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We arrive on this Earth knowing our own heart. Knowing our life's purpose. Our job is to remember that again. To seek until we find the truth that lives within each of us. To collect the pieces that form the person whom we are meant to be.
I developed the quote above while reading a book that touched on the theme of the purpose of our lives. The path we were created to travel in this world. We are all meant to be something in this world. Discovering who that is is part of our journey. The rest of the journey is living this truth.
Of course this quick breakdown of life is in very general terms. There is so much more to it than that; creating and nourishing loving relationships with others, raising a family (if that's what you want to do), traveling, volunteering, whatever floats your boat and makes you feel fulfilled on every level. But today we are going to talk about life's purpose.
Why did the Universe put us here and give us the gifts that we have?
I recently lost a loved one in my life and it knocked me completely off of my feet. My grief shook me down to my bones and a lot of stuff came up for me that has been subconsciously stewing for a while now. I was in a pretty dark, negative place for a solid week. I wrote the "Then" part of this post while in this dark place and struggling to deal with my emotions and desires. It has been about a week since these events transpired in my life. The "Now" portion of this post is my reflection on how I felt from a more positive, healthy place.
Death has a way of putting life in perspective. Of making you look at your life and where you are headed. Lately I've been seriously struggling with accepting where I am right now in my life. Let me specify here that I am talking about my career. What I do with my daily life to financially support myself. Outside of my career I could not be happier with where I am in my life. I feel fulfilled on so many levels from the loving relationships in my life, from my friends and family, my significant other, my puppy, this blog, my small but growing business, my yoga practice. I have so much to be thankful for and most of my days I am so incredibly happy and feel like one lucky chick.
So why do I feel restless? So stuck in the mud? Not knowing where to turn or how to get out of it. Why do I get so choked up even talking about my career and dread the question from family I haven't seen in a while… "so how is the job going?" I don't want to sound like an ungrateful complainer. I have a job, and a good one too. One many people would give a lot for. Can't that just be enough?
For many people in this world that is enough. But not for me. I am a girl with big dreams and even bigger goals. I have discovered my life's purpose (or at least part of it) and I am having trouble accepting that I am not quite there yet. It lives in me and I breathe the air of my dreams every day, yet achieving them, or even moving in that direction, seems so far away. So unattainable that sometimes it can be hard to stay positive.
For someone who is normally so upbeat and happy, that bothers me. I don't like how it makes me feel, how it brings me down and tries to dampen the brightest parts of my life. While having a normal conversation with my father, he tells me to be more positive. I hate that someone even needs to tell me that! Normally I am the positive one trying to lift people up and help them see on the brighter side and focus on the happy stuff in their lives.
I long with every fiber of my being to be that person who is so passionate about their career. To do something that doesn't feel like work every day. That doesn't include a 90 minute daily commute (roundtrip, but still). Is that too much to ask?
Though I am in a more positive place today, all of these questions and feelings still live inside of me. I certainly do not have it figured out. But a few things are different.
First off, I believe that my present circumstances will not determine my future, just help me get there. I continually tell myself (and write on this blog) that everything happens in life for a reason. What I do today is shaping me into the person I will be tomorrow. Tomorrow will come when it's ready, and not a minute sooner.
Secondly, I accept these feelings, respect them for what they are and know deep down that I am dealing with them in my own way on my own time. I won't have all the answers overnight. Lasting, beneficial change takes time. I should not push myself to get through this at an unreasonable, unhealthy pace (which is something I most definitely have struggled with in the past).
Third, I know these feelings will not go away until I get to where I need to be and that's okay. This won't be the last time that I get overwhelmed and feel a little down. It's about progress, not perfection. New stuff will probably come up in place of these emotions when I finally end up dealing with them! That's the way of life. It keeps us on our toes, continues to make us better people.
Lastly, I have faith that I will get there someday. And when I do, I will actually understand where "there" is! I may not have all the answers today (or tomorrow for that matter), but if I keep on writing, sharing my love for fitness and health, doing yoga, cooking good food and spreading the love, something will eventually come back to me. It's the law of the Universe. What you give is what you get.
I will figure it out, and when I do, it's gonna be great.
Peace, love and positivity,
The Yogi~Foodie

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Earlier this year, federal investigators secretly obtained two months of phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press, including calls on their home phones and cellphones. They did so without providing notice to AP, which could have asked a judge to quash the requests, or at least negotiated the scope of the investigation. It was an extraordinary incursion into the operations of a news organization, but the Justice Department did not violate any laws, which manages to be both comforting and shocking at the same time.
Those intrusive tactics bore fruit last week when Donald Sachtleben, a former FBI agent, agreed to plead guilty to leaking classified information to the AP about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen by al-Qaida. The leak investigation arose after AP published an article in May 2012, revealing that the government had disrupted the plot, which prompted a cascade of disclosures elsewhere in the news media, including that the bomber at the heart of the plot was a double agent.
The government believed that the leak and the subsequent coverage compromised a vital national security operation and relentlessly investigated the case. It interviewed 550 people with no success until it went after the AP�s records and discovered that Sachtleben, a former bomb technician, had disclosed the information about the foiled bombing.
His plea � he agreed to serve 43 months in prison for the leak charge � might seem to vindicate the prosecutorial aggression of the Justice Department, except for the part about wiping its feet on the First Amendment in the process. (Sachtleben separately agreed to plead guilty in an unrelated child pornography case.)
The seizure of records from 20 or more phone lines meant that thousands of calls to sources made on behalf of hundreds of articles at the AP were snooped on, many of which had nothing to with the matter being investigated.
All that took place after no discussions, arguments, or proceedings, just a quiet, wholesale harvest of phone records. (I should also point out that the AP let the government know about the story it was working on, and held it for five days at the government�s request.)
Media organizations asserted that the intrusion into the news gathering process was part of a sustained effort by the administration to fight transparency and punish leakers. To drive the point home, a few weeks later, it was revealed that investigators had obtained a search warrant for the email of James Rosen, chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, by provocatively arguing he was a criminal co-conspirator.
