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Umhlanga Rocks is a fashionable upmarket seaside resort on the east coast of Kwazulu Natal, 16 kilometers north of Durban. Umhlanga and Umdloti form the Sugar Coast together. Umhlanga is in a spectacular location, the Umgeni river flows from... Show more
Umhlanga Rocks is a fashionable upmarket seaside resort on the east coast of Kwazulu Natal, 16 kilometers north of Durban. Umhlanga and Umdloti form the Sugar Coast together. Umhlanga is in a spectacular location, the Umgeni river flows from the Drakensberg Mountains through the Valley of the Thousand Hills to the sea. Rolling green hills rise up on the ridge behind Umhlanga Rocks, which overlooks the Indian ocean.
There is a wealth of entertainment, sports, golf, shopping, movies, and nature trails. The shops are excellent and provide everything you could want. There are the supermarkets, health shops, restaurants, coffee shops, sidewalk cafes and boutiques. La Lucia Mall and the huge Gateway Theatre of Shopping are nearby.
Umhlanga is a fun seaside town. Dazzling hotels were built along the seashore and the houses in the surrounding suburb have magnificent trees and gardens, monkeys play and birdlife is prolific.
The main road has restaurants, sidewalk cafes, pubs and boutiques. Day and night there seems to be a stream of very expensive cars. Above Umhlanga a few kilometers inland, is the Ridge where office parks, shopping centres and suburbs have replaced the sugar cane.
Ideally, perhaps one should do nothing as it is a perfect place to relax in a wonderful climate, soak up some sunshine on the beach, under an umbrella admiring the wavescape. It is away from everything and yet has every convenience within easy reach.
The long beaches stretch into the distance,frequented all year by locals and visitors. The 2 main swimming beaches have lifesavers. There are pools in the rocky outcrops along the shore for families with children to paddle in.The main swimming beach is Bronze beach.
The efficient Sharks Board sends crews daily on ski boats to check the nets to ensure safe swimming.Their headquarters in Umhlanga Ridge have interesting audiovisual lectures daily.
There is a strong water lifestyle culture. No wet suits are needed as the ocean is warm all year for surfing, swimming, scuba diving, kite boarding, fishing and sailing .The winter is mild and brief, from june to august, and the rest of the year warm with a summer rainfall of evening showers.
A wide paved Promenade curves for 3 kilometers along the beach overlooking the sea, frequented by runners and walkers all day until dark.
World class golf courses, with undulating fairways and spectacular layouts are designed around indigenous trees and gardens. The sunny climate and lush natural environment are ideal for golf.
Other ocean and outdoor adventures are deep sea fishing, whale and dolphin watching, flying microlights or chartering planes or helicopter flips at Virginia airport.
Umhlanga, originally coastal dune forest, has 2 guided nature walks through what remains of the ancient indigenous forest, the Lagoon walk and the Hawaan forest walk.
Shopping is well provided for in Umhlanga. In the 1980"s development moved inland onto the Ridge, replacing the sugar cane fields to become a retail, office and residential centre in Durban. The Gateway has over 500 shops,the biggest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere, with hotels, restaurants, cinemas and private clinics.
The Lagoon Nature Trail leaves three times a day, an hour and a half walk along a boardwalk beside the river, through the forest to the lagoon, with rich birdlife, butterflies, monkeys and the odd antelope.
The Hawaan Forest Walk is at the other end of the promenade. Inquiries and bookings can be made at the Breakers hotel.
Roads in every direction from Umhlanga lead to different scenic drives. The Valley of 1000 Hills is a wilderness with lovely scenery, forests and waterfalls. There are beautiful drives along the coast, both north and south, and there are nearby less developed beaches to visit.
Where to Eat
There are several excellent restaurants around Umhlanga, so there is a wide choice.
Remo's Villaggio and Angelo's are packed with customers every day, both specialise in Italian food. Little Havana is another favourite, very smart and well run, with contemporary cuisine. Ile Maurice is a sophisticated comfortable restaurant with french cooking.The Olive and Oil is for mediterranean food and the Press Club does breakfasts and lunches.
The Oyster Box Hotel has 3 restaurants, the Palm Court has light meals and high tea, and the Grill room has curry buffets. The Ocean Terrace does light meals and is a delightful place to eat during the day as the view is exquisite.
There are restaurants at the Gateway, like Tasha and Circus Circus, and good coffee shops, such as Gloria Jean's Coffee Cafe. These are a few of the best restaurants and there is always Mr Delivery!
Where to Stay
Umhlanga is one of the most popular places to stay along the Natal north coast, with lovely luxurious hotels right on the beach. All along the ocean are blocks of luxury units, terraced with expansive views. These provide wonderful self catering holiday accommodation with balconies overlooking the sea, and the beach a short walk away.
Many guest houses and villas are available in the Umhlanga suburbs with views of the sea. There are holiday homes for rent, cottages, golf lodges, and backpackers, something to suit everyone.
Car: The best option is to rent a car at King Shaka International Airport which is 10 minutes away. Umhlanga is well positioned to get to many major South African destinations as the roads are excellent.
The N2 follows the east coastline 200 kilometers to the north, up to the St Lucia Wetlands and Game Reserves.To the south there is entirely different terrain to explore, through Margate to the Wild Coast. The N3 continues to the Drakensberg Mountains, and further inland to Johannesburg and the Kruger Park.
Did you Know
1. The Zulu meaning of Umhlanga is "place with reeds".
2. Umhlanga is often misspelt Umshlanga, Umhlunga or Umhlonga.
3. The town is a tropical paradise, and often called the Riviera of Durban.
4. Sir Marshall Campbell founded the town in 1895.
5. The first Umhlanga hotel was built in 1920.
6. Durban international airport moved closer to Umhlanga and in 2010 reopened as King Shaka International Airport.
7.The Hawaan forest in Umhlanga is 114 acres of protected coastal forest and is 18000 years old, with 175 different species of trees.
Umhlanga Rocks village began on a plantation belonging to a Scottish sugar cane magnate. A beach cottage was built on a rocky headland looking out to sea with a view of a long wide golden beach. His daughter built the Oyster Box hotel in the 1930's, in the graceful English colonial style, with surrounding heavenly gardens of flowering shrubs and trees. The vegetation in Umhlanga is lush and verdant.
A lighthouse built in 1953, is next to the Oyster Box swimming pool. It flashes every night along the Umhlanga beach and the rocks out to the ocean. Ships had been mistaking the Umgeni River for Durban harbour and hitting the rocks.Although it now without its tropical gardens, the elegant Oyster Box hotel is still open today. Sitting on their long veranda, for lunch or tea, with the view of the lighthouse, and ships on the horizon, is a relaxing experience.
More intimate and personalised than larger hotels, guests can expect a warmer, friendlier stay at a Boutique Hotel. Boutique Hotels are high-end accommodation, and guests can expect all the usual luxury amenities expected from a regular/larger hotel, including wifi; tea and coffee facilities; and deluxe bedding, and then some. Most Boutique Hotels pride themselves on personal service that allows them to go the extra-mile - making it an ideal place to stay for guests celebrating special events or anniversaries.
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Date: 16/04/2014
Opponent: Lightning
Location: Tampa Bay
OT Win: 5-4
Habs Goalie: Price (W)
Opposition Goalie: Lindback (L)
Habs goalscorers: Plekanec, Gionta, Eller, Vanek, Weise
Opposition goalscorers: Kucherov, Stamkos (2), Killorn
Despite the mountain of positive efforts at the Tampa end, this game lay on a knife's edge it's entire length. When the straw that was to break the camel's back was there for Tampa's taking, it was the beautiful return of our assistant captain, Josh Gorges, that kept the contest alive. No one designs a defensive play that way, but kudos for the remarkable effort from Gorges who was just refusing to give in to the gods of rough luck.
Thomas Vanek - Game PuckFolks, this is what playoff rentals are all about. For the price of a quarter of a big contract, the Habs can now boast one of the most lethal lines in the league and the best Habs top line since Kovalev was not a dirty word. Let's all admit that Vanek is better than we all thought. Capable of being the goalscorer, as he was last night, his standout moments came in all guises. I am particularly impressed at how he manipulates the defenders and space around him -- puck recovery is easier with him on the ice, and cycling leads places. The stats he can boast from this game are unreal. More than 90% of chances that took place while he was on were in the Tampa end, five were his own.
