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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Colket Translational Research Building
CHoP's latest state-of-the-art laboratory space hosts the Children's Hospital's Center for Childhood Cancer Research and Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, departments that turn pediatric science into medical innovation. The Colket Translational Research Building (CTRB) is the first of CHoP's south campus expansion. This $496 million research tower is comprised of four laboratory floors, a two-story ground floor lobby, cafeteria, conference space, and four administrative office floors. The building has been designed to anticipate future growth and expand an additional 27-stories.
Enclos provided a comprehensive design/build program for the building facade, which is comprised primarily of a custom unitized curtainwall system, including wall types with integrated terracotta. The CTRB design program maximizes transparency, allowing seventy-five percent of the building's floor space to include natural daylighting and views to the exterior. The tower balances this transparency with energy savings by means of windows and roofing that retain heat in the winter and reflect it throughout the summer. This crucial facade design was a primary contributor to the project's LEED silver certification award from the USGBC.
Abundance of Daylight
The prefabricated custom glass curtainwall covering the CTRB's 12-story facades allows seventy-five percent of the building's floor space to include natural daylighting and views to the exterior. The aluminum frames host typically host an infill that is a 1˝ insulated glass unit. Other locations of the facade integrate terracotta panels in a rain-screen configuration. The interchange of infill materials is designed in a way that allows the same unitized aluminum frame system that installs efficiently to be used throughout the project.
Impressionable Entrances
The use of structural glass facades at the entryways is another expression of transparency and connection between interior and exterior. A 20´ tension cable acts as a vertical mullion behind each glass joint. The cable has a custom designed cast stainless steel fitting that reaches to and retains the glass lites utilizing a point-fixed drilled connection – glass bolts. The ability to provide structural glass facade solutions with in-house design and structural expertise is one Enclos is proud to offer.
CTRB's entrance-way incorporates a single-story structural glass facade that again maximizes transparency and natural daylighting. The system includes a point-fixed vertical cable mullion wall that creates an openness to the corridor by tying into the building's door frames.
Healthcare, Research
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Turner Construction Company
LeMessurier
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Independent candidate A Sumalatha from Mandya has no knowledge of the law. The allegations made by her, against the deputy commissioner, in connection with JD(S) candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy, shows her ignorance, said JD(S) state spokesperson S L Bhoje Gowda.
Speaking at a press conference in Chikkamagaluru on Monday, he said that the allegation on influencing the district returning officer to allot a favourable serial number for Nikhil is totally baseless. Section 38 of the representation of the people act says that the name of the candidates from political parties should be mentioned in the list first. The names of independent candidates will appear later. The list has been prepared accordingly.
Sumalatha has been misleading the people by alleging that H D Kumaraswamy has misused his power, he said.
A Sumalatha's election agent Madan Kumar had sought relevant records from the returning officer and Mandya observer J Ranjith Kumar has provided a written document of five pages. The accusations are wrong. There is no confusion as per the official records. If the reply by the officer is wrong, the same can be questioned in the court, said Bhoje Gowda.
He further stated that H D Kumaraswamy will deliver speeches as a part of the campaign for Udupi-Chikmagalur coalition candidate in Sringeri, Tarikere, Mudigere and Chikkamagaluru.
A public meet will be held in Chikkamagaluru. JD(S) president Deve Gowda and former chief minister Siddaramaiah will take part, the MLC added.
JD(S) leaders H D Devraj, Chandrappa, Vinay, Dinesh and Lakshman were present at the press conference.


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As part of its reporting on the outcome of the treaty renewals in property and casualty reinsurance as at 1 January 2018, Hannover Re also releases an update on its guidance for the 2017 financial year.
All in all, the renewal season passed off successfully for Hannover Re. Against the backdrop of an improved general environment, the premium volume in traditional property and casualty reinsurance, i.e. excluding facultative reinsurance, ILS business and structured reinsurance, was boosted by 12.7%. Based on the current status of year-end closing activities, Hannover Re now anticipates Group net income of around EUR 950 million for the 2017 financial year. "Even though this result falls short of the previous year's figure, it can nevertheless be considered satisfactory if we bear in mind that 2017 was dominated by natural catastrophe events which caused insured losses substantially in excess of USD 100 billion", Ulrich Wallin, Chief Executive Officer of Hannover Re, commented. The company will publish its annual financial statement on 13 March 2018.
The treaty renewals as at 1 January 2018 were shaped by the very substantial natural catastrophe losses of 2017, which took a heavy toll on the results recorded by reinsurers. After several years of declining reinsurance prices, reinsurers consequently aim to push the overall price level higher. On the whole, these efforts proved successful. Even under loss-free reinsurance programmes from scarcely impacted regions, for example, it was generally possible to obtain a premium at least on a par with the previous year. Furthermore, moderate premium increases were booked for a large number of reinsurance treaties that had been spared losses. The rate hikes achieved under loss-impacted programmes sometimes reached double-digit percentages. On the other hand, reinsurers and also the ILS markets did not scale back the available capacity in any area; quite the contrary, in many instances even more capacity was offered. This excess supply relative to demand meant that rate rises generally remained on the moderate side, as a consequence of which it was still not always possible to secure prices that were commensurate with the risks. Despite this, the rate quality in the reinsurance market improved as at 1 January 2018. As a result, significantly more favourable business opportunities presented themselves to Hannover Re – as one of the leading players in the reinsurance market – than had been the case in the previous year.
"The outcome of the treaty renewals puts in place a solid platform for achieving the goals that we have set for 2018", Mr. Wallin emphasised. "In the negotiations we were able to obtain the necessary price increases, expand strategic cooperations and enlarge our shares, thereby generating further growth in many lines of business." Premium growth was particularly marked in Asia and the United Kingdom. Attractive opportunities to expand the portfolio also opened up in North America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe as well as in the areas of financial solutions and cyber risks. Despite the pleasing development in property and casualty reinsurance, the profitability of the treaties still takes precedence over pure premium growth.
Of the total premium volume booked in the previous year in traditional property and casualty reinsurance (excluding facultative business and structured reinsurance) amounting to EUR 7,130 million, treaties with a volume of altogether EUR 4,654 million were up for renewal as at 1 January 2018. Of this, a premium volume of EUR 4,290 million was renewed, while treaties worth EUR 610 million were either cancelled or renewed in modified form. Including increases of EUR 711 million from new treaties and from changes in prices and treaty shares, the total renewed premium volume thus came in at EUR 5,247 million; at constant exchange rates this is equivalent to an increase of 12.7% in traditional reinsurance. Overall, i.e. including structured reinsurance, growth of 21.8% was booked as at 1 January 2018.
The renewals in North American business passed off thoroughly satisfactorily for Hannover Re. The pressure came off rates, with price increases recorded for covers that had been spared losses as well as for those that had been impacted. The rate increases obtained for loss-affected programmes were, however, more modest than had initially been anticipated. In US property business the company was able to expand its portfolio at commensurate prices; most notably, new customer relationships and hence new business made up for restructuring activities in connection with other programmes. Casualty business fared well, with improvements in terms and conditions seen across a broad front. Rates remained stable or rose slightly. In addition, attractive new business was booked here. Premium growth was generated in both US property and liability business. The treaty renewals also passed off favourably in Canada, where the losses incurred in previous years prompted further rate increases. The Canadian portfolio grew despite certain clients carrying higher retentions, in part because the company was able to renew some accounts with increased treaty shares. The total premium volume for North America rose by 5.9%.
In Germany, the largest single market within the segment of Continental Europe, Hannover Re maintained its leading position through its subsidiary E+S Rück. There was some slight improvement in terms and conditions overall. In view of the pleasing development in the motor line the company was able to book further premium increases here, while shares were scaled back in other lines. The area of cyber covers benefited from greater risk awareness and a pick-up in demand among customers. Reinsurance protection provided for start-up enterprises also developed favourably. All in all, the premium volume booked in German business remained stable.
The treaty renewals in Central and Eastern Europe passed off successfully; loss-affected covers, in particular, saw significant increases. In the markets of Western Europe the renewal phase was highly satisfactory and Hannover Re enlarged its market share.
The total premium volume in the Continental Europe segment increased by 8.7%.
After the appreciable rate declines seen in previous rounds of renewals in marine reinsurance, premiums recovered somewhat on the back of changed market conditions; this was primarily due to the natural catastrophe losses incurred in this line. In most instances the programmes up for renewal continued unchanged or with slightly increased rates; the premium volume grew by 6.2%. Overall, Hannover Re is satisfied with the renewals in marine reinsurance.
The aviation line showed greater stability, but was still intensely competitive. On the whole, the pace of rate erosion here slowed. For the most part programmes were renewed at unchanged treaty terms and conditions. While the premium volume decreased slightly by 3.3%, the profitability of the company's own portfolio is acceptable.
The outcome of the treaty renewals in credit and surety reinsurance and in the area of political risks was gratifying. As in the previous years, existing customer relationships were expanded and new clients acquired. Prices and conditions in all three lines were stable or slightly improved. The premium volume for this portfolio grew by 4.0%.
The company is highly satisfied with the renewal of business written in the United Kingdom and on the London Market. The higher liability expenditures for personal injury claims in the UK last year triggered the hikes in motor premiums that were needed to secure the profitability of this business going forward. The increases in non-proportional motor business nevertheless still fell short of Hannover Re's expectations, prompting the company to reduce its shares. Property business impacted by natural catastrophes recorded pleasing rate rises. On the liability side, too, appreciable rate increases were obtained. The company boosted its premium income by altogether 14.4%.
The competitive climate was broadly unchanged across the markets of the Asia-Pacific region. Hannover Re was able to maintain a stable position in the various markets; significant expansion was even possible in China thanks to a large-volume transaction. In addition, Hannover Re wrote a substantial share in a proportional reinsurance programme in Australia, hence resulting in appreciable premium gains in this region. Altogether, the anticipated premium income in the Asia-Pacific region grew by 57%.
The large losses incurred in natural catastrophe business gave a corresponding boost to prices: increases were obtained under both loss-impacted and claims-free programmes, although they did not entirely live up to market expectations. Hannover Re enlarged its premium volume in total natural catastrophe business by 7.0%.
In structured reinsurance the demand for reinsurance solutions offering solvency relief was once again exceptionally pleasing. Hannover Re booked substantial premium growth of 53% here.
In total, the business line global reinsurance recorded significant premium increases of 35.3 %.
The company currently expects Group net income of around EUR 950 million for the 2017 financial year; a level of roughly EUR 800 million had been anticipated. The increase in gross premium is in the order of 9% and hence in line with expectations. As regards the return on investment, the company had targeted a figure in excess of 3.0% and now expects 3.8%. The dividend for 2017 should be on a par with the previous year at EUR 5.00 per share.
Hannover Re is looking to the 2018 financial year with optimism. The company is very well placed to act on opportunities in the course of the current year. Further price increases should be attainable in subsequent rounds of renewals within the year in view of the elevated claims activity.
The company anticipates currency-adjusted growth in gross premium in the single-digit percentage range for 2018 on account of the favourable renewals outcome. The return on investment is expected to be around 2.7% and Group net income should be in excess of EUR 1 billion. All statements remain subject to the proviso that large loss expenditure does not exceed the budgeted level of EUR 825 million and that there are no unforeseen distortions on capital markets. Hannover Re envisages a payout ratio for the dividend in the range of 35% to 40% of its IFRS Group net income. This figure will increase in light of capital management considerations if the company's comfortable level of capitalisation remains unchanged.