But what appeared to be a low point in a long campaign to rein in reporters and chill their sources may turn out to be a very big blessing in disguise.
Chastened by the outcry, the Justice Department revisited its ancient guidelines � now many decades old and codified when there was no such thing as email � and made meaningful reforms. Sounding for all the world like a stalwart defender of press freedom, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said, �The Department of Justice is firmly committed to ensuring our nation�s security, and protecting the American people, while at the same time safeguarding the freedom of the press.�
The new guidelines default toward providing advance notice to news organizations when investigators pursue news gathering materials, except when notification would threaten continuing investigations. And the guidelines no longer let investigators portray reporters as engaged in a criminal act, in an effort to bypass restrictions in the Privacy Protection Act.
Even more improbably, the administration has put its weight behind enacting a federal shield law that would offer some protection for the confidentiality of reporters� sources. Such a law, long a grail for the news media, is gaining momentum and has an opportunity to be the rare issue that gains bipartisan support in Congress.
Under the law, judges, not investigators, would decide when reporting materials merit protection. A version of the bill passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this month and could head to the Senate floor this session. (The House of Representatives is working on its own version.)
A similar bill had momentum in 2009, but lost steam after WikiLeaks burst on the scene and began spilling government secrets. But now there is a chance that some form of the bill � entitled the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 � will become law. There are some major carve-outs in the legislation, limitations on what constitutes an act of journalism, most of which seem aimed at next-generation news organizations that sometimes simply post classified material, rather than report more in-depth articles based on that information.
The sudden appearance of a pony in what had been a growing pile of manure around press freedom was seen as a welcome turn of events by Gary Pruitt, the president and chief executive of the AP.
�While we were not pleased by what took place, the new guidelines will provide for greater protection for journalists for years to come,� he said in a phone interview.
�I think that people were taken aback by the aggressive tactics and how secretive they were,� he added. �They understand that if we can�t hear from unofficial sources, we will only know what the government wants us to know, and that is not what the First Amendment was designed to protect.�
Not everyone is thrilled, however, by the sudden openness to openness. They include Stewart Baker, a former general counsel to the National Security Agency and former head of policy at the Department of Homeland Security. Speaking of the AP�s source, he said: �What this guy did is appalling. He sneaked in and picked up gossip and retailed it to feel like a big shot.�
He added, �The government exhausted every avenue and spent vast amounts of taxpayer money in pursuit of the leak and eventually found another way. I can�t speak to why they didn�t go to court to do that.�
Baker has been an outspoken supporter of the prosecution of leaks, but as someone who frequently blogs, he also worries about the government doing the deciding when it comes to who in journalism is worthy of protection. (Matt Drudge, who has broken a fair number of stories over the years, shares his skepticism.)
For reporters, there is a clear and persistent danger in the current state of affairs. In July, a federal appeals court ruled that James Risen of The New York Times had no more right than any other citizen to resist giving evidence against a former CIA officer. The officer, Jeffrey Sterling, is accused of being a source for a chapter in Risen�s 2006 book, �State of War,� which describes a CIA effort to trick scientists in Iran.
It remains unclear whether Risen could be compelled to testify under the proposed shield law, because of wholesale national security exceptions written into the legislation. Some involved in that kind of reporting believe such a law would do more harm than good.
Given the perils of defining who is a journalist and the continuing tension between open government efforts and national security, it will be difficult to come up with a shield that protects both speech and secrets. But in this instance, the perfect seems to be very much the enemy of the good.
The new guidelines at the Justice Department and some form of shield law will put more tools in the hands of journalists and their lawyers. I�ll root for anything that puts more speed bumps in the way the next time prosecutors want to simply roam around in the records of a news organization that stand between them and one of their targets.


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The United States Supreme Court has officially scheduled oral arguments for what many believe will be a landmark case regarding religious liberty. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., a Midwest crafts retail chain, will get to present oral arguments against the Department of Health and Human Services' "preventive services" mandate on Tuesday, March 25. Owned and operated by a Christian family who hold religious objections to providing abortion-inducing drugs to its employees, Hobby Lobby is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
The Pope made his strongest comments yet against abortion in an address to global ambassadors on Monday. "It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day," he said in a speech delivered at the Vatican.
A pregnant North Texas woman being kept on life support against her family's wishes is stirring political debate in a state immersed in competitive primary races, and fresh off a legislative session in which lawmakers had tense debates over when life begins and how it can end.
Parents entering into arrangements such as surrogacy are doing so in a legal vacuum, in which everyone risks being exploited. 'My bumbling, embarrassed "a mummy and a daddy" explanation doesn't cut it in the complex, uncertain and ever-changing world of family creation in the 21st century.'
An ice addict charged with killing three people after losing control of his car was drugged and speeding when he caused the fatal crash, a court has heard. Nei Lima Da Costa, 29, was allegedly driving at 120km/h and had methylamphetamine in his system when he ran a red light and ploughed into pedestrian 45-year-old Anthony Parsons killing him instantly.
THE NSW government refuses to introduce meaningful measures to combat alcohol-fuelled violence because the Liberal Party's booze policy is controlled by the "powerful" hotel lobby, the opposition says. Premier Barry O'Farrell has also been described as "unbelievably stupid" for claiming earlier closing times, lock-outs and tighter restrictions on shots, wouldn't prevent assaults occurring earlier in the evening.
He's been touted as the next James Packer and Australia's newest gambling magnate. But 32-year-old Laurence Escalante admitted it's an "embarrassing" tag when KBB caught up with him this week. The founder and CEO of Perth-based startup Virtual Gaming Worlds is pushing boundaries in merging the online gaming and gambling industries – a bold move considering online gambling is banned in Australia.
Homeless people are being chased away from airconditioned centres and harassed by ''cranky passers-by'' as they attempt to seek refuge from the extreme heat. The city's rough sleepers say it is too hot to sleep at night. During the day, they are often moved on from cool public places, including shopping centres, fast-food outlets and public toilets, according to support workers.
