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The musical heritage of the Coptic Church, which springs from perhaps the oldest musical tradition in the world, had already begun to fade by the early twentieth century. However, mainly thanks to one monkish layman, authentic Coptic psalmondy survives to this day.
The chants rise and ﬂutter soothingly on the choir’s fine voices, neither very high nor very low, in mezzo forte tone. As the thirty-eight-year-old audio cassette whirls, the vowels of Coptic words, part of the liturgy of St. Basil, stretch on in constant melodic variation. The chants rise again, yet so effortlessly that they seem strangely poised and serene. They carry words for Christ on tunes once used to praise the gods of the pharaohs, in what remains of the pharaohs’ language.
The liturgy of St. Basil, used in Coptic Masses for all but the four great feasts of the year, was recorded for the first time by the late Dr. Ragheb Moftah, then-head of the music and hymns department at Cairo’s Institute of Higher Coptic Studies. For more than seven decades before his death in Alexandria at midnight on 16 June 2001, at almost 103 years old, Moftah also recorded dozens of hours of Coptic chants, both on cassette tape and on old-fashioned paper reels, while supervising the transcription of the liturgy for publication. Thanks mainly to Moftah, most of the musical heritage of the Coptic Church, which springs from perhaps the oldest musical tradition in the world, has been preserved.
A decade ago – a mere moment in the immense history of this heritage – the complete music of St. Basil’s liturgy, accompanied by its words in Coptic and translation into English and Arabic, was published by the American University in Cairo Press (AUCP). Amassed in a manuscript of 1,200 pages, the words and music of the liturgy had never before been published in a standardized form in their entirety. Their publication was the symbolic culmination of Moftah’s lifetime of work and a successful collaboration with then-Head of the Coptic Church Pope Shenouda III, then-Director of the AUCP Mark Linz and two scholars who devoted many years to transcribing the musical notations of these chants and hymns with Moftah. Dr. Margit Toth, a Hungarian, did the actual transcription, while Dr. Martha Roy, an American, transliterated the Coptic and Arabic words in Roman letters under the music. Although all these people played important parts, the force that made all this possible was Moftah – though he, like the rest, would probably have credited a higher power.
One of the most basic traditions in Coptic chant, for example, is that it is passed on orally by succeeding generations of blind cantors who are thought to hear more sensitively than sighted ones. The use of professional blind singers was apparently common in Pharaonic temples.
Crucial as the publications are, Moftah – whom the late Pope Shenouda III called ‘the father of hymnology’ – left an even greater legacy of recordings, for only these truly capture the soul of the music itself. He began doggedly gathering, recording and transcribing this ephemeral mass of material after meeting a young English ethnomusicologist named Ernest Newlandsmith, eighty-seven years ago. His own extraordinary longevity is dwarfed only by the age of his subject. Indeed, Coptic Church chant is the oldest liturgical music in the world. The music’s Christian origins are tied to those of the Coptic Church itself, which appeared with Saint Mark in Alexandria in roughly AD 45, but at least some of the church hymns are believed to be based on melodies used in odes to the Pharaonic-era deities of Isis and Osiris in their temples.
A number of Pharaonic elements have remained in Coptic music. One of the most basic traditions in Coptic chant, for example, is that it is passed on orally by succeeding generations of blind cantors who are thought to hear more sensitively than sighted ones. The use of professional blind singers was apparently common in Pharaonic temples. The famous hymn Kyrie Eleison may have descended from prayers to Aton, the sun god. And the techniques of vocalise and melisma (drawing out the sound of a single vowel or syllable for long periods, with either regular or irregular rhythm) in Coptic chant may have come from the hymns of the Middle Kingdom.
In its early days, the church discouraged the use of most musical instruments, but the harp (the Greek kithara or lyra) was allowed. Gradually cymbals, drums, ﬂutes and clarinets were used, as was the sistrum, a primitive rattle sacred to the goddesses Bastet, Hathor and Isis in former times. All these devices had been common in Ancient Egypt. New instruments appeared as well. A kind of bell, the naqus, struck with an iron rod, was a special Coptic invention and perhaps served as the prototype for the bells adopted by the Latin Church in Rome. Early in the Christian era, the Egyptian harp also appeared in Europe – first in Ireland, then Italy. Eventually, the harp became Ireland’s national symbol and one of the most popular instruments on the continent. By the modern era, the Coptic liturgy had become almost entirely vocal. Today, only two instruments are (sparingly) used – small hand cymbals called sagat, and the metal triangle, the trianto or muthallath. Percussion instruments such as these were frequently featured in certain basic rituals in Pharaonic temples. In an undated pamphlet entitled The Music of the Coptic Church, Moftah explained, ‘Coptic music is entirely vocal and must be sung without harmony, since the keys to this music cannot be adapted to the harmonic system … It must, also, be strictly unaccompanied, because the vocal chords are the only instrument which can truly render the real character and special expression of this music’. The music’s Pharaonic roots are also found in the Coptic language, the last phase of the language of Ancient Egypt. Coptic was spoken widely in the country until at least the eleventh century, but Coptic and Greco-Coptic liturgy survived even longer. And while Arabic began to replace the older tongues in recent centuries, the music’s core has remained largely unchanged. A rival with ancient Egyptian melodies, however, was early Jewish music, which in Egypt may have been inﬂuenced by the music in the pagan temples. The chant, ‘khouab, khouab, khouab’ (Coptic for ‘holy, holy, holy’), among others, may have come from this heritage.
While Coptic chant predates Islam, the work of Coptic cantors and the recitation of the Holy Qur’an probably inﬂuenced each other, and both share common elements with the ancient – and continuing – Jewish institution of master singers in the synagogue. Professional training for Coptic chanters did nottake place until 1850, under Patriarch Cyril IV. One of Moftah’s most important tasks
was the teaching of hymns and responses to aspiring church singers. Moftah instructed Coptic clerical students in the choir of cantors and deacons at the Music Division of the Higher Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo, from 1954–2001, and for many years at a summer school in Alexandria. He is said to have had an infallible ear for a wrong note and would correct anyone he heard straying from the traditional melodies and rhythms of the music. But how Moftah himself was drawn to the role of savior of this tradition can only be understood by knowing him and his own illustrious roots.
Born into an upper-class family in Faggala, Cairo on 21 December 1898, Moftah descends from a line of prominent figures in the Coptic community. One of them, Moftah’s great-great uncle Yussuf, received an imploring letter from Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt (1798–1801), attesting to his personal prestige across religious lines. Bonaparte asked Yussuf to use his inﬂuence over both the Copts and the Muslims in his quarter of El-Darb El-Was’ in Cairo to calm anti-French disturbances there in about 1799. Unfortunately, it is not known how Yussuf replied. Ironically, it was only during Bonaparte’s ill-fated expedition that the first attempts at transcribing the orally transmitted music of the Coptic Church into the Western notation system were made. This was done by Guillaume André Villoteau, who, in 1809, dedicated some five pages of La description de l’Égypte to the Coptic Alleluia.
Moftah’s ‘extremely elegant’ father, Habashi (who kept Napoleon’s letter in the family home), was an offcial in Egypt’s railroad company, and died in 1935. But Moftah said the greatest inﬂuence on his life – apparently more emotionally than intellectually – came from his mother, Labiba. They remained very close until her death in 1926. Luckily, Moftah said, though his father was strict and his mother indulgent, both his parents were very supportive of any career he might choose.
Of Moftah’s nine siblings, his brothers, grew up to be quite distinguished but his three sisters were more dramatic – sometimes daring, occasionally even formidable. Several years before activists Hoda Sha’arawi and Céza Nabaraoui dropped their face veils at the harbor in Alexandria in 1923, launching Egyptian feminism, Moftah’s oldest sister, Victoria, rode to school in a carriage without a head covering. At that time, even Coptic women used to cover their hair. Another sister, Farida – with the help of Sha’arawi and other prominent citizens – established the first orphanage for girls in Egypt, in 1912. Throughout her life, Farida wielded such inﬂuence over Moftah that he never dared address her by name, calling her simply ‘my sister’. A third sister, Blanche, married the prominent lawyer Kamil Sidqi, who became minister of finance in one of the Wafdist cabinets and was awarded the rank of pasha.
At an early age, Moftah found himself enchanted by the haunting music of the Coptic Mass. However, he first chose a more conventional career and left for Germany in 1919, where he studied agriculture in Bonn for four years. He returned to Egypt where, in 1926, he met someone who would change his life utterly. Newlandsmith, a clergyman’s son who composed music and played the violin, was just over fifty when he encountered Moftah while passing through Cairo en route to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Newlandsmith, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, was himself larger than life. A monastic eccentric for twenty years, in 1940 he married Maria Romero, a British diplomat’s daughter who reportedly believed her ancestors came from the lost continent of Atlantis. Described by his biographer as ‘a philosopher, a mystical theologian, a violinist, a composer, an author, a lecturer and a reformer’, Newlandsmith began to call himself ‘the hermit of Mount Carmel’ after his sojourn in Palestine. The sobriquet stuck, and in his later years it was often used in announcements for his many concerts and lectures.
On his return from Palestine to England, Newlandsmith stopped back in Egypt and again met Moftah. Finding they shared a love of religious music, Moftah saw in the ascetic Englishman a superior musical scholar. He invited him to stay on his houseboat on the Nile, at what is now the site of the Semiramis Intercontinental and Helnan Shepheard hotels, where they would undertake a great project together. Moftah proposed that they collaborate to notate the music of the Coptic Church, beginning with the liturgy of St. Basil.
With background rhythm from the River Nile and singing mainly by the great blind master cantor Mu’allim Mikha’il Jirjis al-Batanuni, the two men spent nine winters listening to these chants, day in, day out. Newlandsmith laboured to get it all down on paper, scribbling madly while sitting cross-legged in a corner on the ﬂoor. Meanwhile, Moftah, who paid all expenses, including Newlandsmith’s travel and living costs, recorded the music on paper tape reels.
Under Moftah’s guidance, Newlandsmith strove to strip away what he contemptuously termed ‘an appalling debris of Arabic ornamentation’ to get at the pure core of original Coptic psalmody. He declared that, ‘After piercing through this unfortunate outer cloak, the true Egyptian idiom emerged. The music is not Arabic, it is not Turkish and it is not Greek – often as these elements appear’. A true believer in the Pharaonic roots of Coptic incantation, Newlandsmith added, ‘It seems impossible to doubt but that this is ancient Egyptian. Moreover, it is great music: grand, pathetic, noble and deeply spiritual.’ Moftah and Newlandsmith were not the only ones worried about preserving the music’s integrity. When one cantor on the houseboat asked if it was dangerous to present this music in the potentially corrupting Western environment, al-Batanuni replied, ‘Do not fear my brother, no one in Europe could possibly sing it’!
Newlandsmith also had a great regard for his patron, Moftah, whom he described as a ‘highly cultured Coptic effendi’ and whom he credited as ‘the initiator of these extensive musical researches in the Near East’. He also saw Moftah as a bridge between nations, ‘a man of very remarkable gifts, a leading spirit in many of the higher reforms of Egypt and a thinker whose work in the near future may count for much in establishing a happier understanding between Egypt and the people of England’. What work Newlandsmith had in mind exactly is not known, but presumably it was about Moftah’s contributions to explaining the apparent link between ancient Egyptian and Western music.
In 1931, they stopped brieﬂy to return to England together. There they lectured on the glories of Coptic music – its first recognition in the West since it reached Ireland with Egyptian missionaries around the fifth century – at Oxford and Cambridge universities, among other places. Once, at Oxford, they had a special visitor in the audience – a young physicist named Albert Einstein. The lectures drew many notices in the press, which seized on the theme of Western music’s hitherto neglected Egyptian roots.
Moftah and Newlandsmith made their way back to Cairo, more determined than ever to finish the daunting enterprise. There were great successes and sadly missed opportunities as well. For a brief while, their work intrigued Béla Bàrtok, who visited Egypt in 1932 to attend a giant conference on Arab music sponsored by King Fouad. The great Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist corresponded with them before his arrival, promising to work with them when he came. Before they could begin, however, Bàrtok was called away to a more urgent project in Turkey and never returned. Despite this disappointment, by 1936, with Moftah’s expert organizing of the various singers, some sixteen volumes of music were transcribed. These include ‘special songs for the various feasts and fasts, and special songs reserved for high church offcials’ according to University of Utah ethnomusicologist Marian Robertson-Wilson, writing in the Coptic Encyclopedia. The liturgy of St. Basil, whose music Moftah describes as ‘plain, like Coptic painting and frescoes – simple and captivating and deeply spiritual’, was still a work in progress.
Devotion is what has kept Moftah going in his drive to preserve this complex and elusive music. As recordings did not exist, Moftah and Newlandsmith, followed by the German Hans Hickmann and the Frenchman René Menard in the 1940s, had to recruit singers to perform the same material over and over again in order to copy it properly. Often, there were many competing versions of the same songs, varying from subtly to vastly different. Finally, after Moftah established the music section of the Institute of Higher Coptic Studies in 1954 and began taping the songs on more modern equipment, it became easier to standardize the versions for transcription and for use in Holy Mass.
