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The investigation, which began Feb. 5, closed Monday after Zink signed a settlement with the two women who brought allegations against him, said Jill Del Greco, spokeswoman for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, which houses the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Former Police Chief David Zink will not face charges as a result of a criminal investigation into his conduct, according to the Ohio Attorney General's Office.
The investigation, which began Feb. 5, closed Monday after Zink signed a settlement with the state, which was acting on behalf of the two women who brought allegations of inappropriate behavior against him, said Jill Del Greco, spokeswoman for the Ohio Attorney General's Office, which houses the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
The settlement states Zink admits to no guilt under the law and that the attorney general's office will pursue no further legal action against him.
Terms of the settlement include:
• Zink agreed to retire within two weeks of the settlement.
• Zink agreed not to seek future employment with the department.
• Zink permanently surrendered his Ohio peace officer certification, rendering him unable to hold another law enforcement officer job in the state.
• Zink and the women involved agreed to have no contact with one another.
"We thought that this was the best resolution for the case as it was presented," Del Greco said.
Zink, in a statement emailed to the Repository, said he agreed to sign the settlement because he wanted to put the case behind him, avoid costly litigation and keep his family from "continued negative media attention."
"In my mind the agreement is no less than extortion, if you do not sign we will move forward with a case against you knowing it is wrong," it reads.
Zink says he planned his retirement in late August as a result of the allegations being leveled against him. His last day as chief of police was Friday.
"I continue to maintain I have never committed any crimes or sexually harassed anyone," he said in the statement. "I was never charged with a crime nor ever found guilty of any type of misconduct."
Jackson Township officials offered no comment about the closing of the case because the administration was not involved in the BCI investigation.
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March 2011 saw the grand opening of the first phase of Conran and Partners' 20 hectare urban regeneration project in the Futako Tamagawa neighbourhood of Tokyo.Won in limited international competition in 2004, the project located on the south-west edge of the city alongside the Tamagawa River, is currently Tokyo's single largest development and when completed will provide a total of 400,000 sq m of retail, office, leisure and residential buildings, as well as a new city park.The recently completed first phase of the project includes 260,000 sq m of mixed-use development including two department stores, a retail galleria, an office building, 3 residential towers ranging from 28 to 40 storeys as well as 2 low rise residential buildings, providing a total of 1000 apartments.The first of the office buildings to be constructed within the Futako Tamagawa Rise mixed-use masterplan is located next to the railway station and forms one side of a new retail galleria. The 11 storeys of office accommodation provide 26,000 sq m of gross area and sit above 5 storey's of retail space, with commanding views south over the Tamagawa River.For the overall masterplan, Conran and Partners design responds to the essential elements of the site; its location on the very edge of Tokyo, its adjacency to the Tamagawa River and the shift across the one kilometre linear site from the urbanity of the railway station to the west to the planned park to the east. As such, it reflects the important transitionary role the site plays at the boundary between city and nature.A landscaped stone plateau is created over the whole site through which a ribbon route defines the journey; a promenade celebrating this transition. The buildings then reflect their position along the route, being more solid and vibrant in the commercial area, with bold use of colour around the railway station and becoming lighter and more delicate in detail in the residential area adjacent to the park.
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was Samsung's first attempt at making a Note tablet, complete with S Pen and an early and buggy version of Multi Window. It was a high-end device for its time, but for many, it was quickly forgotten. Its subsequent updates completely changed the software and made it an amazing device, but that wasn't quite enough.
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Woman accused of tainting OJ at San Jose Starbucks
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Woman accused of tainting OJ at San Jose Starbucks
'Toxic smell' reported
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —
Police don't have a motive.
A woman in Northern California is facing attempted murder charges after she allegedly tried to sneak tainted bottles of orange juice inside a Starbucks.
San Jose police released additional details about the case on Tuesday. They say 50-year-old Ramineh Behbehanian fled when a customer alerted store staff that she saw Behbehanian remove two bottles of orange juice from her bag and place them in a refrigerated display case on Monday.
A store employee took down Behbehaian's license plate, and she was arrested at her home a short distance away on suspicion of attempted murder and poisoning.
Sgt. Jason Dwyer says firefighters determined that the bottles contained a mixture of orange juice and rubbing alcohol.
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The Comforts of Punch
A wave of crowd-pleasing drinks is restoring a spirit of conviviality to cocktail culture
AT SOME COCKTAIL bars, what's new is what's 400 years old. "The punch bowl was the cocktail party of the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s," said cocktail consultant and author Dale DeGroff. But with the Industrial Revolution came new distilling technology, saloons and, eventually, the cachet of an individual drink made to order.
One of the very aspects that doomed punch to begin with, the adamant individualism of the cocktail, could be a reason enthusiasts are looking back. After a decade of dead-serious neo-speakeasies, where drinks are concocted with scientific precision and presented with hushed reverence, punch makes a refreshing change. "People are enjoying the communal aspect of sitting around a bowl," said Jack McGarry, bar director at Manhattan's Dead Rabbit, where guests are handed a welcoming teacup of punch upon arrival.
There has been a learning curve. As the trend began to take off, bartenders often approached punch as if it were just a bigger cocktail, according to David Wondrich, whose 2010 book "Punch: The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl" is often cited as inspiring punch programs at bars. "The more experience you get with it," he said, "the more you realize that you don't want it to be so strong, because you want people to drink it for a while."
The key to a flavorful punch, Mr. Wondrich stressed, is investing the time to make a shrub, in which citrus oils are muddled with sugar, then mixed with juice and water. This mixture is then combined with spirits, water and additional ingredients to make a nuanced and deeply flavored drink.
This new wave of punches is particularly well suited to entertaining at home, allowing the host to come out from behind the bar, and giving guests the opportunity to serve themselves in an easygoing mood. "People have had all that serious stuff," said Mr. McGarry. "Now they're going back to what is comfortable to them."