A Canberra initiative to get indigenous children reading by giving them a Kindle has proved a success and should be implemented across the country, according to indigenous academic Marcia Langton. The Indigenous Reading Project is the idea of Canberra public servant Daniel Billing, who believed indigenous children would be excited by reading if they were given a Kindle.
Reverend Fred Nile's new bride has given him a new lease on life and he says he has abandoned plans to retire next year. The controversial MP and his wife Silvana Nero have settled in Dee Why since returning from a Caribbean cruise following their wedding last year.
Tonga's deputy PM says the government will decide how much aid it requires at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
Over 1.1 billion people across the globe don't have access to clean water, which equates to about an eighth of the global population. A child dies every 15 seconds from water-related diseases, which has led Compassion International to begin a new 'Water for Life' initiative.
Should we dump the Lord's Prayer? The Greens want to dump the Lord's Prayer which is read before Federal Parliament sits each day. But why? Do you sing the National Anthem instead?
One of surprising results from the 2013 federal election in Australia has been the success of the micro-parties, notably in contesting the Senate. There is no exact definition for micro-party, although this is generally taken to denote a political party with no relevant parliamentary representation, and thus a political party with little or no resources. The success of the micro-parties in 2013 in Australia offers some important lessons for political campaigning.
Soon-to-be-dumped Cabinet minister Nick McKim has not ruled out the Greens moving a no-confidence motion in the government when State Parliament is recalled to debate the pulp mill. The Greens Leader fronted a media conference a short time ago after The Examiner revealed Labor's intention to recall Parliament before the election to remove any legal threats to the pulp mill. Premier Lara Giddings is expected to make the announcement tomorrow at the same time as sacking the two Greens ministers, saying yesterday she was considering all options.
If the strategically placed leaks to the media prove accurate, by the end of this week Tasmania's Labor premier, Lara Giddings, will have walked away from a power-sharing arrangement with the Greens. This will be the latest in a succession of political setbacks over the past year or two that suggest the Greens don't have the cachet they once had with the Australian community, and can now be easily discarded by expedient political allies with nary a backward glance.
Australian doctors should be mindful about the needs of refugees, many of whom are likely to be confused by an unfamiliar health system, say the authors of a new study. Although people on refugee visas have the same Medicare and social benefits as other permanent residents, many have mental health issues and illnesses that may be unusual in Australia.
The persecution of Christians continues in India, reports Mission Network News. In November, extremists used weapons and threats to force a Gospel for Asia (GFA) Bridge of Hope center to close. Threatened with death and under the pressure of their landlord, the center's staff was forced to leave. More recently, four believers were forced to perform rituals of the area's main religion, reports GFA. Unable to continue working under the group's oppression, the GFA supported pastor left the village to work with another congregation.
New research from the Parents Television Council found that underage female characters on primetime broadcast television are more likely to be presented in sexually exploitative scenes than adult women, and the appearance of underage female characters in a sexually exploitative scene increased the probability that the scene would be presented as humorous.
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The year is new, but we already have a candidate for the most troubling magazine essay of 2014: Amanda Hess on "Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet," in the latest issue of Pacific Standard. Hess takes a reality many people may be only dimly aware of - that female writers come in for an extraordinary amount of abuse online - and fleshes it out with detail, data and personal experience. The anecdotes, her own and others, range from the offensive to the terrifying, but there's also a thudding, soul-crushing sameness to them: graphic threats of sexual violence, rape and murder, intertwining and repeating.
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Less earthy and primitive yet abundant with their own adventurous textures and inclines are the stairscapes of Italian hilltowns such as Sorano and Perugia, Urbino and Ostuni. Magnificent flights plunge and cascade through slots carved from a dense urban mass, each inciting a distinct gait that may unexpectedly slow or quicken, constrict or broaden, bending at times into soft curves or sharp angles or splitting into multiple streams with contrasting direction and character, some steeply rising to the dwellings above.
An ever-shifting pace of steps eliminates all routine motion and each newly emerging rhythm keeps the climber awake and involved. Each part of the leg, complementing the balancing forces of a twisting torso and swinging arms, is synchronized in a complex yet highly creative act in space, turning locomotion into a precious moment of being. The result is a kind of rapture in which the combination of 'adventure, fun, wonder, risk and ordeal', to apply the words of Diane Ackerman in Deep Play, elicits 'a cyclone of intense alertness, a marginally frightening state in which I exist entirely in the tense present and feel quintessentially alive'.26
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Even when appearing flat, the hilltown floor, like the earth, is generally sloped to some degree, its periphery further disturbed by folding terrain at building thresholds. Similarly, the memorable presence of an Italian piazza can derive as much from a distinguished gradient underfoot as from the shape of enclosing walls: consider the steep, fan-shaped bowl of the Piazza del Campo in Siena (p. 30), the southerly slant of the Piazza Grande in Arezzo or the inclined stone carpet of Montepulciano's own Piazza Grande, all breaking into multiple tilts around the edge. While strolling over a floor that 'slants down just a little, so little that it is not noticeable to the eye', as Bachelard notes in Air and Dreams, 'you will find wings growing, little wings on your feet, your heel will have just enough light, delicate … energy to let you fly. With a very simple movement, your heel will change the descent into an ascent, the walk into a soaring.'27
Giving an unforgettable character to each phase of stair is the unique incline and course of its steps, inviting an equally unique kinesthetic experience. One supple winding flight contains alternating counter-curves in opposite directions. Another forms a plunging cascade, gaily covered with laundry and bouquets of flowers and lined at either side with small ledges for doorsteps, whose startling pauses and syncopations slow down and disrupt movement. Nearby is a rough chasm that rips diagonally across the hillside in a series of abrupt angles, giving the climb a staccato beat. Just around the corner is an intersection of multiple stairs, whose tangle of lines spreads into faster and slower increments, while quivering back and forth in minor directional shifts. In each footpath it is not so much the steps themselves that challenge and reward human action, but their uniquely shaped vectors and evolving surprises that keep the climber engaged.