David DesharnaisIn last year's playoffs Desharnais was lost. After a game, I can tell that this opponent will suit him better. But it's more than a change of opponent, Desharnais has learned in a year how to shrug more smothering holds and play in the areas where he can be a strength. The addition of Vanek has given the crafty centre even more time and space, a lethal pill for opposition defences.
Tomas PlekanecThere were two sides of the Canadiens attack in Game 1. If Vanek and Desharnais helped the Habs by dominating the ice, the other lines gave the team a threat through their speed and opportunism. For my taste, Plekanec was the best of these poachers. His first goal was beautiful to rewatch, but sublime in its timing. A Tampa goal later, he very nearly repeated the trick. What's so important about this kind of play is the doubt it sows in the minds of Lightning players. Pinches will be less assertive, attacks more conservative when each player carries the worry of an explosive counter punch.
Josh GorgesA gamesave and a gamewinner, together with a strong body of work to go around it. One doesn't need a big imagination to see that this game would have been in Montreal if Gorges had never been injured. The team is better with him in the lineup. Subban is better. The forwards can be better.
PK SubbanI rarely agree with Glen Healy, and I doubt I've ever quoted the red-faced Leafs man before. But I have to credit him for the support he gave Subban in this one. "He is playing the game that is given to him" is what Healy said at one point mid way through the contest. This is Subban's under-recognized strength, his adaptability, his discipline and and his commitment to team result. This game had all that. While all players had a miscue here and there, Subban and his teammates must be lauded for the fact a team with Steven Stamkos and 101 regular season points was held to 16 shots over 60 minutes in their own building.I would say that Subban was key in this result. I particularly enjoyed his halting hits.
Carey PriceOK, so we've been away a long while, and I think we missed a lot of chances to praise Carey Price. We are traditionally very hard on Carey and my old self would have put Budaj into a dome with 4 goals allowed on 16 shots. But I won't today. Today, I want to recognize that even a guy was a bit off at times played a vital role when the second game began at around 10 pm. He had tough work to do with the game on the line and on the basis of that goes into the records as the dome goalie.
I will say that I now expect him to be better than this. This is what. a season of consistent performances has led me to. I don't think Carey is any longer the player that rides his own wave, rather, I think the win and a steady and focused approach to each game will give a reset button he can use to find his better stuff.
Boxscores with bite
Just a nod to any readers who find this. You are dedicated folk. As I am once again compelled to write, I hope you'll enjoy the reading. And do share. I have a feeling those of you who haven't left LiW for dead are in a minority.
But enough about us. What a win from the Habs. I must say, that despite the shots, this took a long time to feel like a game they should, would and eventually had to win. The early shot totals deceived a bit with chances more even until the third. And with the goals flying in, and the constant threat of speed down the Tampa wings, it never felt safe.
But the team did win, and the result looks like the right one according to the boxscores here. Most players were good in both aspects of the rink, the top line was just blanket dominant. Even Eller and Gionta, with the red marks over possession used the counter-attack to constant dangerous effect. And if the blah performer was Price, then even he can take pride in battling through many minutes of sudden death for a win.
As a Habs fan, I am happy about the prospects going forward. I have seen a Tampa team that is over-reliant on a few top players lose more top players. While Stamkos will be hard to outright stop, he simply can't play 60 minutes, nor score 3 every time out. The Montreal top line actually looked every bit as dangerous as the Richard trophy contender and more balanced in the process.
If I am associated with Tampa Bay, however, I am panik-ing. The underbelly is quite exposed and the match-up is threatening to look a lot different from the tame 240 odd minutes of regular season yawns. This is not all undone by Bishop either. A team cannot allow a line with two 40 goalscorers to get so many chances. My goodness, they didn't even convert them at a good rate.
But here we enter the real playoffs, the playoffs of adaptation and strategy. The Lightning have the talent and even the discipline to stem this tide against them. If they do, what will Therrien's answer be?
I look forward to the next act.


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For the ninth consecutive year, members of the classical music and dance communities in New York, Brazil and Europe came together for this festival, which serves both as a way to bring classical music (and other genres) to a broader audience and to bring classical education to communities that would otherwise have little access to advanced learning. The Festival's model is a similar event in Tanglewood, MA, where the late maestro Eleazar de Carvalho studied in the 1940s. The Brazilian version is led by his widow, classical pianist Sonia Muniz, who has beaten the odds to make the festival happen in the maestro's native state.
In addition to several workshops, there were several free live shows, featuring ensembles formed by professionals and students; on July 17, an orchestra formed by young students (mostly in their teens) played at the Historic Jose de Alencar Theatre before an audience of friends and relatives. There was no program to be had, and that generated complaints from one audience member, who asked what numbers were being played. After his queries fell on deaf ears, he got up and left the theater with his family.
The following Thursday we headed to the theater at The University of Fortaleza, where we saw a dance presentation directed by New York-based Luiza Barteldes (full disclosure: she is this writer's sister), who presented solo and group choreographed numbers to Richard Strauss's "Salome" and George Gershwin's "Who Cares" (adapted from Balanchine) and "Rhapsody in Blue" set to original dance. The students seemed a bit nervous, and one seemed to be doing her moves a split second after the others, but that did not mar the performance as a whole.
Up next was a quintet formed by violinists Pablo de Leon and Enio Antunes, violists Renate Faulkner, Carlos Rocha and cellist Steven Thomas, who performed the whole K 515 Quintet in C Major. They repeated the performance on Saturday, following a solo presentation by pianist Paul Rudman. The only difference was that they added "La Muerte del Angel," a piece by Argentinean composer Astor Piazzola adapted for string quintet.
A large crowd assembled on July 23, for the performance of Beethoven's First Symphony in its entirety, plus the last movement of the same composer's Ninth Symphony, conducted by maestro Maurice Peress, who struggled with the intense heat and also with the noise of a nearby truck that was blaring popular music outside the university's grounds.
Before the music began, Sonia Muniz took the stage and presented a cello to an outstanding young student, Italo Nogueira. The gift represented an incentive from the classical community to these students, most of whom come from humble backgrounds and are unable to afford a quality instrument.
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Working at the Yorkville Common Pantry on East 109th Street in East Harlem, Deborah Goldstein decided to do something different. Rather than gather the usual anonymous statistics on the people lined up for emergency food, she decided to listen to them instead. In "The Faces Behind the Statistics," one of two reports released in September by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, she profiles four people on the hunger line:
Maria is 45, has four children, and suffers from depression. Magrit, 59, lost her job of 17 years when she had to take time off to heal a broken ankle. Jack, 57, used to paint houses, but had to stop because of physical problems, and is now disabled. Sianne, 41, takes care of a family of nine.
"I didnÂąt know why all these people were standing in line," said Goldstein, a recent graduate from a MasterÂąs program at Hunter College School of Social Work, "and I wanted to know."
A staggering 37 percent of East Harlem residents live below the federal poverty guidelines. Some 600 of them go to the Yorkville Common Pantry for food every week. The majority of those seeking help are the working poor, some of them thrust into hunger (and, often, homelessness) by a sudden disaster.
"Hunger is not about individual failings," Goldstein said. "It's about a failed system."
In addition to the four individual stories in GoldsteinÂąs report, several initiatives are proposed:
- establishing Client Advisory Boards at emergency food programs so that clients have more input into their operation
- using food pantries as entry points for client services like job training, case management, and health insurance
- seeking greater client participation in the food stamp program
The Mayor's Vetoes Of Food Stamp Bills
Copies of the report have gone out to government officials, funders, activists, and the media, but the reader Goldstein most hopes to capture is Michael Bloomberg. "IÂąd love for the mayor to read it or, even more so, to have the mayor stand on line to get food stamps," said Goldstein.
Mayor Bloomberg vetoed three City Council bills this past summer that would have provided additional access to food stamps for low-income families. Despite repeated requests, we were unable to get a response from the mayorÂąs office about why he vetoed the bills. According to a New York Daily News story that appeared shortly after the decision, Bloomberg said the bills would have violated state and federal law. This claim was disputed by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger.
