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8.553231 - BACH, J.S. / VIVALDI: Violin Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach in 1685, the youngest son of a town and court musician and member of a family with long musical traditions. An orphan by the age of ten, he moved to Ohrdruf, where his elder brother was organist, embarking, in 1703, on a professional career as a musician. Employment as organist at Arnstadt and later at Mühlhausen was followed by a period of eight years as court organist at Weimar, and a further period from 1717 to 1723 as Kapellmeister to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, the social summit of his career. Bach left the Prince's service in 1723 to take up the position of Cantor at the Choir School of St. Thomas in Leipzig, where he was responsible for the music of the major city churches, and later directed the university Collegium Musicum established there by Telemann in 1702. He remained in Leipzig for the rest of his life.
Bach was a prolific composer, his compositions corresponding very largely with his current responsibilities. Many of his works for organ were written in earlier years, while his primarily secular responsibilities at Cöthen, where the prevailing Pietism at court excluded elaborate musical activity in church, elicited a number of instrumental compositions. Initially at Leipzig he worked to meet the demand for church cantatas, later turning his attention to the repertoire of the Collegium Musicum and to the collection and publication of many of his earlier works.
The three violin concertos that survive in their original form, the Concerto in A minor, the Concerto in E major and the Double Concerto in D minor, scored for strings and basso continuo, were all written during Bach's period of employment as Kapellmeister at Ctithen, where the young prince Leopold, a keen amateur, showed a great interest in music that was only curtailed by his marriage at the end of 1721 to a woman that Bach was later to describe as "amusa", lacking in any musical inclinations. It was this marriage, nine months after his own second marriage to Anna Magdalena, that caused his application to Leipzig and his departure. The three concertos also exist in transcriptions for harpsichord made by the composer in Leipzig, with other concertos that survive only in such transcription.
The Concerto in A minor opens with a characteristic figure, which forms a repeated element in the movement. There is a fine-spun melody over a repeated bass figure in the slow movement and a final gigue movement which includes brief moments of technical display by the soloist. The rather more complex Concerto in E major opens with a movement in which the first figure assumes considerable importance in what is to all intents and purposes a da capo aria. There is a slow movement of sustained beauty over a repeated bass figure, and a lively final rondo.
The Double Concerto in D minor opens energetically in the form of a fugal exposition, one solo violin following the other in emulation. There is a dialogue of remarkable beauty in the slow movement and a final movement in which the second violin follows the first in excitingly close juxtaposition.
Once virtually forgotten, Antonio Vivaldi now enjoys a reputation that equals the international fame he enjoyed in his heyday. Born in Venice in 1678, the son of a barber who was himself to win distinction as a violinist in the service of the great basilica of San Marco, which continued the traditions of the Gabrielis and Monteverdi, he studied for the priesthood, and was ordained in 1703. At the same time he established himself as a violinist of remarkable ability. A later visitor to Venice was to describe his playing in the opera-house in 1715, his use of high positions so that his fingers almost touched the bridge of the violin, leaving little room for the bow, and his contrapuntal cadenza, a fugue played at great speed. The experience, the observer added, was too artificial to be enjoyable. Nevertheless Vivaldi was among the most famous virtuosi of the day, as well as being a prolific composer of music that won wide favour at home and abroad.
For much of his life Vivaldi was associated with the Ospedale della Pietà, one of four foundations in Venice for the education of orphan, illegitimate or indigent girls, a select group of whom were trained as musicians. Venice attracted then, as now, many foreign tourists, and the Pietà and its music long remained a centre of cultural pilgrimage. In 1703 Vivaldi, known as il prete rosso, the red priest, for the inherited colour of his hair, was appointed violin-master to the pupils of the Pietà. The position was subject to annual renewal by the board of governors, whose voting was not invariably in Vivaldi's favour, particularly as his reputation and consequent obligations outside the orphanage increased. In 1709 he left the Pietà, to be reinstated in 1711. In 1716 he was removed briefly, to be given, a month later, the title of Maestro de' Concerti, director of instrumental music. A year later he left the Pietà for a period of three years spent in Mantua as Maestro di Cappella da Camera to Prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, the German nobleman appointed by the Emperor in Vienna as governor of the city.
In 1720 Vivaldi was again in Venice and in 1723 the relationship with the Pietà was resumed, apparently on a less formal basis. Vivaldi was commissioned to write two new concertos a month, and to rehearse and direct some of them. The arrangement allowed him to travel, and he was to spend time in Rome and indirectly to seek possible appointment in Paris through dedications to Louis XV, which brought no practical result. Vienna seemed to offer more, with the good will of Charles VI, whose inopportune death, when Vivaldi attempted in old age to find employment there, must have proved a very considerable disappointment.
In 1730 there was a visit to Bohemia; in 1735 another appointment to the Pietà as Maestro de' Concerti, and in 1738 an appearance in Amsterdam, where he led the orchestra at the centenary of the Schouwburg Theatre. By 1740, however, Venice had begun to grow tired of Vivaldi, and shortly after the performance of concertos specially written as part of a serenata for the entertainment of the young Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony in 1740, his impending departure was announced to the governors of the Pietà, who were asked, and at first refused, to buy some of his concertos.
In 1741 Vivaldi travelled to Vienna, where he arrived in June, and had time to sell some of the scores he had brought with him, before succumbing to some form of stomach inflammation. He died a month to the day after his arrival and was buried the same day with as little expense as possible. As was remarked in Venice, he had once been worth 50,000 ducats a year, but through his extravagance he died in poverty.
Much of Vivaldi's expenditure was presumably in the opera-house. He was associated from 1714 with the management of the San Angelo theatre, a second-rate house which nevertheless began to win a name for decent performances, whatever its economies in quality and spectacle. Vivaldi is known to have written some 46 operas, and possibly some 40 more than this; he was also involved as composer and entrepreneur in their production in other opera- houses in Italy. It was his work in the opera-house that led to Marcello's satirical attack on him in 1720 in Il teatro alla moda, on the frontispiece of which Aldaviva, alias Vivaldi, is seen as an angel with a fiddle, wearing a priest's hat, standing on the tiller, with one foot raised, as if to beat time. It has been suggested that" on the fiddle" has similar connotations in Italian as in English. Vivaldi had his enemies.
