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Many of our guests are here for the wonderful "Stratford Festival Theatre". They come to "A Valley View B&B" looking for the privacy and spaciousness we have to offer. Here they are able to relax and refresh themselves in the tranquility offered by this unique B&B. Whether they come before or after their theatre experience they find here the calm serenity that is a balm to the soul and a welcome relief from our oft too busy lives.
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Ten minutes away is the picturesque Scottish built stone town of "St.Marys". Built on the "River Thames" with its natural weir, parks and walks it invites exploration. There are lovely mansions, one of which houses the "St. Marys' Museum" beautifully displaying the history of the area. You will find good restaurants, antique shops, boutiques, the "Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame", tennis courts, swimming in Ontario's largest outdoor pool "the Quarry" and a very good 18 hole golf course. A few minutes further is "Wildwood Conservation Area" for hiking, sailing and fishing. Within 20 minutes to the west is "Lucan" home of the historic and tragic "Donelly Family". Forty five minutes away are the unspoilt sandy beaches of "Lake Huron" one of the vast freshwater seas in our area. Twenty minutes to the south is "London" with extensive shopping, night clubs, racetrack, casino, art galleries, museums and "Fanshawe Pioneer Village". We are truly well centered for a short or extended vacation. Things to do & places to see in Stratford Ontario.
"A Valley View B&B" is a place to rest the body and feed the soul, a place to commune with nature and with each other. As you enjoy your leisurely breakfast you can watch the many birds and wild life through the large windows as they feed a mere ten feet away. Then you can explore the well kept trails along "Fish Creek" or through the pine and hardwood forests. Alternatively you may wish to enjoy gentle walks in the extensive gardens among flowering crab apple trees and heavenly lilacs. Maybe you would like to picnic, play a game of lawn darts or garden bowls. In the evening you can watch the breath taking sunsets and then the starlit sky weaves its magic with the moon to light your way. So much at your door for you alone to savour. Feature & Ammenities @ A Valley View BB.
Our woods are home to white tailed deer. The beaver and blue heron visit the river and hawks soar over head. Wild apple blossom, trilliums, trout lilies and violets adorn the trails. In the Fall wild berries and wild asters decorate the field sides and Just feet from your windows are a great variety of birds;- gold finch, red breasted grosbeak , blue jays, red cardinals, chickadees, nuthatches, downy and hairy wood peckers, the red breasted woodpecker, mourning doves and all the different sparrows. Sharing the feeders are the many squirrels and rabbits. The gardens feature statuary, secluded benches, fountains and flowers to attract butterflies and humming birds. A nature lovers paradise. Best of all ~ our accommodations are located right in the middle of it all.
You often hear the phrase "home away from home" but here it is really true. this is a complete home with all that you would normally have in a home. There is space, a washer and dryer, a sewing machine for those little emergencies, an iron and board, indoor and outdoor games, magazines, books, a full kitchen for snacks at any time, a proper dining table, your very own heat, central air, satellite T.V., free wi-fi, a private entrance with your own key. All this set in fifty acres of pastoral perfection for you alone to enjoy. View our accommodations.
This is one of the beauties of "A Valley View B&B". You will be the only guests thereby enjoying to the full the complete privacy and freedom of this idyllic 50 acre country property. You have an ensuite double bedroom, a double sofa bed in the living room and there is also a folding cot and a single full height air bed available. The sleeping configurations and numbers are therefore of your choice.
Your modern kitchen will be generously stocked with supplies for a full breakfast and light lunches. Special dietary requests are taken into consideration. China, utensils and all other necessary items are supplied. Most importantly you will be able to have your breakfast at your leisure in privacy inside or out. Remember you are the only guests and there are no time tables. this is your home for the entire length of your stay.
We offer the long stay guests a "Fifth Night Free" making your already exceptional stay even more economical. For our many honeymoon and anniversary guests we provide those special touches of a "Free Romance Package" to make it a romantic and memorable occasion. For those with an artistic flare we offer a one hour "Free Art Lesson" either in theory or practice at a mutually agreeable time.
There is only the one step and doorway into the B&B, no other stairs to climb. You can park your car in the driveway right outside the B&B.
Being a full apartment suite if we do experience rainy days you have the comfort of your own "home away from home". Enjoy a book or magazine from your own library, watch satellite T.V., play one of the supplied board or card games, or enjoy the views through the large windows in comfort and privacy as you relax with your favourite drink and provided snacks. You will not have to worry about what to do and how to keep dry! No having to stay in a bedroom or share a "common" room on this vacation.


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Axe historique ("den historiske akse") er en række monumenter, bygninger, passager og færdselsårer i Frankrigs hovedstad Paris. Den strækker sig i vestlig retning fra byens centrum og er også kendt om "Voie Triomphale" (triumfruten).

Skabelsen af Axe historique indledtes med anlæggelsen af Champs-Élysées, der blev tegnet i det 17. århundrede for at skabe et udsyn mod vest og forlænge den centrale akse i den have, som hørte til det kongelige Tuileries-palads. I dag er Tuileries-haven (Jardins des Tuileries) bevaret med sin brede, centrale gangsti, mens selve paladset blev brændt ned under Pariserkommunen i 1871.

Mellem Tuileries-haven og Champs Élysées-forlængelsen lå der en sammenhobning af bygninger på det sted, som nu er Place de la Concorde. De blev nedrevet tidligt i kong Ludvig XV's regeringstid, og pladsen blev oprindeligt navngivet efter ham. Derved kunne havens akse åbne sig gennem en stor passage ud mod den nye, kongelige plads.

I den anden retning, mod øst, vendte Tuileries-paladset ud mod en åben plads, Place du Carrousel. Der opførtes efter ordre fra Napoleon den lille triumfbue, Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, centreret mod paladset (og derved på samme akselinje, som allerede var skabt i den modsatte retning). Planer, som længe havde været diskuteret, om at fjerne de mellemliggende bygninger for at forbinde slotspladsen i det "Gamle Louvre", som det ubenyttede palads hed, med slotsgården i Tuileries, blev først realiseret i det tidlige 19. århundrede. Som følge heraf er den ældre akse, som strækker sig fra Louvres slotsgård, ganske lidt drejet i forhold til resten af, hvad der er blevet Axe historique, men Arc du Carrousel, som ligger i skæringspunktet mellem de to akser, er med til at skjule afvigelsen.

Mod vest afsluttedes aksen i 1836 med færdiggørelsen af Triumfbuen på Place de l'Étoile for enden af Champs Élysées. Triumfbuen dannede det fjerne punkt i perspektivlinjen, som nu begynder ved ridderstatuen af Ludvig XIV, som I.M. Pei fik placeret ved siden af Louvre-pyramiden, som han opførte i Cour Napoléon i Louvre-museet.

Aksen blev yderligere udvidet mod vest ad vejen Avenue de la Grande Armée, forbi Paris' bygrænse og til bydelen La Défense, som oprindelig var et stort trafikknudepunkt, der var opkaldt efter en statue til minde om forsvaret af Paris under den fransk-preussiske krig.

I 1950'erne blev området omkring La Défense udlagt til at blive et ny forretningsdistrikt, og der byggede høje kontorbygninger langs avenuen. Aksen blev herved endnu en gang forlænget, og der var ambitiøse projekter for den vestlige udkant af den nye plads.

Under den franske præsident François Mitterrand blev der i 1980'erne igangsat et projekt til at skabe en version af Triumfbuen i en moderne udgave fra det 20. århundrede. Projektet resulterede i opførelsen af La Grande Arche de la Fraternité (kendt under betegnelsen La Grande Arche eller "L'Arche de la Défense"), der tegnedes af den danske arkitekt Johan Otto von Spreckelsen som et monument til ære for menneskeheden og humanitære idealer frem for militære sejre. Den blev indviet i 1990.

Netværket af jernbanelinjer og vejtunneler under den forhøjede plads La Défense forhindrede, at fundamentpillerne til den nye triumfbue kunne placeres nøjagtigt på akselinjen. Den afviger derfor en smule fra den rette linje og vil dreje aksen, hvis denne skulle blive udvidet endnu længere mod vest. Fra taget af Grande Arche er der anden tydelig akse, der via Eiffeltårnet ender ved skyskraberen Tour Montparnasse, som står direkte på linjen bag tårnet.

Der findes et Seine-Arche-projekt, som går ud på at forlænge den historiske akse mod vest gennem byen Nanterre, men med en let kurve.