Moftah’s life went through many phases, though apparently undisturbed by the turbulence around him – from World War II, to the 1952 Revolution, wars with Israel and, finally, the uncertainty of peace. In his youth a dapper figure who loved the opera and dressing up, he gradually settled for simple clothes and an austere lifestyle. Though he wed Mary Gabriel Rizq in 1963, in the villa they occupied until his death, near the pyramids in Giza, ‘The marriage has never been consummated’, he said in 1997, ‘I just needed someone to look after me’.
For many years, Moftah was assisted by musical scholars Martha Roy and Margit Toth. Roy was ﬂuent in Arabic, Coptic and German and held a master’s in musicology from Columbia University, a subject she taught for some time at the Coptic Seminary in Cairo. Toth, now in her 90s, is the former head of the ethnomusicology department at the University of Budapest. The two women worked together on and off beginning in 1970, transcribing the music and transliterating the words. Moftah selected the songs while Roy, working with Anba Gregorios (who passed away in 2011), a renowned bishop, theologian and specialist in translating the liturgical texts, transliterated the Coptic, Greek and Arabic words into Roman script. Toth transcribed the music into the Western system of notation. Yet, after many years of complex collaboration, by the mid-1990s they were still unsure what would become of their work. Intricate negotiations to arrange publication with the AUC Press and the Church seemed to be bogged down in technical details until Moftah sought the help of his longtime friend Pope Shenouda III. When he learned of their plight, Pope Shenouda is said to have declared, ‘This music is the property of the church and not of any one man’. The patriarch proved to be the catalyst for the publishing and copyright agreements.
In 1998, the work culminated commercially in the publication of The Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St. Basil with Complete Musical Transcription, compiled by Ragheb Moftah, transcribed by Margit Toth, and edited by Martha Roy. Since 2006, this has been supplemented by a box of four audio CDs (purchased separately), both by the AUC Press.
Another admirer of Moftah’s work is James Billington, then head of the Library of Congress in Washington. In a May 1995 visit to Cairo, Billington threw a reception in Moftah’s honour at AUC. He called for Moftah’s legacy of recordings and the sixteen volumes he transcribed with Newlandsmith to be kept at the library, and to be added to his own pet project – a survey of the world’s musical heritage. ‘Your work is important not for the Coptic Church or Egypt alone, but all humanity’, Billington told Moftah. Later, Moftah signed agreements with the Library of Congress to preserve all of his collected recordings and transcriptions.
As a result, in addition to six audio cassettes of St. Basil’s liturgy recorded by Moftah before concluding his publishing work with AUC, he also provided the Library of Congress with recordings on forty-three reels of paper-based tape, including twenty-four containing the liturgy of St. Gregory, traditionally used for feasts of the Epiphany, Nativity and Easter. All forty-three were re-recorded and digitized for the Library of Congress at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and Billington has recently announced that they will all soon be available online through the library’s website.
In 1996–97, this writer conducted an oral history project with Moftah for the Library of Congress, in which I interviewed him and his niece Laurence in Arabic on videotape about his work. This effort and the recordings of Coptic music were both part of the Library’s World Heritage series initiated by Billington. Ragheb appeared happy in the sessions, and, in a return to earlier ways, always smartly dressed. His mind and memory were clear, his eyesight and hearing good, and his voice strong. He was even then a remarkably boyish man, with a wise face, features straight from an Ancient Egyptian wall painting and a highly infectious laugh.
Laurence, formerly head of the reference department at the AUC Library, where she is now Librarian Emerita and Consultant of Coptic Studies Collection Development, became involved in her uncle’s work in 1979. ‘I was inspired by the desire to prevent what happened to my Uncle Aziz [Ragheb’s brother] – whose four-thousand page opus in four volumes on Saint Mark vanished when he died – from happening to Uncle Ragheb’. She was determined to prevent Moftah’s work from going unrecorded and unprotected by copyright. To this end, she has served as his all-round assistant and advocate for the past eighteen years. With his agreements with both the AUC Press and the Library of Congress – the latter of which grants Moftah copyright to all the material on audio tape and to the music in Newlandsmith’s sixteen folios of transcriptions her mission seemed to be accomplished. Indeed, Laurence says that Ragheb succeeded in recording the entire still-living corpus of Coptic liturgical music. A total of fifty-seven of his audio-cassette recordings from 1954 to 1971 can be downloaded on a number of Coptic websites, such as www. coptichymns.net, www.coepaonline.org, www.suscopts.org, www.tasbesha.org, and www.copticheritage.org.
Yet there was a valiant postscript. Beginning in the mid-1990s, working quietly with ‘a very talented’ priest, Abouna Metthias Nasr, at his home, Moftah attempted to restore the liturgy of St. Cyril. According to Roy and Toth, the liturgy, which is used for Grand Friday (the Friday before Palm Sunday), was almost totally lost over the previous sixty-plus years due to the deaths of the last surviving cantors who knew this music. However, Ragheb was not satisfied with the result, ending the project when it became clear that not enough of the original melodies survived to complete it.
Despite these massive achievements, the question remains: Who will follow? Moftah himself thought that for the most part, his work was done. ‘I did what I was obliged to do, and it’s finished’, he declared at the end of one of our videotaped interviews. On Moftah’s 100th birthday, in 1998, Pope Shenouda III celebrated a mass in his honour that drew roughly a thousand persons to the Abbasiyah Cathedral. Tragedy struck at Moftah’s also-crowded funeral on 18 June 18th 2001. His eighty-four-year-old second cousin, Abdullah Moftah – a comparative youngster, and the family’s unoffcial historian – was struck by a car while leaving the cathedral. He died the next day.
Others have departed too: Anba Gregorios and Martha Roy both died in 2011. Pope Shenouda III left us in 2012, and Mark Linz – who retired from the AUC Press in 2012 – passed away on 9 February 2013.
Yet despite these losses, the music that Ragheb Moftah so lovingly saved from oblivion lives on, rising from the throats of cantors and choirs as it has from the days of the pharaohs.
All Photos from the Moftah family archives. Courtesy of Laurence Moftah .This article is based on (and updates) one that appeared in Egypt Today magazine, April 1997, by Raymond Stock © 1997–2008, and a later version that appeared in Turath: Egypt’s Heritage Review (Inaugural issue, February 2008).
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Pierre-Luc Dubois' trade request has the Blue Jackets in the NHL's spotlight
Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella's confirmation that Pierre-Luc Dubois 'wants out,' has fueled another round of trade chatter around the league.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Pierre Luc-Dubois and his fractured relationship with the Blue Jackets has become the topic du jour in the NHL, nestled on the tips of many tongues across the league landscape.
Dubois is not interested in staying with the Jackets long term, has indeed requested a trade and the league is now aflutter with thoughts on potential suitors, offers and interested teams, of which there appear to be many.
Meanwhile, the Blue Jackets have a season to contest and Dubois remains their top center. After a disappointing 3-1 loss to Nashville in the season opener Thursday, the Jackets have 55 games remaining — beginning with another game Saturday against the Predators — and there is no true sense of when the Dubois situation will be resolved.
“It’s a situation … it is,” said coach John Tortorella, who talked openly about it earlier this week on his weekly radio appearance. “It’s a situation and we’ll go through it day by day.”
That means dealing with trade speculation, which ramped up to a fevered pitch this week after Tortorella's comments.
As for what happens next, the short answer is that the 22-year-old Dubois remains a Blue Jacket until he isn’t one, likely centering the top line and biding his time.
General manager Jarmo Kekalainen made it clear during a season-opening conference call with reporters that he won’t be pressured into trading a player who is still in his restricted free agent years and doesn’t have a no-trade clause — meaning the only leverage Dubois would have in the process is to make it known whether he’d be willing to sign a long-term deal with a potential trade partner.
Otherwise, it’s up to Kekalainen to determine where and when to trade him — if he decides to at all before the April 12 deadline.
"When we acquire a player’s rights, we have them for a certain amount of time, from entry level to seven years forward or to the age of 27 … and then we make decisions on where they play," Kekalainen said. "Wayne Gretzky’s been traded, so anybody can be traded, but we decide where and when and with whom we make that transaction and we always do it with the Columbus Blue Jackets’ best interest in mind (for) the future.”
There reportedly is no shortage of suitors, with the Montreal Canadiens, Winnipeg Jets, Los Angeles Kings and Calgary Flames most commonly cited.
Montreal, near Dubois' hometown and where he lives in the offseason, is thought to be his preferred landing spot, but logistical issues tied to the U.S.-Canadian border could be a stumbling block.
For the Blue Jackets, finding the right deal is the key to when or if a trade happens.
An NHL source told The Dispatch this week that Montreal center Jesperi Kotkaniemi, the No. 3 overall draft pick in 2018, and defenseman Victor Mete were part of a package offered for Dubois. But other reports have said the Blue Jackets are more interested in the Canadiens' Nick Suzuki, a 21-year-old center taken 13th overall in 2017 by Vegas.
Kekalainen typically does not comment on trade speculation, so any progress in talks is difficult to gauge from his end. Others around the league, including agents and executives, are less secretive in their discussions with reporters or their peers.
"General managers talk about trades all the time and sometimes rumors start from there," Kekalainen said before training camp. "As far as I’m concerned, those conversations are always confidential and they won’t go anywhere else, but that’s the part of the business that we have to accept.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed its version of a $700 billion defense policy bill on Monday, backing President Donald Trump's call for a bigger, stronger military but setting the stage for a battle over government spending levels later this year.
The Republican-controlled chamber voted 89-8 for the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018, or NDAA, which authorizes the level of defense spending and sets policies controlling how the money is spent.
The Senate bill provides about $640 billion for the Pentagon's main operations, such as buying weapons and paying the troops, and some $60 billion to fund the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.
The 1,215-page bill includes a wide range of provisions, such as a 2.1 percent military pay raise and $8.5 billion to strengthen missile defense, as North Korea conducts nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests. It also bans Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs products from federal government use.
The House of Representatives passed its version of the NDAA at a similar spending level in July.
The two versions must be reconciled before Congress can consider a final version. A fight over spending is expected because Senate Democrats have vowed to block big increases in funds for the military if spending caps on non-defense programs are not also eased.
The versions of the bill increase military spending well beyond last year's $619 billion, defying "sequestration" spending caps set in the 2011 Budget Control Act.
Trump wants to find more money for the Pentagon by slashing nondefense spending. His fellow Republicans control majorities in both the House and Senate, but they will need support from Senate Democrats to change the rules and allow a bigger Pentagon budget.
Senator John McCain, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been shepherding the legislation through Congress as he undergoes treatment for an aggressive type of brain cancer.
Arguing for increased spending, McCain said more men and women in uniform are dying in avoidable training accidents than in combat. "Where's the outrage? Where's our sense of urgency to deal with this problem?" he asked before the vote.
Both the Senate and House rejected Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' plan to close more bases starting in 2021.
Despite partisan divides that have kept Congress from passing much major legislation recently, the NDAA has been passed for 55 straight years.
Trump has criticized parts of the NDAA, but has not threatened a veto.
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Jeffrey, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decides to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying. Written by
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John Chatterton believes correct weaning practices are vital for forming each young horses’ mental attitude for the future.
Many problems that horses have in later years are often related to incorrect and abrupt weaning practices. Most people comment when they wean their foal – “It doesn’t take long they just run around the yard\stable whinnying for a few days.”
I don’t think some ever get over it and grow up with psychological problems. They can appear to be calm while next to a paddock mate, but once separated become nervous, insecure, agitated, and some are even dangerous. I believe these horses have flash backs to when they were first separated from their mother.
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Coque Malla is the most chameleonic figure of the Spanish rock and roll scenery. He has proven this for the last thirty years. First with “Los Ronaldos”, an organic sound, associated to The Rolling Stones or Chuck Berry, later on with different genres, from pop to soul, to funk, to salsa, opening a world of possibilities.
And since 1999 he walks alone, without giving up his freshness and organic essence, whilst building a personal, ambitious and complex style.
For the album “Revolution?” he wanted to build a repertoire that contained all the musical genres, like Radiohead had achieved in their last record. According to Coque, that would be his starting point: “I wanted to mix great songs that I was writing, like “La señal” or “Me dejó marchar” -a sound similar to a classic Sinatra-, with what we had already incorporated, cords, a sound close to a soundtrack, but also danceable, electronic and noisy, a lot of guitar, although that has been more diluted.” He longed for an album that sounded current, modern and sophisticated.
Coque Malla will take “Revolution?” on stage “without complexes”, because the audience attends to listen to “songs, a story, an emotion, a melody, not the repairs” and, with the repertoire prepared, he announces that there will also be a lot of “Ronaldo” in reference to his debut album.