Purpose: Sperm nuclear proteins and DNA integrity have been implicated in infertility and treatment failures. High stallion to stallion variability is observed in sperm cryopreservation protocols. The cells are destroyed with harsh chemicals prior to using biochemical assays to test sperm DNA quality. The feasibility of using Raman spectrometry in combination with a laser trap for non-destructive micromanipulation and characterization of DNA damage in motile stallion and human sperm is experimentally investigated in this thesis. Methods: Live stallion sperms were subjected to controlled cellular damage: (a) four grades of chemically induced oxidative stress using Xanthine – Xanthine Oxidase (b) three grades of osmotic stress using PBS and (c) membrane damage using thermal shock. Live human sperm DNA disintegration with time and oxidative stress were explored on fresh, cryopreserved and swim-up categories. The specimens ranged from sub-fertile patients to fertile donors in a limited study. Post-treatment sperms resuspended in sperm media, placed on a quartz coverslip were trapped with a 785 nm, 25 mW laser, using a 1.4 NA, 60X, water immersion microscope objective. A Raman spectrum of a trapped cell was acquired for 20 – 30 seconds. The spectra from 20 – 40 cells from each specimen were analysed in the 630 cm-1 – 1630 cm-1 region using statistical variance and PCA. Results: The Raman spectra from trapped motile sperm head contain intense peaks that did not require smoothing prior to analysis. PCA of the Raman spectra could not resolve the different grades of applied osmotic and oxidative stress in stallion cells. PCA showed high variability between specimens from the same stallion and between stallions, with distinct clustering by ejaculate. Membrane damage study and spectra from extended trapping also showed distinct specimen to specimen difference within and between stallions. Specimen to specimen variability is observed in motility and viability tests on 1000s of stallion cells using CASA and flow cytometry. Human sperms showed some clustering by category, time, stress and motility and appeared more sensitive to the tests than stallion sperms. Conclusions: Raman spectra originate from the dense region of the trapped sperm head and resemble the fingerprint of dense calf thymus DNA. The cells show species specific response to the applied stress/damage. Stallion sperms show high variability between ejaculates that could not be differentiated by stallions. Human cells appear more sensitive to the applied processes. LTRS of live sperms needs further detailed research, cross correlated with other established complementary techniques, to identify spectral bands that are most sensitive to the various grades of induced DNA and membrane damage.


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Alyssa has been added to the Riverbank girls basketball roster.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Livingston.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Thursday's home conference game against Livingston (CA) by a score of 51-19.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Tuesday's away conference game against Ripon Christian (Ripon, CA) by a score of 51-28.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Hughson.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Thursday's home conference game against Hughson (CA) by a score of 62-26.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball @ Ripon.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Tuesday's away conference game against Ripon (CA) by a score of 62-18.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball @ Escalon.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Thursday's away conference game against Escalon (CA) by a score of 47-38.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Hilmar.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Tuesday's home conference game against Hilmar (CA) by a score of 46-38.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball @ Livingston.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Thursday's away conference game against Livingston (CA) by a score of 64-21.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Ripon Christian.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Tuesday's home conference game against Ripon Christian (Ripon, CA) by a score of 51-21.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball @ Hughson.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Tuesday's away conference game against Hughson (CA) by a score of 53-25.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Ripon.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Thursday's home conference game against Ripon (CA) by a score of 57-25.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Escalon.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Thursday's home conference game against Escalon (CA) by a score of 52-45.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball @ Hilmar.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Tuesday's away conference game against Hilmar (CA) by a score of 52-49.
Alyssa's basketball stats have been updated for the loss vs. Dos Palos.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. Dos Palos.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Saturday's neutral tournament game against Dos Palos (CA) by a score of 37-29.
Alyssa's basketball stats have been updated for the loss vs. El Capitan.
RESULTLoss Girls varsity basketball vs. El Capitan.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team lost Friday's neutral tournament game against El Capitan (Merced, CA) by a score of 71-24.
Alyssa's basketball stats have been updated for the win vs. Ceres.
RESULTWin Girls varsity basketball vs. Ceres.
The Riverbank varsity basketball team won Thursday's neutral tournament game against Ceres (CA) by a score of 46-39.


Since forming Potentia twelve years ago, I've had the privilege of leading a group of great people to build a wonderful business. Along the way, we've overcome varied challenges whilst enjoying continued growth, and we've been lucky enough to win a bunch of external accolades. It's been a rush, and now it's time for something different. Nathan Bryant-Taukiri who has managed the business with me as a partner over the past five years will be stepping into the Managing Director role so I know the business is in exceptionally good hands. I will retain a seat on the board but next year I'll be back in start-up land – something techy... For all your support over the years, I'm deeply grateful. Keep in touch online!
It is with much excitement and enthusiasm that I take the reins at Potentia, a business I am immensely passionate about. I'm certainly going to miss Josh. He is a close friend who I have worked alongside for more than a decade. The distinctive threads of his contributions will always remain in the fabric of Potentia. We're fortunate to retain his valued input as a director and look forward to him trying to tell us what to do over the boardroom table.
I joined Potentia at the end of its first year in 2005 to help Josh grow the business while it was in start-up mode. I have always been enamoured with technology and all of my career choices have been true to this fascination. I have revelled in the opportunity to connect with and support the growth of exciting kiwi firms who have either built a business around an innovative tech offering or have harnessed tech-centric solutions to drive innovative change into their core businesses. I'm an avid researcher of emerging approaches to business, currently the nexus of data-driven analytics based decision making, as a service economies, and the adoption of digital business models. In the past 18 months, I've led Potentia on this journey to transform our internal processes and systems to a contemporary state.
I'm proud to make another announcement, the promotion of one of Potentia's original stalwarts to the role of Permanent Business Manager, Julian Lambert.
"Nigh on ten years ago, I joined Potentia young, fresh faced, eager to grow both NZ's Tech sector and Potentia. Sadly, I'm neither young nor fresh-faced anymore. But, that burning desire to drive growth has not faltered. My vision to capture global recognition for our Tech community and Potentia as high-value innovators has only just begun.
Abinesh Krishan is our Client Strategy Director and also runs our contracting business.
lifecycle spanning both the application and infrastructure verticals. I am passionate about large enterprises realising business benefits through well-orchestrated and governed portfolios and programmes of work. While my interest lies in ensuring programme and project best practices are followed from a compliance perspective, I am also aware that this counts for naught if the ultimate business case benefit realisation is not achieved.
Our vision is to build an innovation-centric resource solutions business, recognised as first class globally. A business with class-leading standards, one that the best in the market flock to for a superior experience. The most connected and respected.
Each of the leaders in Potentia has a unique voice and view to share, over the course of these newsletters and within events that we will host. We'll be sharing data-backed trends we see both globally and locally, particularly around the changing shape and makeup of the industry from process, technology and people perspectives and we'll look to experts in our Potentia community to corroborate these trends or provide contrary views based upon their insights and first hand experiences.
We look forward to interacting more closely with you all and welcome any feedback and suggestions.


