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As the dollar trades near an all time low against the euro, the question is whether Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson can talk tough enough to pump up the sagging greenback.
Bernanke and Paulson speak before the Senate Banking Committee this morning in a hearing that could stretch into the afternoon. Bernanke's testimony is initially his long scheduled semi annual testimony on the economy. Paulson was to join him and the focus turns to the Treasury and Fed plans to backstop Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and no doubt the health of the financial system.
Bernanke's prepared remarks were released ahead of his appearance. He said the Fed is concerned about economic growth and the risks of inflation have intensified. His comments knocked more wind out of the stock market and weighed on the dollar. Paulson speaks later and they both take questions.
"If they say the same thing they always say, it's going to be ugly for the dollar. If they stick with the strong dollar mantra, the dollar's going to take another swoon," said Brian Dolan, chief strategist at Forex.com.
The dollar initially strengthened on Sunday's news of the Treasury plan, but as markets around the world start to reflect skittishness among foreign investors, the dollar has slid. Overnight, the euro shot above $160.39, a new high.
"These guys are all in a position to console and stabilize the market. I expect a little bit of cheerleading," said Dolan. But he said what the markets really want to hear is that U.S. officials are willing to use more than just words to defend the currency, and that they are ready to take action. Paulson and Bernanke also need to tell markets that fears around the financial sector are over blown and that the dollar should not be trading lower.
"All they need to do is change a little bit of the language and the market will maybe see a change in the risk calculus," he said.
"Since the whole credit crisis began, this is the most heightened chance of intervention we've had," said Dolan. Bernanke and Paulson will attempt to get support for the plans to backstop Freddie and Fannie, which needs Congressional approval.
But their words are aimed just as much at the international arena. "They are talking very much to an international audience. They're also getting pressure from various foreign governments to prevent the dollar from falling further," Dolan said. He also said they will want to stop the "runaway train" of a falling dollar, which is contributing to rising oil and other commodities prices.
Boris Schlossberg, senior currency strategist at DailyFx.com, told us in a note yesterday that the fading dollar gave way to the euro as the safe haven trade in the currency markets once more. "Since the greenback can't seem to get out of its own way, battered by systemic risk and anemic growth, the only way to strengthen it appears to be through intervention," Schlossberg wrote. (note to readers: includes fix to Schlossberg's title)
But he also notes that intervention doesn't always work and it has to be a major effort by the G-3 rather than by one Central Bank. He said the Plaza accord worked in the 1980s because central banks coordinated to drive the dollar down. "I t think it is much easier to knock down a strong currency rather than prop up a weak one. It becomes a matter of psychology. Once the public doesn't like the product, you can't sell it at any price," Schlossberg writes.
"If EURUSD passes beyond 1.65, watch the intervention chatter really pick up. Having run out of policy choices this may be the only card left for U.S. authorities to play," he says. Questions? Comments? firstname.lastname@example.com


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Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ve Kanada'da Okul Müdürlerinin Genel Profili ve Mesleki Gelişim Faaliyetlerine Katılım Düzeyleri / Demographic Characteristics of School Principals in the U.S.A. and Canada and Their Level of Participation in Professional Devel
Bu çalışmada amaç, köklü okul yöneticisi seçme ve yetiştirme geleneklerine sahip ABD ve Kanada'daki okul yöneticisi seçme ve yetiştirme modelleri ile bu ülkelerdeki mevcut müdürlerin genel profillerini incelemektir. Çalışmada alanyazın taraması ve nicel yöntemlerden betimleme yönteminden faydalanılmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında ABD ve Kanada'daki mevcut yönetici seçme ölçütleri ve yetiştirme modelleri alanyazın taraması yoluyla ortaya konmuştur. Bunun yanı sıra, 2013 Uluslararası Öğretme ve Öğrenme Anketi (Teaching and Learning International Survey [TALIS]) verilerinden yararlanılarak her iki ülkede görev yapan okul müdürlerinin demografik özellikleri (cinsiyet, yaş, eğitim durumu ve deneyim) ve aldıkları mesleki gelişim eğitimleri ve katıldıkları mentorluk, seminer, kurs ve gözlem ziyaretleri gibi profesyonel faaliyetler incelenmiştir. Bulgulara göre, yönetici seçme kriterleri; öğretmenlik tecrübesinin bulunması, eğitim yönetimi alanında yüksek lisans yapmış olmak, yöneticilik sertifikasına sahip olmak ve belirli programlara katılım olarak ortaya çıkmaktadır. Okul müdürlerinin yetiştirilmesinde ise stajyerlik ve mentorluk gibi uygulama odaklı çağdaş yöntemlerin kullanıldığı göze çarpmaktadır. Bu bulgulara paralel olarak, TALIS verileri ABD ve Kanada'daki müdürlerin çoğunluğunun önemli ölçüde öğretmenlik tecrübesine sahip olduğu, öğretimsel liderlik ve okul yönetimine ilişkin program veya kurslara, çeşitli network, mentorluk veya araştırma aktivitelerine ve konferans veya gözlem ziyareti amaçlı okul ziyareti aktivitelerine sıklıkla katıldıklarını göstermektedir.
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- Overview
- Getting started with Clojure
- Getting started with Incanter
- Documentation and examples
- Building Incanter
- Dependencies
Overview and motivation
Incanter is a Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment for the JVM. At the core of Incanter are the Parallel Colt numerics library, a multithreaded version of Colt, and the JFreeChart charting library, as well as several other Java and Clojure libraries.
The motivation for creating Incanter is to provide a JVM-based statistical computing and graphics platform with R-like semantics and interactive-programming environment. Running on the JVM provides access to the large number of existing Java libraries for data access, data processing, and presentation. Clojure's seamless integration with Java makes leveraging these libraries much simpler than is possible in R, and Incanter's R-like semantics makes statistical programming much simpler than is possible in pure Java.
Motivation for a Lisp-based R-like statistical environment can be found in the paper Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System by Ihaka and Lang (2008). Incanter is also inspired by the now dormant Lisp-Stat (see the special volume in the Journal of Statistical Software on Lisp-Stat: Past, Present, and Future from 2005).
Motivation for a JVM-based Lisp can be found at the Clojure website, and screencasts of several excellent Clojure talks by the language's creator, Rich Hickey, can be found at Clojure TV.
Getting started with Clojure
For a great introduction to programming in Clojure, read Clojure – Functional Programming for the JVM. by R. Mark Volkmann. For an even more extensive introduction, get one of the books on Clojure Programming Clojure, 2ed by Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra, "The Joy of Clojure" by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser, "Clojure in Action" by Amit Rathore, "Practical Clojure" by Luke VanderHart and Stuart Sierra.
Other Clojure resources
- Clojure website
- Getting Started with Clojure
- Clojure Google group
- clojure
- Disclojure blog
- Full Disclojure screencasts
Getting started with Incanter
Include in Clojure project
Include all incanter modules at once in your
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.9.0"]
[incanter "1.9.3"]]
Or only the modules you need:
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.9.0"]
[incanter/incanter-core "1.9.3"]
[incanter/incanter-charts "1.9.3"]]
Start repl:
lein repl
Use standalone app
Start by visiting the Incanter website for an overview, checkout the documentation page for a listing of HOW-TOs and examples, and then download either an Incanter executable or a pre-built version of the latest build of Incanter, which includes all the necessary dependencies, and unpack the file (if you would like to build it from source, read Building Incanter). You also might need to install libgfortran3 library that is required for jblas that is powering matrix operations (see jblas wiki for more details).
Start the Clojure REPL (aka the shell) by double-clicking on the downloaded executable or, if you downloaded the pre-built distribution, running one of the scripts in the Incanter directory:
script/repl or
script\repl.bat on Windows.
From the Clojure REPL, load the Incanter libraries:
user=> (use '(incanter core stats charts io))
Try an example: sample 1,000 values from a standard-normal distribution and view a histogram:
user=> (view (histogram (sample-normal 1000)))
Try another simple example, a plot of the sine function over the range -4 to 4:
user=> (def my-plot (function-plot sin -10 10))
user=> (view my-plot)
You can save plots into a png file:
user=> (save my-plot "plot.png")
Incanter can save charts into pdf or svg files. Check
incanter.pdf/save-pdf and
incanter.svg/save-svg functions.
Let's play with some data now. We'll look at London weather for 2012:
; function that returns dataset containing weather in London for given month in 2012 (defn weather-for-month [month] (-> (format "https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EGLL/2012/%d/10/MonthlyHistory.html?format=1" month) (read-dataset :header true)))
; get weather data for each month in 2012 and build single dataset (def data (->> (range 1 13) (map weather-for-month) (apply conj-rows)))
; view dataset in a table and view histogram of mean temperature (view data) ; wunderground.com formats temperature depending on locale/location/whatever ; so you might need to use "Mean TemperatureF" otherwise you'll get NullPointerException. (view (histogram "Mean TemperatureC" :nbins 100 :data data))
; function that given month "2012-9-20" extracts month and returns 9 (defn month [date] (Integer/parseInt (second (.split date "-"))))
; dataset that contains 2 columns: month and mean temperature for that month ; don't forget to change to "Mean TemperatureF" if you did so few steps back. (def grouped-by-month (->> (map (fn [date temp] {:month (month date) :temp temp}) ($ "GMT" data) ($ "Mean TemperatureC" data)) to-dataset ($rollup :mean :temp :month) ($order :month :asc)))
; view line chart that shows that August was the warmest month (view (line-chart :month :temp :data grouped-by-month))
The online documentation for most Incanter functions contain usage examples. The documentation can be viewed using Clojure's
doc function. For example, to view the documentation and usage examples for the
linear-model function, call
(doc linear-model) from the Clojure shell. Use
(find-doc "search term") to search the online documentation from the Clojure shell. The API documentation can also be found at http://incanter.github.io/incanter/.
The Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook (published by Packt Publishing) contains several chapters dedicated to Incanter, including work with datasets, charting, etc. You can read the sample chapter that describes Incanter's datasets.
There is dedicated mailing list for discussions about Incater. It's hosted on Google Groups.
More Incanter examples
- See the Data-Sorcery blog
- See the Documentation table of contents
The following documentation covers the Incanter and Clojure APIs and the APIs of the underlying java libraries.
Incanter documentation
Related API documentation
Building Incanter
To build and test Incanter, you will need to have Leiningen and git installed:
1. Clone the repository with git:
git clone git://github.com/incanter/incanter.git
2. Install Leiningen (version 2.x)
a. Download the lein script:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein
(use lein.bat on Windows)
b. Place it on your path and chmod it to be executable:
chmod +x lein
c. Run:
lein self-install
3. Execute
lein sub install (or
lein modules install) staying in the incanter directory – this will download all necessary dependencies, compile & install all Incanter's modules into local Maven repository.
4. Start a REPL:
lein repl (it also starts nRepl server), or start a Swank server:
lein ritz 4005
Other tasks:
- If you want to run the tests for each of Incanter's modules, use
lein sub test
- Each of Incanter's modules are independent Leiningen projects. Just cd into modules/incanter-* and use Leiningen to build each one as a stand-alone library.
lein sub install(or
lein modules install) uses Leiningen to build all the modules and install them in your local ~/.m2 repository.
Incanter dependencies
- Clojure
Parallel Colt
- Netlib-Java (included with Parallel Colt)
- Clatrix
- JFreeChart
- OpenCSV
- iText
- Congomongo
- JLaTeXMath
- Apache POI
- JLine
- ClojureQL
- Batik SVG Toolkit