The vetoes were particularly unsettling to many advocates for the poor because food stamps are considered a long-term solution to hunger rather than having people line up for food at a pantry or soup kitchen.
"One of the bills," Goldstein explained, "would require representatives from the Human Resources Administration to go to the pantry lines and help people sign up for food stamps; the second would waive face-to-face interviews for people working 40 hours or more a week (and for people who are disabled or facing other hardships); the third bill would allow online (and fax) applications for food stamps."
Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer has used the mayor's vetoes in his campaign, bringing it up, and other food stamp related issues, at a campaign stop in East Harlem recently.
The City Council overrode the mayorÂąs veto on all three bills. The question now is, will the mayor allow the laws to be implemented or mount a court challenge?
Obesity In East Harlem Compared To The Upper East Side
There is another face now visible among those living in poverty: obesity.
Contrary to popular belief, obesity is not a sign of affluence, but rather an indicator of poverty, as the study, "Hunger and Obesity in East Harlem" by J.C. Dwyer makes clear. The other report released by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger in September, Dwyer compares conditions between East Harlem and the Upper East Side, two neighborhoods divided by 96th Street that provide a stark contrast, representing the highest and lowest figures in poverty and obesity.
In East Harlem, 38 percent of children are born into poverty; on the Upper East Side, just five percent. East Harlem has the highest incidence of obesity and diabetes in the City; the Upper East Side has the lowest.
Dwyer outlines the link between obesity and hunger clearly and simply: it is about choice and control. People who have more choices and more control over what they consume have lower obesity and poverty rates and healthier eating.
The Upper East Side has more supermarkets which afford residents more nutritious choices. East Harlem has more bodegas, fast food restaurants, and emergency food programs.
Emergency food programs themselves can be part of the problem, dependent as they often are on donations from food banks. Many food banks receive corporate products that failed their target marketing and are not selling--a new line of crackers perhaps. They may be plentiful, but not necessarily nutritious.
Dwyer makes the point that even the large funders contribute to the problem, concerned as they are with short term solutions like funding food pantries, but doing little to ensure that nutritious foods are offered in these programs. "Funders are still stuck in the emergency food mentality," said Dwyer. "But a lot of people arenÂąt relying on the pantries and soup kitchens for emergency food only. This is about long-term hunger."
And the cash strapped food pantries, some existing on a budget as low as $17,400 a year, cannot afford to purchase more expensive nutritious items like produce. Bodega owners, too, are often caught in the market forces that make it impossible for them to offer affordable fresh produce.
Solutions, Including A Need To Change The Culture Of Charity
The solutions are far from simple and they have to emanate from the top down, says Dwyer. "Otherwise, the bodega owner, the working mother, the soup kitchen manager wonÂąt be able to make these kinds of decisions. We need subsidies, tax rebates, and for the culture of charity to change."
The culture of charity, explained Dwyer, encourages us to donate a turkey or a few cans of food at Thanksgiving or to volunteer for a few hours at a soup kitchen, but falls short of demanding structural and systemic changes, and assistance from government.
Dwyer advocates for a New York City Food Policy Council, with an office under the mayor. "We need an overarching policy," he explained. "Mayor Bloomberg recently created a council to address the flight of manufacturing businesses from the city. They looked at the problem from the business side and the manufacturing side. We need a similar model for food, a food czar." This is a growing trend in city planning circles, according to Dwyer, with sterling results in places like Toronto and Connecticut.
Dwyer also stressed the importance that government action never take the form of a sin tax or punishment for unhealthy eating. "These people just donÂąt have the money to spare. Incentives work better," he said.
Dwyer illustrated the dilemma poor people often face when making decisions about food. "If you were offering low-income people the choice between an apple or a sleeve of cookies, most will buy the sleeve of cookies. Why? It lasts longer, it will fill you up more, it makes the kids stop crying, and it is more readily available. In the long term, it will make you fat and it isnÂąt nutritious, but that wonÂąt be enough to change short-term behavior. People are more concerned in the short term with survival, not long-term health."
One solution to hunger and poverty, and the obesity that results from it, is jobs that pay enough for people to feed themselves and their families. But obesity can cause ambulatory problems, making it difficult to work. In addition to having the cityÂąs highest rate of obesity and diabetes, East Harlem also tops the list for diabetes-related amputations.
"I wanted to take down the myth that obesity is a product of natural prosperity," said Dwyer. "ThereÂąs a logical flaw in that argument. If obesity were a sign of prosperity, it would be the rich who are fat and not the poor."


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2017 Fiat 500c: Sassy, inexpensive alternative for drop-top driving [Quick Take]
If you ever drive in warm weather, you might dream of owning a convertible, but the price tag is often prohibitive – especially if you're looking at it as a second car. A two-seat Mazda MX-5 has a base price of about $25K, and it only seems to go up from there.
Until you look at the Fiat 500c. This sassy little cabrio has a starting price at about $17K, which makes it a viable alternative for someone who wants to spice up his or her commute without breaking the bank.
I recently had the opportunity to test the entry-level Pop trim of the 500c, and it was a really good reminder of how much fun it is to drive this vehicle.
It has power push-button top operation and a standard smooth-shifting 5-speed manual transmission.
The 500c comes equipped with the 1.4-liter, 4-cylinder engine, which delivers 101 horsepower and 98 pound-feet of torque. While that really doesn't seem like a lot of power, keep in mind this vehicle only weighs 2,424 pounds.
I thought this was plenty of power for highway merges, and with some strategic downshifting, it fared pretty well in passing maneuvers as well.
Much of my time in the 500c, however, was spent in stop-and-go traffic, and I'm pleased to report the clutch isn't too stiff – which makes this an easy everyday driver even in traffic.
Though if you don't want to mess with a manual, the automatic is a $995 option.
One of the best things about the 500c is the clever design and array of Skittle-colored paints available.
The test vehicle was Rosso, and had attractive black-and-grey houndstooth cloth seats punctuated by red headrests. I loved that the exterior red wraps around to the interior on the dash.
Options to the test vehicle included the popular equipment group, sport package, navigation and Beats premium audio. And except for the premium audio system, I could take or leave the rest of the options.
The as-tested price was still an attractive $20,365.
While nothing about this vehicle is supersized, it does fairly well with average-sized drivers and passengers. And if you're petite like I am, you can actually have some backseat passengers. But most people will likely use that back seat as a shelf for a purse or briefcase.
The trunk is right-sized for the vehicle, and while a golf bag might be a tight fit, it will easily hold a standard carry-on suitcase and a backpack – and then a little bit more.
One thing to be aware of: When driving this in cold weather or rain or with the top up, expect wind noise. The trade off of the low price point is a lack of sound-dampening materials for the canvas top.
The 500c lineup includes the Pop and Lounge ($20,985) models, adding features such as an automatic transmission, heated seats and leather seating surfaces when you level up. If you want to be really sassy, there's even an Abarth Cabrio ($22,485).
The bottom line
I really like the 500 and have long said if I were looking for a city car, this would be top on my list. Whether you opt for the coupe or the cabrio, the 500 is inexpensive and offers a unique sense of style.
Plus, it's really easy to parallel park.
There were a couple of features I did wish the test vehicle had – such as a rearview camera and heated seats – but overall, I thought the 500c was really well equipped at a basic level with things like rear parking sensors, attractive seating surfaces and Bluetooth hands-free phone pairing.
Drop top driving for around $17K? You can't beat that.


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Welcome to the webpage for the Sea-floor Mapping Group of the U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center (WHSC). We are a fifteen-member group that collaborates with academia, industry, and other government agencies to map the sea floor/lake floor/river bottom and shallow subsurface in a variety of nearshore, shallow-continental shelf, estuarine, fluvial, and lacustrine environments.
Subsurface sparker discharge at night. System was towed from the R/V Lynch during a USGS research cruise in the West Florida Escarpment area, 1983.
Please navigate through our site using the tree to the right. It is broadly organized according to the equipment type, a sampling of surveys we have performed in a variety of geologic settings, an outreach page that will show how our data integrate to produce a finished product, a biography of our staff, and a site to link to collaborators and references cited throughout the website. The present location is always highlighted on the tree with a red asterisk. Larger versions of most images are available by clicking on the image.
