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Some of the major differences between external fertilization and internal fertilization of sexual reproduction are as follows:
External Fertilization:
1. It occurs outside the body of the female.
2. A large number of gametes are released in the surrounding medium (e.g., water) where fertilization takes place.
3. Examples: Bony fish, Amphibians, most of Algae, etc.
Internal Fertilization:
1. It occurs inside the body of the female.
2. The number of gametes produced is less. The male gametes are deposited in the body of the female with the help of copulatory organ.
3. Examples: Reptiles, Birds, Mammals, Bryophytes and Tracheophytes (Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms), etc.


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In February, I made this delicious Mushroom Stroganoff. After it made its way through the food blogging world, and back over to Facebook, I got a ping from the lovely folks at the Mushroom Channel. They were looking for 10 new mushroom contributors for 2011, and they thought I should submit. So, I did and now we have this delicious recipe for homemade cream of mushroom soup to share.
We are always surprised when something comes our way. Imagine, one sleepy Sunday morning, when I see some Tweets, that we were going to be one of 2011 Mushroom contributors. YIPPY! We love mushrooms, and any chance we can get to add them to a meal is a bonus. Another bonus was being able to say, that this was our first real paid gig. Excited, to be developing recipes, writing about them, photographing them, and getting paid. Thank you Mushroom Channel for giving us this opportunity to share our love of the fungi, not only with our readers but also with you.
Our first recipe is for this creamy mushroom soup. It is easy, amazingly delicious and makes a perfect light lunch or filling meal at dinner. Really adaptable as well; can be served vegetarian, or full of meaty stock. Can be made gluten-free, or with gluten.
To read more about our first contribution to the Mushroom Channel, head on over. Don't stop, go directly past go. You will be happy that you did. *Happy Monday*
Homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 yellow onion
1 large garlic clove, minced
1 pound cremini mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
1 medium portabella, cleaned and sliced
4 sprigs thyme, leaves only
1 teaspoon Basque paprika or other spicy paprika
4 cups stock, your choice
1 cup half and half
2 tablespoons potato starch or flour
1 tablespoon butter
handful minced parsley
kosher salt to taste
black pepper to taste
How To:
In a large dutch oven or saucepan, heat the olive oil, over medium heat. Add the onions, lower heat to a low medium, and cook until soft; about 10 minutes.
Add the garlic, thyme, and cook for 5 minutes.
Add the sliced mushrooms, and continue to cook over low heat, for 7 minutes.
Sprinkle in the paprika, and stir.
Add the stock, lower the heat to a low simmer; cook for 20 minutes.
Remove from heat, and let cool for 10 minutes.
Put half of the stock mixture, and about a fourth of the mushrooms, into a blender or food processor, add the half and half and the starch or flour.
Give it a couple whirls until the mushrooms are broken up, and the mixture is fairly lumped free.
Put the mixture back into the stock pot, with the remaining stock and mushrooms.
Gently reheat, over low heat.
Stir in the butter.
Season with salt and pepper.
If you love mushrooms, you will definitely want to become friends with our fellow fungi writers; they are delicious!
- Kimberly from Poor Girl Eats Well
- Susie and Chelsee from We Are Not Martha
- Greg from Sippity Sup
- Julie from Julie's Raw Ambition
- Paula from Bell'Alimento
- Shaina from Food for My Family
- Laura from Hey! What's for Dinner Mom?
- Megan from Stetted
- Janel from Eat Well with Janel


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La Verne and Glendora, California has a huge gopher infestation, making gopher eradication a popular service for residence. A few pest control services offer gopher extermination as part of their services along with termites, spiders and a list of many other services. Rodent Guys is a niche service focusing only on gophers, moles and ground squirrels and is now providing a 60-day guarantee for gopher and mole control services in La Verne and Glendora, California.
Pocket gophers stay in burrows connected by tunnels. They seldom are seen above ground, which makes them difficult to take care of. Gophers eat plant life in the yard including roots of trees, flowers, vegetables and turf. If gophers are not removed, they will decimate the landscaping.
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Various service projects take place throughout the year and are the hands-on application of spiritual life. Students have the opportunity to put into practice what they have learned about giving and caring for others. Students participate in service projects with their advisory groups on Joe Campbell Service Day and participate in the senior-led school wide service project.
Joe Campbell Service Days
October 10, 2018 and January 28, 2019
Twice a year, all students and faculty participate in Joe Campbell Service Day. Students leave campus to serve in the community at nursing homes, inner city child-care centers, special education facilities, and other organizations committed to working with the underserved. Joe Campbell was a beloved faculty member whose life was characterized by his commitment to serve others.
Schoolwide Service Project
Each summer before school begins, the Senior class goes on a retreat and chooses the theme verse and service project for the upcoming year. The class chooses the project for the entire school and it serves as the focus for all fundraising and service for the year.
2018-2019 Service Project Theme
Love God | Love Others
2017-2018 Service Project
2016-2017 Service Project
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research is committed to
helping find a cure for pediatric cancer through building awareness and helping fund research.
2015-2016 Service Project
The Red Wagon Project
2014-2015 Service Project
2013-2014 Service Project
2012-2013 Service Project
2011-2012 Service Project
2010-2011 Service Project
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Press Release: Chevron Fire Information for Berkeley Residents
There is a fire at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond. There is a shelter-in-place order for Richmond, North Richmond, and San Pablo.
There is currently no shelter-in-place order for Berkeley. Berkeley's Public Health and Toxic's Divisions recommend that people who smell smoke, even if not in a shelter-in-place area, should stay inside with windows and doors closed, and air conditioners turned off. This is especially important for people with respiratory conditions. Concerned residents may want to follow the same precautions overnight tonight, even without smelling smoke.
All residents are advised to avoid the shelter-in-place areas until the shelter-in-place advisory is lifted. Smoke can cause eye, throat, and respiratory irritation and can aggravate breathing problems such as asthma. Anyone experiencing acute respiratory symptoms should seek medical attention promptly.
More information is available at:
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© Kinetic Theatre Company, The Jubilee Centre, 10-12 Lombard Road, London SW19 3TZ. Phone (0)20 8286 2613
On the day of the village fête, the occupants of Bunsen Towers are thrown under suspicion when Lydia Bunsen's diamond disappears!
The question is: Whodunnit??
Perhaps her father committed the crime? Or her daughter and mysterious new boyfriend? Then there's the chauffeur, Miles, to consider.
