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New York City Ballet: Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Fearful Symmetries, Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 and others
David H. Koch Theater, New York; May 28, 30 & June 1, 2, 2013
The penultimate week of New York City Ballet's spring season featured no fewer than sixteen ballets across seven performances. Saturday evening's programme rather summed up the company and Balanchine: Stravinsky, American, Tchaikovsky. OK, so the 'American' in this case was a Peter Martins choreography, but you get the point.
"Stravinsky Violin Concerto" is a really satisfying ballet. As always, the dance and music come together as one, but right from the opening, when the five dancers remain stationary for a few counts as if catching their breath before beginning, everything is so clean. There is also something about the structure of the
ballet that makes truly appealing: the two very different and somewhat fraught pas de deux that probe relationships of Arias I and II framed by the sparkier group sections of the Toccata and Capriccio.
The first of the Arias is full of struggle and tension. Maria Korowski used every inch of her beautifully long body as she contorted, twisted and arched back acrobatically. Her limbs interlocked with those of partner Adrian Danchig-Waring in ways that seemed impossible. There is a lot of pulling away from each other, although it is remarkable how little the dancers' hands actually touch.
Aria II is closer to the academic classical ballet vocabulary. Stravinsky once explained that the music was written as an apology to his wife for an affair with another woman, and Sterling Hyltin and Robert Fairchild certainly captured the emotional rollercoaster all that entails. The mood switches from discord to harmony and back again in an instant. You can imagine the conversation in your head. It is quite a gentle discord, though. Although the woman turns away from time to time, she always seems to be happy to be led by the man and to comply with whatever he commands. That idea is emphasised in the closing moments when he stands behind her and tilts her head backwards as he covers her eyes. It is a very willing submission.
The supporting dancers were equally impressive, with the precision of the men quite outstanding both individually and as a group.
New York City Ballet in Fearful Symmetries. Photo Paul Kolnik
Danced to John Adam's busy score of the same title, "Fearful Symmetries" is surely one of Peter Martins' best works. The choreography captures fully the energy and vivacity in John Adams' pulsing music. Both come together to give an impression of continuous movement over a frantic, constantly shifting, ultra-modern urban landscape.
As the music chugs along insistently, dancers invade the stage at top speed from all directions. It is as if one was standing at a busy intersection, cars forever whooshing past. For a long time it is almost non-stop. Martins' choreography alongside the combination of saxophones, brass, woodwinds, and keyboard sampler playing percussion is hypnotic, visually and viscerally thrilling. It leaves you completely breathless. A special mention here for conductor Clotilde Otranto who bounced around as much as the music as she kept things at full-throttle.
The lighting is pretty stunning too. Mark Stanley bathes the stage in deep reds and blues. Steven Rubin's loose tops and tights for the men; simple leotards, short skirts and tights for the women are functional, but any more would be too much.
The choreography is actually quite intricate, not unlike the score, which is far more complex than it first sounds. Amongst the non-stop action sit three short duets for three different couples. The lead pairings here were Sara Mearns and Taylor Stanley, and Teresa Reichlen and Jonathan Stafford, the latter being especially forceful. It was the third pairing of Lauren King and Daniel Ulbricht who really caught the eye though in a bravura display of virtuosity. They were quite simply terrific.
Following the music, things do finally slow down about three-quarters the way through. It's like a bottle of fizzy drink has been shaken and shaken, then suddenly the cap is unscrewed. Almost out of nowhere things are allowed to settle down, a long lyrical finale bringing matters to a close. I'm sure there are those who dislike Adams' music in particular, but this is a ballet I will never tire of.
Megan Fairchild in George Balanchine's Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3. Photo Paul Kolnik
I do not think I could ever grow weary of "Theme and Variations" either, the final movement of "Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3" and often danced as a ballet in its own right. It is the ultimate in classical ballet tradition, and a showcase for elegance. It is particularly run through with references to "The Sleeping Beauty," although its steps are far more challenging especially when taken at the brisk pace they were here; a pace, incidentally, that enhances the ballet enormously.
"Theme and Variations" dates to 1947, but in 1970 Balanchine choreographed the preceding three movements of the Suite. While pleasant enough, they are not among his greatest creations. There is a sort of progression between the sections, both in terms of the relationship presented and costume, but even so, they do feel like they belong to a different ballet. The sensuality sits uncomfortably with that final outpouring of formality and classical grandeur.
The opening movements have a melancholic feel. This has been attributed to the fact that Suzanne Farrell left the company immediately prior to the piece being created, although that story doesn't quite tie in with the impression given of the relationship between the lead couple in the second and third movements. Whatever the reason, there is a sense of looking back, emphasised by the dancers being separated from the audience by a gauze, and Nicolas Benois' long lavender-coloured Romantic dresses.
It cannot be denied that the opening Élégie does hint at love lost, or at least of love not yet found. A man occasionally finds, dances with, but eventually loses a beautiful woman, barefoot and whose flowing locks are reflected perfectly in her billowing dress. Ask la Cour was most noble as he searched for the lady of his dreams, the ever elusive Rebecca Krohn. He often reaches out towards her, but always she slips away into the crowd of dancers. The almost downbeat mood continues during the slightly maudlin Valse Mélancolique (Abi Stafford and Jared Angle), in which the bare feet give way to pointe shoes, and even the somewhat more upbeat Scherzo, in which Ana Sophia Schiller was polished and bright, and well-partnered by Antonio Carmena.
Then, suddenly, the lights go up, chandeliers and tutus sparkle, and all is well with the world. The ride is as exhilarating in its own way as that in "Fearful Symmetries." Leading the way, Megan Fairchild was full of the necessary speed and precision. The role needs attack and she certainly gave it, even if she didn't radiate warmth as much as she might. Andrew Veyette was on fire with his bravura leaps and turns. He made the multiple double tours look easy. The final polonaise was as rousing as ever. Is there a better way to round off a performance?
Elsewhere, the week saw several performances of Jerome Robbins' "The Cage," always paired with "Andantino." "The Cage" presents a world of female insects who command the stage with their sharp, angular movement. It is somewhat creepy, although it's a ballet that never quite does it for me. Maybe it is the ease with which the two lead women entice and manipulate the two doomed men, although I thought Janie Taylor as the Novice and Teresa Reichlan as the Queen rather more effective than Hyltin and Krohn.
In complete contrast, "Andantino" is a polite duet straight out of the "Dances at a Gathering" mould. It is light and pleasant, both on the eye and the ear, although it does not sit particularly well with the preceding drama. Of the two casts on show, I believed rather more in Ashley Bouder and Andrew Veyette. They seemed much more at one with each other and the music than did Tiler Peck and Gonzalo Garcia.
Robbins' "N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz," on the other hand, never fails to delight. I love the looseness and easy going nature of the choreography. It is full of youthful exuberance and sense of community, both incidentally reproduced brilliantly in the recent excellent film version of the ballet set at various sites around New York. Gretchen Smith was nicely sassy among all the ogling men in Statics, while Ashley Laracey and Taylor Stanley managed to achieve the difficult combination of togetherness and a sense of distance in the haunting Passage for Two.
New York City Ballet in Jerome Robbins' Interplay. Photo Paul Kolnik
The week had opened with an equal amount of youthful zest in another Robbins' ballet, "Interplay." It is a real fun work. It is difficult to believe it was made way back in 1945, it is so alive and modern. The whole cast looked perfectly at home as they played their games and competed with one another, most notably in the battle of the double tours, played out by Harrison Ball, Joseph Gordon, Spartak Hoxha and Peter Walker. For all the fun, the third movement, Byplay, has the most going for it, and in which Brittany Pollack and Walker were perfectly sultry and sensuous.
The week also saw an appearance by Robbins' "Glass Pieces," a modern classic if ever there was one, and a ballet featuring more urban energy. Wendy Whelan was mesmerising in the pas the deux, along with partner Danchig-Waring, the couple endowing it with a slightly unworldly theme, a point emphasised by the silhouetted corps moving slowly and rhythmically across the back.
Robert Fairchild and New York City Ballet in George Balanchine's Western Symphony. Photo Paul Kolnik
From Balanchine there was also "Allegro Brillante" and "Western Symphony." "The former is a sunny ballet that matched the warm weather outside, but which was marred by at least four slips, two by Fairchild. All was forgiven, however, as she recovered brilliantly, her partnership with Veyette ultimately shining once again. In "Western Symphony" the whole cast blazed their way across the stage. Amar Ramasar looked completely at home as the Rhinestone Cowboy of the Adagio. I had always found it difficult to watch this movement without seeing Albert Evans in my head, but he changed that. Sara Mearns and Robert Fairchild fizzed in the Rondo like nothing before. Brilliant fun!
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Brantelid, LPO, Petrenko, RFH review - orchestral excesses redeemed by graceful Elgar
Young cellist offers valuable balance in a hard-driven programme
by Gavin DixonSaturday, 24 February 2018
Andreas Brantelid - chamber-like eleganceMarios Taramides
The London Philharmonic, conductor Vasily Petrenko and cellist Andreas Brantelid are just back from a tour of China, so they've had plenty of time to get to know each other. That affinity is apparent in the ease with which Petrenko (pictured below by Chris Christodoulou) marshals the orchestral forces, directly transmitting his trademark energy to every section. But the highlight of this concert turned out to be the Elgar Cello Concerto, given a far more intimate and low-key reading than we might expect from Petrenko himself. No doubt, Brantelid was the inspiration here, but Petrenko adapted well, skilfully adapting the orchestral balance to accommodate the cellist.
The concert was part of a series entitled Changing Faces: Stravinsky's Journey, a year-long series of Stravinsky-themed events the opening of which theartsdesk covered a fortnight ago, so the opening work was his Song of the Nightingale. This only modestly successful ballet was adapted from the early opera The Nightingale, and the lineage shows in the many woodwind and string solo passages: aria and recitative in new guises. In fact, the orchestration here is fabulously inventive. For example, we hear muted solo violin accompanied by two harps and celesta; bassoon duet accompanied by bass drum and timpani; or three trumpets all playing in unison, but with one of them muted. Naturally, this is an excellent showcase for the LPO's principals, all of whom shone, with top honours going to flautist Juliette Bausor as the Nightingale itself. The downside is a distinct lack of musical structure or direction. There are very few tuttis, and without the opera's narrative it is difficult to string the modest ensembles together. Petrenko didn't really try, focusing instead on the quirky beauty of each section. From the opening bars of the Elgar, it was clear that Andras Brantelid was going to diverge from the norm. In a concerto usually performed in a sweeping, Romantic style, discreet gestures and classical grace might seem untoward. Those broken chords that open the work were here presented at moderate dynamic, and with little gesture or flamboyance. And this turned out to be the way with Brantelid's entire interpretation. The approach worked best in the scherzo second movement, which danced gracefully under Brantelid's light bow. The slow movement had a chamber-like elegance, its large scale maintained, even at this lower temperature, by impressively sustained lines from the soloist and the orchestral strings. The finale was a little lacking in drama and contrast, the quiet interlude before the return of the opening in particular losing its effect. But otherwise this was a fine reading, and Petrenko gauged its scale well, never drowning out the soloist, but giving the tuttis the required impact to structure the outer movements.
Plenty of impact, too, in Scheherazade. Too much, in fact, in a reading of Rimsky-Korsakov that was all about drive and dynamism and too little about storytelling and magic. Petrenko attempted to open the first and last movements with a sudden stab, and caught the orchestra out both times. On the other hand, he built up to similarly imposing chords at the end of each inner movement, and the second was so perfectly choreographed that it prompted an impulsive ripple of applause. There was certainly plenty of energy here, and the orchestra was on top form throughout. The many solos in the second movement were all beautifully taken, and Petrenko, to his credit, gave each of them breathing space, the tempi fluid throughout the movement. But the third movement felt pedestrian, with strings not swooning as they might, and the finale was just too driven, too loud and too fast with little repose between the tuttis. The Elgar could have done with some of this energy and drama, while a little of the poise and the grace found there could have made the world of difference to the Rimsky-Korsakov.
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I'm getting a Skinny Baby-a Boar- I'll be picking him up on the st of January! I haven't decided on a name yet, but thinking seriously of calling him Streaker!
Please ignore the date on the pic-Jodie's cam displays the wrong date!
Yes, do be aware of the multitude of health issues that arise with these guys. They're extremely prone to skin cancer as well as hay pokes and abscesses from them. They require a much warmer house than their furred friends and eat a LOT more to try and generate more body heat.
We rarely see them in rescue since the dumb breeders that make them tout them as SOOPER RARE and get folks to spent $100 on them. To me it's really akin to breeding manx rats -- and maybe moreso since there's really no push in the GP community to breed out health problems.
cool naked pig! he looks so cute. naked as i call them but skinnys need to be babyed a little more and will need a fured roomie unless you can make him a sweater and keep it on him lol. that would be cute but when do you get him? I seen 1 skinny pig at the pet store one time and it was so sickly looking I was gonna take it home and stright to the vet but I knew that the vet would look at him and put him down. They were suposably brought in by some one who didnt want them anymore which the pet store suprisingly told us the truth for once that they dont get skinnys in and you have to go threw a breeder an they only took them b/c some one no longer wanted them and they came in that way. I was like why didnt you have a vet check them out before reselling and they said they didnt really care.......that was a shocker they were that blunt.
But I would love one but i have heard they are more care then a naked rat as in you have to be more careful like jenniecat said about cancer and hay pokes. But that there also super sensitive more so then hairless rats and need their skin mosterized and all. this is what I have heard but dont know how true it is, as in the mosterizing the skin and all beign more care then a naked rat. I have checked breeders out but there to far away for me to travel or for them even to meet in the middel. One i could have meet half way but everytime i was avalible she wasnt, or could not make it. But godo luck with the new piggy.
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Thanks for the heads up Jenn-Streaker will be kept with my 5th new boy (who will be here tomorrow) Fudge-a Chocolate Abby boy. Luckily my little naked boy is $25, but I have seen some websites that will charge you $200, plus another $250 for air freight shipping!
And my GPs are all males, and I'm hoping that they will live happily in their respective pairs. Poppa & Psycho, Little Bill & Elephant, and now Streaker & Fudge. Jodie says that Cuddle Cups are really good for the nakies, so I may get him one, and a pigloo to put it in maybe. My spare bedroom is now full of C & C cages, I decided to go with 2 of the 58x29x29 and put the boys' in them, instead of trying to get them to live all together.
sounds like a plane, lol, He is weird looking but so cute, when do you gets him? wow that is cheep for him. I have seen them for that price as well. you must post pics of your new boy.