—Elva Ramirez
Millennium Punch
This Cognac-based punch brightened with fresh pineapple and pomegranate liqueur is perfect for parties. Serves: 20-24
Make shrub: Using a vegetable peeler, remove skin from 6 lemons and 3 oranges, being careful not to include any pith. Muddle citrus peels with 1½ cups sugar to extract citrus oils. Let rest at least 4 hours, muddling occasionally. Pour in 12 ounces lemon juice, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Add 12 ounces water and stir.
Make punch: In a punch bowl, muddle ½ pineapple, diced, with 8 ounces unsweetened pineapple juice. Strain shrub into punch bowl and discard peels. Add 6-8 dashes Dale DeGroff's Pimento Aromatic Bitters, two 750-ml bottles Louis Royer "Force 53" VSOP Cognac, 15 ounces PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur and 50 ounces water and stir. Float lemon and orange slices in bowl for garnish.
Serve in glasses over a couple of ice cubes. Grate nutmeg over top.
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Foster to go on trial in September
Eric Foster is scheduled to go on trial on Sept. 19 for the murder of Trinity Monique Hanna.
Foster appeared in Kern County Superior Court on Monday for his arraignment in the torture and murder of the three-year-old Taft girl.
Foster, who turned 28 on March 5, has been in custody since Jan. 25, 2011, the day after Trinity was pronounced dead in the emergency room of a Bakersfield hospital.
He is being held without bail and could face the death penalty because of the torture and murder allegations.
The Kern County District Attorney's Office has not decided whether or not it will seek the death penalty against Foster.
Assistant District Attorney Scott Spielman, who is prosecuting the case, said no final decision has yet been made on whether or not to seek the death penalty.
Trinity's mother, Angela Monique Hanna, has already pleaded no contest to child abuse charges and is required by her plea bargain to testify against Foster at his trial in exchange for receiving no more than 10 years in prison.


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AI alum, Clay Aiken, who lost to Ruben Studdard in 2003 claims to watch the American Idol show once during every season. According to Aiken, he caught Lambert's rendition of "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash. Aiken bashed the performance, referring to it as "contrived," "awful" and "slightly frightening." Like that wasn't enough, Aiken also said, "He thought his ears would bleed".
But wait — there's more. Aiken aims his wrath on "Idol" itself. He thinks the series showed bias for Lambert over ultimate champ Kris Allen.
I don't understand why these celebrities say one thing and then try to retract when the damage has already been done. Clay has since apologized to Lambert via his fan site on Saturday morning, saying it was just his opinion.


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Dangerous wind chills are expected after midnight tonight, particularly the higher terrain of Central and Western Massachusetts, according to the National Weather Service.
With temperatures from 12 above to 1 below and winds out of the west at 10 to 15 mph, and gusts up to 20 mph, the wind chill readings could reach as low as 18 below zero, according to the NWS forecast for Worcester.
The NWS said a wind chill advisory is in effect from 10 tonight until 10 a.m. Wednesday. This means the wind chill index is likely to reach minus 15 to minus 24 for at least three hours.
When you go outdoors, the NWS advises wearing layers and a hat and gloves to protect your head and hands. Frostbite can develop in 30 minutes with a wind chill of minus 20.
The forecast highs Wednesday and Thursday are in the mid-teens, with lows at night in the single digits. On Friday, snow is likely, with a high in the mid-20s and wind out of the northwest. Monday and Tuesday temperatures return to seasonable levels.
The frigid weather is an Arctic front sweeping south, which hit the Midwest last weekend. The Associated Press reports that authorities suspect exposure has played a role in at least four deaths so far.
"I am wearing a Snuggie under a top and another jacket over that," said Faye Whitbeck, president of the chamber of commerce in International Falls, Minn., a town near the Canadian border where the temperature was minus 30 on Tuesday morning. The anticipated high was a balmy 8 below. "I pulled out a coat that went right to my ankles this morning and I wore two scarves."
Speculation that frigid weather now and in February will boost demand for the heating fuel resulted in a boost of natural gas futures for a third day Tuesday in New York, Bloomberg News reported.
Natural gas futures gained as much as 2.2 percent Tuesday after forecasters including Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Md., said the last week of January may be a patch of mild weather sandwiched between blasts of icy cold from Chicago to the Atlantic. A midday update from a government weather model turned colder for the Northeast through the first week of February.
About 50 percent of U.S. households use gas for heating, according to the Energy Information Administration.
In other energy futures trading Tuesday, heating oil rose 2 cents to $3.07 a gallon, Bloomberg reported.


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I've never played it but I have flipped through the book a time or two as one of my friends owns it. I ought to convince him to run it one of these days.
Oh, and I recall that the alien queen was ridiculously deadly in combat. I seem to recall some sort of rule akin to a 50% chance of instant death if it strikes you with its tail. Yeesh!


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I've posted many recipes for beans, because they are one of my favorite legumes that is good anytime of year. I try to keep a can of Bush's Baked Beans in our pantry. They are a perfect side dish with hot dogs or burgers. I love the taste of the sweetness from the brown sugar and molasses and the saltiness from the pork.
NOTE: It isn't mandatory to have a bean pot. My favorite method of cooking beans is in a Dutch oven, simmering them on a stove. My pressure cooker is another great way to make beans, in a fraction of the time. I've never cooked beans in the oven, over a period of six hours! I've read that this technique produces beans with a lot of flavor. It was time to test this method. ONE MORE NOTE: I do not recommend making these in a slower cooker, though. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've never had luck making really good beans in a slow cooker.


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Apalachee High School has announced the hiring of Matt Allen as its new fast-pitch softball coach.
Allen, who comes to AHS after working as an assistant at various Henry County schools, replaced Mike Cavey, who stepped down to begin coaching at Archer High School.
Allen met with his players and parents last week.
AHS athletic director Ralph Neeley has decided to split the duties of the baseball and softball programs. Cavey had coached both in recent years, but Neeley wanted to have separate coaches for the two programs.
