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This article is intended to help readers better utilize the new Teaching in the Savior's Way manual that was recently released.
Teach the Children
The U.S. government has taken the stance that they are the primary teachers of our children, but that is not the Lord's view. Parents always have been and always should be the primary influencers and teachers of their children. Even if a child's main exposure to the gospel is in church, as teachers we need to help and support the children by supporting the role of their parents.
Just as it is appropriate for home teachers to counsel with the parents of the home as to what should be taught to the children during the home teaching visit, so too is it appropriate for teachers of children to talk to their parents about what the needs of their children are at church. You can tell them what you will be teaching in the upcoming weeks and counsel with them about how best to approach their children.
Knowing something about the home life of the children in your class can help you be more sensitive to the Spirit when deciding what to include in your lessons. Frequently, it is the faithful children who end up bringing their parents back to church. Never underestimate the power, influence, and testimony of a child. But also never underestimate the importance of their parents in their lives. We need to honor their position as parents at all times.
Use a Variety of Teaching Methods
Children and adults are alike in many ways. Just like adults, children need variety in how they learn. Give them too much of the same thing week after week, and they will stop listening and act out in class.
Each age group in Primary requires a different level of simplicity of instruction. It may take some practice to learn what is age-appropriate material when telling stories and giving examples. Much of what a child can consume will depend on what they have been exposed to at home. Some of your class members will have had very little formal gospel teaching, while others will be having regular scripture study and family home evenings at home.
The challenge which all teachers face is to gauge how much their students know and what they still need to know so the gaps can be filled in as much as possible during their short opportunity to study the gospel at church. Home is where their real gospel education should be taking place, often it just doesn't happen there.
As you use a variety of materials, like songs, visual aids, pictures to illustrate stories, puppets, whatever, remember that the goal is to invite the Spirit. Teaching the children what it is like to spend time in the presence of the Spirit is a life-saving activity. We don't forget what it is like to feel the Spirit once we have had it identified to us. Teach them how to feel the Spirit and how to seek the Spirit.
It is not uncommon for adults who have been away from the church for decades to hear a primary song and still remember the words and melody. The Primary songs are powerful. Use them in your teaching.
Give the Children Opportunities to Express Their Creativity
Children are tactile. They learn from doing, feeling, touching, and moving. These are their mainstays as they grow. If you can help them tie their learning experiences to the principles of the gospel, they will remember them for the rest of their lives. "Play" is how children work and learn.
Encourage Children to Ask Questions
It is true that some children, just like some adults, will ask questions that seem completely outside the topic you are trying to teach. That doesn't negate the need to continue to encourage children to ask questions. Too often we learn to just accept the doctrines of the gospel without asking how they work, what we are supposed to do with them, or how they help us.
It is important to teach children how to ask useful questions. By modeling question-asking that leads to discussion and discovery, the children will learn how to seek answers on their own. This is like we mentioned earlier in this lesson about helping people look for information as they read a passage so they know what you want from them. You can ask what color hair Heavenly Father has, or you can ask the ways we can tell Heavenly Father loves us. Teach them how to ask questions that will help them in life.
When we try to answer a child's questions by finding a scripture or words of a prophet that answers that question, we teach the child that these are the places to go for answers. The teacher may know the answer, but we need to be teaching the child to look to the scriptures and the prophets for answers.
Invite Children to Share What They Know
You will never know what I don't know until you let me speak my mind. This is true of anyone. Children come to class with a wide array of knowledge, and a wide array of misconceptions. When their mother and father explained something to them, they may have said they understood but until you get them to teach it to you or a neighbor, you won't know if they really understood correctly.
One of the joys of teaching children is their ability to see things simply and to uncomplicate matters. Plan on being surprised by some of their observations and statements. It is a perk of the job.
Address Disruptions with Love
An important point to consider when dealing with disruptive children is that the child can only make so many changes. Eventually, their immaturity and lack of social skills prevent them from adjusting to your expectations any further. At that point, it is the teacher who will have to make the changes.
If you have worked with a child, spoken privately to them, spoken to their parents, etc., you may need to look at changing the dynamics in the room. Perhaps making them a teacher's helper will give them a better opportunity to focus or feel needed. Not all behavior problems are the result of being a naughty child. Many children are bringing their baggage from home into the classroom. The teacher needs to deal with everyone's baggage, not just their own.
Whether or not you believe in medication for physical or emotional needs, the fact remains that as their teacher you will have to deal with those who either need meds or are on meds. No matter what the problem with a child is, handling the problem always involves love. Love for the child must be part of the solution.
Teach the Youth
Teaching the youth of the Church is a unique privilege because they are part child and part adult. You can, in some ways, reason with them like an adult but they still view the world, in many ways, like a little child. Sometimes they will flip flop between the two states in the same conversation. I've seen my niece yell at her mother for not treating her like a grown up, and five minutes later I saw her crawl up and snuggle in her dad's lap like a five year old.
Each generation of youth become more capable than the last. The Lord places great trust in our youth to be able to handle the trials of the last days. Their faith is simple. Their conversations direct. They still have many questions, and should be encouraged to think about life as they are experiencing it then ask questions about how to approach the situations in which they find themselves.
Just like children and adults, we need to steer the youth to the scriptures and to the teachings of the prophets for answers. They need to learn at this age how important it is to find comfort and knowledge from prayer, and the scriptures. They also need to see that we trust and uphold the living oracles of God.
Support Parents
Sometimes, when we have spent a lot of time with someone's child, it may become easy to forget that they are not our child and that we need to help them by being supportive of the child's parents. When we have a child who will not listen to us, as the parent, we hope that there is another adult out there to whom they will listen.
But we need those other adults to share our beliefs and to uphold our family rules. If I as a teacher have no knowledge of how little Johnny's parents are raising him, it will be difficult for me to support them in their raising of little Johnny. Teachers of the youth should become familiar with their charge's parents as well.
Sometimes young people are so busy trying to become their own people they forget that their mother and father still love them. Some families have difficulty in demonstrating love for each other. It can be a lifesaver if the teacher encourages the idea that a youth's parents still love them and that they should continue to listen to their parents.
Set High Expectations and Patiently Help the Youth Fulfill Them
Sometimes people will tell you that children can't adapt. If they are unruly in one class they will be unruly in every class. This is not necessarily true. If you look at how children behave at school, it is not uncommon for a child to be a terror in one class, and very well behaved in the next class. It is the teacher and the teacher's expectations that make the difference.
Children will conform to an adult's expectations. They first need to see that you are serious and that you will be consistent. Once they see that you will not bend on your fair rules and expectations in class, they will learn to work within those rules. Note that your rules need to be fair and reasonable.
It is important to remember that the youth of the Church are very capable. We don't have to treat them like little children, though many of the same teaching techniques work equally well. They will have many of the same questions that little children have, but will also have many questions about the adult world they are entering. This is an age of inquiry and insecurity.
We can help the youth of the Church feel more secure in life by teaching them how to find answers in the scriptures and in the words of the prophets. Encourage questions of all kinds and tie them back to the lessons from the scriptures and the words of the prophets. The Savior said that the scriptures can tell us all things that we need to do. Trust that counsel and start searching the scriptures.
A young person's self-confidence will grow by leaps and bounds when an adult demonstrates that they have faith and trust in their ability to make good decisions. If a young person messes up, don't condemn or berate, but lovingly help them find a better solution in the gospel. They will be eternally grateful for being taught with a non-judgmental attitude. They get enough of that at school.
Give Youth Opportunities to Teach Each Other
Some youth will have a great grasp on their thoughts and vocabulary. They will have spent time learning how to speak their mind. Others will be very clumsy and afraid to try to put their feelings and thoughts into words. Learning to teach each other the principles of the gospel will prepare our youth for missions and the callings they will all have in the Church as adults. These are basic skills that need to be reinforced time and time again.
Start small, perhaps with just opinions. Then, when they are more comfortable, have them talk about a principle in a discussion setting. Eventually, you can help them prepare something to teach others or in a one-on-one setting. All of this takes patience and practice by both the teacher and the student.
As they see you be honest about your teaching experiences, they will gain more confidence about being able to do it themselves. Get them talking. Keep them talking. Try to focus their talking on what matters.
Help Youth Develop Spiritual Self-Reliance
The needs of the youth are the same as the needs of the adults when it comes to learning to have spiritual self-reliance. They need to gain confidence that they can find answers through prayer, pondering, scripture reading, and study. All of these resources need to be taught.
Getting answers to questions needs to become a journey of self-discovery. When someone asks a question about the gospel or how to handle a situation in life, it is the teacher's duty to help them learn how to turn to the scriptures and begin to find answers to their questions. Just giving the easy answer is quick, but it doesn't always help them in the long run. The youth need to learn how to find these "easy answers" for themselves.
For example, as the teacher, do you know how to use the Gospel Topics section of lds.org? Do you know how to use the concordance, Bible dictionary, Topical guide, Gazetteer? Do you know where the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible is located in your scriptures? These are all the resources we should be turning to in order to find answers to our questions. We also need to teach these to our youth.
Of course teaching daily prayer, daily scripture study, fasting, temple attendance, etc., are all part of our questioning and answer finding. We need both the skills and habits of the righteous soul to get the answers to the questions we seek.
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Carrots win the prize for most crowd-pleasing vegetable. But like nice guys everywhere, that often means they finish last. Relegated to vegetable platters, salads, and blended soups, few people see carrots as something to put front and center.
To kick off a new carrot season, we decided to change that. "In developing new carrot recipes in our test kitchen, we wanted to feature carrots in unexpected ways—ways that you maybe haven't thought of before," says Anna Stockwell, our Associate Food Editor. Here's how she moved the springtime root vegetable off the crudité plate:
Carrot Pizza with Fontina and Red Onion
For a unique twist on pizza, try swapping out tomato sauce for carrot puree. "We used carrots with the fronds still attached so we could use the fronds as a topping for the pizza. The carrot puree is very sweet, but the bitter green fronds balance and mellow it perfectly," says Anna.
Pan-Seared Carrot Steaks
"We were inspired by the gargantuan winter carrots often overlooked at the farmers' market," says Anna. "Instead of passing them by, we turned them into the main event: a seasoned, seared, and butter-basted steak."
Carrot Pickles
Anna likes to serve these bright pickles with spring cocktail: "Using a multi-colored bunch of carrots lends fun visual variety to a simple cocktail snack or condiment."