Among the various sets of concertos and sonatas published in Vivaldi's life-time, Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (the contest between harmony and invention or, as Goethe later put it, between Nature and Art) enjoyed by far the widest popularity Published in Amsterdam in 1725 the collection included Le quattro stagioni, The Four Seasons, the first four of the set, concertos which were to be transcribed for the most improbable musical forces, including fifty years later a version of Spring for solo flute by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Il cimento was dedicated to Count Wenzel von Morzin, a cousin of Haydn's later patron, and the dedication makes it clear that some of the concertos at least, and in particular The Four Seasons, had long been known to the Count.
The remaining concertos of Opus 8 have a less precise programmatic content, or none at all Concerto No 5, La tempesta di mare, is one of four such, while Concerto No 6, Il piacere, has a title descriptive only of its general mood Concerto No. 10 makes use of a common subject of musical imitation, the hunt, and the last of the set also exists as an oboe concerto
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Takako Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded violinists in the world today She has recorded ten volumes of her complete Fritz Kreisler Edition, many contemporary Chinese violin concertos, among them the Concerto by Du Mingxin, dedicated to her, and a growing number of rare, previously unrecorded violin concertos, among them concertos by Spohr, Heriot, Cui, Respighi, Rubinstein and Joachim For Naxos she has recorded Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mozart's Violin Concertos, Sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven and the Bach, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Bruch and Brahms Concertos.
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Potentially super game of greatest-game-of-all-rugby-league
Thursday night pits rampaging Rabbits (second) against bullocking Bulldogs (sixth). Lots to like across the ground among both squadrons, but for mine the best bit will be the biffo up front between the big rumbling Poms. Sam Burgess (Souths) is an all-running attack agent who'll hurl himself hard to the line, lay on some footwork (so he can straighter), and attempt to explode his way through. Ka-boom. If he can get an arm free after the initial cataclysm – and he can, friend, he can – he'll pop a ball for a scurrying Issac Luke, a speedy Dylan Walker, a great thundering Greg Inglis. And when mighty GI comes a-thundering, there's little outside a sniper in the crowd with a poison dart can stop him. James Graham, conversely, a giant orange rough-head once of Maghull, Merseyside, now a hard-boned exponent of The Belmore Way of Rugby League, will take the ball one off the ruck, and either crash into the D-Zone, or slip a little ball, or fire a slick bit of kick 45 degrees backwards. His straight running and backwards pass creates angles, space and depth for speed men wide. And the Dogs have a few. And you'd think that would be enough. Problem for the Dogs is the Dogs. Who are the Dogs? They don't know themselves. Because they don't know themselves. They've won the last couple. Lost five before that. And will lose to Souths by 10.
The fear of failure
Broncos v Dragons on Friday night will be played out a bit like one of those relegation battles you see in English football, one of those super-passionate affairs where Hull City play Wolverhampton Wanderers, or something, two teams that always go up or down each year, their fans going nuts with joy, or sitting in the stands for hours even days afterwards, moping. You'd have thought Raiders and Sharks would be like that last week, two teams trying to avoid the wooden spoon. But it wasn't, it was a bad man's pants, two teams trying really hard to lose. No, this Friday's Fright Night fixture, played in Brisbane (and not the Dragons spiritual home of Kogarah-Jubilee as erroneously reported by various media by which I mean me), will be wicked-hard because it's must-win. Both teams are on 26 points. Both won't fit into the top eight. This is it. Should be a ripper.
All kinds of match-ups
Saturday night? Oh yes – Storm and Roosters, both coming off impressive victories over top-eight contenders, both looming as Genuine Threats. This, people, is big dogs barking. In fact this could be the grand final. Manly and Souths, of course. Hard people. The Panthers keep on keeping on. And the Cows have JT. But these two teams … well, look at 'em. Champion custodians: Anthony Minichiello v Billy Slater. Origin play-makers: Mitchell Pearce v Cooper Cronk. Killer Kiwis: Jared Waerea-Hargreaves v Jesse Bromwich, how about the collisions these crazy people are going to absorb, hmm? The Storm have Cameron Smith, Chooks have Sonny Bill Williams. And everywhere else, both teams, both packs, chock-full of skill, muscle and mongrel. Match of the round. Roosters by six.
Panthers swamped by Sea Eagles
And so to Sunday afternoon and if you weren't covering the Bingham Cup you wouldn't be anywhere else but staring at a bloody and charred T-bone steak in the Brookvale Hotel before nipping over to dear sweet Brookie to see Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles take on the Panthers of Penrith. Another one could be a ripper. Yes, you fancy the home team, they get things done at Brookie. They're still among the premiership Top-Few despite Parra potting them last start. And with Steve Matai back among the killer attack squad that is their fancy-pants backline, they should beat Penrith going away. But … the Panther People have surprised all year. They've been really good. And given Brookvale could be something of a quagmire given all the rain, and James Segeyaro will be back and more dangerous than a backyard meth lab then … no. Can't see it. Put it out there: Penrith can't win at Brookvale. Not this time. Too busted. And Manly too good. Manly by 12.
And the rest…
In other games, the Cowboys will inject the Sharks with their special brand of Townsville poison; the Raiders will start Mitch Cornish at No7 in a bid to beat Wests Tigers (and if they get 5,000 there they should award their marketing people a special Dally M medal for services to rugby league); while the Warriors will look to end the Titans' season on an even worse note than the drubbing the week before against Saints. And, finally, to Newcastle, where the home town Knights will thrill their crazy fans by chasing a seventh win in nine games against Parramatta Eels, the outfit who so rampaged home against Manly last start that baristas and barmen across Sydney's northern beaches were putting mild shit on Jamie Lyon about it when we had a hit of golf on Monday. As Kamahl once asked, Why must people be so unkind? The answer: because it's fun.


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The government said Wednesday that Bill 78 is in the public interest and should remain intact until it can be fully argued in court.
Lawyers representing student federations, unions and other groups are trying to get parts of Bill 78 — sections dealing with public protest — temporarily suspended.
Those same groups are also hoping to challenge the constitutionality of the entire law, later, in a separate case where they will argue that it violates basic rights.
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The province was dealing with increasingly wild protests and the rule of law was not being respected, Lavoie said. And while more than 40 court injunctions had been handed down to allow students back to class, most weren't being respected by protesters — some of whom formed picket lines outside schools.