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by Marc and Julie Anderson
LEAWOOD — For seven years, Dan and Gretchen Carrigan of St. Michael Parish here have shared an unusual ministry: They provide marriage prep to couples in which at least one of the spouses-to-be has a child from a previous relationship.
The ministry was not something either ever anticipated doing; instead, the ministry literally found them after their first marriages ended in divorce.
Married in November 2014, the Carrigans’ love story began 10 years earlier with their first date. At that time, both had young children — Gretchen with three, and Dan, two — and they didn’t even tell their children they were dating until four years into their relationship. But those years were full of the families getting together often for meals and activities.
By the time they started their marriage prep, therefore, the couple had already navigated a lot of issues facing blended families.
Mike and Dorothy O’Boyle, a couple with a blended family themselves and members of St. Michael Parish, directed their marriage prep. At one of their sessions, the O’Boyles asked for participants to share their stories and/or ideas for successfully blending families.
“By nature of having dated so long, we had already navigated a lot of stuff,” Gretchen said. “We shared our story, and after that class, Mike and Dorothy reached out to us.”
Dorothy told the couple that their experience was instructive, and that if the Carrigans were willing, sharing it could benefit other couples.
The invitation resulted in the couples pairing up as the O’Boyles ministered to other couples who, like the Carrigans, were blending families in some way or another.
Although the O’Boyles continued to lead the courses, the Carrigans were there to share strictly from their own experience.
“We’re not experts. We’re not licensed, but we lived through it,” said Gretchen. “We can share what worked for us.”
Eventually, the O’Boyles decided to step back from the ministry and asked the Carrigans if they’d consider taking over. Now, for the past two or three years, the Carrigans have been one of, if not the only, lead couple in the archdiocese helping to prepare couples like themselves for marriage. And it’s a ministry they both said they find rewarding.
The Carrigans prefer a one-on-one approach, simply because it’s easier to tailor sessions to the couple’s specific needs. For example, they said, a couple with children in grade school is different from a couple in their 60s with grown children. To date, they estimate they’ve met with or mentored 50 to 60 couples.
“Every story is different,” Dan said. Blending families creates unique challenges — from navigating relationships with the ex-spouses and the children’s grandparents, to disciplining children or even developing relationships with adult children.
The Carrigans said successfully blending families depends on a solid marriage, one built on communication.
“Communication is key to everything,” Gretchen said.
The couple also have a saying — a motto of sorts — to guide their decisions.
“It’s God, spouse, then everyone else,” they believe. Which also means that they think a united front in any marriage is one of the keys to success.
“We communicated and agreed early that whatever decision we were handling with the children we would agree [on] behind closed doors and then not waver from that,” she said.
“Again, we don’t have all the answers, but we’re just being honest,” she added. “What worked for us may not work for somebody else, but if they could take away one thing that helps, then we’ve done our job.”
Both of the Carrigans said they feel called to their ministry and believe their story can help others realize they are not alone.
After their divorces, both were in unique positions within their own large Catholic families of origin, families in which no one had ever gotten divorced.
“My family loves me dearly, but they’ve never divorced or had a blended family,” Gretchen said.
And it can be tough.
Dan feels their mentorship of other couples like themselves has been appreciated by the couples they serve.
“They feel more comfortable because we’ve been through it,” he said simply.
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Mark Zuckerberg and his massive social-media site Facebook have come under strong criticism for allegedly suppressing stories of interest for conservative readers from its influential "trending" news section. Facebook has roughly 1.6 billion users worldwide, of whom 167 million are in the United States. Its "trending" topics feature is therefore a powerful political influence.
The anti-conservative curating bias was first reported by the tech blog Gizmodo. After that, a number of conservative outlets chimed in that the social-media giant has suppressed conservative views and related stories.
Zuckerberg has denied the charges, and he will meet Wednesday with a handful of conservatives to discuss allegations that Facebook's "news curators" have manipulated its list of stories.
Among the conservatives slated to attend the Zuckerberg meeting are Glenn Beck, Dana Perino of Fox News, Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute, senior Trump campaign aid Barry Bennett, and former Romney digital director Zack Moffat.
How these folks were picked for the meeting is anyone's guess. And what exactly is expected to come out of this meeting is unclear. It seems more like a public-relations gambit by Zuckerberg, who previously said Facebook will investigate all the conservative charges.
Curiously, last March, Zuckerberg gave a speech at a Facebook conference, where he blasted Donald Trump and his policies. Also curious, Hillary Clinton, by a wide margin, has received the bulk of political donations from Facebook employees in this election cycle.
According to Breitbart, data from the Federal Election Commission show that Facebook staff gave $114,000 to Hillary Clinton. The next closest recipient of political money was former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. He only got $16,604.
Tom Stocky, the head of the trending-topics section at Facebook, maxed out with an individual donation of $2,700 to Hillary Clinton. The Hill website found that roughly 78 Facebook employees — from engineering, communications, public policy, strategy, marketing, human resources, and other areas — donated to Clinton.
Meanwhile, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has tweeted, "Facebook must answer for conservative censorship." Senator John Thune (R, SD), who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, warned Facebook of the need for consumer protection and an open Internet, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, has sent a letter to Zuckerberg asking how the company chooses its trending topics and who is ultimately responsible. There are also a number of academics who have called for full transparency in the Facebook news process.
Of course, Facebook is a private company, and therefore is entitled to whatever political biases it holds. But given its gigantic size and scope and power over so many news readers, and considering the mounting influence of all the social-media outlets, this is a very serious story.
We'll see what comes out of Wednesday's meeting. But as the American proverb goes: Where there's smoke, there's fire.