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The Times of London reports that UK courts are now recognizing decisions made by Muslims under sharia law. Rowan Williams, Arch Bishop of Canterbury, had just months before advised this. This "parallel law" situation means the following (the list is not complete):
1. Abuse against women will grow since the Qur'an allows men to beat their wives and divorce them easily and unilaterally.
2. Polygamy will be allowed.
3. Muslim men will rarely be prosecuted for rape, since sharia law makes this nearly impossible.
4. Muslim violence against infidels will be excused.
5. This "parallel law" will become a beachhead for establishing sharia for the entire country. Islam always aspires to be a civilization, not just a religion (in the Western sense).
Apparently, once proud England may have lost her will to be England. God save the Queen and her subjects. If you think my judgments are extreme, please read Mark Gabriel, Cultural Clash (2007). He was formerly a professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, and now a Christian convert.
I saw this for the first time yesterday and was shocked. I may be wrong, but this seems very akin to the religious relativism we see here in the state. "Our truth is our law, your truth is your law."
God help them.
The Daily Fuel said...
Perhaps this is a sign of things to come, as you say. Or, perhaps, England (the United Kingdom) is actually being itself.
Two things struck me in the Times article you link to:
1) Sharia courts are allowed under a provision of the Arbitration Act.
2) The last sentence in the article reads: "If the Jewish courts are allowed to flourish, so must the sharia ones." So I did a little search on Jewish tribunals in Great Britain, and--in fact--I quickly found this article, which confirms that Jewish tribunals have flourished in "are in daily use in Britain, and have been for centuries."
So this new development, which I suspend my own judgment on, seems to have been taken in the name of fairness and of equal treatment.
We can agree or disagree with the effects that this decision will have, but we should agree that England has taken this decision precisely to continue to be England, not the opposite.
Kamilla said...
Your judgments aren't extreme in the least - spend some time in London and other parts of the island and you'll see. My only surprise is that you are rather late to the party on this.
I'm not late at all. I think I posted on Rowan Williams after he affirmed sharia for Muslims. If not, I have been teaching on this kind of thing for years.
Sorry, I wasn't merely referring to the acceptance of Sharia in Britain - I was thinking of your title itself. Are you familiar with Peter Hitchens's book, "The Abolitionc of Britain"?
ABC Rowan is merely a late symptom, as is the heir to the throne's wish to be known as the defender of "faith" rather than "the faith".
emmzee said...
"Islam always aspires to be a civilization, not just a religion (in the Western sense)."
This is a vitally important point that most people in the western world don't grasp. The concept of "separation of church and state" is foreign to Islam.
Brits are the relativists; Muslims are absolutists with the wrong absolutes.
So, England is now and Islamic State?
Daniel said...
I was relieved to see that R. Williams merely said that Sharai law was inevitible, which is true in a growing Islamic society like Britain. The article didn't say whether he agreed that it should become the system of the courts.
I would hope that this Anglican semi-authority would not go that far off the edge with tolerance like he is with the Episcopal Church!
John Stockwell said...
From the article:
Under the act, the sharia courts are classified as arbitration tribunals. The rulings of arbitration tribunals are binding in law, provided that both parties in the dispute agree to give it the power to rule on their case.
Siddiqi said: "We realised that under the Arbitration Act we can make rulings which can be enforced by county and high courts. The act allows disputes to be resolved using alternatives like tribunals. This method is called alternative dispute resolution, which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are."
In July, the head of the judiciary, the lord chief justice, Lord Phillips, further stoked controversy when he said that sharia could be used to settle marital and financial disputes.
In short, the lord chief justice simply
followed the law. An arbitration court
is an arbitration court. If parties
agree to arbitration on s civil matter,
then the ruling of the arbitration court
is binding.
There is nothing here about criminal
matters, so Dr. Groothuis' claims that
this ruling will adversely affect
issues of criminal justice
are hyperbolae.
This has nothing to do with the "Brits
being relativists". It has to do with
the lord chief justice following the
law of the land. What's he going
to do, not recognize a particular
arbitration court because of the religious affiliation of the parties
involved?
Remember that adherence to the principle
of religious freedom is one of the
foundation stones of modern democracy. Violate that principle because you don't
like Muslims, and you are no better than the Islamic dictatorships you despise.
Yossman said...
It seems that relativism is digging its own grave. It has let absolutism in through the backdoor as one voice among the pluralistic many. Soon it will be the only voice heard shouting orders and commanding obedience.
England is not now an Islamic state, but on the way, given demographics and legal philosophy.
Stockwell:
Giving sharia legal standing against British law is not the freedom of religion; it is establishing Islam legally in an historically Christian civilization. But there is no first amendment in England, of course.
Dr. Groothuis wrote:
It is certainly true that Britain has no first
amendment, and indeed, as a result does not
have as complete a safeguard of separation
of church and state as we have in the US.
However, while such separation is clear in
government matters, it is not clear at all
in civil matters.
I would invite interested readers to search on
google on the following:
"Islamic Sharia and Jewish Halakha Arbitration Court"
You should find an article in an online magazine
called The American Muslim, from a year ago
discussing this issue with regard to US law.
In the US we a similar structure for permitting
rulings in private arbitration courts. The
article points out that the US already allows
certain arbitration rulings made in
Jewish Hakhala courts to be legally binding.
So, there is a legal precedent of a
faith-based arbitration court already
operative in US law.
It is not a matter of "if" but a matter of "when"
with regard to sharia civiil arbitration courts in
the US. We could go the way of Canada and ban
all faith-based arbitration courts. But,
it may be that this would not stand
up under a Supreme Court test, by the
same legal argument used by the
lord chief justice in Britian.
I would point out that
such legal structures as neighborhood covenants,
which could easily turn into Sharia-neighborhood
covenants, are also examples of civil structures
that might be amenable to faith-based
tampering.

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Alter Bridge just unveiled a rousing new track titled "Dying Light" — the latest single from the alt-rockers forthcoming sixth studio album Walk the Sky, which is scheduled to be released on October 18th.
Starting light with some layered guitars and a solid, sturdy drumbeat, the track (which arrives with a beautiful visualizer from Dan Sturgess) quietly chills out while singer Myles Kennedy shows off his powerful voice in the first verse. As the chorus kicks in, the song begins to grow and expand, eventually becoming a soaring anthem perfectly in line with the material for which the band are known.
Earlier this year, guitarist and Alter Bridge co-founder Mark Tremonti told Kerrang! the new album has elements in common with John Carpenter films, specifically "this old school synth-wave kind of vibe … Some might hear the record and have no idea that was intended, but for a batch of songs I tapped into some old loops that I either created or found randomly online." Listen closely near the end of "Dying Light," and several of the licks indeed sound like someone transposed an old horror film score into a guitar part, adding depth and mystery to the otherwise triumphant layout of the song.
Despite this dark inspiration, Tremonti admits the lyrics come from a much less sinister place. "This is more of an enlightening, Zen kind of record," he told the publication. "It's not a preachy record by any means, it's more of a free-spirited kind of thing."
Hear "Dying Light" above, and check out Alter Bridge's brand new album Walk the Sky when it's released via Napalm Records on October 18th. The group are currently busy touring the United States alongside Skillet and Dirty Honey now through October 25th before heading to Europe to finish out the year. Find a full list of dates and ticketing info here.
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Hello fellow families of marvelous children who have a diagnosis of cortical visual impairment!
I had the pleasure of attending the conference this year. According to Perkins' Director of Community Programs and Conference Chair, Teri Turgeon, this year's attendance totaled 106 parents and 38 professionals (including teachers of the visually impaired, speech therapists, and occupational therapists).
Even though my daughter is almost 12-years-old, I still have a lot to learn. I found it hard to choose between the variety of presentation topics from the Expanded Core Curriculum to Issues with Complexity in CVI to What about the Dads? From Has your child had a low vision evaluation? to CVI: Assessment, strategies, and implementation across the day to Strategies and resources to support children who are deafblind. And more!
Historically, Perkins has been and continues to be the leader in educating children with ocular and cortical visual impairments. With the Early Connections Conference, Perkins is a leader in supporting the families as well.
Tables set up in the Perkins auditorium. The PCVI conference materials, a display with children's faces and a table with a black tablecloth and a white drape with the PCVI logo over it. A group of people stand at the table to the right speaking to another vendor.
Teri Turgeon (also the parent of a young adult with a visual impairment) told the attendees that she hoped the conference helped them "fill their cups." She explained that there are experiences in your life that are intersections and the choices you make can change the direction of your life. She hoped that the conference would be an intersection for families to move forward.
Image: A drawing of the words "We've Got This" held up by a group of women. One woman holds a baby. Another baby sits on top of the words holding a rattle in his raised hand.
The educational aspect of this conference was a big draw for me, but, what made my heart happy was seeing all of the children. A little girl in a pink t-shirt and holding a white cane expertly navigated in and out of a crowded elevator. Volunteers in red t-shirts took children for walks and painted faces. In one room, a table of little girls, all bright colors, elbows, and ponytails, drew pictures while a grinning little boy tossed a ball with a teenager, or, rather, near the teenager. The game seemed to be more fun to the boy if the young man had to chase the ball.
One young mother was hesitant about leaving her infant daughter in the nursery. I overheard Teri tell the worried mom that when she (Teri) brought her daughter to this conference years earlier she had never even left her daughter with her grandparents. Hearing this conversation, I remembered the strong urge to get an occasional moment away from the never-ending responsibilities of being the mom of a baby with special needs. And, I remembered the equally strong worry that something would happen if I wasn't with her. In the first year, the only person I eventually left Eliza with was my mother, a retired nurse – after I had checked her references, of course. You can never be too sure.
The children! That's why we were there! That's why we are learning as fast as we can and asking questions and reading articles and advocating in schools and beyond.
I got to meet Savannah and her mom, Lacey (Moms on Monday #18 is a loving tribute to a beautiful girl and her dedicated mom). I got to meet Adam and his parents, Lara and Todd. (Lara assured me she will be a Mom on Monday someday. This is in no way a blatant attempt to persuade her to answer those questions I sent her. Not. At. All.) These pictures were taken at the end of a long day and both kiddos were ready to go home. They were very patient to let us take pictures. Adam gave me a very polite High 5.
Image: A dark haired boy, sitting in a chair, leans over the tray of his chair. His father kneels behind the chair with his arm draped over the back while his mother leans in on the boy's left. Both parents are smiling. And, the mother has promised to be a Mom on Monday.
I will follow Adam's lead and give you my own cyber High 5 to conclude this post.
More to come on the information given and stories shared at Early Connections 2018.