"If the rule of law had been respected, would be here (in court) today?" Lavoie said. "I think not."
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Incidentally, Rolland is the same judge who handed down many injunctions that weren't respected. In one of his rulings, he had urged the government to take action to end the unrest.
Not long after, the province introduced Bill 78, which also suspended the winter semester for institutions dealing with boycotting students. Classes are expected to resume in August for the one-third of students who are on declared strikes.
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Bill 78 requires protesters to give police eight hours' notice and provide their itinerary. It also imposes extremely stiff fines on protesters who block schools.
A suspension of certain parts of the law is premature, Lavoie said. He argued the law doesn't prevent anyone from protesting; all it does is ask organizers to give police notice and gives authorities the ability to intervene if they feel there are risks, he said.
The right to protest is not an absolute right, Lavoie noted.
"The right to come together and protest doesn't mean we can do whatever we want in the public domain," Lavoie said.
The government argues that Bill 78 preserves other rights — like that of students who want to attend school. Lavoie disputes the idea that freedoms of expression and association are under attack.
Lavoie said that many of the labour unions that are supporting the students' legal actions have themselves been providing itineraries for union marches since 2010.
Quebec lawyers have also argued that similar laws governing protests exist elsewhere in Canada, and some are far stricter. Some require such things as insurance, permits or require people to provide notice that ranges from 48 hours to 90 days.
None of those rules fall under provincial laws. Rather, they are municipal bylaws that vary from city to city.
The nightly protest march in Montreal on Wednesday was declared illegal under a municipal bylaw. However, police allowed it to continue as long as it stayed peaceful. Police said two people were arrested and charges included assaulting a police officer.
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Vulcan Ventures Inc., the company that invests for billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, said it will acquire closely held One-On-One Sports Inc., a sports radio network, to increase its sports-related holdings.
Bellevue, Wash.-based Vulcan Ventures said One-On-One will be renamed Sporting News Radio Network. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. The company acquired the Sporting News in February from the former Times Mirror Co.
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Over the past year and a half, Mike Doughty has put out three very different records and a memoir. The records include "Yes and Also Yes," a new set of Doughty originals; "The Flip Is Another Honey," which is an album of greatly re-imagined covers of songs by the likes of John Denver, Randy Newman, the Stone Roses and Cheap Trick; and "The Question Jar Show," a live duo album with an intriguing Q&A component. The memoir, aptly titled "The Book of Drugs," captured Doughty's awkward years tiptoeing toward a music career in New York's vibrant underground, with all the drugs (naturally), sex and band fighting one might expect.
Those who romanticize his short-lived band Soul Coughing may wish to take a pass, as Doughty is blunt and dismissive of that band's time slouching through the East Village. He's startlingly frank in the book, recalling the jealousy he felt at the success of the late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley: "I wanted him brought down," Doughty writes.
With all his recent doings, Doughty will likely have a full merch table when he comes to town this weekend.
Q: Your book suggests pretty incredible recall if you consider the drug intake.
A: (Laughs.) Yeah, I guess I just remembered the good stories. People are always surprised when I remember some detail from 30 years ago. But it's also not simply my own stories but ones I hear from other people.
Q:You sort of get at the elusive quality of memory. Do you think we view the past as malleable?
A: Oh, yeah, it's totally unreliable how we remember it. The thing I always notice is when there's some line in a movie that I think is awesome. And I'll remember every bit of the phrasing, the tone of it. I'll see the movie again and it's absolutely different than what I've been repeating to myself. Somebody once told me things you think about less often are more likely to be true. When you repeat them in your mind, you alter them a little bit with every mental repetition.
Q: You don't try to make yourself look better with your thoughts on other people. The Jeff Buckley passages were curt but honest.
A: I found it … well, thank you. I find it odd that people are startled by that. But of course musicians, like anybody else, get jealous of one another. That's the way of artists. But people seem genuinely shocked to hear that somebody might envy somebody else's success. I guess I was surprised that they were surprised.
Q: The book captures the idea that bands are not always a natural state of being.
A: No, bands are marriages. And Soul Coughing was an abusive marriage.
Q: I think you've said there are maybe a half dozen Soul Coughing songs you like. Is that really the case?
A: Yes. My band mates were driven by spite more than anything else, and that included musical decisions. It got to a point where it was a psychotic situation in the rehearsal room. I'd sing a line to the bass player, and he'd play something different. What makes me angriest is my inability to leave when it was clearly horrible. In terms of forgiveness, I don't know what that means, but whatever is going on in my brain is not really about those guys. I wouldn't say I'm angry at them. I would say my memory is unforgiving.
Q: You've now released far more music solo than when you were in the band. And you've found a pretty dedicated following. Another musician told me people never forgive a performer for leaving a band. Do you think that's the case?
A: I don't know, but I am … I have worked my (butt) off to be in this situation. And I'm so grateful for the audience that comes and listens to the songs, especially the new songs. They're not showing up on the off chance that I'm going to play "Circles." So that's a great situation.
Q: Did you know immediately that you wanted to take a more acoustic, stripped-down direction? It seems a full turn from the band but one you're quite comfortable with.
A: It was definitely a break. And I was unsure about it at first. People expect you to serve their memories. And they can get very angry when you're unable to turn them into their 22-year-old selves again. It's a paradigm, like "Skrillex's bluegrass album." If Skrillex made the most amazing bluegrass album ever made, would the bluegrass people for whom it's best suited listen? Would the Skrillex fans understand? Why can't you just make an album. Just be a dude making art and listening to what the music wants to be and just serving it. I'm lucky for the audience I have because you just play, and there's that feeling of communion. Everybody feeling the song. I sound like a hippie, but you feel that connection with everybody. That's the joy and beauty of it. Stuff like applause and compliments, people do that for their own sake.
Q: After three albums and a book, are you resting awhile? Or is another one in the works?
A: I would love to take some more time before the next album. I'd love to do something a little weirder. I'd love to do something to reclaim what I wrote for Soul Coughing. I don't know what, and I'm not interested in reconvening with those guys. But I'm mulling over ideas to do something special to reconnect to the songs I was proud of. To liberate them from the arrangements that messed them up, in my opinion. … But mostly, I want to just write music. I like to write music and go places and play music, occasionally, or go to the post office for something.