Evidently something beyond the physical realm, and exceeding vision, has been introduced to and now pervades the inclines of this village. Unlike the inactive floors of conventional decorating, Sperlonga's floors are permeated with heightened forces and tensions of gravity. Appearing not to the eye but to the body in motion are active gravitational currents within the air along each cascade, streams of forces into which we bodily enter and take part while travelling through them.
To borrow an analogy from quantum theory, wherever the ground is broken open and made incomplete it is, in a sense, no longer inert and static. The ground is transformed from a neutral object into a magnetic region, like an atom whose outer 'valence shell' has been 'destabilized' and 'ionized' by an input of energy that enlivens the element and gives it the power to move, change and interact with others. Correspondingly every juncture and cascade of ground along an indeterminate slope is suffused with its own unique gravitational currents, a voltage that may be invisible but is nonetheless so tangible we can anticipate its presence and carry its experience in the memory of our muscles. We feel currents seize hold of the body, as if entering a moving river, and sense the way it resists or transports us as we climb through its force field. We sense an accelerating tug as we plummet through air to levels below and a backward drag as we spring to higher levels above.
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Another day, another controversy surrounding the power structure of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Friday, an Internet firestorm was touched off by reports that coach Chip Kelly was looking to leave the team after being angered by the recent dismissal of president of player personnel Tom Gamble.
Perhaps because of that, he instead was given complete control of football personnel in a restructuring announced by owner Jeff Lurie early Friday evening.
"Kelly will now oversee the player personnel department," according to an email from the team. "He will also lead efforts to hire a new personnel executive — a process that will begin immediately.
"Roseman will be elevated to the role of Executive Vice President of Football Operations and will continue directing contract negotiations, salary cap management and NFL strategic matters while overseeing the team's medical staff, equipment staff and more."
The release also offered statements from all three men.
"I am very confident about where we are headed as a team and as an organization," Kelly said. "I look forward to continue working with Jeffrey and Howie as well as the personnel department.
"This is not a one-man operation. It will truly take a team effort to acquire and develop the best football players and then put the best team on the field each week. It will take all of us working together."
Lurie may have been convinced to make these changes by Kelly, who's won 10 games in each of his first two seasons since being hired away from the University of Oregon with no NFL experience.
"We are a good football team and we believe these steps will help make us a great team," Lurie said. "That step, from good to great, is the most difficult one for any organization to make. To do that, sometimes you have to step back and really look hard at where you are today and what you want to become."
Added Roseman: "Philadelphia is my home and the Eagles are my family. My No. 1 goal is to help bring a championship to this city, and that will never change. I believe this will solidify the trust we have all placed in Coach Kelly."
Earlier in the day, a local radio talk show host as well as Jason La Canfora of the NFL Network reported that they heard Kelly was unhappy in Philadelphia following Gamble's firing.
Then Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk reported a "plugged-in" source told him "something big" was going on in the wake of Gamble's departure.
Those reports coincided with a report by Geoff Mosher of Comcast that a former Eagles executive told him a "toxic environment" has been created by Lurie's unusual power structure, which has resulted in the hiring and firing of more than a dozen front office and football operations personnel over the last three seasons.
After sitting down with Kelly, Roseman and President Don Smolenski on Friday, Lurie knew he had to make more changes.
"We came up with what we believe will be a more thorough and thoughtful model that would best be overseen by Chip," Lurie said. "It's most important that we find players that match what our coaches are seeking.
"This new approach goes even further than we have in the past, starting with day one of the scouting process. This is part of an all-encompassing vision that takes you from the scouting process all the way to on-field performance.
"Howie, Chip and Don are all united in their desire to win. Together, we decided this approach was the best course of action for the Philadelphia Eagles.
"You have heard me say many times that I want strong leaders who feel free to express their opinions, and that is what happened here. Chip will now lead this process going forward with the continued full support of Howie, Don and myself.
"Chip will not be doing this work by himself, obviously. He has been charged with recruiting and hiring a new personnel executive that will report directly to him and together we will move forward with this new, highly integrated approach.
"When I said after the Giants game that Howie was returning as general manager next season, I meant that. But after carefully listening and reflecting on the lengthy discussions that I had with our senior team, I changed my mind.
"I have a very good relationship with Chip that continues to grow stronger and stronger. When we spoke, he was thoughtful, thorough and professional. There were no demands, no threats - quite the contrary- he was passionate, engaged and articulated a dynamic and clear vision on how this fully integrated approach will work. We look forward to seeing it come to life over time.
"Let me also stress that Howie will continue to play a vital role in our operation. He has been elevated to the role of Executive Vice President of Football Operations and received a contract extension."


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Intra-Europe traffic trends in the right direction, but outlook darkens for Europe's carriers
European airlines continued to report positive passenger traffic results in Aug-2011, the final month of the summer peak travel period, when European airlines make the bulk of their revenue. Almost all of the major airlines reported year-on-year increases in load factor and passenger numbers, despite the increasingly worrying economic backdrop affecting business and consumer confidence across the region. If such uncertainty continues, European carriers may be in for a bumpy end to 2011.
Traffic slowdown looks likely
Intra-European passenger traffic has largely been in positive territory for all of 2011, a trend that continued in the final month of summer despite the increasingly gloomy economic outlook, particularly in Europe, the source of much of the world's renewed fear.
European airlines reported patchy results in 1H2011 (six months to 30-Jun-2011), varying by business model. Most LCCs, with the exception of Air Berlin Plc, reported strong results, while most full-service carriers, most notably Lufthansa Group and Air France-KLM (1Q2011), reported results that missed expectations.
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The outlook for traffic growth remains weaker in the second half than in the first. The increasingly uncertain economic outlook, falling trade activity and slower spending by businesses and consumers is likely to be reflected in air traffic growth. Germany's two largest airlines, Lufthansa and Air Berlin, which, despite the country's relative economic strength, reported some of Europe's least impressive first-half results, and Lufthansa Group CEO Christoph Franz captured the mood quite accurately: "While the outlook was thoroughly positive for the aviation industry at the beginning of 2011, prospects have become much more differentiated." Air Berlin CEO Joachim Hunold noted that "leading [economic] indicators in Europe are sending clear warning signals", with all signs pointing towards a deterioration in "many countries".