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Legal Historian J. Gordon Hylton '77 to Join Law Faculty
J. Gordon Hylton's research interests include the legal profession, the history of civil rights and the legal history of American sports.
Eric Williamson
For J. Gordon Hylton, joining the University of Virginia School of Law faculty this fall will be both a homecoming and history repeating itself. A legal historian and 1977 graduate of the Law School, he has been a visiting professor at UVA for more than a decade. He now formally joins UVA from Marquette Law School, where he had been on the faculty since 1995.
Hylton said returning to UVA Law to teach full time alongside professors who originally inspired him, such as Ted White and the recently retired but still involved Chuck McCurdy, is an honor.
"To me the most extraordinary thing is to back here with so many of my former professors," Hylton said. "You know, if I was 38 that wouldn't be so remarkable."
In addition to his J.D., Hylton holds an M.A. from the University, and he earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in the History of American Civilization. After law school, he clerked for Justice Albertis S. Harrison and Chief Justice Lawrence I'Anson of the Virginia Supreme Court and later worked for a year at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, but the bulk of his career has been spent in academia.
"I had pretty much decided by the time I finished law school that I wanted to be an academic," he said.
His research interests focus on the history of the legal profession, the history of civil rights and the legal history of American sports.
Risa Goluboff , the John Allan Love Professor of Law and the Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at UVA, said Hylton is a trusted colleague who will continue to make a significant contribution to academic discourse at the Law School.
"I am delighted that Gordon Hylton is permanently joining the UVA Law faculty," Goluboff said. "Gordon has deep roots here. He was one of the first graduates of the J.D.-M.A. in legal history under the guidance of Chuck McCurdy. In the years since I have been teaching here, Gordon has been an important presence in all things legal history — workshops, writing groups, informal discussions. He has vast stores of knowledge across American legal history, and he is a generous and supportive reader of colleagues' writing."
Hylton is also respected as a teacher, having won numerous awards for his classroom instruction. He is a past recipient of the Gihardi Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Teaching Award presented by the Marquette Chapter of Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity. Earlier in his career, he was named professor of the year at the Chicago-Kent Law School on three occasions and was twice the recipient of the Illinois Institute of Technology's award for superior teaching. He is the only visiting professor to be named professor of the year at Washington University Law School.
During the upcoming school year, Hylton will teach staple law classes such as Property (he is co-author of the textbook "Property Law and the Public Interest: Cases and Materials," now in its fourth edition), as well as his own unique course: African-American Lawyers from the Civil War to Present. His research on the history of African-American lawyers , particularly in Virginia, has been an ongoing scholarly interest that has resulted in a book manuscript Hylton says he hopes to send to publishers later this year.
Goluboff, who is the author of the award-winning book "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights," said Hylton's scholarship on African-American lawyers is exemplary.
"Gordon has done the hard work of excavating the professional lives of African-American lawyers others have largely forgotten," she said. "He has also inspired students to do the same. Gordon's scholarship is a true and important contribution to our understanding of the legal profession and American history more generally."
Hylton, said he will follow up his book on Virginia's early black attorneys with a broader look at African-Americans in the legal profession. He is also working with the UVA Law Library on one book in a three-part history of the Law School.
But for law students, Hylton may have already made his biggest contribution to school history. As a student in the 1970s, he co-founded (with Fred Vogel '77) the North Grounds Softball League , which has since become famous for hosting its annual charity tournament among law schools.
"I don't think any of us thought the league would still be here even the next year, let alone 40 years later," he said.
An expert on sports law, Hylton is a past chair of the Association of American Law School's Sections on Legal History and Sports, and he co-edited the book "Sports Law and Regulation."