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The Generation Rx Lab serves as a pharmacy practice site for fourth-year professional pharmacy students completing clinical rotations. Considered a teaching elective, this rotation provides students with an opportunity to develop new educational programming and communicate science through a variety of platforms—live shows with COSI guests, national videoconference sessions with high school students, and field trip programs with local elementary students. Email Dr. Kwiek for further information.
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After the fear of possible terrorist threats and the pullout of the English team, the World Championship needed a sensational start to bring the focus back on badminton, reports Abhijeet Kulkarni.other Updated: Aug 11, 2009 00:00 IST
After the fear of possible terrorist threats and the pullout of the English team, the World Championship needed a sensational start to bring the focus back on badminton.
The schedule was changed after England's pullout and some of the big names opened the proceedings. The move turned out to be a masterstroke as the battle-hardened Dicky Palyama of the Netherlands began by packing off Chinese challenger Bao Chunlai 21-18, 21-14 in just 35 minutes.
The world number 18 exploited the 11th seed Bao's weak knee, which almost kept him out of the tournament, to set up a second round clash against Henri Hurskainen of Sweden.
The day ended with some good news for the hosts as 15th seed Chetan Anand got past past Ji Hoon Hong of Korea 21-8, 21-16 to set up a second round clash against Stilian Makarski of Bulgeria.
The 28-year-old has not been in great form in the run up to the championship but was focussed from the start. The first game ended in no time after the Indian raced from 4-4 to 18-5. The second was a lot closer with Chetan making more unforced errors while playing against the wind but adapted to ensure the match did not go into the decider.
"The two week training at the Prakash Padukone Academy has done a world of good to my confidence and that showed in the game," Chetan said later.
In between Chetan's facile win and Palyama's upset victory, top seed Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, defending champion Lin Dan of China and third seed Peter Gade of Denmark steamrolled their opponents to book second round berths.
In women's singles, most of the title contenders had a first round bye.
The 31-year-old Palyama, last year's Russian Grand Prix champion, played a simple but effective strategy of keeping the shuttle in play and shutting out unforced errors.
The ploy worked as Bao, the Asian champion, had to work harder on winning points and this put additional pressure on his left knee.
Palyama came under pressure in the second game when he was leading 14-10 but committed a couple of unforced errors to allow Bao to crawl back at 14-14. But he recovered well to win the next seven points in a row.
Other Indians disappoint
The Indian contingent had a bad day in office as all the three players in action failed to advance to the next round.
World number 32 Aditi Mutatkar went down to 11th seed Juliane Schenk of Germany 21-8, 21-12 and later admitted she could not match the pace of her opponent.
Also shown the door were New Zealand Grand Prix champions Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas and the mixed doubles pair of Aparna Balan and Arun Vishnu.
Rupesh-Sanave lost to the Japanese pair of Kenichi Hayakawa and Kenta Kazuno 21-13, 23-21 while Balan-Vishnu went down to another Japanese pair of Noriyasu Hirata and Shizuka Matsuo 21-14, 22-20.


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Do you enjoy living your life? Are you fulfilling your divine destiny, or are the cares of life holding you back? Reverend Sheila Zellers invites you to experience Selahs from God. These God-inspired words of wisdom contain the keys to finding the peace and purpose that can only come from Him. Each inspirational passage makes the wisdom of the Scriptures easy to understand, and will inspire you to seek the Source of the answers to life s toughest questions. Don t allow the devil to discourage you or steal your destiny. Keep your heart pure before God; entrust your life to Him, and walk according to His Word. This collection of Selahs from Godwill empower and encourage you to connect with God on a daily basis. Embrace all that your loving heavenly Father wants to speak into your life as you fall more in love with Him each day. He who has begun a good work in you will complete it! Speak life over your life, speak the Word of God over the prophetic promises God has given you. Then you will see His destiny for your life come to being! Selahs from God reminds you that the answers to life s questions can be found in the Word of God. These inspirational passages offer priceless heavenly insight into several relevant topics, including: Defeating fear and doubt Trusting Christ before the crisis comes Changing your life by speaking words of life and not death Praying for your spouse and nurturing a godly marriage Raising godly children and teaching them who they are in Christ The danger of covering up the hidden roots of past hurts and painAnd many more.


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Dodging metre-wide pot holes, wandering city cows and unnervingly bashed up tuk-tuk's in the smoggy streets would have been a terrifying ordeal were it not for the reassuring company of someone who calls Kathmandu home.
Piles of rubbish form small flaming bonfires along the roadside and vacant children poke at them with sticks. Further down the roadside a large tin barrel of smoking black tar is being poured onto the road by men wearing patterned scarves over their noses.
"Road works!" Prashanna explains with a smile, seeing my disbelieving stares. He was fully aware of the first impression Nepal made to visitors. At Hindu Vidya Peeth school the deafening car horns were muted into the background and one sound echoed down the corridors to the entrance: "Namaste Miss!"
Beautiful smiling faces greeted me with palms pressed together in greeting, hurriedly freeing them to take my hands and welcome me inside.
"They love visitors", Prashanna beamed. "The children here learn so much from volunteers that come from England. It is very important for them to learn English and learn about other countries. It will give them better lives in the future like it has done for me. When I left school I had an education and I spoke good English but I could not work because there were no jobs. This is a big problem in Nepal. I knew I had to do something else to get different skills and more opportunities."
Nepal has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. The unstable political situation over the last 10 years has had a devastating effect on the job market and it continues to shrink. It is estimated that 1.5 million young people are currently unemployed in Nepal whether they are educated or not.
A country of many startling contrasts, Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world yet the second richest in terms of it's natural water resources. It remains a highly desirable destination for tourists; a hotspot for climbers, adventure seekers and animal lovers and has some of the most breathtaking landscapes in the world. Tourism carries the heavy responsibility of alleviating poverty in Nepal.
Prashanna says: "The situation with the Maoists has seen much improvement over the past year. Before it was so bad. We were all very afraid to travel on the roads. There was one time when I was travelling with some tourists and our bus was stopped. They told us that to pass we must pay them 10,000 rupees.
"A man in the group refused to pay at first. This was frightening for me because he did not understand that he had no choice. He also didn't understand why we were not to mention to the Nepali army later in our journey that the Maoists had stopped us. We could not be seen to be supporting them by the army. It was very bad."