The purpose of this web site is to describe the capabilities of the WHSC Sea-floor Mapping Group, to provide a brief description of the technologies used by the WHSC, to provide a brief history of the development of these technologies, and to present a sample of the application of these technologies to research efforts.


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Poverty and inequality
I've recently been wondering about the use of 'poverty' and 'inequality' in political discourse. Sometimes it seems as if the two are being conflated for political purposes. I tend to think of poverty as implying a lack of the basic services available in a particular economy. In New Zealand for example, someone who went without sufficient nutrition, access to education, basic healthcare, etc would be someone I would consider in poverty.
However, the ways of measuring poverty are based on the median wage which is really a way of measuring inequality. This may approximate the people living in poverty but it could easily under- or over-estimate the actually number of people doing without adequate shelter, nutrition, and education. This reliance on inequality as a proxy for poverty also sees solutions proposed that focus on the metrics (i.e., raising income levels across the board) rather than on solutions that actually address the main negative effects of poverty which are mostly around poor health outcomes.
In addition, inequality has many negative consequences on a society in itself. For example, gated communities of wealthy individuals cutting themselves off from society decreasing diversity and allowing public services to decay. But these outcomes get lost in conversations about poverty where the inequality metrics can be dismissed as not relevant to the discussion. It might be possible that the conflation of poverty and inequality is convenient for those who wish to nothing about both.
Looking at graphs of wealth distribution, at least from the United States it seems the three classes of poor, middle, and rich could be more accurately drawn as the poor, the rich, and the ultra-rich. Perhaps the so-called middle class scared of losing its status above the poverty line prefers to have that line drawn on the basis of 60% median household income. So no matter how badly they are doing financially, they are at least better off than the bottom 40%. The ultra-rich and political players also benefit by distracting discussion from the harm of vast inequality and redirecting this concern to a discussion on poverty, only to dismiss concerns about poverty being based on faulty metrics.
Perhaps the use of poverty and inequality need to be sharply delineated so that legitimate concerns are not deflected so easily by those who benefit from the current situation. I also want to see a proper measure of poverty in different societies and for it to be talked about more in political discussions and news articles.
The poor complain, they always do, but that's just idle chatter.
Our system brings rewards to all, at least to all who matter.
Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
|Sat Mar 09, 2013 3:47 am
Re: Poverty and inequality
The way i understand it is there are two types of classified poverty. Relative and Absolute. What you seem to think of as poverty which most people do is absolute i.e. not being able to feed, cloth and have shelter with lack of health care etc. Whereas the method of measurement of below the median wage as an indicator of poverty would , i assume, be identifying relative poverty.
Wikipedia seems to confirm this
Relative poverty views poverty as socially defined and dependent on social context, hence relative poverty is a measure of income inequality. Usually, relative poverty is measured as the percentage of population with income less than some fixed proportion of median income. There are several other different income inequality metrics, for example the Gini coefficient or the Theil Index.
For me then there is no contradiction or antagonism between inequality and poverty. Rather poverty is a qualitative condition of inequality. And actually in my experience of rhetoric in British politics i would argue it is not the "conflation" of inequality and poverty which is used for those who want to do nothing, but rather the argument that absolute poverty is only poverty and therefore very little to nothing needs to be done, it is seen as an anomaly not as something endemic in our current society (as for those who are poor they are told to work harder).
Personally i don't have a problem with the relative indicator of poverty, because standards of living vary from country to country.
When you are getting to this
This reliance on inequality as a proxy for poverty also sees solutions proposed that focus on the metrics (i.e., raising income levels across the board) rather than on solutions that actually address the main negative effects of poverty which are mostly around poor health outcomes.
I think you are right that solutions are not about simply raising income levels. But i am not sure what you mean by addressing the main negative effect being poor health outcomes ?
As far as I'm concerned the solution to poverty is eradication of poverty, which in my opinion is impossible without global socialism.
And since I've mentioned the "S" word....
That was a great video you linked. But being a socialist who has talked to hundreds of socialists of various different backgrounds and political variations (from Stalinist, to Trotskyists , anarchists and liberation theologists) i have never came across any proposal or ideas of income equalization like what is shown in that graph. In fact i have only came across A pamphlet by Marx (i think it is value price and profit) who argues against someone in his early organization "The International Workingmen's Association" against the ideas of equal pay for everyone, because as Marx argues that would be in fact unequal because people are unequal and there circumstances differ. i.e. a single parent with 4 children needs more support and resources than a single man or woman. What socialism would be on that graph would be the removal of the top 20% due to nationalization of essential services i.e. banks and financial institutions, hospitals, schools and universities, natural resources, in summary private ownership of the means of production and services. In which the surplus revenue not required for re-investment (currently used for bonuses and irresponsible pay packets i.e. "incentive") would be used to provide public services ranging from free healthcare, free and subsidized housing, free education and higher education etc. Which would at the very least abolish absolute poverty.
"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil...there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy." Albert Einstein
|Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:20 pm
Re: Poverty and inequality
Thanks for the thoughtful reply PAB.
First a clarifying point:
When I said "actually address the main negative effects of poverty which are mostly around poor health outcomes" I meant that absolute poverty is a bad thing mostly because of the negative health impact it has on those who experience it. For example, not getting enough food leads to malnutrition. Having poor quality and over-crowded shelter leads to an increase in infection rates, etc. While there are other reasons absolute poverty is bad for the individuals who experience it, I think that health consequences are the primary problem to be highlighted.
I suppose what I am trying to do is approach this question in a bi-partisan manner and find a way for clear communication between the left and right political spheres. I think someone who favours capitalist-style solutions could fairly claim that by bundling inequality into the definition of poverty you presuppose the kinds of answers to poverty that are acceptable. Thereby the right-leaning ideologue can dismiss all concerns about poverty. I think that both poverty and inequality are important but I also want to make sure the moral force around absolute poverty is maintained and it seems to be diluted by a conflation with relative poverty.
In Britain if there is not the deprivation-type absolute poverty then we might be talking about different political climates. In New Zealand that kind of poverty does exist and not much is done about it but I always hear it brought up in terms of inequality which make it too easy to dismiss. I want to separate the two ideas so the more harmful aspect of poverty can be dealt with but I can understand how in different circumstances relative poverty might be the more useful term in order to achieve certain political goals.
Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
|Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:01 am
Re: Poverty and inequality
Well Aught3 you seem to be determined to try and do something about poverty in New Zealand so i wish the best of luck to you.
When you say that the right ideologue will/ can dismiss poverty if it is seen in terms of inequality, could you expand on this either hypothetically or from your experience. And what are the presuppositions created as answers to poverty when inequality is factored in to the definition of poverty?
As i expressed before inequality and poverty are fundamentally linked in my view. What is your definition of poverty if it is not linked to inequality ?
The concern that i have is that i believe poverty is a qualitative condition it is i.e. being extremely poor (absolute) or (relative) unacceptably poor, and that this condition is not chosen like that of religious monks but rather forced upon people who are trapped in those conditions. And that in general the predominant cause of poverty is the inequality of resources and a global economic system that is systematically unequal (i.e. that nice video you posted expresses a global inequality) (+ factors such as overpopulation are a cause but are not as i see it the dominant one, rather they add fuel to the fire and add strain to the weaker economies.).....So by redefining poverty away from inequalities due to right wing pressure the benefit may be some success in collaborative efforts to put some structures in place to alleviate some of the worst cases of impoverishment but at the loss of defining poverty at its root cause it takes attention away from the real underlying causes. And as i see it ground would be lost to simply treating the symptoms rather than the disease itself.
(But then again i have a very simple relationship with right wing ideology and party's, and that is absolute unwavering opposition)
Could you perhaps forward some links which you think accurately portrays the conditions in New Zealand regarding poverty and the political debate on it ?