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GENEVA--Wildlife charities including the Born Free Foundation, Elephant Family, the Environmental Investigation Agency, Humane Society International, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Species Survival Network, and World Wildlife Fund were on August 17, 2011 excluded from attending "deliberations concerning elephant conservation, the ivory trade, and China's increasing involvement in illegal ivory trade" at the 61st Standing Committee meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, e-mailed Rudy Rosensweig of Born Free USA to global media.
"The move was initiated by the government of Kuwait on behalf of the Asian region, and was supported by Botswana, Iran, Kuwait, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica and Norway," said Rosensweig. Opposed by Australia, Bulgaria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.. the expulsion was reversed later in the day. "We are very happy with the outcomes of the meeting overall," said WWF wildlife trade policy analyst Colman O'Criodain. "Attempts by some countries to evade scrutiny of their role in illegal trade only ensured that these countries are now more under the spotlight."
Kenyan ivory trade investigators Esmond Martin and Lucy Vigne the week before the CITES triennial published The Ivory Dynasty: a report on the soaring demand for elephant and mammoth ivory in Southern China, following up on a similar investigation done in 2004. They found that the volume of ivory sold in the cities of Guangzhou and Fuzhau has approximately doubled, and that nearly two-thirds of the ivory items are not accompanied by required certification that the ivory was of legal origin.
Both Tanzania and Zambia have been seeking Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species permission to sell stockpiled ivory. Kenya opposes selling ivory under any circumstance, based on extensive evidence that expanding the market for legal ivory stimulates demand for poached ivory too.
CITES in 1989 banned international traffic in elephant ivory, but has several times authorized exemptions allowing Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe to sell stockpiled ivory from legally culled elephants, elephants who died of natural causes, or confiscated from poachers and smugglers. The exemptions–and rumors that exemptions may be granted–have repeatedly been followed by resurgent poaching throughout the wild elephant range in Africa and Asia.
Meaning to send a message to CITES, Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki on July 20, 2011 "ignited five metric tons of ivory seized in Singapore in 2002," wrote Anthony Karumba of Agence France-Presse. "Some 335 tusks and 42,553 ivory carvings," worth an estimated $16 million, "went up in smoke at the Manyani wildlife ranger training institution in Tsavo National Park, as agreed in May 2011 by Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya."
Another 2.1 metric tons of ivory from the Singapore seizure are being processed for return to the nations of origin, chiefly Zambia, Kenya Wildlife Service Communications Manager Paul Udoto told Nellya Gitau of the Nairobi Star. "Some samples will be taken to Malawi and Zambia for possible prosecution and educational research purposes," Lusaka Agreement secretariat director Bonaventure Ebayi told Gatonye Gathura of The Nation in Nairobi.
"Sources close to the negotiators," who arranged the burning, "indicated that as many as 196 tusks will be repatriated for this purpose," Gathura said, "but this did not go down very well with organizations such as the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which suspects that such ivory could corruptly end up in the global market."
Then-Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi in 1989 torched an ivory stockpile at Nairobi National Park. Zambia burned consficated ivory in 1992.
Tsavo, the scene of the 2011 ivory burning, is home to about 12,500 of the estimated 472,250 elephants remaining in Africa–about a third of the African elephant population circa 1970. Kenya now has about 37,000 elephants, up from 16,000 at the time of the first ivory burning.
Khadija, the last mature female elephant in Samburu National Park, Kenya, was killed by poachers a week before the ivory burning, Save the Elephants director Iain Douglas-Hamilton disclosed three days afterward. Khadija, who was radio-collared, had been treated for bullet wounds from a previous attack just eight days earlier.
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Stranger Things cast says franchise has evolved with age
After a gap of almost two years, the cast of Stranger Things is back in action to woo the audience with the upcoming third season of the science-fiction horror drama.Without revealing any spoilers, actor Gaten Matarazzo, best known for his role as Dustin Henderson in the show, has promised that the latest season will offer a lot of interesting elements.
"It has been a great journey. We catered to people who got nostalgic while watching our show and then there were children who love watching other kids in the show. Now the new season is coming soon. I would say it is well written and has a lot to offer," Matarazzo, 16, said at a fan gala here on Monday ahead of the launch of the third season of the Netflix series.
Actors Noah Schnapp (14), Sadie Sink (17) and Caleb McLaughlin (17) were also present at the event, but the crowd of fans cheered loudest when Emmy nominee Millie Bobby Brown marked her presence via a special video message.Brown plays an important role of Eleven, a young girl with psychokinetic abilities in the The Duffer Brothers' directorial Stranger Things.
Talking more about the new season, Sink said: "It is interesting to see how the franchise has evolved with season three because the dynamics between the characters have changed now. Also, everyone is growing up, so that has also changed the dynamic a little bit too."
While promoting their show, the young actors unleashed their fun side on the stage, which was had the backdrop of the show's theme. From Noah grooving on the stage to Matarazzo making weird and funny expressions, the two-hour long interactive session was quite a treat for the fans.
To engage the audience, the organisers had installed several gaming zones and food stalls at the venue. The cast was also honoured with traditional Japanese outfits which were presented to them by famous Japanese celebrities Yuko Oshima and Jun Itoda.
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A STOCKTON resident has made a "heartbreaking" discovery, finding a newborn baby's body abandoned in their backyard. Emergency services were called to a home on Church Street about 7am on Tuesday, after the body was discovered. Police now face the challenging task of piecing together what Newcastle commander Superintendent Brett Greentree has called a 'mystery'. "I can't go into specific details, but what I can say is that the occupant of that residence has just gone out to the backyard and located the body of a newborn," Superintendent Greentree said. Neighbours in the quiet residential area said the first they knew of the incident was when emergency services raced into the street with lights and sirens blazing. People lined the road on Tuesday awaiting information, but were not expecting such tragic news. "At the moment we have very serious and grave concerns for the mother who may need medical assistance and we are doing our absolute best to try and identify this female. "If anybody in the community knows anything about this, contact Newcastle detectives or Crime Stoppers." The Stockton home now sits behind police tape, as crime scene investigators try to piece together how the baby came to be on the property and where the mother went. Superintendent Greentree said police would not be ruling out anything at this stage - including foul play - but the main priority was to find the mother. The crime scene includes a nearby laneway and adjacent street. Police spent much of Tuesday searching the area, speaking to residents and canvassing local hospitals. While police are not yet able to release details about the newborn's exact age, gender or cause of death, they do believe the missing mother gave birth "very recently". In a press conference outside Waratah station, police appealed for the public's help to "unravel" what had happened. "It is just really a heartbreaking situation, it is very, very sad," Superintendent Greentree said. "We are hoping that between the investigations, and the community, we will able to identify this female and first and foremost make sure she has medical treatment." Anyone with information about the baby or the mother is urged to contact Newcastle detectives or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. Police said the Stockton resident who discovered the body had no connection to the incident and has since been offered support. A post mortem examination will be conducted in an effort to establish the age of the baby and the cause of death. This will form part of a report which will be prepared for the information of the coroner. "If the mother of that child is listening, watching or if anybody who knows the mother of that child, make contact with somebody. It is very important." EARLIER REPORT: THE body of a newborn baby has been found abandoned in a Stockton backyard, police said. Emergency services were called to a home on Church Street shortly after 7am on Tuesday after the body of the newborn baby was discovered. Police officers, detectives and forensic teams remained on scene at midday. Neighbours lined the quiet street awaiting news of what had occurred. Residents said the first they knew of any incident was when emergency services raced into the street with lights and sirens blazing. Police now "hold grave concerns for the welfare of the mother, who may need to seek urgent medical treatment". They are appealing for public assistance to help find the woman. A post mortem examination will be conducted in an effort to establish the age of the baby and the cause of death. This will form part of a report which will be prepared for the information of the coroner. Police will address the media with further information at 1pm today. The Herald will broadcast the press conference on facebook. Anyone with information about the baby or the mother is urged to contact Newcastle detectives or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. Did you know The Herald is now offering breaking news alerts, daily email newsletters and more? Keep up-to-date with all the local news - sign up here. IN NEWS TODAY:
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The body of a baby has been found in a Stockton backyard: Police
'Heartbreaking': baby's body abandoned in backyard, police search for mother
Police crime scene on Church St in Newcastle suburb of Stockton where the body of a newborn baby was found in a backyard and the mother is nowhere to be found. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
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A STOCKTON resident has made a "heartbreaking" discovery, finding a newborn baby's body abandoned in their backyard.
Emergency services were called to a home on Church Street about 7am on Tuesday, after the body was discovered. Police now face the challenging task of piecing together what Newcastle commander Superintendent Brett Greentree has called a 'mystery'.
"I can't go into specific details, but what I can say is that the occupant of that residence has just gone out to the backyard and located the body of a newborn," Superintendent Greentree said.
Neighbours in the quiet residential area said the first they knew of the incident was when emergency services raced into the street with lights and sirens blazing. People lined the road on Tuesday awaiting information, but were not expecting such tragic news.
"At the moment we have very serious and grave concerns for the mother who may need medical assistance and we are doing our absolute best to try and identify this female.
"If anybody in the community knows anything about this, contact Newcastle detectives or Crime Stoppers."
The Stockton home now sits behind police tape, as crime scene investigators try to piece together how the baby came to be on the property and where the mother went.
Superintendent Greentree said police would not be ruling out anything at this stage - including foul play - but the main priority was to find the mother.
The crime scene includes a nearby laneway and adjacent street. Police spent much of Tuesday searching the area, speaking to residents and canvassing local hospitals.
While police are not yet able to release details about the newborn's exact age, gender or cause of death, they do believe the missing mother gave birth "very recently". In a press conference outside Waratah station, police appealed for the public's help to "unravel" what had happened.
"It is just really a heartbreaking situation, it is very, very sad," Superintendent Greentree said.
Newcastle commander Superintendent Brett Greentree. Picture: Simon McCarthy
"We are hoping that between the investigations, and the community, we will able to identify this female and first and foremost make sure she has medical treatment."
Anyone with information about the baby or the mother is urged to contact Newcastle detectives or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Police said the Stockton resident who discovered the body had no connection to the incident and has since been offered support.
A post mortem examination will be conducted in an effort to establish the age of the baby and the cause of death. This will form part of a report which will be prepared for the information of the coroner.
"If the mother of that child is listening, watching or if anybody who knows the mother of that child, make contact with somebody. It is very important."
EARLIER REPORT:
THE body of a newborn baby has been found abandoned in a Stockton backyard, police said.
Emergency services were called to a home on Church Street shortly after 7am on Tuesday after the body of the newborn baby was discovered.
Police officers, detectives and forensic teams remained on scene at midday.
Neighbours lined the quiet street awaiting news of what had occurred. Residents said the first they knew of any incident was when emergency services raced into the street with lights and sirens blazing.
Police now "hold grave concerns for the welfare of the mother, who may need to seek urgent medical treatment". They are appealing for public assistance to help find the woman.
Police will address the media with further information at 1pm today. The Herald will broadcast the press conference on facebook.
Did you know The Herald is now offering breaking news alerts, daily email newsletters and more? Keep up-to-date with all the local news - sign up here.
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When I was 15 or so I devoured all of the writer John Prebble's popular histories of Scotland, and particularly of the Scottish Highlands. If Culloden was the most well-known of Prebble's books, The Highland Clearances (first published in 1963) was the most influential. It helped to bolster one of the great romantic myths: that rapacious capitalist landlords — often the degenerate anglified descendants of the old clan leaders — had forcibly thrown the people of the Highlands off their lands, leaving the straths and glens full of sheep and empty of people. After Braveheart and the Wallace legend, the clearances are possibly the biggest historical weapon deployed by modern nationalism.