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Wolfgang Rihm was born in 1952 in Germany – in Karlsruhe (where he is currently head of Institute of Modern Music at the city's Conservatory) near Germany's borders with France and Switzerland. He occupies an unusual position in contemporary European music, which several new releases and the continuing following which he inspires for other recent ones, bears close examination – particularly since there are next to no other reviews of Rihm's works to speak of on Classical Net. Although Rihm's music is not published exclusively by Hänssler Classic, it's a handful of CDs containing some of the composer's most recent and largely representative works from Hänssler that is examined here.
Two of Rihm's most startling characteristics are his prolificness, and breadth of musical vision. This survey looks for the most part at Rihm's larger-scale and orchestral compositions; it concentrates, too, on recordings by the southern German orchestras, particularly those associated with the SWR>>music, the Southwest German Broadcasting Company, in co-operation with whom Hänssler CLASSIC works, and which is celebrating its tenth anniversary in October 2010; it constitutes a Rihm Edition. Although the current catalog lists fewer than 75 recordings of works by Rihm, his listed output actually stretches to many times that number… to several hundred compositions in fact!
That labels like Hänssler are committed to addressing this issue is all to the good. The styles and forms of Rihm's work also impress… song to song cycle to Opera, chamber to Symphony, concerto to oratorio. To complicate things, like Boulez, Rihm does not always regard works as finished: they are often repurposed in whole or part. Ins Offene, for example, is an orchestral work from 1990. Two years later it was rewritten in its entirety. Two years after that its material formed the basis of the piano concerto, Sphere; in the same year (1994) that same piano part became the solo piano work Nachstudie (also 1994).
At the same time, Rihm's styles occupy a wide spectrum. The music on Volume 4 will remind you of Stravinsky, though it's not so austere. Indeed, Rihm's earliest music seemed to aim for a conscious contrast with the avant-garde of Boulez and Stockhausen (with whom Rihm studied in the early 1970s). Particularly as it was anchored in an emotional richness redolent, too, almost of Mahler and certainly of Schoenberg – at least the latter's expressionist period. In the later 1970s and 1980s, Rihm worked in the style of the New Simplicity movement. Other influences on Rihm include Nono and Feldman.
One of Rihm's greatest strengths, though, is surely that he rarely abandons the best and most useful of any influence. Not that Rihm's music is ever derivative. Nor that it consciously tries to emulate styles as does some of Schnittke's music. Rather, that Rihm reflects completely internalized approaches to composition rendering them all the more impactful for that. Rihm once commented that his "…music is always different from what you think it is." In other words, perhaps, its substance and presence to the listener (and performer) matter more than any preconceptions of its form or genre. He also makes no bones about emphasizing the strong emotional content of his music. Feeling and the invitation to respond in a way that goes beyond the intellectual are both very evident in a whole host of forms in these CDs.
One can hear Scelsi in the blocks of sound that make up the Symphonies on Volume 3 (93.227), too. The second symphony from 1975 is scored for "large orchestra". It displays Rihm's gifts for lyricism and expansiveness. In the same way that – in a most unlikely fashion – Rachmaninov was musically very generous, so are this impressive work's two broad movements. Yet always a touch wistful, without being tentative. As the longer first movement, in particular, slowly unfolds, the special match between the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and Rihm's idiom becomes ever more striking: both are working in the grand Germanic symphonic tradition. Yet the orchestra is flexible enough to adapt to the more abrupt – indeed mercurial – use of sound blocks that characterizes much of Rihm's work. This is evident, too, in the remarkable Vers une symphonie fleuve: no 3 (written between 1992 and 1995), also on the Rihm Edition, Volume 3 (93.227). Here contrast is crucial. But to be effective each element of the contrast needs to be fully articulated… winds and brass, strings and percussion. The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra maps out Rihm's soundscape is exemplary fashion at every turning – indeed as they do throughout this series of CDs.
It would be wrong to characterize Rihm as anything of a magpie. His music is all very much his own. The composer is just as much at home in choral music too. The way in which the SWR Vokalensemble articulates the abstract yet somewhat declamatory and intentionally repetitive "definitions" of god in Quid est Deus under Sylvain Cambreling (on 93.236) is highly accomplished. The same CD (Volume 4) contains Frau/Stimme for soprano and orchestra; it too is penetratingly sung and its dramatic import finely articulated. As with other works by the composer, space plays an important part here. Indeed, the description, "For soprano and orchestra with soprano", indicates the importance of Rihm's intended grouping of musicians-with-singer and singer. Like the other soloists on all these CDs, both Isolde Siebert and Carmen Fugiss are more than at home in Rihm's declaratory idiom and enhance our appreciation of his writing significantly. Finally in this Volume Ungemaltes Bild exemplifies Rihm's interest in the visual (he is a synaesthete), in the paradoxical (the title means "unpainted picture") and in the relationship between more than one art form (painting and music) to non-artistic significance: the piece builds on the work of Emil Nolde, who secretly began over 1,000 small paintings while in a Nazi concentration camp with the intention of expanding them into fuller, oil-based paintings if ever released.
One very forceful attribute that all the music surveyed here has is energy. Rihm is capable of infusing every bar with fundamental life-force. Superficially, it's as though you're being led on a rapid journey where Rihm can't wait to show you what happens next. More realistically, he's simply exposing the internal logic of his music, implying that its structure and imaginative power themselves keep it taut and tensile. Time (which for Rihm does not necessarily mean rhythm) is an essential element. The opening of Rihm's Opus 3 (he rarely uses opus numbers now… certainly not consistently) the First Symphony, which dates from 1969, is startling in its impact – and in the way it grows and brings everything (previous themes, new material, listeners, players) unstoppably with it. Equally compelling for the way Rihm translates color into vivacity and directed power are the other works on 3.227: Vers une symphonie fleuve: no 3 (written between 1992 and 1995) exudes power and life. Though neither bombast nor bluster. Nor is this achieved (superbly, again, by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra under Gelmetti) superficially. They are so closely in tune with Rihm's tightness of conception and close binding between structure and orchestration that they make the momentum seem inevitable.