The European Central Bank is planned to hold an extraordinary meeting on Sunday at 17:00 GMT, to discuss and immediate action to buy Italian bonds and calm the markets. An agreement on wide action in the currently split ECB can boost EUR/USD at the wake of the new trading week.
A Sunday afternoon in mid-August isn't the preferred time for business meetings, but these aren't normal times. In addition to the ECB meeting, there are reports about G-7 and G-20 discussions about acting in the markets, about responding to the US downgrade by S&P.
On Thursday, Jean-Claude Trichet's ECB decided to act in a limited way in the bond markets, by buying only Irish and Portuguese yields. This triggered a global sell off. On Friday, it became clear that the ECB, which has the tools to stop the debt crisis by buying bonds, lowering yields and stabilizing the markets, had set conditions to Italy: faster and bigger actions to cut the budget.
Berlusconi got the message and announced front loading of harsh measures with an aim to balance the budget by 2013. This helped the euro close higher, but Italian bond yields still closed at above 6%.
Now, the ball is in Trichet's field, and in the meantime, the historic downgrade of the US by S&P is set to renew the global sell off.
So is Trichet willing to act? The emergency meeting means that he is ready.
An announcement by the ECB before markets open is likely to provide EUR/USD with an initial boost.
But later, uncertainty is much higher. Trichet is reluctant on bond buying and doesn't have unanimous support: German representatives in the ECB opposed Thursday's limited bond buying. They might force the ECB to make limited moves now.
There is a gap of around 10 hours between the opening of the forex markets in Sydney and Wellington, until bond markets open in Europe. When Italian bonds will begin trading, we will get to see what the ECB is doing, what the "bond vigilantes" are doing and whether other global forces are ready to act.
If the actions are limited, these gains can be erased. In the long run, if the actions are extreme and not sterilized, this will turn into a quantitative easing / euro printing scheme that will weaken the euro.
In any case, these are extreme times: a downgrade of the US is unprecedented. So is the situation in which the world's 8th largest economy, Italy, can run out of cash by September.
In these "interesting times", volatility is high and caution is necessary.
How will currencies react to the US downgrade? – Reaction expected in 7 currency pairs.
Euro to dollar forecast – in depth focus on the pair.


More than 75 years ago Henry Luce wanted a name, in just one word, for a weekly newsmagazine that would describe the passing events of the day. He chose the word time.
The Bible says, "The days of our lives are seventy years" (Psalm 90:10, NKJV). Time is a mystery. We sense its passing in our consciousness. We measure its progress with delicately adjusted instruments. We mark its flight and read the record it leaves behind. But the one thing we cannot do is define it.
The Bible teaches that time and life are tied together. It seems that the whole universe is organized for measuring time. Nature is like a huge clockmaker's shop in which thousands of timepieces are ticking. Pulse beats indicate the fleeting moments; the rotation of the earth marks the passing of day and night; the phases of the moon, the moving on of the months; the revolutions of the planets, the march of the years.
Geology studies the wrinkles written by time on earth's brow. Astronomy studies the clockwork of the heavens. Archaeology, peering about among the relics of the ancient past, traces the footprints of time in the ages gone by.
Approaching a new year, we speak of Father Time and visualize an old man with a long white beard who is holding a scythe in one hand and an hourglass in the other hand. But time is a thief. Time steals strength from our muscles and youth from our faces. Time robs us of our health and strips us at last of everything that we have.
To the Christian, time has a moral significance and a spiritual meaning. Let us consider time in three ways.
First, time is a trust. What are we doing with it? Are we frittering it away, letting it slip through our fingers, squandering it in wanton waste? Or are we treasuring it, using it to maximum advantage, filling every minute with 60 seconds' worth of service to God? The Apostle Paul counsels us to "redeem the time" (Cf. Ephesians 5:16). Time cannot be relived; it can only be redeemed. Let us treat time as a trust.
Time past is time over which we have no power, but time to come lays upon each one of us the possibility of moral and spiritual choices.
As life goes on, there are billions of events happening in every moment of historic time. To those billions of events we contribute our quotas. What is the next contribution that you will make? In the next instant you can tell a lie or commit other sins, or you can choose to use that time to serve God and to lay up treasures for eternity.
Time in itself is neither good nor bad except as we make it so. But it becomes a crucial test, sifting us through and through, minute by minute.
How are you reacting to that test? How does it affect you? Are you growing daily in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18)? Do you take advantage of every opportunity to study the Scriptures and to pray? Do you take advantage of every opportunity to witness to Jesus Christ?
Third, time is an appointment. Time has been given to us for the purpose of glorifying God in this life. Time has been given to us to have an encounter with the living God. However famous a person may be, or however great his wealth, or whatever his contribution to literature or science, if he has not come into a vital conversion experience with Jesus Christ, then that person has lived in vain.
Thus time is an appointment with Christ, and the Bible says, "Now is the accepted time" (2 Corinthians 6:2, NKJV). God has given us a moment in which we can come to know His Son Jesus Christ. We can come out of time and enter eternity with Him. From now on, everything we do can be done with eternity in view.
A story has been told about a party of men shipwrecked and adrift in a small boat on a stormy sea in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. After floating for several days, the men one night saw the light of a passing ship. But how could they attract the attention of those on the ship? How could they make them aware of their desperate plight? They had a lantern—but only one match.
Someone in the boat had to accept the responsibility of striking that one match. That solitary match was all that stood between them and the liner that was steaming by. What was to be done? They decided to cast lots, and the heavy responsibility fell upon the youngest sailor.
With a prayer on his lips and with trembling fingers, he struck the match. For a moment the flame flickered as though it would go out. Shielding the match with his cupped hands, the young sailor put it through the open door of the lantern, lit the stub of the candle and quickly closed the door. On the liner the lookout man spotted the light and informed the captain, and soon the men were saved.
Amid the stormy seas of life and against the background of eternity, the present moment flickers like the flicker of that lighted match. What will you do with your moment?
Ebenezer Erskine wrote that in the summer of 1708, he "got his head out of time into eternity." That was the hour that he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior. That hour was his existential moment, his life's crowning instant. Will you keep your appointment with Jesus Christ?
As the world moves from crisis to crisis, a moment will come on God's clock, and that hour is about to strike. The Bible tells us that the end will come but that the end also will be the beginning. When Jesus Christ comes again, it will be the end of this world's system of evil and the beginning of God's reign throughout the earth.
But before that hour strikes, our world is in for crisis after crisis. There will be wars and rumors of wars, revolutions and riots everywhere. People will betray each other as the deceitfulness of their hearts comes out into the open—crucifying Jesus Christ afresh.
The hour is late. The time is coming when people will call upon God, but they will not hear an answer. They will look for God, but they will not find him (Proverbs 1:28).
Today is your day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2). Today you can accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. You can put your faith, your trust and your confidence in Him. He will change your dimension of time and put you into eternity with Him.