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John All Barham (July 17, 1843 – January 22, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1895 to 1901.

Biography
Barham was born on a farm in Cass County, Missouri on July 17, 1843. He moved to California with his parents in 1849 during the California Gold Rush, ending up settling in Woodland, where he attended the common schools and Hesperian College. Between 1864 and 1876, Barham taught in public schools. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1865, commencing practice in Watsonville, San Francisco, and Santa Rosa.

Congress
Barham was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses, running from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1901. He also served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage during the Fifty-fifth and the Fifty-sixth Congresses, but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1900.

Later career and death
He continued working in the practice of law until his death, which took place in Santa Rosa, on January 22, 1926. He was buried in Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery.

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1843 births
1926 deaths
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California

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I was just wondering will I have to or be able to change the mileage?
You have to go to a pro unfortunately, unless you happen to own diagnostics equipment?
If I get a vag-com lead do you think I'll be able todo it through that?
Nah the millage unit is a separate unit to the rest with it's own power supply etc.
I dont know if its the same but with vauxhalls you can get new units and get them adjusted with correct miles by Vaux, but if you get second hand one you are stuck with it.


Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, M.B.A.
Jon represents clients in matters associated with construction projects, retirement, health, and other employee benefit plans, labor and employment law, compliance and regulatory affairs, homeowners associations, nonprofit organization, tax matters, government bonds, and other business organizations. He consults in areas such as ERISA, PPACA, HIPAA, human resources, and nonprofit and exempt organizations.
Jon received his bachelors from Anderson University with concentrations in Economics and Business Administration. Prior to law school, he worked in the Madison County Council of Governments and Prosecutor's offices. While at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, he participated in Moot Court, Program on Law and State Government, and worked as an intern in the Indiana Secretary of State's Office in the Business Services and Securities divisions. He later completed Butler University's MBA program with a concentration in Finance.
Outside the practice of law, Jon enjoys spending time with his family, coaching soccer, traveling overseas, and consulting with local charities.


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Capital Markets • May 24, 2021, 12:19PM EDT
Ray Dalio confirms BTC holdings, says 'Bitcoin's greatest risk is its success'
by Kollen Post
Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Bridgewater, identified himself as a holder of bitcoin in a conversation at Consensus 2021 on Monday morning.
Speaking to Coindesk's Michael Casey, Dalio claimed that we are witnessing a shift away from the dollar as the global reserve currency, a competition in which bitcoin and other digital assets play a major role. "Probably the greatest power that a government has is over its currency and to control where money and credit go," he said.
Referring to the succession of recent global currencies and the Federal Reserve's massive quantitative easing over the last year, Dalio said "It's a great power to be able to print the world's currency but it happens just like the British pound happened or like the Dutch guilder happened."
Much of Dalio's commentary focused on the rise of China's capital markets and trade eminence relative to the U.S. On the subject of bitcoin's importance, he said it would face more regulatory blowback the more the market grows. "I think bitcoin's greatest risk is its success," said Dalio, continuing that it would scare bond-issuing governments "the more we say 'I'd rather have bitcoin than the bond.'"
Dalio went on to confirm his own bitcoin holdings. "I have some bitcoin," he said.
In earlier public statements, Dalio spotlighted problems with bitcoin as a payment mechanism. Today, he was fairly positive on its role as a store of wealth but did not backtrack on those earlier sentiments. He did, however, seem to view China's development of a central bank digital currency as a major concern for the dollar's use internationally. "There's a real economy and there's a financial economy, and we shouldn't confuse those things."

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As I sit down to write this, I've just received the news that the family wishing to adopt Muffin has been approved for her adoption. They want to bring her home the next day. Which happens to be 2014 New Years Eve.
For Beaver Creek Farm Sanctuary, the animal rescue charity Brent and I co-founded, its the end of BCFS year one and the beginning of another. Muffin's good fortune and impeccable timing is just too perfect an example of what was, for me, 2014-to-the-extreme. Cheers, fears and tears all in one and the same (never simple) event.
Nothing could make us happier or make our holidays happier than announcing that Snuffles has adopted his foster family!
Congratulations to our Snuffles on making an excellent choice of furever home in the person of our Board Member and Director Bill. Bill and Stewie had been caring for Snuffles as a foster dog.
Our 2015 Beaver Creek Farm Sanctuary Calendar is hot off the press and ready for gifts, walls and offices everywhere! Our annual printed Calendar is one more way we raise the funds to help all of our rescued animals and animals in our permanent sanctuary care stay safe, get healthy, and for some move on to find their perfect furever families.
Please consider donating for a Beaver Creek Farm Sanctuary 2015 Calendar. One for $20 or three for $50. You won't be disappointed!
Thank you again to Nancy Campbell for doing an amazing job in designing our second calendar; and to Judith Keenan at Furever Network and George Bailey for additional photography.
Is there such thing as love at first sight? Who knows, but we do know there is definitely such a thing as "super immediate mushy love" on Gotcha Day! Fletcher had met his new family just once before – a meet and greet is part of the adoption process – but you'd think Fletcher had known them a lifetime considering the adoring eyes and big paw-ful hugs he was wrapping around John and Jenifer!


Southern Italian: from medieval Greek mandilin 'headscarf', presumably a metonymic occupational name for someone who sold scarves or a nickname for someone who habitually wore a scarf. Mandilas is also found as a Greek family name, with derivatives such as Mandilakis.
Where is the Mandile family from?
You can see how Mandile families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Mandile family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Scotland between 1841 and 1920. The most Mandile families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1920 there were 4 Mandile families living in New Jersey. This was about 17% of all the recorded Mandile's in the USA. New Jersey and 2 other states had the highest population of Mandile families in 1920.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Mandile surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Mandile ancestors do for a living?
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Mandile ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
What Mandile family records will you find?
There are 3,000 census records available for the last name Mandile. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Mandile census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Mandile. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in the USA, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
There are 1,000 military records available for the last name Mandile. For the veterans among your Mandile ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions.
You've only scratched the surface of Mandile family history.
What is the average Mandile lifespan?
Between 1963 and 2004, in the United States, Mandile life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1968, and highest in 1998. The average life expectancy for Mandile in 1963 was 77, and 87 in 2004.
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Mandile ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.


I was thinking about relevancy last night and the question popped in my head "is the church irrelevant?" I think the answer is yes, I mean no, I mean maybe, I suppose it could be.
The message of the gospel is in no way irrelevant. A lot of people are still in their sin and still need a Saviour. God still loves them and has a way for them. Christ still came to seek and save the lost so yes the gospel is still very relevant. But the question is not "Is the Gospel Irrelevant?" the question is "are we irrelevant?" Yes the first sentence said the church and now I say we but they are the same thing after all you and I are the church.
Let me break it down this way. If I were to go into a foreign land to be a missionary and brought all my western ideals, clothes, food, and music then I would be irrelevant to that culture. Relevant is defined as "closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand." So if I do not take the time to learn about those I am going to minister to then I am irrelevant pretty simple huh.
The same goes with those around us. If we do not take the time to learn about them, their likes and dislikes, their wants and needs, the sports teams they like, the movies they enjoy or anything else then I am irrelevant to them. I have nothing in common with them as far as they are concerned and I am not connected to the matter at hand.
Don't get me wrong we should not be part of the world but nonetheless it is those in the world we are to minister to. When Jesus came to minister He became a man. He got hungry, tired, maybe even had a pimple (I am not being funny for humor sake) but He actually experienced life like you and I have but never sinned.
Paul says that he has become all things to all men so that some might be saved. That does not mean he took part in their sin but there is so much more to life than sin. There is music, and movies, and food, and mountain climbing, and rooting for the Cowboys. There are things that we can find commonality on. Paul used their own poets to prove points.
Jesus says in John 17:18 that we are being sent into the world. Once we we accept Christ we belong to a new world (the kingdom of God) and then Jesus sends us back into the world we came from to be His ambassadors. Read Romans 12:2 and John 17 to get the full picture.
So to answer the question of are we irrelevant I would have to say I don't know are you?
I think that irrelevancy is a misunderstood word. In one sense, yes we're irrelevant. In another, as you put it, the Gospel is not irrelevant. There is a certain sense in which we're supposed to be irrelevant. If we're taken up with the kingdom of heaven, then how can we possibly be "relevant" to the inhabitants of the earth? And yet, paradoxically, that is exactly when we're most relevant. To the chagrin of my many carnal friends – whether in the church or otherwise – I find myself as an outcast. I'm completely irrelevant to many who seek to stay within the parameters of carnality, but for the seekers of heaven, I've become quite a refreshment. I'm sure that if I have seen this in myself, that others have seen it too. I think what is most important at this time is getting wrapped up in the culture of heaven, whatever that might mean, and being the people in which heaven and earth kiss.