"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil...there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy." Albert Einstein
|Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:03 am
Re: Poverty and inequality
Although it is specifically concerning the EU this is an interesting read
Its focus as it states is primarily on relative poverty as absolute poverty for Europe is almost non existent i.e. it mentions some people struggling in romania as an exception. However im sure the thousands of homeless in London alone will be willing to debate that, not to mention the illegal immigrants who are forced to share rooms with many many others sleep in "converted" sheds and meat freezers etc.
Anyway on the topic of inequality this document puts it thus ;
Unlike poverty, which concentrates on the situation of those at the bottom of
Poverty and Wealth have to be studied together. In the EU inequality is
The overall persistent high level of poverty in the EU
and regarding the political arena this is worth consideration........
The least unequal societies in Europe tend to have the lowest
Using the EU to support my arguments has made me uneasy and unsure of reality ,so i'm going to go watch some Glenn Beck to remind me exactly what is wrong in the world.
"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil...there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy." Albert Einstein
|Sat Mar 16, 2013 2:26 am
Re: Poverty and inequality
So according to a new "multidimensional" measure cooked up in Oxford University it seems that extreme poverty is being reduced in many countries
"The world is witnessing a epochal 'global rebalancing' with higher growth in at least 40 poor countries helping lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and into a new 'global middle class'.
Funnily enough this is a down to a report from the UN but - " poverty could increase by up to 3 billion by 2050 unless urgent action is taken to tackle environmental challenges, a major UN report warned on Thursday."....
"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil...there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy." Albert Einstein
|Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:27 pm
ArthurWilbornPosts: 964Joined: Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:46 pm
Re: Poverty and inequality
There's a key assumption I think I'm missing here. Some people have more money then others, ok. How does people having more money hurt the people who have less money, exactly?
|Sat Apr 20, 2013 11:31 pm
Re: Poverty and inequality
ArthurWilborn wrote:There's a key assumption I think I'm missing here. Some people have more money then others, ok. How does people having more money hurt the people who have less money, exactly?I gave an example in my OP but taking from Wikipedia more economically unequal societies tend to have:
Higher rates of health problems (more obesity, mental illness, and infant mortality)
Higher rates of social problems (more homicides, incarcerations, and drug use)
Lower rates of social goods (lower life expectancy, educational performance, trust, social mobility, and patents)
Lower levels of economic utility
Lower economic growth
Less social cohesion
Higher crime rates
Less civil participation
Less cultural participation
So that's why it's being taken as obvious that inequality is detrimental, although this thread isn't really about inequality but the difference between poverty and inequality.
Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
|Sun Apr 21, 2013 1:51 am
Re: Poverty and inequality
Coming back and reading this thread six months after having started it, I have to say I feel pretty justified in my initial concern that poverty and inequality were being deliberately mixed up in order to avoid talk and action about both.
This editorial from the NZ herald contains some choice explanation around the current government's unwillingness to even acknowledge the problem on absolute poverty in New Zealand.
Some of the statements from the minister are: that household income rates (i.e. inequality) has gotten no worse in the last three years so we don't need to talk more about it and that there is no "one measure" of poverty.
This is exactly the issue I was identifying. Because there is no official way to measure poverty any concerns raised can be dismissed with a simple sound bite. When the issue is pressed, ministers fall back to talk about income levels which are steady enough to give the illusion of stability.
In fact, when statistics on outcomes related to poverty are examined they show the situation is getting worse. A 12% increase in hospital admissions for children and rising emotional/physical abuse of children (previously reported by the government as a decrease in abuse!)
When Dr Russell Wills (Children's Commissioner) asked the government for funding to create an official measurement of child poverty and its impact on health and social wellbeing he was turned down. It seems hiding the problem is preferable to understanding it, at least for this government. Fortunately, he didn't give up and got his funding from a charitable trust to set up the measuring and monitoring system.
My prediction is a big attack by the government on the new report due out this week. I hope that it gets a lot of coverage in the media and the ministers/prime minister get to show off just how callously they treat our most vulnerable citizens. Personally, I'm extremely disgusted with my current government. I don't vote for National in elections but they seem so much worse this time around than in the past. I want John Key and his crew gone pronto. The next election can't come soon enough.
Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
|Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:09 am
Dragan GlasPosts: 3214Joined: Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:55 amLocation: Ireland Gender: Male
Re: Poverty and inequality
I think one should also be careful not to be confused by the term "poverty" - there are two kinds of poverty: dynamic and static.
Dynamic poverty is where someone may fall on hard times - into poverty - but then picks themself up and makes money again.
Static poverty is "permanent" - ie, generational - and is what is referred to as "real" poverty.
It's this latter form which is the real problem, is of concern and needs to be addressed.
Kindest regards,
"The Word of God is the Creation we behold and it is in this Word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man."
The Age Of Reason
|Tue Dec 10, 2013 2:47 am
Re: Poverty and inequality
I pretty much agree. I'm not sure exactly what 'time limit' I would put on the difference between poverty and real poverty but I could see how a few months of hardship wouldn't really count.
That may be why the report focuses on child poverty, which is generational by definition.
As it turned out, there was
- 25% of NZ children in relative poverty
- 22% in material deprivation
- 10% facing severe hardship
It looks like relative poverty is a pretty decent indicator of absolute poverty which I found interesting.
Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
|Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:26 am


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Broad City - Season Four
The Jewess Yas Queens are back for a fourth season of "Broad City," still silly and usually high but more circumspect in the current Trumpian dystopia. There are subtle references to the young women participating in the Resistance, like a headboard made of protest signs and stickers, and stints as abortion clinic escorts.
The ten-episode season ran on Comedy Central from September - December 2017, and both Abbi and Ilana directed two episodes each, underscored throughout by the joke anthem song "Leanne." The show has contracted for a fifth season.
The first installment, "Sliding Doors," mimics the movie of the same name, creating bifurcated timelines of the pair's first meeting in 2011. In "Twaining Day," Abbi fucks up her job at guest star Wanda Sykes company, but ends up back at the Soulstice gym with former boyfriend Trey and reluctant new client (and hilariously self-referential) singer Shania Twain. Ilana becomes a waitress for chichi Manhattan restaurant Sushi Mambeaux under bitchy manager RuPaul, in an amped-up version of himself, alongside co-worker (and sadly underutilized) Sandra Bernhard.
Ilana starts to spend her prodigious tip money on indulgences like pricey purses, fancy leotards and nail tips, one of the reasons for the episode title "Just the Tips," and runs into her ex, Lincoln (Hannibal Buress). Hippy-trippy opening credits artist Mike Perry gets to interface with the live-action ladies when they take an adventurous trip on/in "Mushrooms."
"Abbi's Mom" is played by "Frasier's" Peri Gilpin and visits her daughter at the restaurant while Ilana tries to treat her Seasonal Affected Disorder with a light therapy lamp. Jane Curtin guests on "Witches" as a flaky stallholder (selling Abbi's real mom's actual artwork) next to Abbi's Christmas card stand, set up to fund a space heater purchase.
The women, including Ilana's mom Bobbi (Susie Essman), go to Florida (also the episode name), "America's droopy dick," to clean out Grandma Esther's apartment along with aunt Bev (Fran Drescher), where they sport impressive, humidity-induced Jew-fros over color-blocked tracksuits. Mike Birbiglia guests at Abbi's high school English teacher in "House-Sitting," and Steve Buscemi is a pathetic robber in "Bedbugs," which also features the titular apartment infestation.
The season ends where it begins - a celebration of this relationship with "Friendiversary," which also echoes the film "Rear Window."
DVD extras on both discs include deleted/extended scenes and outtakes, some short "Hack Into Broad City" and "Behind Broad City" segments, including a costume deep dive, featuring Abbi's over-belting and Ilana's "The Future is Female" jean jacket with drawings of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai.
They try to get together for/in the "Inauguration" clip and end up reviewing their krav maga training over Facetime. In another, they acknowledge that this administration can take away many rights, but never their orgasms for they are "cum queens." They, like their loyal fan base, refuse to say (and bleep or scratch off) his name, for doing so would give him, like the devil, more power. The series is a reminder that it's still all about the Queens.