Enter that famous detective, Monsieur Heckled Parrot, to solve the problem….. along with help from the audience of course.
Together they apply a knowledge of solids, liquids and gases, materials, mixtures and their separation, to solve The Bunsen Towers Mystery.
"The best theatre company we have had in school"
Kimberley McHugh, Beacon Hill School, North Tyneside
The children are encouraged to consider ways in which materials are grouped according to their properties and uses.
Solids, liquids and gases are introduced with particular reference to ice, water and steam. The concept of dissolving is introduced as is the notion of separation of solids and liquids through filtration. They are required to make basic, but essential observations and to record these in a systematic way.
As KS1 but the children are introduced to the concept of molecules and their structure in the 2 states of matter.
Filtration is explored in greater detail and evaporation is introduced. They are required to make more complex oservations and to use these observations in order to systematically deduce a conclusion – i.e. the scientific process.
Kinetic strives to accommodate a Mixed Version for schools which cannot afford to differentiate. However please be aware that this is a very wide age range to tackle as successfully (in terms of both content and performance style) as the two main stages.
Are you a science teacher? The shows will reinforce your teaching plan, and make you laugh.
Not a science teacher? You can be confident Kinetic shows are solidly based on the National Curriculum for Science, and will also make you laugh.
In preparation you will be emailed a 'Pre-Show Information Pack'. This includes all the science covered in the show, suggested pre and post show activities and discussions.
You can find more information on our FAQ page.
We will answer any of your science questions both before and after a show. Why not email us one now?
You can provisionally book a show by phoning the office. We can discuss any questions you have and check times and dates.
A Kinetic show costs £395 + VAT (1 performance) or £695 + VAT (2 performances). Most schools don't have to pay the VAT.
It works out less than £1.75 per head based on 2 performances with 200 children per performance!
We often have special offers, so please ask when you contact us.
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Crocodile Clamps Down On Animal Handler's Face [VIDEO]
An animal handler in Thailand is lucky to be alive after the old head-in-crocodile's-mouth trick went horribly wrong. The croc clamped down on his face and shook. Luckily for the animal handler, he decided to let go after a couple seconds. I wonder if he'll try this "trick" again anytime soon:


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A woman looks at a Center for Disease Control (CDC) health advisory sign about the dangers of the Zika virus as she lines up for a security screening at Miami International Airport in Miami. Credit: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri Three different experimental Zika vaccines being developed in the United States have worked well in monkey studies, paving the way for human trials in the coming months, researchers said Thursday.
The report, published in the journal Science, comes as researchers rush to find a way to prevent the mosquito-borne virus, which can cause severe birth defects. It is currently spreading in 50 countries and territories, mainly in Latin America, the Caribbean and Florida.
RELATED: Zika Mosquitoes: How to Keep the Bloodsuckers at Bay
"Three vaccines provided complete protection against Zika virus in nonhuman primates, which is the best animal model prior to starting clinical trials," said senior author Dan Barouch, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
"The consistent and robust protection against Zika virus in both rodents and primates fuels our optimism about the development of a safe and effective Zika vaccine for humans."
One of the vaccines in development is called a Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine, made by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR).
Rhesus monkeys vaccinated with it "showed complete protection against both Brazilian and Puerto Rican strains of Zika," said the study.
Harvard University's two candidate vaccines, one a plasmid DNA vaccine and another an adenovirus vector-based vaccine, also protected the monkeys. No adverse side effects were observed in any of the animals.
RELATED: Zika Virus May Cause More Problems in Fetuses
According to Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, the research "describes an important step in the development of a Zika virus vaccine."
But Gilbert, who was not involved in the research, advised caution in proceeding with testing the vaccines in humans.
"It is known that antibodies against one serotype of the closely related dengue virus can make subsequent infections with a different serotype much more severe," she said.
"It will be necessary to make sure that people receiving a Zika vaccine do not then become more susceptible to severe dengue infections, which can be fatal."
She also noted that while all three vaccines were effective, the DNA vaccine "perform(ed) less well at inducing immune responses in monkeys."
Two other experimental vaccines are currently in human trials in the US and Canada are DNA vaccines.
WATCH VIDEO: The Devastating Zika Virus Explained


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Mark Kress, 53, is a man of many talents. He has garnered considerable praise for his development of Toppik, a hair product that helps women and men disguise thinning hair. Inspiration for the product came when he saw a makeup artist attach real hair to an actor's head in order to camouflage his baldness. However, noticing that the trick was ineffective for everyday, real-world use, Kress was motivated to develop a product that would create realistic looking hair.Thanks to the success of Toppik, Mark Kress has developed a whole line of products meant to disguise the effects of thinning hair. The product line, XFusion, currently features Hairline Optimizer and Fit-On Spray Applicator. Kress also launched the X5 Hair Laser, a medical device proven to improve hair growth. The company continues to seek out new ways to conceal the signs of hair loss. Mark Kress began his career as an Account Executive with Grey Advertising in New York City, where he gained experience in and exposure to marketing, television, and radio. He eventually became the first to combine musical artists with advertisement sponsorships, working on innovative campaigns with Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan in partnerships with Coca Cola and M&M Mars. He also recognized the value of attaching celebrities to product lines and hired Joan Rivers to represent his line of jewelry on QVC, which she continues to do to this day. Additionally, Mark Kress has found success as a theater producer, earning a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award for his work on Johnny Guitar. He also has a producing credit for the movies Hysteria, starring Maggie Gyllenhall, and The Expatriate, which stars Aaron Eckhart.


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Bible Study Magazine—March–April 2010 Issue
Get the Bible Study Magazine now by purchasing the March-April 2010 Back Issue for $3.95. That's 20% off the newsstand price of $4.95!
Bible Study Magazine is a brand new print magazine (not an e-magazine) published by Lexham Press. Six times a year, Bible Study Magazine delivers tools and methods for Bible study, as well as insights from respected teachers, professors, historians, and archeologists.
Read pastor profiles, author interviews, and stories of individuals whose thoughtful engagement with Scripture has shaped their thinking and defined their ministries. Bible Study Magazine reveals the impact of God's Word on their lives and the power of Scripture in yours.
Each Issue of Bible Study Magazine Includes:
- Feature Stories
Discover new ways to connect the Bible with your ministry and life through reading great interviews with and articles from the biggest names in the church and biblical scholarship.
