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The Constitution of the United States provides in Article 1, Section 8, that: the "Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
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"Every other subject is about something. Poetry is about something. Even most modern art is about something. Math is about nothing. Math describes much of the world but is all about itself, and it has the most fantastic conundrums. But it is not about the world."
Yes, mathematics is an entirely self-referential language. That's the very reason why it's so useful. Complaining that math isn't about some thing is like complaining that paint isn't an image – and even Hacker concedes that math can be used to describe much of the world. For most scientists the discussion stops at this point. The verdict in my filter bubble in unanimous: mathematics is the language of nature, and if schools teach one thing, that's what they should teach.
I agree with that of course. And yet, the argument that math is the language of nature preaches to the converted. For the rest it's meaningless rhetoric, countered by the argument that schools should teach what's necessary: necessary to fill in a tax return, calculate a mortgage rate, or maybe estimate how many bricks you need to build a wall along the US-Mexican border.School curriculums have to be modernized every now and then, no doubt about this. But the goal cannot be to reduce a subject of education based on the reasoning that it's difficult. Math is the base of scientific literacy. You need math to understand risk assessments, to read statistics, and to understand graphs. You need math to understand modern science and tell it from pseudoscience. Much of the profusion of quack medicine like quantum healing or homeopathy is due to people's inability to grasp even the basics of the underlying theories (or their failure to notice the absence thereof). For that you'd need, guess what, math.
But most importantly, you need math to understand what it even means to understand. The only real truths are mathematical truths, and so proving theorems is the only way to learn how to lead watertight arguments. That doesn't mean that math teaches you how to lead successful arguments, in the sense of convincing someone. But it teaches you how to lead correct arguments. And that skill should be worth something, even if Hacker might complain that the arguments are about nothing.
I thought of this recently when my daughters had their school enrollment checkup.
One of the twins, Lara, doesn't have stereo vision. We know this because she's had regular eye exams, and while she sees well on both eyes separately, she doesn't see anything on the 3d test card. I've explained to her why it's important she wears her eye-cover and I try to coax her into doing some muscle building exercises. But she doesn't understand.
And how could she? She's never seen 3d. She doesn't know what she doesn't see. And it's not an obvious disability: Lara tells distances by size and context. She knows that birds are small and cars are large and hence small cars are far away. For all she can tell, she sees just as well as everybody else. There are few instances when stereo-vision really makes a difference, one of them is catching a ball. But at 5 years she's just as clumsy as all the other kids.
Being math-blind too is not an obvious disability. You can lead a pleasant life without mathematics because it's possible to fill in the lack of knowledge with heuristics and anecdotes. And yet, without math, you'll never see reality for what it is – you'll lead your life in the fudgy realm of maybe-truths.
Lara doesn't know triangulation and she doesn't know vector spaces, and when I give her examples for what she's missing, she'll just put on this blank look that children reserve for incomprehensible adult talk, listen politely, and then reply "Today I built a moon rocket in kindergarten."
I hear an echo of my 5 year old's voice in these essays about the value of math education. It's trying to tell someone they are missing part of the picture, and getting a reply like "I have never used the quadratic formula in my personal life." Fine then, but totally irrelevant. Rather than factoring polynomials, let's teach kids differential equations or network growth, which is arguably more useful to understand the world.
Math isn't going away. On the very contrary it's bound to dramatically increase in significance as the social sciences become more quantitative. We need that precision to make informed decisions and to avoid reinventing the wheel over and over again. And like schools teach the basics of political theory so that children understand the use of democracy, they must teach mathematics so that they understand the use of quantitative forecasts, uncertainties, and, most of all, to recognize the boundary between fact and opinion.


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I usually love, love, love some Real Housewives of Atlanta gossip, but today's story leaves me sad. Newbie not quite Housewife Marlo Hampton admitted on this week's episode that she had been arrested seven times (yep – one for each day of the week!) but she brushed her arrests off as mainly probation violations, stating she is now a different person. NeNe Leakes quickly changed the subject to something that matters more to her — shoes — so we never got more insight into Marlo's past. Until now.
Marlo has been up front about her troubled childhood growing up in foster care in Florida after her mother succumbed to drug addiction, but the fauxcialite started her foray into the criminal world early. StraightFromTheA blog is reporting exclusive details on one of Marlo's arrests when she was in her early twenties.