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Celebrate your Hen Party the Sophisticated Way!
Maybe L-plates, sashes and the common destinations for hen parties aren't for you. Maybe you want a more of stylish and sophisticated theme for your hen party instead. Here are some classy tips on where to go and what to do on your hen do party.
First thing's first, where to go on your hen do. If you're looking for a cultural trip, as well as a place to just relax and have a good night out, then Barcelona is a place for you and your girls.
Barcelona is a city catered for everyone. As it's the heart of Gaudí's beautiful work, you will see rather impressive architecture all round the city; such as La Sagrada Familia or the Pedrera house. His approach to the art nouveau movement has made Barcelona unique to any other city in Spain.
However, as it's a sophisticated hen do, Barcelona doesn't only offer the breathtaking surroundings but also top of the range Spa's, to relax and unwind.
Grand Hotel Florida offers the amazing Zen Zone Spa. It's a day Spa which offers various spa treatments; from aromatherapy and facial treatments, to foot reflexology and acupuncture. It also has a spectacular view overlooking Barcelona, which gives a vibrant feel of health and wellness.
Rather than the usual booze cruise, why not consider watching a thrilling Flamenco Dance. El Tablo de Carmen is a flamenco restaurant where you can eat delicious traditional Spanish food and watch various performances of enthusiastic flamenco dances putting their heart and soul into the rhythm of the music.
Another classy thing you may want to put on your list is cocktail making. You can make your own signature cocktails, which is a great activity to do with the group. It's a night to remember, or not, depending on how many cheeky cocktails you knock back.
As previously mentioned, Barcelona can offer you various things depending on your tastes, and when it comes to food, it does not fail to please. If you are looking for fine dining then Tickets Bar is the place to be. Reviews say this restaurant has a "magical feel to it" the food is prepared with elite presentation and excellent service.
With these few recommendations given for a sophisticated hen party, let me not forget to recommend a souvenir for the way home.
Personalised polo shirts are more of a classy way to remember your time had in Barcelona, than the usual common t-shirts. Garment Printing is a fast and efficient garment printing company based in England, but also has print locations in Barcelona. We can print your classy hen party designs on top quality garments either before you go or have them delivered to your hotel once you've arrived in Barcelona.
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I've been to Barcelona lots of times and the city has so much to offer.