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The decommissioning programme, submitted by Shell, for the Brent Delta platform (one of four installations located in the field) recommends that the 23,500 tonne 'topside' of the platform is removed in one piece by a heavy-lift dedicated vessel that arrived in Rotterdam in January. Work is underway to strengthen the topside in anticipation of the lift, which will be one of the heaviest the North Sea has ever seen. This single lift technique will substantially reduce the risk, cost and environmental impact of the operation.
If the decommissioning programme is formally approved by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the topside will be taken to Able UK, a specialised decommissioning company in Teesside, where more than 97% of the material will be reused or recycled.
Alistair Hope, Brent Decommissioning Project Director, Shell, said: "The Brent field has been a prolific national asset for many years, creating and sustaining thousands of jobs and contributing billions of pounds to the UK government. The engineering and planning skills which led to the discovery and subsequent successful production of oil and gas over four decades are essential during decommissioning, which is the natural next stage of the field's life. We hope many people will play an active part in the consultation."
A second decommissioning programme for the remaining infrastructure in the Brent field, including Brent Delta's legs, three other sets of topsides and legs, 140 wells and 28 pipelines, will be submitted when Shell is confident the proposals are safe, technically achievable, environmentally sound and financially responsible. It will be subject to a separate consultation. Brent Delta stopped production in 2011 and Brent Alpha and Bravo ceased in November 2014. Production from the field continues through Brent Charlie.
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Whether family or football, Maryland's Stefon Diggs cherishes what can be lost
Ten months later, the photograph is still heartbreaking — because Stefon Diggs, frozen in time, doesn't know what's coming next.
Diggs is crouched over his best friend and teammate, consoling fellow receiver Deon Long, who's being taken off the field on a cart in the second quarter against Wake Forest. Long will find out soon that he's broken both his right tibia and fibula.
"I knew he was hurting," Diggs says now. "That was really my motivation throughout the game. I wanted to finish the game strong for him. Things didn't go as planned."
For Navy's Keenan Reynolds, being himself means being Heisman-worthy
Count Roger Staubach himself among Keenan Reynolds' many admirers, and among those pushing for Reynolds' inclusion in the Heisman conversation. And if he isn't in it this season, he's got next year, too.
"Every time I've seen him play, he's been fantastic," Staubach says. "Keenan is as elite a quarterback as there is in college football today, I think. He's in a system where he doesn't throw as much (as others), but he does everything you have to do as a quarterback, as a leader, to win."
Brian Kelly believed in Notre Dame's offense, and now he's seeing it
As fall camp neared and the 2014 season loomed, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly took stock of his roster.
e had a talented, dual-threat quarterback in Everett Golson, back after an academic issue forced him out of school a season ago. He had good skill players and depth at the wide receiver position, a strong enough supporting cast.
e had exactly what he needed for what he wanted — which was, essentially, to return to the kind of dynamic offense he'd run at the University of Cincinnati.
Inside the Game: Examining Virginia Tech's pass rush
Seeds that lead to upsets can originate in the most unlikely places.
For example, one that led to Virginia Tech's stifling defensive performance and stunning win at Ohio State on Saturday was planted back in February in Oxford, Miss.
Ogres, elephants and monsters: The Stanford O-Line
Respect for the unit has turned into all-out adulation – from opposing Pac-12 coaches who get headaches just thinking about it, to NFL coaches hoping to emulate it and fans who like to get a little creative on social media.
Josh Garnett remembers that as a sophomore last season, after Stanford beat an undefeated Oregon 26-20 by maintaining possession for more than 42 minutes, he scrolled through Twitter and saw two pictures that made him laugh.
"It had our Jumbo formation and said 'What Stanford lines up in,' then a picture with 50 of us and 'What Oregon saw,' " Garnett says, smiling. "I think that showed the mentality. People were like, these guys have eight dudes but it feels like 40. That's how powerful and physical we were.
"People hadn't seen that kind of smash-mouth football."


