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It was an honor to have Charlotte Grobein speak at our September Thought Leadership Breakfast at Home House. Charlotte held a captivated audience of female business leaders with the incredible story of how she founded Give It Away, a charity that generates its income through the generation and building of property. To Date, Give It Away has donated £1.7million to children and young people in need.


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Richard Catenacci has over 40 years of litigation experience in diverse areas of law, with a focus on federal trial practice. Rich is considered one of New Jersey's foremost appellate advocates, having argued more than 200 appeals. With more than 100 jury and bench trials in the state and federal courts, he was among the first lawyers to be Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as Civil Trial Attorney.
For more than 30 years, Rich has been an active member and has held numerous leadership positions in the American Bar Association, having chaired five different committees of the Litigation Section. He also served in various leadership roles in the Federal Bar, New Jersey State Bar, and Essex County Bar Associations.
Rich was a member of the Board of Editors and Case Editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. Thereafter, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1966-1968, when he joined Connell Foley. He has served the firm as a member of the Executive Committee, a Managing Partner and as Chairman. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Notre Dame Law Association for almost 30 years, having served in various positions including President.
Represented Bethlehem Steel for more than 25 years in a wide variety of litigated matters ranging from building collapses to alleged underground pollution of municipal water supply. Under Rich' s supervision, the firm served as national counsel for Bethlehem's asbestos and toxic tort cases
Represented A&P suits over the disposition of $400 million surplus in pension trust
Served as defense liaison counsel In Re Corn Derivatives in antitrust case involving allegations of national price fixing conspiracy in the corn derivatives industry with damages alleged to be $700 million
Represented Package Shop v. Anheuser Bush antitrust, restraint of trade, geographical beer distribution system
Litigation Counsel for Chase Manhattan Bank having successfully headed a team of eight attorneys in litigation of more than $200 million of Chase claims, including a lengthy bench trial before a federal judge
Lead Counsel in the Global Landfill cases (1,000 plaintiffs v. the owner-operator and more than 50 other defendants) where the initial demands of settlement exceeded $100 million
Represented IFA Insurance Co., supervising defense of more than 1,000 personal injury lawsuits over the past 25 years including all major jury trials
Represented NJM Insurance Co., in NJM v. Comm., a dispute between the entire automobile insurance industry and the Commissioner of Insurance (State of New Jersey) over the liability for payment of a $3.14 billion deficit of the MTF (a state run insurance facility)
Represented Wakefern (Shop Rite) suit by cooperative in Chancery to restrain sales of five (Shop Rite) supermarkets to its competitor (Pathmark) and enforce the oral contract to sell Wakefern
Anthony M. Geracitano and John B. Carnett, III v. Microsoft Corp., Docket No. A-0646-05T1. Successful defense of Microsoft against anti-trust class actions
Caspi, et al. v. MSN and Microsoft Corporation, 323 N.J. Super. 118, 732 A. 2d 528 (1999). Successfully defended Microsoft in class action suit
In The Matter of Estate of Cantor, represented the daughter of a decedent in a $100M+ estate litigation. The matter was tried over 5 months in Morris County
Professional and Community Affiliations
Founder, John A. Pindar Memorial Scholarship Fund (1970 - present) (last annual report Fund was in excess of $2.2 million in corpus and distributes $80,000 per year in scholarships)
Lifeties Inc.
Board of Trustees, (2011- 2022)
Chair, Event Committee (2017-2020)
Chair, Executive Director Search Team
East Amwell Historical Society
Member (2016-2021)
President, Board of Trustees (2018-2021)
Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Chancellor, Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey (1994-2000)
Notre Dame Law Association
Committee on Diversity and Inclusion
LGBTQ Board Representative
National Representative of LGBTQ
Board Student Liason to LGBTQ Law Forum
National Board of Directors (1980-2013)
National President (1999-2000)
Notre Dame University
President, Notre Dame Alumni Association of New Jersey (1975-1979)
Member, American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Young Lawyers Division, Board of Fellows (1986-2013)
Resource Development (1991-1994)
Chair, Task Force on Excessive Litigiousness (1988-1989)
Chair, Program Evaluation and Utilization (1988-1989)
Chair, Committee of Communications (1986-1989)
Chair, Constitution-By-Laws (1981-1985)
District Representative, Young Lawyers Division, Executive Council (1976-1977)
Federal Bar Association
Vice President (1988-1992)
Trustee, Essex County Bar Association (1982-1985)
New Jersey State Bar Association
Trustee, Young Lawyers Section (1973-1976)
Member, Judicial Selection
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Master, John J. Gibbons American Inn of Court, Intellectual Property Law
Adjunct Professor for more than ten years, Uniform Commercial Code (Sales and Secured Transactions, Banking and Commercial Paper), Seton Hall Law School
Firm's Appellate Team of Catenacci, Dyer, Lyons Obtain Reversal of $5.5M Judgment Against IFA
17 Connell Foley Attorneys Named to 2016 Best Lawyers in America List
13 Connell Foley Attorneys Named to 2015 Best Lawyers® in America List
12 Connell Foley Partners Named to 2014 New Jersey's Best Lawyers
12 Connell Foley Attorneys Named in 2013 Best Lawyers
32 Connell Foley Attorneys Selected to New Jersey Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
Connell Foley Attorneys Listed in 2012 Edition of New Jersey's Top-Rated Lawyers
2012 Super Lawyers: 27 Connell Foley New Jersey Super Lawyers and 10 Rising Stars
Ten Connell Foley Partners Named to 2012 Best Lawyers Directory
2011 Super Lawyers: 20 Connell Foley Attorneys, Top 50 Women New Jersey Super Lawyers, and Rising Stars
New York's Best Legal Representation Found at Connell Foley Affirmed by Best Lawyers
Eight Partners Named to 2010 Best Lawyers Directory
Author, "New Jersey: A Basic Legal Guide for Foreign Business, Trade Regulation"
Chapter 7, 1991
Author, "Hyperlexis or Hyperbole; Subdividing the Landscape of Disputes De-Fusing of the Litigation Explosion"
Tex. Rev. of Lit., Vol. VIII, No., 10.1989
Author, "Sparks Revisited"
Tort and Insurance Law Journal, by American Bar Association Vol. XXIII, No. 3 , Spring 1988
Author, "Note: The Press In The Jury Box"
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Casual dining group Tasty, founded by restaurant entrepreneurs Adam and Sam Kaye has announced a £2.5m banking agreement which will allow it continue its expansion plans. The three-year revolving deal will provide finance and cash resources. They currently operate under two brands- Dim T and Wildwood. Both of which will grow during the expansion.