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A mass power outage affecting nearly 40,000 customers in North Carolina’s Moore County is being investigated as a “criminal occurrence” after crews found signs of potential vandalism at several locations, authorities said.
Several communities across the county began experiencing power outages just after 7 p.m. Saturday, the Moore County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
“As utility companies began responding to the different substations, evidence was discovered that indicated that intentional vandalism had occurred at multiple sites,” the sheriff’s office said.
About 38,664 customers were without power across the county Saturday night, according to the Duke Energy outage map.
Crews were experiencing “multiple equipment failures” that are affecting substations in Moore County, Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks told CNN affiliate WRAL.
“We are also investigating signs of potential vandalism related to the outages,” Brooks added.
Moore County Sheriff’s deputies and officers from other law enforcement agencies responded to the different sites to provide security, according to the sheriff’s office.
Moore County is in central North Carolina, about 50 miles northwest of Fayetteville.

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A new Human Rights Watch report reveals the extent of the damage done by private probation companies and highlights the ways in which public officials have enabled the practice.
Herbert Smulls was pronounced dead four minutes before the justices in Washington denied his final stay. Did Missouri officials breach their ethical duties by permitting this to happen?
A death penalty case in Colorado has generated an unusual fight between a district attorney and two parents who oppose capital punishment against the man who murdered their son.
A Buddhist family has filed a lawsuit against Louisiana's Sabine Parish School Board for violating the First Amendment.
The folk singer, who has died at 94, had one defining feature: selflessness.
Inmates killed by lethal injection used to get a dose of sodium thiopental. But that drug is no longer available, and, in a blow to transparency, prison officials in Missouri and elsewhere won't say how it has been replaced.
The state is asking a judge to reconsider his epic ruling highlighting the abuse and neglect of mentally ill prisoners, claiming that the courts should stay out of the grim business of corrections.
In 2000, the state had the bright idea to privatize its probation services. The result has been unjust, unconstitutional, and entirely predictable.
In striking down Pennsylvania's ID requirement at the polls, Judge Bernard L. McGinley has given supporters of such laws in states across the country a reason to worry.
The government has spent the past 12 years sharply restricting communications from terror suspects. So how did a 36-page document by the self-professed mastermind of 9/11 go public?
The video shows two former police officers beating a mentally ill man into a coma. So why were they acquitted?
The Obama Administration last week warned against over-discipline in the nation's schools. An important new lawsuit in Georgia offers a glimpse of how high that cost can be for young offenders.
On civil rights, the Sixties actually started on February 1, 1960. And one of the four men who started it was Franklin McCain, who died Thursday at the age of 73.
A judge's order in an inmate abuse case highlights the role played, or not played, by the state's political and legal infrastructure.
Another multi-million-dollar bill comes due this year for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reckless antics in Maricopa County, Arizona. And that's why more taxpayers may finally be asking: Who keeps voting for this guy, anyway?
The biggest recent court decision you may have missed involved a proposed state law that would have put up a new hurdle for welfare recipients.
The big cases of 2014 may resolve some of the legal cliffhangers of 2013.
How to respond to an ubiquitous, and misleading, question about voting rights
Two recent rulings draw diametrically opposed conclusions about the same set of facts.
His profitable foray into art sums up so much of what's wrong with the nation's criminal justice system.


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Her identity is secret. Her destiny is incredible.
Tressa is a fae in hiding. Unable to fulfill her transcendent role in an ancient prophecy, she hides on her grandmother's estate in the Pocono Mountains. Tressa is content to work in her small shop and fake her humanity, but she knew she couldn't stay hidden forever.
When she uses her powers to protect a friend, strange things begin to happen all around her. The Unseelie are nearby, the enemy of Tressa's people, and they're coming for her. As the dark fae come closer, Tressa must use the powers she's hidden for so long to keep the people she loves alive.
Tressa's Treasures is the first book in a fantasy series based on Celtic mythology with a twist. If you like engaging plots, grownup love stories, and twists and turns, then you'll love Belinda Gordon's unique twist on faerykind. Although a first in series this book is a complete story and enjoyable on its own.
Buy Tressa's Treasures to see a faery find her destiny today!
About the Author
She is of Irish heritage, which is how she became interested in Celtic Mythology. She used the Celtic Mythology, specifically of Ireland, as the starting point of her Romance/Fantasy series, The King's Jewel.
Belinda also enjoys photography, fashion, music, dancing and a good mystery. You will find these influences throughout her writing.