Marlo was initially arrested back in 1998 in Florida and charged with Aggravated Battery w/Great Bodily Harm of which she was later convicted, serving six months in jail. See the mugshot from that arrest, which features Marlo smiling, below.
Apparently, while she was in a club Marlo got into a fight with another young woman over a man. During the altercation Marlo pulled out a razor blade (or another extremely sharp object) and repeatedly sliced open her opponent's face!
The fight left the other woman horribly disfigured and she allegedly almost bled to death in the club while awaiting medical attention. Six-years later the woman, who was a mother, committed suicide at 33 by jumping off a bridge, thus leaving her son behind.
StraightFromTheA had originally reported on Marlo's shady past and cited that as one of the major reasons Bravo had decided not to make her an official Housewife. In response to that discovery the family of the victim of Marlo's attack came forward and gave their side of the story to the blogger. The family states they have no "ill feelings towards Marlo. That's between her and God."
"All that we ask is for her not to refer to my sister as a bitch or even mention her name, because she has passed away," the family requests. Asking that Marlo refrain from calling the woman a "bitch" reportedly stems from alleged comments Marlo made about "cutting a bitch" or "fighting a bitch" when explaining the altercation to someone else.
"I received a call stating she had jumped to her death, she was a beautiful, strong minded young woman who leaves behind a son," the email describes."We will never honestly know what drove her to this decision, or what drove her to that moment of desperation, we do know that she left behind fun, loving memories."
Of course, like with all suicides, there is no way to know what led the person to ultimately take their own life. An incredibly tragic and sad story. May she rest in peace. Screenshots of the original email from the woman's family are below.
In response to details of her arrest coming to light, Marlo gave a statement to Access Atlanta's Rodney Ho about her version of the events and that time in her life. Here is Marlo's statement in its entirety:
"I am shocked and saddened to hear of the recent distortions of events and false accusations disseminated over an altercation I was involved in over a dozen years ago. It had been my preference, out of respect for the person involved, as well as her family, to not speak about this incident publicly, but the recklessness with which the story is being manipulated has forced me to come forward."
"I was in my early twenties, and what took place started out as an argument with someone who was once my friend, over the phone. In the first incident, I was ambushed at my house and badly beaten. Though charges were initially filed, those charges were later dropped and I filed a restraining order. As disturbing as the carrying of a weapon may seem, it was quite common in the environment in which I was raised, and not only I, but also the person involved in the altercation, had each brought weapons to protect ourselves. There was a confrontation, her knife dropped, mine did not."
"I was arrested and convicted of aggravated battery for which I served 6 months in jail. What is so disturbing about the false reports now circulating is that it was she, my friend, who appeared in court on my behalf and fought to reduce my sentence."
"Like many people, I was deeply saddened by her untimely death – 6 years later – and shocked at the recent attempts to connect me to it. Ultimately, it does a disservice to her and her family, to guess and draw conclusions as to her state of mind when she committed suicide."
"Those reasons are obviously personal and painful and do not deserve to be speculated on for the purposes of entertainment or drawing readers to your site. She and her family remain in my prayers."
My attorneys will be sending a cease and desist letter with a request for retraction shortly."
It's a shocking and interesting story and, as with all cases, everyone involved has their own truth. Marlo continues to remain a "recurring" character on RHOA and Bravo has not made mention of giving Marlo an increased or permanent role on the cast. My guess is that with all the legal imbroglios happening with the Giudices, the Lauritas, the Armstrongs, etc. they made the decision to distance themselves for the duration. We'll see what happens…
Thank goodness Phaedra Parks is well armed should the need arise. You know she's the type of woman who carries a .9mm inlaid with mother of pearl in her purse. I'm sure she keeps it wrapped in the prayer cloth and stashed right next to the holy water and taser! Can you tell I'm a Designing Women fan?
Also, thank goodness Marlo (or her assistant) spelled "cease and desist" correctly, unlike some Housewives who obviously cannot read or pronounce the phrase (ahem… Tamra Barney!).
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Marlo's mugshot from her 1998 arrest for Aggravated Battery w/Great Bodily Harm


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Amblyopia, nocturnal
Amblyopia refers to blindness so nocturnal amblyopia is, literally, night blindness. Listed in medical dictionaries under "Nyctalopia" from the Greek nyct (night) + aloas (obscure or blind) + opsis (vision), the condition involves impaired vision in dim light and in the dark due to impaired function of specific vision cells (namely, the rods) in the retina. Night blindness, a classic finding in vitamin A deficiency, was discovered by the English physician William Heberden (1710-1801). (Heberden also described other medical disorders of importance including angina (chest pain that is often severe and crushing, due to an inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle) and Heberden's nodes, bumps around the small joints due to osteoarthritis.) Night blindness (nyctalopia) is also called day sight and nyctanopia.