On a European river cruise, we offer you an unforgettable journey through time and culture, breaking through any obvious veneer to the real destination beyond. You will see the classic sights at each stop, many on guided tours, but you will also get acquainted with lesser-known places that are often even more intriguing. Our itineraries are tailored specifically to our clients' requirements, so you won't come across unwanted multi-lingual commentaries.
The highly engaging and informative excursions already included with your river cruise sometimes take you further afield, so you can fully experience and appreciate the destinations we visit. For example, we take you to baroque Salzburg with its storybook Old Town; to medieval Beaune, the wine capital of Burgundy where we enjoy a wine tasting; and to the scenic Puszta, where the beauty of the Hungarian Great Plain will take your breath away.
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Matt Every pumps his fist after draining a birdie putt at No. 18 during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Matt Every acknowledges the crowd at No. 18 during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Matt Every shares a laugh with Arnold Palmer at the trophy presentation at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Morgan Hoffmann during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Henrik Stenson during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Matt Every during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Matt Every with his caddie Derek Mason check the wind at No. 7 during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Matt Every with his family during the trophy presentation at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Matt Jones during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Sam Saunders during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Kevin Na during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Kiradech Aphibarnrat during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Rory McIlroy during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Rory McIlroy misses his putt at No. 8 during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Henrik Stenson missed his birdie putt at No. 18 during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Brooks Koepka leaves the course after his tee shot at No. 12 during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Morgan Hoffmann at No. 8 during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
The final group pairing of Henrik Stenson and Morgan Hoffmann during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
With so many friends and family members in the crowd on Sunday, Every struggled to bottle his emotions until the end.
"I know how hard it is to win and there's no time for that on the course, letting your emotions get you because it's just kind of a mess," he said.
Complete leaderboard
See how the final round unfolded at Bay Hill in Orlando, Fla., and be sure the scroll down to see coverage from the entire week:
Update No. 34, 5:59 p.m. ET:
Henrik Stenson's birdie slides by the hole at No. 18, leaving Matt Every with the title for the second consecutive year.
Henrik Stenson faces a birdie putt of just over 20 feet at the final hole to force a playoff with Matt Every.
The final group of Morgan Hoffmann and Henrik Stenson have reached No. 18. Hoffmann, gunning to make up two shots, perhaps, put his drive out of bounds. Stenson pulled 3-wood and landed safely in the fairway.
Very clutch birdie at No. 18 from Matt Every. That closes a final-round 66 and gets Every to 19 under. If Henrik Stenson, now one back, can't catch him over the next two holes, Every will defend his Arnold Palmer Invitational title.
Matt Every and Henrik Stenson are tied for the lead coming down the stretch. Both are 18 under, and Morgan Hoffmann, at 16 under, has a lot of ground to make up.
Update No. 29, 5 p.m. ET:
Back-to-back bogeys hurt for Morgan Hoffmann. He's lost considerable ground on Henrik Stenson. Hoffmann now trails by three shots with only five holes to play.
A birdie at No. 12 helped Henrik Stenson break out of the three-way tie. Stenson, at 19 under, is now the sole leader. Morgan Hoffmann, meanwhile, bogeyed No. 12 and fell back to 17 under.
Matt Every, Morgan Hoffmann, Henrik Stenson are all tied for the lead at 18 under. With no other player closer than four shots, this could be a great finish.
Meanwhile, a few groups ahead, Camilo Villegas holed out from the greenside bunker at No. 18 to make a birdie at get to 8 under.
In case you missed Zach Johnson's double eagle at No. 16, check out the footage below. Unfortunately, Johnson bogeyed the next two holes to finish the tournament at 12 under.
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Another birdie at No. 10 gets Matt Every to 17 under and tied for second with Henrik Stenson. Morgan Hoffmann maintains his slim one-shot lead entering the back nine.
Note that after Stenson and Every at 17 under, the leaderboard drops off. The next closest players are at 13 under.
Morgan Hoffmann just slid his birdie putt into the left side of the hole at No. 8 for a fifth birdie today. That gives him a two-shot edge on Henrik Stenson.
Defending champion Matt Every opened with bogey but made four birdies on the front to turn in 3 under. Every has reached 16 under, which means he trails leader Morgan Hoffmann by two shots and Henrik Stenson by one. He's very much in the game entering the back nine.
Morgan Hoffmann, by tapping in an 8-footer for birdie at No. 6, has just taken the lead from Henrik Stenson. Hoffmann is now 18 under.
Two-shot swing for the leaders at No. 5. Henrik Stenson bogeys to fall back to 17 under and Morgan Hoffmann birdies to get there. These men are now tied for the lead, with the next-closest player (Matt Every) at 15 under.
Zach Johnson already had one of the best rounds of the day going, but a double-eagle at the par-5 16th certainly helped it. Johnson is now 8 under in the final round and 14 under for the tournament, which is only four shots behind Henrik Stenson. Johnson even has a double bogey on his card today.
Another birdie at No. 4 for Henrik Stenson, and his lead is back to two shots. He'll be a hard player for Morgan Hoffmann to catch today.
An eagle at No. 6 moves Kiradech Aphibarnrat to 12 under, just five shots behind Henrik Stenson. Aphibarnrat is three groups behind the leaders, but seems he could still be in contention.
Morgan Hoffmann just rolled in a 10-footer for birdie at No. 3 to cut Henrik Stenson's lead to one shot. A lot of holes left for these two today. This could get interesting.
Ernie Els and Zach Johnson are still plugging away. Els just scored back-to-back birdies at Nos. 15 and 16 and is 5 under today. Johnson is 5 under after birdies at Nos. 10 and 12. Both men are now tied for seventh.
Henrik Stenson birdies the opening hole to move to 17 under. He still leads Morgan Hoffmann by two shots, though, as Hoffmann also birdied the hole. Game on, boys.
The leader, Henrik Stenson, is on the first hole, but Rory McIlroy is making a charge. McIlroy had to lay up at the par-5 sixth, but ended up making a 15-footer for birdie to move to 11 under, five back of Stenson.
Rickie Fowler capped a 3-under 69 with this birdie chip-in at the 18th:
Fowler finishes his tournament at 7 under.
Rory McIlroy birdies the par-5 fourth hole to move inside the top 10 at 10 under.
Speaking of Keegan, his double bogey at the second came after he received a two-shot penalty for brushing some sand away just off the putting surface. Bradley then hit his second shot out of bounds right.
This is how you start your day if you're Keegan Bradley:
Bradley's opening birdie moved him to 10 under, but he has since double-bogeyed No. 2 to drop back to 8 under.
Update No. 9, 1:13 p.m. ET:
Rory McIlroy opens with two pars and he heads to the par-4 third at 9 under, seven shots off the lead.
Update No. 8, 12:35 p.m. ET:
Our intrepid Man Out Front reports Brooks Koepka has withdrawn from the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Koepka had been battling a dislocated rib.
Look out for Nick Taylor. The Canadian is 4 under through eight holes and climbing the leaderboard quickly.
Others to watch? Ernie Els and Zach Johnson, who both are 3 under early in the round (especially Johnson, who is 3 under through four).
Update No. 6, 12 p.m. ET:
Jason Day had a slip-up with bogey at No. 7, but another birdie at No. 8 puts him right back on track. Day last played the Arnold Palmer Invitational in 2013, and was T-45 that year.
Update No. 5, 11:53 a.m. ET:
Back-to-back birdies for Webb Simpson at Nos. 3 and 4. That gets Simpson to 8 under, part of a tie for 17th.
Jason Day has made three consecutive birdies at Nos. 4, 5 and 6 to get to 8 under. That's still eight shots behind leader Henrik Stenson, who is a little more than two hours from the first tee. Danny Willett is also 3 under early in his front nine and 8 under for the tournament.