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Interactions with the player character
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If the player completes one of The Nuclear Option quests, and synth Shaun is not left behind in the Institute, he will ask the player character to bring items (e.g. a hot plate) so he can 'take it apart' and in return will build useful items for the player character, such as weapon mods and the Wazer Wifle. Additionally, the player character can ask Shaun to live with them, and can send him to a number of locations, similar to a companion, although he is not able to be assigned to beds, like many other NPCs. He cannot be commanded to move throughout the settlement. He will stay within the confines of a small area (e.g. near the Minutemen Radio Operator in the Castle).
If the player instead completes the Nuclear Family quest, Shaun will be interactable and found within the Advanced Systems Lab. The player has the ability to choose where Shaun will live by talking to him. If you subsequently decide to move him to another settlement, it must be done via the workshop interface. Shaun will sometimes ask for all sorts of parts in order to build something.
Effect of player's actions
- After The Nuclear Option, if Shaun is not left behind in the Institute, upon meeting with the player character again and being interacted with, he will give them a holodisk named Shaun's holotape as instructed by Father, saying "I didn't listen to it, so I dunno what it says, but I think it's important." The holotape, recorded by Father, reveals that he re-programmed Shaun to believe that he was the son of the player character, and pleads with the player character, saying "I would ask only that you give him a chance. A chance to be a part of whatever future awaits the Commonwealth."
- If the player chooses the Nuclear Family option, they can still obtain the holodisk, but Father's speech will differ, still revealing that he reprogrammed Shaun and saying "Both he and you deserved a chance to... To be a family. Please, take care of him."
- Should the Sole Survivor leave Shaun in the Institute following the sabotage of the reactor, he will express shock and dismay, exclaiming, "I hate you!" as the Survivor departs. He stays behind and dies in the explosion when the reactor detonates.
- If the Survivor sides with the Railroad and chooses to abandon Shaun, Tinker Tom will say he will teleport Shaun out of the Institute and have the child taken care of (as the Railroad's main objective is to free all synths). Shaun does not appear in the game again.
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Kid's shirt and jeans (in Shattered/after The Nuclear Option)
- When moving Shaun to a new settlement; he will shut down on the spot, and be moved to his new home. There may be a delay from when he actually leaves the settlement.
- 从尚恩的对话中可以得知:他曾在不知道自己身份的情况下对人类与合成人的本质上思考了很久(although he sometimes wonders about "before this" and states that he can't remember the time he was a small child).
- 尚恩的发色与玩家的发色相同。This is because Shaun's appearance is based on the Player Character when they first started much like Father.
Shaun appears only in Fallout 4.
- Has platform::PC Has platform::Playstation 4 Has platform::Xbox One The player character may be unable to give Shaun the first junk item he asks for after speaking to him following the Institute ending. When attempting to interact with him after retrieving the item, he will speak, but there will be no options to give it to him.[已验证]
- Has platform::PC Has platform::Playstation 4 Has platform::Xbox One The player character may be unable to adopt Shaun if they choose the Nuclear Family ending. In addition if they are able to adopt him, they may not be able to move him to another location.[已验证]
- Has platform::PC Has platform::Playstation 4 Has platform::Xbox One It seems synth Shaun's speech is bugged, as he may address male characters as mom, as well as female characters as dad.[已验证]
- Has platform::PC Has platform::Playstation 4 Has platform::Xbox One Attempting to send Shaun to another settlement via the building menu can result in him shutting down as if someone had uttered his reset code. He will then remain standing there indefinitely, but during conversation his lips will still move. The only way to fix it is reloading an older save.[已验证]
- Has platform::PC Has platform::Playstation 4 Has platform::Xbox One The player character may be unable to talk to Shaun while exiting the Institute during the Brotherhood and Minutemen storyline. This will effectively cause the player to be stuck in the Institute with no way out. The solution is to load a earlier save, wait in the relay, until they are all done talking.[已验证]
- On PC, open the console. If on the Minutemen storyline, enter setstage MQ302Min 1720. If on the Brotherhood of Steel storyline, enter setstage MQ302BOS 1720. This will complete the objective "Talk to Shaun" and allows one to talk to Sturges to continue the quest.

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Our favorite summer dish? Gazpacho, of course! This famous cold soup of Spanish origin is great quick recipe to whip up after a trip to the farmers' market.
Andalusian gazpacho has a special place in our hearts. In general, we follow the authentic recipe but there are dozens of variations, each one just as delicious as the original.
The rules are simple: gazpacho is a blend of different vegetables that should be served cold. Some gazpacho recipes call for bread but others do away with it altogether, which is great for the gluten-free crowd.
ANDALUSIAN GAZPACHO - THE AUTHENTIC RECIPE
Tradition always wins and gazpacho is no exception. The original Andalusian version is a summer staple. It is made with simple but delicious ingredients that blend together beautifully: tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, white onion, garlic, breadcrumbs, red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper.
Another popular Spanish cold soup is ajo blanco. This white soup hails from the regions of Malaga and Granada and is made with almonds and garlic. Some consider it a variation of gazpacho while others see the soup as a completely different dish. Either way, it's incredibly flavorful.
From 28-30 October, join Fine Dining Lovers for a celebration of young culinary talent, when 12 global finalists will battle it out in Milan for the title of best young chef in the world - plus, join our first edition of Brain Food forum. See what's on.

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After four years, a stolen English Bulldog was given back to it's owner after a Police investigation involving a suspicious vehicle on Sunday evening on the 100 Block of South Access Road led to it's recovery.
When officers from the Longview Police Department responded to the call and arrived to the scene, the vehicle was gone.
However, police soon found the vehicle a short distance away in the parking lot of a local restaurant.
Officers found the man that was seen in the vehicle earlier, 33-year-old Cam Albert Robbins, of Union, Mississippi.
Police say Robins was walking to the vehicle unsteadily because he was intoxicated. He was arrested for Public Intoxication.
While an investigation was conducted, they discovered that the car was reported stolen on Saturday from Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Robbins was then given additional charges of Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, a State Jail Felony, and taken to the Gregg County Jail.
Police also found a dog on the front seat of the stolen car.
The dog was then taken to the Longview Animal Care and Adoption Center to be looked after until it could be determined who the dog belonged to.
Employees at the center figured out the dog was microchipped and learned that his name was Kane and his owner lived in Lone Star, Texas.
Officers were able to use social media, find the owner and reunite her with Kane.
The Longview Police Department encourages pet owners to microchip their pets. That extra step could mean the difference between getting your dog or cat back or losing them forever.

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From March 1 to April 2, 2021, take part in the Penn State Short Edition spring contest. Submit your short story or poem to have the chance to be published in our Penn State Short Story dispensers across the Commonwealth! Nothing is easier: read the rules below and submit your short story or poem.
Our spring contest theme is:
To be accepted, your short story or poem must be significantly tied to this theme and be vetted by our Short Edition Editorial Board.
Step right up for your ticket to a night at the circus. Wonder and spectacle await you underneath the big top, and the best part is… You’re the ringmaster! For this contest, the Editorial Board wants to be transported into a world of amusement, of slights of hand, and shadow play. The possibilities are truly endless with this theme. Stories of secret romance, thoughts of never fitting in, magic unfolding before one’s eyes, and what happens when the show’s over and everyone goes home for the night. You can write about all of that and more. We’ll be here with our popcorn and cotton candy, waiting for your entries on the edges of our seats.
Submissions for this contest will open March 1 and you'll have until Friday, April 2 to submit your story. As a reminder, submission lengths are:
Please review our full writing guidelines for more information.
The Editorial Board recognizes the problematic history of the circus (in regard to racism and ableism) and will take extra care in reading entries for this contest. Be sure to check the guidelines before submitting and review our page of resources as you start writing. Our resource page contains information on the historical context of the circus as well as how circuses today are striving for an anti-racist environment. Writers can write about these topics as long as they are acknowledging that they are not advocating for inequality in any way. The Editorial Board will not tolerate racism or any other type of bigotry in submissions.
Questions about this contest can be directed to Hailley Fargo, Student Engagement Coordinator, University Libraries at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Marbach, launched its digital zone levelling technology at drupa 2016. The product’s success was almost immediate: half a year later, over 100 die-cutting machines worldwide have been equipped with digital zone levelling. A strongly increasing trend. Marbach offers its product currently in 76, 102-106 and 142-145 format. More are already planned.
But what can this product do? Jan Brunner, Head of Marbach Business Development: “Digital zone levelling, levels out the height deviations of the cutting platen. So now there’s no need for any conventional area patching that previously had to be made for every single job. Once a digital zone levelling is set up, it lasts for months. And provides best die-cutting performance and short make-ready times for the operator.”
The customers that already work with digital zone levelling are excited. From international manufacturers for folding boxes through trade finishers to family-owned companies. They have all realized the advantages the Marbach product implies. Many started with one machine. And equipped further machines on the basis of those test results.
A leading German manufacturer of folding boxes uses digital zone levelling already in different plants: “We are happy with this product. Time-consuming patching, that we had to execute for every single job, is no longer necessary. And that is why our productivity has increased enormously.”
Digital zone levelling has also convinced a traditional family-owned US based company: “We can patch-up less with the new vetronite plate from Marbach. And the handling is super easy for us.”
How does digital zone levelling work? The operator makes an impression of the machine using a standardized procedure. Marbach then creates a new, modified cover plate for the make-ready sheet. Individually made for this machine. This levels out the height deviations of the cutting platen. So manual area patching of every single tool isn't necessary. Digital zone levelling ensures, together with the Marbach innovations magic sheet and mpower|+ die-cutting, next to no patching-up. For highest performance in packaging production.
Marbach opened its Marbach Academy in 2017. In its first year, more than 220 participants visited the training center in Heilbronn. And since then the number has been constantly growing. Marbach is training the industry in the die-cutting process.
An eventful year has come to an end for the cutting-die and thermoforming tool manufacturer Marbach. Marbach has a nice tradition of making donations at Christmas instead of giving presents to customers. When selecting recipients, it is important for the Marbach management to divide the money between internationally known and regionally respected institutions. Because the Heilbronn-based company is active all over the world .This year, Marbach has donated 7,000 euros to help in Burkina Faso and 3,000 euros to the protection against freezing to death by the Aufbaugilde Heilbronn.
The focus of Marbach is optimizing the performance of its customers. For this reason Marbach offers extensive services. In addition to training on the subject of die-cutting packaging, Marbach now also offers packaging services in its portfolio.