The same thing – violence, almost – is uppermost in the way the musical ideas are expressed in Sub-Kontur, written between 1974 and 1975 (on Volume 2, 93.202). The timpani passages which open the work exhibit yet another characteristic of Rihm's style: surprise. As the beats sound irregularly and with differing frequencies and force, you really have little or no idea of where the composer is taking us. This is invigorating; but not self-consciously so, as it might be in the hands, say, of programmatic writing – and even Shostakovich. The orchestral playing, including that of the orchestral soloists, serves Rihm well here. Lichtzwang is indeed for violin solo. And the playing of János Négyesy puts in ample relief the abstraction Rihm intends between the singing violin in this particular piece and our inevitable memories of other "singing" stringed instruments. Also on this CD is Dis-Kontur, also from 1974, which is an essay in musical essences, in clarification and paring music back to its sonic basics. Again, not an easy thing to achieve when playing music which seems to fight this by its layers of sound. But achieved well by the South German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
So too are virtuosity and melody. Musik für Oboe und Orchester is really an oboe concerto in all but name; written in 1995 and revised in 2002 it is both lyrical and virtuosic – not least in the robustness of the interaction between soloist (Alexander Ott) and players. The same strengths of penetrating playing, excellent interaction with the orchestra and just the right touch of personal insight and interpretation go for Gottfried Schneider (violin), Hirofumi Fukai (viola) and Lucas Fels and Walter Grimmer (cellos) in the other three works, variously Styx und Lethe (1997/98) (which shares the same emphasis on virtuosity with the oboe piece), Dritte Musik (1993) (which explores instrumental color) and Erster Doppelgesang (1980) (which is seated in the world of lyrical prose) on the Volume 1 CD, 93.185.
In contrast Morphonie (1972-1973) and Klangbeschreibung I and II (both 1987) on 93.010 show Rihm at the height of his powers in terms of musical structure. He architected the parts in each of the two Klangbeschreibungen (Sound Descriptions) to concentrate on how large scale movements work horizontally; how their developments exist in parallel, refer backwards and forwards and accomplish effect by the gradual development, exit and transformation of melodic and tonal ideas. At the same time, using a fragment from Nietzsche, he almost obliges us to accept that certain segments of sound are more essential to appreciating its essence than others. As if to underline the point, he sets only half of the words from Nietzsche's verse and omits others. The Klangbeschreibungen also reflect Rihm's concentration on (obsession with, almost) sound qua sound… "Every sound a sculpture of itself" was his observation on the piece.
Like several other of his works, Morphonie was first presented to the Donaueschigen Festival, with which Rihm has long been closely associated. Again, to quote Rihm (who is famously precise – at times minimal, and even withholding – in the glosses he provides on his works) "Music must be full of emotion, and the emotion full of complexity." Again, soloists and the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra completely have the measure of the work. They play it, it has to be said, with a confidence that has to come from a broader familiarity with Rihm's world. There is a forward movement and sense of urgency – especially noticeable, perhaps oddly, in the slower portions – which carry us forward with them right into the heart of the composer's musical intentions. This has the advantage with the earlier pieces of taking Rihm's at times almost unsustainable verve and energy at face value in the way a particularly vivacious account of, say, a Beethoven chamber work can do. Yet only when we either know Rihm's work thoroughly and/or in a couple of generations' time (!) might we be able to contextualize it more fully. As it is, we rely on the perspectives of conductors Gielen (in Morphonie) and Bour (in Klangbeschreibung I and II) to set the music in relief for us.
Then the four parts of Verwandlung, "Metamorphosis" (Volume 5, 93.263) are extremely beautiful. Transformation is not an easy orchestral technique to achieve. Rihm probably does so so well by allowing the metaphor of abundance in creating music, the very flow which results from a successful idea successfully executed provide the energy of the pieces on this CD. There is another side to the self-referencing here (to the act of creating): Rihm is a composer who's gone (and is still going) through a number of musical "periods" or styles. Verwandlung celebrates this. It highlights a variety of orchestral genres… pastoral, brittle, chaotic, ordered and inclusive of encapsulated styles of other composers – notably Bruckner, Mahler, Beethoven and even Elgar! Again, the Stuttgart orchestra under Arming (1 and 2) and Pintscher (3 and 4) are fully in accord with the shifting idioms. Significantly, though, they are intent on not somehow "sliding" into the world alluded to when other styles are employed. The Mahlerian string writing is Rihm's, not a pastiche. These players are fully aware of that.
The one work in this selection that embraces many of the strengths of Rihm as a composer, though, is Tutuguri on 93.069. From the early 1980's it's described as a Poème dansé and is based on the French dramatist, Antonin Artaud's, "Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu?" Not only do the two CDs offer almost two hours of highly lyrical, stimulating, rapturous and expertly orchestrated music. They also act as a showcase for the strengths of the Stuttgart Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra with Rupert Huber, their choirmaster as speaker – all conducted (presumably almost to exhaustion) by Fabrice Bollon. It is indeed the orchestration that's so significant. Rihm understands so well the way instruments work and combine. There is subtlety in the percussion, restraint in the brass, support in the strings and confidence in the woodwind on top of the more colorful roles often assumed by these sections. Above all, the players and singers articulate the ritual, layered and spectacularly dramatic way that Rihm chose to interpret the anguish and energy of Artaud's conception. Above all they succeed (through consistency of tempo and dynamic) in pinpointing the precise relationship which Rihm wanted to convey between the abstractions of the textual underpinnings and the sound and fury which are all the musicians can actually deal in. A wonderful place in which to start any exploration of Rihm if you're new to him.
Deus Passus (98.397) is Rihm's St. Luke Passion and dates from about 20 years later. Here an impressive group of soloists, Juliane Banse (soprano), Iris Vermillion (mezzo), Cornelia Kallisch (alto), Christoph Prégardien (tenor) and Andreas Schmidt (baritone) join the Stuttgart Bach Collegium and Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling to perform this truly stunning work. These musicians are every bit as convincing and finely attuned to Rihm's remarkable work as those on the other CDs in this survey. The Passion formed part of the "Passion 2000" project for the Bach celebrations ten years ago. This recording is based upon the live recordings of the premières given in Stuttgart in that year.