"Broad City Season 4"
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July 1
Hans Werner Henze
Birth: July 1, 1926 in Gütersloh, Westfalen, Germany
Hans Werner Henze has composed extensively in all the major genres including symphony, concerto, opera, and song, in a wide variety of styles. At first he composed in a neo-classical manner, but later adopted 12-tone serialism. Henze began composing at age 12, even before his formal music education began at the Braunschweig State Music School. He served in the German army in World War II and was briefly held as a prisoner-of-war. After the war, he continued his studies at the Institute for Church Music in Heidelberg, where he worked with Wolfgang Fortner, and at Darmstadt, where he studied with Schoenberg disciple René Leibowitz. His earliest recognized compositions date from the mid-1940s. His first full-length opera, Boulevard Solitude, was completed in 1951. Henze was chiefly identified with the post-Arnold Schoenberg serial composers for several years. With his move to Italy in 1953, Henze sought to change that perception and brought to his music a new lyricism. In the mid-1960s Henze took his first teaching post, as director of master classes in composition at the Salzburg Mozarteum. From an early age, he was interested in political and social issues. His rejection of the bourgeois values of his upbringing and the Nazism that he encountered probably had a large influence on his later political thinking. The notorious premiere of the oratorio Das Floss der Medusa (The Raft of Medusa, a requiem for Che Guevara) in 1968, at which the work's librettist and others were arrested, brought Henze further notoriety musically and politically. Interactions with German students and Italian intellectuals had motivated Henze to bring to his work an increasing political consciousness. Socialism and the New Left were very appealing to him, even more so after a year of teaching in Cuba in 1969-70, during which he led the Cuban National Symphony in the premiere of his Symphony #6. Voices, a song cycle with texts by Ho Chi Minh, Bertold Brecht and others, reflects Henze's political commitment and his musical eclecticism. In his later works, Henze has incorporated such disparate elements as rock and popular music, electronics, taped sounds, microtones, and extended vocal and instrumental techniques. But he has also continued the exploration of an expressionist orchestral sumptuousness in such works as Heliogabalus imperator and Tristan, and an enjoyment in reinterpreting old musical models.
July 8
Percy Aldrich Grainger
Birth: July 8, 1882 in Melbourne, Australia
Death: February 21, 1961 in White Plains, NY
George Percy Aldridge Grainger, was born to an architect father and a mother, Rose, who was the daughter of hoteliers from Adelaide, South Australia. His father was an alcoholic and when Grainger was 11, his parents separated. Grainger's mother was domineering and possessive. But, she recognized his musical abilities, and in 1895 took him to study at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. There he displayed his talents as a musical experimenter, using irregular and unusual meters. From 1901 to 1914 Grainger lived in London, where he befriended and was influenced by Edvard Grieg. Grieg had a longstanding interest in the folk songs of his native Norway, and Grainger developed a particular interest in recording the folk songs of rural England. During this period, Grainger also wrote and performed piano compositions that anticipated the forthcoming popularization of the tone cluster by Leo Ornstein and Henry Cowell. Grainger moved to the USA at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. His 1916 piano composition In a Nutshell was the first by a classical music professional in the Western tradition to require direct, non-keyed sounding of the strings - in this case, with a mallet - which would come to be known as a "string piano" technique. When the USA entered the war in 1917, he enlisted in a United States Army band playing the oboe and soprano saxophone, and spent the duration of the war giving dozens of concerts in aid of War Bonds and Liberty Loans. In 1918, he became a naturalized citizen of the USA. His piano solo CountryGardens became a smash hit, securing his reputation, although Grainger grew to detest the piece. With his newfound wealth, Grainger and his mother settled in White Plains, NY after the war. Rose Grainger's health, however, both mental and physical, was in decline. She committed suicide in 1922 by jumping from the building where her son's manager, Antonia Sawyer, had her office. In the same year, he traveled to Denmark, his first folk-music collecting trip to Scandinavia, and the orchestration of the music of the region would shape much of his finest output. In 1926 Percy Grainger met the Swedish artist and poet Ella Viola Ström and, freed from his mother's domination, fell in love at first sight. Their wedding was one of the most remarkable on record. It took place on August 9, 1928 on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, following a concert before an audience of 20,000, with an orchestra of 126 musicians and an a cappella choir, which sang his new composition, To a Nordic Princess, dedicated to Ella. In 1929 Grainger established himself as a musical innovator with a style of orchestration or arranging that he called "Elastic Scoring". In 1932 he became Dean of Music at New York University, and emphasized his reputation as an experimenter by including jazz on the syllabus and inviting Duke Ellington as a guest lecturer. In 1940, the Graingers moved to Springfield, Missouri, from which base Grainger again toured to give a series of army concerts during World War II. However, after the war, poor health, declining ability as a pianist and the gradual decline in popularity of classical music discouraged Grainger. His last public appearance was at Dartmouth College in 1960. In his last years, working in collaboration with Burnett Cross, Percy Grainger invented the "Free Music Machine" which was the forerunner of the electric synthesizer. He died in White Plains and he was buried in Adelaide, Australia. Percy Grainger was known during his lifetime as a virtuoso pianist and arranger of popular English folk song. His primary contribution to music, however, was as a composer of expert and highly original works. Early in his life, Grainger rejected the central European tradition of Western classical music, seeking instead a "democratic" music that was more closely related to natural sounds, speech, and world music. In his quest to assimilate as much unique musical culture as possible, Grainger became one of the first ethnomusicologists to use the wax cylinder phonograph in the collection and transcription of indigenous music. His arrangements of many of these are among the best ever done, capturing not only the melodies and harmonies, but also the timbres, inflections, and performance styles of each individual piece. In his own compositions, Grainger experimented with nontraditional rhythms, forms, and instrumental combinations in an attempt to create what he called "free music." He was a champion of physical fitness, and stayed in top condition throughout his life.
August 5
Guillaume Dufay
Birth: August 5, 1397 in Bersele, Brabant, France
Death November 27, 1474 in Cambrai, France
Dufay was one of the most highly regarded composers of his generation, and one of those principally responsible for inaugurating the Renaissance in music. Before his death, Dufay would lead the papal chapel, socialize with popes and dukes, and collaborate with Donatello and Brunelleschi. Dufay lived in the Duchy of Burgundy – one of the primary musical hubs of the era, and a highly significant center for the structural principles of the high Renaissance. He spent a considerable portion of his life in Italy, in various cities, and so not only contributed to the refinement of musical life of Italy, but also disseminated Italian ideas to the intellectual centers of Northern Europe. Dufay was one of the most cosmopolitan composers of his or any age, and his large musical output contains many masterpieces, from cyclic masses to isorhythmic motets to simply ornamented hymns and dramatic cycles. Dufay's music flows more smoothly than the characteristically complex rhythmic textures of the late Medieval period, and is marked by graceful melodies and a compelling sense of direction. As his career progressed and his fame grew, Dufay increasingly took up the four-voice vocal texture which was to be characteristic of the early Renaissance as a whole. His four cantus firmus masses Se la face ay pale, L'homme arme, Ecce ancilla domini, and Ave regina caelorum are landmarks in what was to become the dominant style of mass composition. At his death in 1474, Dufay left a sizable fortune (including cash, jewelry, furniture, and books), as well as musical provisions for his own memorial services. He also left an outstanding musical reputation and a powerful influence upon generations of composers to follow.
August 12
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber
Birth: August 12, 1644 in Wartenberg, Bohemia
Death: May 3, 1704 in Salzburg, Austria
Biber was a violin virtuoso and one of the first great composers for that instrument. Little is known of his background or education, although he is believed to have studied in Vienna with the eminent German violinist Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. Biber began his career playing violin and gamba in the courts of Moravia, and is known to have assumed a post in the band belonging to Count Karl of Liechtenstein-Castelcorno at Kromeriz. In 1670, he abandoned this position without permission, and joined the Kapelle in Salzburg. His brilliance and virtuosity on the violin made Biber one of the most renowned soloists in Europe, and in 1690 Emperor Leopold I added the aristocratic prefix "von" to his name. His music was published extensively, though it was often idiosyncratic. Biber's manuscripts and publications illustrate violin improvisations in unprecedented detail. In his Sonata Representativa, one will find instrumental impressions of cuckoos, frogs, cats, and marching musketeers. These are supplied with a simple ground bass that provides plenty of room for the soloist to improvise, but are written at such a high level of difficulty that few violinists attempt to master them. In his "Mystery", or "Rosenkranz" sonatas, Biber makes extensive use of scordatura, violin re-tunings that change the tonal character of the instrument and make "impossible" figurations possible. Biber's music is strongly affective emotionally, and in works of a programmatic character, such as his orchestral piece Battalia. In Battalia, the orchestra is required to play simultaneous marching songs in different keys - in a manner similar to the music of Charles Ives - to indicate soldiers of various regiments going off to battle. A soft, hushed passage at the end of the work represents the result, a somber representation of battlefield dead. Especially in his later years, Biber also composed extensive choral music, operas, and sacred music such as the 15-part Requiem and theMissa Salisburgensis, a powerful polyphonic setting of the mass for 53 voices.