- Bible Study Tips
Thoughtful and engaging authors tackle the tough passages in Scripture, explain difficult concepts, and confront complex interpretations in a way that helps God's Word make sense to your life.
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Excerpts from the March-April 2010 Issue!
Matt Chandler on Beating Indifference with Bible Study
"Where the Word of God goes out, there's always a response," says Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor of the Village Church in Highland Village, Texas. "There's an immediate response to the word of God and then there's a continuing response. The Scriptures are primary, but you've got to build on them in expectation of (and accountability for) their application."
For Chandler, Scripture must be balanced with practical application because a church's emotive response is driven by its theological framework. Matt Chandler preaches a reliance on God's Word with passion because he wants his congregation to believe it.
A Resurrected Servant Prophesied 500 Years Before Jesus
John D. Barry says, "A scholar friend of mine once remarked, 'I must confess: if there is anything that convinces me that the Bible is inspired and from God, it is Isaiah 53.' " Isaiah 52:13–53:12 comes out of nowhere. There is no precedent for an innocent servant of God suffering and dying for the iniquities of others. It is shocking, graphic and brutal, yet profound.
Howard Hendricks' 4 Steps for Better Bible Study
When people are taught how to study the Bible, they "get the excitement of actually discovering stuff," says Dr. Howard Hendricks. "That is what is lacking today. We give people all the answers. If you don't have the basics, you are not going to get that much out of Bible study. Once people are taught how to do something, they can see the value of it."
Hendricks has trained thousands of Bible students at Dallas Theological Seminary, including Chuck Swindoll and David Jeremiah. For a period, he was even the chaplain for the Dallas Cowboys. For much of his life he's been a traveling evangelist for Bible study—ministering in over 80 countries.
Before You Read Isaiah, Read This
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So how should you read the book of Isaiah? The most important thing is to recognize the separate sections and time references. Then create your own reading plan that will allow you to understand the book.
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A recent fatal car accident between a passenger car and pick-up truck, led the family of those killed in the accident to sue Apple Corporation.
The plaintiff's are arguing that Apple has the technology to block cell phone use while driving but does not deploy it.
Does the case against Apple have a chance in Court?
Most legal experts seem to think not, citing the difficulty in claiming the phone itself was to blame for the accident.
But do Apple and the other phone companies actually have the technology to block phone use during the act of driving?
Apple does have a patent for such technology. The patent, granted in 2008, would create technology to "lock out" a driver's phone by using sensors to determine if the phone was moving and in use by a driver. If so, it would prevent certain functions, like texting.
So why hasn't this technology been deployed?
Continue reading "Are Phone Makers Enabling Distracted Drivers?" »


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The ESCLH Executive committee would be interested to receive tenders from members interested in hosting the 2020 ESCLH conference. Building on the success in Valencia (2010), Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016) and our upcoming conference in Paris in 2018, the ESCLH will be hosting its 6th event in the summer of 2020.
Please contact the Secretary General, Janwillem Oosterhuis (firstname.lastname@example.com), by 6 April, with details of where you would host the event and your thoughts on what the schedule of the event might look like. The conferences receive a subsidy from the ESCLH, but hosts will almost certainly need to find further financial support.
Any expressions of interest for the 2022 conference would also be welcome.
We look forward to hearing from you,
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"Politically Correct" = "Acceptable Truth" (note)
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Without truth you have nothing, only delusion
Conspiracy Fact-ist: someone who has awakened from the big brother controlled group trance to regain control of their own mind, and then starts to think again.
JFK, 911, the clinton death list, cocaine through mena arkansas, the covert war upon humans without money, the murder of the creator of largest water desalinization project to irrigate the desert in Africa, seth rich, pedophilia, satanism, the destruction of Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Libya.. – the endless pursuit of profit with no regard of cost in induced human misery, the thought of Oprah running for director of Obamanation II…& The unprecedented character assassination of a sitting president, AND the fact that a fraud such as Scientology is allowed to exist at all…
There is nothing normal, acceptable, or "ok", about any of the above, unless, you are amongst those who profit from lies and ignorance.
Without truth there is only delusion.
"DEPROGRAMMING" is the art of re-awakening a once thinking spirit.
Any act, image, words or event that stops thinking, renders that person into a more suggestible state.
This needs to be etched into the furrows of your mind… but it takes considerable effort and self discipline to do this, as it is directly opposite to the conditioning Americans have been subject to through media, Hollywierd and imitation journalism.
When you are insulted, told you are stupid, or personally attacked during debates understand that the other person is showing you that they are unable to deal with your logic or the fact you state and so they attack your character.
Sometimes this is merely due to jealousy, because no one enjoys being made to appear stupid or ignorant, even if your intention is good… Unfortunately this why some of the smartest people tend to keep to themselves. Arguing with fools has little upside.
This is a lesson the smartest kid in elementary school needs to learn in order to understand what is going to occur, and the earlier they learn this the less psychologically hurtful those incidents are going to be.
Instead of allowing your attention to be focused by others, you need to excercise the muscle in your mind that directs your attention. Instead of focusing attention upon what is shocking, control your own thinking. Yes I know this is easier said than done, and books have been written claiming to help accomplish this. Here is one tip that helps to discipline your mind. Whenever you encounter a striking situation, one that makes your thinking pause and wonder, or just think "What? Is this true?" – Listen carefully to whatever is described just after the incident that stops your thinking.
If you are dealing with a fool that will be evident, but if you dealing with a master manipulator using covert hypnotic techniques, note carefully whatever is stated just after the shocking part of the message…
Weaponized hypnotism instructs agents to use any number of methods to stop logical thinking, once thinking has been stopped, whatever is said immediately after becomes, to some degree, a direct suggestion into your subconscious. Why is this so important? Each of these subliminal suggestions will forever modify your behavior, modify your opinions, and modify your ability to determine what is true.
Forever, that is, until you take the mental effort to re-examine these incidents in your mind, after becoming familiar with the methods being used upon you.
Each method you learn, allows more truth to become visible. In our current society we are up to our ears in lies and false assumptions, most of them contrived and popularized by those who profit from our ignorance.
When thinking has been stopped, the door to the subconscious is left unguarded.
Confucious wrote about methods which pass as normal debate and argument in our current society two thousand five hundred years ago!
Perhaps it is time to start thinking about this?