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As we jumpstart 2016, reflecting on the past year can help drive our goals and focus for the year ahead. ELEAD1ONE Partner Bill Wittenmyer provides a solid strategy for utilizing the lessons from 2015 in this month's AutoSuccess podcast.
How you can constructively use the lessons of the past year while making plans for 2016.
Providing feedback on successes and opportunities when asked.
For more of Bill's insights on preparing for 2016, read his editorial in the January edition of AutoSuccess magazine.
Here is the Dealer Tip of The Month from Alex Lind, Internet Director for Red McCombs Ford & Hyundai Super Center.
Manufacturer recalls reached an epic 64 million in 2014. That's more than double the previous calendar year record of 30.8 million in 2004, according to Automotive News. With recalls affecting every one of our clients and most of their customers, we are excited to be rolling out an innovative new product in the near future called RECALL1ONE. One state-of-the-art feature included is the real-time dashboard that alerts dealers of customers who have open recalls that are yet to be resolved. Furthermore, RECALL1ONE offers a live call service to generate increased service appointments for customers with recall items, as well as coordination of real-time parts availability. Other features include campaign overviews, as well as KPI metrics and even a multi-channel re-targeting function that engages non-responders.


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Q: Is there a way to ensure the HTTP request body can be loaded into memory for possible multiple read requests? Is there a way to ensure the HTTP request body can be loaded into memory? There are multiple middle-wares which will use same HTTP Request body to log at multiple levels.
I remember doing following in .Net Framework 4.6
await request.Content.LoadIntoBufferAsync();

/// *** Method snapshot from HttpContent - System.Net.Http library ***
/// <summary>Serialize the HTTP content to a memory buffer as an asynchronous operation.</summary>
/// <returns>The task object representing the asynchronous operation.</returns>
public Task LoadIntoBufferAsync()
{
  return this.LoadIntoBufferAsync((long) int.MaxValue);
}

Can anyone help me find similar behavior in .Net Core?
EDIT
-- I think right answer here is to use EnableBuffering, but I am not to able to figure out which overloaded method should I use for EnableBuffering?
    public static void EnableBuffering(this HttpRequest request)
    {
        BufferingHelper.EnableRewind(request);
    }

    public static void EnableBuffering(this HttpRequest request, int bufferThreshold)
    {
        BufferingHelper.EnableRewind(request, bufferThreshold);
    }

    public static void EnableBuffering(this HttpRequest request, long bufferLimit)
    {
        BufferingHelper.EnableRewind(request, bufferLimit: bufferLimit);
    }

Size of HTTP Request in our application is varying from 50kb to 300mb.

A: For asp.net core 2.x you can use :
HttpContext.Request.EnableRewind();

For asp.net core 3.x you can use :
HttpContext.Request.EnableBuffering();

That methods ensure the request Body can be read multiple times. Normally buffers request bodies in memory :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnetcore.http.httprequestrewindextensions.enablebuffering?view=aspnetcore-3.1

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'Call the Midwife' Recap: Season Finale Brings Tears of Joy and Sadness in Equal Measure
Call the Midwife ended its third season with a fond farewell for one of its major characters. Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine), who arrived at Nonnatus House in London's impoverished East End as a young, inexperienced nurse-midwife in the show's very first episode, is taking her leave. Intent on following a new calling, she departs Nonnatus House […]
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Chummy and Jenny Learn that Home Is Where the Heart Is
The latest, deliciously crammed episode (Season 3, Ep. 7) of Call the Midwife skillfully, and poignantly, interwove multiple stories that were, at their center, about creating a home or coming back to one. As with the best episodes of this British series (which ends its season next week on PBS), it deftly portrayed the overlapping lives, both […]
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Chummy Takes on Diaper Duty and Trixie Goes on a Disastrous Date
They were bringing in the sheaves on Call the Midwife's latest episode (Season Three, Ep. 6). But not to worry. The nurses and nuns at Nonnatus House in London's East End haven't given up midwifery for farming. Rather, they all join in for a symbolic, end of summer Harvest Festival orchestrated by Tom Hereward (Jack Ashton), […]
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Chummy and Her Colleagues Learn that Love is Only Sometimes the Answer
Years ago, there was a drinking game inspired by The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78). Every time a character on the sitcom greeted its eponymous star with a cheery, "Hi, Bob," viewers had to take a sip from their beers. There should be a similar game for Call the Midwife; every time that midwife Chummy Noakes […]
'Call the Midwife' Recap: Chummy Delivers a Pep Talk, Sister Julienne Goes to Jail
Call the Midwife made a blatant play for ratings in its third episode of Season 3, featuring women in prison scenes and girl-on-girl fighting. What's next? Nuns with guns at Nonnatus House? Of course, the scenes were tastefully done and served a higher, inspirational purpose. Fans would expect nothing less of the show. Sister Julienne […]
Recap: Jenny Gets Bossy and There is Much Heavy Breathing on 'Call The Midwife'
Let's get the really big news out of the way first: Midwife Trixie Franklin (Helen George) models a new pixie haircut in the second episode of Season 3. She says she was inspired to adopt the 'do after seeing actress Jean Seberg's similar style in "The Mouse That Roared," a hit British movie of 1959. […]
Recap: It's Chummy to the Rescue in the 'Call the Midwife' Season Opener
Call the Midwife, the British series about a group of nurse-midwives and nuns who help the poor in London's East End in the late 1950s, got off to a promising start with its season opener on PBS. There was even a royal visit. The midwives and nuns are on the move as Season Three begins. […]
Call the Midwife' Recap, Season 2, Episode 7
Nonnatus House meets Hell's Angels. That was what happened in the latest episode of Call the Midwife, with leather-wearing nuns and helmeted midwives zooming about on powerful, low rider hogs through London's East End in 1958. Okay, okay, I exaggerate. But a single motorcycle did play a key role in the episode's main comic subplot. Said […]
'Call the Midwife' Recap, Season 2, Episode 6
This week's episode of Call the Midwife, the British series about a group of nurses and nuns who see to the medical needs of the poor living in London's East End in the late 1950s, was a solid one. It lacked only in an appearance by, or even a mention of, Chummy (played by Miranda […]
In an episode that would spark massive controversy if it were on an American TV show, the focus was squarely on birth control and abortion in the latest chapter of Call the Midwife, the popular BBC show that airs on the PBS in the U.S. Set in 1958 when abortion was still illegal in the […]


Are These All Grammatically Correct?
A) I have a lot of questions to ask you.
B) I have a lot of things to ask you.
C) I have a lot to ask you.
D) I have so much to ask you.
E) I have so many questions I want to ask you.
Thanks a lot. Which would you most likely use?
They all work., I'd use A with a slight change.
A) I have a lot of questions (that) I want to ask you.
Usually, everything depends on the context.
Why are you asking? What's the purpose? We might even have better options. Who knows?
All + Expressions Of Time?