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By Jack Halberstam
Every few weeks, I get an email from a colleague, a friend or a student asking me what pronoun I prefer. I mostly go by "Jack" nowadays, although people who have known me for a really long time and some family members still call me Judith. Then there are a few people, my sister included, who call me "Jude." I have debated switching out Jack for Jude to try to compress the name ambiguity into a more clear opposition between Judith and Jude. But then again–and contrary to my personality or my politics–when it comes to names and pronouns, I am a bit of a free floater. This goes against my instincts and my general demeanor – I don't hang in the middle ground on much, not politically, not socially, not in terms of culture, queer issues, feminism or masculinity. I am a person of strong opinions so why, oh why, do I insist on being loosey goosey about pronouns?
Well, a few reasons: first, I have not transitioned in any formal sense and there certainly many differences between my gender and those of transgender men on hormones. Second, the back and forth between he and she sort of captures the form that my gender takes nowadays. Not that I am often an unambiguous "she" but nor am I often an unambiguous he. Third, I think my floating gender pronouns capture well the refusal to resolve my gender ambiguity that has become a kind of identity for me.
I watch friends, one after the other, transition, mostly from butch to TG male and I wonder whether I am just sitting on a fence and not wanting to jump. But actually, as a real medi-phobe, I don't see taking hormones, even in small doses as right for me for any extended amount of time. Top surgery? Well, yes please, but then again, would this make it even harder for me to use the women's locker room when I swim or work out (and I do one or the other almost every day so that would really be something to think about). So, while I could "transition" and still live in the ever-evolving, improvised territory of transgenderism…well, I prefer not to.
Yes, like Bartleby, that wonderful and doleful example of a refusenik who declined to explain his refusal to work, to comply, to communicate even, I prefer not to transition. I prefer not to clarify what must categorically remain murky. I prefer not to help people out in their gender quandaries and yet, I appreciate you asking.
I still use women's restrooms and I avoid any and all contact on going in or coming out. If someone looks frightened when they see me, I say "excuse me" and allow my "fluty" voice to gender me. If someone looks angry, I turn away but mostly I just ignore what is going on around me in the restroom and do what I am there to do.
I wish more people would behave like my partner's son (he's 9 years old) and simply ask, politely and without judgement, what pronoun anyone prefers – he rarely presumes and often asks. I also wish more people would adapt to a pronoun system based on gender and not on sex, based on comfort rather than biology, based on the presumption that there are many gendered bodies in the world and "male" and "female" does not even begin the hard work of classifying them.
So, if you are wondering about my pronoun use and would like it resolved once and for all, I cannot help you there. But if, like the UK in the 1980's, you are ready to give up on the "imperial" systems of measurements in favor of new metrics, then consider my gender improvised at best, uncertain and mispronounced more often than not, irresolvable and ever shifting.
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A new Southern food podcast from the P&C: The Winnow
Food editor Hanna Raskin and Robert Moss are making The Winnow, a podcast on what's happening in the Southern food world. They are already three episodes in.
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Music, fun, and tasty soft shell crabs today in Port Royal
The 12th annual Soft Shell Crab Festival is set for today, Saturday, April 18, from noon to 5 p.m. on Paris Avenue in Port Royal.
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A peview of Oak Road Brewery in Summerville
It's about damned time Summerville got its own brewery. Four gentleman are making beer dream come true in the relatively underserved Flower Town.
5:49 am on Tuesday February 3, 2015
Critiquing five Charleston restaurants on BBC America
London Times restaurant critic Giles Coren shared his take on five of Charleston's restaurants for BBC America's Million Dollar Critic, the Charleston City Paper offers a recap.
11:14 am on Wednesday November 26, 2014
A guide to Charleston's food trucks
Charleston has seen an explosion of Food Trucks patrolling its streets over the last few years. Hopefully, this latest guide from Holy City Sinner will help you keep them all straight
11:15 pm on Friday November 7, 2014
Vegetable Bin now open at new Spring Street home
After closing their East Bay Street location in early August, the Veggie Bin is back with a new home at 96 Spring Street.