Air France-KLM reported an operating loss of EUR145 million in a single quarter (three months to 30-Jun-2011). The group identified the key headwinds facing European carriers in 2011: "The operating environment remains uncertain due to the situation in Japan, Africa and the Middle East and the euro zone crisis. Moreover, fuel prices are still at high levels and the euro remains volatile." BAA's director of strategy and forecasting Andrew Macmillan has warned of a slowdown in passenger growth entering the winter period, on the back of deteriorating global economic conditions. "We…would always urge some caution. Economic trends do suggest a slower autumn," Mr Macmillan said.
In line with the darker picture painted by European airport and airline leaders, forward fares are also reflecting a difficult period ahead. On many of the region's heaviest routes a clear downward trend in pricing has emerged for the remainder of the year. Below is a snapshot of indicative pricing for the autumn period on some of the popular intra-Europe routes. The fares listed are the 30-day moving average lowest return airfare (three days stay), inclusive of taxes and surcharges. Other fare graphs for major global airports are available on CAPA Airport Profiles. In many cases, prices for travel in the months of September and October are below the same levels in 2010.
Frankfurt-Berlin Tegel lowest return airfare (three days stay), inclusive of taxes and surcharges
Madrid-Barcelona lowest return airfare (three days stay), inclusive of taxes and surcharges
Rome Fiumicino-Amsterdam lowest return airfare (three days stay), inclusive of taxes and surcharges
While passenger traffic data continues to show resilience, questions hang over forward yield performance. IATA noted that despite the current economic turmoil in the region, European air travel markets (premium and economy) have been the strongest route area in the world so far in 2011. The intra-Europe economy segments have been the strongest so far, with 12.8% growth in the seven months to Jul-2011.
See related article: Premium demand strengthens in Jul-2011 but short-term outlook "gloomy": IATA
However, those markets linked to the troubled European economies have been showing weakness, the industry body said. During 2Q2011, consumer confidence in Europe has fallen to its weakest point since mid-2009 and business confidence has fallen significantly. "Much of the strength of air travel in the region appears to be due to business travel, but given the weakness of home markets it looks unlikely that this can be sustained," IATA said. Despite strong traffic results, yield performance on intra-Europe routes will be an area to watch in 2H2011.
Lufthansa has joined Air France-KLM in revising down its earnings forecast for the current financial year. The German carrier, who announced the earnings forecast on 20-Sep-2011, expects an operating profit "at the upper end of the three-digit million-euro range". But the Group, looking at evolving economic events across the world, says a target of an increase on the previous year's figure (EUR876 million) "no longer appears to be achievable".
"The adjustment undertaken reflects a weaker than expected monthly result for Aug-2011 reported by the Passenger Airline Group. In view of ongoing economic uncertainties, further booking trend expectations were also adjusted," Lufthansa said. The Group already plans to cut capacity growth for the winter period 6% year-on-year by using smaller planes, deferring new routes launched and closing the loss-marking Lufthansa Italia unit. Bmi, the least profitable part of the family, is widely expected to be put up for sale by the winter.
Load factors trend mostly up in Aug-2011
Load factors on intra-Europe services were marginally stronger year-on-year in Aug-2011, with SAS, Lufthansa Group and Blue1 the only real exceptions. August is typically the strongest month for European load factor performance, which remained the case last month.
easyJet one again most closely matched demand and supply, recording average loads of 92.2%, arguably a world-leading figure. The result is, however, a slight (0.1ppt) year-on-year fall after higher load factors in Jun-2011 and Jul-2011 year-on-year. Ryanair reported the second-strongest result, with average loads of 89%, flat year-on-year. Air Berlin Plc, Aer Lingus and IAG were also strong performers, reporting load factor gains and averages of at least 84%.
Rapidly growing LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle continued to deliver strong operational results. The airline, with its main base at Oslo, recorded the largest load factor increase with a 3ppt increase to 82%. The load factor gain coincided with sharp increase in passenger numbers (see below). Despite the load factor gain, yields fell 2% in the month, suggesting the carrier is more strongly pursuing gains in revenue over yield.
At the other end, Blue1, the loss-making Finnish unit of the SAS Group, reported the least impressive results in Aug-2011. Blue1 reported the lowest loads and largest fall in load factors, which fell 3ppts to 65%. In order to strengthen SAS' long-term position in the Finnish market and improve the profitability in Blue1, the SAS Group has decided to streamline the fleet and refocus on routes within Nordic countries.
Selected European airlines intra-Europe passenger load factor and passenger load factor growth: Aug-2011
Second-tier LCCs once again lead pax growth
Norwegian and Vueling were once again way out in front of the pack in intra-Europe passenger traffic growth. Interestingly, both LCCs with respect to traffic numbers are the same size and are growing at the same pace. Vueling increased passenger numbers by 18.8% year-on-year to 1.5 million, while Norwegian increased passenger numbers by 18.6% to 1.5 million. Vueling has 48 aircraft in its fleet, while Norwegian has 60.
Vueling continues to benefit from taking over of part of Iberia's short-haul network, most significantly at Madrid. Norwegian's strong growth is due to the LCC's expansion in established markets and the launch of new routes, which gives favourable year-on-year comparisons.
Europe's biggest three airlines by traffic – Ryanair, Lufthansa Group and easyJet – all reported strong passenger traffic gains. Ryanair and the Lufthansa Group jostle for the top positions, but in August, the peak leisure travel period, Ryanair edged out the Lufthansa family in terms of both passenger numbers and traffic growth.