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The Great Mortgage Club survey – what DA advisers really think
by: Victoria Hartley
The Great Mortgage Club Survey, in association with TMA and Mortgage Solutions, set out to understand and pick apart the market forces affecting the directly authorised advisers using these distributors in the UK. Here's the first instalment in our series on how the brokers see this market.
The survey was completed by 258 directly authorised (DA) advisers and completed in September last year.
PMS, Legal and General, Paradigm, TMA, Simplybiz and Pink emerged as the clubs used most recently by the largest number of respondents. When it came to satisfaction levels, Paradigm, TMA and Pink performed particularly strongly, but 'competitive procuration fees' emerged as the top reason advisers used one club over another.
Next, the survey asked advisers to identify the 'hardest to place' clients. Adverse credit customers topped the list with 28% of brokers finding these the toughest consumers to place with a lender. Clients with interest-only mortgages and those attempting to borrow into retirement both emerged next, level-pegging with 20% of respondents each. Self-employed borrowers or those with several income streams emerged in fourth place, followed by those with complex financial affairs in fifth places and 4% in 'other.'
Interest only is expected to see a resurgence this year and David Copland, director of TMA, said: "A lot of lenders are looking at both the interest-only problem and lending into retirement. This is becoming more urgent as according to ONS predictions a third of the workforce will be over fifty by 2020."
Copland added: "Most people, lenders included, are aware that the rules around both interest only and lending into retirement need to be relaxed a little to enable people to stay in their homes on an interest-only basis – perhaps extending the mortgage to interest only for life with the capital to be repaid on death or sale of the property. This has to be better than the other alternative which is a retired person selling the property to pay off the mortgage and then spending the rest of their days in rented accommodation."
Rising business volumes
Brokers responses over the summer last year, indicated that the massive uplift in business activity, particularly for the advice channel, clearly put smaller firms under a lot of pressure. As a result, advisers were looking at time management strategies, recruitment and marketing to exploit the opportunity.
The effects of lender's reactions to the affordability obligations set out in the Mortgage Market Review (MMR) and resulting slowdown in processing times is a constant source of frustration for advisers, as shown by the survey. Tight criteria, affordability constraints and longer processing times acted as a slight brake on business levels, said many advisers.
However, the survey responses suggested advisers are convinced business levels will continue to improve and often refer to the enormous profile the MMR has handed the intermediary sector. Increased enquiry levels are being driven on further by the poor quality of branch advice and this new consumer understanding of the real value of advice.
Despite all the advantages the advice channel is enjoying as a result of the MMR, advisers continue to lament the extra hours it has added to the average mortgage case. Over a third of respondents, or 37%, felt the new mortgage rules added an hour to the average case, but 34%, so very similar numbers thought the figure was closer to two to three hours and 11% said three to four hours. Just 7% of brokers felt it had added over five hours legwork to the average mortgage application.
Copland said: "Mortgage clubs need to lobby and work with lenders and technology companies to find a solution to the age old problem of brokers having to come out of their client management systems and re-key data directly into the lenders' systems. This would, however, mean moving towards a common platform which most of the large lenders are uncomfortable with as it could weaken brand values and it would take away much of the need for brokers to come on to their own websites."
He added another way mortgage clubs can lessen the administration load for brokers is by helping to ensure the broker has the right processes in place in order to place every case and get it right first time, so their case is not rejected. All good clubs will do this by having a help desk, accessible BDMs, regular communication and by holding educational events with lenders so brokers can meet them face to face, he said.
Commission fees
However, the vast majority of advisers agreed on one thing. A massive 85%, or 216 respondents felt intermediaries are underpaid for the work they do. Just 15% felt lenders paid brokers fairly considering the extra paperwork, checks and additional hurdles greater regulation has added to the average workload.
Copland said he doubts commission fees will move this year from 0.4 basis points (bps) for prime or 0.5 bps for specialist mortgages after last years' hikes.
"I would prefer instead to see more lenders paying product transfer and retention fees, which is something that we at TMA have been campaigning on for some time. On top of this the broker can charge the client a fee and ensure that they always work with partners who pass on the highest level of procuration fees," he added.
A huge thanks to all who completed the survey. The £400 of John Lewis voucher prize picked at random from respondents went out to Gary Smale, (at that time) at The Mortgage Shop in Stockport.
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Guatemala: On the Edge of Discovery began innocently enough, with a phone call from Elsie YiDonoy. She's the owner of Bella Guatemala Travel, a company that specializes in cultural travel to Guatemala. Elsie invited me to work with her Jose Antonio Gonzales and Emilio Fallaice, her main guides to build a library of images to promote their tour offerings. I'd never been to the land of the Maya, so I went – four times over the course of the next year.
I hate to admit it now, but I didn't know much about Maya culture in the beginning. The ancient ruins were meaningless piles of rocks to me. Some were simply bigger than others. But little by little, I was caught up in Jose and Emilio's infectious enthusiasm for their country. To my own surprise, I even began to educate myself, building a library of books about the ancient Maya and contemporary Guatemalan culture.
Then, the phone rang again. The call came from Lewis Williams, a man who books filmmakers into independent venues. He asked if I had a documentary film that I could take on the road.
I said, "I don't. But, I could. How about Guatemala?"
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With no room for mistakes, I set out with Jose and Emilio to create a film that was accurate, authentic and heartfelt. And we were determined to punch above our weight, to tell the story with skills and production values that were far beyond our budget.
Less than a year later I began presenting Guatemala: On the Edge of Discovery, to a live audiences.
The most ridiculous challenge was figuring out how to compress 4,000 years of human history into an 80-minute film that was worth watching. After months of intense research, the index cards stopped moving around on the table, revealing a story line that flowed and a level of detail that finally made sense.
Then the work of writing the scripting, executing the shot list and chasing interviews began. Time was short and the "todo" list was long. But we kept chipping away, traveling to the four corners of the country, collecting one B-Roll clip at a time.
We got our first big "get" when Dr. Richard Hansen, the Director of the Mirador Basin Project, agreed to sit for an on-camera interview. Dr. Hansen, the lead scientist on one of the largest sites in Guatemala for more than 30 years, is well-known in the Mayanist world for his discoveries and his theories about the Pre-Classic Maya civilization that built, and then abandoned, El Mirador.
The interview was a game changer. We knew that if we caught a few breaks and worked hard enough, we were going to make a good, solid film. Even though we were just three cucarachas en trapos, Jose and Emilio began pulling every thread they could find.
One by one, people agreed to get mic'd up for the camera. Olga Riech provided incredible insight into Guatemalan textiles. She described the devastating effects that the 1976 earthquake and the long civil war had on the Maya women and their weaving tradition.
Daniel Dreux, an elusive, larger than life, figure described how he discovered the Candeleria cave system in 1974. (It's only the largest cave system in Central America). The caverns, which are full of Maya artifacts, were declared a National Park a long time ago. Even so, Dreux has been fighting a losing battle with hungry squatters who are planting forbidden fields in the heart of the park.
Sophia Parades graciously opened the doors to the Ruta Maya Foundation's priceless collection of artifacts. The B-roll and insight we got that day was beyond priceless.
Contemporary artists, Irene Carlos and Arturo Monroy, lent us their time and their work. Their presence lent a beautiful texture and a thoughtful window into Guatemala's past and future.
David Sedat, the retired Field Director of the Early Copan Acropolis Project, led the team that discovered the tomb of Yax Kuk Mo. He was the legendary founder of the Copan Dynasty that ruled during the Classic Period. David described for us what the discovery meant to the advancement of ancient Maya studies.
Licensing archival images was a challenge until Jose and Emilio introduced me to Anais Garcia, the director of the photo library at the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica. I spent a delightful, rainy day in their office, pouring through an impressive digital archive, selecting images that were crucial to our narrative.
Livy Gracious, a brilliant and passionate archaeologist and professor at San Carlos University explained the progression from the earliest civilizations in Meso-america to the Maya Pre-Classic Period. Now, like then, she believes that migration facilitates the exchange of ideas between cultures.
A Maya day-keeper named To-hil performed a shamanist ceremony to divine the future for us. Then he sat for the camera and deciphered a few aspects of Maya spirituality, sharing his view of the relationship between Christianity and the ancient beliefs.
The final piece of the puzzle fell into place when we met Gustavo, the last of his kind in a village of that was once full of carpet weavers. He and his wife are two of the kindest souls I've ever met. Their surprisingly tender story provided a beautiful, natural ending to the film.
Our time with Gustavo marked the transition from field work to the edit bay. Many long days and nights later, Guatemala: On the Edge of Discovery was born.