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Flize ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Ardennes in der Region Grand Est. Sie gehört zum Arrondissement Charleville-Mézières und zum Kanton Nouvion-sur-Meuse. Die Einwohner werden Fliziens genannt.

Sie entstand mit Wirkung vom 1. Januar 2019 als namensgleiche Commune nouvelle durch die Zusammenlegung der bisherigen Gemeinden Flize, Balaives-et-Butz, Boutancourt und Élan, die in der neuen Gemeinde den Status einer Commune déléguée haben. Der Verwaltungssitz befindet sich im Ort Flize.

Gemeindegliederung

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Flize liegt etwa sieben Kilometer südöstlich von Charleville-Mézières und etwa zwölf Kilometer westlich von Sedan am Fluss Maas (frz. Meuse), der die Gemeinde im Norden und Nordosten begrenzt. Umgeben wird Flize von den Nachbargemeinden Boulzicourt im Nordwesten und Norden, Saint-Marceau, Étrépigny und Chalandry-Elaire im Norden, Nouvion-sur-Meuse im Nordosten, Dom-le-Mesnil im Nordosten und Osten, Sapogne-et-Feuchères im Osten, Vendresse im Südosten, Villers-le-Tilleul und Singly im Süden sowie Villers-sur-le-Mont im Südwesten und Westen.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten

Balaives-et-Butz
 Kirche Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens
 Schloss Balaives-et-Butz
 Wassermühle aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, Monument historique

Boutancourt
 Kirche Saint-Rémi

Élan
 Kirche Notre-Dame, seit 1946 Monument historique
 Zisterzienserkloster Élan, 1148 gegründet, seit 1946 Monument historique

Flize
 Kirche Saint-Rémy, heutiger Bau von 1865
 Schloss

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Commune nouvelle im Département Ardennes
Gemeindegründung 2019
Ort an der Maas

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Trade School Toronto is an alternative learning project that runs on a barter system. You get to attend amazing classes. Pay for a class with a barter item (like food, supplies or help) that your teacher requests!
Find out more about Trade Schools around the world.
I've been doodling about systems thinking and toying with the idea of an ABC book for a bit now. Why? Because thinking about systems is a powerful way to attack complex problems and because systems thinking should be accessible to everyone.
So why not invite everyone to help? Check out the pictures below. This is definitely a work in progress. Maybe you have something to add. Shoot me an email; post a comment. Draw a doodle. Consider this just a start. More to come.
is it art or science? Artsci?
sketchnote based on article in Nautilus Magazine by Stuart Firestein.
I am taking a break from reading Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World so that I might draw a picture of the author.
So now i have a confession: I've been a climate change denier.
Clarification: I don't deny that climate change exists. I've just been in denial that I can do anything about it.
Until now. The Science Guy is reminding us that the most important thing many of us can do right now about climate change is to talk about climate change.