Rihm's work, using a text by Paul Celan, parallels humanity's suffering with that of God (hence the title, "suffering God"). Each of the four composers who took part in the project (Gubaidulina, Tan Dun and Golijov as well as Rihm) seems to have proved that there is a place for such a work 250 (or, rather 273) years after Bach's. What Rilling and his forces have succeeded in doing in this performance is pull out the relationship between individuals, events and circumstances. Hence the performance accentuates those aspects of Rihm's writing that concentrate on the nature of suffering. But their playing and singing are as far from sentimental as you would hope. They, too, have interpreted the essence of what Rihm intended. Inevitably, it's sombre, dark indeed. The instrumentation with an emphasis on woodwind and percussion afford it a great richness which Rilling consistently stewards. It's a quiet, understated, composition; slow with much of the singing spanning large, open intervals – somewhat in the style of the other composers contributing to the project and showing a gentler, subdued side of Rihm with much more "room" between the musical ideas (so to put it) than in the other pieces examined here. Rilling and his performers, though, have truly absorbed the essence of Rihm's spiritually very rich and somewhat "exhausted" attitude towards suffering. Another good place to start in appreciating Rihm: it's a splendid blend of emotion, musicality, extra-musical reference and extreme technical accomplishment. But fused into one without a hint at self-consciousness. Two CDs in the set, again; text in German, English, French and Spanish; a clear and boisterous acoustic as befits the muscularity of the work.
So, credit must go to Hänssler for the scope and quality of their Rihm Edition project. For all the quantity of his output, and dedicated following, especially in Europe, Rihm is not a household name. His appeal – until you actually take the time to listen and re-listen – may seem limited or restricted. But in the act of listening, those new to the composer are more than likely to have an entirely new and fascinating world opened to them. The presentation of these CDs is excellent, although navigating the booklets (especially when in more than one language and in small fonts) can require care. The acoustic of the recordings is uniformly superb and – as has been celebrated throughout this survey. The overall impression one may well take away from an immersion in Rihm's music is twofold: an immense energy supported by great purpose on the composer's part. And utter enjoyment on ours.
Copyright © 2010 by Mark Sealey.


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7.4 Home Teaching
Under the bishop's direction, quorum and group leaders oversee home teaching. They instruct home teachers in their duties and inspire them to perform these duties well.
Responsibilities of Home Teachers
Home teaching is one way Heavenly Father blesses His children. Home teachers "visit the house of each member, exhorting them to pray vocally and in secret and attend to all family duties" (D&C 20:51). They are assigned to families and individuals to "watch over … and be with and strengthen them" (D&C 20:53). They "warn, expound, exhort, and teach, and invite all to come unto Christ" (D&C 20:59).
Where possible, home teachers visit members in their homes at least monthly. Home teachers may also find other meaningful ways to watch over and strengthen the families they are assigned. For example, they may render service to the families or contact family members by mail or telephone.
Home teachers represent the Lord, the bishop, and quorum or group leaders. They can be an important source of help to members. They consult with the head of the household about the family's needs and about ways to be most helpful.
Home teachers become acquainted with family members' interests and needs and recognize special events in their lives.
As needed, home teachers help parents ensure that their children are blessed, baptized, and confirmed. They may also help parents ensure that their sons have the Aaronic Priesthood and Melchizedek Priesthood conferred upon them and are ordained to priesthood offices at the appropriate ages.
Home teachers offer help when members are unemployed, ill, lonely, moving, or have other needs.
Home teachers help members strengthen their faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and encourage them to make and keep sacred covenants. This service is especially important to new members and less-active members.
Home teachers make appointments for their visits at times that are convenient for the individuals or families. They remember that they are guests of the members they visit.
Each visit should focus on a planned purpose. Before visiting a home, companions pray together. They discuss ways they can strengthen those they will visit. Based on this discussion and the guidance of the Holy Ghost, they share a message, usually taken from the scriptures and the First Presidency's message in the Ensign or Liahona magazine. Other messages may come from the bishop or other leaders. The head of the household may also request a special message. Home teaching visits typically include a prayer.
Each month, home teachers report to quorum or group leaders on the spiritual and temporal welfare of the members they visit. If a member's needs are urgent, home teachers report them immediately.
Organizing Home Teaching
A household that is headed by an elder usually has home teachers from the elders quorum. A household that is headed by a high priest usually has home teachers from the high priests group. When a household is not headed by a Melchizedek Priesthood holder, the bishopric determines whether that household should have home teachers from the elders quorum or the high priests group. In making this decision, the bishopric may consult with the priesthood executive committee and ward council.
In organizing home teaching, quorum and group leaders prayerfully discuss the needs of individuals and families. Leaders discuss ways home teachers can watch over and strengthen these members, consulting with the priesthood executive committee and ward council as needed. Leaders also consider factors such as distance, travel, and safety.
Based on these discussions, leaders assign a companionship of two home teachers to each household where possible. They obtain the bishop's approval for each companionship and each home teaching assignment.
Quorum and group leaders assign the most effective home teachers to members who need them most. When assigning home teachers, leaders give highest priority to new members, less-active members who may be the most receptive, and others who have the greatest need for home teachers, such as single parents, widows, and widowers. It is often helpful to assign a youth leader to a family where a young man or young woman is experiencing special challenges. Home teachers should be assigned to converts before the converts are baptized.
After consultation with the elders quorum president, high priests group leader, and Young Men president, a member of the bishopric
Aaronic Priesthood holders participate with their companions in watching over and caring for the members they visit. This may include making appointments, sharing messages, and giving service. This experience helps them with their priesthood training, including mission preparation (see D&C 84:106–7).