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With Wimbledon a fond memory, the Commonwealth Games on the very near horizon and Net-A-Sporter now an actual thing, there's no denying that sportswear is totally where it's at right now. But how to make the look your own? Scotland may have majorly failed with a shocker of an attempt at a Commonwealth Games team strip but throwing back to the heady 1970's proves getting your sport on can be good for not only your health, but also your wardrobe. This Vogue snap from 1974 heralded the way for sportswear as daywear, proving those pristine whites look as slick strutting down Kings Road as they do at match point. This Summer, update your look with a sportswear inspired twist to white on white- high waisted shorts, crisp polos and cute cardis make for the perfect day time look. Game, set and match fashion.
Last week's stars of the TBT phenomenon? Cameron Diaz in the ultimate date night dress and Tom Cruise proving our wardrobes have a LOT to thank him for…
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Jean Scott
"While I occupy the space, I will create portrait drawings using a method I call "blindcasting;" simply put, this involves making a rubbing of one's own face, preferably while it is contorted with emotion. The mask-like/shroud-like results never come out the same way twice and are quite specific—yet, all the drawings I've made this way, with myself and others, are eerily similar. Sewn together, they constitute CounterPain, which resembles the patterned or quilted fabric of an actual counterpane or bedcovering. The grief and anger recorded in each portrait are sublimated but everpresent—they are literally part of the "fabric" of life represented in the chamber. I will invite visitors to create blindcasts of their own faces, which I will sew onto CounterPain if they wish to contribute them (or they may keep their own drawings)."


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I met Cindy Kelly years ago when my husband and I were involved with the local art show. I always thought she was a striking individual. She was always so pleasant.
Lately I have had the pleasure of getting to know her better as a Realtor and a friend. Now you can get to know her too.
Specialty: Residential Single-Family & Condominiums
Favorite Part of Career
When both buyer and seller come to the closing table happy with the transaction. It's very satisfying to see a buyer and seller who both feel like they got a fair shake out of a transaction. I have been blessed with many buyers and sellers who actually became friends after the sale. It's all about relationships.
Least Favorite Part
Dealing with looky-loos. Those are people who come to you under the guise of purchasing property, but really have no intention of doing so. I think there are many people who don't understand that it cost us time and money as we get paid nothing unless someone actually makes a purchase.
Funniest moment:
I had a buyer (who turned out to be a looky-loo) to whom I showed about ten condos to in Cocoa Beach. Then during her visit she called one day and decided she wanted to look in the Satellite area. I set up the appointments. She arrived at my office with her brother. She proudly announced that she would drive. I tried t talk her out of it, due to the fact that we had to stop by several offices to pick up keys, but she was insistent. I relented. We went out to get in the car. It was a convertible, with the top down and bro in the front seat. She pulled the seat up to let me in the back! Here I was long hair, professionally dressed, loose papers flapping in the wind, and being tossed side-to-side by a zany driver. It was akin to being on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and I wasn't at Disney World!
Future Goals:
Getting my Broker's License and International Designation.
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There is a lot to be said about being careful. Careful as fuck. Fucking careful. "Be careful?" her mother said. Famous last words. What teenager are these days alert? Or should I reiterate – "Be careful not to be promiscuous." Promiscuity. It is a teenage thing. I was very promiscuous. Rebellious, and promiscuous.
Synonyms: licentious, sexually indiscriminate, wanton, immoral, fast; Informal: smooth, swinging, sluttish, whorish, bed-hopping; Dated: loose, fallen "a promiscuous teenager."
I had many transient sexual relationships."You be very careful," her mother told her. "If you aren't careful, some men will rape you and molest you. You will be hurt if you are not careful." Promiscuity goes around and comes around. What goes around comes around. You do not want to be the unlucky one who ends up raped and drugged or worse. The world is a terrible place when you are not careful. I suggest you don't stay out too long after dark either. Just to be cautious and on the safe side. Spending time with family is the best thing. If you even have parents. They are the only ones who care and want you safe. Teenagers need to understand the risks their rebellious and promiscuous attitudes can bring. In hindsight, I should have listened to my parents, and not want to be a grown-up all of a sudden. There are only seven years to be a teenager, and it goes by so fast. Enjoy your time as a teenager. Don't let anyone take it away from you. You shouldn't make grown-up decisions when you aren't old enough to face the consequences. E.g., pregnancy, drunk driving, jail sentence. It's all too scary when you aren't careful. Take pride in your youth. Be brave. Learn to make the right choices while still living at home. Obey the rules. It can be hard but don't worry; it will pass. You will be victorious and still a virgin. How unusual and delightful.


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Are you ready to hop along with The Stamp Review Crew today? It's the first Monday in June and we're showing of Beautiful Bouquet today. Just a bit about The Stamp Review Crew in case you've never hopped with us before. We're a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators who are located around the globe. On the first and third Monday of each month we all use the same stamp set to create projects to share with you. Our hope is that you'll find lots of inspiration for using these sets yourself. If you get lost along the way or want more information about The Stamp Review Crew simply click the link or banner above and you'll find what you're looking for.
If you haven't started with me you may have hopped over from Linda Callahan's blog, Stampin' Seasons. Every time Linda shares her creative cards I'm inspired and I know you will be too.
Beautiful Bouquet also has coordinating dies, Bouquet Bunch Framelits, that will cut out all those pretty blooms for you. I only used the stamps today to create my card.
I used colors from the Brights Collection to stamp all these flowers onto a piece of Designer Series Paper from the Wood Textures DSP Stack. After completing all the stamping I cut the DSP into three strips and adhered it to some Highland Heather card stock, stuck a whole bunch of Stampin' Dimensionals to the back of that and placed it on a Gorgeous Grape card base. I am really loving all the new colors, even purple, which is not a color I use often. But the new purples have me pulling purple into my projects more often. The stamp set is full of beautiful flowers but I really love the sentiments. I think the font is just gorgeous!
Inside the card I didn't add a sentiment but I did add another bunch of blooms!
You're ready to hop along now and you'll be heading to Tinkerin-in-Ink, Tanya Boser's blog. Tanya is the "brains" behind The Stamp Review Crew and keeps us straight! You'll always find something to spark your creativity over there!