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Olivier Giroud scored from a stunning overhead kick to help Arsenal claim a hard-fought 1-0 win at Red Star Belgrade on Thursday.
Real Madrid are reportedly plotting a move to snap up teenage attacking prodigy Brahim Diaz from Manchester City next summer
Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City are reportedly keeping tabs on French under-17 international Lenny Pintor, who currently plays for Stade Brestois
Chelsea have reportedly set their sights on Christian Benteke, and are weighing up a move a January move for the Crystal Palace striker
Mathieu Debuchy is set to be handed a rare start by Arsene Wenger when Arsenal take on Red Star Belgrade in the UEFA Europa League on Thursday.
Chelsea managed to escape the match against AS Roma with a point, thanks to a brace from Eden Hazard to match Edin Dzeko's tally for the match.
Manchester United consolidated their position at the top of Group A in the UEFA Champions League as they Benfica 1-0 at Estadio Da Luz on Wednesday.
Arsenal will look to continue to their perfect start to the Europa League campaign when they face Red Star Belgrade on Thursday.
Alvaro Morata returns to the starting eleven, having recovered from his injury as Chelsea face AS Roma in Group C of the UEFA Champions League.
Jose Mourinho has made four changes to the side that faced Liverpool on Saturday as Manchester United prepare to take on SL Benfica at Estadio Da Luz.


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Adult Sensitive Salmon
COMPLETE SALMON FORMULA FOR SENSITIVE ADULT DOGS
ProBooster Adult Sensitive Salmon has been specifically developed to meet the nutritional needs of dogs with oversensitivities and food allergies.
The main ingredients used in the formula are rice and salmon. The formula does not contain wheat, corn, soy or chicken.
INGREDIENTS: Dried salmon (25 %), white rice, brown rice, freshly prepared salmon (9 %), beet pulp, salmon oil, salmon stock, minerals, vitamins, fructooligo-saccharides (960m/kg), glucosamine (530mg/kg), methylsulfonylmethane (530mg/kg) chondroitin sulphate (375mg/kg), mannanoligosaccharides (240mg/kg) Yucca Schidigera plant extract.
NUTRIENTS: Crude protein 24 %, crude fat 14 %, crude fiber 2,5 %, crude ash 8 %, moisture 8 %, Omega 6: 0,9 %, Omega 3: 2,9 %, calcium 1,8 %, phosphorous 1,1 %.
NUTRITIONAL ADDITIVES: Vitamin A (as retinyl acetate) 15000 IU, vitamin D3 (as cholecalciferol) 2250 IU, vitamin E (as alpha tocopherol acetate) 95 mg.
DIETARY MINERALS: Iron 170 mg, zinc 130 mg, manganese 110 mg, copper 60 mg, iodine 1,57 mg, selenium 0,60 mg.
METABOLIC ENERGY KCAL/KG: 3900
FEEDING GUIDELINES: Serve the food dry or moistened with water. The dog must always have access to plenty of fresh water. The dog's daily food requirement may vary depending on environmental factors, the dog's size, age or exertion. The recommended daily serving is presented in the feeding table it can be divided into several servings.
Best Before -date is printed on the package. Store in a dry and cool place.
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You call them when you want to want a fire beat to go with your lyrics, they help you turn that song into the greatest thing someone has ever heard, they spend hours creating a masterpiece that sounds so good you’re not allowed to add your vocals to it. They are called Beatmakers, Riddim Gods, and more commonly, Producers! Artists can’t live without these people, and at times they don’t get a lot of respect. We at 13th Street Promotions recognize these creatives, and today you’ll get to know 15. Watch this space!
*These Producers are not ranked in any way.
1. Wavy Jones
Wavy Jones is a play on the name “Davy Jones”, but he also owns a locker filled with some dope beats! Whether flipping samples on “Locker 1 & 2” or dropping the bass on the Jeeby Lyricist, Blvk H3ro and Kione Zaire featured “100LBS”, Jones is a Producer to check for! Catch him on the next Hidden Fvces or Alpine Compound project!
Whether playing guitar as a part of “Di Vibe” or crafting beats, Kone (Koh Neh) should not be taken lightly. Having produced newcomer Yanah’s single, “The Cycle” and her “Believe In You” Freestyle, delivered the right Riddim with fellow Producer BoomDraw for Blvk H3ro & Leno Banton’s “Sky Dive”, expect to hear more of this creative this year!
He doesn’t call himself a “Riddim God” for nothing. You’ve enjoyed many of his productions that have been complimented with the vocals of Jamar McNaughton, and he has an arsenal ready to go toe to toe with the best of Producers. Having recently released the “Dub Policy EP”, he’s busy preparing his compilation project titled “Top Works Vol. 1” which will feature his ZincFence Records members Ulo, Jane Macgizmo, and Inezi. You can also hear his work on Chronixx’s “Chronology” album. Get familiar!
He aims to give the people #moresubstans with his unique production. Armed with the Kreatif Substans, expect a new wave of Reggae and Dancehall music to hit the streets very soon. Wait on it!
5. SNR Beats
Orlando, Florida based SNR Beats is in another world when he gets creative. A part of the REM Collective, he has blessed the likes of Leno Banton with amazing production including providing the sound for the Artist’s “REM SZN” Mixtape. Expect more from this Producer later this year.
It’s an event when Jean-Andre Lawrence a.k.a. JLL drops a beat. You’ve heard his production on some of your favourite Artists who are a part of the “New Wave” in Jamaica. No stranger to the samples, he twists them to his liking everytime. You can hear JLL’s work on “Navajo” from Recording Artist Masego, and on Leno Banton & Royal Blu’s “Meanwhile” single! Look out for more.
You can catch this one creating the next remix in the lab, or mixing some of the best Dubs at Dub Club alongside his Father Gabre Selassie. He has provided the sound for Blvk H3ro and Leno Banton’s Herb anthem, “Sky Dive” with Kone, remixed hits by Jah Cure and Ini Kamoze, and delivered unique productions as a part of the “Fizix” team. Call him the “Gyal Dem Yam”.
8. Riddim Boss
From Dancehall to Reggae Fusion, Riddim Boss controls the creativity in the Studio. From working with acts like Leno Banton, Langi, and Kalex, he now focuses on making music that is more pleasing to GOD. Be on the look out for more of his unique productions!
Another Producer who brings a unique sound to the REM Collective, you can hear him on co-productions with SNR Beats, or letting you know where him mind was at on a beat via Soundcloud. Get familiar!
10. SOS Dynamikz
When you hear “SOS Baby!”, you’re in for a treat as SOS Dynamikz uses the element of surprise well. You know him as the Producer/”Musictopian” behind Kalado’s “Make Me Feel” hit, but he has also lent his talents to ZincFence Records as Co-Producer with singles like Chronixx’s “Sell My Gun”, Felly’s “MackDaddy”, and as a sole Producer for acts like Vindon, Cill Awesumore, and Jane Macgizmo. You can also hear him dropping a few bars here and there over his own production. Teaming up with Teflon ZincFence, expect some magic soon!
Sometimes he starts his beats off with “B****claat Benji!”, but BNJMN has been working to get his beats heard worldwide! From being a part of Film Noir (Co-Founder), to DJing and Rapping at times, to working with the likes of Baker Steez, Runkus, and Future (yes, that Future), we’ll just have to wait to see what’s next for the young Producer.
krs. sure knows how to make noise with his production. When he’s not making remixes, he’s churning out hit singles with Roy Woods, Omarion, Kes The Band, Ram Riddlz, Runkus, and making moves with Film Noir (Co-Founder). His Soca & Blues Vol. 1 project has received many praises this year too.
13. Kris Karz
Based in Florida, Kris Karz has quietly working on his brand of “TrapHall” music through his Kngly Studios brand. You can hear his production on tracks with Royal Blu, Leno Banton, Kapital Stone, Dylan Golden, and catch him setting the mood in his “Kngly Live” Acoustic Performance series. He is currently working on a new season of the series, and new music with your favourite acts.
When he’s not producing tracks for the likes of Runkus, Kyraxx, Elad Gideon, and flipping remixes for Protoje, you can hear him dropping a few bars on tracks like “Poison” and “Manana”. Don’t sleep on this yute!
This yute from the tropics has been making his name known overseas thanks to his participation in the single “Pine & Ginger”, and from his production work with Royal Blu, Chris Buxton, JLL and Kris Beatz. Expect more fire from this Producer later this year.
From selecting your favourite tunes at a Party, or on Zip 103 FM, ZJ Nova went into the lane of Music Production in 2016. After announcing the launch of her “NxntyOne Music” Label, and Recording Studio, “I’m Dat Man” by Deejay Laden shortly followed. We have yet to hear a follow up, but Nova and NxntyOne Music are ones to watch for the rest of 2017.
He makes up the other half of TWIN$SOUND International with Wavy Jones, but Jujutron88 hold his own in the production department. Giving lyrics from Pag3y, Chavez Illmatiq and Jeeby Lyricist the right beat, stay tuned for when he makes the Bass drop again.
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THEY WERE BEARS, poems by Sarah Marcus, reviewed by Nathan O. Ferguson • Cleaver Magazine
The poems in Sarah Marcus’ book, They Were Bears follow a young woman, the speaker of most of the poems, who pursues discovery and sensation in the remote corners of the American wilderness. The narrative shapes this wilderness into a wide-open expanse characterized by uncertainty, wonder, and menace. The backdrop also shifts from unpeopled natural settings to the speaker’s agricultural childhood home and to the industrial sprawl of Cleveland. The book’s three untitled segments each alternate between lyric poems and prose poems, and all use bears and other animals as central to their imagery and symbolism. Poems in the book discuss a variety of themes, including family, sexuality, and womanhood. The primary foci of the work as a whole, however, seem to be overcoming trauma and embracing nature. Together, the poems tell the story of a woman defined by her passion and resilience in the face of a harrowing past.
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A night for Toni
Last night was the one-year vigil for the death of NIU student Antinette ‘Toni’ Keller. Hard to believe its been a year already. Hard to believe it has only been a year.
About 50 people gathered by the East Lagoon on campus and lit water lanterns, which resembled sunflowers.
Fitting tribute, really.
A few things really bothered me as a media member though. First was the “professionals,” mainly the television photographers, who kept stepping right in front of my shot after I was in position well before them.
Completely annoying. Lucky I got what I did from this to be honest.
The other was more surprising, which was how stand-offish many of the attendees were. Some were very nice but others were very short, almost to the point of rude.
I try, as always, to approach them with a sense of empathy and understanding. Just being polite, really.
I’m not sure why there was a stand-off nature toward media. I understand it isn’t easy for anyone but at the same time, you probably should have been prepared for media to be there.
After reporting many times on the Feb. 14 shootings at NIU and those tributes and memorials, I must have become accustomed to people being friendly to the media. Not once in the shooting things did I ever come across someone who wasn’t happy to at least give a name.
To each is own, I guess. I’ll chalk this up to another learning experience on a few different ends. Hopefully I won’t have to do anything like this again until February.
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Create a Realistic War Scene in Sky
Under Photo Effect, Photoshop Tutorial
Simple photo combination effect can be applied to make lots of interesting things. To stick few planes on sky, it will look like a real war scene plus some photo coloring and editions. Using the same idea, it can create various of funny and interesting scenes.
In this Photoshop tutorial, it will show you the process of creating this Artistic Photo Manipulation with Cracked Face Effect in Photoshop. We will practice a number of layer masking techniques and image adjustment tricks along the way.
To turn a normal city into something different, you can have a try on this to turn the city into sky city using photo manipulation. This is to make a scene where the peak of some skyscrapers standing out above the clouds along with some other elements.
Some characteristics such as snow background and Japanese hair styles are useful when you would like to turn your image into Japanese style. This tutorial presented you how to start with cut and paste a lady and produce the nice background.
Sometimes, it is nice to create a personal brushes to do your art works as your time can be saved. To begin with, a plain white piece of paper will be taken, folded it in fours and left it in my pocket for a few hours. Next you need to scan the paper using the Grayscale setting on my scanner.
Long time ago, lots of admire natural sceneries really needs photographers to capture. With photo manipulation software, it allows you to form different combinations with different timing background such as day, night or sunset.