For more, head over to the business' Facebook page.
3:00 pm on Thursday November 6, 2014
The new 52,000sqft Publix on Lady's Island is now open
2:10 am on Wednesday November 5, 2014
McRib was born thanks to a Charleston trip
Whatever your feelings on McDonald's McRib are, you should know it was inspired by a plate of real ribs had in Charleston.
5:51 am on Thursday October 30, 2014
Southern Barrel Brewing Co. setting up home in Bluffton
The brewery is opening its first location this February with eight craft beers on tap.
Check out The Island Packet's profile and follow along on Facebook.
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Beaufort Food Truck Festival returning
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Since the campaign trail, President Biden has made clear his intention to put an end to the business of detaining immigrants for profit. Hundreds of privately run detention centers across the U.S. hold immigrants who are in the country illegally. But immigrant advocates say the administration is not following through on Biden's promise. NPR's Joel Rose reports.
JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: When President Biden visited the battleground state of Georgia for a rally to celebrate his 100th day in office, immigrant advocates were there to protest.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: End detention now. End detention now.
ROSE: Normally, the president would just ignore the hecklers until security could escort them out. But that is not what happened in Atlanta.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I agree with you. I'm working on it, man. Give me another five days.
ROSE: Not only did Biden engage with the protesters. He made sure the rest of the audience knew what they were talking about.
BIDEN: There should be no private prisons, period - none, period. That's what they're talking about - private detention centers. They should not exist. And we are working to close all of them.
ROSE: This is Biden doubling down on his campaign promise to end privately run detention centers, including those that detain immigrants. Immigrant advocates have heard this before, and they're getting impatient.
GRACE MENG: President Biden made some strong promises about reforming detention that we applauded, and we would like to see him carry them out.
ROSE: Grace Meng is a lawyer with the nonprofit Human Rights Watch. She and other immigrant advocates are disappointed that the Department of Homeland Security shows no sign of dismantling its detention network that relies heavily on private contractors. Immigration officials warn they may need that detention space, especially with the ongoing influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. And in California, the Department of Justice was in court this month arguing against a state law that bans privately run prisons and immigrant detention centers.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Speaking Spanish).
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Speaking Spanish).
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ROSE: Protesters were there, too, outside the federal appeals court in Pasadena, including Grace Meng from Human Rights Watch.
MENG: It just seems like another kind of kick in the teeth to say that you're going to defend a position that the Trump administration took to help private prison companies continue to keep contracts.
ROSE: The Justice Department says the California law should be struck down, arguing that the state can't tell the federal government who it can contract with. Meanwhile, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says he's concerned about what will happen when the U.S.-Mexico border reopens. Since the pandemic began, immigration authorities have been able to quickly expel thousands of migrants under an emergency public health order, so many of ICE's detention beds are empty. But acting ICE director Tae Johnson told Congress that could change very quickly, which has happened before.
TAE JOHNSON: Just overnight, we could start seeing 3,000 and 5,000 people a day again - and then finding ourselves back in a situation like we were in 2019 where Border Patrol had, you know, 15,000 people in custody and no place for them to go.
ROSE: But watchdog agencies and human rights groups say the private detention industry has a long track record of detainee abuses and inadequate medical care. DHS has announced plans to shutter two ICE detention centers, including a privately operated facility in Georgia where a doctor allegedly performed unwanted gynecological procedures on detainees. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he's reviewing concerns about ICE detention centers. And he was asked at a congressional hearing last month if he expects to close any more of them.
ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS: Congressman, we are studying the issue very carefully. My direction could not have been clearer, which is that we will not tolerate the mistreatment of individuals in detention or substandard conditions.
ROSE: A few days after Mayorkas testified, DHS submitted its budget request, asking Congress to fund tens of thousands of detention beds, most of them in privately run facilities. Advocates say that's a long way from what Biden promised.
Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
New Bianchi SEMPRE Limited Edition in Matte Black
Bianchi is launching a limited edition of the Sempre model in matte black with SRAM Red, blacked out components and customized Vision deep dish carbon clinchers. The bicycle will be available in limited quantities in June at authorized U.S. Bianchi dealers. MSRP is $6,399.00.
Note that a limited edition Oltre model in matte black was offered earlier, see information here.
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- AnonymousApril 30, 2011 at 6:07 AM
Looks good but Bianchi Sempre & Oltre are just out of line. I own a Bianchi C2C made up with middle of the road components and is a great compromise.