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Q: How do I check if paypal sandbox is experiencing outages? I am trying to do some very simple test payments with the rest-api-sdk-php and so far everything has been so SKETCHY!
First attempt worked fine, second attempt the redirect to paypal takes forever (like five minutes) so I assume.
Next attempt I get an internal server error on paypals site.
Next attempt I get redirected to the 1995 version of paypal (doing exactly the same thing as before)
Next attempt I get some big red warning with a page long list of errors on the 1995 paypal site.
Trying again takes at least 10 minutes to process and redirect to my site with a 400 error.
Now on my last attempt it worked fine...
So my question is, aside from asking paypal by telephone, how do I find out if their sandbox servers are crashed or experiencing issues?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Q: Blazor @onmousedown doesn't recognize long press I want my program so differentiate between a short and long press. When pressing short (clicking) it works but when I keep the mouse down the @onmousedown is never called. Why is that?

  ...

DateTime mouseDownTme;
void MouseDown()
{
    mouseDownTme = DateTime.UtcNow;
}
void MouseUp()
{
    long milliseconds = (DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks - mouseDownTme.Ticks) / TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond;
    if (milliseconds > 400)
    {
        //long press
        Console.WriteLine("long press");
    }
    else
    {
        //short press
        Console.WriteLine("short press");
    }
}

Edit:
This code works. There real problem was I was trying to do this in .NET MAUI Blazor. I did also test it in a normal blazor environment but it seems I made a mistake there since testing it again proved to work. Does anyone know where I can reoprt this issue to .NET MAUI Blazor?

A: you should use OnPointerDown and OnPointerUp which works for both Touch and Mouse ;)
Full Sample in GitHub

A: You can combine @onmousedown and  @onmouseup:
//Code behinde
private DateTime time1 { get; set; }
private DateTime time2 { get; set; }

 { time1 = DateTime.Now; }"
    @onmouseup="() => { time2 = DateTime.Now; }">
   Click me

@if ((time1.Ticks - time2.Ticks)/ TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond > 400)
     {

Long press

     }
else
     {

short press

     }


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Rodbina Pacelli izvira iz starodavne ugledne rimske družine, ki pa je pridobila plemiške naslove šele v 19. stoletju. Ime Pacelli izhaja iz latinščine oziroma italijanščine ( = mir  = mir) in pomeni tistega, ki ljubi oziroma ustvarja mir.

Poreklo

Rodbina Pacelli izhaja iz Onana, trga pri Viterbu, ki je takrat stal na meji med Nadvojvodino Toskano in Papeško državo; s plemiškimi naslovi se ponašajo šele od 1853 in 1858 po določbi Pija IX.. Ko so vestno opravljali poklic pravnika, so postali plemiči od Acquapendente in Sant'Angelo in Vado, rimski plemiči, grofje 1929, in knezi. Ta naslov je prejel Carlo Pacelli (1903-1970) z motuproprijem, ki ga je podpisal italijanski kralj  Viktor Emanuel III. dne 23. novembra 1941.

Prednika sedanjih Pacellijevih sta Gaetano Pacelli in Maria Antonia Caterini, ki sta živela konec 18. in v začetku 19. stoletja. Njun sin Marcantonio I. Pacelli (1804-1902), rojen v Onanu, je preživljal mladost v tem srednjeveškem trgu, dokler ga ni bratranec kardinal Prospero Caterini vzel za spremljevalca 1816 v Rim k Piju VII.. Mladenič je sicer doktoriral iz kanonskega prava, vendar se je odločil za pravniški poklic pri Roti (Tribunal Rotae Romanae). Spremljal je Pija IX. na begu iz Rima v Gaeto 1848 skupaj s sinom Filipom. Postal je državni podtajnik za notranje zadeve ter eden od utemeljiteljev dnevnika L'Osservatore Romano. Pacellijevi torej še niso imeli nikakršne stopnje plemstva, ko so že vzdrževali dobre odnose s takoimenovanim črnim plemstvom, ki je ostalo zvesto papežu po zavzetju Rima 1870 od strani proticerkvenih krogov.

Pridobitev plemiških naslovov
Marcantonijevemu prvorojencc, Filippu I. Pacelliju (1837-1916), ki je postal dekan članov-izvedencev Vrhovnega sodišča Svetega sedeža  in se je poročil z Virginijo Graziosi, so se rodili štirje otroci: Giuseppina, Francesco, Eugenio (prihodnji papež Pij XII.) in Elisabetta. Da bi nagradil njegovo zvestobo in uslužnost med begom v Gaeto, je Pij IX. zakoncema podelil prva plemiška naslova 1853 in 1858 z ustreznima nazivoma: Nobili di Acquapendente e di Sant'Angelo in Vado.

Žena Francesca I. Pacellija (1874-1935) je bila Luigia Filippini Lera; rodili so se ji Carlo, Giuseppe, Marcantonio in Giulio: prvi trije so podedovali plemiški naslov. Pij XI. pa mu je za pravno-izvedenske in diplomatske zasluge pri Lateranskih sporazumih 1929 podelil dedni naslov grofa in rimskega plemiča.

Sklici

Glej tudi
Seznam papežev
Papeška država
Seznam vladarjev
Lateranski sporazumi

Nadaljnje branje
 Teodoro Amayden, La storia delle famiglie romane, Forni, Bologna 1967.
 Margherita Marchione, Shepherd of Souls: A pictoral life of Pope Pius XII, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2002.
 Claudio Rendina, Le grandi famiglie di Roma, Newton & Compton, Roma 2010.
 Luís Miguel Rocha, La figlia del Papa, Newton & Compton, Roma 2014.
 Andrea Tornielli, Pio XII. Eugenio Pacelli. Un uomo sul trono di Pietro, Mondadori, Milano 2009.
 Caterini Carlo. Gens Catherina de terra Balii. Edizioni Scientifiche Calabresi.Rende 2009

Zunanje povezave
Pacelli History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Plemiške rodbine


A native of the Midwest, Becky has made her home in New England for the past 21 years. She received a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and she is currently working toward certification as a Dalcroze Eurhythmics instructor. She is certified by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education as a Preschool Lead Teacher.
A lifelong musician and experienced early childhood educator, Becky specializes in sharing music with young children while also loving to teach individuals and groups of all ages. Working in a Montessori environment in recent years has taught Becky that repetition leads to mastery. The process involved in the development of skills is dynamic and flexible, and it has been her experience that students learn best when they are having fun.
By combining her dual passions of music and mentoring, Becky's goal is to foster an ongoing love of music for personal enjoyment and to enhance learning through listening. Becky is thrilled to join the Joy of Music faculty in the fall of 2018.


Lester Helfman is a Senior Staff Attorney in the Brooklyn Neighborhood Office of The Legal Aid's Society's Civil Practice where he represents clients in administrative proceedings, Article 78 proceedings and affirmative litigation in both state and federal courts, including state and federal class actions. During his forty year career I legal services, Les has also specialized in housing law, health law and the rights of the elderly, and represented parolees in parole revocation proceedings and writs of habeas corpus. From 1993–1997, he was Director of Litigation at Queens Legal Services Corp. Les trains extensively on public benefits issues and administrative and judicial appeal rights. He co-chairs a work group composed of legal service advocates and NYC Human Resources Administration program and legal staff, working to ensure the integrity of the Fair Hearing system and to establish alternative resolution modalities. Les is a graduate of Herbert H. Lehman College and New York Law School.