"But the moment eloquence or the language of debate enters, true reasoning becomes impossible. For the purpose of the debater is not to find the truth but to win the argument, and to this end he will often stray as far as possible from the real issues"
"Eloquence and debate are designed, not to decide issues, but to sway people, for this reason they lean heavily on appeals to emotion and prejudice, and make use of neat, clever, and sometimes humorous turns of phrase rather than profound analysis of ideas"
"Of all this Confucious was contemptuous"
Confucious by H. G. Creel 1913, Chapter "The Teacher"
This may be pne of the greatest secrets of INFORMATION WARFARE
Over the years I have repeatedly encountered a handful of nasty individuals, who routinely crap up threads with snarky comments, accusations, ugly stuff, and fallacious ad-hominem, I am describing the 'turd-in-the-punchbowl effect"
Just when a speaker or even a person writing on a chat board, starts to get the crowd enthusiastic, there is one of the same handful of crap artists, who have nothing of their own to add except doubt and they will "make less of it."
Hubbard does this in the scientology and Dianetics scam, stealing from early 20th century psychiatrists like William Sargant, then inverting the meaning of ideas, and then telling his readers he discovered this information, Information that he claims as important as the discovery of fire!
He also associates those he stole his information from with ugly things. He did this so that his victims, those that he lured into his amazing secret money machine would never dare read a book by a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist because they are amongst the very few individuals that understand the methods Hubbard used to convince people of his lies.
Religious Cloaking
Scientology solicits paid opinions from religious scholars, as they are easily fooled by the weaponized methods of covert suggestion employed by Hubbard and by his minions. Minions who have no idea what they are really doing as Hubbard, in order to conceal what is being done, tells them to duplicate his directions exactly. As long as they go through the motions perfectly they do not need to know what they are actually doing. Hubbard tells them various stories, but never the whole of the truth.
Further, religious scholars are completely out of their domain when they evaluate scientology. because scientology is the proper domain of forensic criminologists, forensic accountants, forensic psychology and weaponized, classified, military hypnotism.
The use of UGLY is based on the METHOD used by Zionists when they screech "Anti-Semite" and "Holocaust Denier" where they stop criticism by stopping thought with ugliness. In this case, by covertly invoking the odor of burning human flesh.
The target, the idea, the subject, becomes associated with the smell…
This method of mental manipulation is one another one of the greatest secrets.
Another attempt to describe this same method
Accusations such as KOOK, WHACK JOB, DRUNK, or ANTI-SEMITE, and HOLOCAUST DENIER are used to DEMONIZE the intended target. Not to inform, but to STOP THINKING, and after vivid emotional wording, or event or imagery, or accusation has stopped thinking, the listener is rendered more hypnotically SUGGESTIBLE.
Whatever is said after the thought stopping phrase then tends to go directly into your subconscious as a "truth". Especially what a bad person that the target is and why you must not even dare to look at what they have to say.
Israel has the best example of such mental manipulation, when they accuse someone of being a HOLOCAUST-DENIER. The phrase "holocaust-denier" subliminally invokes the most offensive odor of all to a human being, that being the smell of burning human flesh.
Israel has no exclusive on this METHOD of making a man or woman more suggestible to suggestion. The Vatican used this technique when they burned one of my idols of free thinking, a man named Giordano Bruno at the stake in 1601.
Everyone in the city would be exposed to the stench.
The hard-wired brain reaction to avoid the area, person, situation or thing is in our genes. and is an ancient method from Babylon, and it works.
Each time in your future that you encounter this method, you will recall reading this lesson, and it will not affect your thinking.. .And I just used the same method in the prior paragraph only I used it to help propagate truth instead of a lie.
More 'methods' are exposed in my blog, and on Quora, expensive life lessons from the alt.scientology.war.
"Secrets are the mortar,
binding lies as bricks together,
into prisons for the mind" arnie lerma 1997
I have concluded that the same METHODS used to awaken a cult victim, are effective when used to wake members of a truth-controlled totalitarian society such as "Western society" , because the METHODS are the same, only the shore story and stage setting differ.
READ https://www.facebook.com/groups/deprogramming/ for more like this. This discussion group on Facebook is where I get second opinions and learn how to explain these difficult concepts in a manner that anyone might understand them who is willing to actually do some reading.
READ my other wordpress pages
READ LERMANET.COM's Covert Hypnosis Index (research entries ended in 2008)
"Plato feared the power of entertainment, the power of the senses to overthrow the mind, the power of emotion to obliterate reason. No admirer of popular democracy, Plato said that the enlightened or elite had a duty to educate those bewitched by the shadows on the cave wall, a position that led Socrates to quip: "As for the man who tried to free them and lead them upward, if they could somehow lay their hands on him and kill him, they would do so."
Chris Hedges, "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle"
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Note: Thank you to Marisa Sigmond for the exchange in which this maxim of Hubbard "acceptable truth" became visible to this writer as the equivalent to the phrase "politically correct"


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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan expecting a daughter
Mark Zuckerberg is going to be a dad.
The Facebook CEO announced Friday morning that he and wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a daughter. This will be the first child for the couple, who met at Harvard University and wed in 2012.
"In our ultrasound, she even gave me a thumbs up "like" with her hand, so I'm already convinced she takes after me," Zuckerberg wrote in a public post on Facebook.
He also used the announcement as an opportunity to discuss the couple's challenges conceiving, revealing that they have had three miscarriages in the last couple years. "You feel so hopeful when you learn you're going to have a child," he wrote. "You start imagining who they'll become and dreaming of hopes for their future. You start making plans, and then they're gone. It's a lonely experience."
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He said that the couple found it helpful to talk to friends about their miscarriages and often discovered that others had experienced similar losses. "In today's open and connected world, discussing these issues doesn't distance us; it brings us together," he said. "It creates understanding and tolerance, and it gives us hope."
Chan and the baby are both healthy and Zuckerberg said he's excited to meet his daughter: "We've already been so fortunate for the opportunity to touch people's lives around the world -; Cilla as a doctor and educator, and me through this community and philanthropy. Now we'll focused on making the world a better place for our child and the next generation."
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Attackers targeting specific sites may infer from the seal that your organisation has paid particular attention to security, and is up to date against well-known vulnerabilities, and therefore move onto a target that has a less visible defensive stance instead.