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Deep in the Heart of the Lone-Star state, it is like a whole nother world Y'all. Waiting on some Hurricane by the name of Bob to roll thru. You know, life is just chocked full of weather surprises this year. At first I thought it was "a Mexican Roofers conspiracy, but now I am thinking … That Damn Al Gore … anything to make a point."
Holed up waiting on an RV Rally and some fellowship with good friends, unabashed quantities of home-made finger food and re-uniting with a pleasant group of Pretend Campers.
There are a few buses here but make no mistakes … This is not a Bus Meet at all.
Bus meets are good and they are bad for some people I suppose. I am far from being an expert on the subject, but I do have a perspective to share. At first, I always seem to get "down in the mount" because I see so many beautiful creations, far superior to ours, and it has a tendency to drag me down a notch or two.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it humbles me out, and snaps me back to reality. The other thing I find encouraging or positive, is the eclectic mix of owners, and what it is that they have done with their respective coaches. I also have a profound tendency to pick their brains, and if I am fortunate enough, they even have the infinite patience to actually teach me something.
Experience has taught me that "everyone has something to add to the mix," you also discover quickly, it is so easy to get educated in bus ownership and maint. in a lot of areas even if you don't ask or make inquiries someone will point out what it is that they believe you need to know, whether you need it or not.
Later on the day, you can always find time to mingle, smile and share a good time or two. Being the quiet, shy, reserved person that I am, it is often hard for me to meet new folks.
Some have told me that I am an "Acquired taste" and that could be accurate observation. Lately I have found it most enjoyable to sit around the dim glow of a shrouded campfire (Jane Fonda, The Electric Horseman) and just take it all in.
Kind of like "Prehistoric Cave Man Televisionor something like that."
Won't work here, Bob is still screwing around south of our current location, and won't officially be here till tomorrow. So we sit inside our 96 inch wide stainless steel ca-coon, and if we are lucky, "she gets frisky and we get to play with the babies Mama."
I am watching DVD's and eating a lot of Frito's. On most days, that is how it goes, first your money and then your clothes.
Life is good.
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Chris Sanders is going to Dreamworks
According to Variety:
DreamWorks Animation has hired "Lilo & Stitch" director Chris Sanders, a longtime Disney vet, to helm its cavemen comedy "Crood Awakenings." The talent coup is reminiscent of the competition for animators in the mid-'90s.
DreamWorks had been developing "Crood" with Aardman, but took it inhouse after its partnership with the British claymation house recently ended.
Head over there for more info about the movie plot.


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Innovative Companies and Policies for Innovation on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Carrillo, Jorge
The primary purpose of this work is to describe innovative enterprises and industries in the northern border region of Mexico and to analyze federal and state government efforts to increase their competitiveness. The importance of this analysis lies in the possibility of creating a virtuous circle around which innovation by the productive sector (which seems tied to higher value-added activities, high-quality work, and higher tax payments) intersects with the government and education sectors—which, in turn, participate in the development of local innovation systems. The document is divided into four sections: 1)Main concerns: An analysis of Mexico's loss of competitiveness and changes in the international and national context in which maquiladoras operate. 2) Policies to promote innovation and competitiveness: Presentation of federal policy changes that impact local support for innovation efforts, and of multiple federal programs and their implementation in the northern border states. 3) Maquiladora industry: Presentation of several years of research on innovation and industrial upgrading of products, processes, and functions, as well as examples of innovative sectors, firms, and programs. 4) Promising initiatives: Presentation of successful examples of public-private partnerships at the federal and local level. The conclusions are that there is a clear process of innovation in the maquiladora industry, but it is limited and heterogeneous; while there is some institutional upgrading at the regional level, it is mainly accomplished at the federal level; and the northern border region is better positioned for innovation compared with the interior areas of the county. Despite considerable efforts by different levels of government and the private sector, there is a clear loss of competitiveness in Mexico. The path to a substantial increase in innovation and competitiveness seems long and winding.
Binational research paper supporting the study "Developing the U.S.-Mexico Border Region for a Prosperous and Secure Relationship."
Citable link to this pagehttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/91775
Link to Baker Institute Research Libraryhttp://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/innovative-companies-and-policies-for-innovation-on-the-us-mexico-border/
MetadataShow full item record
- Latin America Initiative [93]
- Mexico Center [133]


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I haven't read a fiction book in a while, it seems, but Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is definitely a good one to get me going again! In this tale, Bryan Jacques weaves a story of a young boy named Neb, and his dog Den, both slaves on the ship the Flying Dutchman. It's an entertaining read that held me until the very end.
When the Flying Dutchment is turned back from passing Tierra del Fuego, in South America, the captain, Vanderdecken, curses God and the weather. As a result, God curses the Flying Dutchman, and dooms all of its crewmen to everlasting life piloting the ship. Neb and Den, because of their apparent innocence, are washed off of the ship, but are given immortality and told to help others.
They cannot stay in one place forever, but must go around the world bringing good. They first travel to Luís, a poor shepherd that lives alone on Tierra del Fuego. They live with him for a few years, but are told by an angel that they must move on when they hear a bell. In a large storm in which Luís dies, a ram comes trotting toward them, his sheep bell ringing. They move on to another place, after burying Luis.
The book then skips in time from 1670 to around the late 1800's and early 1900's. We then find Ben and Ned (their names reversed) in a small English town named Chapelvale. Here a substantial bulk of the book takes place. They must save Chapelvale from being bought and converted into a limestone factory. Through a series of clues, they must prove that Mrs. Winn is in fact the owner of the entire village and can keep it alive. But when a bell rings, Ben and Ned know they must leave again.
The entire book is very good. I've heard it's a series; I would definitely read another book like this. The storytelling is masterful, and while I have some problems with the angels and supernatural part of it, the book has a good story and it's definitely an enjoyable read. Brian Jacques characteristic riddles and songs are in it, as long as signature touches of his writing that make this book reminiscent of the Redwall series.
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The Director
Yes, yes, YES! Amazing book, classic Brian Jacques, even if it's about humans, not animals 😉 The next two books are just as good, though one of them (I think it's the third) does have a dark-ish section, but everything turns out alright. If you've read Redwall, you'll love these books for sure!
Great review! I enjoyed it 😀
Yes there are two more books "The Angel's Command" and "Voyage of Slaves" as "The Director" said in his comment, the third does get a bit dark, but nothing too terrible. I was extremely depressed when I heard that Brian Jacques had died, and cannot continue this series.


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The Mirror's Hope Not Hate anti-racism campaign rolled into in Brighton yesterday.
Eddie Izzard and ministers Ed Balls and Glenys Kinnock were among the crowd that turned out to urge campaigners to fight the BNP at the general election.
Nick Lowles, of anti-racism group Searchlight, said: "Nick Griffin may have made it into the European Parliament, but Hope Not Hate is growing. We are determined there will be no seats won by racists."
Speaking at the event Eddie Izzard told the audience how inspired he had been by many of the people he had met on the Hope Not Hate campaign.
The comedian and actor added: "I was lucky enough to meet a Holocaust survivor and a veteran from the First World War, among many other inspiring individuals involved in this campaign."
And Ed Balls apologised for the local election success of the far right in Britain.
He said: "I have to apologise for the BNP getting in in Yorkshire.
I promise you we're going to redouble our efforts to make sure it doesn't happen again."
The Mirror's campaign bus has now made three annual trips across the UK celebrating modern, diverse Britain.