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IndiaSpend Interviews
'I Worry What The Internet Could Unleash Around India During Election Time'
By Tish Sanghera
|18 Nov 2018 12:30 AM GMT
Mumbai: When the first telegraph cable was laid beneath the Atlantic Ocean in 1858, connecting London and New York with the most advanced communication technology in history, excitable commentators at the time declared world peace would soon follow.
That clearly did not happen.
Simply improving human beings' ability to communicate with each other faster and more often did not mean old prejudices faded away, unity prevailed or that our species became instantly more altruistic.
Now as smartphones have permeated all sections of Indian society, Ravi Agrawal, managing editor of Foreign Policy, a global magazine for foreign affairs news, and author of a new book, 'India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy', is hesitant to attach similar claims onto the devices helping millions access the Internet for the first time.
"While I am definitely more 'cautiously optimistic' than I am pessimistic, the backend of the book reflects my increasing anxiety of what smartphones could do in a country like India--especially looking at the data we now have on the impact it has had on the West," Agrawal told IndiaSpend.
The number of mobile Internet users is expected to reach 478 million by June 2018, up 17% from December 2016, according to a joint 2017 report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India & Kantar IMRB. While Internet users in the west progressed slowly from dial-up, to broadband and 3G, Indian consumers have largely leapfrogged into the digital world with cheap data plans and affordable handsets.
While this has brought countless positives like mobile banking, free access to education tools and widening employment opportunities, the menace of fake news and rapid onset mob-violence has become a feature of our times, exacerbated by low-levels of digital and media literacy amongst the general population experiencing the Internet for the first time.
Agrawal, a Harvard graduate, is not wholly downbeat though and believes the smartphone "serves as a catalyst of sorts, speeding up changes already under way". While technology will never fix poverty, inequality and broken infrastructure, it can help to enable and encourage positive movements.
"As I reported around the country the idea grew in me that the smartphone really could be something that is transformative for India. When I left India in 2001 at the age of 18, only 2% of people had PCs and were online and I knew this wasn't going to change for a while," recounted Agrawal.
"To come back 13 years later and see how all of a sudden this cheap device has got more people online than ever before really struck me. These devices are multilingual, you can speak to your phone and not even have to type. Whatever you can imagine that happens in India, is now also happening online in a parallel way."
Agrawal returned to India in 2014 as CNN's South Asia bureau chief and correspondent, following roles with the broadcaster in New York and London, where he was born. It was on his first night back in India, in a nondescript New Delhi hotel room, that he first registered how extensively the smartphone is changing India and Indians themselves .
"I was watching an ad for Idea Cellular in which a politician makes a standard speech that's full of tall claims and promises for 24-hour electricity, water roads and bridges etc.," remembered Agrawal. "Then the shot cuts to two young men sitting on a fence. One pulls out his smartphone, googles the politician and begins shouting that the politician must think we are all "fools" since he made the same claims at the last election. The crowd's mood changes and they throw objects at the politician to get him off the stage."
"Something about this young guy's impudence, for him to stop this man's speech and him being emboldened by the fact that he could google and fact check live what he was saying made me think this device is going to level the playing field--paper over some of the divides we know to exist in India between rural and urban, rich and poor, English-speaking and not etc.".
In an interview, Agrawal discusses the changes wrought by the rapid proliferation of smartphones in the world's largest democracy.
Edited excerpts:
Just 3% of Indian engineering graduates are hireable, according to a 2016 study. Do you think that increased Internet access via smartphone usage will actually help to improve the quality of education Indian students receive, especially since (and as you depict in the book) education centres are geared towards exam 'hacks' and 'winning'?
The jury is out. On one hand you have a character in the book like Abdul (a self-taught, degree-less owner of a private tuition centre in Rajasthan for aspiring IIT applicants). He learnt English through a free app, became more confident, a better presenter and learned so many of his tricks and teaching methods through his smartphone and the videos that he watched, that in this way you can easily see how huge improvements are being made to people's lives. But it's also very telling that Abdul has banned the use of smartphones in his classroom and sees it's a major distraction.
Overall, I think the place [within education] where the phone will have the most impact is with the kind of things that Ek Step (a not-for-profit education platform) is offering. They're working on ground level improvements in education and are part of a larger mood in India, where a phone with good software that is used by the right people can bring effective ways of teaching numeracy and literacy in Panchayat and village schools. These tools will help children in certain parts of India and improve their learning outcomes, which will then have a ripple effect on how they grow up and are able to engage with other materials. This will lead to them seeing education as a more holistic learning experience and not simply look for 'hacks' to an exam.
The phone will also help in intangible ways that will be difficult for us to quantify. For example look at how for you or me, having a computer when we were growing up helped us. It helped us to compare, contrast and google things we were curious about. This is what learning is meant to be--exploring your curiosity.
What are the social and economic implications for a nation where the working-age population is increasing by 1.3 million each month and the types of jobs increasingly available are in the gig economy, controlled by smartphone apps, rather than the traditional, stable desk jobs they may have aspired to?
Again, the prognosis is mixed. I don't think the gig economy is a 'fix all'. So many people who rode the Uber wave made a high income, around Rs 1 lakh a month at one point. Then the algorithms changed and incomes plummeted to around Rs 30,000 a month; that was really unfair for them. But as I learnt from interviewing the head of Uber India and its rival Ola, people are still lining up for these jobs and there is clearly a huge demand for the jobs that the gig economy is creating.
The biggest source of jobs growth will end up being in the packing, warehousing and delivery markets because India's e-commerce industry is still tiny. In fact the entire size of the annual India e-commerce market is smaller than what China can do on Singles day--an annual holiday celebrated on November 11th when online shopping rates spike. India is dwarfed by China, but while this gives you a sense of perspective it also provides a sense of how much it can grow.
There will be some automation, but it's hard to imagine that in the next 10 years you won't still need millions of packers and delivery staff. There are a lot of blue collar workers who will need these kinds of jobs and the gig economy will create employment that fits this profile well. Some brick and mortar jobs will decline of course, as is the case in the rest of the world. One thing's for sure, India is hurtling into the digital era and needs to figure out how to sustainably create jobs. I'm not sure that's a discussion that is being had enough.
India is a typically a "low-trust" country, you write, citing anomalies such as paying cash for Uber rides and the enduring prevalence of pre-paid plans. Do you think smartphones can help to improve this and in which ways?
Trust is lacking across the board in India and this explains so many things--from paying with cash for Uber rides, to resisting certain forms of modernity and change. But actually I think a lot of this is inertia based and we'll eventually reach a tipping point where so many people are operating in a certain way, that others will follow suit.
As India becomes a more developed economy, more educated, industrialised and less tied to family and tribal structures, the trust will build. The smartphone plays into this as it's the motif of change for younger Indians and the motif of mobility (literally too). But to tout it as tool of trust is too much--as we have seen with fake news, it can also bring the opposite. The smartphone will accelerate things already happening in India and help the country move towards a high trust society at some point, just as southern Italy did. The phone is just catalysing and accelerating the processing.
The gender gap for mobile phone access widens at puberty and remains in place for the rest of a woman's life, largely due to connotations associated to women's promiscuity and phones being a distraction from 'caregiver' duties. It seems as with their offline lives, women's online opportunities are still closely inhibited by conservative norms. How long do you think this will take to change? What else needs to happen first?
Men need to change. Men are simply the gatekeepers to too many things. Some of that will change in an evolutionary manner as younger Indians realise just how insane this is and after seeing where the world is headed. But this is a much larger question than just a tech question; it's a society question.
Look at how the #MeToo movement has taken off in India. This has been a moment where men are realising how life has been deeply unequal, deeply painful and hurtful for women--particularly their sisters, wives, cousins, friends. Maybe this is overstating it, but I think there are men who realise they need to listen and learn more. They shouldn't see women as a threat but as enablers, colleagues, co-workers, friends, partners and mentors as well.
The #MeToo movement is mostly urban and online driven, but it will spread further. Culture and gender disparities are deeply ingrained and don't change overnight. Again, the phone is not a fix all, but will accelerate the process.
In some ways, the privacy of online dating apps (versus family introductions) and the sheer ability to access a diverse pool of potential partners is a great equaliser, but as you explain, also allows people to filter their search options by caste, community and income, further entrenching community boundaries--is this one area, which as you write, "21st century India is still pushing a Victorian-era mindset"? Or are you optimistic for the role of smartphones for dating and marriage in India?
I am optimistic in the longer term, in the same way I am about India generally. One of the things that surprised me though was that I thought anyone on a smartphone dating app would be open to dating different types of people, and not think about community and caste. I was completely wrong. In some cases the phone allowed people to behave in the same way as before--but better. They were able to micro-target certain groups and communities at the expense of everything else.
So the question then is whether the smartphone will make Indians more western or will deeply entrench Indian values and thinking. I think India's Internet story will be a uniquely Indian story--Indians will still use astrology online for example, they will still have traditional ways of thinking about things and that's not a bad thing. India should be India, it should be able to celebrate Indian culture, tradition and who are we to impose anything else on that.
At least young Indians will have access to this technology and the ability to see the alternatives. To compare and contrast, have global peers rather than just village or city peers and to know these are all options to them--then what they choose is up to them. If Marwaris want to marry Marwaris, and Gujaratis marry Gujaratis then there's no judgement to pass. India is changing and it is a good thing that the smartphone can provide options.
While academics differ on a solid connection between a rise in porn and rape in society, what impression did you build about how young boys, who are accessing this type of content through their phones for the first time, are translating this into the real experiences and real relationships with the opposite sex?
It's clear to me that if you grow up without having a healthy relationship with the female body (i.e. haven't grown up even seeing a woman's legs or arms, society is segregated and you've been to an all boys school and that you've simply had no normal interactions with girls and women) and then your first discovery of intimacy and sexuality is porn, then I do think it has an impact on the mind. Remember there's porn and then there's also violent porn showing rape which some of these boys are watching.
There are people I met and whose stories I didn't include in the book, who said things about women and the way in which they perceive the female body which I found very disturbing--and this is entirely due to the smartphone. There is no way that large sections of India would have had access to graphic imagery without that; and I think without a sense of what healthy sexuality is, violent pornography can be damaging. I can only imagine what their first real life intimate experience would be like if this is all they know about women and sex and sexuality, so that bothers me immensely.
Internet users in India increased 324% over six years to 2016 (from 92 million to 390 million), largely propelled by smartphone use, according to data from International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency. As the 2019 General Election approaches, what role will the smartphone play and how will it make this election different?
There's going to be a lot of fake news and rumour mongering. There'll also be a lot of real news and videos adding to the chaos. I really worry about the ability to spread rumours and fake news on social media right now. It's a problem because people tend to trust social media since the content is coming from someone or a number you know, which makes it even more pernicious.
I really wish India invested heavily in digital literacy and in awareness campaigns about fake news and not trusting everything you see. It's quite common for the State to invest in these kinds of public awareness campaigns and there is precedence for this in India--look at how we have had campaigns for safe sex, wearing a seatbelt or not drinking and driving. The fact that India hasn't invested in digital literacy (neither the government or private sector) to explain to people that this device is immensely powerful (for good and bad) and that there isn't some handy literature with your cheap Jio phone on how to sensitise yourself to or be more aware of certain things, is worrisome.
While it's too soon for these elections, India really needs to focus on media literacy. I worry what the Internet could unleash around India in election time.
33 people have been killed in 69 mob attacks since January 2017 based on child-lifting rumours. There seems to exist a strange dichotomy, where as well as connecting people to more human beings, networks and services than ever before, the spread of smartphones in India also has created division, by amplifying misinformation and 'fake news' leading to violence--where do you think the solution lies in countering this phenomenon, or this a new reality we must get used to?
I'm not sure if it's entirely a new reality. India has always had lynchings, mob-based, rumour and superstition-based violence that predates the smartphone. It just so happens that the phone hasn't turned out to be a remedy, but rather helped to spread more of the same. It's not really a surprise as this is what technology does, but it has also opened a window to mitigate it more than before too. Going back to my previous point on media education and literacy, people need to realise just because you see something on Whatsapp that doesn't necessarily mean it's real, mean it's new and not sent by an ill intentioned person. Every global citizen should be able to look at a news story and ask standard questions like: Is there a dateline? Who does the writer work for? Who is funding this publication? What are their allegiances? Who pays for that?
The same goes for content you see on Whatsapp. You should be asking, who sent me this and where did they get it from? Those of us in media tend to have a finely honed scepticism and we need to spread this sense more nationally in India.
(Sanghera is a writer and researcher with IndiaSpend.)
We welcome feedback. Please write to respond@indiaspend.org. We reserve the right to edit responses for language and grammar.
Tish Sanghera
Tish is an independent journalist based in Mumbai. She primarily reports on issues relating to the economy, the environment and the society at large. Tish studied at King's College, London and the Sorbonne.