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We encourage clients to test their own networks and many of our clients have experienced internal security teams. However, relying on your own testing can be like marking your own examination paper. Most companies handling credit card data are required to be regularly scanned by an external vendor, under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
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If we can only see one IP address externally, we treat that as one machine, and tests will be executed on whichever of the machines responds to our requests. If you want us to test all four, the simplest scenario is to make them individually visible to us on separate IP addresses. For larger configurations, we can arrange for an on-site testing point.
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Netcraft will certify web applications that it has tested, showing the date tested, and the number of days spent testing the application. Application testing is very important because even machines that are well administered, and correctly port filtered with no well known vulnerabilities, can be vulnerable to a direct attack on the application's own functionality.
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We charge for web application testing on a time and materials basis. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com for further details.
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Shadowbrook Manor
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Once a powerful proponent of Law, the Archmage Tazimack the Red was eventually driven mad by a fear of mortality. As he slipped into insanity his retirement home began to reflect the chaotic bent of his mind. Long after Tazimack's unnaturally animated body has disintegrated, his manor house remains as a shadow cast by a twisted intellect. Can the characters bring order to this chaos?
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Mar 17, 2013Me and my friends haven't had this much fun playing D&D (sorry, Labyrinth Lord) since we started in 1984. Lots of great little puzzles and quirky magic items to fiddle with and a really cool creepy funhouse atmosphere. Some of the baddies are definitely too difficult for beginning characters but I guess that's kind of a staple of these old school adventures - sometimes you gotta get creative instead of going head to head. Two caveats: (1) the adventure is not very long, good for one all-nighter or maybe 2 or 3 shorter sessions; (2) like many of the hobby's early adventures, this one contains a lot of whimsical elements - definitely not for anyone who takes themselves or this game too seriously.
Mar 17, 2013Awesome beginning adventure and a lot of fun! Combination Carnival Fun House and Haunted Mansion. Fits nicely with little to no tinkering. Great fun!!
Mar 6, 2013I'd seen recommendations for this on blogs, but to me it reads like yet another precious Victoriana funhouse dungeon most of whose content comes from bad puns. I don't think I'll even be willing to take many ideas from here, they're so foreign to the style of game I'm seeking.
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By: Mir M.Hosseini
The city of Caspian (Qazvin) was built in 3 years following an order from Shapour I in Nov, 3, 245. Shapour I built many great cities naming them after himself such as Neishabour but respecting the Caspian people that lived in this region named it Caspian. Ironically the Caspian sea is called Khazar which were a tribe once living in northern parts of the Caspian sea also known as Mazandaran sea.
Qazvin flourished under Muslim rule in the 7th century. Chengiz Khan laid waste to the city, but it later revived and was made the capital of Persia (1548-98) under the Safavid dynasty.
In the late 18th century Qazvin became a base for foreign trade with areas of the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Anatolia. A coup was launched from Qazvin in 1921 that led to Iran's consolidation under Reza Shah Pahlavi.


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Who Was Harriet Mordaunt?
The Scandalous Life of Harriet Mordaunt
Harriet Mordaunt and the Prince of Wales. A royal scandal.
It's a familiar story in some ways - a young, attractive and lively woman marries an older man...
But in this true story, British Royalty was involved in the scandal and the young woman was branded insane for the rest of her days.
Was this a conspiracy?
Harriet Sarah Moncreiffe
Harriet was born to a wealthy and titled Scottish family. She was one of sixteen children, eight boys and eight girls.
The home was an easy-going and relaxed place and Harriet had a pleasant childhood and upbringing.
Amongst the visitors to the home - and there were always many - was the heir to the British throne, Bertie, the Prince of Wales.
Incommon with other guests, he enjoyed the parties, the playfulness and the freedom which was so unlike his own home.
There were plenty of opportunities for dalliances during these house parties. Did the Prince of Wales 'dally' with Harriet when he was a young man? This isn't known, but he certainly did later.
The Prince of Wales
Albert Edward was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert. Known as Bertie, he eventually became King Edward VII.
But, like today's Prince of Wales, he had a long wait before he ascended to the throne. In the meantime, he filled his life with pleasure.
He had not had a happy childhood. You can imagine what expectations Victoria and Albert had for their eldest son and he repeatedly did not live up to them.
He was a charming man, diplomatic and sociable but he could never reach the academic heights his parents aspired to.
So he devoted himself to the pleasures of the flesh. As a young man who was basically without a job - but with plenty of money and a high position - he was ideally situated to make the most of life.
Harriet's marriage
When she was only eighteen years old, Harriet married Sir Charles Mordaunt. On the right, you see their Warwickshire home.
This amply demonstrates Sir Charles' wealth.
The couple continued to be a part of the Prince of Wales' social set.
The couple were said to have a happy marriage initially but Sir Charles was almost the exact opposite of Harriet. She loved to dance, to entertain and to enjoy herself. He was the huntin', shootin', fishin' type who was the ultimate country squire.
Harriet, most probably due to her upbringing,saw no reason at all why she shouldn't have liaisons with other men. She assumed that, as was common with the upper echelons, her husband had a mistress. This, she thought, was the normal way of things.
But Harriet was unaware of, or simply ignored, an unwritten rule. Once a married woman had produced a son and heir, then affairs were tolerated, if not even expected. But the bloodline was not to be sullied until her duties were fulfilled.
Harriet duly gave birth to a daughter. Of course,like most aristocratic fathers of the day, Sir Charles would have preferred a son but he was delighted that his wife had 'proven herself'.
But the baby was born with an eye condition. Convinced that this was due to an unpleasant disease that she had contracted during her recent dalliances, Harriet, in her distress, confessed to her husband that since their marriage,she'd had affairs with several men, including the Prince of Wales.
Sir Charles was distraught.Not only had his wife been unfaithful to him - breaking the unwritten rules - but the child might not even be his.
He forced open the locked drawer of her writing desk and discovered letters to her from none other than the Prince of Wales. He was now determined to divorce his wife.
At this stage, Harriet's father stepped into the fray. It must be remembered that he had other daughters for whom he needed to secure good marriages. The taint of divorce would greatly damage the family's reputation and his daughters' prospects.
To avoid this, and knowing that the law of the time insisted that a mad person could not be divorced, he declared that Harriet was insane.
Divorce - Victorian style
Scandal in court
Sir Charles insisted on the divorce case being heard. The question on everyone's lips was, was Harriet insane?
Her family claimed that she was suffering from a temporary insanity due to childbirth. Sir Charles, on the other hand, insisted that she was faking in order to retract her confession of adultery.