Trent Reznor reckons that winning an Oscar only stops you from thinking you're "not good enough" for "maybe eighteen hours". He's speaking from personal experience, of course. I'm still not sure that's true of everyone.
Of course, prior to working on 'The Social Network' soundtrack, which was what won Reznor and his musical partner Atticus Ross their Oscar, he had already thrown in the towel on his band life. "I did a farewell tour, ten years ago or whenever it was, and then ate my words", he notes. "Because something about being able to step away from it gave me a fresh perspective I was lacking when it was the only thing".
Although Reznor returned to his other musical exploits, there were plenty of offers on the table for more film work. He had worked on movie projects before, but 'The Social Network' saw him established as a composer of film soundtracks, and an in-demand one at that. However, he and Ross managed to keep things in perspective, he reckons.
"Lots of films were coming by", he recalls. "It wasn't that our egos were out of control. Because one thing about us is, as great as winning an Oscar is, the next day by lunchtime, we were back to being the same not-good-enough assholes that we were before we'd won one. It felt good for maybe eighteen hours. It was a great experience and I have a lot of respect for the institution, but it didn't fix everything that's wrong with our brains, and our inadequacies remained".
I'm not a massive rom-com fan, but I would definitely watch one soundtracked by Reznor and Ross. Someone make that happen.