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Android Tablets Still Not Going Anywhere
Posted on February 11, 2012
Figures from the USA Today's application downloads bring evidence that Android tablets have not yet been heavily adopted. What's striking is that the Kindle Fire has a lot more downloads than base Android, even though Android tablets have about 9 months head-start on the Kindle. That shows the platform is not getting traction.
(Source: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/usa-today-app-installs-show-kindle-fires-rapid-rise-android-tablets)
To put this into context, the short lived HP Touchpad had nearly twice as many downloads as the Android tablet.
I would not be surprised to see Microsoft's Windows on ARM for tablets easily outselling Android tablets in 2013 and becoming the second-ranked player on the market for productivity tablets (as opposed to consumption tablets like the Kindle Fire).
As for iOS numbers, they speak for themselves – the iPad is clearly leading the market. Hence in any application development for tablets, it makes sense to concentrate on iOS, prove the concept and then roll out to other environments.


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Brookdale's Whole Wheat Scones Recipe
Whole Wheat Scones
Makes 12 small scones
- 250 g nutty wheat flour/brown bread flour
- 250 g cake flour
- 10 ml baking powder
- 125 g butter
- 125 ml brown sugar
- 500 ml plain yoghurt or maas
- Mix together all dry ingredients.
- Rub butter into dry ingredients to resemble fine bread crumbs.
- Make a well in the middle of the mixture and fold in the yoghurt or maas so that it forms a soft dough.
- Lightly press out dough on a floured surface and use a scone cutter to cut out the shapes.
- Place on a greased baking tray and bake @ 200 degrees for 10 - 15 minutes.
Serving Suggestions:
Serve with sliced avo, low fat cottage cheese, Pumpkin Seed Pesto (see below) and smoked salmon.
Morning / Afternoon Snack
Serve with low fat cottage cheese and honey.
Pumpkin Seed Pesto
Makes a small jar +- 300 ml
- 250 ml pumpkin seeds, lightly toasted
- 3 - 4 cloves garlic ground organic salt and pepper extra virgin olive oil
- Place pumpkin seeds on a baking tray and toast at 180 degrees for 10 minutes or until you hear the seeds starting to pop. Allow to cool.
- Blend together ingredients.
- Add enough olive oil to form a paste.
- Spoon the pesto into a sterilised jar, making sure olive oil covers the pesto to act as a seal.
- Refrigerate once opened and keep sealing with a little olive oil after you have used it.
Please post your comments and any food-related questions below. I look forward to hearing from you.
Jackie Cameron
Hartford House, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
+27 33 263 2713


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8 Months
I went to see my former co-workers and doctors that I worked with this past Monday and that night I started back to jazzercise. It was great seeing everyone at work and in class but it was also very emotional for me. You never know when at any moment everything in your life will change. I pray everyday for continued strength and for Holli's healing. She still needs your prayers.
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- Scuba Diva said...
She will continue to make progress, I can promise you. I just came back to reading this blog—I'm Beth, the one who was in a car accident 20-odd years ago in New York—and it makes me so happy to read that she's continuing to make such progress. She's come a tremendous way since that fateful day.
I seriously would like to visit Hollis in Tennessee, and my only misgiving is that I can't drive; I realize not everywhere is as easy to get around as New York!
Most of all, I'm so happy for her having come so far, and that's why I can say I'm confident she'll continue to make progress.
- November 8, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- Shell said...
I'm glad to hear that you are taking care of yourself and doing things you used to enjoy. Taking care of yourself is extremely important when you are caring for someone else. I'm glad Hollis is continuing to do well. I look forward to the day when she will be back in the Black Rock Desert dancing with her friends on DPW. You, Hollis, and your family are in my thoughts. Please continue to take care of yourself and take the time to do what you enjoy doing. Send my love to Hollis, although she might not remember me as we only met breifly during the DPW season in 2008.
All the best,
Shelley (jedi on DPW)
- December 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM


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Now that I've completed eight of the top ten principles used in the system of martial arts I teach, I would like to answer a question asked by one of my students, which I'm sure has also been asked by other readers of this "blog."
That question being why I often use judo techniques to illustrate our principles instead of techniques used in Aikido. After all, our techniques, the art that I teach, must have more in common with Aikido than Judo.
Well, yes and no!
Of course, the simple answer is I've never trained in Aikido, so I have no idea how their techniques are explained. All I know about Aikido is what I've learned at a couple of seminars and from books. That is clearly not enough knowledge to discuss Aikido principles or applications.
There is no doubt that we use similar methodologies akin to Aikido, however I know for a fact our intention and focus behind our techniques is worlds apart from those taught in most Aikido schools.
Yes, it's true we also believe in the ideals of peace, love and harmony, as sermonized in various Aikido literature. However, we only think that way if the other person has the same intention. When attacked, and forced in a situation where force is necessary, the gloves come off, and our techniques are designed to stop the aggression. If that means serious bodily injury and/or death then that's what we will do. That's what we train for, and the intention behind every technique we do. The samurai did not fight to lose, and they used whatever means necessary to accomplish their objective.
While I've never formally studied Aikido, I did on the other hand, train in judo for several years. I still keep in touch, and sometimes even practice with, some of my old judo training/coaching partners. (Though I must admit, as we get older we communicate/meet less and less, and unfortunately some have already passed away.)
Since I actually trained in judo, and have read a lot on the topic, I have some actual firsthand insight on how judo techniques work and how they are taught. This allows me to make informed commentary. And no, I don't claim to fully understand all the intricacies that make up the art of judo. I'm no more than a passer-by, a casual observer of that martial art.
Fortunately, when I trained in judo I was taught techniques by several excellent judoka, some of whom were, or had been on the US Olympic team. I have to assume that if they reached that level they had to know what they were talking about. Many are nationally known and widely respected. Some of my teachers included:
Duke Moore – (seminars only) He made it all look so easy, and had so much technical insight to share. Though better known as a jujutsu practitioner, he was well versed in grappling.
Tim Delgman – (college years and seminars) I knew Tim before he became Soke (inheritor) of Mr. Moore's system. In college his skills were good, but over the years have even become better.
Willy Cahill – (seminars as well as a few months at his school – right before college) As a teen, I remember Mr. Cahill as a giant of a man who moved with grace and speed. A few years ago, I ran into him again. While he no longer appeared to be a giant, he clearly still has all the skills, maybe even more, that I remembered.
Wally Jay – (Before college and several seminars up until his retirement.)
While known more for his jujutsu skills than judo, he did teach judo skills when I trained with him.
Mitchell Palacio (college) I think he does the best tai-otoshi throw I've ever seen. It is so smooth and effortless that you don't even feel it until you hit the mat.
Neil Laughlin (college) (Promoted me to 1st Dan) (My main judo instructor) He was the first true heavyweight I had the chance to work with. He proved to me that even if you're a large person, you should still use technique rather than rely just on muscle and speed. I learned a lot about mat work from him, and owe much of my ground skills to his training.
Mike Swain (seminars)
Bill Paul (college) I didn't know who he was the first time we did randori (free sparring) and he just played with me for a full half an hour. I mean, no matter what I did he countered me instantly and effortlessly, barely breaking a sweat in the process. It was a totally humbling experience, until I learned who he was.
Phil Porter – (seminars) (Offered to promote me to 4th Dan, which I declined out of respect to those that actually practice judo on a regular basis.) I realize Mr. Porter, (I refuse to call him O'sensei) doesn't have the best reputation in the martial arts community because of his policies regarding issuing rank and his organization's politics, but he is an excellent judo practitioner with a lot of knowledge to offer. His technical skills are amazing as is the openness in which he teaches them.
Victor Anderson – While not an instructor of mine we have spent many hours discussing judo, judo theory, and judo techniques. He has also been invited to teach at several of the Budo seminars I have hosted.
So what is the answer to the original questions and why did I answer "Well yes and no?"
The truth is that many of our projections are very similar to judo. We just do them slightly different, with an intention of breaking our opponent, rather than pinning him. Our projections are clearly designed to snap necks, break shoulders, and damage vital organs.
On the other hand, we use the principles of aiki, (those found in Aikido) to set up these projections, and make them easier to do.
In other words we utilize the best of both approaches. Or, as I tell prospective students, we're the type of martial art that Judo and Aikido were founded on.