He said that the servants were also aware of her condition. The court needed to determine the truth. There could be no divorce if Harriet was ruled to be insane.
Sir Charles went one further - he had the Prince of Wales summonsed to appear in court. This in itself was a terrific scandal.
The prince hotly denied that there had ever been any illicit relationship. Further, he had his own personal physician, an ultimately eminent doctor, to testify that Harriet was indeed insane.
The divorce case was dismissed.
The letters, when eventually seen, proved to have no evidence of intimacy- they were simply friendly and chatty.
Harriet was committed to an asylum where she spent the rest of her days.
Was there a conspiracy?
Was her insanity faked? Did her father persuade her to act accordingly? Did she have an affair with the Prince of Wales? Points to consider:
- Her father had a bevy of daughters who needed to make good marriages.If Harriet was divorced for infidelity, prior to produced a son and heir, the family's reputation would be ruined
- Did her father prey on her family feeling in order for her to help her sisters?
- If indeed her madness was a ruse, then it worked. All her sisters made what were considered to be good marriages
- If she regretted her impassioned confession, as she do doubt did after seeing her husband's reaction, then it would be easy for her to 'recover' and say that her words were simply part of her post-birth mania
- The chances are strong,that even without the factor of her sisters, Harriet had no desire to be divorced and lose her comfortable and wealthy life
- Her confession was brought about by her great fears for her daughter's eyesight. She could claim that this was the reason for her temporary mania
- Without question, the Prince of Wales visited Harriet at her home when her husband was out of the country. Knowing Harriet's propensity for liaisons, an affair between the two seems more than likely
- Did she believe that the Prince,once in court and under oath, would protect her?
- Did he in fact, by denying the relationship protect her good name? This may be the case but if true,it was thanks to him that she was incarcerated an an imbecile for the rest of her life
- Is it possible that her baby was actually fathered by the Prince of Wales? It's possibly purely coincidental that today's Prince Edward, Edward VII's great great grandson, has a daughter who was born with an eye defect...
What happened to Harriet Mordaunt's child?
Violet remained in her father's care after her mother had been sent away. But it is said that he had little to do with the child.
It was eventually accepted, although not proved, that Violet was the daughter of one of the men Harriet admitted to having had an affair with, Viscount Cole.
Later,in court, he did not contest the assertion that he was the father. However, it has been suggested that he made this admission as a gentlemanly gesture to the Prince of Wales. (Did not contest doesn't necessarily constitute an admission.)
Like her mother's sisters, Violet made a good marriage. She married the Marquess of Bath.
Her grandson, who is still alive today,is an interesting character. The present Marquess was married in 1969. Since that time, it is estimated that he has had almost a hundred liaisons with other women.
Did he inherit Harriet's genes?
Further reading
© 2014 Jackie Jackson
This is very interesting and certainly raises a lot of questions. My mother once told me that if I wanted to read about lust, sex, and the forbidden, there's plenty to be found in reading the stories of royalty. Apparently, she's right!
I love history and found this so fascinating. I'm wondering how many women from prominent families might have found themselves in a similar situation with similar results. Women used to be sent off to nunneries to avoid scandal, so perhaps having them deemed mentally ill would be a more modern version of that. When you consider that women during the time were considered no more than property either of their father or husband, it isn't surprising the tactics that might be used. I wonder if she went along or if she had no choice?
This was a really interesting story. I would venture that it was a probably not uncommon for women in wealthy families to be treated in this manner especially to avoid scandal. They used to send them off to nunneries, didn't they?
This was the court case that had Victoria's dynasty on their back feet, nearly toppling them. A programme on the 'Yesterday' channel outlined the case in its coverage of 'Bertie'.
He proved an able, affable sort of fellow who unfortunately didn't last long enough on the throne, having waited so long to get onto it (shades of Charlie?) He instituted the building of the 'Dreadnought' class of heavy warship in the light of his cousin Bill's naval armament programme. His son George V mirrored Victoria's personality. This was another travesty, as we had an able heir in Arthur, Duke of Connaught who might have actually averted a war had he survived an illness - Albert and Victoria didn't pass on a robust consititution to their offspring - not long after marrying one of the Danish princesses.
Very interesting reading.
Your scandalous tales never fail to intrigue and leave me wanting to know more--the hallmark of an excellent writer!
I SO love your stories of this nature. I really enjoyed this story and the speculation about the great great grandson's daughter was born with an eye defect...just adds to the mystery. I could just read your stories all day and never get anything else done...if I allowed myself the luxury. Thanks for sharing!


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Jessica Dewhurst is a human rights defender and Edmund Rice International (ERI) United Nations (UN) Youth Ambassador from South Africa.
In high school she volunteered with several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working with children affected by HIV Aids, refugee children, and children who have been victims of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
In 2012 she completed the ERI Human Rights training at the UN in Geneva, and travelled the world as an ERI UN Youth Ambassador, promoting human rights and working alongside countless youth and organisations to bring about positive change.
On return to South Africa she Co-founded and now directs the Edmund Rice Justice Desk, an award-winning human rights organisation which operates in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. ERJD offers support, expertise and educational materials to groups across the globe, as well as serves as an Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) advisor to the UN.
The ERJD focuses on educating, advocating and equipping youth, vulnerable groups, civil society, and governments across South Central Africa in human rights, justice and advocacy. It works primarily in township areas and vulnerable communities, empowering and equipping communities to lead their own change. It has trained and equipped thousands of men, women and children to be advocates for change and hope in their communities.
Jessica holds an undergraduate, honours and master's degree in Social Development, specialising in Children's Rights and human trafficking.
As well as being a 2016 Queen's Young Leader, she has been named:
- a top 10 South African Inspirer
- a 30 under-30 top achieving South African
- a top 30 young African
- and an under-25 Who's Who of SA.
Jessica has received awards from South African president Jacob Zuma, Prince Edward, Countess Sophie, Lead SA, and most recently the Queens Young Leaders Award from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in Buckingham Palace.
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Monday, December 1, 2014
In this Nov. 19 photo, a fracking wastewater storage facility sits just outside the city limits of Reno, Texas. The rural community sits surrounded by hydraulic-fracturing drilling operations and is considering passing a municipal ban on fracking within the city limits.
Associated Press
RENO, Texas
A Texas hamlet shaken by its first recorded earthquake last year and hundreds since then is among communities now taking steps to challenge the oil and gas industry's traditional supremacy over the right to frack.