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Naomi Hall Radcliff
Naomi Hall was born about 1765. Perhaps, she was a daughter of the Hall family of colonial Schenectady.
In February 1786, she married the much older Albany native Philip Redley at the Albany Dutch church. By 1794, the marriage had produced four children. Dutch church record-keepers had some difficulty writing her first name as she was identified as "Newman" and "Nancy" among others.
These Radleys lived in the first ward and were Beaver Street mainstays for several decades.
Philip Radley was dead by the time the city directory was issued for 1815 leaving Naomi a widow before her fiftieth birthday. The "widow of Philip Radcliff" was then identified as the head of the Radcliff household at 68 Beaver Street. As late as 1830, the widow was still listed in the city directory.
Naomi Hall Radcliff died at the home of her daughter Hannah in July 1855. She had lived ninety years. Her will passed probate at the end of the year.
Sources: The life of Naomi Hall Radcliff is CAP biography number 1023. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.
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Alex Urena learned this recipe for the Spanish version of crème brûlée from the grandmother of a friend he met while training at Spain's famed El Bulli restaurant. The silky texture is irresistible. More Dessert Recipes and Tips
How to Make It
Preheat the oven to 300°. Sift the brown sugar into a small baking dish or a pie plate. Bake the sugar for about 18 minutes, or until dry. Transfer to a plate and set aside. Keep the oven on.
In a saucepan, combine the milk with the cream, sugar, citrus zests and cinnamon stick and bring to a simmer over moderate heat. Remove from the heat.
In a medium bowl, lightly beat the egg yolks. Whisk in 1/2 cup of the infused milk, then whisk the yolk mixture into the remaining infused milk in the saucepan. Strain the custard and pour it into two 3/4- or 1-cup ramekins.
Set the ramekins in a small baking dish and add enough hot water to the dish to reach halfway up the side of the ramekins. Bake for about 45 minutes, or until the custards are barely set. Remove the ramekins from the baking dish, let cool slightly and cover loosely with foil. Refrigerate the custards until chilled, at least 2 hours.
Preheat the broiler. Set the ramekins in a shallow baking dish packed with ice. Sprinkle the brown sugar evenly over the custards and broil 4 inches from the heat until golden brown, about 15 seconds; shift the baking dish for even browning. Serve at once.


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I prevailed upon our family gathering of seven adults on Thursday to let me take over not just the kitchen for Thanksgiving, but the menu as well. At first they were skeptical and worried about missing the same old meal, so we had an early lunch with all the usual items and then a late dinner, a tasting menu of sorts that had a strong Thanksgiving theme: Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Fried Sage and Nutmeg Creme Fraiche (adapted from Thomas Keller's Bouchon cookbook) Trio of Sweet Potato Raviolis in a Brown Butter and Thyme Sauce Mustard and Herb Crusted French Rack of Lamb with Cranberry and Polenta Stuffing, and pureed yukon potatoes with a shittake gravy Pumpkin Creme Brulee Apple, Pear and Quince Turnovers with Vanilla Custard For palate cleansers, I baked some pumpkin bread with cranberries and blueberries and teaspoons of raspberry sorbet. Overall, it was a success, but due to an unforseen potato shortage I had to use leftovers from lunch and that side turned out far from perfect, but the gravy made up a bit for that. I also had issues getting the tops just right on the brulees, but I couldn't exactly bring a blowtorch on the plane. Using freshly grated nutmeg and vanilla bean made all the difference, though -- I'm not much of a baker, but I will no longer shortcut on these two ingredients. The lamb I bought from Cheeseitique, and it was also a hit. We roasted a smaller turkey (around 13 lbs.) the day I arrived and used the meat for sandwiches throughout the week. We also made a pie every night, and this way we weren't bombarded with leftovers but were able to enjoy Thankisgiving favorites throughout the week.


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Hokkei, a new concept in Asian takeaways opens on Crwys Road on Monday 10 November.
Two MasterChef finalists, Larkin Cen and Dale Williams are behind the new business which will focus on authentic Chinese cooking and responsible sourcing of ingredients.
RoathCardiff spoke to Larkin about the new venture:
What's the concept behind Hokkei Box?
Hokkei is a delivery service Asian takeaway. Hokkei means curiosity in Cantonese but it also stands for many things. Hokkei will focus on pure flavours and authentic ingredients and the staff will be passionate about the food they produce. Sourcing ingredients which are untraceable and sometimes unethical is pandemic within the takeaway sector but Hokkei's ingredients will be sourced responsibly.
The food can be ordered individually or in a Hokkei Box which is designed to give our customers more for their money. The box comprises a main, dim sum (which is like China's version of tapas), a side and an extra. It is designed so that you can eat from the Hokkei box for added convenience.
What was your inspiration for the idea?
I grew up in a Chinese takeaway and real Chinese food is simply beautiful but "British" Chinese food is very different. To change how people perceive Chinese food you have to target the very sector and the food that has given Chinese food a bad name.
What can people expect to see on the menu?
The menu is fun and packed with amazing dishes. As a few examples we have eight hour pork ribs, triple cooked crispy beef, roasted Char Sui and a lamb curry dish that got me into the quarter finals of MasterChef.
Is there one dish that sums up the Hokkei Box concept?
We have put a lot of thought into all of our dishes but as an example lemon chicken in a traditional Chinese takeaway restaurant is made from fried chicken, lemon cordial, orange cordial, custard powder and a heap of caster sugar.
Our version is made from lemon infused chicken which has been seared on the teppanyaki grill, served with corn on the cob with a soy butter, choi sum and a soy, lemon and lemon thyme sauce. Our chicken has been sourced responsibly and will be delivered to us fresh.
How did the MasterChef experience shape your plans?
I applied for MasterChef to launch my Chinese takeaway concept so nothing in terms of my plans, but I met Dale on MasterChef and together we created Hokkei. In terms of experience I became a better chef following MasterChef.
You experimented with a pop-up at Celtic Manor – how was that?
The pop up was successful and well received but it hammered home to myself and Dale the reality of running a commercial kitchen as opposed to cooking domestically. To that extent the experience was invaluable.
Why did you choose Crwys Road for your first opening?
Having studied at Cardiff University and lived in Cathays as a student, I knew that this was a superb location for us to launch Hokkei. Cathays has a diverse population from various different backgrounds. More generally, the area is fun and unpretentious which suits our brand perfectly
You've obviously got big plans for expansion – what's next after Cathays?
We are a delivery service Asian takeaway. A Hokkei store has a delivery radius of three miles. It is the only way we can ensure the quality of the food is excellent by the time it reaches your door. We want to service the whole of Cardiff so we will target many other areas in Cardiff.