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Album review: Bears and Company - South of the Mountain
South of the Mountain has been in the works for a while now. After a successful Kickstarter campaign in January of last year, Bears and Company set out to "create a dynamically driven record fueled by honest emotion," according to its Kickstarter page. Dynamically driven it is, and hot damn, is it emotionally honest. This brand-new album will melt your face with heavy indie jams and just as easily melt your heart with brutal, beautiful lyrics.
If you've seen Bears and Company live, you'll be insanely content as soon as you press play. "I Dreamt I Destroyed the World" tears into the audible plane with fast, riffy guitars—a live show favorite. This is one of many songs that entices the whole crowd to sing along to. Not to mention this song was released on a limited demo album the band put out last summer as an acoustic track.
Pay attention, because before you know it, "Occurrence in the Wildwood" is on. A graceful guitar reverb sound blends the songs wonderfully. You'll find yourself lost in an entanglement of Logan Tyler's smooth voice and Alex McClain's angsty screams as they combat for the attention of your ears.
Again, you barely blink before "Susannah and the Elders" hits your playlist. I'd love to say this is the catchiest song on the ten-track album, but truth is, that's just in my ears. Sitting in class, or on the clock at work, and I find myself shamelessly humming the tune to any song on the album at any time. Large sounds from gang vocals spice up the tune.
The Bears finally key things down from the seemingly customary heavy and fast songs with "Carroll A. Deering," the fourth song featured on South of the Mountain. The song is a lullaby compared to what we've heard so far. Slow, sentimental, and heartfelt. It takes an uphill aesthetic, getting louder and more intricate during the four minute and fifty second duration. Don't understand? Close your eyes and listen to the song, you'll get it.
Keeping the tempo down and the tunes quiet, track five is just as chill as four. "When the Sky Opened" is another limited acoustic track from the Bears' summer demos. A chillingly soft timbre emits from this song. This is the closest thing to an anthem you'll find on this album. Starting off with a daunting and melancholy tone, the song does pick up a brighter message near the end, powering into the last half of the album.
"'Return of the Hunters" and "After the Quake" are two other crowd pleasers at any Bears' show; crowd pleaser is putting it lightly. As the band plays these songs live, the whole ambiance of the room shifts. Show patrons get closer and for several minutes every individual molds into one. It's a weird, eerie phenomenon that is spectacular at the same time.
After these two powerhouse songs, you'll run into the album's title track, which serves as an interlude—an all-instrumental arrangement. To be the bearer of great news, this is not a break from the hard-hitting action that you've become accustomed to for the past half hour. This song stands just as tall and strong as any other of the nine tracks.
A personal favorite of mine comes next: "We Were Brothers." It's a sorry, remorseful song that has a plethora of ups and downs, musically and lyrically. On the latter half of the song comes a haunting, spoken-word-esque, poetic verse. Combining the screams of McClain and the angst-driven voice of Tyler, an otherworldly sound is created. This song takes the cake for the most emotional arrangement, for me at least. Just as mentioned about the catchiness of all the tracks, any given song on South of the Mountain can be claimed as the most emotional.
The Bears finish strong with the finale, "Moskstraumen." In alignment with the title, this song is a perfect soundtrack for imagining large swirling bodies of water. Again, if you don't get it, listen close, eyes closed. It'll become clear. The dynamic shift of the heavy indie jams blending into subtle "la da da's" pushes the song around and around, further and farther. This song was by far the best choice for an outro track.
The production and mastering of this album is top notch. Recording artist Aaron Crawford kept Tyler sounding sweet and soulful, his bass prominent and plucky. McClain's voice was very vivid, but not overshadowing. McClain and lead guitarist Zachariah Knoll's guitar works sounded perfect. Coming in loud, merging into a soft embodiment, resonating and producing feedback; gentle plucks and fast power chords fill the rest of the guitars out. The production of Allan Latini's drum work was excellent: loud when they needed to be, heavy where appropriate, and epically proportioned to keep each and every track moving along.
South of the Mountain is an extremely emotional ride. The music may suggest otherwise, but listen for the meaning of each song and you'll find several heartbreaks lurking for you. I recall a show a few months ago where I was talking to McClain after their set. He informed that this album would be his most emotional and honest work to date. That really shines through.
Bears and Company will be celebrating the release of South of The Mountain tomorrow, April 27, at FOKL. Doors open at 7:30, $12. The Author and The Illustrator and Clairaudients will open. Facebook event page.
Summer Demos 2012 by Bears and Company
--Steven Ervay
Steven Ervay is super rad.
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Album releases this week
April has proven to be a month of local album releases. Fourth of July, Cherokee Rock Rifle, Dead Voices, Radkey, and Reach have offered a variety of music this month, and this week with round it out with solid efforts from several bands.
Kicking it off will be Cowboy Indian Bear, who will be releasing Live Old, Die Young this Thursday, April 25 at Davey's Uptown with Palace and Heartfelt Anarchy. Show starts at 9:00 pm, $7, 21+. Facebook event page.
On Friday, The Grisly Hand releases Country Singles in grand fashion at Knuckleheads with Trevor McSpadden of The Hoyle Brothers and She's A Keeper. Show starts at 8:00 pm, $12 adv. Ticket link.
Soft Reeds will also release their second full-length album Blank City on the same evening at The Riot Room. They'll share the stage with Be/Non and Rev Gusto. Starts at 9:00 pm, $7, 21+. Facebook event page. Ticket link.
On the other side of the state line, Friday night at Replay Lounge in Lawrence will celebrate the release of Let's Get Cynical EP from Black On Black as well as The Consequence of Trying from Many Moods of Dad. Muscle Worship also plays. Starts at 9:00 pm, $3, 21+.
On Saturday night, Bears and Company will be releasing South of the Mountain at FOKL with Clairaudients and The Author & The Illustrator. Show starts at 8:00 pm, $10 adv (free download card available with pre-sale ticket), $12 door. Facebook event page.
Finally, Drew Black & Dirty Electric will be releasing its debut EP Dead Kings & Queens at The Riot Room with The Caves, The Sluts, and Knife Crime. Show starts at 9:00 pm, 21+, $5 adv, $7 door. Facebook event page. Ticket link.
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The Resource An Act to Designate the Facility of the United States Postal Service Located at 1421 Veterans Memorial Drive in Abbeville, Louisiana, as the "Sergeant Richard Franklin Abshire Post Office Building."
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Here at Harris Primary Academy Merton, we provide a Breakfast Club and After School Club available for all children from Nursery to Year 6.
Our goal is to provide all children within our care with a happy, safe, caring and stimulating environment before and after school. It is our aim to treat each child as an individual, encourage them in everything they do (independence with an invisible guiding hand). We will always provide a quality service, and will continually look for ways to improve the quality and services offered.