In 2001 the Nepali government declared the Maoists as "terrorists" and this had a devastating effect on tourist numbers.
Today, the service industry is a key driver in Nepal's economy, making up 41% of it's GDP. But at the peak of terrorist activity, trekking companies, restaurants, fabric traders, guesthouses and even transport, all suffered major downturns and as a result the job opportunities declined dramatically, causing increased poverty and disruption.
"Because tourism is so important to us here in Nepal, I wanted to learn more about how it can help us so I decided to study it. I got a scholarship in Switzerland to do a diploma and this also meant I could learn French so I was very happy," Prashanna says.
When Prashanna returned to Nepal with his diploma, tourism was facing an all-time low. Visitors were being deterred by the political unrest and there were even less opportunities for work. He had to think again.
"My father runs a small travel agency in Kathmandu and I wanted to help him so I taught myself how to build websites. I became very good and soon was able to start my own company. I worked very hard. Now I have 11 clients from Switzerland and Nepal and I am able to live comfortably enough."
Not content with his business and supporting only himself, Prashanna looked for a way he could help to make positive changes in his community. He decided to offer careers counselling and graduate support for young people to increase their chances of finding employment with a vocational skill.
Using his own experience he is able to give advice about how to obtain the documentation needed to study abroad which is very difficult for Nepalis. With the tourism industry recovering, Prashanna also has a window of opportunity to use the expertise gained from his diploma as he once hoped.
"I have a dream for education to be free for all children in Nepal," he says. "I hope one day that all children will have the right opportunities to help Nepal in some way and live happy lives."


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Thursday, January 09, 2014
PLANS to establish the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) regional police academy in Fiji remain in limbo as the Defence Ministry calls for more funding to construct the proposed institution.
Yesterday the Indonesian Government injected $US500,000 ($F936,849) as the first funding for the construction of the academy.
Defence Minister Joketani Cokanasiga said more than $20m was needed for the project, which is expected to be built at Nabukavesi, outside Lami Town.
The project had been scheduled for construction in 2011.
"The academy would have been established long time ago but funding is an issue because it's regional — we have to be mindful," he said.
Mr Cokanasiga said the issue now was how to progress, adding with the Indonesian Government injecting the first funds, more funds from donor agencies would enable construction.
The handover was made to Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama by Indonesian Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Lieutenant General Langgeng Sulistiyono.
"I think it is a timely donation because this has been going on since 2011 and one of the issues that we have is how we progress this. This is the first funding from our donor agents," Mr Cokanasiga said.
He said Fiji was contributing towards the establishment of the academy through an interim academy at Nasese and from the ministry's budget.
The academy will train police officers from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.
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we are trying to install the FIM 2010 R2 on SharePoint 3.0 SP-2. SharePoint is installed successfully. However, when we open the file applicationHost.config to add ("
As per the FIM 2010 R2 test guide lab, there should be " added. Two of the instances will have
useKernelMode="false" already present. so total are 5 - windowsAuthentication enabled="true"
.But in our environment, there are only 3 -
windowsAuthentication enabled="true" . Please help us
to resolve the issue. It seems due to this, FIM portal is not successfully installed. FIM Installation is
roll backing automatically.
Not sure what you mean by the installation rolling back automatically - FIM shouldn't just uninstall itself.
Please post your config file here.
Anil, please try to install FIM Portal prior to changing applicationHost.config file.
Or you can try running installer from command line with logging enabled - you'd find in log file what is causing a problem in this case.
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Colm Murray funeral: RTE's 'father figure' remembered
THE worlds of sport and media united to bid farewell to RTE broadcaster Colm Murray today.
The 61-year-old racing pundit died on Monday after a three-year battle with motor neurone disease.
The family of the Westmeath native were supported by friends, colleagues and neighbours as his remains were brought to St Gabriel's Church in Dollymount in north Dublin from his home in Clontarf this morning.
His wife Ann and daughters Patricia and Kate accompanied his remains as he left the family home.
In a eulogy to her father, Kate Murray said her dad always taught the value of friendship and that you should never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
"Since dad's diagnosis we have had literally thousands of messages from friends and from total strangers all over the country. I cannot express how moved and thankful we are to everyone for these," she said.
"Dad always believed in the importance of friendship, and he had very good friends, some of whom went above and beyond the call of duty. We can never thank them enough, and I hope they know much their friendship and support meant to my dad and to us all," she added.
RTE came in for special mention from the Murray family.
"We would like to thank everyone's kindness, humanity and decency shown to dad by everybody at RTE at every level. It will never be forgotten. My dad absolutely loved his jobs and his colleagues and I think he knew how blessed he was in that regard," said Kate.
"Our dad loved people. He loved meeting people and talking to people at any opportunity he could," she explained.
"Sometimes the journey from the car to the race track could be absolutely endless," Kate added to laughter.
"But that was our dad. While he had a certain talent for exasperating people at times, to Patricia and myself he really was the best dad in the world."
"We remember so well his ability to tell stories and I think we learned that the secret to his stories was that you never ever let the truth stand it the way of a good story. It's for these reasons and so many more that his illness broke our hearts and felt for a time like a huge injustice.
Kate added that the manner in which her dad bravely fought his illness is what got the family through and will give them strength in what may be lonely times ahead.
She also praised her mother Ann for her courage, strength and love helping Colm get through his ilness.
"Our dad really was very positive. We are heartbroken, and we will miss him every day, and we will never ever forget him," said Kate.
Daughter Kate thanked all the medical people and carers who helped Colm through his illness.
"He was warm, kind, generous and so loving. Of course he had an unsurpassed gift for embarrassing us but that was part of the fun."
"We remember so well his ability to tell stories and I think we learned that the secret to his stories was that you never ever let the truth stand it the way of a good story. It's for these reasons and so many more that his illness broke our hearts and felt for a time like a huge injustice.
Kate added that the manner in which her dad bravely fought his illness is what got the family through and will give them strength in what may be lonely times ahead.
She also praised her mother Ann for her courage, strength and love helping Colm get through his illness.
"Our dad really was very positive. We are heartbroken, and we will miss him every day, and we will never ever forget him. We were so lucky to have had him.
Chief celebrant Fr Jimmy Murray said the commentator had touched so many lives in so many special ways and praised his extraordinary documentary, where he gave a courageous insight in to life with one of the cruellest and destructive conditions.
