn’t care and continually happy in own little Elf-like world, gibbering on frantically about the North Pole, Santa Claus and although he’s convincing the majority that he may be a little insane… they all begin to be captivated by his charm and definite likeability.
The latter half of the film cracks the whip at the classic ‘Santa saving Christmas’ tale. It takes the literal approach that Christmas spirit needs to be collected in order for Santa to exist. By inspiring people and making them truly feel that Christmas spirit then Santa Claus, Father Christmas and what other names you wish to give him can actually be real.
ELF is another one of those classic ‘fish out of water’ tales that we’ve all encountered. It also stars the lovely Zooey Deschanel (the girl with a singing clause in her contract? We think so!) as love interest Jovie, Mary Steenburgen as the wife of Walter Hobbs trying to cope with the madness and the legendary Bob Newhart as Papa Elf.
ELF deserves to be on the Christmas list because it is daft, carefree and once again really has something special adding to that warm glow of the Christmas spirit in this child-like and innocent adventure.


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Society for Environmental Information Sciences
Environmental Informatics Archives
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Paper EIA06-038, Volume 4
(2006), Pages 419-426
The Three Gorges Project and Eco-Environmental Monitoring System
H. C. Dai1,3*, L. L. Wang2 and R. S. Wang3
1. College of Civil & Hydroelectric Engineering China Three Gorges University, Hubei Yichang, 443002. *Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.org.
2. Hohai University, Nanjing, JiangSu 210098.
3. China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corp. Yichang Hubei 443002, China.
The Three Gorges Project (TGP) on the Yangtze River is the largest water resources project in the world, major environmental benefits will be produced on the middle and lower basins of the Yangtze Rive, such as effectively control the flood and providing huge quantity of clean electrical energy. Whereas the main negative impact will be exerted at the upper reaches. Such as the large amount of farmland inundated and large number of population relocated. This paper introduces briefly the largest eco-environmental monitoring network in the world-- eco-environmental monitoring system of the Three Gorges Project (TGP) in Yangtze River. Based on analysis the eco-environmental monitoring data in latest years, some main effects are summarized as follows: it affects on local climate; affects on temperature and quality of water; influences on plant and animal resources in the reservoir area; influences on aquatic life; affects on earthquake and landslide; affects on human health; influences on natural scenery and historical relics; influences on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze; influences on the Yangtze Estuary and its adjacent sea areas. But all these effects are not serious. By a long-term monitoring and studying on eco-environment of the Yangtze River and the TGP’s reservoir area, it gives a forecast of what may happen of the TGP’s eco-environment in the future. That is to say, Favorable effects are mainly in the middle reach of the Yangtze; adverse effects are mainly in the reservoir area. But some latent effects are still not clear at present. According to the main negative impacts on the eco-environment, some countermeasures are suggested for the implementation of the TGP. It should work out a resettlement scheme for the Three Gorges Project; it is urgently necessary to take effective measure to carry out extensive soil conservation work in the upper reach and the reservoir area; it should establish certain natural preserves and national parks to protect important natural resources and historical relics, and proclaim relevant regulations; it should strengthen environmental protection and carry out development-oriented resettlement; in the design and operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir full consideration should be taken for the ecological and environmental demands below the dam; Continued effort should be made for some ecological and environmental problems needing further clarification.
Keywords: TGP, Eco-Environmental, environmental protection, monitoring
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While you may be aware safety Alohi Gilman was selected by the Bolts in the sixth round of the 2020 NFL Draft, here are some facts you may not know about No. 32.
Growing up in Laie, Hawaii, Gilman has been surfing since he was three years old. Now that he's going to be living in Southern California, he's eagerly looking to checking out what the surf out here has to offer.
"My family is a water family and I learned at a young age how to surf. I love the water and feel at peace anytime I am in the water. I will definitely be checking out the surf in California."
"Shoutout to Those Chickens"
Gilman said when he was growing up in Hawaii, he was raised without TV or electronics.
So along with surfing, what did he do instead?
"I was raised outside catching stray chickens."
But what he used to do to pass time ended up benefitting him in the long run.
"Maybe that's why I am fast and quick? Thank you to those chickens (that) I'm able to play at a high level. Shoutout to those chickens."
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"My only offer out of high school was Navy."
Gilman attended Navy his freshman year but decided to transfer to Notre Dame right after. The lack of offers coming out of high school is something that fueled him throughout college and still does to this day.
"I've been under-recruited and (was an) under the radar athlete coming out of high school. It gives me a chip on my shoulder. My chip is only bigger now."
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Gilman comes from a tight-knit family, has seven siblings and takes immense pride in his heritage.
"A lot of people don't know about Polynesian cultures. My family comes from Hawaiian descent (but) I am not talking about being from Hawaii. I am talking about my blood, ethnicity, my ancestors."