Erik Compton, Zac Blair and Gary Woodland are 1 under early in the day and moving up the leaderboard. Each player is up 10 spots, to 6 under and into a tie for 29th.
As things get started at Bay Hill, William McGirt is having the best early round. McGirt made the turn at 2 under, but is still only 1 under for the tournament.
As the final round gets underway at Bay Hill, take a look at the highlights from Saturday's third round:
Frustration marks Rory McIlroy's round at Bay Hill
A stretch of three straight bogeys derailed Rory McIlroy during the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Ernie Els' wild triple bogey at Bay Hill
Ernie Els made a 41-foot putt to save a triple bogey after a wild ride at No. 6.
Saunders bounces back in grandfather Arnie's backyard
Sam Saunders showed resolve during the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which is hosted by his grandfather.
Berger pulls off unique feat with albatross at Bay Hill
Daniel Berger made an albatross, eagle, birdie and par on the par 5s Saturday at Bay Hill.
Crowds wander past Arnold Palmer quotes during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Rory McIlroy tosses his club in the air at No. 18 after missing his birdie putt on Friday.
Padraig Harrington hits from the bunker at No. 7 during Friday's round.
Morgan Hoffmann hits his tee shot at No. 8 during the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Padraig Harrington hits his tee shot at No. 7 on Friday during the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Sam Saunders hits his tee shot at No. 1 during the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler walk up No. 18 during the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Danny Lee hits his tee shot at No. 8 on Friday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Morgan Hoffmann posted a 65 on Friday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Kiradech Aphibarnrat finishes Friday play at No. 18 during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
John Peterson during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
Morgan Hoffmann at No. 7 during the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Louis Oosthuizen at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
• Bound for glory, Hoffmann holds on to API lead
Morgan Hoffmann backed up an opening 66 with a 7-under 65 to keep his lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational Friday at Bay Hill.
• After dinner with Arnie, McIlroy heats up at Bay Hill
After dinner with Arnold Palmer the night before, Rory McIlroy carded a second-round, 6-under 66 Friday at Bay Hill to move into contention at Arnold Palmer Invitational.
• With luck and love at his side, Aphibarnrat returns to form at Bay Hill
After a nearly year-long slump mired by injury and lost confidence, Kiradech Aphibarnrat seems to be re-discovering his good luck on the golf course.
• Defending API champ Every finds his game again at Bay Hill
After a forgetful season so far, defending Arnold Palmer Invitational champion Matt Every has found his game again at Bay Hill.
• North Florida's M.J. Maguire plans to turn pro after missed API cut
M.J. Maguire, a former North Florida men's college golfer, plans to turn professional after missing the cut at the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.
• Recap: Hoffmann keeps lead, McIlroy cards 66 at Bay Hill
Morgan Hoffmann shot 7-under 65 to keep his lead Friday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational while Rory McIlroy and Henrik Stenson went low at Bay Hill.
After grandmother's death, Hoffmann takes lead at Bay Hill
Morgan Hoffmann opened with a 66 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
McIlroy encouraged after first-round 70 at Bay Hill
Rory McIlroy is encouraged by his opening-round 70 in his first appearance at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
After health scare, Gamez starts new chapter at Bay Hill
Robert Gamez is happy to be at Bay Hill after heart surgery in June.
Na claws his way onto Bay Hill's leaderboard
Kevin Na posted a low score at Bay Hill after using an unusual putting technique.
Poulter shoots 67 at Bay Hill with son's health on mind
Ian Poulter got off to a strong start at Bay Hill after spending the night with his son in the hospital.
Jason Kokrak feels the 'good vibes' at Bay Hill
Jason Kokrak finds success once again at Bay Hill.
Kisner scrambles to Bay Hill and posts 69
Kevin Kisner headed to Bay Hill on short notice after Bubba Watson's withdrawal and shot a 69 on the first day.
Sam and The King: A coming-of-age tale at Bay Hill
Arnold Palmer and Sam Saunders, each his own man, enter Bay Hill week with a special kind of bond. Through the years, it has become stronger than ever.
Watson WDs from Bay Hill after death of childhood friend
Defending Masters champion Bubba Watson withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Wednesday afternoon, citing the death of a childhood friend.
McIlroy's face on EA Sports game: 'A great honor'
Rory McIlroy is the new face of the EA Sports 2015 PGA Tour golf video game, but the World No. 1 doesn't believe fans should read too much into his replacement of Tiger Woods.
Blue Angels to buzz Bay Hill during Arnold Palmer Invitational
Rory McIlroy in Nike Golf Club apparel.
Tiger Woods in Nike Golf Club apparel.
Thorbjorn Olesen in Nike Golf Club apparel.
Patrick Rodgers in Nike Golf Club apparel.
Nike Golf Club apparel.
On Thursday March 19, golf fans are going to get more than booming golf shots in the air at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The Blue Angels are scheduled to fly over the course Thursday morning.
McIlroy relishes Bay Hill debut, with eye on Augusta
Rory McIlroy calls his first start in the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational "a long time coming."
Woods phoned Bay Hill regrets straight to The King
Tiger Woods' phone call to Arnold Palmer in advance of the PGA Tour stop at Bay Hill wasn't lost on The King, even if Woods was calling merely to say his game wasn't ready.
Watson considers himself pressure-free entering Masters
Pressure is everywhere at Augusta National, but in Bubba Watson's viewpoint, he won't feel it as much as Rory McIlroy might.
Westwood's WGC record good, but not Tiger-good
Lee Westwood has played in 50 World Golf Championship events and while he's not won any of them, he's earned $5,557,175. Compare that to Tiger Woods, who's won 18 times and made $25,704,889 in 44 WGC starts.
After Valspar charge, O'Hair enters Bay Hill a new man
Playing in his 10th Arnold Palmer Invitational, Sean O'Hair sounded more like the seasoned veteran than the 24-year-old kid who teed it up for the first time in 2006.
Tiger, Phil and other world rankings observations
Tiger Woods will likely be ranked around No. 104 if he returns for the Masters while Phil Mickelson could also enter Augusta in the middle of a world rankings slide.
Bay Hill field, by the rankings
A look at the Arnold Palmer Invitational field, according to the Golfweek/Sagarin Ranking and Official World Golf Ranking.
DraftKings Fantasy Tip Sheet: Arnold Palmer Invitational
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy highlights the field for the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge in Orlando, Fla.
Peterson: 'If I wasn't playing golf, I'd be in the military'
John Peterson, 25, is trying to make a career in professional golf, but the former NCAA champion from LSU thinks about making the jump to the military if his golf career doesn't prosper.
In Masters rivalries, Woods-Mickelson among the best
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson own a spot on the list of greatest Masters rivalries of all time, but is their era over at Augusta National?
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Spieth moves to sixth in world rankings; Tiger continues fall
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English among those still playing for Masters invite via world rankings
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Tiger explains why he chewed gum in Masters win
Geoff Shackelford
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Add gum to the Tiger Woods lore.
Until Sunday in Augusta, Woods had never won a major coming from behind. And now the 2019 Masters champion has won his first major chewing gum from beginning to end.
"Well, I'm chomping on this gum because I usually get hungry, I keep eating so much, and it curbs my appetite a little bit, which is nice," Woods said. "Most of the time, most of the issues I have at tournaments, I lose so much weight, as you all know."
A quibbler might point out that chewing gum should help with him...
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from mlflow.entities._mlflow_object import _MLflowObject
from mlflow.protos.service_pb2 import RunTag as ProtoRunTag