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Nebraska to host more job fairs aimed at veterans
Nebraska has scheduled a new round of job fairs aimed at military service members, veterans and their spouses.
The new fairs are set for April 2 at the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln and May 1 at the Heartland Event Center in Grand Island. Gov. Dave Heineman announced the new events on Tuesday.
Nebraska has held seven job fairs since the first event in Lincoln last April. The fairs were also held in Omaha, Holdrege, Norfolk, Alliance, Papillion and Beatrice. Approximately 300 employers and 1,000 job-seekers have attended.
Visit the Nebraska Department of Labor online at http://dol.nebraska.gov/.


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The federal government called Zeek Rewards a $600 million dollar Pyramid and Ponzi scheme on the day it shut down the website. Zeek Rewards promised to get people rich, in part, though investments in a penny auction website. However, the government said the site is illegal.
The company was based in Lexington, but people all over the world invested in it. A court-appointed receiver is trying to help as many people as possible get at least some of their money back.
Monday afternoon, Receiver Ken Bell answered questions through an online video web chat. Bell said his firm has recovered about $300 million. However, he said he does not know when he will be able to start returning money to people who invested in the organization. In addition, Bell said he did not know how much money each individual investor will receive.
Bell stressed his team is working every day to sort through the databases and files created by Zeek Rewards. He mentioned several times that records were kept in a disorganized and incomplete manner, which, he says, has made his job tougher.
Bell said he has received thousands of emails, but cannot reply to all of them. He asked for patience and understanding as the process unfolds.
To see the latest developments about what's happening with Zeek Rewards, visit the receiver's website. The entire video chat will be posted on the website.
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The Evolution and empirical estimation of ecological-economic production possibility frontiers
This paper presents a graphical model of an ecological-economic production possibilities frontier (EEPPF) that explicitly considers the roles of market failure and technological asymmetry in the provision of ecosystem goods and services. An empirical example of a 6-dimensional EEPPF is provided using a watershed in Illinois where three provisioning ecosystem services (corn, soybeans, hay) and three regulating services (flood control, water quality, and carbon retention) are the objectives. When aggregated, provisioning and regulatory services form a linear-to-convex EEPPF, but regulatory services can be increased from 10 to over 90% of optimal with a reduction in provisioning services (crops) from 100 to 78% of optimal. While corn and soybeans are shown to form a trade-off with all other ecosystem services, hay is complementary with flood control, water quality and carbon retention. These three regulating services are complementary with one another, with water quality and carbon correlated at 0.80. These results demonstrate the use of GIS, distributed watershed models such as SWAT, and genetic algorithms as a valuable method to estimate empirical EEPPFs.
Bekele, E., C.L. Lant, S. Soman, G. Misgna, 2013. The evolution and empirical estimation of ecological-economic production possibility frontiers, Ecological Economics 90:1-9.

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Indian electronics industry is ready to satisfy additives desire list brand new Apple for making iPhone within the u . s . a . if the clever gadgets important offers buy commitment to nearby corporations, says enterprise frame IESA.
“If government says fall in line, enterprise institutions are prepared to go into into agreement with Apple and say tell us what your desire list is, we will satisfy it in next 3, 6, nine and one year,” India Electronics & Semiconductor association President M N Vidyashankar instructed PTI.
Apple has submitted proposal for putting in place single emblem retail stores inside the united states however has sought exemption from the neighborhood sourcing norms as the united states-primarily based giant makes 49a2d564f1275e1c4e633abc331547db and slicing area technology products for which local sourcing isn’t viable.
The Finance Ministry has rejected relaxing the 30 percent home sourcing norms, as sought via iPhone and iPad maker as a pre-situation for bringing in FDI to installation single-emblem retail stores inside the u . s ..
however, the Ministry modern trade has taken a line that the 30 percentage neighborhood sourcing requirement can be waived state-of-the-artf for high-quit technology merchandise and will again try for exempting Apple from this norm.
if you make an exception to Apple, anybody will come and ask for comparable differentiation. Such cutting-edge request will only multiply. Any cutting-edge dilution will adversely have an effect on us,” Vidyashankar stated.
He said that industry institutions have met all concerned ministries at excessive degree in Finance, trade, branch ultra-modern commercial policy and Promotions and Communications & IT.
“industry our bodies have expressed their perspectives that there ought to be no dilution on this,” Vidyashankar stated.
He, but, stated that Apple access in India may be very essential for industry and united states of america.
“Their coming is very vital for us. If we are able to say we’re offering to Apple, all of the leading gamers will fall in line. With China pronouncing that they’re supplying to Apple, the credibility touches sky high. We want to be nearly same to that today’s dispensation but there must be no dilution,” he stated.
He stated that enterprise can cater to want modern Apple if business is confident from the iPhone maker.
“If a person is heading an business enterprise who has 200 companies and now these two hundred organizations are given an order with guarantee that components will be sourced from them for subsequent three years. it may be without difficulty executed …that is what we are searching at,” Vidyashankar stated.