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esidents of Chitroo Dangerpora in Central Kashmir Budgam District Saturday protested against PMGSY for failing to macadamize and repair roads from the past five years.
Residents have alleged that authorities never pay interest into their requests.
The residents of the village said that the road is in dilapidated conditions as the stretch has not been repaired since long.
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“We took to the streets a number of times to press for our demands but all in vain as the concerned failed to take any step in this regard,” the locals said, adding that they also approached the concerned authorities several times in the past but no steps were taken to redress their demands.
“Locals apprised the PMGSY department about the bad condition of these roads but they did nothing,” they said.
However, concerned EXEN PMGSY told Good Morning Kashmir that a tender in this regard has been already issued and assured that the work on the said road will be started from next month.


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If you’re looking for a quick and a ridiculously-easy recipe for a dark chocolate dessert that is: (a) vegan; (b) free of refined sugar; (c) healthy(ish); and (d) devillishly-decadent – your search stops here with this eggless dark chocolate pudding. Rustled up in an instant, what results is nothing short of magical bliss. Rich and gloriously-intense, this pudding is set apart by a smooth, velvety finish.
Key Ingredients For Making This Healthy Pudding
- Cocoa/ cacao powder and your bittersweet chocolate of choice.
- Oat mylk (you could use another plant-based mylk but the taste would be different)
- Cornstarch to thicken this vegan pud to a creamy consistency
- Demerara sugar for its caramelly undertones (you can use cane or coconut sugar if you prefer)
- More chopped dark chocolate and fine sea salt to finish for garnishing
Healthy(Ish) Eggless Dark Chocolate Pudding
All you need is five ingredients and fifteen minutes of your time to rustle up this deliciously-decadent yet healthy-ish pud. Not only is it vegan, but it's free of refined sugar too! The starring factor? Creamy oat milk!
- 2½ tbsp dark brown Demerara sugar (alternatively you can use cane sugar/ coconut sugar etc)
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder/ raw cacao powder
- 1 tbsp cornstarch (alternatively, you can try arrowroot powder)
- 55 gm bittersweet dark chocolate, chopped / dark chocolate chips
- 1 cup oat mylk (store-bought or homemade; see recipe notes for a simple guide to making your own oat mylk at home)
- ½ tsp vanilla extract (I use Sprig’s Natural Extract of Bourbon Vanilla)
- Sift the Demerara sugar, cocoa powder, cornstarch and sea salt into a medium saucepan. Stir together and slowly pour in the oat mylk (in ½ cup increments), whisking together until evenly combined and smooth.
- Continuously stir the mixture on medium-low heat using a silicone spatula until simmering and the pudding thickens nicely, coating the back of the spatula (if you feel the pudding is cooking too fast, reduce the heat).
- Once simmering, quickly stir in the chopped chocolate/ chocolate chips and give it a good whisk until melted and the pudding is thick and richly-smooth.
- Remove from heat and mix in the vanilla extract.
- Divide the pudding into individual serving bowls/ ramekins and sprinkle over finely chopped chocolate and a touch more sea salt. Serve warm or cold.
- If refrigerating, cover the bowls with a cling-wrap such that the cling-film is touching the pudding (this prevents any skin from forming atop the pudding). The pudding thickens even more as it chills.
How to make oat mylk at home: Blitz oats, water and vanilla extract for 30 – 45 seconds until well combined. Don’t over-blend as this can result in a “slimy” texture of mylk. Strain through a cheesecloth to leave behind the pulp (you can strain twice if needed). This recipe makes a few extra cups, so you can store the leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge; it should stay fresh for a few days.
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Where did the rest of the year go? It’s already time to start thinking about Halloween! Around 172 million Americans celebrated Halloween last year, with just under 70% of them actively giving out candy. The holiday is loved across the nation by children and adults alike.
It’s President Day today. We have had 45 presidents from the day George Washington stepped forward to receive the call. Can you name all 45?
Today – February 02 – is Groundhog’s Day. The day we test using groundhogs on whether spring will be coming soon. Or whether winter stays with us.
All of us have our varying Christmas holiday traditions. Some of the these traditions are very common among most of us. These include the fireplace stocking – the poinsettia – gingerbread house – and more. Where did these traditions come from?