class RunTag(_MLflowObject):
    """Tag object associated with a run."""

    def __init__(self, key, value):
        self._key = key
        self._value = value

    def __eq__(self, other):
        if type(other) is type(self):
            # TODO deep equality here?
            return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
        return False

    @property
    def key(self):
        """String name of the tag."""
        return self._key

    @property
    def value(self):
        """String value of the tag."""
        return self._value

    def to_proto(self):
        param = ProtoRunTag()
        param.key = self.key
        param.value = self.value
        return param

    @classmethod
    def from_proto(cls, proto):
        return cls(proto.key, proto.value)


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When I was growing up we had a poster in our basement of two hobos in an alley. The one says to the other, "If you're so darn smart, then why ain't you rich?" It is funny how an image like that sticks in your head for your entire life, and eventually we might actually come to believe it. I think the corollary is even more true. People who are rich think they are so darn smart. Recently, Mark Cuban, who has a reported net worth in the $3 billion range, put out a weblog telling people not to follow their passions and that it was the biggest mistake they could make in life. I had sort of a visceral response because I had just spent the last few months of my life pursuing my passion and writing a book about passion (A Greater Passion will not be out until sometime next year). You see, I have become passionate about passion. For me it is a game changer. It is the fuel of life and is that one thing that motivates us to excel in life. All great achievement in our world comes from passionate people. Every advancement in a field of study, every great athletic achievement and every true innovation comes from some passionate person that has thrown their entire life into a particular pursuit. There are virtually no examples of those who bumped through life like Forrest Gump and ended up making any meaningful difference.
Mark Cuban made his big money when he sold his internet streaming company Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 B in 1999. By 2002 the service was basically kaput and Yahoo had flushed those $ billions down the drain. Great timing for sure! I can't fault Cuban for that. Cuban is one of the starring cast on Shark Tank the American spin off version of the Canadian TV show Dragons Den. I am not sure who I find more annoying, him or Kevin O'Leary, but still I go back for more. Shame on me. I find both these men condescending, dismissive and demeaning of people who have worked passionately to bring some new and innovative idea to the marketplace. Many have invested their life's savings in money, time and energy in their ideas only to be told that they are 'poo poo on a stick'. If you think about it, these are the kind of entrepreneurs that create real jobs and bring real productivity to our society, as opposed to stock shorting hedge funds or the dot.com bubble companies that produce artificial wealth through hyperbolic IPO's (initial public offerings) all at the expense of poor slobs like us that don't know any better than to jump on the band wagon.
Okay, maybe I am not rich enough to follow his one dimensional logic, but we can all see his self-evident point, being passionate is not enough. You have to also be good at something and that will take effort! But where would one get the motivation to put in all that effort? The answer is PASSION. If I am a cabinet maker but have no passion for my craft what will drive me to put in the effort? And if for some reason I accidentally put in an extraordinary effort and become the world's greatest cabinet maker, but don't love what I am doing. what virtue would there be in that? Cuban said when he was younger he was passionate about basketball but he was not good enough to play in the NBA. Does he not see the irony in his example? He OWNS the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team! Maybe he wasn't good enough to play the game, but he continued to pursue his passion until he bought a team. He relentlessly follows HIS passion and then has the temerity to advise others not to! Don't tell me he is not playing vicariously through his players, every owner does.
If Cuban was really honest with himself, he would also realize that his real passion has been money, and he has spent most of his adult life pursuing it. Even on Shark Tank, he will only invest in something that has a huge financial upside. He will almost never invest in a project just because it is something virtuous or noble. The bottom line is, people do pursue their passions. We are divinely wired to do so. Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart." Desire is just another word for passion. I like to interpret this slightly differently. I don't believe it says that God will give us whatever our little heart desires but the inverse, that if we delight ourselves in the Lord, the desires (passions) we will have in our heart, God will put there. The words passion or desire are used hundreds of times in scriptures, because guess what, people pursue their passions. It is practically the only thing they pursue. It is the reason Jesus said, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these (worldly) things shall be added to you." (Mattt 6:33) Jesus' core message was to try to redirect people's passions to something of eternal value. The most important passions in life have nothing to do with material gain. They are things like our family, our friends, our co-workers and the way we serve other people in this world. And the greatest passions are not the things we do for ourselves but the things that we do for other people. The only thing we really leave behind in this world is the difference we have made in the lives of others. That is something worth being passionate about. Mark Hughes will never be as rich, famous, or even as smart as Mark Cuban. But I still think Cuban has given people terrible advice. If he's so darn rich, then why ain't he smart?


The Social Body Lab offers a residency opportunity to select makers from diverse backgrounds. This gives residents access to the lab facilities and community while the residents bring new ideas and practices in the lab.
Re:Familiar is an outfit that reimagines drones as witch's familiars. Like familiars, drones are servant, spy and companion all at once. The two drones follow the model, and surround her with billowing silk chiffon covered in generative glitch patterns. Re:Familiar is an outfit that creates wonder and delight by incorporating quadcopters that a cape-like train around and above the wearer. Two tethered drones follow the wearer, suspending the cape. She can control the drones, and when she reaches the end of the runway, they fly high in the air, unfurling the colourful silk far from her body. This outfit is being developed for Make Fashion 2017.
Bio: Little Dada is a group of creative technologists based in Toronto, made up of OCADu faculty Lindy Wilkins and Hillary Predko. Their work ranges from geometric installations to wearable technology, and infuses the spirit of dadaism with whimsical elements to create electronic and digital artwork. Their work has been featured in festivals, galleries, and publications around North America.
Can data feeds become stylish and wearable? Can (and how does) our clothing become enhanced through the inclusion of Internet capabilities? In this residency, Erin Lewis explores the potential of wearing an online real-time data set through its complete integration into a garment. Utilizing textile-based and soft circuit techniques as well as electronics design, Erin is creating a wearable artwork connected to the 3G network. This work will intersect areas of data visualization (or "data materialization"), wearable technology, and electronic textiles. In this work, the use of a real-time or near-real-time data feed will both conceptually and functionally direct the behaviour of embedded electronics in the garment.
The intelligence and sophistication of the woven fabrics within our everyday world and the ever growing field of micro-electronics has inspired me to delve deeper into the study of performance textiles and their capacity to transform the way we live. In this project I aim to collapse the boundaries of science, engineering, and craft to create an artwork that imbues meaning onto textiles while shedding light on their transformative value as artifacts that carry within them societal knowledge.
For the purpose of this project, I intend to move beyond the two-dimensional surface of textile and create a wearable that transforms on the body and changes the perception of viewer about their everyday apparel.
Developing this piece involves using traditional techniques of hand weaving while incorporating fibre-optics, sensors, and other electronic components into the structure of the garment. The fibre-optics are woven in different patterns into the fabric and then used as a textile to create a garment.
The interaction between this article of clothing and the environment, the wearer and the spectator will depend on the light sensors embedded in its structure. Depending on the data received from the light sensors the garment will then respond by projecting different light patterns.
As the wearer becomes invisible in darkness, the dress becomes alive and signifies the wearer's presence. . This dress is to bring back the absent body from darkness and give life back to its wearer.
Oldouz Moslemian is a textile artist and designer. She has a background in Industrial Design and has graduated with a Bachelor of Design from OCAD University in MAAD-Textile program. Oldouz uses textiles as her primary site of exploration, while incorporating other materials and technologies into their structure to create unique fabrics that respond to their surroundings.


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Q: Saving large image to filesystem with emgu CV I am trying to save a large image (2048 x 2048 pixels) from a C# software to the filesystem using the emgu cv library:
var mat = new Mat( pathToFile, ImreadModes.GrayScale );
mat.Save( "imagename.png" );

The second line of the code snippet throws an exception with the message

System.ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid. at
  System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 stride,
  PixelFormat format, IntPtr scan0)

I found out, that the size of the image can be a problem, when the save() function creates a bitmap.
What other possibilites do you suggest, to save the Mat-image onto the filesystem?
Note that I the Image is not already stored in the filesystem as my code snippet implies. I am receiving it from a camera.

A: In fact the problem was not the size of the image. Before saving the image, some strange settings were made to the camera what made all taken pictures unreadable.
Now it works.