Elders quorum leaders in young single adult wards assign home teachers to each member in the ward. Single members who live together as roommates may be visited at the same time. However, home teachers should focus on serving the individuals and should report on each person separately.
With approval from the bishop in exceptional cases, Melchizedek Priesthood leaders and Relief Society leaders may assign a husband and wife as a companionship where visits by a couple are needed. Couples report these visits as home teaching and visiting teaching. Normally, young parents are not given such an assignment because it takes them away from their children.
Adapting Home Teaching to Local Needs
In some locations, visiting every home each month may not be possible for a time because of insufficient numbers of active priesthood holders or other challenges. In these circumstances, leaders give priority to visiting new members, less-active members who are most likely to respond to invitations to return to Church activity, and members with serious needs.
Leaders do their best in using available resources to watch over and strengthen each member. Any adaptations they make to home teaching should be considered temporary.
Some suggestions for adapting home teaching are outlined in the following paragraphs.
With approval from the bishop, Melchizedek Priesthood leaders and Relief Society leaders may temporarily assign only home teachers or only visiting teachers to certain families. In some cases, leaders may assign home teachers to visit a family one month and assign visiting teachers to visit Relief Society members in that family the next month.
With approval from the mission president, leaders may consider asking full-time missionaries to go home teaching with Melchizedek Priesthood holders on a limited basis. The mission president communicates this approval to the stake president, who informs bishops. When such approval is given, full-time missionaries are assigned primarily to visit new members, part-member families, and less-active members.
Based on needs and priorities, quorum and group leaders may make some visits to help fulfill the quorum and group's home teaching responsibilities.
Reporting Home Teaching
Quorum and group leaders receive monthly home teaching reports from each companionship. In addition, they meet with home teachers regularly to discuss the spiritual and temporal welfare of the members they are assigned and to make plans to help members in need. Confidential information should be reported only to the elders quorum president or high priests group leader, who reports it to the bishop.
The elders quorum president and high priests group leader give the bishop monthly home teaching reports. Each report includes a list of those who were not contacted. Reports give special attention to new members, less-active members, and others who have serious needs. If a family or individual has urgent needs, the elders quorum president or high priests group leader reports this information to the bishop immediately.
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Remember: you can also get advice from your local pharmacist for lots of health issues, including when to visit your GP. And there's no need for an appointment.
Most cases of back pain can be treated with over-the-counter medicines and self care aids and techniques.
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Digestive complaints like heartburn, indigestion and bloating are very common. You can usually treat them with simple changes to your lifestyle and over-the-counter remedies.
Mild tummy pain usually lasts two to four days. If the pain or bloating persists, see your GP.
Find more information in our section on heartburn, indigestion and digestive health.
In most cases, a blocked nose will clear within a few days without treatment once the body fights off the underlying infection.
If you've got a virus, such as a cold or flu, your GP can't offer you anything more than a pharmacist can provide. Antibiotics won't help.
If symptoms persist, speak to your pharmacist or see your GP.
See more on treating a blocked nose.
If you're constipated (can't poo), changing your diet may be all that's needed to ease it.
If over-the-counter laxatives don't ease your symptoms, see your GP.
Find more information on treating constipation.
A migraine is a headache that's strong enough to stop you from carrying on with daily life.
If your migraines are severe, you may need stronger migraine-specific medicines that are only available on prescription from your GP.
Find more information on treating migraines.
Coughs are usually caused by viruses such as the common cold or flu. They usually clear up without treatment once your immune system has beaten the virus.
Antibiotics won't help with coughs caused by viruses.
See your GP if you've had a cough for more than three weeks after a viral infection, or your cough is progressively getting worse.
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Acne is usually most noticeable on the face, but can also appear on the back, shoulders and buttocks.
If over-the-counter treatments don't help, treatments are available on prescription from your GP.
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A sprain is when you injure a ligament in one of your joints, such as your wrist or ankle. A strain is caused by overstretching or tearing muscle fibres, usually in your back or legs.
Most mild to moderate sprains and strains can be treated at home using the PRICE technique.
Most sprains and strains start to get better after about three to four days.
Get medical help straight away if your joint looks different from usual, is difficult or impossible to move, or you feel numbness or tingling.
Find more information on sprains and strains.
Most headaches aren't serious, and are usually relieved by medicines, relaxation techniques and lifestyle changes.
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Weed Scientists: Some Soybeans Suffer Herbicide Injury; Are Likely To Recover
Recent heavy rainfall in parts of Indiana have created conditions ideal for herbicide injury from certain pre-emergence PPO inhibitors in soybean fields, two Purdue Extension weed scientists say.
PPO inhibitors are a class of herbicides effective in treating marestail, common waterhemp and Palmer amaranth when used in combination with other herbicides in weed burndowns before crops have emerged. They work by creating toxic levels of oxygen radicals that destroy the lipids of cell membranes, leading to plant death. Under most conditions, soybeans have the ability to metabolize these herbicides quickly enough to reduce the levels of toxic radicals.
PPO herbicides also have soil residual activity, meaning they remain in the soil for a period of time. According to Bill Johnson and Travis Legleiter, that makes them more prone to injuring soybeans under cool, wet conditions.
"The sustained cool, wet soil conditions under which most soybean plants have been emerging this spring are less than ideal for rapid herbicide metabolism and thus have led to some injury symptoms to fields that received one of the PPO herbicides," Johnson said. "Soybean injury also was increased due to heavy rainfall events that splashed herbicides from the soil surface onto emerging soybeans."
Injury symptoms include stunted growth, crinkled leaves, necrosis of the hypocotyl (lower stem) and cotyledons (first leaves), and necrotic spotting on leaves.
Soybeans planted in sandy and coarse soils typically are at higher risk for these types of injuries. But, according to Travis Legleiter, this year's weather conditions have made soybeans planted in most soil types susceptible.
The good news, he said, is that the injury most often doesn't reduce soybean yields.