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Once upon a time, rock n roll was about bad dudes singing about bad shit, and it was very, very bad for you. One of my formative images was punk progenitor Iggy Pop stage-diving onto a field of shattered glass. The dude rose slowly, like a demon out of ooze, gushing corpuscles and grinning like a ghoul. I was 13. It was fucking great. But somewhere along the highway to hell, rocks nihilists O.D.d, grew up, or sold out. Iggy Pop made a commercial for Motorolas ROKR phone with Little Richard. Whatever evil once existed in rock got sucked up by gangsta rap. Itd be easy to blame Dan Zanes for all of this, but its not that kind of piece and hes not a bad dude. What he is is the former leader of the cult-fave band the Del Fuegos, which had a couple/three-year spin as a critical darling in the mid-1980s. When the ride ended with a shriek of the brakes, as critical-darling deals inevitably do, Zanes effectively retired, settled down, had kids. Kids. Ugh. The kiss of death. Well, used to be. Today, they rule the roost, the little bastards. If Zanes didnt invent the term kindie rock, the music hes been making for his own Festival Five label since 1999 embodies it. Many kindie rockers are like Zanes: former or still-extant real rock musicians who discovered that writing for a childs sensibility is as, or more, rewarding than the real thing and who pursue the new muse with their own boutique labels, home studios, and Internet-savvy distribution. Other artists whove set up housekeeping in the K-R realm either as permanent residents or esteemed guests include Laurie Berkner (the so-called Ani DiFranco of the under-10 set), They Might Be Giants (Here Come the ABCs), Lisa Loeb (Catch the Moon), Devo (Devo 2.0), Justin Roberts (Meltdown), Jack Johnson (the Curious George soundtrack), and Medeski, Martin & Wood (Lets Go Everywhere). As Kenny Curtis, director of children's programming at XM Satellite Radio, told Salon.com, "It's becoming more mainstream more chic, actually to do music for kids. We always make the joke that it's amazing what happens when rock stars have kids." Matt Pryor (pictured) has three of the little imps, and having them actually changed his life in more than the usual, having kids changed my life kind of way. The Lawrence, Kansas, musician spent a decade fronting the much-beloved postpunk group The Get Up Kids, but having flesh-and-blood children spurred him to put the big Kids to bed for good. However, Pryors still tightly linked in to his other group, the New Amsterdams, and splits his time writing bright, radiant alt pop for adults and bright, radiant head candy for kids with his side-side-project, The Terrible Twos. His latest platter for the latter, Jerzy the Giant, was released at the end of July, in the acclaimed wake of 2007s If You Ever See an Owl. The other members of New Amsterdams also perform as The Terrible Twos, and other than a subtle context, youd be hard-pressed to differentiate between a regular New Ams song and one like the lovely Lady Bug, off Owl. Says Pryor, I dont consider myself a childrens artist. Im just an artist who made some music children like. My initial wave of inspiration was just to do something different, something fun that thered be no expectations for. And then I started thinking about all the childrens music my kids were listening to and how a lot of it really wasnt very good. I just wrote what I liked, and as it turned out, my kids liked it, too. Me, three, though I gotta say I miss those oozing demons and gushing head wounds. Maybe somebodyll skin a knee. Following his performance with The Terrible Twos, Matt Pryor joins Chris Conley of Saves the Day for an all-ages big kids show; the doors for that separately ticketed performance open at 7 p.m.
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We love technology. Apple brings out a new cellphone and there are lineups around the block.
Yet, when it comes to technology and agriculture, the same people that stand in line for the latest phone seem to want to go back to the technology of 1950.
We had pesticide-free, grown without fertilizers, and non-GMO agriculture in Canada once. The result was an environmental disaster, with the soils of Saskatchewan blowing into Ontario and year after year of crop failure.
During the current federal election campaign, governments are under pressure from many activists to move away from science and risk-based regulations to limit the adoption of agricultural technology.
As governments have become more urban, most of today’s politicians lack an inherent understanding of agriculture and need to be reminded what the industry means to the Canadian economy.
The Advisory Council on Economic Growth (Barton Report) recognized agriculture and agri-food a key driver of the Canadian economy, establishing the goal of increasing the value of our exports to $75 billion by 2025.
We will not accomplish this goal unless Canada is at the forefront of defining an international regulatory environment that has a foundation of sound risk-based science.
Farmers across this country depend on access to international markets for their livelihood. If countries are free to set up trade barriers in response to the latest internet fad, farmers will soon find themselves without any markets to sell into.
There is pressure within some of our trading partners to move away from science-based regulations.
For example, we see non-science, and at times politically motivated, regulations on plant technology. Existing and emerging European pesticide regulations not based on appropriate risk models are limiting trade.
Canada should become a leader in countering these trends through the adoption and promotion of risk-and science-based rules of trade.
This will require changes to our domestic regulations on plant technology and farm inputs.
A survey of Canadian plant breeders indicates nearly half alter or scale-back their research because Canada’s regulatory system has not adjusted to new techniques, like gene editing. When plant breeders pull back on innovation, Canada loses out on opportunities to develop small and medium technology businesses and to open up the opportunity to deliver a broader selection of food products to consumers. Holding back innovation also makes Canadian farmers less competitive.