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Cleveland International Piano Competition: final rounds with The Cleveland Orchestra (August 5-6)
August 8, 2016 by Daniel Hathaway
Three-quarters of their final score had already been totted up when the four finalists in the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition made their last lap around the track at Severance Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings, August 5 and 6. Handsome cash prizes were waiting at the end, but appearing with Bramwell Tovey and The Cleveland Orchestra was its own distinguished reward. (Photo: CEO Pierre van der Westhuizen welcomes the audience.)
Enroute to those important moments in the spotlight, Georgy Tchaidze, Nikita Mndoyants, Leonardo Colafelice, and Dinara Klinton each had four previous opportunities to make an impression playing a variety of repertoire. In this final round, the four contestants presented the jury and audience with vastly different pieces on which to base the last 25% of their decision.
The 2016 finals included two performances of Tchaikovsky's first concerto and one each of Prokofiev's third and Beethoven's fourth. Try to imagine three pieces that are more different!
The Tchaikovsky is a full-blooded, Romantic work that requires both flashy technique and a deep understanding of the pre-revolutionary Russian soul.
The Prokofiev calls for surgically precise fingerwork as well as an ability to capture the composer's mercurial moods — sometimes as sarcastic as often as they are sassy and comical.
The Beethoven — an outlier in his five concertos — demands a long overview and an understanding of the work's philosophical underpinnings. Not the sort of piece that allows a performer to grab and hold your attention through sheer feats of pianism, it makes its most powerful impression through gentle persuasion and affecting lyricism.
First to play on Friday evening, Russian pianist Georgy Tchaidze (28) demonstrated a full-figured, big-hearted approach to the Tchaikovsky. Tovey and the Orchestra's splendid horn section began the work at a noble pace, sending it out of its launching slip like an ocean liner. Tchaidze played his opening phrases with a correspondingly robust, dark tone, but soon displayed a tendency to overcook phrases, pointing up too many special moments and breaking the first movement up into episodes.
Tchaidze's powerful technique served him well in the work's virtuosic moments, and there were passages of alluring lyricism as well. But as the concerto went along, the pianist seemed at times oblivious to the Orchestra, producing ragged ensemble even in uncomplicated passages (notably against the beautiful wind solos in the second movement). If the first movement was on the slow side, the finale took us off on a raucous ride — exciting, but sometimes less than tidy.
Friday's second competitor, Russian pianist Nikita Mndoyants (27), brought a fluent sense of style and deep understanding to Beethoven's fourth concerto, and he couldn't have enjoyed a more seasoned ensemble to explore it with.
Clarity, evenness of touch, and a savvy sense of scale distinguished Mndoyants' performance of the opening movement. In the second — one of Beethoven's most remarkable, wordless recitatives — he answered the impassioned strings with aloof responses, reminiscent of the Druids in Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question. Then, he warmed to the subject of the conversation himself, crafting a powerful concluding argument.
In the concluding rondo, Mndoyants conspired with Tovey and the Orchestra to rein in the tempo, allowing the pianist room to exert perfect control over the nuances in his solo passages. This was a calm, genial performance that put musical values distinctly in the foreground.
On Saturday evening, Italian pianist Leonardo Colafelice (20) brought steely fingers to Prokofiev's third concerto, playing with rhythmic precision and a penetrating tone that often served the piece well.
The theme-and-variations second movement gave Colafelice the welcome opportunity to explore some different moods and colors. He did that admirably, even though the movement turned out to be more episodic than cohesive.
With the finale, the pianist again took off in a dizzying flurry of notes, not always perfectly in sync with the Orchestra. His breathless performance won Colafelice an enthusiastic ovation for keyboard facility, if not a lot of points for soul.
Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton (27) ended the final round with the second performance of Tchaikovsky's first concerto. Saving her full power for later, she began with a stylish flourish of chords, then joined virtuosic passages to lyrical ones in a consistent narrative.
The Andante semplice lived up to its name, its amiable wind solos beautifully matched by Klinton's phrases. The pianist ended the concerto by capturing the fire Tchaikovsky prescribed in his tempo marking, demonstrating a wealth of virtuosity without trying to burn the house down.
Throughout the two evenings, Bramwell Tovey and The Cleveland Orchestra provided warm support to the four pianists. The contestants who most deserved their places onstage with this ensemble were also those who most respected that partnership — during the performances as well as in their acknowledgement of conductor and Orchestra afterward. That may not figure in the scoring system, but it's an important factor in the whole scenario.
After waiting out the tabulation of scores, the audience heard the jury's results. Nikita Mndoyants was awarded the Mixon First Prize, Leonardo Colafelice second prize, Dinara Klinton third prize, and Georgy Tchaidze fourth prize, with other special prizes to be bestowed at the Awards Ceremony and Winners' Recital on Sunday.
Photos by Roger Mastroianni.
Published on ClevelandClassical.com August 8, 2016.
Filed Under: CIPC, Reviews Tagged With: Bramwell Tovey, Cleveland International Piano Competition, Dinara Klinton, Georgy Tchaidze, Leonardo Colafelice, Nikita Mndoyants, Pierre van der Westhuizen, The Cleveland Orchestra