SAS and Cimber Sterling, both Nordic-based carriers, reported the only year-on-year declines in intra-Europe travel. Cimber is suffering as a result of a restructuring that followed a period of heavy losses, while SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) fell only slightly in the month. SAS in recent years has successfully trimmed a large operation in favour of generating profits, effectively "shrinking into profitability". SAS faces intense competition from LCCs and has adjusted its network and product offering accordingly, concentrating on higher-yielding routes better suited to its higher cost structure. SAS has stated that market growth continues to be "good, but unpredictable due to added capacity…risk in the global economy and risk of continued high jet fuel prices". Overcapacity in the Nordic region has been a key theme this year. The market has become a focal point for LCCs, most notably Ryanair, looking for new growth markets.
Selected European carriers intra-Europe passenger numbers and passenger numbers growth: Aug-2011
While some of the aforementioned year-on-year percentage changes are impressive, these figures are a reflection of the base from which an airline has grown. Absolute passenger growth figures offer an equally interesting look into the intra-Europe market.
Ryanair recorded the strongest year-on-year increase in absolute passengers numbers, carrying an additional 460,000 passengers in Aug-2011. EasyJet was second with 340,000 and Luthansa third with 315,000. The ongoing structural changes in the intra-Europe travel market are clear, with four of the five largest increases recorded by LCCs. While all airlines should expect traffic to fall in the slower part of the second half, the ability of LCCs to sustain growth higher year-on-year than full-service peers will depend on market demand sensitive to the current economic slowdown, which could also impact corporate travel demand. That could potentially expose all traffic markets to downturn, and re-emphasise the need some airlines had to restructure while causing others to start a restructure. Carriers like easyJet, which cater to corporate and leisure traffic, should emerge from the downturn as the least exposed.
Intra-Europe passenger traffic absolute growth (in thousands): Aug-2011


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Paul Simon brought the driving rhythms of his acclaimed "Graceland" album home to South Africa Saturday night, beginning a controversial series of concerts that effectively ends a long era of cultural isolation.
The American singer's visit drew protests from a small but vociferous minority of radical black groups, who contended that apartheid was not sufficiently dismantled to justify lifting the boycott on tours by foreign artists, as the United Nations decided last month.
But the several dozen demonstrators offering leaflets outside Mr. Simon's opening show were far outnumbered by the more than 40,000 fans, who were overwhelmingly young and white. They crowded into Ellis Park Stadium, a venue more used to rugby matches, for their first glimpse of an American superstar, sang along with lyrics they recognized and danced in the warm summer night.
Most black South Africans could not afford to pay up to $30 for a ticket, or, lacking cars, to travel to Johannesburg from the outlying black townships. Mr. Simon was reportedly discussing a free performance later in one of the townships. South Africans Hear Their Own
But his show broke new ground in exposing the mostly white audience to their country's premier black musicians like the guitarist Ray Phiri and the choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Most whites were ignorant of such artists before Mr. Simon included them in his 1986 "Graceland" album, which is rooted in the lively mbaqanga and mbube strains of South African township jive. Mr. Simon said he wanted the black musicians to "be afforded the respect and admiration in this country that they've gotten around the world."
Mr. Simon also delighted the crowd by bringing Miriam Makeba, who returned last year from self-imposed exile, onstage to sing a song with him. And they cheered when he hugged Joseph Tshabalala, the leader of Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Mr. Simon has not been strident about his opposition to apartheid, but he said it was hard to understand the oppression of people with such a rich culture.
"When you think of them as human beings, you're outraged to think of them being treated as less than a human being," he said in an informal interview at his rehearsal on Friday. Sticking to His Music
Mr. Simon said he was not here to make political statements.
"My job is to think music," the singer said. "My job is not to be a philosopher. My job is not to be a politician."
From his opening with "The Obvious Child," to the hushed conclusion of the classic "Sounds of Silence," Mr. Simon gave the fans what they came for. Songs from "Graceland" and "The Rhythm of the Saints," the singer's 1990 album that draws on Brazilian music, were punctuated with older favorites like "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," from his days with Art Garfunkel. The show was almost stolen by Mingo Araujo, a Brazilian percussionist who danced, long hair flying, around his drums without missing a beat.
Speaking before the rehearsal Friday, Mr. Simon played down his role in the 17-member band, which also includes musicians from Botswana and Cameroon, and several New Yorkers, including the saxophonist Michael Brecker and the keyboardist Richard Tee.
"My job is to sing the songs, sing them in tune, phrase them in an interesting way," he said. The Long Tour Continues
The opening performance in Johannesburg was the 151st of a marathon tour, titled "Born at the Right Time," that has taken Mr. Simon and his band, plus 25 tons of equipment, through 27 countries in less than 14 months.
After performing again tonight in Johannesburg, the show moves to Port Elizabeth, Durban and Cape Town, with a side trip to Gabarone in Botswana. Harvey Goldsmith, the tour's international promoter, estimated that "we'll probably get to about 200,000 people" in southern Africa.
Mr. Simon came to South Africa in February 1985 to work on his "Graceland" album. His visit was criticized, including from within the United Nations, for violating the cultural boycott. He spent only nine days in Johannesburg, he said, and "mostly I was in a recording studio." But he said he found a looser racial climate when he returned last week.
"Though we are still not talking about a free South Africa, we are talking about a much changed society, a much more open society," he said.
Opposition to his tour here had far less to do with Mr. Simon or his music than with internal political rivalries. A Forum for Militancy
The African National Congress, which supports Mr. Simon's visit, has entered formal negotiations with the white minority Government on the county's future. Two smaller, less influential groups, the Pan-Africanist Congress and the Azanian People's Organization, refused to join the talks and Mr. Simon's arrival handed them a platform to display their militancy.
"Cultural interaction must support the culture of resistance!," said the leaflet distributed last night by supporters of the Azanian People's Organization, a black-consciousness group. "Paul Simon's tour is about business, not liberation -- we oppose it."
The African National Congress Youth League dismissed his critics as opportunists who showed "total ignorance and indifference" to progress against apartheid on the cultural front.