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Blood for Blood
Electra has hoped for her mother's death, and with the surprise homecoming of her brother Orestes, her hope becomes reality. Reunited, the siblings seek vengeance for the death of their father at the hands of their mother. The play follows Electra's psychological deterioration as she is pulled and manipulated by both her mother and brother. This highly-regarded Greek tragedy features one of the most well-developed female characters of the classical canon of theatre.
Directed by Nathan Bowman
Scenic Design by Dave Wanner
Lighting Design by Lexey Jost
Costume Design by Harlan Shoemaker
Dramaturgy by Renee Cyr
Stage Management by Tyla Palmer
Electra.....Jessica Myrick (10/27, 10/28 matinee, 10/31)
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Orestes.............................Josh Philoon
Chrysothemis......................Emily Gordon
Clytemnestra......................Aubrey McGettrick
Tutor/Aegisthus...................Leon Cambridge
Pylades.............................Josh McQuade
Chorus....Jill Branch, Petricia Hall, Hollyanna Mathews,
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This production includes adult language and simulated violence. It may not be appropriate for all audiences.


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Kings Bar
About the venue
If you are looking to sample something a little different while you're in Darlington, take a trip to the Kings Bar. This venue from the Cairn Group has a vibrant environment and is the place to enjoy exotic cocktails which are blended using ingredients sources from across the world. We highly recommend you try The Cookie Monster and The Spiced Zombie drinks in particular while unwinding at the Kings Bar in Darlington.


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There is a new thread for polymath4, the url is:
There is a new thread for polymath4, the url is:
There is a new version of the Polymath1 paper "A new proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem."
Here is the url:
Let me update this. The paper is now on arXiv at
There is a site for answering questions related to mathematics. The url is here:
As I understand it the question should be of interest to at least one mathematician. People are rated in regards to their responses and with higher ratings come higher privileges. There is more information at the site.
There is a article on polymath here:
Let us generalize this problem to r sets and dimension d:
We have r(d+1) -1 points on the plane. We want to show that we can divide them into r-1 sets of d+1 points and one set of d-2 such that the intersection of the convex hulls of all r sets is not empty.
We take (r-1)*(d+1) +1 of the points and apply Tverberg's theorem.
It gives us r disjoint nonempty sets which together contain all (r-1)*(d+1) +1 points. The intersection of the convex hulls of these sets is nonempty. Let one of the points in the intersection of the convex hulls be x.
If any of the r sets are bigger than d+1 then by Caratheodory's theorem there is a d+1 subset that contains x. We take that as the new set in place of the old set and add the additional points to sets less than d+1 making sure none of the additions causes a set to be greater than d+1. We repeat this process untill all of the sets are three or less. Then we add the remaining d-1 points to a sets with d points or less again making sure no set goes over d+1. The result is (r)*(d+1) +1 points divided into r sets of d+1 or less. The only way to do this is r-1 sets of d+1 and one set of d points which gives the desired theorem.
We can add more points and keep the distribution even since adding a point to a set of points increases the convex hull so the intersection of convex hulls still contains x. So we have the following if we have r(d+1) -1 points or more we can divide them into r nonempty sets, the size of each set differing by at most one element from each other set such that the intersection of the convex hulls of the sets is nonempty.
There is a new thread for Polymath3:
Some of the things I have mentioned previously have been expanded in various ways. Let me list them in this post.
First the thread about mathematicians and blogging is now an article it is available here:
Here is a thread about the first draft:
Also the conversation about complexity lower bounds will be about 7 parts, three are posted so far.
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Facebook, blocked by the Great Firewall since 2009, announced yesterday its imminent $19 billion acquisition of popular messenger service WhatsApp. Available in China, WhatsApp trails in popularity to domestic Tencent's Weixin (WeChat) app. While much has been written recently about Weixin's rise in China (and the parallel fall of once-massively popular social media service Sina Weibo), some are wondering if the WhatsApp purchase might allow Facebook long-awaited access to the Chinese market. From PCWorld:
It might not have figured in Facebook's calculations, but its deal to buy WhatsApp may help the social networking giant get access to the Chinese market.
[…] Facebook has previously said it has been examining its entry into the Chinese market. But authorities in the nation control sensitive content on social networking sites, either through deleting user posts, or blocking access to the services.
[…] "Weixin is so well-established in China," said Mark Natkin, managing director for Marbridge Consulting. "It continues to gain strength as Tencent expands the platform into far beyond mobile instant messaging, but into e-commerce, e-payment, and gaming and a variety of other areas."
[…] "I think trying to enter and compete in China in the mobile instant messaging market would be very challenging," he added. In addition, Facebook would have to overcome any regulatory concerns Chinese authorities might have with the product, he said. [Source]
In a South China Morning Post blogpost, Doug Young compares the use of WhatsApp and Weixin in China. When speculating what Facebook's purchase means for its presence in China, he also stressed the company's need to tread carefully in light of heavy competition from Weixin and inevitable government scrutiny:
[…] As a user of both WhatsApp and WeChat, I can personally testify that the former is a relative non-player in China, while the latter has become an instant messaging giant in its home market over the last 2 years. I use WhatsApp to communicate with many of my friends outside China, and use WeChat to stay in touch with nearly all of my China-based friends.
[…] In terms of functionality, I do think that WeChat is a bit better than WhatsApp. One of WeChat's most popular features is a Facebook-like function that lets people share photos and links with their friends, and WeChat also has several GPS-linked features that WhatsApp lacks. In my view, WhatsApp's biggest potential attraction for Chinese users is the fact that it's not based in China, and therefore is less likely to raise suspicions that it monitors its users for politically sensitive content.
[…] So the new question becomes: How is the WhatsApp acquisition likely to change Facebook's China approach? My guess is we won't see any major moves on the China front this year, as Facebook will be more focused on integrating WhatsApp with its own operations. But we could see some quiet promotions by WhatsApp targeting Chinese users as soon as next year.
If Facebook takes that approach it will need to be careful, since Beijing can easily block access if it feels threatened by the service. I did a quick poll of a few of my friends who follow the space, and all agree that WhatsApp is unlikely to be blocked if it takes a careful approach and remains faithful to its core function of letting individuals communicate on a one-to-one basis. If WhatsApp can do that and steer clear of other politics, it might be able to find a limited but lucrative audience of Chinese white collar workers attracted by the app's more international image and exposure. [Source]
In A post from Quartz compares WhatsApp and Weixin, noting their competition for presence in international markets:
The world's most popular messaging apps are mirror images of each other. WhatsApp, purchased by Facebook on Wednesday for $19 billion, prides itself on doing one thing well—offering a messaging service free of ads, games, and gimmicks. Its China-based competitor WeChat, owned by internet giant Tencent, strives to be everything at once: a platform for chatting, shopping, gaming, and even banking. Users can send a Lunar New Year's "red envelope" of digital cash, buy a soda from a vending machine, book a doctor appointment or hail a taxi.
The comparison extends into politics and geography too: WeChat, like all social media in China, is heavily monitored by the government; WhatsApp, whose Ukrainian co-founder seems to have an anti-totalitarian bent, doesn't even collect user information beyond a phone number. WeChat, with about 300 million users, is the most used-app for millions of Chinese users in the world's biggest telecom market (where it's known as Weixin) and is making inroads in southeast Asia and South Africa. In contrast, WhatsApp, with 450 million users, is strong in Western markets like the US, Europe, and emerging markets like Brazil, Mexico, and India.
[…] In terms of making money from its users, WeChat comes out on top, according to Chao Wang, an analyst with Nomura International in Hong Kong. In contrast to WhatsApp—whose main revenue source is an annual subscription fee of $1 after one free year of use—WeChat makes money by selling games and integrating online payment functions that encourage shopping through the app. "WhatsApp is kind of lagging," Wang tells Quartz. "Even if WhatsApp's user base is bigger, average users spend more time on WeChat." […] [Source]