"His determination to raise awareness of this little known but terrible illness touched the lives of all who saw that programme," he told a packed St Gabriel's Church in Dollymount, north Dublin.
Comedian Gary Cooke had been one of the first to arrive at the church at 11am along with the Taoiseach's aide-de-camp Commandant Michael Tracy.
RTE stalwarts Eileen Dunne, David Davin Power, Miriam O'Callaghan, Marty Morrisey and Sean O'Rourke all turned out to pay their respects.
Other stars who worked with Colm at the station - including Jimmy Magee, Ann Doyle and Charlie Bird - were also in attendance.
And presenter Joe Duffy arrived with director general Noel Curran as well as rugby legend Brian O'Driscoll.
Fr Jimmy Murray, a Carmelite priest from Colm's home town of Moate, delivered the homily and the mass was concelebrated by Fr Pat McManus, parish priest at St Gabriel's Church.
President Michael D Higgins, Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin, former Taoiseach Brian Cowen and former TD Sean Haughey were also at the church this morning.
At a wake in his Clontarf home last night, tributes were paid to the broadcaster and veteran of Montrose.
Former colleague Charlie Bird said the Westmeath native was a brilliant colleague and also paid tribute to his late sister Cathy, a fellow employee at the State broadcaster who died suddenly earlier this year.
"They were just two of the most remarkable people you could ever meet.
"For him to go on Galway Race week is incredibly fitting for a man so passionate about horses," he said.
Another RTE colleague, Darren Frehill, recalled how Colm was of great help to him throughout his career, but particularly when he was beginning his career in sports journalism.
"I remember back in 1999 at one of the very first press conferences I attended," he said.
"Colm was the very first person to come up to me and said if there was ever anything he could do for me, to just ask. That was Colm.
"He was a father figure to us all in the RTE sports department and a one-off.
"We're all deeply saddened by the news," he added.
Cabinet ministers also visited Mr Murray's home on the eve of his funeral, including Arts Minister and close friend Jimmy Deenihan.
"He was the icon of Irish racing and a one-off who brought horse racing to the masses," he said.
"He played a huge role in the national festivals in Galway and especially in Listowel.
"Above all, he was a decent man and will be missed terribly by his family and friends."
Jobs Minister Richard Bruton joked that the 61-year-old was the "life and soul of every room, even if he was of a different view politically".
Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin also paid tribute to the sporting legend.
Other famous faces who attended the wake included colleagues from RTE such as Marty Morrissey, Evanne Ni Chuilinn, Paul Reynolds, Anne Cassin, David Murphy, John Finnerty and Siun Nic Gearailt.
RTE's Sean O'Rourke and former Meath senior football manager Sean Boylan also arrived to pay their respects.
Parish priest Fr Pat McManus, who said requiem mass today, said his family would take comfort from the reaction to Colm's death.
"Colm was always a fantastic communicator. Even in his illness, he always found a way to explain what he meant. He was marvellous," he said.
After funeral Mass, Colm Murray's remains were brought to St Fintan's cemetery, Sutton.
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NEW YORK – American Idol 2 runner-up Clay Aiken already knew he had lost to Ruben Studdard at least five minutes before the decision was announced, show judge Simon Cowell said yesterday.
Clay found out by peeking over show host Ryan Seacrest's shoulder, Cowell said on yesterday's Good Day Live.
Cowell did not say how he learned that Clay knew the verdict before it was announced, but presumably Clay told Simon about it after the show.
"Do you want some real insider gossip?" Cowell said on the talk show. "Guess what? Clay saw the card before the result was announced.
"Apparently, Clay saw the names about five minutes before he was due to go out [on stage]," Cowell said. [Show host] Ryan Seacrest is so thick -- there's two names to remember, he has to have them written down!"
Good Day Live then showed the moment when Seacrest announced the winner -with co-hosts speculating that Aiken was staring at Studdard because he apparently already knew Ruben had won.
Aiken swore to Extra yesterday that he didn't get a peek at the winner, saying he was "completely in the dark."
"They keep things so under wraps backstage, there is now way" he saw anything, he told Extra.
Meanwhile, Wednesday's finale notched a whopping 34.2 million viewers from 8 to 10 p.m.
Studdard's narrow victory over Aiken helped Fox coast to an easy Wednesday-night victory -- culminating in 38.1 million viewers who watched the show's final hour (9-10 p.m.), which included the announcement of Studdard's victory at around 9:50 p.m.
And 52.2 million viewers watched all or part of the show from 9 to 10 p.m., according to Fox.
Wednesday's two-hour AI2 finale also attracted 12 million more viewers than last September's American Idol finale crowning Kelly Clarkson (search) over Justin Guarini (search).
The finale's last hour also tied with Joe Millionaire to earn Fox's highest-ever rating (16.8) in terms of viewers 18-49 years old -- the demo most coveted by advertisers.
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|Reviews for Maze
| AntiPleasure chapter 1 . 1/30/2005
I have way too much time on my hand, yes, you didn't even have to ponder it for one second.
"Ruining your mindset" really, you are getting better with the way you express yourself. These song lyrics fit well with your voice (oh god, am I a contradicter or WHAT) but really, do try and play around with some styles? You can do it.
Jenna xoxo
| The System Mother chapter 1 . 1/28/2005
Very very very good. I like it a lot! :)


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Robert Downey Jr. to take on Tom Cruise's Vampire role
Published 5:30 am, Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Photo: Denis Poroy, Associated Press
Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to replace Tom Cruise as bloodsucker Lestat in a prequel to 1994 movie Interview With the Vampire.
Studio bosses want to capitalise on the popularity of vampire-themed Twilight and TV hit True Blood and reincarnate author Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.
According to celebrity blogger PerezHilton, Downey Jr. is in talks to take on the Lestat role, in a movie that would focus heavily on the character and how he came to be a vampire.
Neil Jordan's Interview with the Vampire boasted a star-studded cast including Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater and Kirsten Dunst — and earned two Oscar nominations.


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Jennifer Woebke
St. Paul, MN, USA
I'm not Vietnamese or a Vietnam vet and I was only a little girl when the war ended but America's involvement in S.E. Asia has had a major impact on my life. I don't remember the events of April 30, 1975, but I made an entry in my diary soon after about POWs coming home, and ever since then I've felt deeply drawn to that part of the world.