Mr. Simon, who was invited by the multi-racial South African Musicians Alliance, said he had wanted only "to make a peaceful night of music for as many people as possible." He met with some of the protesters, who insisted that he wind up the tour after his first two shows in Johannesburg or move it next door to Botswana. Mr. Simon refused. Some Ticketholders Scared Off
Johannesburg newspapers headlined such dire predictions of violence that some whites with tickets stayed home. But trouble never materialized, partly because of a heavy police presence that included at least five armored cars outside the stadium.
The African National Congress, which dropped its cultural boycott as part of a phased lifting of sanctions, supported Mr. Simon by throwing him a reception Friday evening at which Nelson Mandela declared that "artists are now free to come to our country."
"I agree with the position of the A.N.C.," Mr. Simon said. "I think the lifting of the cultural boycott has been very beneficial. I never thought that keeping people out and stopping people from leaving was helpful."
Mr. Goldsmith said the band didn't know until the last few months whether it could perform in South Africa.
"This is a kind of gateway tour, because if it works and works well, people are going to look and say, 'Let's come,' " Mr. Goldsmith said. "And then it won't be the political consideration. It will be the economics." In From the Cultural Cold
Mr. Simon said it was time for South Africa to become part of the international music circuit.
"I think that in the immediate future, acts that come through South Africa should be cognizant that South Africa has been isolated, and it needs that care and that interest," he said.
Mr. Simon held a workshop on Friday for aspiring young black musicians and urged them to hone their technique through practice.
"Don't let frustration stop you," the singer said. "You may not get what you want immediately. It doesn't mean that you won't get it."
Ian Hoblyn, Mr. Simon's business manager, said "we always looked on coming here as the end of a journey." Mr. Simon confirmed that he wanted to wind up his world tour in South Africa.
"It's a rare opportunity to have a symmetrical ending to it," Mr. Simon explained. "It began with 'Graceland' and it's almost poetic that it finishes like this. I can feel a sense of completion and move on."


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Demi Lovato may have more than 15 tattoos but her latest tat is her "most meaningful."
Early Thursday morning (May 16), the 26-year-old singer debuted a black-and-white full body portrait tattoo of her great-grandmother, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 93.
"This is for you Mimaw," she captioned an Instagram photo of her showing off her new ink, which showed her great-grandmother smiling in a 1940s-style white dress with a cinched waist, on Demi's left forearm. "You at 26 on my arm while I'm 26, and forever. I love you more. ❤ Thank you @_dr_woo_ for making her come back to life for me.. it's stunning and the most meaningful tattoo I have ever gotten. 🙏🏼🙌🏼."
Demi and her Mimaw were extremely close. When she passed back in 2016, Demi wrote a heartfelt Instagram post about her, calling her the "world's most special woman."
"I miss her more than words can even describe," she captioned a photo of her in bed with Mimaw. "There is an emptiness in my heart that only her spirit can fill and I pray that I will feel her by my side every single day until we meet again. I attribute my strength to her."
"She was my great-grandmother but we were so close that I never knew it was possible that anyone could have the bond that we shared even 70 years a part," Demi continued. "The pain I feel is almost unbearable but because of her strength I will power through it. The love and support I have received has been empowering and so special to me.. I love all of you so much and I am forever grateful for the prayers, texts and fan art my Lovatics have made me. Thank you. Mimaw, I hope you are with Papa now.. I hate that I can't hear your voice but I love that you are no longer in pain. I love you so much and I miss you more than anyone could ever imagine. I'll miss your smile, your wittiness, painting your nails and your kisses. I really do love you more. Rest in peace and most importantly rest in the Lord. #RIPMimaw"
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"It's a big relief for me and my clients," Cathrine Groendahl, a lawyer at Hestenes & Dramer representing survivors of the shooting, said in an interview after the verdict was read. "The judges said that it's about the victims, and they wanted to point at the victims, to look at them and see how they have suffered – to make the case about them. We are all relieved."
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OK. Here goes. Consumed by the spirit of Christmas, a few words in praise of Wilson Tuckey.
Yes, that West Australian maverick who lied for Andrew Peacock in a leadership contest 20 years ago - and was still destabilising his leader as recently as a month ago.
The man once described by Paul Keating as a "stupid foul mouthed grub…a pig and a box head… who is flat out counting past 10."
As he so often did, Keating went too far that day. Tuckey can count past 10.
He has proved that time and again by almost always being on the winning side of the ugliest of leadership challenges. That's where he was once again on December 1 when Malcolm Turnbull finally fell to a sustained campaign kick started by Wilson Tuckey back in July when he accused his leader of arrogance and inexperience over his response to climate change.
When Tuckey sets his mind to it, the leader falls over. Eventually. Now that might suggest he can destroy without the ability to build. But history suggests otherwise.
At the 1980 federal election, the Bill Hayden-led Labor opposition halved the Fraser Government's majority and support continued to build for Labor in the first two years after that.
Andrew Peacock, encouraged by Wilson Tuckey, resigned from the cabinet and challenged Fraser for the leadership, saying of the Prime Minister that he had a manic determination to get his own way.
That - Tuckey would have recalled - was an expression Fraser himself used against his own leader, John Gorton, when Fraser resigned as Minister for Defence in 1971.
Peacock lost that challenge to Fraser 54 votes to 27, but the exercise put him at the top of the list when Fraser fell to Bob Hawke in 1983. Then, against the odds, Peacock almost overran Labor in the long 1984 double dissolution election campaign.
Tuckey's next political assassination happened in May, 1989, when he helped engineer a coup against John Howard who had been leader of the opposition for three and a half years - and at that point - going nowhere. He later confessed on the ABC's Four Corners program that he had "manipulated" his colleagues "by lying if necessary."
Again, Peacock turned in a credible campaign performance, outpolling Hawke in the popular vote but failing to win key marginal seats as The Greens preferences flowed back to Labor.
As recently as 2007, Tuckey demonstrated common sense judgment when he sent a fax to Howard urging him to step down, many months before any other serious player contemplated a change. Had the Prime Minister done so in favour of Peter Costello, then the Coalition would have gone into the 2007 election with a fresh leader, campaigning from the strength of office.
Maybe, just maybe, the Coalition would have done better in that election.