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Georges Enescu
Birth: August 19, 1881 Liveni-Virnav, Romania
Death: May 4, 1955 in Paris, France
George Enescu is still considered the greatest of all Romanian composers. While he is widely known for one famous work, he was an imaginative, skilled composer of music with great depth and subtlety, as well as being one of the great concert violinists of his time. He was given a violin and lessons at the age of four. He progressed rapidly and began to compose a year later. He entered the conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna in 1888. His primary violin teacher was Joseph Hellmesberger. He studied piano with Ernst Ludwig and harmony, theory, and composition with Robert Fuchs. He made his performing debut in 1889 and graduated before his 13th birthday, earning the silver medal. In 1895 he went to Paris to continue his training. He studied violin with Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony with André Gédalge, and composition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré. This mixture of late Romantic German and French training helped give his music its distinctive quality. The work he designated as his first mature piece, the Poème Roumaine, Op. 1, premiered in 1898. That same year he started conducting the Romanian Philharmonic Society in Bucharest. Enescu quickly established one of the most important solo and chamber music careers of the century. His recital partner was the great French pianist Alfred Cortot, and he formed a piano trio with Louis Fournier and Alfredo Casella in 1902, and in 1904 the Enescu Quartet. He joined the faculties of the École Normal and the American Conservatory in Paris. In the meantime, he took an active part in building a classical concert life in his native Romania. He formed a Philharmonic Orchestra in the town of Iasi, and a Composers' Society. He wrote his most famous works, the two Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11, for the Philharmonic. He also worked closely with the Conservatories in Bucharest and Iasi. In 1912 he funded a "George Enescu Prize" in composition, and played the world premieres of the winning works. He made his first appearances in the United States in 1923, as violinist and guest conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was also a noted violin teacher. Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Ivry Gitlis, Arthur Grumiaux, and Ida Haendel were among his pupils. Through the 1930s he continued work as a violinist, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and organizer, while as a composer he labored over his powerful opera Oedipus. During World War II, he remained at his country estate in Romania. After the war, he went to New York, while a Soviet-backed government took over his country. He remained in New York, increasingly incapacitated by arthritis. He gave a farewell concert with Menuhin in 1950, then returned to Paris. He suffered a stroke in 1954 and as a result, spent ten months almost entirely paralyzed. On his death in 1955, George Enescu was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music, his most popular compositions being the two Romanian Rhapsodies. He also wrote 5 symphonies, a symphonic poem Vox maris, and much chamber music including 3 sonatas for violin and piano, 2 for cello and piano, a piano trio, quartets with and without piano, a wind dixtuor, an octet for strings, a piano quintet, and a chamber symphony for twelve solo instruments.


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Bill Barnwell is making sense:
What is it going to take before teams realize that spending money on running backs is a misuse of precious resources? Both these teams have enjoyed success from backs on the cheap over the past couple of seasons, and they both totally ignored that process in targeting running backs in the first round. The Browns might not have had much fun with Peyton Hillis last season, but remember that he looked to be a franchise back in 2010 and only cost Cleveland Brady Quinn, who was a candidate to be released. Did that convince the Browns to go back to the well and try to find the next Peyton Hillis for $500,000? Nope! Instead, they used the third pick on Trent Richardson, who will be spinning his wheels in the backfield next year behind an unimproved offensive line. Of the 14 running backs who have been taken in the top five since 1990, only a handful have delivered on their promise. Most have flashes of brilliance mixed with injuries, which is exactly what you get from guys like Jerome Harrison, who cost nothing.
Taking a running back with a #3 pick in itself is insane; trading up to do it is even stupider. And it's not just that running backs are inherently unpredictable and injury-prone. It's that — the romantic attachment so many still have to "ground-and-pound" notwithstanding — the quality of a team's running game has almost no correlation with a team's ability to win. Having a good running game is like stealing bases effectively in modern baseball; it doesn't hurt, exactly, but it's of marginal importance. If you can pass and/or defend against the pass effectively you don't need a high-quality running game, and if you can't move the ball through the air a good running game won't help you. (The Giants, Super Bowl champions with a below-average running game, are hardly rare.) For a team with as many fundamental holes as the Browns to worry about their running game to the extent of wasting a #3 overall pick on it is bizarre, and is also pretty clear evidence that the Browns are unlikely to significantly improve anytime soon.


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Sony wants to introduce you to their Alpha a77 DSLR Camera with 16-50mm f/2.8 DT Lens Kit. This DSLR has a number of things going for it, not the least of which is the 24.3Mp sensor. Think of all the possibilities 24.3 megapixels of resolution has: mural sized prints, incredible detail, rich color, and more! If you've been craving the pixel power of the medium format back, but in a DSLR rig, now your wait is over.
Sony also gave the a77 their 2nd generation Translucent Mirror Technology system. What does this technology do? It allows the camera to focus with the speed and accuracy of Phase Detection AF and shoot simultaneously. This is an unheard of capability in the world of digital photography, well until now, that is. The camera also boasts Sony's upgraded BIONZ image processor. The processor performs many functions, including efficiently transferring shot data to the chip in your memory card. It also reduces visual noise, and ensures that functions such as 6-image layering and 2D/3D Sweep Panorama work smoothly, and with the necessary speed.
Included with the a77 is the Sony 16-50mm f/2.8 DT Standard Zoom Lens which has a 35mm focal length equivalent of 24-75mm. Its maximum aperture is f/2.8 and that is constant throughout the zoom range, so even if you are shooting at full zoom you will have the ability to shoot at fast shutter speeds and with shallow depth of field. A Super Sonic Wave Motor provides smooth, silent and fast autofocus and aspheric and extra-low dispersion lens elements provide sharper images with accurate colors.
More than a still camera, the a77 also captures high-quality 1920 x 1080p AVCHD video at 60p or 24p. You can also choose to record at 60i. HD movies can also be captured with full manual control. That means the entire mode dial is at your disposal: Program, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, and Manual. Live View, Full-Time Live View (in LCD or EVF) are also available for use as is Full-Time Phase Detection AF. The latter of course being an intelligent way to correct focus automatically, while you concentrate on the scene at hand.
What the DSLR also offers, above and beyond most less-sophisticated cameras, is a viewfinder, the way all your heroes used to shoot. The a77's OLED viewfinder gets your eye off the LCD screen and into the right situation for capturing successful images. Like all viewfinders, this one keeps distractions and glare at bay. But what the OLED viewfinder does that's above and beyond the pack includes a reduction of motion blur on the Tru-Finder screen. The OLED features 2359K dots of resolution and a high contrast ratio. It also allows you to see the results of camera adjustments in real time with true-to-life color and detail.
Of course, the a77 does have an LCD screen too, but not just any monitor. This one tilts and swivels for everything from hard-to-get shots to successful reviewing of footage in harsh lighting conditions - and easier self-portraits. When it's not in use, the screen folds flat to the camera for safe storage and traveling.
As far as shooting performance is concerned, in regards to all things internal on the camera, the a77 backs up those 24.3Mp with the kinds of features and functions one would expect. First, the camera supports burst shooting up to 12 frames per second at full resolution, that's great news for sports photographers. The a77 also boasts a super-short lag time of only 0.05 seconds. Then there's the 16,000 ISO sensitivity and the 1200-zone exposure metering. The metering function reads directly from the camera's main image sensor and offers the choice of Multi, Center, and Spot metering.