"In the majority of cases, soybean plants are able to grow out of the initial injury and yield losses don't occur," Legleiter said. "Only in rare cases of severe injury to the hypocotyl or growing point will replanting be required."
Because soybeans can recover, both he and Johnson cautioned farmers about avoiding PPO-inhibitor herbicides going forward.
"The increased amount of injury to soybean this year might cause some of our producers to avoid these particular herbicides in the future," Johnson said. "We have seen exceptional weed control out of these PPO-inhibiting herbicides at our Palmer amaranth research site this season, and would encourage growers to continue to use these valuable tools.
"Producers need to weigh the risk of temporary injury against quality control of problematic weeds, such as Palmer amaranth, common waterhemp and marestail. In the majority of years, these products pose little threat of soybean injury."
Growers who suspect soybean herbicide injury can submit a sample to Purdue's Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory for further confirmation.
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OLIVET, Mich. - The Trine University football team got back in the win column as they easily handled Olivet College 42-6. The Thunder are now 6-2 on the season and 2-2 in the MIAA.
It started off well for the Thunder as they forced the Comets three and out on their opening drive. Trine drove right down the field as their nine play, 73-yard drive was capped off by a 22-yard Kent Biller (Nappanee, Ind./Northwood) sweep run to the left for the score.
Trine would get the ball right back as they forced another three and out on the Olivet offense. Trine would again drive down the field, but the offense would stall after three incomplete passes including a fourth and 16. Olivet would again go three and out as the Comets punt was short, just 16 yards, giving Trine ball on the Olivet 45. Quarterback Ryan Hargraves (Taylor, Mich./Truman) found Will Chrystal (Portage, Mich. /Northern) who made a diving catch for a 35-yard gain and the first down. From there, three plays later Hargraves ran it in untouched from a yard out for his third rushing touchdown of the season.
After Trine forced the Comets to punt again, Biller ran for a 37-yard gain putting the Thunder within striking distance. On the next play, Hargraves pass in the end zone intended for Chrystal was intercepted by the Comets Rob Jensen for a touchback. After Olivet got their first down of the game, Myron Puryear (Plymouth, Mich./Canton) intercepted the Olivet pass. Puryear snatched the jump ball away from the Comet's receiver after Kyle Sherwood (Hanover, Mich./Hanover Horton) pressured Olivet's quarterback. The Trine offense would stumble for the first time as they were forced to punt on the ensuing possession.
On Olivet's ensuing possession, the Thunder came up with a big stop on fourth down as the Comets were driving deep into Trine territory. Ryan Braun (Grand Blanc, Mich./Grand Blanc) and Ben Mohr (Boggstown, Ind./Triton Central) stuff the Olivet runner a yard shy of the first down.
Trine would score just before halftime as Hargraves found Jeff Harbrecht (Lowell, Ind./Lowell) wide open over the middle for the 20-yard touchdown as the Thunder led 21-0 at halftime.
Trine started the second half with a bang as Puryear took the opening kickoff back 85 yards for his first career return for a touchdown. Puryear wasn't done yet as he would complete the trifecta. Three plays into Olivet's next possession, Puryear stripped the ball from Olivet's wide receiver after it was initially a 15-yard gain for the Comets. That play would setup the Thunder for another score as their eight play, 54-yard drive was capped off by three yard rush by Devin Leas (Poneto, Ind./Southern Wells).
Olivet would score their only points of the game at the end of the third quarter as Trine was forced to punt after being backed up to their own six yard line. The Comets drove just 37 yards capped off by a five yard touchdown pass, but the extra point was blocked by the Trine defense.
Olivet tried an onside kick on the ensuing kickoff, but the Thunder were ready for it as Austin Thrana (Michigan Center, Mich./Michigan Center) recovered the ball.
The Trine defense came up with one more big stop as they pushed the Olivet offense all the way back to their own five yard line. After Olivet was called for a personal foul, Ryan Hogan (Vine Gove, Ky./Meade County) recorded his first career sack resulting in the Comets being forced to punt again.
Trine would put one final score on the board as Leas would again score, this time from nine yards out after the Thunder had a short field to work with.
Trine's offense tied a season-high with 42 points as Hargraves led the offense going 13-for-22 from the pocket for 135 yards. Biller led the ground game for the Thunder, scrambling for 92 yards. Five other backs ran for at least 30 yards for Trine. Chrystal led all receivers with 78 yards on four catches. Ja Vontae Hence (Elkhart, Ind./Concord) finished the afternoon with a game-high five catches for 29 yards.
The defense for Trine forced a season-high eight punts from the Olivet offense. Caleb Nitz (Baroda, Mich./Lakeshore) led the defense with 10 total tackles (four solo). Hogan and Sherwood each recorded a sack while Sherwood also added a tackle for a three yard loss.
Trine will play their final home game of the season on November 5 as they host Kalamazoo for a 1:00 p.m. game.


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The Dynamo face off against the New York Red Bulls and Thierry Henry tomorrow. With Henry expected to start, the Dynamo will have a tough match. Tally Hall will most likely be the goalkeeper for Houston, so hear what he and a few others have to say about tomorrow night. Goal.com predicts a Red Bulls win at Robertson Stadium.
Houston hopes to build off the momentum they built after the success of the All-Star Game.
Big Apple Soccer got the chance to talk to Brian Ching and Brad Davis about the upcoming match with Thierry Henry and how they expect him to do in MLS.
Christian Manisck, a Dynamo Academy player, is currently training with a club in Brazil for the next month, and will be blogging about his experiences in South America. Read the first entry here!
According to Steve Davis of SI.com, MLS will consider expanding the schedule to 34 games next year.
The U.S. U-20 national team won the Milk Cup yesterday, defeating Northern Ireland in the finals 2-0. Dynamo midfielder Francisco Navas Cobo nearly scored in the 89th minute, if not for a fine diving effort by the Northern Ireland goalkeeper.
If you missed the All-Star game, you can check out a 20-picture photo gallery here to see some of the action you missed.