In 1980 our high school had a large group of refugees from S.E. Asia. They didn't mix with the American students. I saw the Asian students there in their own classroom and was overcome with curiosity, so I volunteered to be a peer tutor. I was endlessly fascinated by these students and their lives before America. They told me about Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia, they taught me to eat with chopsticks and to love fish sauce, and they shared their heartbreak. I learned about wearing little red scarves in school, family members who were dead or missing, exchanges of hoarded gold for room on creaky boats which set out in pirate-infested waters, and refugee camps with monotonous meals of canned beans and rice.
In college I worked as a tutor in the Asian center, and again spent many hours with my students learning about their pre-America lives. There was the shy accounting student who told me he was a "sky soldier" with long hair and a big gun in Laos, the vivacious math student who talked about the shock of using a western toilet on the airplane, and fragile Coung with the amazing literary skills who wrote of her escape from Vietnam in broken English that sounded like poetry.
I began to learn a little Vietnamese and could make small jokes with my new friends. They persuaded me to perform at their Tet celebration that year. A young woman taught me an old Vietnamese folk song, and another loaned me her ao dai--the traditional long dress worn by Vietnamese women.
That night the auditorium was packed. I hadn't anticipated so many people watching me sing with my weak voice. The celebration started with the presentation of the South Vietnamese flag and the melancholy music of their national anthem. I found myself in tears thinking of so many people exiled from their homes.
When I appeared on stage in my borrowed ao dai the audience applauded. I sang in Vietnamese about a girl who rebels against her parents to see her boyfriend and then lies about it. I asked in English, "Do you believe me?" and the audience roared "NO!" I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Neither did my mother!" Their laughter carried generosity toward my off-key singing, along with amusement and appreciation for my heavily accented Vietnamese.
For years after that performance almost any time I was in a local Vietnamese restaurant someone would approach me and excitedly point and name the song. Just a few years ago a waitress approached me as I was eating pho, a kind of noodle soup. "Aren't you Jennifer?" she asked.
My relationships within the Vietnamese community here helped to fuel my curiosity and interest in that part of the world. Their friendliness and generosity encouraged me to think that I'd be safe traveling in foreign lands. Since those college days I have studied Chinese and Japanese, and lived and worked and studied and traveled throughout Asia.
I feel so much gratitude toward the Vietnamese people here in the Twin Cities, for their kindness and willingness to share their stories and culture with me. I have often felt a sense of wonder that such a terrible tragedy in a place so far away could have ripple effects that influenced my life in a positive way. Their presence here truly opened the world to me, and I'm always humbled to recall that their presence in my life is a result of war.
In all these years I have not managed to make it to Vietnam. It's at the top of my travel list now, and I eagerly read accounts of other people's travels there. I hope to get there soon. I've always suspected it will feel like coming home.
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There is no question of an exotic holiday, much less a fancy new home, and the celebration has been just a cup of strong coffee, but nevertheless a woman who rarely leaves the happy sanctuary of her Gloucestershire home is very pleased to have won a £4.5m national lottery jackpot.
Pauline Stanley checked her ticket before getting on with the ironing while watching Casualty on the TV last Saturday night. The ironing was never finished.
Her husband, Barry, saw her pick up the notepad on which she had jotted down the numbers, and inquired casually, "I take it you haven't won the lottery?"
She said she had. "I said to Barry I'd won, but he wouldn't believe me. He said, are you sure you've got the right numbers?"
Once convinced, his celebration was more lavish than hers: he poured himself a Scotch. In fact, as Camelot confirmed, the Stanleys are the sole winners of the £4,599,128 prize.
She has no plans for any greater extravagance on her own account. She says she suffers from panic attacks, does not fly, and is perfectly happy in her "own little world", but conceded the money would be nice, to help out her four adult children and six grandchildren.
However, when she attempted to phone and break the good news to one of her daughters, she fell into "a right state", she says. The daughter initially thought her mother, who had been unwell this year, was being taken back to hospital. She undoubtedly needed a strong coffee and a Scotch herself, when the truth finally sank in.


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Belacan Grill Redondo Beach Reviews
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Jan 14, 2008
Malaysia, being a part of the association of south east asian nations of which the philippines is a member, has great food that i associate with my peeps. (i know, my mind works in a weird way...)
i decided to trek to redondo beach to dine with a friend to check this place out to get some grub. and grub, we did.
i started off with a lychee drink. it is basically lychee, lychee juice and shaved ice. nothing special or remarkable for that matter. i am sure i could have brought my own canned lychee (which one can buy at any asian market) and put shaved ice on top. at $2.50, it is pricey -- when a can costs less than a buck -- but hey, it's lychee. and no one can come between me and my lychee. bottom line, you can't mess this one up (plus, i was out of canned lychee at home).
instead of ordering appetizers, we decided to order 3 entrees. these are served family style so it all works out in the end.
1. fried crab - this is a whole crab, chopped and pan fried. there is batter coating the crab and sauteed in with some red peppers and tiny salty shrimp. it was pretty good. you bite into it and you can taste the salty shell. once you get through, you are rewarded with the moist crab meat. mmmmmmm....
2. prawns in coconut curry hot pot - anyone on a diet should skip this. once you start, it is hard to stop. my friend was making fun of me because i was just slurping that curry. where to begin... The curry is rich with a slight spiciness added. the prawns are medium sized and generously filled the hot pot -- no skimping here. the curry came with eggplant, which melted in your mouth. double mmmmmm.....
3. sauteed kangkong in garlic - i really don't know what the english translation is but kangkong is close to spinach ... But not really. needless to say, one can't really screw this up. so i was perfectly happy with this dish.
the total bill came to $60. not bad considering all the food we ordered. it does get busy so service might slow down. but, they are not rude or dismissive.... just busy. if you are in town, check this out!!!
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Skip to comments.2000+ at pro gun rally at the WA State Capitol in Olympia WA today!
Posted on 01/19/2013 10:49:52 PM PST by Keith Brown
Good news!
Today at the WA State Capitol in Olympia over 2000 pro second amendment supporters rallied in the cold for freedom!
Despite some mis-communication about start time(10am vs noon)there was an out pouring of folks from all walks of life but it was good to note that at least 50% of the group participants were under the age of 35.