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Northeast Pennsylvania Spirit Of 1776
Statement Of Principles and Beliefs
(Developed, in part, from the SHARON STATEMENT, September 11, 1960)
We are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the "greatest generation," who fought in foreign lands to defeat Fascism, Nazism and Communism.
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Dan Pompei of the National Football Post writes that chances are looking good that the Seahawks may have two new quarterbacks by the time camp opens. They tried to re-sign Matt Hasselbeck before the lockout started and couldn't come to terms.
Now they may move on if they can find a better alternative (hello, Kevin Kolb) as a starter. Getting hurt in each of the last three years has left Hasselbeck vulnerable in Seattle, and it would almost be an upset if the Seahawks didn't sign Matt Leinart to come in as a backup. The Seahawks might not be crazy about what they have seen of Leinart on tape, but coach Pete Carroll has won a lot of games with him, and he thinks he can win some more.


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NOCTURAMA* : Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Book concept by Dominique-Gonzalez-Foerster and Marta Gerveno (ACTAR, Barcelona and New York, 2008) ISBN 978-84-96954-39-7
Retrospectives are a difficult format for certain varieties of contemporary artist. If your work is engaged with moment, site, and process then is it compatiable or even possible to have a traditional gathering of all your work together, in one institution at one time? And what role should the accompanying catalogue play? For his retrospective at the Musee d'Art moderne de la ville in Paris, Philippe Pareno came up with one solution. Whilst the exhibition was used as a site for current work, it was the catalogue, Alien Affection, which served the function of a chronological retrospective, as if in book form the combination of documentation and contemporaneity was possible.
Gonzalez-Foerster has collaborated with Pareno, and also had an exhibition at the same institution, but, until recently, catching examples of her work at different shows in London - including Tate Modern's The World as Stage and recent series of experimental French cinema - I'd not found a publication that fulfilled the function of Alien Affection, giving an over view of her work at the same time as discovering the distinct identity it could take when thoughtfully presented in book form.
Thankfully, Nocturma*, the exquisite catalogue for her show at MUSAC, Leon, Spain (17th May- 7 September 2008) has now fulfilled that role. Although a concluding "pictorama" of thumbnail prints concludes the book with a survey of her work from 1977 to the present, the book is less a retrospective than Alien Affection. Perhaps indicating the difference in their respective practices, and the kind of responses they illicit, Nocturama* is best read as an exploration of traces, what lingers, as an exposition upon the after-image of an art practice.
Nocturama, that is, with a "*." Whilst such a symbol might normally be used to limit and frame the claims of a statement, here the accompanying back page note offers a coda for the work and also for the sense of the book form, expanding into suggestiveness, specificity and neologism as a form of world making:
*and books, cinecity, cosmodrome, exotourism, expodrome, park, promenade, solarium, tropicalization...
Three essays highlight different aspects of DGF's work - again less interested in chronologies of DGF's career than in isolating a particular effect and moving around within that quality. So Ina Blom explores the idea of spectacle as derived from Debord, observing that DGF embraces spectacle but also finds in it a place for individual consciousness and bodily experience, drawing connections to, amongst others, Helio Oiticica's film and space explorations:
To enter the cinematic world of Gonzalez-Foerster is therefore above all to be invited to trace the open-ended temporal meandering or ambulation of a form [of] human existence that seems to be defined at the level of pure sensation - yet a form of sensation that is continually confused with the working of media machineries, with the ticking of the video time code, the deft segueing of one image into another, the dumb, staring, stillness of the camera. A story of the mind-machine, in other words: it might sound like a paranoid scenario, a meeting of old-school sci-fi imagination and radical media critique. The result, however, is less easily definable. For the main achievement of this work is precisely its ability to explore the surprising range and scope of this type of existence. In fact, the more it closes in on the idiosyncratic details of technical frameworks, the more it seems to bring out the type of open-ended, uncontrollable, non-formatted moments that might actually be the key product of this mediatic 'life of the senses.' (66-67)
A three way dialogue with Hans Ulrich Obrist and the novelist Enrique Vila-Matas is focussed largely around the opinions and work of Vila-Matas. The talk serves to illustrate the immersion of DGF's recent work in a certain canon of written literature that moves from Kafka, Borges and Robert Walser through to Bioy Cesares, Philip K.Dick - particularly the early books such as The Broken Bubble - Robbe-Grillet and Julien Gracq. As an installation shot reveals, DGF even places a wall text at the entrance to a video installation which reads:
having been a prisoner of literature for two years or more, captured in a triangle of enrique vila-matas, roberto bolano and w.g.sebald, three children of robert walser and j.l.borges, it is impossible for me to prsent anything else here than three short stories which can be seen or read in any order.
The dialogue extends to the careful construction of this catalogue, as too it includes the creation of spaces for reading, and bookcases made of books, both works documented here. As, also, in a brief interview in the current issue of 032c magazine, DGF observes:
Places and contexts can be very different, but my approach remains similar in all cases: simply read books and walk around, or walk around and read books. Some places are more urban, some are intense, some have a great void, but there is always a potential narrative. A writer like W.G.Sebald is an interesting archtetype for the way many visual artists deal with cities, places, documents, memories and cultures. (30)
This Sebald template can often lead to a sense of history bordering on nostalgia, as in Tacita Deans portrait of Michael Hamburger, shown last year at London's Frith Street galllery - whereas for DGF it feeds into an obssession with hyper modern spaces. Not that there isn't a romantic quality to her own work, and the environments to which she is attracted. Blom, again, highlights this, stressing DGF's use of lamps, a romantic trope associated "with both mental projection and spatial creation" referencing both the artificially lit city and the workings of cinema projection.
The final contribution, by Penelope Curtis, in its own form places storytelling alongside critical thought - storytelling as critical thought - seeing this as the appropriate response to the suggestiveness of DGF's work, responding in kind to its invitation, with a combination of viewer and critic. In an astute commentary also of use in thinking through the role of the book in this kind of art practice, Curtis discusses DGF's miniaturized sculpture park and the effects of scale:
reduced scale-replica's of previous exhibits were assembled all together on one of the city's lawns. Like memories - as much right as wrong - which have faded a little with time, and in which things now no longer have their originally allotted site, but are re-assembled in the single space of our conscious, the sculptures all become a little more like each other, while retaining their essential difference. Now they are primarily a collection of sculptures - like a collection of glasses, or of egg-cups - which may vary individually, but which all still fall into the category of sculpture. (102)
This produces a crisis of meaning which again seems apposite to the process whereby art works are reproduced in bookworks such as Nocturma*:
What would one do with a collection of a sculptures? Reduce it in scale in order to make it easier to store, or easier to compare, as with models of famous buildings from across the world? And if the sculptures are assembled together in one place, removed from their original sites, to what extent are they displaced and deprived of meaning? Do the sculptures make the site or the site the sculptures? (102)
And, more proactively, the retrospective book becoming a source of further ideas:
Models are provisional, a way of testing ideas, of suggesting what might be. Models which are never made refuse the viewer the possibility of actualisation, while offering him or her a wider range of possibilities. (103)
It occurs to me as I read this, thinking of an art finding its true retrospective in book form: A book, at its best, can return work to the state of the never-made. All three essays here are designed in different configurations, meaning nearly every page maintains a reciprocity of word and image, work and commentary. It's the images that are so powerful in this book, so auratic - and a long further essay could be written on how aura becomes a quality of these images. It's a tribute to the power of the books design and its contributers to articulate something of that aura, its qualities of atmosphere, spectacle, embodiment, technology, colour, and leisure. Or, as, once again, DGF's note puts it on the back cover, now with the whole book as what it comments upon:
*and books, cinecity, cosmodrome, exotourism, exodrome, park, promenade, solarium, tropicalization...