U.S. national team star and Galaxy forward Landon Donovan reiterated the fact that at some point he would like to go back to Everton of the English Premier League.
Mexican national team captain Rafael Marquez is set to leave Barcelona and follow Henry's footsteps to the Big Apple.
Nery Castillo has joined the Chicago Fire as their newest Designated Player, and could make his debut for the team as early as August 8.
In addition to Castillo, other international players have joined MLS. Fresh off Uruguay's World Cup run, Alvaro Fernandez will join the Sounders.


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Sockets base library
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Madonna Had 2012's Biggest Tour
The MDNA tour earned $228 million.
With 72 sold-out shows supporting MDNA, Madonna's endlessly controversial tour earned $228 million, besting Bruce Springsteen's second-place $199 million earned over 72 gigs and way besting Lady Gaga's $125 million earned across 65 concerts. Hot tickets like Jay-Z and Kanye West, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift all raked in quite a bit less, but they also all played less than half as many shows as Madonna. (Also, Bruce's 2.1 million-person attendance was a lot higher than Madge's 1.6 million. Just sayin'.)


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Because the Sun does not shine at night, of course! Or, more precisely, because sunlight does not reach the side of the Earth that is facing away from the Sun. This answer is not sufficient for astronomers. Just like being in a large forest, where in every direction and in our entire field of vision we can see trees that are either somewhat closer or further away, in a Universe that is infinite and filled evenly with stars or galaxies, we would have to see a star in every direction, sooner or later. The night sky should actually gleam as brightly as the surface of the Sun.
In 1826 the German doctor and astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers encountered this problem, which has come to be known as Olbers' paradox. Various proposals for solving the paradox have been discussed since then. It could be suggested, for example, that opaque gas or dust clouds between the stars prevent the propagation of light. However, these clouds would absorb the radiation, heat up in the process and, after a time, start to radiate – they therefore do not provide an explanation for the nocturnal darkness.
The observable cosmos: not infinitely large, not an infinite number of stars
Our current model of the Universe provides one solution. The Universe was formed a finite period of time ago and it is expanding and developing. The age of the Universe multiplied by the speed of light defines the boundary of observable space. The light from objects that are beyond this boundary cannot have reached us yet. Added to this is the fact that the expansion of the Universe lengthens the wavelength of the radiation and thus depletes its energy. (See the astronomy question from week 10: Where is the coldest point in the Universe?) Thus the further away the region, the less radiation energy reaches us. The cosmic background radiation that was formed several hundred thousand years after the Big Bang lit up the Universe brightly in the beginning. Over time its wavelength has shifted from the visible range to the microwave range and thus the human eye can no longer perceive it.
If you stand before your front door in the evening and realise that the night sky is dark then, sharp as a razor, you can come to the conclusion that, "Aah, the Universe is expanding!"


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UMLS::SenseRelate::AllWords - A Perl module that implement the all-words word sense disambiguation using the sense relate wsd algorithm based on the semantic similarity and relatedness options from the UMLS::Similarity package.
This package provides an implementation of the senserelate word sense disambiguation algorithm using the semantic similarity and relatedness options from the UMLS::Similarity package.
use UMLS::Similarity;
use UMLS::SenseRelate::AllWords;
# initialize option hash and umls
my %option_hash = ();
my $umls = "";
my $meas = "";
my $senserelate = "";
my $params = "";
# set interface
$option_hash{"t"} = 1;
$option_hash{"realtime"} = 1;
$umls = UMLS::Interface->new(\%option_hash);
# set measure
use UMLS::Similarity::path;
$meas = UMLS::Similarity::path->new($umls);
# set senserelate
$params{"measure"} = "path";
$params{"candidates"} = 1;
$senserelate = UMLS::SenseRelate::AllWords->new($umls, $meas, \%params);
# set the context array
my @context = ();
push @context, "effect";
push @context, "of";
push @context, "the";
push @context, "duration";
push @context, "of";
push @context, "prefeeding";
push @context, "on";
push @context, "amino acid";
push @context, "digestibility";
push @context, "of";
push @context, "wheat";
push @context, "distillers";
my $arrayref = $senserelate->assignSenses(\@context);
foreach my $element (@{$arrayref}) {
print "$element\n";
To install the module, run the following magic commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make test
make install
This will install the module in the standard location. You will, most probably, require root privileges to install in standard system directories. To install in a non-standard directory, specify a prefix during the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage as:
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/bridget
It is possible to modify other parameters during installation. The details of these can be found in the ExtUtils::MakeMaker documentation. However, it is highly recommended not messing around with other parameters, unless you know what you're doing.
UMLS::SenseRelate parameters
'window' -> This parameter determines the window size of the
context on each side of the target word to be used
for disambiguation
'weight' -> This parameter weights the similarity scores based
on how far the term or word is from the target word
'stoplist' -> This parameter disregards stopwords when creating
the window created on the fly (in realtime).
'compound' -> This parameter indicates that compounds exist in
the input instance denoted by an underscore
'trace' -> This parameters indicates that the trace information
should be printed out to the file
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Our beaches and coastline are a national treasure, a shared resource, a beacon of sanity in a world of constant change…and they're disappearing in front of us. Shored Up is a documentary that asks tough questions about coastal communities in the US and their relationships with the land. What will a rising sea do to our homes, our businesses, and the survival of our communities? Can we afford to pile enough sand on our shores to keep the ocean at bay? In Long Beach Island, New Jersey and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, surfers, politicians, scientists, and residents are racing to answer these questions. Beach engineering has been our only approach so far, but is there something else out there to be explored? Highly developed US coastlines puts us in a tough predicament, and it's time to start looking for solutions.
Following the movie, there will be a question-and-answer session with the producer of the film.
Visit shoredupmovie.com to view the trailer or for more information. This event is possible due to support from the Environmental Studies, Film Studies, Government and Legal Studies, and the Anthropology and Sociology departments, as well as the Sustainability Office, the McKeen Center for the Common Good, and the Bowdoin Green Alliance.