The Breakfast and Afterschool Club is a team effort, sharing responsibilities with families to provide the best care for the children. Any needs or issues are openly and confidentially discussed. Please feel free to contact us to discuss anything or pass on information.
The Breakfast Club is open Monday to Friday 7:45am to 8:45am and the Afterschool Club 3:15pm to 6:00pm, term time only (excluding inset days).
Before you can start using the Wraparound Club you need to complete an application form in the school office. If there are no spaces available for your selected days, you will be added to a waiting list.
The cost of each session is listed in the table below. There are no part sessions and there is a flat fee regardless of whether breakfast or evening meal is required. A full months deposit and the first months fee will be required prior to the childs start date.


In the old days, start-ups and new businesses blew through their funding rather quickly for the sake of short-term growth. This was almost the norm, with a lot of start-ups aiming for a bigger round of funding as their primary objective. The approach was not the best one to take for obvious reasons. Burning through capital is also not how you take your start-up to the next level.
What you need to aim for is sustainable growth. More importantly, you need to know how to maintain a sustainable rate of growth that is suitable for the business. When the ideal rate of growth is achieved, the company can grow exponentially over a longer period of time. Growth itself is more manageable, allowing you to meticulously plan every step.
While aiming for sustainable growth is a must in today's challenging market, it is far from easy to do. In order to achieve growth in a sustainable, manageable way, you need to have the right ingredients. There are six secrets to sustainable growth that you can use as you try to develop your start-up with a new round of funding.
Human resources are your biggest assets. Before you can think about training programs, employee engagement, and personal growth, you need to first lay the foundation for a sustainable HR growth. This means creating a strong HR management team to handle everything from start to finish.
Before investing in employees, invest in your HR management team first. You can look into HR courses and various training programs to help HR executives expand their skillsets and knowledge. Formal courses are worthy investments to make simply because they give access to HR management instruments that you can benefit from in the future.
More companies are investing in better HR management, which is why there are more training programs on the market. You can find out more about the available HR courses and HR qualifications here. Planning a set of programs to expand your HR team should be easy.
Now that you have a strong HR team ready to tackle the biggest challenges, it is time to invest in the employees. Many start-ups forget about how important it is to encourage employees to grow. This is because they don't realise that the growth of employees translates to the growth of the company. When employees pick up new skills and enhance their abilities, the company benefits from those new skills just as much.
Similar to developing a strong HR management team, employee development is all about planning. You need to match employees' passions, interests, and existing skills to the programs provided for them. Just like with HR courses, there is no shortage of options when it comes to training programs and courses that elevate employees to a whole new level.
There is another approach you can take to encourage employee development, and that is by positioning the company as a facilitator rather than the provider of development programs. Through simple policies like allowing employees to take courses during company time and giving financial aid to workers who choose to pursue a higher degree, the same rapid and sustainable growth can be achieved.
Efficiency is how you remain flexible. This too is an aspect that gets neglected by many start-ups, especially those who received a lot of funding. Many start-up owners make the decision to move to a bigger (and fancier) office, to recruit new employees, and to invest in other things that don't always play well with the overall efficiency level of the company.
Sure, moving to a bigger office is a great decision. Hiring new team members to strengthen different parts of the company is a great thing too. However, these decisions need to be made with operational efficiency in mind.
Is a bigger office really necessary? Is it worth the extra overhead costs that the company will have to absorb after the move? Questions like these are crucial and will reveal so much about whether a decision is right in terms of efficiency. When the steps you want to take significantly reduce operational efficiency, taking the time to find alternatives is how you keep your start-up flexible and sustainable.
Efficiency is only one part of a complex equation. There is also the need to maintain operational effectiveness. Employees must be effective most of the time; I said most of the time because allowing employees to go beyond the operational boundaries is a good thing for the company too.
There are multiple ways to improve operational effectiveness, but the most important step to take is creating a suitable work – and operational – environment. Provide employees with the necessary tools and instruments so that they can perform optimally at every turn. Make sure employees are working with each other rather than competing for unnecessary reasons.
The more you focus on operational effectiveness, the more you will realise that having a positive corporate culture is important. A culture that supports effective and efficient operations, cooperation, and growth is a culture that will transform the start-up into a desirable, supportive work environment.
Sales and marketing are two different things, but they are equally important for the sustainable growth of the company. You cannot put emphasis on one and completely forget the other. Marketing is a way to build your brand, to add value to your products and services, and to generate the right level of credibility and long-term relationships.
Sales, on the other hand, is how you convert all of those assets into actual paying customers. It is easy to see how good marketing makes sales easier, and how sales done right can help boost marketing efforts and increase exposure.
Investing in marketing is now measurable. You can keep track of different performance indicators or KPIs and fine-tune marketing campaigns to the last detail. As a result, there is no need to burn through the funds you have available just to acquire new users. You just have to invest more in doing marketing the right way, and the rest will be downhill from there.
Last but not least, there is the fact that sustainable growth depends highly on your leadership. The decisions you make as a founder and CEO of the company greatly affect how the company grows, including whether the company can maintain a sustainable rate of growth over a long period of time.
We already discussed a few examples of how a simple decision can change a lot. Immediately deciding to move to a fancier office after a round of funding may seem like a good idea at first. After all, you are boosting the value of the company and increasing its credibility. However, that same decision also results in additional costs that burden the business. Without a steady income, maintaining a healthy cash flow will get more and more difficult.
Deciding not to move to a bigger and more expensive office, however, has drawbacks too. You may not be able to hire more employees with the limited space. Changing the work environment isn't always possible either. That said, this can still be the right decision to make when you consider the cost savings and the level of efficiency you are already maintaining. In the end, the decision is yours to make.