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Mzungu Photographer Gear Review: Is bigger always better
Since my recent trip to Uganda and another one overseas I have heard allot of questions about the gear I use. Many people assume to come back with the pictures I take I must have the top of the line everything.
At the risk of blowing this mythology, here is an inside track on the gear I use on the move and why I use it.
The measure of what makes a great lenses these days is basically:
Does it have a red ring at the end, how big is it? If it's grey it must be good right? and for the more technical "how fast is it"? I am over simplifying and many people who read this may have other specific criteria... but here is what I pack and why
In Uganda I had 2 Lenses
As you can probably tell... this lens is FAR from being fast. So why would I take such a lens?
*Practically speaking out in the field I get to have 1 lens that can do everything from wide angles at 18mm to good zooming capability at 200mm portraits between 50-85mm.
*The size and weight make it a great traveling buddy it also has a locking function preventing the zoom from expanding on it's own. At a fraction of the price and size of a canon 70-200 f/2.8L USM you have a larger focal range (the Canon is by far superior quality optics no argument here)
*what about Aperture don't I suffer from having such a "slow lens"? When I am in the field I am usually doing one of two things, the first is situational portraits which I will usually shoot between f/5,6 and f/8 and Landscapes which I will shoot at f/16 f/22 and even smaller apertures if I can (smaller because the higher the f/# the smaller the opening of the Iris the less light it takes in)
The nifty fifty. on the road I take this for 2 purposes first will be portraits if it's not a spur of the moment thing. Second and main reason I bring it is to record video. Again, It's light takes up very little space and is not expensive (although in France since last year these have seen almost a 50% price increase from 99€ to 140€.
Manufactures are marketing their camera by the number of pixels. Other parts of the equipment are far more advanced, but the reality is that consumers are the ones that base the value of the camera on the number of pixels. The reality is for someone that is just posting on Facebook, Model Mayhem or even my own site... with 5Mpix I would be fine. Of course no one would take me seriously.
My Camera of Choice in the field is the Canon T3i... Wait What? you don't bring a "professional" camera?... that's right I don't always bring a full frame. And this is why:
Size and weight: the T3i weighs a fraction of my 1DsMk IV even with a battery grip and wither of the lenses listed up there it will fit in a compact waist belt camera case.
The rotating screen: this is one of Canon's only camera lines that has the rotating screen making allot of shots much easier especially for video. This also allows me to rotate the screen ALL the way around so that it's protected from dust it also helps in low light situations to not be blinded by the light of the screen when trying to look through the view finder.
The 18Mpix still allow me to print huge prints upon my return.
One of my assistance on a wedding this summer was asking me about upgrading her Canon 5D mkII to the mkIII. after trying to understand her reasons and just getting "its a better camera, therefor I will take better pictures" as a response I told her that until she has pushed the limits of her current camera and knows it inside out and starts feeling the limits of the camera it was foolish to upgrade for the sake of upgrading. The quality of your pictures will improve much more if your skills with the camera improve. The best photographer is not the one with the best gear he/she is the one with the best eye.


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Former Governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Arjun Mahendran has asked for approval for a bid of Rs. 10 billion that was put forward at the bond issue says the Superintendent of the Public Debt Department of the CMSL Deepa Kanthi Seneviratna. This was disclosed by Ms. Seneviratna before the Presidential Commission to Investigate the Bond Scam.
She stated that an order made by Arjun Mahendran was opposed by all the members of the Tender Board. However, the relevant document was signed by the members when the Deputy Governor of CBSL P. Samarasiri informed that Arjun Mahendran would not change his decision.
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The findings of the investigations into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile at NHS hospitals has been released this morning. At Leeds Infirmary:
- Savile reported to have committed sex acts on dead bodies at Leeds hospital, actions in mortuary are described as "harrowing"
- The first case of abuse occurred in 1962 when Savile was 36 with the most recent in 2009 when he was 82
- Savile's victims ranged from five to 75 years of age
- 19 of those who came forward were under 16 with the majority of his victims teenagers
- 19 victims were female hospital staff
- 43 of the encounters took place in public areas such as wards, corridors and offices
- One witness said Savile wore rings made from the glass eyes of dead bodies in the infirmary's mortuary
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- Close associate of Savile was given a job at Broadmoor
- 11 allegations were made
- The allegations involved three minors, six patients and two staff at the hospital.
- Nine of the victims were female and two were male
- Two patients were subjected to "repeated assaults"
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I am unable to access the control room after a success installation (hostname:81). The server has Windows Server 2012 R2, and SQL 2014 SP1 Express.
When I thy to log to the CR page, nothing is displayed. I Reviewed the Install Summary and it is the same that the one that is in the installation manual.
Answer by SaschaSchwarze (3772) | Jul 30, 2018 at 03:20 AM
Hi Ismael,
the root cause for your problem typically is that the database does not have its TCP port open. I recommend to install Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. It is a UI to look into the databases. After you installed and started it, you can check the control room and bot insight databases. If you do not see any tables, then the installation was unable to create those.
To open the TCP port, launch SQL Server 2014 Configuration Manager. Under SQL Server Network Configuration, select the protocols. Right-click TCP/IP and enable it. Also open its Properties. Under IP Addresses, search for IPAll and set the TCP port to 1433.
After you made that correction, you need to restart SQL Server. Then, you need to uninstall IBM RPA control room and install it again.
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Hi Sascha,
With your answer I was able to correct the issue.
Thanks for your time.
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If you had the opportunity to go back to the past and speak with yourself 20 years ago, what would your younger self want to know about your future financial life? Surprisingly, only a small percentage (8%) of baby boomers and retirees (ages 42+) would want to know if they were multimillionaires in retirement, according to a recent Lincoln Retirement Institute survey. In fact, a significant majority of baby boomers and retirees were more concerned with the success of their financial planning strategies (66%), saving enough for retirement (38%), and making the right investment choices (28%).
The survey, which was as conducted by Zogby International in October, asked 500 respondents of all income levels to take a trip back in time and think about what advice they would give to their younger selves. More than one in four said they would tell themselves to begin saving for retirement sooner. Furthermore, 18% of those surveyed would counsel themselves to get more financial education, and 12% would instruct themselves to be more aggressive in their investing. These results did not change for respondents in different income brackets. "The results indicate that today's baby boomers and retirees are focused on doing their best to plan for the complexities of retirement and feel fairly confident about embracing their golden years," said Duane Bernt, director of the Lincoln Retirement Institute, in a statement. "At Lincoln Financial, the message we most want people to reflect on as a result of this survey is the importance of asking your 'futureself' what you really want for your future, and to encourage those heading into retirement to consider working with a financial professional to make their individual goals a reality," he added.