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I agree with the first post...SRAM? The only thing worse would be Shimano. Anything other than Campagnolo simply cheapens a beautiful Bianchi frame.
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The Trump administration is proposing new rules to guide future federal regulation of artificial intelligence used in medicine, transportation and other industries.
But the vagueness of the principles announced by the White House is unlikely to satisfy AI watchdogs who have warned of a lack of accountability as computer systems are deployed to take on human roles in high-risk social settings, such as mortgage lending or job recruitment.
The White House said that in deciding regulatory action, U.S. agencies "must consider fairness, non-discrimination, openness, transparency, safety, and security." But federal agencies must also avoid setting up restrictions that "needlessly hamper AI innovation and growth," reads a memo being sent to U.S. agency chiefs from Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.
"Agencies must avoid a precautionary approach that holds AI systems to such an impossibly high standard that society cannot enjoy their benefits," the memo says.
The rules won't affect how federal agencies such as law enforcement use facial recognition and other forms of AI. They are specifically limited to how federal agencies devise new AI regulations for the private sector. There's a 60-day public comment period before the rules take effect.
"These principles are intentionally high-level," said Lynne Parker, U.S. deputy chief technology officer at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. "We purposely wanted to avoid top-down, one-size-fits-all, blanket regulations."
The White House said the proposals unveiled Tuesday are meant to promote private sector applications of AI that are safe and fair, while also pushing back against stricter regulations favored by some lawmakers and activists.
Federal agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration will be bound to follow the new AI principles. That makes the rules "the first of their kind from any government," Michael Kratsios, the U.S. chief technology officer, said in a call with reporters Monday.
Rapid advancements in AI technology have raised fresh concern as computers increasingly take on jobs such as diagnosing medical conditions, driving cars, recommending stock investments, judging credit risk and recognizing individual faces in video footage. It's often not clear how AI systems make their decisions, leading to questions of how far to trust them and when to keep humans in the loop.
Terah Lyons of the nonprofit Partnership on AI, which advocates for responsible AI and has backing from major tech firms and philanthropies, said the White House principles won't likely have sweeping or immediate effects. But she said she was encouraged that they detailed a U.S. approach centered on values such as trustworthiness and fairness.
"The AI developer community may see that as a positive step in the right direction," said Lyons, who previously worked for the White House science and technology office during the Obama administration. "It's a little bit hard to see what the actual impact will be."
What's missing, she added, are clear mechanisms for holding AI systems accountable.
Another tech watchdog, New York University's AI Now Institute, said it welcomed new boundaries on AI applications but it "will take time to assess how effective these principles are in practice."
Kratsios said he hopes the new principles can serve as a template for other democratic institutions such as the European Commission, which has put forward its own AI ethical guidelines, to preserve shared values without impeding the tech industry.
That, he said, is "the best way to counter authoritarian uses of AI" by governments that aim to "track, surveil and imprison their own people." The Trump administration has sought to penalize China over the past year over AI uses the U.S. considers abusive.
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August 28, 2020 -- Regina Public Schools is implementing a three-part strategy to reduce the risk of COVID-19, as well as other viruses, including colds and flu, as students return to school and the colder fall and winter weather sets in. The strategy focuses on face masks, cleaning and increased, filtered ventilation.
Mask Use
The first part of this strategy will include the use of face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE), as required for staff and students. Cloth face masks will be required for all Grades 4-12 students and recommended for students in the younger grades. All students being transported will be required to wear masks. While exemptions are possible, the objective of the mask wearing is to keep everyone safe in schools. Compliance will be appreciated. Guests to school division buildings will be limited and will also have to wear face masks. Students who do not have or forget their face masks will be able to obtain one from their school.
Enhanced Cleaning
All schools and school division buildings have ramped up their cleaning protocols. Facilities staff will be using new equipment to disinfect all surfaces. The equipment, which looks very much like a paint sprayer, will be used to dispense a fine mist over all surfaces. The product is called Vital Oxide, which kills viruses, including the coronavirus. Vital Oxide is safe to use around children and adults. It is non-toxic and not considered hazardous by OSHA Hazard Communication Standard 2012. Facilities staff have developed a disinfecting schedule for all school rooms, including high-use areas such as bathrooms. The disinfecting protocols will be in addition to the traditional routine of dusting and cleaning that is done at every school, every day.