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Review DONNERSTAG in Basel
The opera-house in Basel stages Stockhausen's opera DONNERSTAG aus LICHT completely – a project we cannot be but very grateful about. Over decades no opera-house dared to do so, and now we have the opportunity to take part and get to know this famous and important work. More than that: In the end of September there will be a Stockhausen-week in Basel with masterclasses and a symposion to promote the knowledge of Stockhausen's work – very very important, and I wish, that other institutions, especially in Germany, should follow this initiative!
I attended the first performance. Though this gratitude persists, I must confess: I was not really happy with this production, and I have the suspicion, that what here is to be seen, is part of a common pattern to stage works nowadays. The evening started with the GRUSS in the foyer. The room was filled with red (!!) colours, the setting suggested a bar-atmosphere with a show-band, the conductor clad in a red suit, everybody moving casually, with cigarettes – I asked myself: What is happening here? For the music of the GRUSS is just the opposite to a show- or a bar-event; it is a powerful first representation of the cosmic powers that act in the opera-cycle.
Then the first act: For me the first scene KINDHEIT is extremely difficult. A scene without glamour, mostly just the voices, with many different events that follow each other after just some bars – is it possible to clarify in detail what is going on in a stage production? I have my doubts. It was a pity, that for me the voices of the mother and of Michael were painfully loud and hard, sometimes even shrill – so a human relationship between the protagonists could not become evident. But you got a general impression of the dark atmosphere of the scene.
The theme of MONDEVA, the second scene, is to show the happy future for Michael in his first encounter with the forces of female spirit and of love against the dark background of the death of father and mother. We should see in a ritualized way in one side of the stage the father falling 12 times till he finally finds his death. In the meantime in the center of the stage young Michael meets Mondeva, the girl from the stars, and we witness a poetic and joyful dialogue between man and woman, voice and instrument, Michael- and Eve-formula. Here in Basel nothing of that kind happens. It is not the father that is killed in war, but on the contrary he himself shoots down 12 women who try to come to Michael; that happens in a way that interrupts brutally the musical dialogue of the score and destroys it totally. I must confess: Watching this scene the blasphemous thought came to my mind: Why did you not drive some miles further to Zürich opera house to listen there to an immortal masterpiece: "I Puritani" by Bellini? I regretted to be in Basel. Not only the music – also the subtle art of Merve Kazokoglu with her basset-horn as Mondeva could not unfold. For me that is an unbearable scandal and I personally take offence at the production-team. For we do not listen to Stockhausen any more but encounter the ideas of the stage-team that destroy the original ideas, and not only the ideas, but the music as well.
In this way the production goes on. EXAMEN, the third scene, is not the promotion of Michael to musical mastership, but "promotes" him to being a client in a psychiatric hospital, and the second act of the opera, MICHAELs REISE, is therefore the fantasy of this sick mind of poor Michael. It is always a joy to listen to the extremely beautiful music of this act, and the orchestra and the soloists did a good job. But also here the idea of the stage-team does harm to the music: It simply is a difference if Michael represents himself with his formula in a narrow room in a hospital as a sick person, or if he stands in the center of the stage under the open sky, playing triumphantly as the musical master, even the cosmic person he is intended to be in this opera. This part of the composition is extremely demanding, and Paul Hübner with his trumpet meets the difficulties successfully, but in spite of that it is clear that in this staging the music cannot radiate – there is not the glamour in it that we should hear.
Generally speaking: The production suffers from a total lack, a fundamental mistrust against the spiritual dimension of the work. We know that this dimension for the composer was simply essential – therefore no wonder that the whole production is severely damaged. In many single traits we can see that. For instance in the fact that in MICHAELs REISE Luzifer as a cosmic spirit is not really present. The station "Africa" of the journey represents Saturday, the day of Luzifer, the day of the death – instead of that we simply see a video of an African safari with lions and other animals, one example of a narrow-mindedness of this production among others. We hear Luzifer-sounds in the orchestra, but, if we do not know the piece very well, we are not able to get the meaning of these sounds, because on stage nothing happens. Also the beautiful dialogue between trumpet and double bass does not really happen, though the bass is beautifully projected by sound-projectionist Kathinka Pasveer, because again nothing happens on stage. MISSION is pressed into a small hospital-room without any resonance for the romantic love-story. And HIMMELFAHRT, for sure, is totally lacking: what a pity!
In the third act we encounter the same problem. There is no big room for the mystery of heaven. We do not see the bow of colours that represent the whole 7-days-cycle, and we are not allowed to look into the heaven of the stars, the zodiak, which happens in the music when the voices sing TIERKREIS.
The performance ends with VISION in a much better way. The music is simple and the content does not need scenic action. So we are able to listen to the Michael-tenor Rolf Romei who sings his important text beautifully and touchingly. In the background we hear on tape main musical events of this opera. They stem from the world premiere of the opera in La Scala Milan and are of unsurpassable quality – a final hint to what in Basel is missing.
To sum up: The staging reduces the opera to a patological life-story of an individual person. We do not get Michael's universal meaning as an energy that permeates everything, we do not get DONNERSTAG as part of the week in which we encounter the fundamental tasks that each human being has to fulfill. And: If that is missing, everything is missing that makes the opera interesting and important, that makes the opera-cycle an intellectual challenge – that may lead to the question: In which way shall I live – and what is necessary for that.
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I totally agree with Thomas but consider the musical quality as much better than he does.
But what was to be expected: Some critics are joyful about this production for it got rid of Stockhausen's ideological "burden". See e.g. the article of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung: http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/buehne/stoc...727?cid=dlvr.it
Alain Louafi ( Guest )
I have read already many comments about the Basel version of Donnerstag aus Licht, from Karlheinz Stockhausen.
I shall go on defending this production, even the interpretation of some important parts could be wrong… , « trotz Luzifer, trotz Satan, trotz allem…»
In the opera cycle of Stockausen, Luzifer is the only one who is sure of himself, arrogant, pretending to know what has to be done, criticising other human being, even the all humanity…
It is maybe better to be a «Narr» or a child and rather enjoy this type of version, than a « museum version », where everything is predictabe and…dead…
Who knows really who is Michael…who knows what is happening in Heaven…etc…
At the end of Vision Stockhausen gave these words in the mouth of Michael: «Ich babe mich unsterblich in die Menschen,in diese Erde, und ihre Kinder verliebt, trotz Luzifer, trotz Satan, trotz allem…»
All these pretentious discussions reminds this beautiful and classical indian parabole:
La parabole des « aveugles et de l'éléphant »
« Six hommes d'Inde, très enclins à parfaire leurs connaissances, allèrent voir un éléphant (bien que tous fussent aveugles) afin que chacun, en l'observant, puisse satisfaire sa curiosité. Le premier s'approcha de l'éléphant et perdant pied, alla buter contre son flanc large et robuste. Il s'exclama aussitôt : « Mon Dieu ! Mais l'éléphant ressemble beaucoup à un mur! ». Le second, palpant une défense, s'écria : « Ho ! qu'est-ce que cet objet si rond, si lisse et si pointu? Il ne fait aucun doute que cet éléphant extraordinaire ressemble beaucoup à une lance ! ». Le troisième s'avança vers l'éléphant et, saisissant par inadvertance la trompe qui se tortillait, s'écria sans hésitation : « Je vois que l'éléphant ressemble beaucoup à un serpent ! ». Le quatrième, de sa main fébrile, se mit à palper le genou. « De toute évidence, dit-il, cet animal fabuleux ressemble à un arbre ! ». Le cinquième toucha par hasard à l'oreille et dit : « Même le plus aveugle des hommes peut dire à quoi ressemble le plus l'éléphant ; nul ne peut me prouver le contraire, ce magnifique éléphant ressemble à un éventail ! ». Le sixième commença tout juste à tâter l'animal, la queue qui se balançait lui tomba dans la main. « Je vois, dit-il, que l'éléphant ressemble beaucoup à une corde ! ». Ainsi, ces hommes d'Inde discutèrent longuement, chacun faisant valoir son opinion avec force et fermeté. Même si chacun avait partiellement raison, tous étaient dans l'erreur. »
Let's go on to discover the Elephant,( Licht is certainly a very big one…) but who can pretend to know the all Elephant… ? Let's go on to work on it, dream in it, enjoy it….and let the others, work on it, dream in it, enjoy it…trotz…trotz…trotz
Dear Alain,
thank you for your reaction. For sure, especially as a theologian I have to be very cautious not to fall back into dogmatic behavior. And it is very necessary, not to make a museum out of a work of art, but to interpret it with our questions, with the means of our time. BUT: I personally think, that cannot mean: Everything is possible and justified. Maybe this is oldfashioned - but I think: When you stage a work of art, you have to ask, what the artist wanted to deliver to the public - you have to serve the work and not use it to just stage your own ideas.
As to the Basel production I think: There are 2 problematic layers in staging a work: The first is, when what happens on stage does harm to the music. For me that is the case here in the interpretation of MONDEVA. For me that is intolerable. The other layer is, when the interpretation does not meet the essence of the work. To give an example from my own experience: I was dramatic adviser in the production of MICHAELs REISE 2008 for the Wiener Festwochen with Carlus Padrissa as stage director. When it came to the staging of MISSION, we went through a really critical process: There was a process at the beginning, where what happened on stage got more and more a pure sexual demonstration; to show that, everything was flooded with red light. And it took much time and many controversies, to clarify: What should be shown here is, how the powers of eros elevate mankind, that this power is decisive to bring mankind in contact to the divine sphere. I still remember how helpful Marco Blaauw in this process of discussion has been. Thus the colour on stage changed from red to blue and the behaviour of the musicians on stage changed to expressing eros, not just a sexual act. I personally would comment that: We went in our process from wrong to right. and could better meet what Stockhausen wanted to deliver. And in this sense my critic to the Basel production is: It misses the central point of the work. The central point is the religious dimension. It is not popular in our western culture at the moment, but the more important it would be to point to it - even if this feels strange. To stay in a realm that is familiar to everybody is not a real challenge. That is my critique. Over and over again in the last decades I have seen, that in stage productions the scenery is a psychiatric clinic; it is a rather common pattern. Everybody who is interested in theatre knows that. And here it is (according to my opinion) not helpful to convey the message of LICHT, but just makes the big work onedimensional. Therefore my impression: It is narrowminded, not so great and overwhelming as it could be. But I know: That is hard to achieve. However, you should try, even if you fail - much better than to reduce this part of LICHT to a simple personal story.
Suzanne Stephens-Janning ( Guest )
I can fully understand your viewpoint but will never agree with it.
My only problem with the production is that so much of the score (gestures, movements, staging instructions) was either not realised or was changed.
What you are basically saying below means that you would also condone, even welcome changes in a score like INORI, which when performed exactly as composed is predictable, therefore dead?!
While he was still alive Karlheinz said time and again that regie theater should stay away from LICHT because to change his staging instructions (gestures, steps, actions) would be the same as changing the music.
The gestures and actions are filled with meaning much of which or even most of which most of us will not understand, which makes it even more important to carry them out exactly as composed.
Karlheinz was a humble servant of God who composed as he was told to do, even though he himself did not understand everything...but he dutifully composed and defended it anyway, often alone without anyone at his side who believed in him and his vision, except God.