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Home » 12 terrorism suspects nabbed sneaking across southern border, according to DHS data
12 terrorism suspects nabbed sneaking across southern border, according to DHS data
January 6, 2023 3 Mins Read United States
Border Patrol agents caught 12 illegal immigrants in November whose names popped on the terrorism watchlist, according to new data revealed this week by the Department of Homeland Security.
That's up from nine terrorism suspects nabbed in October and brings the total to 21 through the first two months of the fiscal year.
That is well above the pace of last year, which set a record with 98 terrorism suspects nabbed.
By contrast, from 2017 to 2020 — roughly matching the years of the Trump administration — Border Patrol agents caught a total of just 11 terrorism suspects at the southern border.
The new numbers were revealed just as President Biden prepares to make his first trip to the border as president on Sunday. He is expected to tout his plan to welcome some migrants through a newly created immigration system while embracing Trump-era tools to block others from gaining a foothold in the U.S.
Border experts say the rising number of terrorism suspects detected is worrying because it signals more are probably getting through. They say those getting caught either made a mistake or didn't know they were on the watch list.
November saw Border Patrol agents make 206,239 arrests of people crossing the southern border illegally — a record for the month.
Rep.-elect James Comer, a Kentucky Republican poised to become chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee when the new Congress is sworn in, laid blame for the grim statistics at the feet of the Biden administration.
"President Biden's radical open borders policies have created a national security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border," he said in a statement to The Washington Times. "Those wishing our country and citizens harm are seeking to exploit chaos at the border and enter the United States undetected."
The terrorism data is usually part of Customs and Border Protection's monthly operations update. In this case, most of the November numbers were released the week before Christmas, but the terrorism numbers weren't updated until Thursday.
Homeland Security previously considered the numbers too sensitive to release. It reversed that stance and began to publish them after high-profile claims in 2021 by Republicans on Capitol Hill that terrorism suspects were attempting to sneak in amid the border chaos.
The Border Patrol covers the area between official border crossings.
CBP's Office of Field Operations, which staffs the official ports of entry, reported encountering 15 terrorism suspects at the southern ports of entry in October and November combined. It tallied 69 encounters at northern border crossings.
If those trends continue, both would set year-long records.
Experts tell The Times that those numbers, while higher than the Border Patrol's apprehensions, may include multiple entries for the same person — often someone U.S. authorities already have their eye on.
The Border Patrol apprehensions are considered more worrying because they represent people who were trying to sneak in without going through an official border crossing.
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i am doing some testings with edge and i was woundering how i could use device independent timing in a game for animations, moving, input, etc.
i noticed the timedelta variable in the onnextframe loop, what is the best way to use it?
When using the timedelta parameter it's a good idea to measure animations in "units" rather than pixels (because the timedelta variable is usually bigger than the amount of pixels to move). It's not a good idea to divide the timedelta parameter, because the amount of movement may be 0 if the timedelta parameter contains a low value (this will be the case if the game runs at a high fps).
For example, when using sprites, update the x-position of the sprite using timedelta (sprite->x += timedelta). When drawing, convert the "unit position" back to the position in pixels and draw it onscreen.


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Daniel Jacobs (ur. 3 lutego 1987 roku w Brownsville) – amerykański bokser, były mistrz świata WBA Regular oraz były mistrz świata federacji IBF w wadze średniej.

Kariera amatorska
Na amatorskim ringu wygrał 137 walk i poniósł tylko 7 porażek. W 2003 roku wygrał młodzieżowe igrzyska Stanów Zjednoczonych. Cztery razy wygrał też "złote rękawice" Nowego Jorku.

Kariera zawodowa
Na zawodowym ringu zadebiutował 7 grudnia 2007 roku na wielkiej gali Mayweather vs. Hatton w Las Vegas. Jego rywalem był Jose Jesus Hurtado. Jacobs znokautował swojego oponenta już w 29 sekundzie.

Po dwudziestu kolejnych zawodowych zwycięstwach dostał szansę walki o wakujący tytuł mistrza świata organizacji WBO, mając za rywala niepokonanego Dmitrija Piroga. Przegrał przez nokaut w piątej rundzie.

Po kilku walkach na odbudowanie, stanął przed szansą walki o wakujący pas regularnego mistrza świata organizacji WBA. Tym razem jego oponentem był Australijczyk Jarrod Fletcher. Swojego rywala rzucił na deski już w pierwszej rundzie, a walkę zakończył przez nokaut w piątej.

5 grudnia 2015 roku w trzeciej obronie pasa WBA Regular spotkał się w ringu z niepokonanym wcześniej Peterem Quillinem. Walka została nazwana w mediach "Bitwą o Nowy Jork". Jacobs od początku walki ruszył do zdecydowanego ataku, co przyniosło efekt zamierzony efekt - zasypanego gradem ciosów Quillina w pierwszej rundzie poddał sędzia.

18 marca 2017 roku przystąpił do walki o pasy WBC, WBA, IBF w wadze średniej z Gennadijem Gołowkinem (36-0, 33 KO). Walka była dość wyrównana, ale sędziowie po dwunastu rundach jednogłośnie opowiedzieli się za zwycięstwem Kazacha (113-114, 112-115, 112-115).

11 listopada 2017 roku w Uniondale udanie powrócił na ringu, wygrywając jednogłośnie na punkty (118-109, 120-107, 119-108) z Luisem Ariasem (18-0, 9 KO).

28 kwietnia 2018 w Barclays Centre, Brooklynie, zmierzył się z Maciem Sulęckim (26-1, 10 KO). Po interesujących dwunastu rundach Amerykanin zwyciężył jednogłośnie na punkty (116-111, 117-110, 115-112).

27 października 2018 w nowojorskim Madison Square Garden Theater, pokonał  na punkty Siergieja Derewianczenkę (12-1, 10 KO). Sędziowie punktowali walkę dwa razy 115-112 na jego korzyść i 113-114 dla Ukraińca. Dzięki temu zwycięstwu zdobył wakujący pas mistrza świata organizacji IBF.

Walka unifikacyjna z Saulem Alvarezem
4 maja 2019 T-Mobile Arena w Las Vegas przegrał na punkty 113-115, 112-116, 113-115 z Saúlem Álvarezem (52-1-2, 35 KO). Stawką pojedynku były mistrzowskie pasy federacji WBC, WBA, oraz IBF, które tym samym powędrowały w ręce pięściarza z Meksyku..

Problemy zdrowotne
W marcu 2011 roku zdiagnozowano u niego złośliwy nowotwór tkanki kostnej. Po hospitalizacji pokonał chorobę, i wbrew przewidywaniom lekarzy wrócił do wyczynowego sportu.

Przypisy

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Urodzeni w 1987

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Welcome back to all !
Many thanks to Volker Pittlik for all he has done for the computer chess community. I'll keep this place running from now on. The spirit of the Winboard Forum is the same as before, and so are the general rules.
Roger Brown is the moderator of the Winboard Forum. The policy is very simple : please behave like civilized people.


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Curating the Anzac Centenaries: War, Memory and the Museum
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As the centenaries of the Great War come to an end, two leading Melbourne museum curators reflect on how museums have represented the experience of Australians at war over the last few years.As Director of Exhibitions and Collections at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance, Jean McAuslan has played a central role in shaping the Shrine's response to the Anzac centenaries.
As Deputy Head of Humanities (Exhibitions) at Museums Victoria, Deborah Tout-Smith was Lead Curator for the World War I: Love & Sorrow exhibition at Melbourne Museum.
Facilitator Alistair Thomson from History at Monash University is author of Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (1994 and 2013) and was a member of the advisory team for Love and Sorrow.
Together they will discuss: How have museums responded to the challenges and opportunities posed by the Great War centenaries? How have museum visitors experienced the war centenary exhibitions? To what extent and in what ways have museums sought to reshape what we know of and how we respond to that war and its impacts?
The audience at this seminar will have the opportunity to present their own insights and to ask questions of the panellists.
Click here to make a reservation..
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The Australian Imperial Force Volume 5 of The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War series Jean Bou, Peter Dennis; Paul Dalgleish – Book Review


Holed stones are upright slabs that contain a circular hole. They are considered to be Bronze Age circa 2500 – 1600 BC, as many of them seem to be associated with nearby Bronze Age sites. Their purpose is a complete mystery, and although it has been suggested that they might have been part of a burial chamber there is no evidence for this. The Men-an-Tol is the most famous holed stone in Penwith, large enough for a person to crawl through. It is associated with many folk legends of fertility, divination and healing.


Established in 1980, Tatuus Racing S.p.A is one of the leading Italian designers and producers of single-seater wheels discovered for a brand or open championships.
The company has demonstrated its ability to adapt to market changes by creating cars that are always admired for performance and design.
Tatuus is perceived as synonymous with safety, performance, efficiency and dedication, the company has recently been awarded as one of the 3 best chassis manufacturers in the world, these results have been possible thanks to supplier like Sabelt, important partner of these successes.