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Walking seems to be such an easy thing to do, doesn't it? What if you're someone like me that thinks that if you CAN run, then it's just wimping out to walk… that makes walking less easy. I've long since battled with the kind of competition within my own mind and soul that tells me that nothing is worth doing if it's not worth doing as fast and as hard as you can. It can get to be a problem because there's no middle ground. I either do something full on, balls to the wall or I don't do anything at all. This type of thought pattern has infiltrated my entire life and while it's not reasonable to repair that way of thinking in every aspect of my life in a day, it IS reasonable to work on changing it where I can.
This 3 week commuter challenge that I'm doing at work is a perfect time to work on 'middle ground'. I made a commitment (a rather loud, noisy, braggerty one) to commute home from work under my own power 3 days a week for three full weeks. That's a total of 24KM (15miles) per week and I quickly realized that if I didn't find any middle ground in order to get this done, I would be doomed to failure. It does the competition, the commitment and me in general no good whatsoever to push my body to excess the first week and then be completely unable to continue on to the next two weeks.
So on Monday I ran most of the way home, having not yet discovered this need for middle ground. On Tuesday I forced myself to walk the entire way. To be honest? That sounded like torture to me. I really believed that walking home was just a cop out and that it didn't 'count', regardless of how hard I worked at it. Well, as my sister so rightly pointed out, it's not like I was strolling through the park with an ice cream in my hand… I push HARD all the way. The mental battle to 'just run a bit' was strong in my mind for a good portion of the 8K… So about halfway through, I decided that I would try running and see if that felt good… if it felt like I was flying then I would run. Well it felt like running with lead shoes on…. And I realized that I liked the middle ground. I was working hard, I was sweating and felt a good burn in my quads and the moments of drifting out of my own head into a meditative state. I've never been very good at shutting off my mind, regardless of how hard I tried. I'm easily distracted and I have a tendancy to have 'thought trail diarrhea' where I realize I don't even know how I got from the original thought to the current one… I don't particularly like that feeling of mindless thinking and every once in awhile it's nice to not have your mind going a million miles an hour.
On Wednesday I walked home again… no thought of running entered my mind and I enjoyed the meditation and the free feeling that not being in constant competition with myself gave me.
Day 5 of my Whole40 is drawing to a close and I'm pleased to report that I am firmly on board for the full 40 days. I've also discovered again that sugar, even from grapes, makes me incredibly itchy. It's interesting actually because sugar, when eaten with other crappy dietary choices, doesn't seem to bother me as much. When I am clean eating and consuming too much natural sugar from whole foods, I get ridiculously itchy.
In the first five days I've noticed some de-puffing, better sleep (I wake up at 5:27 on the dot every day… like WIDE AWAKE) and better… um… bathrooming… ahem.
This coming Wednesday marks 10 days on W30 and ¼ of the way through. It's an interesting journey to take this time because I know what to expect as far as feeling lousy (I haven't yet) and as far as potential non-scale victories (as mentioned above). I'm keeping an open mind to new things to learn about myself and my body and food and the way my mind and body interact with food.
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We're not quite to the end of August, but my first freesia flowered today, the weather is warmer and kangaroos are racing around with a new spring in their hop, so I'm ready to let go of the cold weather (not that it really gets all that cold here by the beautiful Coral Sea just outside Bundaberg) and herald in the warmer temperatures with a few of my favorite winter recipes:
Breakfast of champions: Hot custard (as thick as you can make it) topped with toasted muesli
Lunch: Potatoes mashed with French Onion dip
Dinner: Anything hot and tasty (this meal was mushroom pasta and toasted olive bread), so long as you can watch the moon rising over the water while you eat it!
These are not diet recipes! But winter is a challenge for me, and for most writers I suspect, because we have to sit still for so long. A cold day just gets colder as it progresses! So we need something warm and comforting to get us through.
Summer is for diets and fresh fruit and frolicking. Winter is all about hot meals, snuggling up and LOTS of coffee!
I hope winter is fabulous for you wherever you live. I try to enjoy all the seasons, but I suspect I was a bear in a past life because during winter I just want to hibernate, until the mashed potato comes out, and then I come alive!
I'd love to hear if you've got favorite winter food that helps you get through the cooler months wherever you live.


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Secret #1 – The Law of Compensation
Secret #2 – Thinking in a Certain Way
Secret #3 – Impression of Income
You must think in a certain way… we become what we think about.
The conscious mind is the "Intellectual" mind and the "Sub-conscious" is the emotional mind. We use our five senses in our conscious mind, this is where an idea is impress to the mind. In our sub-conscious "perception, will, memory, imagination, reason and intuition dwells." "Will "gives us our ability to focus and is very important.
" The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
~ Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
People in most cases allow PARADIGM to control their minds. "THEIR paradigm is in charge of the thoughts. This is the reason why people are STUCK." They say "What the heck is happening?" Because they continue to the same patterns and produce the same results.
What is a paradigm? "…is a mental program that has almost exclusive control over your habitual behavior… AND almost all of our behavior is habitual.
"School gave us valuable knowledge however SCHOOL never taught us how to alter our old PARADIGMS. Therefore we frequently do not do what we Already Know how to do!"
"We have SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE but we have INFERIOR RESULTS. WHY? This causes Confusion and Frustration."
It is not the knowledge that controls the results, it's the PARADIGM that controls the results. To change our results, we must change our PARADIGM'S.


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Hyborian, out of Kansas City, MO, don't sound like a new band needing more polish on their debut release, Hyborian Vol. I. I was given this album with the description of "Mastodon worship" and that isn't that far off base. The band cite High on Fire and Crowbar as influences and you can definitely hear the former in the guitar tones. The reality, however, is this band lies somewhere in the very narrow valley of the above influences particularly on opening track, "As Above, So Below". They are able to harness that same thrash-y malevolence and driving power as they raise the curtain on this effort.
Ah yes, it's finally that time. I've discussed my love for the "edgy" forms of hardcore often, constantly citing powerviolence, screamo, fastcore, and crust as the superior forms of the genre. After all they're the least "bro"-y of all the styles, less full of Hitler-youth-esque guys in Nike Air Maxes in camo shorts than the other genres (PV has always been more of a "you bet there's a skull drawn in my notebook" type look). In fact I've often embraced those styles due to their rejection of the hardcore bro, their ability to remain fiercely independent in the face of senseless 90's worship and rejection of some of the more intense aspects of straight edge. That is, however, all about to change as we delve deep into the style that spawned all the horrible hardcore "fashion" that so many awkward 20-something men, fresh off their warped tour phase, have adopted in a vain attempt to prove their masculinity. I'm talking of course about Youth Crew, where shirts aren't necessary but the incessant need for gang vocals and floor-tom heavy breakdowns are.
A few months ago, I received an email about a post-rock compilation. Naturally intrigued, I started to dig deeper. Apparently this compilation was focused on the idea of "global" music, featuring bands from all across the world. As I kept digging, I soon came across A Thousand Arms, the label behind the compilation but also a repository for merch and other album releases from some of my favorite bands including We Lost the Sea among others. Naturally, I was intrigued and I started speaking with C.J who manages the label alongside another partner. What exactly was the motivation for this compilation? What is A Thousand Arms exactly, if not a label in the traditional sense?
These questions led me to finally sending C.J. a few questions over email as an interview, to try and get some answers. His answers are posted below, unedited, and represent an interesting look into a part of the music industry fans might not always get a glimpse of. Read on for musings on post rock, post metal, global communities, live music and much, much more!
Grind My Gears is back once again with the swirling streams of caustic yellow filth. I promise that I will never again let sickness keep me and the grind away from your weak, prolapsed cavities. Now, this isn't the first time I've written about Piss Vortex for Heavy Blog (it's not even the second) but these Copenhagen deviants are quite simply the best of the best; in terms of where they are taking the sound and the sickening swagger with which they do so. They're not Napalm Death or Brutal Truth yet, obviously—they have less than hour of recorded music available to grind to—but with their recent surprise EP Soft Reboot they've delivered a quick wake up kick in the dick to anyone as yet unaware.
Welcome to episode 95 of Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! And by 95 we mean 75. This week we talks about some new music, and Eden gets really upset about how much people like the new Mastodon. Ok, I'm being unfair – we have a level headed discussion about how great it is. Or maybe I'm just lying. I guess you can listen and find out! In other news, Papa Emeritus of Ghost is facing legal allegations that he isn't paying band members, Spotify have introduced a paywall, and the following artists have new music/videos: Sikth, A Sense of Gravity, Russian Circles, Shadow of Intent, Power Trip, Vildhjarta, Prisoner, Scale The Summit. Also, Asira are an amazing new band that you have to check out. Then we do the usual cool people stuff, discussing (with spoilers) Grant Morrison's comic Nameless and Ada Palmer's Too Like The Lightning. Enjoy! Also, if you want Eden to get extra salty, let him know in the comments that you think Emperor of Sand is great. Of course, you could tell me I'm wrong and get me salty as well! YOU HAVE SO MUCH POWER IN YOUR HANDS.