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package hashdb.main.structures;

import hashdb.main.tasks.forwarding.ForwardingTask;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.PriorityQueue;

public class RemoteTaskPool {
	private static short firstUnusedTaskId = Short.MIN_VALUE;
	private static final PriorityQueue<Short> free = new PriorityQueue<Short>();
	private static final HashMap<Short, ForwardingTask> remoteTasks = new HashMap<Short, ForwardingTask>();
	public static synchronized short addTask(ForwardingTask t){
		short value;
		if (free.size()>0) {
			value = free.poll();
		} else {
			value = firstUnusedTaskId++;
		}
		remoteTasks.put(value, t);
		return value;
	}
	public static synchronized ForwardingTask fetchTask(short id) {
		ForwardingTask result = remoteTasks.remove(id);
		free.offer(id);
		while (free.peek()==firstUnusedTaskId-1) {
			firstUnusedTaskId = free.poll();
			if (free.peek()==null)
				break;
		}
		return result;
	}
}


Allows the player to roll a 1-2-3 slower Dice Block.
1-2-3 Slow Dice Block is a special Dice Block that appears in Mario Party 10. As the name suggests, the dice combines the effects of a Slow Dice Block and a 1-2-3 Dice Block. This Dice Block only appears in Bowser Party mode.
The 1-2-3 Slow Dice Block can appear if the player stops on a Special Dice Block Space.
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Thousands of pro-independence demonstrators rallied in Taipei, Taiwan's capital city, on Saturday to pressure the government of President Tsai Ing-wen to be more confrontational with mainland China and to move faster towards independence.
Tsai Ing-wen leads the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), formed as a reaction to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, where several thousand peacefully protesting students were brutally murdered by Chinese security forces in a huge bloodbath. They have been "pro-independence" from the beginning, but in official government positions when winning elections, they have adopted the 1992 "One China Consensus" which says that China and Taiwan are one country, but which leaves the meaning of that phrase ambiguous.
However, since winning the presidential election early in 2016, Tsai Ing-wen has gone farther than previous DPP politicians by refusing to endorse the 1992 consensus, instead saying that she "respected … the common understanding" between China and Taiwan, without saying what that means. Her refusal to endorse the 1992 consensus has triggered the usual stream of hysterical screaming threats from Chinese officials, and relations between China and Taiwan have been deteriorating steadily.
The rally was organized by a new pressure group called the Formosa Alliance. The rally actually represents a split in the pro-independence movement because Tsai has been taking a relatively cautious approach to China, while the Formosa group want to take steps toward independence more quickly.
In 2005, China passed the Anti-Secession Law, which orders the army to invade Taiwan if any Taiwanese official makes any move toward independence, whether by word or by deed. Taiwanese officials have said many things since 2005 that, arguably, could trigger the anti-secession law, and Saturday's independence rally adds one more.
Because China's armed forces are several times bigger than Taiwan's, it is generally believed that China would easily defeat Taiwan in a war, especially if the U.S. did not honor its commitment to mutual defense. The quick win would be achieved first by a barrage of missiles striking government and military targets, followed quickly by special forces ferried across the strait for a quick kill.
However, Foreign Policy has published a detailed analysis by which Taiwan can win a war with China. The Taiwanese, Japanese, and American leaders will have 30-60 days' notice of an impending invasion because China will have to make preparations. So the Taiwanese will be prepared with booby traps, explosives, sea mines, and the Taiwanese soldiers will be far better prepared than their Chinese counterparts.
China has been using money and extortion to force a number of countries and international companies to declare that Taiwan is a province of China. Since Tsai became president, five countries have ended diplomatic relations with Taiwan and begun diplomatic relations with China: Sao Tome and Principe in 2016, Panama in 2017, and the Dominican Republic, Burkina Faso, and El Salvador in 2018. Only 16 countries plus the Vatican now recognize Taiwan under its formal name: the Republic of China. China has also pressured international companies, including airlines, to remove "Taiwan" from their company websites, or replace it with "Taiwan, province of China," if the companies want to continue doing business in China.
By one estimate, China's Christian population has swelled from a few million in the early 1980s to 100 million this year – in comparison, the Communist Party has 90 million members.
In that article, some commenters criticized me for implying that Islam and Christianity are equivalent in some way. Actually, the article in no way implies that. The point was that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) considers Islam and Christianity to be equivalent, and the same for all of the non-indigenous religions.
In China's multi-millennial imperialistic history, China has always been at war or close to it: invading neighbors to exterminate them and take their land, or planning and preparing for such an invasion, or being invaded by a neighbor, or in the midst of a massive internal civil war. China's indigenous "religions" – Sun Tzu's Art of War, Confucianism and Daoism – are all aimed at unifying behind the government and winning wars.
Each one of the non-indigenous religions has been used at one time or another, sometimes successfully sometimes not, as a belief system to create a populist movement to overthrow a dynasty or a government.
This became particularly frightening to the CCP on June 4, 1989, when tens thousands of students from all over China traveled to Beijing and rallied in Tiananmen Square, causing the CCP to vicious murder thousands of them, creating a bloodbath. This show of mass protest showed the Chinese leadership how easy it would be for them to be toppled by a mass movement, and so they have been extremely vicious towards all non-indigenous religions. And then when the Soviet Communist Party collapsed in 1991, they went into a full-scale panic.
So to the CCP, Islam and Christianity are exactly the same, as are all the non-indigenous religions. And they all must be subject to "Sinicization," which means that they must conform to Chinese government policies or face jailing or destruction.
There are six areas of Sinicization: intensifying political identification, integrating religion into Chinese culture, establishing theological thought with Chinese characteristics, setting up a management system for the church with Chinese characteristics, exploring liturgical expression with Chinese elements, and using Chinese aesthetics in church buildings, pictures, and sacred music.
It also means guiding religious groups to support the leadership of the CPC and the socialist system; uphold and follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics; develop religions in the Chinese context; embrace core socialist values; carry forward China's fine traditions; integrate religious teachings and rules with Chinese culture; abide by state laws and regulations, and accept state administration in accordance with the law.
This paragraph gives complete administrative control of the religion to the CCP and permits the CCP to monitor all religious activities. The crackdown has been particularly brutal this year.
Several months ago, China's storm troopers demolished a massive evangelical church using bulldozers and dynamite. The Jindengtai ("Golden Lampstand") mega-church, which reportedly had a congregation of 50,000 people, was demolished. Last month, the Zion Protestant Church in Beijing was banned because the administration refused to install closed-circuit television cameras that the CCP could use to monitor all activity.
In other cases, Chinese policies have stormed into people's homes and replaced the pictures of Jesus Christ and other religious symbols with pictures of Xi Jinping, with the implication that people should be worshipping Xi Jinping as God.
Any person who violates the government's rules can be tortured or jailed or sent to re-education camps. The most extreme example of this so far is Xinjiang province, where a million ethnic Uighurs are being tortured, raped, and beaten in re-education camps.
Religious groups and religious affairs are not subject to control by foreign countries … This principle is a historic choice made by Chinese religious believers in the Chinese people's struggle for national independence and social progress, as Catholicism and Protestantism, which were known as foreign religions in China, had long been controlled and utilized by colonialists and imperialists.
This rule has been particularly applied to Catholics, since Catholics have allegiance to the Pope in the Vatican, and the Pope is presumably either a colonialist or imperialist.
There are about twelve million Catholics in China. Seven million of them belong to the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which is actually a CCP political organization and is "Catholic" in name only. The other five million belong to "underground" Catholic churches, which are barely tolerated by the government, but which retain allegiance to the Pope.
In the last few decades, many Catholic priests in China have gone to jail for years and been tortured for their refusal to reject their vows and the guidance of the Pope.
So many of these people feel betrayed by the Pope because the Vatican last month agreed to a "compromise" where the Vatican recognized seven bishops who were ordained by the CCP without the approval of the Vatican. There was another part to the deal, where China promised to accept some bishops in the "underground" church who had been ordained by the Vatican, but China has so far not fulfilled that promise.
It appears that the Vatican has completely given in to China in order to gain approval from China.
This has raised concerns in Taiwan that the Vatican will go further in giving in to China by cutting ties with Taiwan.


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Associates speak at UK Passivhaus Conference	Thursday, 27 October, 2016
Hamson Barron Smith joined a strong line-up of speakers this week at the UK Passvihaus Conference 2016.
Delivering Passivhaus at Scale was the theme of this year's programme – providing the perfect opportunity for Associate Architect Andrew Conway to present a case study on the large scale projects Hamson Barron Smith is currently delivering in Norwich.
Later in the day, Development Associate Director Ben Binns also explored the business case for Passivhaus.
The conference, held in London, began with Jessica Grove-Smith from the Passivhaus Institute reflecting on the last 25 years of Passivhaus, as well as reporting on how some of the earliest schemes are continuing to perform well.
Looking to the future, throughout the day a number of exhibitors also introduced some of their latest technology, including the Zehnder ComfoAir Q which maximises heat transfer through its innovative diamond shaped heat exchanger.
For Andrew, there was plenty of knowledge to take away. "It was valuable to hear from Tom Kirkham & Matt Warren from Lend Lease who talked us through a contractors view of Passivhaus following the lessons learned at their impressive Elephant Park scheme in London," he said.
"The challenge of efficient sequencing on site and the importance of sub-contractor management or 'policing' were insightful and vital components of understanding the Passivhaus process through construction."
Emma Osmundsen from Exeter City Council also gave delegates a fascinating insight into the journey the majority has taken to deliver a number of ground-breaking schemes, most notably the Passivhaus leisure centre, Exeter Active.
The concluding panel debate covered procurement – particularly traditional versus design and build. Whilst there was caution from the floor in keeping design control, it was acknowledged that design and build was a good way to get contractor involvement at an earlier stage – albeit with an improved emphasis on training and collaboration. Increases in open market sales and how devolution could open up opportunities more Passvihaus opportunities were explored, as well as calls made for surveyors to carefully review the valuations of Passivhaus developments.