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Time: 7:30 – 10:00pm
Location: Walter Hall, University of Toronto. 80 Queen's Park Cres.
Free Public Event
An evening exploring sound-colour synesthesia.
7:30pm Public Lecture:
Some Sort of Coloured Quilt: Collaborative Animated Responses to Synaesthesia
Samantha Moore (University of Loughborough, UK; ASA Keynote Speaker)
Samantha Moore is an award winning British animated documentary maker who works in digital 2D animation. She is passionate about animation's ability to convey different realities in new and unanticipated ways. She will speak about her film, An Eyeful of Sound, an animated short that visually renders the perceptions of audio-visual synaesthetes. Samantha has worked extensively in the cross-disciplinary field of animating synaesthesia, culminating in 2010 in her Wellcome Trust funded short animated documentary film, An Eyeful of Sound (2010). The film was made in collaboration with Dr Jamie Ward (reader in psychology at the University of Sussex, UK) and three people with synaesthesia. The film was described as "an inspired visualisation about synaesthesia" (Sight & Sound magazine online, January 2010). It was the winner of the Nature Award for Scientific Merit, Imagine Film Festival (USA) 2010, amongst other awards from film festivals internationally. She is currently developing her research as she completes her PhD through practice at the University of Loughborough, entitled Out of Sight: Animated documentary and the representation of interior brain states, through which she is working with people with prosopagnosia and phantom limb syndrome.
8:15pm Overview of Music Visualization Workshop: Edward Hubbard (Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) will describe and present the initial outcomes and sample visualizations from the Music Visualization Workshop, held earlier in the day.
9:00pm Musical Performance: The Gryphon Trio with special guests
Gryphon Trio: Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin, Roman Borys, cello, Jamie Parker, piano
with: Christina Petrowska-Quilico, piano, Patricia O'Callaghan, soprano
Musical Programme
Joseph Haydn: Trio in C major Hob. XV: 27 i) Allegro Gryphon Trio
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus/ Praise to the Eternity of Jesus) Roman Borys, cello, Jamie Parker, piano. Images: Olivier Messiaen, Mark Nerenberg, Bernard White
Constantine Caravassilis: View from Pluto Christina Petrowska-Quilico, piano. Images: Constantine Caravassilis, Christina Petrowska-Quilico
Olivier Messiaen: Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus(Praise to the Immortality of Jesus) Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin, Jamie Parker, piano. Images: Olivier Messiaen, Mark Nerenberg, Bernard White
Constantine Caravassilis: Soul Ascending Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano. Images: Constantine Caravassilis, Christina Petrowska Quilico
Astor Piazzolla: Spring Gryphon Trio. Images: Carol Steen
Astor Piazzolla: Autumn Gryphon Trio
Nick Drake/arr. R. Occhipinti: River Man Patricia O'Callaghan, soprano, Gryphon Trio
Carlos Gardel/arr. R. Occhipinti: Volver Patricia O'Callaghan, soprano, Gryphon Trio
The Gryphon Trio
Having impressed international audiences and the press with their highly refined, dynamic performances, The Gryphon Trio has firmly established itself as one of the world's preeminent piano trios. With a repertoire that ranges from the traditional to the contemporary and from European classicism to modern-day multimedia, the Gryphons are committed to redefining chamber music for the 21st century.
Since coming together in Toronto in 1993, the Gryphon Trio has release fifteen celebrated recordings on the Analekta and Naxos labels, garnered two Juno Awards and multiple nominations, commissioned over 75 new works for piano trio, and are Ensemble in Residence at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.
Violinist Annalee Patipatanakoon is Associate Professor, Violin at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Annalee is a laureate of Belgium's Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition and is one of Canada's most respected violinists.
Cellist Roman Borys holds degrees from Indiana University and the Yale School of Music. He is Artistic Director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, and producers of large-scale Gryphon Trio projects such as Constantinople and Listen Up!
Pianist James Parker, DMA is Associate Professor, Piano at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Rupert E. Edwards Chair in Piano Performance. Celebrated by audiences and critics alike, he has performed with every major Canadian orchestra, and has given recitals across North America.
Christina Petrowska–Quilico
Hailed by the New York Times for her "promethean talent" at age 14, Christina Petrowska-Quilico has appeared on the recital stage at such prestigious halls as Carnegie, Alice Tully and Merkin. Concert tours have taken her, as a soloist and with baritone Louis Quilico, across four continents – to Taiwan, the Middle East, France, Germany, Greece and Ukraine, and throughout the U.S. and Canada. Her orchestral collaborations have ranged from most of Canada's leading ensembles to the symphony orchestras of Greek Radio and Taipei. Trained at the Juilliard School in the grand Russian and European traditions, followed by studies in Europe with leading composers, she has long been one of Canada's leading interpreters of new music – premiering 18 piano concerti and recording concerti, and solo and chamber works by Canadian and international composers, in addition to her recordings of standard repertoire – totalling nearly 30 recorded titles in all. Four of her CDs of Canadian music have earned JUNO Awards nominations. Petrowska-Quilico received the 2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award from the Canadian Music Centre and Canadian League of Composers, and together with composer Constantine Caravassilis was named winner of the 2010 Harry Freedman Recording Award, from the CMC's Harry Freedman Fund.
Patricia O'Callaghan
Patricia O'Callaghan divides her time between recording CDs, touring her own shows, and collaborating on other interesting projects. Some collaborations include singing with Bryn Terfel at Roy Thompson Hall, touring the multi media opera Constantinople by Christos Hatzis to London's Royal Opera House, among other places, and recording and touring with jazz clarinettist Don Byron, in support of his Bluenote release, A Fine Line. Recent appearances include playing Polly Peachum in Threepenny Opera with Soulpepper Theatre Company. Upcoming performances include playing Anna 1 in Weill/ Brecht's Seven Deadly Sins with Alberta Ballet/Edmonton Opera.
She has also appeared in television shows, such as her own Bravo! Special Live at the Rehearsal Hall, the Rhombus/CBC special Youkali Hotel, and the acclaimed Ken Finkleman Drama, Foolish Heart. Patricia is achieving her heart's ambition to bring her distinctive brand of cabaret to a broad-based audience.
Program notes for music by Constantine Caravassilis www.caravassilis.ca
View from Pluto was inspired by an article that I read in the online edition of The Guardian in 2006. In her description of several of Pluto's properties and attributes, Professor Monica Grady, a planetary scientist at the Open University in Britain, writes: "Naming Pluto after the god of the underworld may seem a strange choice – hell, after all, is depicted as a place of burning heat. Here, at the fringes of the solar system, is where hell freezes over. It is desolate and cold: -233C. Above is a clear, cloudless sky…. Pluto's tenuous atmosphere does not contain the particles that scatter light and give colour to the landscape… All the god of hell has for company is the occasional comet and his moon, Charon, named after the boatman who delivered souls across the river Styx. From the surface, Charon dominates the sky, its closeness to Pluto meaning it appears seven times larger than the full moon does on Earth… Time passes slowly. Each day lasts almost a week, and each year takes two and a half centuries…"
This work starts and ends in the key of C minor, which, for me, symbolizes distance and darkness. Several remotely distant tonal areas are explored while a five-note motif orbits throughout, representing different views from and of the surface of the dwarf planet. The character of the music portrays a stealth and cold darkness beyond anything that we experience on Planet Earth, while grandiose outbursts of the orbiting theme evoke an entity of mythical proportions that converts the extreme cold into the flaming fire of the underworld, thereby portraying the duality inherent in the name Pluto.
Soul Ascending is my response to the powerful words of St. John Chrysostom, in his commentary on the ascension of the soul: "And so mounting as it were by steps, let us get to heaven by a Jacob's ladder. For the ladder seems to me to signify in a riddle by that vision the gradual ascent by means of virtue, by which it is possible for us to ascend from earth to heaven, not using material steps, but improvement and correction of manners."
Life after death (whether an actual physical or transcendental phenomenon) versus the possibility of eternal oblivion, esotericism, and metaphysics in general, are subjects that have both perplexed and fascinated me for many years. But the subject that has intrigued me and triggered my imagination the most relates to the state of the human soul immediately upon departing from its temporary fleshly home, along with the impact of the human journey just completed upon the soul's post-life progress, if any. I have investigated the many views on these topics held by the ancient cultures of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, as well as the teachings of several religions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism. This study has not only inspired and influenced some of my musical work; it has also been instrumental in my personal spiritual journey.
Soul Ascending depicts my impression of the experience when a soul leaves its flesh body and the material world behind at the moment of so-called "death" and is ascending Jacob's ladder. This fantasia was heavily influenced by Egon Wellesz's book A History of Byzantine Music and Hymnography, as well as by an early 19th century painting by William Blake depicting this moment, which is now on display at the British Museum in London.
The note C#, which I associate with life, vitality, energy, and the spirit, serves as a drone (or ison in Byzantine chant), with the melodic material woven around it in an ever-unfolding melisma. Several bass notes are depressed throughout the piece (using the sostenuto pedal), allowing a number of harmonics to sound constantly, thereby suggesting a spacereality of infinite proportions, one with endless potential for expansion. Toward the end of the ascension rite, a subtle switch to bi-tonality in the music suggests freedom and contentment as the soul separates from all earthy things and enters an eternal meta-state, one that is indescribable, if not inconceivable by human beings still living on the earthly plane.