Reno Mayor Lyndamyrth Stokes said spooked residents started calling last November: "I heard a boom, then crack! The whole house shook. What was that?" one caller asked. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed that Reno, about 50 miles west of Dallas, had its first earthquake.
Seismologists have looked into whether the tremors are being caused by disposal wells on the outskirts of Reno, where millions of gallons of water produced by hydraulic fracturing are injected every day. Reno took the first step toward what Stokes believes will be an outright ban by passing a law in April limiting disposal-well activity to operators who can prove the injections won't cause earthquakes.
Reno and other cities are taking their lead from Denton, a university town north of Dallas where the state's first ban on fracking within city limits takes effect Tuesday. The Denton ban has become a "proxy for this big war between people who want to stop fracking and people who want to see it happen," said Michael Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
It also has become a referendum on Texas cities' rights to halt drilling.
Property rights are a part of Texas' cultural fabric, but the desire to develop hydrocarbons is strong in a state that leads the nation in oil and gas development. Furthermore, under state law, property rights are separate from mineral rights, making it possible to own one but not the other.
Cities in other states have tried to stop fracking, with varying success. Courts in Pennsylvania and New York have ruled in favor of allowing cities some control over drilling. But in Colorado, courts ruled against one city's attempted ban. In November, Youngstown voters defeated for a fourth time a ban on fracking in the city.
In Texas, the fight pits municipalities against the Texas Railroad Commission, which governs the oil and gas industry, and the equally powerful General Land Office, which uses revenue from mineral rights to fund public education.
The land office, now headed by George P. Bush, a grandson and nephew of two former presidents, owns 13 million acres of land and mineral rights throughout Texas, including in Denton. It has joined an industry group seeking an injunction to stop the fracking ban from taking effect.


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Claire and Dan | Guildford Grammar and Chapel Farm Wedding
What a fantastic day with Claire and Dan and their lovely families and friends :-) We were so lucky with the weather and had such gorgeous sunset light in a valley east of Chapel Farm for portraits! The speeches were some of the best I've heard and that cake table was to die for. Yum!
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If there is one thing I've discovered in producing four novels in two years, it's that writing leaves precious little time for reading. It leaves even less time for reading works outside my favorite genres, such as historical fiction and thrillers. As I learned last week, however, it's sometimes wise to make that time and wander out of literary comfort zones.
Esperanza: A Latina Story, follows a Mexican-American girl through four turbulent years of high school in east Los Angeles in the late 1990s.
From the beginning, Esperanza Ignacio commands admiration and respect. She stays true to herself despite the demands imposed on her by a controlling single mother, two needy younger siblings, and several not-so-admirable friends, relatives, and classmates, who try to badger and bully her in unproductive directions.
As a reader, I had no difficulty imagining the obstacles the girl faced. Esperanza's world is a mostly bleak place, filled with bullying, broken families, alcoholism, poverty, and the myriad temptations of youth. Lopez does a masterful job in describing them all.
What makes this story compelling, however, is not the description but rather the uplifting tone. The author gives readers a protagonist we can root for from start to finish. She reminds us that even those living in challenging environments can succeed by remaining focused, optimistic, and compassionate.
I received a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. Rating: 4/5.


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Evolving Risks, Structure and Strategies in Retirement Plan Governance
2016 Willis Towers Watson U.S. Retirement Plan Governance Survey
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This research explores four areas critical to effective plan governance: risk management, levels of governance, strategy and the measuring of plan effectiveness.
Survey highlights
Three major trends emerge from the survey findings:
- Employers have a growing concern over retirement benefit adequacy and financial well-being. Defined contribution (DC) and defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors are increasingly concerned about the ability of their employees to retire in a timely manner. In fact, given the business implications such as a stagnant workforce, potentially higher labor costs and lower productivity, 39% of respondents view retirement readiness as a risk today, and 44% view it as a risk two years from now.
- More employers are using third parties to assist with investment-related activities. A large majority of employers engage third-party advisors to assist with investment decisions related to their DB and DC plans.
- Regulatory concerns are prevalent. Plan sponsors continue to cite regulatory concerns as a key risk and with good reason. Over the past two years, approximately 31% of sponsors have faced a government audit of their plan(s), and larger plan sponsors report an even higher likelihood for audits.


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Insurance Coverage Likely to Get More Respect After the California Earthquake
One of the most predictable aftereffects of a hurricane or earthquake, such as the weekend's California earthquake, is a spike in interest by homeowners in getting, or improving, their existing insurance coverage.
And there is a lot of room for improvement in California, when it comes to earthquake insurance. The costliest earthquakes in the U.S. have occurred in the state. But just 10% to 11% of California homes with homeowners insurance have earthquake coverage, which must be obtained on top of the standard homeowners policy, according to the California Earthquake Authority, a state-managed earthquake insurer.
In Napa, Calif., the wine-country area jolted Sunday by the largest earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years, only 6% of homeowners have the coverage, according to the CEA.
On Sunday, the website of the CEA had 17,482 visits, more than five times the usual Sunday count, according to Glenn Pomeroy, the authority's chief executive. The authority has 856,000 policies in force, he said.


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- The Week 44 challenge at "Less is More" is GREEN http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2011/12/week-44-colour.html
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Sommerfest Artistic Director Andrew Litton leads festival's final two concerts; first program features Minnesota Orchestra trumpeter Charles Lazarus in a tropically-themed concert; Sommerfest finale is Verdi's Shakespeare-inspired opera Otello, performed in concert with singers including Carl Tanner, Barbara Shirvis and Stephen Powell
presented by U.S. Bank
In the final weekend of Sommerfest 2016 conductor Andrew Litton and the Minnesota Orchestra present a pair of exciting and varied concerts on July 22 and 23 at Orchestra Hall that highlight the ensemble's great artistic range. On Friday night, trumpeter Charles Lazarus performs his program A Night in the Tropics, joined by both the Orchestra and Lazarus' own band comprising piano, bass and percussion. In addition to his regular role in the Orchestra's trumpet section, Lazarus has been the featured soloist in several concerts at Orchestra Hall, most recently in February 2016 (Fly Me to the Moon) and December 2015 (Merry and Bright). Sommerfest's finale falls on July 23, as the Orchestra continues its beloved tradition of presenting a grand opera to cap the festival—this year, Verdi's Otello, performed in concert with vocal soloists including Carl Tanner in the title role, plus the Minnesota Chorale and the Minnesota Boychoir. The most recent Minnesota Orchestra performance of this opera was more than two decades ago, conducted by Edo de Waart in the final concert of his tenure as music director of the Orchestra.