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Sticking It To The Rich Does Not Lead To The Socialist Paradise. Only The Uniqueness Of Individual Creativity Can Produce Wealth For All.
April 26, 2019 / by Mary Anastasia O'Grady via wsj.com
Last week Roman Catholics marked the octave of Easter, a time when the glory of the Resurrection fills believers with anticipation of good things to come—if not in this life then in the next.
But hope is hard to come by in Catholic Venezuela these days. The nation is racked by despair as it faces privation so extreme that families eat garbage from dumpsters. Millions have fled, often with only what they can carry.
Venezuela was once the richest country in South America. Now it's a place of malnourished children, starving adults and pullulating disease. Yet its corrupt and cruel military dictatorship clings to power.
The world looks on in horror as Venezuelans are helpless to combat this evil. Inside and outside the country the refrain is the same: How could this have happened?
Venezuela's abundant supplies of petroleum reserves played a role in corrupting the nation. But the real problem is ideological, and it's a lesson for Americans.
Venezuela's intelligentsia spent much of the 20th century inculcating the population with socialist pap. If you're not sure what that means, listen to Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They spout the same nonsense.
Intellectuals, educators and politicians promised that sticking it to the rich was the path to socialist paradise. As government intervention in the economy—particularly through price and exchange controls—damaged living standards, Venezuelans voted for more of it. Little did they know that by targeting the rights of successful entrepreneurs in the name of social justice, they were setting up the country to fail.
Venezuelan socialism fomented envy and deep distrust of business. This destroyed respect for persons who dared to be creative and build wealth. Poverty and dystopia were inevitable.
Climbing out of this hole will take more than removing dictator Nicolás Maduro. The country is devastated, but Venezuelans haven't abandoned the collectivist cause. Many popular opposition politicians still call themselves socialists, unwilling to defend the creative class and its members' right to the fruits of their labor.
Venezuela needs an ideas revolution that recognizes business as an endeavor of the human spirit. Socialists pose as humanitarians and sometimes even as Christians but their system strangles the person, who is at the heart of Catholic teaching. Catholic University of America research fellow Father John McNerney, author of "Wealth of Persons" (2016), describes the "real wellspring" of human progress as emanating from "the unique, irreplaceable and unrepeatable . . . reality of the individual acting in relation to his neighbor."
We are more than simply individuals, because it is in relation with one another "as persons" that we discover ourselves, Father McNerney told me by email last week. "As 'persons' we have intellect and will, allowing us to go 'beyond' the material. It is as 'persons' that human creativity unfolds."
Economists understand that the profit motive is integral to entrepreneurship. But it is about much more than material gains. Father McNerney illustrates the point in his book with the story of Agnes Morrogh-Bernard, a Sister of Charity who worked in the west of Ireland in the aftermath of that country's notorious 19th-century famine.
Starvation had wiped out whole communities, when not physically, spiritually. The sisters engaged in all manner of philanthropy to reverse the deep demoralization caused by the "Great Hunger." But Sister Agnes recognized that "mere philanthropic handouts could not recover" the annihilated Irish spirit. The community needed a creative outlet; it needed work.
The Irish nun had no business training. But one day she looked at the River Moy and determined that by harnessing both the power of the water and the creative spirit of the people, she could run a woolen mill. How she did it is somewhat of a miracle if you consider that she convinced a Protestant, who was also a Freemason, to underwrite her project.
The Foxford Woolen Mills still operates, which proves it is both economically sound and "profitable" for its employees. Agnes's "entrepreneurial acumen," Father McNerney writes, was "the spark that ignited the bright star of a small industry in post-famine Ireland." She recognized the "creative dimension in us all" and a "need for its realization."
Agnes had a kind of "feminine genius," Father McNerney observes. She used her "charismatic entrepreneurial intuition to tap into the power and truth of a 'person-centered' understanding of economic development."
This truth has been all but lost in Venezuela, where despite the depths of their misery many still yield the moral high ground to socialism. Can the country ever recover without embracing the creative entrepreneurial spirit and its success? It is doubtful, even in this Easter season of great hope.
This Article By Mary Anastasia O'Grady first appeared at wsj.com.
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Ophrys scolopax Cavanilles és una espècie d'orquídia monopòdica i terrestre de la subtribu Orchidinae dins la família orquidàcia del gènere Ophrys. Un dels seus noms comuns és abellera becada.

Etimologia
El nom del gènere Ophrys deriva de la paraula grega "ophrys" = 'cella'.
Del llatí prové "scolopax" referit al seu label.
Ophrys ja el menciona Plini el Vell (23-79).

Sinònims
 Arachnites speculum Tod. (1842)
 Ophrys holoserica ssp. scolopax (Cav.) H. Sund. (1975)
 Ophrys fuciflora ssp. scolopax (Cav.) H. Sund. (1980)

Hàbitat
Està distribuïda per la regió mediterrània i arriba a Hongria i al sud del Caucas. Viu en prats, garrigues, matolls i boscos. Arriba a fer de 25 a 30 cm.

Morfologia
Durant l'estiu estan en estat dorment com un bulb subterrani. Al final de l'estiu desenvolupa una roseta de fulles; a la primavera següent es desenvolupa la tija floral i durant l'antesi les fulles ja comencen a marcir-se.

Les flors tenen un gran label trilobulat i de color marró fosc amb el lòbul central avellutat, ovalat, allargat i abombat. El label fa de 13 a 18 mm de llargada, té tres lòbuls: els dos lòbuls laterals triangulars amb uns pèls fins que imiten els èlitres dels insectes. El lòbul intermedi és glabre i més gran que els laterals i la seva zona especular és de color blau cobalt amb la vora blanquinosa.

Els pètals més interns imiten les ales d'un insecte. Aquesta espècie és molt variable en els seus dibuixos i en la gradació del color. Floreix de mitjans de març a abril.

Subespècies d'Ophrys scolopax
 Ophrys scolopax: Orquídia perdiu (Hongria, Medit. al Caucas).
Ophrys scolopax ssp. cornuta: Orquídia banyuda (Hongria a Turquia).
 Ophrys scolopax ssp. heldreichii (Grècia a SW. Turquia, Xipre)
 Ophrys scolopax ssp. scolopax (Medit. a Caucas)

Híbrids naturals dOphrys scolopax
 Ophrys × aghemanii (O. scolopax subsp. cornuta × O. turcomanica) (Iran).
 Ophrys × anomala (O. maxima × O. scolopax ssp. heldreichii) (Creta)
 Ophrys × bastianii (O. magniflora × O. scolopax ssp. scolopax) (Europa)
 Ophrys × bergonii (O. saratoi × O. scolopax ssp. scolopax) (Europa)
 Ophrys × bernardii (O. aveyronensis × O. scolopax ssp. scolopax) (Europa)
 Ophrys × carpinensis (O. biscutella × O. scolopax ssp. cornuta) (Itàlia).
 Ophrys × composita (O. scolopax × O. tenthredinifera) (França)
 Ophrys × delphinensis (O. argolica × O. scolopax ssp. cornuta) (S. Grècia).
 Ophrys × duvigneaudiana (O. araneola × O. scolopax ssp. scolopax) (França)
 Ophrys × kohlmuellerorum (O. scolopax ssp. scolopax × O. sulcata) (França)
 Ophrys × minuticauda (O. apifera × O. scolopax) (França, Sardenya).
 Ophrys × minuticauda nothosubsp. donorensis (O. apifera × O. scolopax ssp. conradiae) (Sardenya).
 Ophrys × minuticauda nothosubsp. minuticauda (França)
 Ophrys montserratensis nothosubsp. neoruppertii (O. bertolonii × O. scolopax) (França).
 Ophrys × nelsonii (O. insectifera × O. scolopax) (França).
 Ophrys × neorupperti (O. aurelia × O. scolopax ssp. scolopax) (França)
 Ophrys × olbiensis (O. bombyliflora × O. scolopax) (Francia).
 Ophrys × peltieri (O. scolopax × O. tenthredinifera) (N. Àfrica).
 Ophrys × philippei (O. scolopax × O. sphegodes) (S. Europa).
 Ophrys × regis-minois (O. cretica × O. scolopax ssp. heldreichii) (Creta)
 Ophrys × samuelii (O. drumana × O. scolopax ssp. scolopax) (França)
 Ophrys × vicina (O. holosericea × O. scolopax) (França, SW. Sardenya).
 Ophrys × vicina nothosubsp. corriasiana (O. holosericea ssp. chestermanii × O. scolopax ssp. conradiae) (SW. Sardenya)