Every classroom will have spray bottles with cleaners to spot clean as necessary, and school facility staff will always be on hand to complete more thorough cleaning of classrooms and other areas as needed
Students, staff and guests, upon entering every building, will also be asked to use hand sanitizer that will be at every school entrance and throughout school buildings. Frequent hand washing will also be recommended to all students.
Increased, Filtered Ventilation
Clean, fresh air has never been more important in all Regina Public schools. Beginning immediately, the fresh air intake in all schools and buildings has been increased to beyond industry standards to enhance ventilation and the flow of fresh air. Staff working in classrooms and offices with windows that open may open their windows. Staff considering opening their windows will continue to be mindful that some students and staff may suffer from seasonal allergies and other respiratory conditions worsened by outdoor air.
Regina Public Schools is investing in new purification systems for every school and building. By the end of September, new filter technology will be added to ventilation systems to complement the increased air flow. The filter technology is called bipolar ionization. It will:
- Reduce particles and smoke in the air
- Kill pathogens (bacteria, viruses, molds) including human influenza viruses, coronavirus and SARS
- Help control allergens and asthma
Regina Public Schools' three-part strategy is a long-term investment in the health and safety of students and staff. Schools' localized strategies, including limiting the size of gatherings, keeping student cohorts together and limiting some activities and practices that could potentially spread the virus are the foundation of learning safely. Mask use, enhanced cleaning and increased, filtered ventilation will complement school- based safety strategies. All health and safety practices at Regina Public Schools are guided by direction from the Government of Saskatchewan and local and provincial public health authorities. Practices and procedures are subject to change according to school based experiences and government direction.


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Gloria Cheng opened the season of serious music-listening in her position as opener of the Piano Spheres series of concerts. The program was oriented the program to two-musicians works, and there was a gracious lead-in to the guest appearance to be given by Thomas Ades in December, with performances of two of his early works.
Cheng began the concert with Ades's Opus 7, "Still Sorrowing" (1992-1993), written at age 21. This is a more restrained work than many of his, with the prepared piano dampening the middle range of the piano, creating a hollowness to support its feeling of loss. The middle work of the second half of the concert was Ades's Opus 8, "Life Story" (1993) in its version for soprano and piano; Angela Blue was our excellent singer last night. The work is a setting of the Tennessee Williams poem (1956) of two strangers having had their first one-night stand; I wondered how the poem escaped the attention of composers before Ades. Ades gives the soprano (with one minor exception the words work fine for a woman singing about a man) a yawning, boozy, blues-y melody, up to the sting in the tail of the last line. Amazon has a great CD, at bargain price, with Ades at the piano; the CD includes seven of his early works, and clips are available.
Completing the first half of the concert were two major works for piano duet. Cheng was joined by Robert Winter — UCLA professor, Philharmonic lecturer, interactive CD developer — for Beethoven's four-hand version of the "Grosse Fuge". The two made things easy by using two pianos, which avoided developing the choreography for whose arm would be where, but I didn't find the performance especially persuasive.
She was then joined by Neal Stulberg — currently director of orchestral studies at UCLA and a former recipient of the Seaver/NEA Conductors Award — for a performance of "Variations on a Theme by Beethoven" by Camille Saint-Saens. We seemed to be in a salon in Paris while this was being performed. To replace a premiere which was withdrawn because the work wasn't ready, Cheng substituted a work written for her, two movements, rather. Two years ago, she gave the premiere of "Seven Memorials" (2004) by Stephen Andrew Taylor, now at the University of Illinois. This is an excellent work; the NY Times music critic called it "sparklingly tactile" in reviewing Cheng's performance of four of the movements at Tanglewood in August. Last night Cheng played the fifth and sixth movements; excerpts of the music are available here, from Cheng's performance of 2004.
For the rousing conclusion, Cheng was joined on the second piano by Grant Gershon, now in his sixth year as Music Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. The two gave us a work written for them, which they premiered at Getty Center, "Hallelujah Junction" (1998) by John Adams. I am an unabashed fan of this work. It belongs in your music collections.
A good concert! (And the attendance was about the largest I've ever seen there.)


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The Beano is the longest-running British children's comic magazine, published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland.
The 3,000th issue of The Beano was published in January 2000. The Beano recently became the longest-running weekly comic, since The Dandy became a fortnightly comic in 2007, and later stopped publishing in 2013.
The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938 and was published weekly.
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The Beano reached its 4,000th issue on 28 August 2019.
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