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OBVS assists anyone in need within the boundaries of Oak Bay, and works to support the emotional, social, financial and general well-being of residents. Our services incorporate elements of companionship through walks and visits, minor home maintenance, income tax assistance for low income residents, and transportation assistance to important medical appointments, food hamper pickup, etc. From driving to gardening, our trusted volunteers provide assistance while offering a listening ear and a friendly smile.
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A single faux phalaenopsis orchid rises from a simple black ceramic vase in this elegant arrangement. Reminiscent of asian flower arrangements, this artificial phalaenopsis orchid will bring a feeling of tranquility to any room in your home or office. Height: 22.5 In., Width: 15 In., Depth: 15 In., Color: Orchid, Pot Size: H: 5.75 In. W: 4.75 In. D: 4.75 In.,


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ICM's 2013 Series Part III — Dialogues at the Grass Root : Conversations on Ecumenical Understanding
March 15, 2013 8 am – Venue: Gannon University's Nash Library, W. 7th and Sassafras, Erie
Guest Speaker: Rev. Katie White
Topic #3: "The Sacred Scriptures – Meaning and Application"
Inter-Church Ministries of Erie County is sponsoring a series of monthly dialogues to discover elements of ecumenical development in the local Erie area since Vatican II (1962). These grassroot conversations, though considering the past, will prompt current reflection about the future of ministry in Erie. The dialogues, on the third Friday of the month, will be facilitated by Dr. Aaron Kerr, Asst. Professor of Philosophy at Gannon.


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The daughters of the Duke of York and his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York have both earned A and B grades in their chosen subjects
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Among the many youngsters celebrating after picking up their exam results this week were two blue-blooded scholars who were particularly happy with their performance. Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have both earned A and B grades in their chosen subjects.
The Queen's 19-year-old granddaughter, Beatrice - who suffers from dyslexia - achieved A-Level results of an A in drama and Bs in history and film studies. Meanwhile her younger sister, Princess Eugenie, 17, learned she had picked up three As - in art, politics, and history of art - and a B in English in her AS levels.
"The girls are delighted with their results and we are extremely proud of them," said their parents Andrew, Duke of York and his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, after hearing the good news.
Beatrice who is now taking a gap year before going to university, during which she is set to spend some time in America, as well as embarking on a field project in Africa can now count herself as the royal family's highest exam achiever. She managed to top the previous record set by her cousin Prince William, who scored an A in geography, B in history of art and C in biology in 2000.
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Making up for last week's skeptical look at the economic benefits of stadiums, yesterday's Kansas City Star followed up with an article that began:
Imagine the Portland Royals. Or the Charlotte Royals. What about the Los Angeles Chiefs? Or Anaheim Chiefs?
Those are among the cities that have their eyes on Kansas City's major-league teams if Jackson County voters do not approve an April 4 sales-tax measure that would help fund renovations at the Truman Sports Complex.
All that's missing are the sound effects.
The rest of the article is more of the same, with vague rumors of the relocation menace – "San Antonio is proposing a $300 million open-air stadium that would include $200 million in public funding"! (well, one guy is), "Portland and Norfolk even have active organizations dedicated to bringing a big-league team to their communities"! – and wall-to-wall quotes from sports boosters in these other cities, plus one from the head of the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission alleging: "The reality is these two Kansas City treasures will be able to leave at the end of the year, and other cities will want to take them from us." Number of sports business experts asked about the likelihood of either team actually taking flight? Zero. I've said it before, I'll say it again: When you have the media and politicians writing your blackmail notes for you, that makes it a lot easier to play good cop.


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The Sunday Mirror wrote a features piece about our work at Little Village, as it emerged that 35,000 families have used a baby bank for essential items for their kids this year alone.
It features Bianca, a working mum who we have supported, who tells the paper "I'm a full-time employee working my backside off as well as a mother. I feel embarrassed to have to seek support like this."
But Bianca's not alone. 1 in 5 of the families we see are in work. Like many others, Bianca is trapped between low wages, high housing and childcare costs, and benefits support that has had a series of cuts over the last five years.
We hope that this feature piece – and the Dispatches programme it trails – will help to raise the profile of our work, as well as the reasons we're needed in the first place. As our Chief Executive Sophia says, the rise in child poverty is a 'hidden crisis'. We want to raise awareness about the need to do more as a society to ensure children's lives aren't blighted by poverty.