All Sommerfest concerts are performed at Orchestra Hall, the Minnesota Orchestra's home venue in downtown Minneapolis; ticket price ranges can be found in the concert information sections below. Tickets are available online at minnesotaorchestra.org and by phone at 612-371-5656. For further purchasing details, see the information section at the conclusion of this press release.
Sommerfest Refreshments
Over the course of Sommerfest, audiences are invited to enjoy an array of food and beverage items, available for purchase both inside and outside Orchestra Hall. Featured food vendors include Kramarczuk's, Northern Fires Pizza, Blue Moon, T-Rex Cookie Company, Cavalcade Creamery and Design Cuisine Catering. In addition, a Happy Hour featuring 50 percent off wine, beer and house liquor will be offered at all lobby bars. See minnesotaorchestra.org/barmenu for complete happy hour schedule.
Extra Entertainment and Experience Cafés
Free entertainment will be offered in the Target Atrium and throughout the lobby of Orchestra Hall before and after all concerts. Pre- and post-concert performers for the July 22 and 23 concerts include Malamanya, the Jeremy Walker Trio, and pianists Mary Louise Knutson and Chris Lomheim. In addition, two local DJs will provide post-concert music on the upper level of the Orchestra Hall lobby: teenage star DJ Mickey Breeze on Friday, July 22 and DJ Michel.Be on Saturday, July 23.
New at this year's Sommerfest, patrons and the community are invited to participate in a variety of Experience Cafés. These stations will be arranged throughout the lobby of Orchestra Hall and on Peavey Plaza, providing interactive pre- and post-concert experiences at every concert for the duration of Sommerfest 2016. The Experience Cafés include a library of books curated by the Minnesota Orchestra's music librarians, a sketching corner with artists from Mia, a selection of vinyl records with listening stations provided by Hymie's Vintage Records, a bird-watching experience with Audubon Minnesota, and an interactive music game created by Glitch.
A Conversation Café will also be held in the lobby at each concert, at which Sommerfest attendees may chat with individuals who are there to share their art and can speak to the theme or repertoire of that evening's performance. On Friday, July 22, the Conversation Café will host brewers from Boom Island Brewery and distillers from Tattersall Distillery who will share insight into their craft of creating some of Minneapolis' most-loved beverages. On July 23, prior to the performance of Otello, University of Minnesota lecturer Amy Bolis will join Phillip Gainsley for a discussion of historic performance elements in both Shakespeare's Othello and Verdi's opera.
More details and a complete schedule of these and all Sommerfest activities are available at minnesotaorchestra.org/sommerfest. All activities in the Target Atrium, Orchestra Hall lobby areas and outside are open to the public; a concert ticket is not required.
SOMMERFEST CONCERTS JULY 22 and 23
A Night in the Tropics
Minnesota Orchestra trumpeter Charles Lazarus is joined by his own jazz quartet and the Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton, in a concert inspired by the sultry melodies and evocative rhythms of Brazil, Cuba, Hawaii and more. The program features originals by Lazarus, a tribute to Brazilian composer Antonio Carlo Jobim, Duke Ellington's Caravan and other selections.
Friday, July 22, 2016, 8 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Minnesota Orchestra
Andrew Litton, conductor
Charles Lazarus, trumpet
Mary Louise Knutson, piano
Jeff Bailey, bass
David Schmalenberger, drums
Ken Chastain, percussion
Tickets: $30 to $70
Opera Finale: Verdi's Otello
Andrew Litton leads the Minnesota Orchestra, an all-star cast of vocal soloists, the Minnesota Chorale and the Minnesota Boychoir in a concert performance of Verdi's Otello—an opera based on the classic Shakespearean tragedy and wrought with drama, romance and jealousy. Returning to Orchestra Hall for this performance are tenor Carl Tanner as Otello, soprano Barbara Shirvis as Desdemona, baritone Stephen Powell as Iago, tenor Eric Barry as Cassio, mezzo Victoria Vargas as Emilia and bass Michael Schmidt as the Herald. Making their Minnesota Orchestra debuts are tenor David Blalock as Roderigo and basses Adam Lau as Lodovico and Benjamin Sieverding as Montano.
Saturday, July 23, 2016, 7:30 p.m. / Orchestra Hall
Minnesota Orchestra
Andrew Litton, conductor
Carl Tanner, Otello
Barbara Shirvis, Desdemona
Stephen Powell, Iago
Eric Barry, Cassio
Victoria Vargas, Emilia
Adam Lau, Lodovico
David Blalock, Roderigo
Benjamin Sieverding, Montano
Michael Schmidt, Herald
Minnesota Boychoir
Minnesota Chorale
VERDI Otello (concert performance)
Tickets: $30 to $80
OH+ Event
Music Up Close: Free concert preview with Phillip Gainsley and Shakespeare expert Amy Bolis in Balcony A on Saturday, July 23, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. This event is free, but a ticket to the evening's performance of Otello is required for entry.
Tickets can be purchased online at minnesotaorchestra.org, or by calling 612-371-5656 or 800-292-4141. Tickets can be purchased in person at the Orchestra Hall Box Office, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis (open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and beginning two hours before all ticketed performances); and at the Minnesota Orchestra Administrative Office, International Centre, 5th floor, 920 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis (open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). For more information, call 612-371-5656, or visit minnesotaorchestra.org. For groups of 10 or more, call 612-371-5662.
Published prices include a non-discountable facility fee of $5 per ticket. For single ticket purchases, there are no service charges for in-person transactions. There is a $6 service charge per transaction for all phone, fax or mail orders. Save $1 by purchasing tickets online or by having the Orchestra e-mail your tickets. (This charge is waived for subscribers and group purchasers ordering by phone, mail or in person.) No refunds. Some fees and restrictions may apply to ticket exchanges. All sales are final.
All programs, artists, dates, times and prices subject to change.
Sommerfest is presented by U.S. Bank.
The Star Tribune is the Minnesota Orchestra's media partner for the 2015-16 season.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant,
thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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Gwen Pappas, Director of Public Relations
Emma Plehal, Public Relations Writer and Coordinator