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Meet Elizabeth, a photographer whose professional demeanor, creative eye, and sweet nature make her the ideal choice for capturing your wedding day. Elizabeth Hershey, a distinguished graduate from Brown University, where she pursued visual arts at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) alongside Italian studies, brings a rich background of artistic and cultural experiences to her photography. With over 13 years of professional experience shooting weddings solo, Elizabeth has honed her craft to perfection, ensuring that every couple's special day is documented with beauty and grace.
Elizabeth's passion for art and creativity doesn't stop at photography; she immerses herself in creative writing and music, playing both the viola and piano. This multidisciplinary approach to art informs her unique perspective behind the lens, enabling her to capture moments in ways that are both innovative and deeply personal. Her love for meeting new people shines through in her work, as she effortlessly connects with couples, understanding their vision and translating it into stunning visual narratives.
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Buenos Aires Streets, Parks and Plazas
Buenos Aires is a city to be enjoyed outdoors, roaming the streets and drifting between plazas until with aching feet you search out the nearest cafe (sidewalk table, of course).
At times the pace and energy of life in the city can leave you gasping for breath. When that happens, head for the park (mate and Thermos optional). Check out the rollerbladers in Palermo or bird-watch in the expansive Ecological Reserve. See below for more ideas.
Parks and Plazas
This Half Day Photo Tour led by experienced photographer and documentary filmmaker Richard provides fantastic off-the-beaten-track photo ops, while you get expert photography advice.
Pet the ponies, feed the zebras and admire the spectacular white tigers on a sunny afternoon at the Buenos Aires Zoo, located in the leafy neighborhood of Palermo. Bring the kids along for the ride.
The hustle and bustle of downtown Buenos Aires are lost in the cooling mood of the Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve, an expansive park just beyond the trendy, modern neighborhood of Puerto Madero.
Tucked away in the Bosques de Palermo, the Japanese Garden of Buenos Aires is an oasis of calm and serenity in the middle of the busy, noisy city. Feed the fish and enjoy a cup of tea amidst the pristine setting.
On Sunday, head to Plaza Dorrego in the charming neighborhood of San Telmo to experience one of the best antique markets in the world, along with open-air tango dancing, artisan goods and outdoor cafes.
Imagine it is your last day ever in Buenos Aires, and you have just 24 hours to see and do all of the things you love in Buenos Aires for the very last time. Makes you think, no? How would you spend the day?
Calle Lanin is small yet beautiful street in the barrio of Barracas, in the south of Buenos Aires, where the colors of the city shine through in the murals by local artist Marino Santa Maria, covering almost every home.
The picture-perfect colors of Caminito street are a defining image of the city of Buenos Aires. A tiny walkway in the Italian immigrant neighborhood of La Boca, Caminito boasts a colorful history & the origins of tango.


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Location: Luxembourg Area
Price: 325 euro with all included:
– Pistol + holster & mag pouch
– Lunch sandwich + coffee & water
The course is designed to teach our students how to operate with a semiautomatic pistol, in a tactical/combat environment, from typical and atypical shooting position, in medium and longer range, working also with usage of barricades and 2 Man Team.
This Course requires earlier training and/or experience in tactical shooting.
Candidate should complete Dynamic Pistol Operator – Level 1 or similar course prior attending this course.
The Law Enforcement or Military personnel can attend to this training with no proof of previous training and they have 10% discount.
Weapons & Ammunition:
WEAPONS: GLOCK 19/17 – (student can bring his own weapon + holster, but pistol must be in 9mm)
AMMUNITION: 9mm – 500 rds.
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This Course will be taught using theoretical and practical exercises. The lectures and the practical exercises will be conducted on the shooting range.
GEAR: Sturdy / Tactical Belt. Bring your own safety glass & ear protection, and if you have, your own Glock holster & mags pouch. For some drills we need a jacket. Clothing appropriate for climate and conditions.
- Weapons Safety Rules / Range Safety Rules
- Fundamentals of Weapon Manipulation and Marksmanship: Re-fresh
- Multiple targets
- Unconventional shooting positions
- Shooting with use of cover
- Various directions shooting
- Weak hand shooting drills: single hand manipulations
- Multiple target engagement – static and moving
- Contact drills / Team work
- IFR / Immediate Firing Response
- Summary of the Course: De-Briefing & Q&A’s
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Big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) describes the production of the lightest elements during the first three minutes of cosmic time, and represents our earliest reliable probe of the universe. BBN has stood as both cornerstone of modern cosmology and particle astrophysics, and Keith Olive has made fundamental contributions to BBN over a span of four decades. I will review BBN and Keith's hand in it, emphasizing the transformative influence of cosmic microwave background experiments in precisely determining the cosmic baryon density. Standard BBN combines this with the Standard Model of particle physics to make tight predictions for the primordial light element abundances. Deuterium observations match these predictions spectacularly, helium observations are in good agreement, but lithium observations (in metal-poor halo stars) are significantly discrepant-–this is the ”lithium problem.” Over the past decade, the lithium discrepancy has become more severe, and very recently the solution space has shrunk dramatically, with all resolutions of the problem facing stringent constraints. Future observations will either confirm surprises in stellar astrophysics, or most intriguingly, could reveal new physics at play in the early universe.


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Labrats Comedy- Lab Rats Comedy is an improv troupe of Mississippi State University Students dedicated to performing improv and entertainment. It is composed of students from a gamut of different majors and interests.
MSU Ballroom Dance Club-MSU Ballroom Dance Club is a social organization that strives to provide, advance, and encourage the opportunity to learn and practice ballroom dancing at Mississippi State University. We teach a variety of ballroom and Latin dances, including Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Rumba, Cha Cha, Hustle, Salsa, and Swing. No partner is necessary, so come join the fun! Classes are held on Sundays in the Sanderson Center - Studio A. For further information regarding times, email them here.
Starlight Dancers of MSU-Starlight Dancers of MSU is a non profit organization that focuses on bridging diversity by accepting individuals from different backgrounds of culture and ethnicity with the art of dancing. They are one of the most prominent minority organizations on the campus of Mississippi State University
MSU Black Voices-MSU Black Voices is comprised of Mississippi State University students committed "to exalting, reverencing, praising, and worshiping Jesus Christ through the ministry of singing."
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Can France and England join Argentina and the Netherlands in the quarterfinals?
The second day of Round of 16 games is upon us as the defending World Cup champions take on Poland and England plays Senegal. Both European giants are heavily favored at BetMGM. Will they both easily win?
France vs. Poland (over/under 2.5 goals)
10 a.m. ET, FS1
France to win (-300)
Poland to win (+775)
Regulation tie (+400)
Poland is going to try to counter attack on France as much as possible. The only team the Poles have looked dangerous against is Saudi Arabia. That’s probably not a good recipe for success against this France team. We’ll go with the under at +100 because we think France won’t be bothered at the back and will win 2-0.
England vs. Senegal (2.5)
2 p.m. ET, FS1
England to win (-190)
Senegal to win (+625)
Regulation tie (+280)
Oddsmakers are favoring the under here at -145 while the over is at +105. The over is tempting because Senegal can be dangerous even without Sadio Mane. England should still win the game, but we wouldn’t be surprised if this one had three goals or more. That said, we’ll play it safe with England.


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The event is free for MacPhail students and costs $5 for the general public. For more information see the following brochure.
Momoko Kamiya has released her new CD “Pieces of Peace”. You can read more about it at her Facebook announcement page.
I had the privilege of meeting Momoko Kamiya at the Marimba 2010 International Festival and Conference. She premiered a piece called “Blossoms in the Sunlight” on the opening concert and was part of my previous blog post about the festival.
At minimum everyone should go spend $1 and buy that track right now. It is similar to “Land” and very lyrical and gorgeous. Another favorite is “HATO-OTO” which has a surprisingly jazzy section and is another one of my marimba solo favorites of recent years.
She teams up with Bodgan Bacanu on “Atom Hearts Duo” as well which I will be spending more time listening to this week.
Go support another marimbist and purchase these tracks today!
One of the great things happening at next year’s PASIC is the 50th Anniversary PAS Marimba Orchestra. Gordon Stout will be conducting. There are 50 slots for students to fill this orchestra and you can apply by heading over to this site.
You do have to bring a marimba with you to PASIC to participate. Good luck to everyone and I hope you pass the audition and are accepted!
“Groundlines” the new composition from John Serry for solo marimba is now available in its entirety at the Vic Firth web site. This recording was from PASIC this year and performed by Ji Hye Jung. Enjoy it!


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Brooke Mueller, the ex-wife and mother of Charlie Sheen’s twin sons Bob and Max, filed court papers alleging that the actor attempted to game the system in regards to his royalties from “Two and a Half Men.”
Nearly a full year after Brooke Mueller lost custody of her twin sons Bob and Max, the socialite is apparently back on the straight path as a judge has awarded her full custody once again. Get the details on the decision as well as reports of how well she is said to be getting along with Charlie Sheen and his adult film star fiance.
According to a new report, the custody circus involving Charlie Sheen, Brooke Mueller and their twin sons Bob and Max could be taking a new and disheartening turn. Could it be possible that the boys will end up in foster care?
An investigation into allegations, made by Brooke Mueller, that Denise Richards abused her 3 daughters and twin sons of ex-husband Charlie Sheen has been closed by the Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services. Find out what DCFS found out that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise after Mueller’s seemingly vindictive claim.
Even though she allowed Denise Richards to care for her twin sons for a year, Brooke Mueller is now accusing the actress of child abuse. Brooke alleges Denise is abusive toward twins Bob and Max as well as Denise’s own children.
Things have broke wild with the Charlie Sheen, Brooke Mueller custody situation. According to reports, Brooke’s brother Scott Mueller has been granted temporary custody. Find out about Scott and the pretty shocking revelation of where he, and the twin boys, will be living.
Charlie Sheen is back to his #winning ways, as he’s officially declared war against Brooke Mueller, the mother of his twin sons, with a letter that includes an ominous quote from his dad’s film Apocalypse Now. Read Charlie’s strange declaration and get caught up with the latest between Sheen and Mueller.
Denise Richards to relinquish guardianship of Brooke Mueller’s twins, says they try to kill her dogs
After serving as the guardian of Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen’s twin sons for more than one year, Denise Richards has reportedly said she can’t care for the children any longer because they are so violent and out of control.

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