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April 26, 2010
The hot pink table-clothes draped the tables with femininity while the spring flowers trickled the scent of beauty throughout the air. The white folding chairs waited patiently for the ladies who all gathered on a Sunday afternoon to celebrate the coming union of a special woman named Molly and her fiancé, Adrian. On Sunday, I was one of these ladies overflowing with happiness for my friend Molly at her bridal shower. As we drank wine, shared a feast, and spoke of Molly's exciting future, I couldn't help but wonder—Should it really be exciting? As a former bride, I now realize that it is really an adventure, and the quality of this amazing adventure depends on what you put into it. Marriage is as Marriage does…
I remember fantasizing about my wedding and forgetting all about building a life together. How many of you have done the same thing and wondered why things didn't fall into place after the wedding? We might have viewed our parents, our married friends, or even married people on T.V as role models to know what marriage should be like. We may have even thought it should be the best day of our life. But then, if it's the best, how does the rest of our life look after that? It seems, the only two people to consult is you and your husband to be. Why not start by being open with each other about what each of you needs in the relationship, and hearing each other out regarding the expectations for your life together after you're married.
Imagine creating the adventure you want—not perfect, not fantasy—but rather an unexpected adventure filled with love, laughter, and many twists and turns along the way. I'm so thrilled for Molly and Adrian, as they embark on this journey of discovery together. Perhaps you too will think of marriage a little differently, and imagine creating your own adventure, beyond your own perfect wedding day.
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Auditions, Auditions and More Auditions
Timpani showroom?
Nope, just an audition.
Or rather, one phase of several auditions here at the DSO of late. We have had three days of preliminary, semi and final rounds for the Principal Timpani chair during the last month, and will finish the rest of the semis and finals on Monday following a long day of Assistant Principal Horn auditions. We just last week completed the Second Trombone auditions, and, on top of that, auditions have also been going on for several weeks to fill the choral director position.
You might wonder why I would be writing about auditions as a librarian, because you might think we don't have much to do with them. But auditions can take a fair amount of careful music preparation. I'm sure most of us in this business have a pretty good idea of what the general audition process is for the players. But I bet most people, even the players, don't realize what is involved behind the scenes in preparing music for the auditions.
Take a look at this list:
The repertoire lists are determined by the section principals (or, if the audition is for a principal position, by the next ranking person or committee) and conductor, and are sent out to the applicants by the personnel manager. Here at the DSO, we also often have a shorter list drawn from the full one for those who are asked to send tapes. We work with the principal or audition coordinator to identify the excerpts that will be required, getting exact starts and stops marked. Once the repertoire is determined, we then go into production of the audition book itself.
First, we assess which pieces on the list are under copyright, because the players will not be able to purchase those parts and we prepare them to be sent out. Amongst MOLA libraries there is an understanding that we will make these excerpts available to our orchestra's applicants, but that we will try to do it in the proper, legal way. Currently, that means contacting the publisher for even an 8-bar excerpt of something like Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and gaining their permission to make the necessary copies to distribute or post on our websites (sometimes this involves a fee). Some of the publishers still have the view that allowing us to freely copy or post audition excerpts is a threat to their "revenue stream" and that an orchestra could somehow misuse those excerpts. (I'm not sure how having access to 8 bars of the Bartok timpani part could create any kind of situation in which we could put on a concert and charge a ticket price, but you never know. Perhaps audiences would come to a concert with 50 timpanists playing the audition excerpts in unison…..hey, maybe I should talk to marketing!)
Anyway, after we get permission from each publisher of a protected work, we then create a little book to send to the candidates. This means extracting* the excerpts along with title, composer, key and time signatures, tunings if applicable, and anything else we want the player to have. Here we prefer to send out clean but corrected parts so that the committee can get a sense of how the player approaches the work without imposing our own markings. I should mention that some libraries create the entire audition book to be sent to all the candidates, but at the DSO we generally do not. For the mailing we only reproduce the copyrighted excerpts, since all of the other parts are readily available for purchase. The personnel manager then sends the auditions materials out including the specific list of works with bar and/or rehearsal numbers.
After that part of the process is finished, we move on to preparing the rest of the complete audition book for the actual day of the audition. In addition to those copyrighted excerpts already prepared, we extract the specific passages that may be asked from the other repertoire on the list. For example, if the list calls for Beethoven Symphony No. 7, we know that the candidate will not be asked to play the entire symphony during the audition. (Oh my, can you imagine??) So we extract only the portions that the principal determines are realistically possible to include. This cuts down on lots of extra and unnecessary work for everyone and moves the audition along more efficiently. We make one or two performance-size candidate books (including all the excerpts for prelims, semis and finals) depending on how many players are anticipated, and up to 10 copies of the book for the committee (8.5 x 11) for reference during the auditions. A cover sheet is put on the front with the list and page number of each excerpt. And then our work is, mostly, done. If the committee and conductor want to allow for the possibility of sight reading, we may have some things ready to hand out on the day if they haven't been predetermined and included in the book. The candidates are given the information at the audition about what will be asked just prior to each round.
One aside: discretion on the part of the librarian is important. We make sure we don't talk about, show, or post (like in blogs!) what will be asked on the audition so that everyone has the same info. Of course, most players — especially wind, brass and percussion players — pretty much know which excerpts will be targeted anyway but no one, even in my own orchestra, is going to hear the specifics from me!
Many players bring their own music to auditions, and that is perfectly fine for them to do. I certainly understand this, and did it that way when I was taking violin auditions. But it is incumbent upon the player, then, to read the orchestra's list carefully and be sure to acquire the proper parts so they don't have a problem using an incorrect version or something.
Once we are finally finished with our work. we save everything physically and electronically so that we don't have to start over the next time the same instrument or position comes open. When I am long gone from this job, my successor will have, hopefully, less work to do for auditions.
As for auditions for orchestra librarian positions, that is a separate post (and, yes, I meant to write "auditions"). I will regale you with the good, the bad, and the ugly of that process another day!
*Extracting excerpts used to mean cutting out parts like paper dolls and pasting them in order on clean paper before copying them. Now, with our document manipulation software, we do the cutting and pasting electronically and it is incredibly fun. We are proud nerds.