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Pun most definitely intended!
I have a love hate relationship with Halloween. I love it because it's the one time of year I can embrace the style I love and wear the clothes and accessories I adore without people giving me funny looks. Well, mostly.
On the other hand, I absolutely dread it coming around because of all things associated with it that set my anxiety off.
It's the time of year where directors get to let out their inner sociopath and create the most disturbing films possible. I've always hated horror films; I don't know if it's because of my autism or what but I've always had a near photographic memory, a very vivid imagination and I'm prone to have nightmares if I watch anything even remotely creepy.
My brain also has this really annoying habit of subconsciously believing everything it sees; for example if I watch something that has a murderer hiding in someone's wardrobe, my brain will start thinking someone is in mine. I'm old enough now that I can logic it out and I wouldn't actually have to check the wardrobe for serial killers but as a kid I wouldn't have been able to turn my light off until I did. Stupid I know.
So I try an keep myself away from any book/film/tv show that might freak me out.
But thats not possible this time of year!
I've seen the adverts for the new Jigsaw and Happy Death Day films so often that I don't even try look away. I know you're probably laughing at me including the Death Day film in, its meant to be one of those "funny" horrors but to me even ones like that freak me out and make me anxious. Although that probably has a lot to do with my second reason…
I hate anything in masks. Especially clowns! It's not a phobia as such (although when I was close to one when I was a kid) it's more that anyone/anything with its face covered triggers my flight or fight instinct and triggers my anxiety.
My brain sees it as a threat for some reason best known only to itself which means that going out for Halloween if completely out of the question. If I ever did and someone snuck up behind me in a mask to try and scare me they wouldn't get the reaction they expected; my fight instinct is stronger than my flight one so I'd end up punching or kicking them to "protect" myself. I might only be 5"1 but I've got some right force behind me when my adrenaline kicks in!
Since I've started blogging and really started to engage with twitter I've come to realise that I really haven't been brought up the same way as most other people where Halloween is concerned; the main one being I've never been trick or treating.
My dad always called it glorified begging and refused to take me. Not that I ever actually wanted to go; mum would usually buy me a new book and a small bag of chocolates and I'd spend the night happily reading the new book and eating the chocolate- much more fun in my opinion!
But that's not the reason I hate it; the problem I have is that people knocking on the door sets my anxiety off. This isn't just a Halloween thing, it's year round. Even if it's just the postman dropping off a parcel it really freaks me out! So Halloween, with a person knocking every ten minutes or so for a good portion of the night, is my own personal form of hell.
These days I just hide upstairs with my music on loud and play on the Xbox from around 6pm; it doesn't stop me hearing them knocking but it does drown it out enough that I don't have a night of constant anxiety attacks!
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I can relate to a lot of things you've said here especially the people knocking at the door, a Severn Trent man tried to replace my water metre last week without any notice & he freaked me out that much I told him I was just about to go out & to come back another day once he'd given me some notice. I was terrified! I have a little bucket of sweets ready for this year & I don't mind the little children so much but I'm so scared of opening the door & potentially having teenagers messing about wanting god knows what :'( x x
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Omg that's horrible! 😳 I'd have freaked out too, he should have at least given you some notice! I sound horrible saying it but we just ignore everyone; I wouldn't mind little kids but we don't get many where I live- like you said it's mostly gangs of teenagers 😓 hope you don't have to deal with that though hun! 😔 xx
What a fabulous post. It covered things I hadn't thought of. Interesting take on it, especially the masks! I love Halloween but that's only because I spent it quite cosy this year and even blogged about it too!xx
Thank you hun, I'm glad you found it useful 🙂 I think of lot of people don't realise just how scary/uncomfortable Halloween can be for people. That sounds like a great way to spend it! Glad you had a fun time 🙂 xx
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Linkin Park and Kid Rock are among the first acts announced for the 2014 Minnesota State Fair's Grandstand.
Grammy-winning electronic rock band Linkin Park will perform Aug. 26 on a bill with Thirty Seconds to Mars (the group led by newly minted Oscar-winner Jared Leto) and California goth act AFI. Tickets are $81 for general admission and $71 and $51 for reserved seats and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Etix.com.
Detroit's Robert James Ritchie, aka Kid Rock, is booked for Aug. 23, with an opening act to be announced. The $66.50 and $51.50 tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. March 15.
The State Fair also will host the annual Happy Together Tour, featuring '60s pop acts the Turtles, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels as well as members of Three Dog Night and Grand Funk Railroad. The $21 tickets go on sale at noon March 15.
Linkin Park and Kid Rock are popular local arena attractions. Linkin Park drew about 10,000 fans to St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center in 2011, while Kid Rock filled the same venue last year on a double bill with Bob Seger.
Tickets also are available by phone at 800-514-3849. The State Fair's box office will open from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday for Linkin Park and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 15 for Kid Rock and Happy Together. Regular box office hours start in June. The 2014 Minnesota State Fair runs Aug. 21 through Sept. 1 and additional Grandstand performers will be announced in the coming months.
Pop music critic Ross Raihala can be reached at 651-228-5553. Follow him at twitter.com/ RossRaihala.