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Interview: Simon Golding, founder of Nephilim Game Studios
Gaming industry vet, Simon Golding, creates Nephilim Game Studios to work on secret project.
by katlaborde
Indie games have certainly risen in popularity over the past few years. After gaining more exposure through Steam, developers have been able to break away from the creative limitations of the corporate gaming industry to pursue more personal and innovative projects. An industry veteran since 1986, Simon Golding recently founded his own studio, Nephilim Game Studios, to develop his own projects.
And what's this project about, you ask? Well, he's not telling anyone...yet.
A Seasoned Pro(grammer)
Simon's experience in the gaming industry is not only voluminous, but diverse including various genres of games such as puzzle, real-time strategy, and shooters, under his belt. Of course, Simon's initial experience with game programming were much different then than they are now.
From 1990 to 1993, I worked on a number of Gameboy titles, only needed one programmer in those days.
In the mid-90's, Simon worked for Sega, contributing his programming skills to popular titles like Mortal Kombat II and FIFA. Soon afterward, Simon worked for the iconic Westwood Studios, developers of the wildy popular Command and Conquer series, in Las Vegas, Nevada. When Westwood Studios merged with Electronic Arts in 1998, Golding programmed a number of titles including:
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, PS2/XBOX/Gamecube (2003)
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, PS2/XBOX/Gamecube (2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II, Xbox 360 (2006)
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Xbox 360 (2007)
Boom Blox, Wii (2008)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, PlayStation 3 (2009)
Golding describes his work on Epic Mickey 2 as a 'great thrill', ending his quote with a mischievious smiley face.
More recently, Simon was the Director of Studio Technology for Junction Point's Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two and 2K's man vs. monster FPS, Evolve.
The amassment of such a diverse and prestigous resume of games is quite an achievement. However, Golding remains modest about his contribution to each title:
I'm proud of all of them in some way, each one had its different high points. This might sound strange but once I've finished making a game I will never play it again, time to let it go.
Time for Something "New 'n Tasty"
After establishing himself as a talented and successful programmer, Golding's next step was to do something bigger and bolder. He created Nephilim Game Studios, giving him an oppurtunity develop his own games. Although Golding is not willing to spill any details on his new game yet, he did give some insight into his secret project:
I can't tell you much except it will be a trilogy and characters in the game come from the name of the studio. Right now its in pre-production, getting the story worked out so it can span across the 3 games and feel like a full experience when it all comes together.
As of right now, Nephilim Game Studios is working on completing the Wii U and PlayStation Vita versions of Oddworld: New 'n Tasty. Oddworld: New 'n Tasty was originally released for the PlayStation 4 in July 2014 to critical acclaim as an impressive remake of Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey.
Personally, I am excited to see what is on the horizon for Nephilim Game Studios. With Golding's talented programming, his secret game is likely to be stellar!
For more on Nephilim Game Studios, visit their website or Facebook page.
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Before Sky Daddy even takes the stage at the Palace on Monday, a whole different tribute show is returning to the Elks Theatre and Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Oct. 7.
Performing as Stevie Nicks in "Mirage — Visions of Fleetwood Mac," Michelle Tyler said the show grew out of her Bella Donna show where she performs a tribute to Nicks. It was put together a couple of years ago and has been quite popular, she said.
It's going to be a 90-minute show that's kept to all the hits, Tyler said.
The band really mixes up what songs they play depending on the audience too, Tyler said. If they're performing a for a rock concert kind of audience at a festival, they'll throw in a lot of high energy stuff but if it's more a theater venue, they'll throw in some of the lower-energy songs like "Sarah" and "Silver Springs," she said.
"We kind of look at the different places that we've played or that we're returning to and kind of gauge our set list according to what we think the demographic is going to be," Tyler said.
The show starts at 7 p.m. at the Elks Theatre and Performing Arts Center, 117 E. Gurley St. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and $30 for opera box seats and are available online at www.prescottelkstheater.com, by calling 928-777-1370 or at the door one hour prior to the performance.


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CINCINNATI -- What's in a nickname?
Maybe it's just a morphing of your given name, like "J-Hey" for Jason Heyward. Maybe it is just an easily recognized rhyme, like Jacob Arrieta's "The Snake". Maybe it is in recognition of a particular skill set, like Javier Baez's "El Mago." In other cases, as with Alex Avila's "Parkman," perhaps the meaning requires an explanation.
Fans will be able to put a nickname with a face Friday-Sunday in Philadelphia as the Cubs will wear special edition jerseys as part of the inaugural Players Weekend. The non-traditional uniforms feature alternate designs, and players will have their nicknames on the back.
Cubs outfielder Jonathan Jay will wear a jersey with "305J" as his nickname, the area code for Miami, Jay's hometown. He attended George Washington Carver Middle School, Christopher Columbus High School (which won the state baseball championship during Jay's senior year) and spent three years at the University of Miami.
"Miami is the city that raised me," Jay said. "I have a lot of pride in that city. I learned a lot of life lessons there that made me who I am today."
"I don't know who first started calling me that," Avila said. "Somebody thought, when I had my gear on, there was a resemblance to a character in [the movie] Major League II.
"When I was at the  All-Star Game, Adrian Gonzalez noticed it and was telling people I looked like Parkman, and it just kind of spread. Then one of my teammates in Detroit told [MLB] after I was traded to Chicago to put that name on my shirt."
Besides the jerseys, made by Majestic Athletic, the players will wear uniquely colored and designed spikes, batting gloves, wristbands, compression sleeves and catcher's masks. Even the bats will get jazzed up that weekend. The caps are designed by New Era, and the socks by Stance. During pregame workouts and postgame interviews, players will wear T-shirts to highlight a charity or cause of their choice.
Each player also will wear a special patch on his sleeve showing the progression of a child evolving into a Major Leaguer. Under that logo is white space, and players can mark the name of a person whom they are grateful to for helping them advance their careers, such as family or a coach.
Game-worn Players Weekend jerseys will be auctioned at MLB.com/auctions with 100 percent of the net proceeds donated to the MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation. That foundation is a joint effort established in July 2015 by MLB and the MLBPA with an initial commitment of $30 million focused on improving the caliber, effectiveness and availability of amateur baseball and softball programs across the U.S. and Canada.
His father is Alberto, and Albert is known by family as "Albertico," hence "Tico."
"Snake" rhymes with "Jake," and is also a natural tie to WWE legend Jake "The Snake" Roberts, who filmed an encouraging message for Arrieta and the Cubs prior to Game 6 of last year's World Series.
"It's from Jack Parkman, the character in [the movie] Major League II," Avila said. "I guess there's a [physical] resemblance."
Spanish for "The Magician," Baez was given the nickname by fans in Puerto Rico after some impressive, almost magical, fielding during the 2016 postseason.
The nickname is a natural play on the fast-food burger chain. An endorsement seems like a perfect match, and although Edwards said he likes the product, he was not ready to commit to just one hamburger.
The area code for Miami, Jay's hometown.
"Ricardo" is Pena's middle name.
"I started calling him that in 2008 when we were both with Tampa Bay and he really came on strong," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. "It's sort of the antithesis of the man, but, as a player, it fits him perfectly."


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A quick and easy way to sync a site you are working on between machines is to setup the site in the Dropbox folder on your machine. If you don't have Dropbox, go and sign up because its a very handy piece of software for keeping files in sync as well as collaborating with others on music or whatever.
If you have a working site in your /Users/Name/Sites/ folder move that same folder (don't copy) to your Dropbox folder on your machine.
In Terminal type the following to setup your Symlink between the folder in Dropbox and a folder in the sites folder.
One last thing is to make sure that the persmission of your Dropbox folder on your machine is set to 755. You can do this in Terminal or by hitting Command+I on the folder.
Now your are ready to work on the folder no matter what machine you are on.