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Introduction to DAX
Learn how to create and work with DAX, from an established expert.
Introduction to DAX
Welcome to the Power BI Guided Learning section designed to introduce you to DAX.
DAX stands for Data Analysis Expressions, and is the formula language used throughout Power BI (it's also used by Power BI behind the scenes). DAX is also found in other offerings from Microsoft, such as Power Pivot and SSAS Tabular, but these Guided Learning topics focus on how DAX is used - and can be used by you - in Power BI.
DAX and this Guided Learning video series
The goal of this Guided Learning section is to teach you DAX basics and fundamentals - how to think about DAX, how it works, and the most useful features as explained (and learned with lots of experiences) by a renowned DAX expert, Alberto Ferrari.
The videos in this Guided Learning section on DAX teach you DAX basics from the perspective of how the DAX formula language works. This is useful when creating DAX formulas from scratch, but it's also very useful for understanding how Power BI creates those DAX formulas as you create queries in the Query Editor.
In this video - introduction to DAX
DAX concepts are simple and straightforward, but DAX is powerful. DAX uses some unique programming concepts and patterns that can make it difficult to fully use and understand. Traditional ways of learning languages may not be the best approach to DAX, so the goal of this video is to teach you concepts and theory that will help later on in your Power BI work.
DAX is a functional language, which means the full executed code is contained inside a function.
In DAX, functions can contain other nested functions, conditional statements, and value references. Execution in DAX starts from the innermost function or parameter, and works outward. In Power BI, DAX formulas are written in a single line, so formatting your functions correctly is important for readability.
DAX is designed to work with tables, so it has just two primary data types: Numeric and Other. Numeric can include integers, decimals, and currency. Other can include strings and binary objects. This means that if you build your DAX function to work on one type of number, you can be assured that it will work on any other Numeric data.
DAX uses operator overloading, which means you can mix data types in your calculations and the results will change based on the type of data used in the inputs. Conversion happens automatically, which means you don't have to know the data types of the columns you're working with in Power BI, but it also means that sometimes conversion can happen in unexpected ways. It's good practice to understand the data you're using to ensure that your operators are behaving as anticipated.
There's one data type in particular you'll likely be working with often in Power BI: DateTime. DateTime is stored as a floating point value with both integer and decimal parts. DateTime can be used accurately for calculations of any time period after March 1, 1900.
Video content courtesy of Alberto Ferrari, SQLBI
DAX calculation types
There are two primary calculations you can create using DAX:
- calculated columns
- measures
Before digging into creating either of those, it's good to have a firm grasp on DAX syntax for tables and columns, which you will use when creating either calculated columns or measures.
DAX table and column name syntax
Whether you're creating a new column or measure, it's important to know the general format of table names in DAX:
'Table Name'[ColumnName]
If there are spaces in the table name (as shown above), the single quotes around the table name are mandatory. If the table name has no spaces, the single quotes can be omitted, so the syntax looks like the following:
The following image shows a DAX formula being created in Power BI:
You can also omit the table name completely and just use the column name, but this is not a best practice for writing clear functions (and thus, for clear DAX code). Column names must always include the square brackets.
It's best practice to always do the following:
- No spaces in table names
- Always include the table name in formulas (don't omit it, even though DAX lets you)
Creating calculated columns
Calculated columns are useful when you want to slice or filter on the value, or if you want a calculation for every row in your table.
You can create calculated columns in Power BI Desktop by selecting New Column from the Modeling tab. It's best to be in Data view (rather than Report or Relationships view), since you can see the new column created and the Formula Bar is populated and ready for your DAX formula.
Once you select the New Column button, the Formula Bar is populated with a basic column name (which you change to suit your formula, of course) and the = operator, and the new column appears in the data grid, as shown in the following image.
The required elements for a calculated column are the following:
- a new column name
- at least one function or expression
If you reference a table or column in your calculated column formula, you do not need to specify a row in the table - Power BI calculates the column for the current row for each calculation.
Creating measures
Use a measure when you are calculating percentages or ratios, or you need complex aggregations. To create a measure using a DAX formula, select the New Measure button from the Modeling tab. Again, it's best to be in the Data view of Power BI Desktop since it shows the Formula Bar and makes it easy to write your DAX formula.
With measures, you see a new measure icon appear in the Fields pane with the name of the measure. The Formula Bar is again populated with the name of your DAX formula (this time, with your measure).
The required elements for a measure are the same as they are for a calculated column:
- a new measure name
- at least one function or expression
Video content courtesy of Alberto Ferrari, SQLBI
DAX functions
With DAX, there are many functions available to shape, form, or otherwise analyze your data. These functions can be grouped into a handful of categories:
- Aggregation functions
- Counting functions
- Logical functions
- Information functions
- Text functions
- Date functions
Similar to Excel, when you start typing your formula into the Power BI Desktop Formula Bar, a list of available functions appears to help you determine which available function you want to select. And by using the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard, you can highlight any of the available functions, and a brief description is displayed.
Power BI displays the functions that match the letters you've typed so far, so if you type S only functions that begin with S appear in the list. If you type Su, only functions that contain the letter sequence Su in their name appear in the list (they don't have to start with Su, they just have to contain that letter sequence).
It's easy to experiment with DAX in this way, and to find each of the various DAX functions that are available in Power BI. All you have to do is start typing, and Power BI helps you along.
Now that we know how to get that DAX formula started, let's take a look at each of these function categories in turn.
Aggregation functions
DAX has a number of aggregation functions, including the following commonly used functions:
- SUMX (and other X functions)
These functions work only on numeric columns, and generally can aggregate only one column at a time.
However, special aggregation functions that end in X, such as SUMX, can work on multiple columns. These functions iterate through the table, and evaluate the expression for each row.
Counting functions
Often-used counting functions in DAX include the following:
These functions count different elements, such as distinct values, non-empty values, and table rows.
Logical functions
The collection of logical functions in DAX include:
These special functions can also be expressed with operators. For example, AND can be typed as (replaced with) && in your DAX formula.
You can use operators (such as &&) when you need more than two conditions in your formula, but otherwise, it's best practice use the function name itself (such as AND) for readability of your DAX code.
Information functions
Information functions in DAX include:
While these functions can be situationally useful, there is value in knowing the data type of your columns ahead of time, rather than depending on these functions to provide the data type.
DAX uses the MAX and MIN functions to both aggregate values, and to compare values.
Text functions
The text functions in DAX include the following:
These text work very similarly to the Excel functions that have the same name, so if you're familiar with how Excel handles text functions, you're already a step ahead. If not, you can always experiment with these functions in Power BI, and learn more about how they behave.
Date functions
DAX includes the following Date functions:
While these functions are useful to calculate and extract information from date values, they do not apply to time intelligence, which uses a date table.
Video content courtesy of Alberto Ferrari, SQLBI
Using variables in DAX expressions
Using variables are an extremely powerful part of a DAX expression.
You can define a variable anywhere in a DAX expression, using the following syntax:
Variables can be any data type, including entire tables.
Keep in mind that each time you reference a variable in your DAX expression, Power BI must recalculate its value according to your definition. For this reason, it's good practice to avoid repeating variables in your function.
Video content courtesy of Alberto Ferrari, SQLBI
Table relationships and DAX
Power BI lets you create relationships among multiple tables, including tables that come from completely different data sources. You can see those relationships for any data model in the Relationships view of Power BI Desktop.
DAX relational functions
DAX has relational functions that enable you to interact with tables that have established relationships.
You can return the value of a column, or you can return all rows in a relationship using DAX functions.
For example, the RELATED function follows relationships and returns the value of a column, while RELATEDTABLE follows relationships, and returns an entire table that is filtered to include only related rows.
The RELATED function works on many-to-one relationships, while RELATEDTABLE is for one-to-many relationships.
You can use relational functions to build expressions that include values across multiple tables. DAX will return a result with these functions, regardless of the length of the chain of the relationship.
Video content courtesy of Alberto Ferrari, SQLBI
DAX tables and filtering
One significant difference between DAX and the Excel formula language is that DAX allows you to pass entire tables between expressions, rather than being constrained to a single value. One powerful effect is that DAX allows you to filter tables in its expressions, then work with the filtered set of values.
With DAX, you can create entirely new calculated tables and then treat them like any other table - including creating relationships between them and other tables in your data model.
DAX table functions
DAX has a rich set of table functions, including the following:
These functions return a full table rather than a value. Typically you'll use the results of a table function in further analysis as part of a greater expression, rather than using that returned table a final value. It's important to note that When you use a table function, the results inherit the relationships of their columns.
You can mix table functions in your expression, as long as each function uses a table and returns a table. For example, consider the following DAX expression:
FILTER (ALL (Table), Condition)
That expression would put a filter over the entirety of Table, ignoring any current filter content.
The DISTINCT function returns the distinct values of a column that are also visible in the current context. So to use the above DAX expression example, using ALL in that expression ignores filters, while replacing ALL with DISTINCT would observe them.
Counting values with DAX
One common question that Power BI report builders want to answer is the following:
- How many values do I have for this column?
That may be a simple question to answer with a table displayed in front of you, but DAX approaches in a different way, particularly when there's a relationship between tables.
For example, Power BI and DAX includes values that are not properly cross-indexed. If the incoming relationship is broken, DAX adds a new row to the related table that has blanks in every field, and links that new row to the unindexed row to guarantee referential integrity. If your function includes blank rows, such as is often the case when using ALL, those blank rows will then be included in the number of values returned for that column.
You can also create entire calculated tables using DAX functions. Calculated tables created using DAX require a NAME and a TABLE function. Calculated tables can be used like any other table, including establishing relationships.
Video content courtesy of Alberto Ferrari, SQLBI
You've completed the Introduction to DAX section of Power BI Guided Learning. What a journey! If you've done these tutorials in sequence, then you've finished all the sections of Guided Learning. Way to go! Now go use Power BI to create compelling reports and dashboards that tell your story.
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Disappointment 1: the lack of a really great critical study of Powell & Pressburger. Ian Christie's Arrows of Desire was a fine starting point, and the coffee-table quality of the book, with glossy and lurid colour stills, makes it a nice visual companion to the Archers' films. But Andrew Moor's Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces just seemed too DRY to evoke these lush romances, and Scott Salwolke's The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers is hampered by the fact that he hasn't seen all the films. Several times in the book we get the phrase "is hard to see nowadays", which I might believe if I didn't have copies of them on my shelves. I guess I'd admit they're hard to see, but not IMPOSSIBLE. The author doesn't admit to not having seen HONEYMOON, but since all he does is reproduce some contemporary reviews of it, it's pretty clear he never managed to track it down. I guess since the book is ten years old, things were tougher then, but I can't believe THE BOY WHO TURNED YELLOW would be completely inaccessible: Raymond Durgnat sold me a copy for a fiver.
Disappointment 2: What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting by Marc Norman. Norman wrote the script for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, which was then revised by Tom Stoppard (Norman professed himself delighted to have had Stoppard's assistance), and this is his first non-fiction work. I was hoping to find some kind of thesis lurking in it, but it reads like a stack of anecdotes so far. It reads like *I* wrote it!
The early chapters on silent cinema fall for the old one about Mack Sennett not using written scripts (the half-page or page-long outlines have in fact been found — Frank Capra's autobiography is not the most reliable source for ANYTHING) and he talks about BIRTH OF A NATION having a scene breakdown prepared from the book, but which was never seen on the set, but he misses my favourite Griffith script story: Griffith's first short, THE ADVENTURE OF DOLLIE, had its scenario jotted down by Griffith and cameraman Billy Bitzer the night before shooting, on a piece of cardboard that came from the laundry with Griffith's shirt wrapped round it.
Norman also refers to Chaplin's first director as Henry Pathé Lehrman, missing the all-important inverted commas around "Pathé" (Lehrman got a job with Mack Sennett with a tall tale about having worked for Pathé: when the ruse was discovered, the name stuck) and says that Herman Mankiewicz worked on "some trifle" called CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. It may sound like a trifle, and the casting of Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly might have lead contemporary audiences to expect one, but CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY is a very dark film noir romance, and authors should resist making such statements about films they haven't seen.
I'd still like this book to turn into an impassioned and informed account of the screenwriter's role, so I'm going to persevere a little further — this isn't a proper book review since I haven't finished the thing. I will report back if I end up more impressed by it.
Disappointment 3: Hanno's Doll by Evelyn Piper. I picked this up after belatedly realising that both THE NANNY and BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, films I like a lot, came from Piper novels. I wanted to read something else by her. Although it does have a nice, twisty plot, the book took me ages to finish, being written in an irksome baby-talk that's supposed to simulate the thought processes of the protagonist, a fat German actor (Piper must have had an eye of Curt Jurgens for a possible movie adaptation, or Gert Fröbe).
Whoopee 1: Maja Borg, a recent graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art film course where I teach, has a show on next week, Thursday 21st August, 8.30 pm on More4 in their First Cut series. Happy Birthday, You're Dead takes its inspiration from the fact that a fortune teller once told Maya that she'd die in a car crash before her 25th birthday. The documentary charts the "last" weeks of Maja's life leading up to her 25th.
I'm rooting for her to survive.


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