Referències
 Leroy-Terquem, Gerald and Jean Parisot. Orchids: Care and Cultivation. London: Cassel Publishers Ltd., 1991.
 Schoser, Gustav. Orchid Growing Basics. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1993.
 White, Judy. Taylor's Guide to Orchids. Frances Tenenbaum, Series Editor. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1996.
 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids by Alec Pridgeon. Published by the Timber Press.
 The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species By Bechtel, Cribb and Launert, Published by The MIT Press.

Enllaços externs

 Jardí Mundani. Illa de Mallorca

Ophrys


Abrió los ojos y dijo algunas palabras sin sentido.She opened her eyes and uttered a few meaningless words.
Cuando Felipe abrió la puerta, vio a su mujer tendida en el suelo sin sentido.When Felipe opened the door, he saw his wife lying on the floor unconscious.
¡Basta!¡No quiero seguir con esta discusión sin sentido!Stop it! I don't want to keep on with this pointless argument!


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Rudka – część wsi Rudka Starościańska w Polsce, położona w województwie lubelskim, w powiecie lubartowskim, w gminie Uścimów.

W latach 1975–1998 Rudka należała administracyjnie do województwa lubelskiego.

W drugiej połowie maja 1944 Niemcy spacyfikowali wioskę. Śmierć poniosło 42 osoby (ofiary zostały zidentyfikowane) a wieś została spalona.

Zobacz też
 Rudka Starościańska, Gościniec

Przypisy

Rudka Starościańska


We believe that after the Prophet (sws) no individual or group is immune to error. The views of the scholars is accepted or rejected on the basis of arguments from the basic sources of the religion. We may abandon a viewpoint for another sounder one. This decision should of course be based on knowledge and not bias.


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THE CHOIR
PARTNER & SPONSORS
←	OUR DIRECTOR
Fabiana Noro
Director since January 2003
First-class graduate in piano at the Conservatory "J. Tomadini" in Udine under the guidance of Professor Umberto Tracanelli. She attended together the course of music composition held by maestro Daniele Zanettovich and the course of choral music and choir direction held by maestro Annibale Cetrangolo. She then perfected herself in choir direction with the maestros Giorgio Kirschner, Peter Eidenbenz and Olinto Contardo.
She was Assistant Chorus Master of the choir at the Ente Lirico "Pierluigi da Palestrina" (an institution of opera in the theatre of Cagliari) for the following lyric-symphonic productions: Carmen, La Bohéme, I Pescatori di Perle, La Forza del Destino, Symphony No. 2 by Mahler, Requiem by Verdi, Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven. She collaborated as a substitute maestro on the opera "il Re Pastore" by G. Gialuppi, the world premiere of which took place at the "Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine" with Mosque Academy of Ancient Music.
She was also the prompter for several operas staged during the Udine opera season (La Bohème, Don Pasquale, La cambiale di matrimonio, etc.).
She has conducted many choirs, including the Diapason chamber choir, a professional choir made up of sixteen opera singers from the region with which she won first prize – DIPLOMA OF EXCELLENCE -at the international competition for choral singing "C.A. Seghizzi" chaired by Roman Vlad. With the same group, which presents various classic and contemporary programmes during important musical seasons both in Italy and abroad, she has held concerts with the Zagreb Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra dedicated to soundtracks.
She has been conducting the "Coro Polifonico di Ruda" since January 2003. It is a male choir made up of forty members that has held concerts all over the world (in the main European countries but also in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Mongolia, Philippines, etc.).
With this choir, she won the following first prizes at the 39th national competition of Vittorio Veneto in 2004:
FIRST PRIZE POLYPHONY
FIRST PRIZE FOLKLORE
PRIZE FOR THE MOST INTERESTING ARTISTIC PROJECT
GRAND PRIX "EFREM CASAGRANDE"
With this choir she held in July 2004 a series of concerts in Riga and Saint Petersburg in prestigious concert halls.
In April 2005 she won the ABSOLUTE FIRST PRIZE IN THE CATEGORY "ROMANTIC" at the 11th international competition of Tallinn (Estonia) and the SECOND PRIZE at the GRAND PRIX.
In August 2005 she won SECOND PRIZE in the CATEGORY POLYPHONY at the 53th International Competition in Arezzo chaired by the maestro Roberto Gabbiani.
In June 2007 with the same choir she won the following prizes at the international competition "Anton Bruckner":
FIRST PRIZE CATEGORY POLYPHONY
FIRST PRIZE CATEGORY SACRED MUSIC
Grand Prix "Anton Bruckner" for the ABSOLUTE BEST CHOIR OF THE COMPETITION
BEST DIRECTOR OF THE COMPETITION
She also won the Gold Medal in sacred music, polyphony and folklore and the OLYMPIC TITLE at the "World Choir Games" 2008 in Graz. In 2009, at the prestigious "Franz Schubert" competition In Vienna, she won 4 first prizes, including the Grand Prix and the "Franz Schubert" Prize for the best interpretation of pieces by the same author. In 2010 at the World Choir Games in Shaoxing (China) she won two further gold medals in the categories "male choirs" and "Folklore".
She has performed in concerts in Italy and abroad (Slovenia, Switzerland, France, Hungary, China and Japan) as a pianist for internationally renowned singers: Bonaldo Giaiotti, Alfredo Mariotti, Vincenzo Bello, Lella Cuberli and many others.
She has also been a music assistant to several specialization courses for opera singers including one on Mozart by maestro Claudio Desderi and she has also worked at the opera academy of Mrs. Katia Ricciarelli in Desenzano del Garda in Lombardy.
Since 2001 she has been pianist for the Raina Kabaivanska master class and she has held several concerts with her.
For her artistic activity, she has received the MORET D'AUR prize: the most prestigious prize in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, awarded by a committee of journalists and music critics.