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Before becoming consistent in routine, you need to determine the best time for your child to be successful with his work each day.
To determine a homework schedule, consider your child's age and after-school activities. Some parents feel their young child needs the opportunity to play after school, to run off energy after sitting all day. Those children then eat dinner and hit the books before bed. For some that schedule works. For others, it is not optimal for success, as fatigue sets in near the end of the day, making it difficult to focus on work. Also consider that while playing outside is a great burn-off, the lingering thought of homework usually puts a damper on a child's full play.
Reconsider: If a snack can be provided after school while doing homework, with the incentive of play time after homework, many children will eagerly comply and complete their work. Often a child will excel if a parent is near, providing a healthful, energy-boosting snack to carry him through until dinner.
After-school activities ultimately will determine your child's daily homework schedule, but most children are successful when they are on a schedule and understand your expectations. Schedules can vary from day to day depending on after-school commitments, in which case a weekly schedule can be put into place.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A person was shot by an attempted robber on the city's near northeast side on Monday.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department says it happened at the Blackburn Terrace apartments in the 3000 block of Baltimore Avenue.
According to IMPD, the attempted robber shot the victim in the "upper body" and that person was transported to a local hospital in "stable" condition.


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📺 MDC scientists answer COVID-19 questions
Science / May 29, 2020
The coronavirus challenges people around the world every day. Here at the MDC, we are giving our best to help fight the pandemic. Some of our scientists took the time to think about a few of the questions surrounding SARS-CoV-2.
Immunologist Dr. Kathrin de la Rosa joined the MDC in July 2018 and leads the research group on Immune Mechanisms and Human Antibodies. Even as a doctoral student, her work revolved around the B cell – the cell type that produces antibodies and is therefore indispensable for immune defense in the human body. "While at the University Medical Center Freiburg, I studied patients with weakened immune systems due to B-cell defects," says the biologist.
She found this field of research so fascinating that she went on to study B cells in even more depth, conducting her postdoctoral studies with the immunologist Antonio Lanzavecchia in Switzerland. "There, I learned how to isolate human antibodies in order to analyze the immune response to infectious diseases and thus lay the groundwork for developing new therapeutics and vaccines."
In our #QuestionOfTheDay series, she talks about her research and the daily work under challenging conditions:
The MDC was in minimal operation mode from March 18 to May 4 in order to slow down the spread of the SARS coronavirus-2 and protect its employees. The scientists – as well as the administrative staff – worked from home where they developed ideas ideas, analyzed data, and wrote proposals and papers. Professor Markus Landthaler coordinates the coronavirus research at the MDC.
In our #QuestionOfTheDay series, he explained the challenges and opportunities related to COVID-19 research:
Dr. Emanuel Wyler is a biochemicist at the MDC Berlin-Mitte (BIMSB) in Landthaler lab. Together with a team of Charité-researcher Professor Christian Drosten and other partners, he investigates the coronavirus.
In our #QuestionOfTheDay series, he answers questions regarding the coronavirus research at the MDC:
MDC cautiously begins basic operations
Support for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics
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#CoronaInfo – up to date and understandable
Coronavirus research at the MDC
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Cancer cells moving on glycoproteine strips: These strips act like splints, which allow to control and to study the movement of the cells better.
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Press Release No. 2 January 18, 2021
Theoretical physicists from Berlin teamed up with experimental physicists from Munich to determine the precise mechanics involved in cell motility. The findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Science January 15, 2021
Calling all young STEM talent
The 56th edition of the "Jugend forscht" competition will soon kick off under the theme "Lass Zukunft da." The MDC is for the first time co-sponsoring the search for tomorrow's scientists – this year to be held fully virtual. The young researchers apparently don't mind the new format: almost 9,000 children and young people have signed up for the competition so far.
Dr. Melissa Birol leitet die AG "Molekulare Biophysik in der quantitativen Neurowissenschaft".
© Felix Petermann, MDC
Dancing spaghetti on the brain
In December 2020, biophysicist Melissa Birol joined the MDC as a new junior group leader to investigate the behavior and function of disordered proteins in brain cells.
Anti-CXCR5 CAR-T cells (green) attack lymphoma cells (magenta) within the stroma cell network of the B cell follicle (light blue).
© AG Höpken / Rehm, MDC
A potent weapon against lymphomas
MDC researchers have developed a new approach to CAR T-cell therapy. The team has shown in Nature Communications that the procedure is very effective, especially when it comes to fighting follicular lymphomas and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the most common type of blood cancer in adults.


Did you know bees make up to a dozen trips from the nest each day?
At Burleson's Honey, we pride ourselves on providing our customers with the best honey the world has to offer and have been doing so for more than a century. So we're especially thrilled to offer this important addition to the Burleson family of products.
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Most people know organic products have strict production and labeling requirements and are generally perceived as a healthier and cleaner choice. Of course nothing is more natural than honey from honey bees, but what does certified organic honey mean?
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I feel like this should be easy, but I'm drawing a blank. I want to know if there isn't a TileObject at the specific X/Y Position?
So this should work? If I have multiple "Tile" objects in my layout, and there ISN'T one in this specific spot, then one should get created?
How about have a dummy invisible object that you move to that location and see if there's an overlap? The above code won't work properly (although the idea is valid) because X and Y will rarely be an exact integer number, plus what if there are other object types that you want to check for?
System: pick overlapping point might do it too.
> How about have a dummy invisible object that you move to that location and see if there's an overlap? The above code won't work properly (although the idea is valid) because X and Y will rarely be an exact integer number, plus what if there are other object types that you want to check for?


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Who Is Rachel Zegler? Meet 'West Side Story's Breakout Star (It's Her Debut Role, Too!)
Jacklyn Krol Published: December 10, 2021
Who plays Maria in the new West Side Story? Meet breakout actress Rachel Zegler.
The Steven Spielberg-directed film, which hit theaters Dec. 10, marks Zegler's professional acting debut. The legendary director held an open casting call on Twitter for the role, and Spielberg selected Zegler out of over 30,000 applicants. Zegler was just 16 years old when she auditioned by singing "I Feel Pretty" and "Tonight."
"When I played Maria on stage a few summers ago, I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the role again in Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story,'" Zegler, now 20, wrote on Instagram. "I send a huge thank you to everyone who helped make this incredible dream a reality — I never could've done it alone."
Prior to landing one of the most coveted acting roles of the year, Zegler grew up in Clifton, New Jersey. She attended the college preparatory academy Immaculate Conception High School. During her time in school, she starred in the high school's musicals for all four years. Her roles included Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street and Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical.
Ironically, one of Zegler's upcoming acting gigs will be playing a Disney princess in the live-action Snow White movie alongside Gal Gadot, who has signed on to portray the evil queen. Zegler also recently finished production on her second official film, Shazam! Fury of the Gods.
In her personal life, she is a huge Star Wars fan, and a fan of Oscar Isaac in particular, who she has frequently tweeted about.
Before her big break, she joined YouTube back in 2015. She went viral for her cover of "Shallow" from A Star Is Born, which received over 12 million views on Twitter and YouTube.
Watch the West Side Story trailer, below.
Stars Who Auditioned for Big Roles but Didn't Get the Part
Source: Who Is Rachel Zegler? Meet 'West Side Story's Breakout Star (It's Her Debut Role, Too!)


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Q: Disable shift key on startup in ms-access (Doesn't want to work) I'm an advanced Access VBA programmer, and even though I have programmitcally set the 'Use Access Special Keys' to FALSE (using VBA), or set that option through the Access Options screen, I can still open the database using the shift key and still get to the database window without the autoexec macro running. My understanding is, if I disable the special keys option, and I try to open my database while holding the shift key, it should not allow me to bypass my Autoexec macro or bypass the 'Display Form' They should launch even while holding down the Shift Key.  Am i missing something?
I used: CurrentDb.Properties!AllowSpecialKeys = False
Using Access 2010. File is Access 2010 format  accdb.


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Q: AttributeError: 'Series' object has no attribute 'Mean_μg_L'
Why am I getting this error if the column name exists.
I have tried everything. I am out of ideas

A: Since the AttributeError is raised at the first column with a name containing a mathematical symbol (µ), I would suggest you these two solutions :

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*Use replace right before the loop to get rid of this special character
df.columns = df.columns.str.replace("_\wg_", "_ug_", regex=True)
#change df to Table_1_1a_Tarawa_Terrace_System_1975_to_1985

Then inside the loop, use row.Mean_ug_L, .. instead of row.Mean_µg_L, ..

*Use row["col_name"] (highly recommended) to refer to the column rather than row.col_name
 for index, row in Table_1_1a_Tarawa_Terrace_System_1975_to_1985.iterrows():
     SQL_VALUES_Tarawa = (row["Chemicals"], rows["Contamminant"], row["Mean_µg_L"], row["Median_µg_L"], row["Range_µg_L"], row["Num_Months_Greater_MCL"], row["Num_Months_Greater_100_µg_L"])
     cursor.execute(SQL_insert_Tarawa, SQL_VALUES_Tarawa)
     counting = cursor.rowcount
     print(counting, "Record added")
     conn.commit()