As for more proprietary shooting features, the camera has a load of those too! While you can shoot on manual, you might find yourself playing with all the built-in options for expressing your creativity. First off, there's the dual control dials that give you access to two settings at once. All the traditional P/A/S/M exposure modes can be found there. Getting into the menu functions you'll find options such as 19-point Auto Focus, Object Tracking AF, and 6-image layering just to start. Dig a little deeper and Handheld Twilight mode and Multi-Frame NR are there to help you capture excellent low-light images.
You'll also find extras such as built-in GPS. The integrated GPS receiver records the location and time of every shot you take, allowing you to view them later on a map with compatible computer and Internet applications. This feature is also great for those into 'geo-tagging'. Eleven Picture Effects modes also give you another way to express yourself with options like Pop Color, Retro Photo, Toy Camera, and more. Old standards like face detection and Sony's Smile Shutter technology are there for your use as well.
Like any good DSLR worth its salt, Sony gave the a77 a built-in flash for capturing low-light shots with ease. That same flash can also trigger an optional wireless flash. The camera also has an integrated hot shoe for attaching various external flashes and flash accessories (sold separately).
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Effective: 24.3 Megapixel
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Movies: AVC/H.264
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Type: Electronic
Speed: 30 to 1/8000 Second
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Compensation: -5 EV to +5 EV (in 1/3 EV Steps)
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|Auto, Cloudy, Daylight, Flash, Fluorescent, Fluorescent (Day White), Fluorescent (Natural White), Fluorescent (White), Incandescent, Kelvin, Manual, Shade
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Red-Eye Reduction
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1920 x 1080p (Full HD)
1440 x 1080p (HD)
640 x 480p (SD)
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|5.6 x 4.1 x 3.1" / 14.2 x 10.4 x 7.9 cm
|1.44 lb / 653.17 g Camera body only
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Maximum: f/2.8
Minimum: f/22
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|20.35 oz / 577 g
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (May 7, 2010) - The ETSU baseball team is set to face Florida Gulf Coast in a three-game series that could determine the Atlantic Sun conference champion starting Saturday at 1 p.m. with a doubleheader at Swanson Stadium in Fort Myers, Fla. The two teams close out the series with a single on Sunday slated for 1 p.m.
The Bucs (27-18, 14-7 A-Sun) have won five straight including a 12-4 mid-week win over Wofford and a sweep of Stetson last weekend. ETSU is 3-0 on the season in road series, and 5-2 in conference series.
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The match up between the Bucs and Eagles features two Golden Spikes candidates in Hoilman and FGCU's Chris Sale, as well as the second best offense in the A-Sun against the second ranked pitching staff.
ETSU is looking for their first win against FGCU having gone 0-6 against the Eagles since they joined the A-Sun.
Live stats and audio are available for all three games, while Sunday's contest can be heard live on ETSUBucs.com and on the radio on the Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation's family of stations, which include WKPT-AM (1400) and WKPT-FM (94.3) in
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Cheryl MacK necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 110 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
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A new and exciting lolly buffet company.
Primarily focussing on lolly buffets but also offering event planning/co-ordination of all kinds.
Weddings - Birthday Celebrations - Corporate Functions
Lolly Buffets are relatively new to the Australian Market.
So far, they have appealed mainly to brides-to-be, so it appears the main audience will be those in the bridal market, however I don't want to 'pigeon-hole' myself just to that market. I do foresee the audience to be mainly female though.
As well as targeting individuals we will also be working with companies for corporate functions, etc - So while the logo may incorporate a sweet/candy fun feel, it also needs to appear professional.
I am open to all submissions and ideas.
Something that obviously has to do with sweets/candy would be obvious, but not essential!!! (Lollies, Cakes, etc)
I would like to offer additional services apart from the lolly buffets too, so something that doesn't just revolve around sweets/lollies would be good too.
Preferable colours would be soft pastel tones - the inclusion of pink would certainly be preferable
It should also be a design that is versatile and works in all meduims (online, print. merchandise, etc)
I am also interested in offering the winner the opportunity to design the new website and associated media.
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At Bed & Breakfast La Festa, awarded the "Best Value for Money Hotel 2009" in the Netherlands by the travel web site hoteliers.com, as well as a "Certificate of Excellence 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017" by Tripadvisor and an award by Booking.com for obtaining an average rating of 9.0, your host Desa Ustebay takes pride in offering highly personalised service in sleek, stylish, and contemporary accommodations at highly competitive rates. Professionally designed by a Dutch architect, our Bed & Breakfast offers all the amenities you would expect of a four-star hotel, including cable TV, hairdryer, work desk, ironing facilities and free Wi-Fi internet.
Ideally situated in the Jordaan area of central Amsterdam, the neighbourhood is dotted with lively cafes, art galleries, and bookshops, and is just minutes away from cultural attractions such as the Anne Frank House and Amsterdam 's world-famous museums. The city's pulsating dining, shopping, and entertainment areas are just a stone's throw away.
Not to be missed is the La Festa Italian restaurant, a local landmark in the Jordaan known for its friendly service and delicious fare at low prices. The restaurant is owned by the co-owner of the Bed & Breakfast, and is located on the ground floor of the building.
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Keukenhof open again.
Just a few days ago, Keukenhof flower garden has opened it's doors again.
Keukenhof? That's the place to see spring blossom. The park is unique, world famous, and has been one of the most popular destinations in the Netherlands for sixty years now. Haven't seen Keukenhof? Then you haven't seen the Netherlands. You won't find such an abundance of colours and fragrances anywhere else. More than seven million flowers form a glorious decor for the most beautiful photos. Come to Keukenhof and enjoy the ultimate spring feeling, the wonderful works of art, the surprising inspirational gardens and the many flower shows.
Keukenhof is one of the major attractions of The Netherlands and will be opened from till 20 May 2014.
Combine the beautiful city of Amsterdam with a visit to Keukenhof and book your room in Amsterdam at B&B La Festa.
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What better way to start the new year than with a very nice review on Tripadvisor?
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Our 4 day visit to Amsterdam was truly saved by our choice of accommodation. After touring around Germany for a week, we had both contracted severe colds. We received a warm friendly greeting from Bjorn, who showed us to our spacious first floor room.
Complimentary tea service in our more spacious than expected room with a very comfy bed revived us and we were able to visit the Rijksmuseum without standing in line using the tickets the hotel procured for us. They contacted us via email before our stay to help in arranging any tickets or tours which was very helpful. We loved the modern bathroom and the portable fan/heater to adjust the room's temperature. When the weather warmed during our stay, they even changed to lighter linens to make us more comfortable. We ate twice in the restaurant which was a great value, and as friendly and welcoming as the rooms. The rooms are on a charming side street a quick walk from transport, or to the most scenic, unique areas of the city. We felt more like visiting relatives than tourists. We would return again without hesitation.
Cheaper parking in Amsterdam
The cheapest option to park your car in Amsterdam has lowered it's prices. Parking at one of the Park & Ride (P+R) parking lots outside the city centre is possible from € 1,- per 24 hours. From there you enter the city by public transport. Parking costs € 1,- per day in weekends and on weekdays after 10 am. Before 10 am you will pay € 8,- for the first 24 hours and € 1,- for every next day. You will be able to buy a public transport ticket into the city with a discount. Choose any of the following: Arena in the South-East of the city, Sloterdijk in the North-West or Stadionplein in the South-West. For more information see this website.
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AOA001 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 292 designs submitted by 80 freelance designers.
That's Sew You (thatssewyou.com)
That's-Sew-You offers handmade items (usually sewn) for housewife purposes. For example, we offer cute-modern aprons, baby carrier covers, and more.
We target the housewife that does things around the house and watches out for the little ones, but still wants to be in line with modern trends. She'll wear our cute aprons, use our baby products to get the OMG moments in the grocery store, and more as she sports these items.
Pastel like color pallet or something a bit stronger.
Owner really likes this color scheme (but it is just an idea) http://www.colorcombos.com/color-scheme-232.html
Overall we are looking for something very clever, cute, and identifiable. This may be in the form of an actual character (personage) or just text.
We do realize that as a designer you are the professional, so please do your best to use that god-given talent in this logo.
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