Therefore it is our duty as interpreters - and this includes stage directors- to respect this fact and to humbly serve and carry out the vision of this great master. To change or leave out any of the composition or make a persiflage of the religious ceremony is arrogant, luciferisch...
In this context, the story of knowing only parts of the elephant supports my argument that we-as opposed to Luzifer-must respect a given hierachy and assume that what Karlheinz saw and heard of his elephant vision is far more than we can or will ever see, even though I was at Karlheinz's side constantly as he composed DONNERSTAG and all of LICHT....but maybe it is exactly because I witnessed his attitude of humility that makes me feel this more strongly than ever before, even though he wrote these words for
me in MONDEVA and EXAMEN long ago : Sirisu: "hilf mir den Auftrag zu erfüllen" und "Stehe mir im Examen bei..."
As we all know, our brains are capable of prooving everything and its opposite. Lucifer's intelligence has made him incapable of feeling the love Michael speaks of as life's only permanent answer.
But as for me, as long as I live, I will stay true to Karlheinz's vision as he wrote it in black and white in his scores. What is in between the
lines we may interpret as was the case in Milan and London.
The rest, assuming that Karlheinz was a medium of God as was Bach, for instance, we must do our best to humbly carry out his vision according to his very clear instructions. If we don't, we are acting like Lucifer who assumes that he is capable of seeing as much of the elephant as God does...
Dear Alain, we do not have to agree with each other to be friends.
Suzee
Dear Suzee,
Thank you for your beautiful, rich and precise answer !
As you say, even we may not agree on certains points, we shall stay friend, even better friends… !Emoji
I like your comparaison with Inori !
Of course, it is true that you cannot change anything in Inori ; I shall never do it. But to present Inori, you do not need others « artists » interfering in it, except musicians and a conductor. Musicians are more used to be humble servants of the music. The « beter » has not a story, a character, an interaction with other figures, etc. If there are two beters, or more, they have to be synchron.
On this planet, when you need a team of « theater » people : regisser, costums designer, stage designer, lights, videos composers, etc, you cannot avoid that these people bring with them their one world, their team, their special technics, their methods or whatever.
These people do not have the same sense of time than composers. For a composer what is written is for ever. For these people, to manage the interactions between them, the connections with the interpreters, with the time « here and now » they have to manage the rehearsals and the performances, with our time, all of this drives to another type of mediumnity. If they have to direct the same piece in another ten years, they maybe will do it in a different way.
In India, in Japan, they have this tradition of repeating a piece without changing anything through centuries. It does not exist yet in occident.
It is true, that these people have also sometimes the tendancy to behave like « vampires » or «parasites» , because they may use other creators to express themselves only.
I think it is not easy to find an ideal team in the world of opera houses !!!
My positive reaction, came from the fact, that even « I » ( or my Luzifer side… ? ) did not agree intellectually in this production, for example, with the concept of Mondeva, Examen, Michael Reise, some moments of Heimkher, etc, something very strong and alive came out of this performance !
Of course this power came from the power of the piece itself, and from the work of the interpreters beautifully prepared by Kathinka !!!
But to reveal some mysteries, one has sometimes to take some risks. Lydia did it, sometimes very kitch, exgerated, but it made burst out or blossom some interpreters, some inexpectable senses, moments, connections, revelations, meanings, intuitions, emotions; is it because Lydia is a woman ? Ronconi and Bogdanov were men and have build a more « square » world. Lydia developped more these aspects connected with the mother, with the feminine, with the mother of Michael, also with the crazyness, even she missed Mondeva…
I believe like you, that Karlheinz was strongly inspired and connected wit God. But this inspiration was certainly not always coming directly . A lot of pieces came from his connection with people he met, or the interpreters he met in his life, his loves, his children, etc, and to reveal them, or help them to reveal themselves to themselves.
Do not you think, for example, that the tendancy of Karlheinz to control all the gestures of he interpreters and to give strong indications to he dancers, has also a story ? It came also maybe from the fact that he was sick of seing these stupid gestures on opera's stage, and also a reaction to he extrem freedom of Bejart when he choregraphed Stimmung ? We must not forget that initially, Inori, the beginning of this process of extrem controlled gestures, was composed for Bejart right after Stimmung…
And the inverted tendancy came also after this extrem controlled gestures, in Inori, Vision, Examen, Drachenkampf in the first version. Jean Christophe and Michèle did after London a «modern dance» version of Drachenkampf and these version was played a lot. In Luzifer zorn, there is a lot of freedom in the gestures, most of he time, besides of the musical aspect, only indications for the type of voice, sometimes the name of an animal.
Maybe one has also to consider more the effect and the fonction of such a performance: I was moved to see the public so enthousiastic, a various public, a lot of aged people who stayed concentrated for all these hours ! When I see also for example the enthousiasm of my friend Heidi, who knew nothing about Stockhausen, or the enthousiasm of the mother of Kathinka, I think that is also very important !
I think you can also be happy, and forgive all these human mistakes, and I am sure that certainly Karlheinz do it too !
the enthusiasm of even lots of people who do not know the work (including Kathinka´s mother) does not count we are talking about the truthful rendition of a work of art.
Love, Suzee
I can only agree with all that Suzee wrote and most of the remarks by Thomas. It's a crying sin that for example the three blue circles were never been seen and that was certainly no accident but an attempt to "purify" DONNERSTAG from its spiritual attitude. I was also angry about the idea to show Michael as a kind of ridiculous cult leader with idiotic devotees. That shows that the responsables of this production have no idea of devotion in the best sense of the word. Real devotion doesn't mean surrender but being 100 % convinced by the things you do. And I'm sure that Stockhausen's œuvre only "works" with this kind of devotion. And that's the reason why the Basel DONNERSTAG doesn't work at all.
Dear Thomas,
Thank you for your answer ! As Suzee said: "Even we may not agree on certains points, we shall stay friend.., and I added " even better friends…".
I have nothing to say against your beautiful analyse, but what can I do ? I also enjoyed the performance « Here and now » in Basel, yesterday from 4pm until 9.30 pm.
I was not drunk, or stone, or whatever…I was aware that I had the chance to participate to the two other versions, and with Karlheinz alive, so I could compare my sensations, and I was happy to discover new one.
I am aware also that you are one of the best specialist of the spiritual content and the symbolic in the work of Karlheinz, especially also because you are a theologian.
Is it because I have a foot in the world of theater and dance since long, or because I did also regies or choregraphies myself, or observed a lot other creators, regissers,choreographers, that I have more the tendancy to forgive the mistakes of these artists ?
Or is it because I feel very fascinated by this type of behaviour of some saints, by example in Soufism : who prefer to be seen as a fool or a stupid one, than as a saint… the one of the « Malamatis » ? For this Malamatis,, crazyness, extravagance, humor, non-conformisme, even sexuality has a very important role, but not for themselves, or in itselves. Some of them even dance in the streets naked, like the Bauls in India. St François d'Assise had sometimes these attitudes in his Saint Life; something that we can feel in Samstag Abschied…
These people brought a fresh breath in a too close and definite or secure world. For them the wisdom of man is maybe crazyness for God, and the crazyness of man is maybe wisdom for God…our world for them, our certitudes, are conventions and are full of lies..
Rumi himself was saying: « Et moi, j'ai aussi beaucoup éprouvé la raison ; dorénavant je vais chercher un champ où la folie puisse vaguer à l'aise. »
Some others Malamatis gave also these advises : « do not focalise on the mistakes or the sins of the others, but trust in the Mercy and the Divine Grace »
I was the body of Luzifer in the version of Donnerstag of Ronconi in Milano, and of Bogdanof in London, and I repeat that I was happy to fell this fresh Breath and crazyness in the version of Lydia Steier…
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#10 RE: DONNERSTAG aus LICHT in Basel June 2016 reply
I saw the production twice, read all the posts so far, and I cannot decide who is right. I just try to arrange my thoughts. My comments are preliminary. First of all, I want to say here that I read an interview with the director Lydia Steier in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. There she states that most young composers have not the slightest idea about opera, they even hate the genre without knowing the repertoire. She demands craftsmanship and knowledge before someone tries to tear down the walls. I liked that conviction of a young director because I suffered much from the dilettantism of "Regietheater". Therefore, I talked with Miss Steier after the performance. She made a very good impression of a woman who is thoughtful and determined. I asked her abruptly whether she believes in God. She said yes. I answered that in this case, she should not be able to deceive the work completely. She replied that she simply could not imagine how to present this work as it is to a contemporary public. Instead (this is my point of view) she tried to extract a layer which might ALSO be in DONNERSTAG and tried to superimpose it as stringently as possible. What does that mean? In my opinion, it means that we HEARED an opera by Stockhausen but SAW an interpretation by Stockhausen (1/5) and Steier (4/5). It is a sad fact that nowadays it seems that even a believing person is not able to confront the public with the vision of an Ascension of a human being to the Light Divine. It was clear for me that nowadays redemption or salvation seems imaginable only in a secular way, as a coming-of-age story, as a kind of reconnecting with oneself, and (organized) devotion is to be condemned. The problem is that "greatness", "holiness" are sacrificed to the concept of postmodern relativity which is the Zeitgeist. What can be done? Nothing except no performances of LICHT for the next hundred years...
I said that we SAW an opera by Stockhausen/Steier. Does that mean "Regietheater"? Not really. The first act was Stockhausen until MONDEVA. There, Steier started to put the extracted "psychological" layer of KINDHEIT over the libretto. I understood that the father not only suppressed his son but also (metaphorically) nearly killed his son's ability to love. But who killed the father? That was not clear. Similarly enforced was the exam as a clinical test for admission to a psychiatric ward, and the whole second act. Here, Steier tried to catch up with a famous movie by a Czech director where it was shown how a person helps patients to escape from a psychiatry. This humanitarianism, this help for the others seems to be what Steier identifies with "holiness". At the same time, MICHAEL finds peace with regard to his past. He exaggerates this new self-confidence and becomes an object of worship for others (FESTIVAL) until he fights this devilish self-esteem (DRACHENKAMPF) and has his very humble VISION of a psychological and therefore secular "salvation" which is nothing more than a medical healing. I told this only to show that Steier tried at least to be consequent. For "Regietheater", this was much too coherent and also much too opulent. I do not want to comment, although, on the "Stockhausen altar" and the persiflage on the Holy Communion, these were very cheap things. All in all: This Freudian view may be a cliche of modern theater but I heard from members of the public and read in the newspapers that there still was too much "unbearable" holiness and esotericism. We have to face the fact that the majority of German society is atheist to the bones. Lydia Steier managed to extract a small layer of Stockhausen's libretto and put it over the whole staging which meant that there was quite a lot collision with the words and the spirit of the libretto. On the other hand, she succeeded in telling a rather coherent story in an opera that was judged to be completely "against interpretation". This was new and so she opened a door. WERKTREUE in the sense of Stockhausen was lost and he (and the work) were treated like any other composer. This is not the baddest thing that can happen to a composer: to be interpreted while played.