Pesticides are an important component of modern agricultural practices that allow Canadian farmers to reduce fuel use, increase soil health, reduce erosion, and sequester carbon.
Preventing farmers from using these tools because of pressure from activists and without science- and risk-based analysis has unintended negative environmental and economic implications.
To counter these pressures, Canada must extend the mandate of agencies and departments to include the promotion of science- and risk-based trade.
New resources should be allocated across the whole of government, including departments like Agriculture Canada and Global Affairs Canada as well as regulatory agencies like the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency.
Here are four questions that every candidate and party in the current federal election should face:
- Does your party support modern Canadian farmers’ access to new plant breeding techniques and will your party review Canadian regulations to ensure that Canada can become a destination of choice for plant breeding innovation?
- Will your party commit to making additional resources available to regulatory agencies to allow them to meet the growing need for sound science and risk-based decision making?
- Will your party commit to explicitly extending the mandate of regulatory agencies and departments to include the promotion of science- and risk-based trade?
- Will your party commit to challenging regulations brought forward by our trading partners when they are not science and risk-based?
Cam Dahl is president of Cereals Canada.


“This legislation concerns the need to release military documents and photographs recovered in Iraq and Afghanistan. Specifically, the bill requires the Director of National Intelligence to make publicly available on an Internet website documents captured in Afghanistan or Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom...This press release makes three things evident about the release of the Iraqi WMD documents:
“By way of background, The Weekly Standard published several articles detailing a number of these documents and the information contained within them which “connect the dots” between Saddam Hussein and the training of Islamic terrorists....
“Many of the translated and analyzed documents were entered into a government database known as “HARMONY.” It is now four years since these documents were captured. I understand that previous requests to release information from the HARMONY database have been rejected or delayed. It is reasonable to assume that over the course of the last four years any actionable intelligence contained within these documents has already been exploited.
“It is imperative that documents captured in Iraq which highlight the connections between Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime and Islamic terrorists be released as soon as possible. These documents are increasingly necessary to help the American people understand both the reasons for our involvement in Iraq and the challenge of defending freedom and democracy.
“However, in the interest of national security, the bill permits the Director of National Intelligence to withhold making a document publicly available--provided he informs the relevant congressional committees of the justification for not disclosing the document.”
1. The sole purpose for releasing the documents was to bolster the Republicans and the Bush Administration politically, in the hopes that there might be something in one of the documents that could justify the Bush Admistration's discredited rational for the Iraq war.
2. The bill passed by the Republicans "required" the CIA to release the documents. (See S. 2408, Section 1, (a))
3. The bill made it bureaucratically cumbersome for the CIA not to disclose the classified Iraqi documents about WMD. (See S. 2408, Section 1, (b))
Let's take a look at the big picture. The CIA does not have a sufficient number of Arabic trained analysts. This is a documented fact. Besides, the CIA has more than enough on its plate just combing through intelligence reports in an effort to head off possible terrorist attacks. Then in an election year, into the overburdened CIA offices storm Republican law makers. The Republican Congress, with the full support of the Bush White House, forced the CIA to immediately devote precious Arabic-speaking manpower to review a veritable mountain of captured Iraqi documents related to WMD. Just how many Arabic language documents?
As many as one million documents in Arabic. On March 27 2006 the NY Times reported "...the director of national intelligence has begun a yearlong process of posting on the Web 48,000 boxes of Arabic-language Iraqi documents captured by American troops." At that time, only "600 out of possibly a million documents and video and audio files" had been "posted" on the public website.
The Republican Congress gave the CIA six months to review and post 48,000 boxes of Arabic language documents on the Internet. All this extra work for the CIA, in the vague hope that amidst the mountains of documents might be some evidence that could redeem the Republicans for having supported a war based on false pretenses. What the CIA opted for was a a quick and -- as as we found out today -- careless review. For the CIA managers, the only alternative to releasing the WMD documents was a bureacratic nightmare -- informing "relevant congressional committees of the justification for not disclosing the document." Because we are talking about 48,000 boxes of Arabic-language documents here, this alternative would have strained both CIA management and its Arabic resources. So CIA was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
This was not only Mission Impossible, it was Mission Unneccessary: The time and expertise of the CIA hijacked by Republicans in their vain hopes of unleashing a pack of conspiracy-hounds on the data; the bill was a desperate party's prayer that amidst a million classified Iraqi documents a nugget of support might be found for the US decision to go to war in Iraq. But Mission Impossible backfired. Instead, Republican lawmakers created the context in which the CIA -- charged with an impossible and unneccessary task -- made instructions for manufacturing atomic bombs available to the general public.
Update: The text from Santorum's Press Release -- quoted above -- was taken from the statement in which he introducted bill S. 2408 on the floor of the US Senate. You can read the draft of the Santorum bill here.