Not all of today's youth are bums.
Most were carrying openly...long guns as well as pistols.
At 10 am there were 100 people.
At 11am there were 300.
At noon there were at least 1200 and the numbers were climbing and I lost track by 1pm.
I am sure I walked past a dozen freepers but I also got to see a bunch of good friends as well.
No pictures to share of the event?
The BATF & FBI have plenty of pictures and videos of this event in the 2,000 + files they opened today in Olympia Washington.
'Fraid you're right. The Fed gumshoes will be all over these events, so participants beware. I've seen them at gun shows, they don't even bother to blend in but show up in biz suits & wearing shades indoors & question those running tables about their 4473's. Der neue Stasi.
Bravo is correct!
Thanks much for the ping, onyx and thanks much for the report, Keith.
Glad to do it!
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Most of the time, most of the people in the computer industry are looking forward to the future because they are involved in making faster chips, smarter software or smaller gadgets.
But not all of them. In the games industry many developers have been looking backwards of late and spending their time resurrecting games that are five, 10 and 20 years old.
In particular Kickstarter has seen many funding campaigns launched to update versions of older video games such as Carmageddon, Broken Sword and Wasteland.
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This is when I was a zombie. I got better! I swear! Now I only get semi-erect when I think of brains. If THAT. I'm fine.
Watch an ALL-NEW WEB SOUP tonight at 8p ET immediately following Attack of the Show! Nut-smashes! Gross stuff! And Community & Mad Men's Alison Brie stops by to show some adorable clips that are sure to make everyone hug a puppy.
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I'm really going to start a petition to get @KimKardashian to embrace the fact that she is pregnant and to start wearing flats. When your ankles look like this, it's time to let go boo boo! Relax and just be pregnant. It's a beautiful thing. Leave your old clothes and shoes in the closet til' they are ready to come out hun! Sheesh! #FlatsAreCuteToo
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Taylor Swift has reminded us all why she's queen of the legs with yet another barely-there outfit.
The singer , who likes to show off her pins at every opportunity imaginable, was spotted out and about in London in the shortest black skirt we've ever seen.
Who says such things are only appropriate at night?
The blonde bombshell knows exactly what she's doing, and teamed the outfit with some sky-high black heels and showed off her tiny waist in a skintight matching top.
Carrying a light pink bag, the gorgeous star looked perfectly at ease despite the serious lack of sunshine.
We DO know how she keeps them so in shape though, it's got to be all that incredible (er, sorry, awkward) dancing.
Taylor showed off some pretty horrendous moves at the MTV VMAs recently, but we loved her for it.
The multiple online live cameras were aimed directly at the seats of the celebs for the duration of the show and managed to catch a whole load of seat-shimmying action.
She demonstrated her considerable sitting-down dance skills including the 'criss-cross hands' and the 'shoulder shuffle', before stopping to take an open-mouthed selfie with pal Demi Lovato.
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PreS-In this deceptively simple bedtime story, a boy snuggles up with his mother to read his favorite book. It is about a bear going to sleep for the winter, and together they look at the pictures and talk about the text. "'Do bears really sleep all winter long?' asked the boy." He turns the page and notices the snow. "'Snow is cold,' he said." His mother reads some more about the sleeping bear, and animals in winter, and children gliding across the ice on a frozen lake. "'I'd like to skate,' said the boy." Page by page, the bear sleeps while life goes on around him, but this book is about much more than that. With great subtlety, this mother and child are modeling the perfect way to share a picture book, cuddling up and allowing time to examine the pictures, talk about the concepts, and point out the known and unknown. Actions in the book within the book are internalized by the boy, demonstrating a fundamental aspect of reading comprehension: "A fox drank from a pond. 'I'm thirsty,' said the little boy." As with previous bedtime books by these fine collaborators, short simple sentences create a tranquil, soothing air, while the lush textured oil paintings fill the pages with dense color. But the most valuable thing about this gem might be that it demonstrates a best practice, to the benefit of children and parents alike.-Teri Markson, Los Angeles Public Library (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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*Starred Review* The creators of The Great Blue House (2005) and Fox (2007) are as adept as any at presenting the wonders of the natural world to preschoolers. In this cozy and deceptively simple story, a toddler and his mother cuddle up at bedtime to read a favorite picture book about a black bear as it prepares for winter, hibernates in its den, and then emerges in springtime. Banks provides details about hibernation and winter's many changes in both descriptive, child-friendly text and the resulting conversation between adult and child as they make their way through the book. Although the focus of this atmospheric story is seemingly on the big black bear, the book is just as much a celebration of the shared-reading experience, from sitting close and discussing the story to exploring the illustrations to noting the book's sensory features. Hallensleben's rich, impressionistic artwork moves seamlessly between warm domestic scenes of the pair reading and vibrant natural landscapes with plenty of seasonal detail. With its quiet, gentle tone, this is perfect for one-on-one bedtime reading as well as for introducing hibernation, sleep cycles, and seasonal change, but the engaging, double-spread pictures will please crowds, too.--McKulski, Kristen Copyright 2010 Booklist
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In an extraordinary portrait of the tender, meandering, and inquisitive nature of reading together, a boy and his mother read a book about a hibernating bear, turning the pages slowly and commenting on the illustrations-it's clearly an old favorite. " 'Winter settled like a big hush,' read the boy's mother. 'And the big black bear slept.' 'Shh,' said the boy." The illustrations in the bear book intersect with the images of the mother and son, as though readers are reading alongside them; early on, readers peer over their heads, moving closer in subsequent spreads until the two books seem, now and again, to become one. Thickly stroked paintings and warm colors create a sense of richness, while slow pacing contributes to the sleepy atmosphere. As spring approaches and the bear in the book wakes up, the boy grows sleepier. Banks and Hallensleben (whose most recent collaboration was What's Coming for Christmas?) allow readers to share fully in the pleasure of a loving parent-child relationship. This is, quite literally, what reading with a child is all about. Ages 3-6. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.


text: other parts of the world, but Eurosport HD has finally launched on Sky+ HD in the UK. The station is exclusively available as part of a high-def subscription package on slot 412, and should provide HD coverage of the Beijing Olympics and all sorts of other sporting events here in the near future. The addition brings the carrier's total HD lineup to 19, which isn't too shabby for that part of the globe.