I think there is no other way. It is good because it will offer the possibility of other productions. Some of them will be WERKTREU, some will be not. The more productions there will be, the more possibilities of faithful rendering will be offered. To hear the operas live is the most important thing. It would be fine if we could discuss every year how bad a staging of a LICHT opera has been...!
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Barcelona, Spain to Detroit is an approximately 15-hour combination of flight and bus. You can also fly; or do a combination of flight and train. The time zone difference moving from Central European Time to Eastern Standard Time is minus 6 hours. Expect much colder temperatures when traveling from Barcelona in March; daily highs in Detroit reach 6°C and lows reach -3°C. Finish your sightseeing early on the 13th (Wed) so you can travel to Washington DC.
On the 14th (Thu), pause for some photo ops at Vietnam Veterans Memorial, appreciate the history behind Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, appreciate the history behind Korean War Veterans Memorial, then pause for some photo ops at Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and finally learn more about the world around you at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Here are some ideas for day two: take an in-depth tour of Newseum, then get a sense of history and politics at Library of Congress, then take an in-depth tour of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and finally pause for some photo ops at National World War II Memorial.
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'Madden NFL 19' predicts the 2018 NFL season
Anthony Sulla-Heffinger
Yahoo Sports August 8, 2018, 1:14 PM UTC
After a long, eventful offseason, football is back and with it comes the annual release of EA Sports' 'Madden NFL' video game. With the game hitting shelves this week (and Colin Kaepernick's name officially back in the soundtrack), we are, once again, simulating an entire NFL season to determine just how accurate 'Madden' really is.
Here are 19 takeaways from Yahoo Sports' simulated season:
The Jaguars were definitely not a fluke – A year after surprising the entire football world and nearly beating the Patriots in the AFC title game, Jacksonville not only got over that hump, but it also won the Super Bowl, defeating Philadelphia 13-7.
It wasn't all bad for Philly – Sure, the Eagles lost in the Super Bowl, but they won the NFC East and conference for the second year in a row. On top of those accomplishments, Carson Wentz took home the league MVP award, throwing for more than 4,100 yards and 42 touchdowns.
Tom Brady was probably robbed – While Wentz's team had a better record (13-3 vs 12-3-1) the 41-year-old Brady's statistics were better (4,839 yards, 44 TDs, 14 INTs). We'd have given the MVP to Tom Terrific.
All good things come to an end – Despite his astonishingly good (virtual) season, Brady did decide to hang 'em up. In addition to Brady, Eli Manning, Marshawn Lynch, Terrell Suggs, Brandon Marshall, Larry Fitzgerald, and Frank Gore called it a career.
Bolt of energy – In his second year as the Chargers head coach, Anthony Lynn led Los Angeles to a 13-3 record, winning the AFC West and being named NFL Coach of the Year in the process. Philip Rivers and Jatavis Brown also took home hardware, being named AFC Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year ('Madden' hands out awards for each conference)
Youth movement in Buffalo – Josh Allen and Tremaine Edmunds won the Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year awards, respectively.
Speaking of rookie QBs – Baker Mayfield essentially split time with Tyrod Taylor (more on him later), putting together a respectable line of 2,181 yards, 15 TDs, and 7 INTs. Fellow rookie QBs Josh Rosen and Sam Darnold did not see significant action.
End of an (elite) era in Baltimore – While most expect Joe Flacco to hold onto the starting QB job this season, in 'Madden,' the Ravens wasted no time going to Lamar Jackson, who threw for more than 3,800 yards and 25 TDs.
Gronk's still got it – In what appeared to be a down year for receivers, Rob Gronkowski led all pass catchers with 106 receptions and was the only one to top the century mark. Demaryius Thomas led in receiving yards (1,291) and Brandin Cooks in TDs (13)
Black hole for QBs – Khalil Mack swallowed up everything in opposing backfields, leading the league in sacks with 20.5 and finishing with a solid 12 tackles for loss for Oakland's top-ranked defense.
Beasts of the East – Led by the Eagles, the NFC East was the best division in football, featuring three teams with winning records: Philadelphia, Washington (11-5), and Dallas (9-7). The Giants rounded things out, finishing 3-13 for the second season in a row.
Barkley a bust? – While most are projecting Saquon Barkley to be a game-changing, generational talent at running back, the Giants rookie finished with 342 rushing yards. He did account for significant production in the passing game, adding 605 yards through the air.
Lions coast to division title – The NFC North was absolutely brutal, with Detroit being able to win the division easily with a 9-5-2 record. No other team had a winning record.
You like that? No. – Despite signing Kirk Cousins to lead the offense, Minnesota finished 29th in the league and went from a 13-3 record in 2017 to a 5-11 one in 2018. Cousins finished with his lowest yardage (3,150) TD (18) and completion percentage (54%) since becoming a full-time starter.
Jimmy G stays hot – The 49ers QB led San Francisco to the playoffs for the first time since the 2013 season. Garoppolo finished with 4,097 passing yards, 25 TDs and 10 INTs.
Cleveland rocks – The Browns finished with an 8-8 record, tying Pittsburgh for the best mark in the AFC North. It also represented the biggest turnaround in the league after finishing 0-16 in 2017.
Brees bests Manning, Favre – The Saints QB jumped into first place on the NFL's all-time passing yards list, finishing the season with 4,259, bringing him to 74,704 for his career. His 37 TDs in 2018 brought him to 525, just 14 away from Peyton's all-time mark of 539.
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News24.com | Gender and power: UK women still 'under-represented in top jobs'
Women are still missing from the top jobs in the United Kingdom's politics, law, civil service, media, professional and sports administration sectors, and a "step change" is needed to boost the number in senior roles, campaigners have said.
There was also an "alarming" lack of women of colour across top jobs, a study by the Fawcett Society suggested.
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The 2020 Sex and Power Index highlighted the "dismally" slow pace of change across sectors ranging from business to courts, said the group.
"Despite much lip service about the importance of having women in top jobs, today's data shows we are still generations away from achieving anything close to equality," said Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society.
"We are wasting women's talent and skills."
The report detailed how many women were in the most senior roles.
In the legal sector, the Supreme Court has two women justices out of 12 (17 percent). Since its formation in 2009, there has never been a Supreme Court judge who is a person of colour.
Women make up just over one in 20 chief executives of FTSE 100 companies, which remains unchanged since the society's last report in 2018. None are women of colour.
Women make up 39 percent of secondary headteachers, a figure which also has not changed since 2018, and has risen by just six percent since 2005.
Women make up 30 percent of university vice-chancellors, but only one percent of university vice-chancellors are women are colour.
Just over a fifth of UK national newspaper editors are women, with just four women in the top jobs, while in sport, women make up 21 percent of national governing body chief executives – a drop from 26 percent in 2018.
Only four percent of Premier League football clubs are led by women.
In the House of Commons, 34 percent of MPs are women – up only two percent in December's election.
Women of colour now make up 17 percent of the women MPs, which is in line with the population as a whole.
In the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the UK's legislature, 27 percent of peers are women, which is significantly lower than the Commons and up by only one percent since 2018. Only two percent of all members of the House of Lords are women of colour.
There are no women of colour in the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The report was published as the Fawcett Society launches the Pay and Progression of Women of Colour Project, joining forces with the Runnymede Trust, a race equality think tank.
"It's astonishing to think that there has been a significant and growing black and ethnic minority population in this country (now one in six people) since the arrival of Empire Windrush in 1948 and yet we have never had a non-white Supreme Court judge, or a Civil Service Permanent Secretary or a CEO of FTSE-100 companies who is a woman of colour," said Zubaida Haque, Runnymede Trust deputy director.
"There have been positive steps and achievements towards gender equality in some key areas of public life, but we cannot assume that generic gender initiatives and targets will also address racial discrimination issues for women of colour. This is why Runnymede Trust are excited to be working with the Fawcett Society on a new project focusing on pay and progression patterns for women of colour."
In the Conservative government, 30 percent of the cabinet are women, while Labour's shadow cabinet is 47 percent women.
Approximately a third of civil service permanent secretaries are women, but there are no women of colour in these roles.
The Fawcett Society called on government, political parties, the judiciary and employers to take measures to increase the numbers of women in senior roles.
The society said there should be quotas, targets and policy interventions to remove the barriers to women's progression.
"I am determined to lead the fight to tackle gender disparity in all sectors by removing barriers to women's progression," responded Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom.
"This includes plans to extend protections against redundancy for new mums, increasing the take-up of shared parental leave, and calling out female and ethnic minority under-representation as highlighted by the Hampton-Alexander and Parker Reviews.
"Our upcoming Employment Bill will have fairness – including gender equality – at the heart of it."
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Alastair Sim, of Universities Scotland, says it is the 'right thing to do'.
Entry requirements for some of Scotland's most prestigious universities will be lowered to increase the number of students from diverse backgrounds, it has emerged.
Applicants for its law degree will be required to have one A and three B grades at Scottish Higher level for entry – below the five A grades typically required.
Similarly for applications to medicine, pupils will be required to gain three A grades and two B grades – below the expected four As and one B.
A spokesman for the University of Edinburgh said applications would be considered based on a "range of factors" and not just on grades earned.
He said: "The university is committed to widening access and welcomes applications from students from diverse backgrounds, while ensuring we support every student throughout their academic journey.
"Our contextualised admissions process allows us to make offers to Widening Participation applicants, who meet the minimum academic requirements, using our Access Threshold – which takes into account a range of factors other than academic qualifications.
"The 2019-20 Access Threshold for each degree is published on our online degree finder.
Figures published earlier this year by the Higher Education Statistics Agency indicated more than 15% of students entering university in Scotland last year were from the country's most deprived areas.
A spokesman for the University of Glasgow said: "The University of Glasgow is committed to widening access to higher education and we have a proud history of outreach programmes, of which contextualised offer-making to applicants from varied backgrounds is an important part.
"Those contextualised offers have been made since the 1980s via our Summer School programme.
"Our widening access programmes currently cover the 120 secondary schools in the west of Scotland and areas of disadvantage across the country.
"Combining effective outreach with evidence-based contextualised admissions is the key to our success.
Alastair Sim, Universities Scotland director, said universities are making the move because it is "the right thing to do".
He said: "Universities have planned their move to set minimum entry requirements very carefully based on judgements about the course content and what it takes to graduate.
"This is not about ticking boxes for universities – it's about giving people chances they have worked very hard to earn, often with the odds stacked against them, with the confidence to know they have as much potential to get as good a degree as their peers.
Scottish Labour's education spokesman, Iain Gray, said: "Contextualised admissions are an important part of efforts to widen access to university and level the playing field.
"However, to avoid unintended consequences they must be backed by a relaxation of the student cap and sustainable funding of our universities.
"The current draft budget cuts university funding, and the Scottish Government has refused to review the cap for many years.