Tuckey told ABC's The 7.30 Report in November that "my greatest asset is that a lot of people think I'm a fool." Too true. He is constantly underestimated. Paradoxically, opponents tend to overreach when they attack him. When he said in November that terrorists could be aboard some of the asylum seeker boats, Kevin Rudd attacked him, describing him as divisive and disgusting and insisting that nobody holding such views belonged in a mainstream party.
If that is true, then why do all governments - including the current one - treat the issue first and foremost as a security one? Of course governments are awake to such possibilities.
Tuckey too, has always had a significant power base. That comes with being a West Australian. At the last party room ballot, the Sandgropers had 23 votes - a sizeable block for such a disciplined unit. Tuckey is a key figure in that group.
He is experienced, cunning, ruthless and capable. He did after all, buy his first pub before he could legally drink - and his first car before he could drive. Even before he went into parliament at the 1980 election, he had established a shopping centre, caravan parks, and an earthmoving and transport company.
He is now aged 74, and because he will re-contest and win his seat of O'Connor, he will celebrate 30 years in the federal parliament in October, next year. He will remain the oldest member, though Phillip Ruddock will remain the father of the house as the longest server.
Wilson Tuckey - the man who gets out of bed and says "who am I going to have an argument with this morning?" - will be around for some time yet, confounding his critics. Political leaders of all persuasions - and political parties of all persuasions - will need to go on looking over their shoulders, just in case the iron bar is being raised yet again.
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Abstract: Symphonic orchestras—"a mélange of musicians, volunteers, and paid staff whose contributions must be closely coordinated" (Allmendinger, Hackman, & Lehman, 1996: 194)—have been of growing interest for scholars of organization for their creative and collaborative performance through projects and their work under pressure. While their resemblance with bureaucratic and professional service organizations has been acknowledged, they have been found also akin to coordinated internal networks of multiple identities (Glynn, 2000; Karmowska & Child, 2014). However, scholars have depicted orchestras as rather established and hierarchical creative organizations that are bound by conventions and are dedicated to the pursuit of 'superior performance', as the opening quote suggests. As a consequence, they have paid less attention to their learning potential. Studies of other kinds of collaborative collectives, such as teams in management and education, have demonstrated interesting tensions between learning and performing (Bunderson & Suttcliffe, 2003; Paunova & Lee, 2016). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9384
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8.223119 - SCHMIDT, F.: Symphony No. 1 / Notre Dame
Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)
The Austrian composer Franz Schmidt has been strangely neglected abroad, in part through his conservatism and in part through the vagaries of history and of progressive taste.Schmidt was born in Pressburg, the modern Bratislava, in 1874 and had his first music lessons there from the cathedral organist. In 1888 his family moved to Vienna, where he was able to continue his musical studies, but only by earning money as a dance-school pianist. He had piano lessons from that most remarkable of piano teachers, Leschetizky, and two years later entered the Conservatory, where his composition teachers were Bruckner and Robert Fuchs, the teacher of Mahler, Sibelius, Wolf, Schreker, Zemlinsky and a whole generation of Austrian composers. At the same time he studied the cello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger.
For fourteen years, from 1896, Franz Schmidt was a cellist in the orchestra of the Vienna Court Opera, conducted, from 1897, by Gustav Mahler. He resigned in 1911 to become a piano professor at the Vienna Staatsakademie, where he later taught counterpoint and composition, serving as director from 1925 to 1927. In the latter year he was appointed director of the Vienna Musikhochschule, a position he relinquished in 1931.
In spite of increasing ill health, Schmidt was active in a number of musical fields. At first a cellist, he became known as a pianist, as a teacher, an administrator, and as a composer in the tradition of Bruckner and Reger. His opera Notre Dame, based on Victor Hugo's novel, was first staged in Vienna in 1914, and won him an international reputation. His second opera, Fredegundis, had its first performance in Berlin in 1922, and was introduced to Vienna under Richard Strauss, but failed to make a good impression.
Schmidt's other works include an apocalyptic oratorio, Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln, completed in 1937, a concertante solo work and a piano concerto for the one-armed pianist Wittgenstein, chamber music and a number of pieces in traditional form for the organ. It was as a symphonist, however, that Schmidt chiefly impressed his contemporaries.
The first of Schmidt's four symphonies, Symphony No. 1 in E Major, was completed in 1899, making use of sketches from three years earlier. The work was entered for the composers' competition of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and in 1900 was awarded the Beethoven Prize of 1(XX) gilders. It was first performed in the newly built Concertverein in Vienna on 25th January, 1902, to much critical approval, including praise from the redoubtable Eduard Hanslick, who prophesied a rich future for the composer.
The symphony is in four movements, grandiose in scale, and optimistic in mood, with nothing of the anxiety and bitterness of Mahler. Finely crafted, reminding us, time and again, of other great composers of the period, of Brahms, of Bruckner and of Reger, this first symphony is an impressive work, although we might detect a certain Gemuetlichkeit in its bland confidence in the health of a world soon to be shattered by conflict.
Victor Hugo's novel, Notre Dame de Paris, written in 1831, during the course of the century gave rise to a number of musical offspring, operas, ballets and incidental music to dramatic adaptations of the work, more often than not under the names of the principal characters Esmeralda or the hunchback Quasimodo. The present release includes the Introduction, Interlude and Carnival Music from the first act of Schmidt's successful opera, Notre Dame, first produced at the Vienna Court Opera on 1st April, 1914. For those familiar with the outline of Hugo's novel the music must speak for itself, in an idiom that is both conservative and evocative.
Michael Halász
In 1978 Michael Halász was appointed General Musical Director at the opera house in Hagen, and there further developed his experience of the repertoire, while undertaking guest engagements, which included television appearances as conductor in English and German versions of the Gerard Hoffnung Music Festival, as well as work with the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Hilversum Radio Orchestra.
For Hong Kong Records Michael Halász has directed the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in works by Richard Strauss, Anton Rubinstein, Miaskovsky and Tchaikovsky.
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