Five years on from their debut, which announced a major new force on the scene, Scottish band Salt House release their new album Undersong. Produced by folk heavyweight Andy Bell (Martin Simpson, Songs of Separation, Jon Boden, Furrow Collective), the album instills a special sense of place, recorded in a restored Telford Church on the island of Berneray, Outer Hebrides.
Whether it's setting old words to new melodies, re-working ancient ballads or writing their own – Salt House marry all their musical strands with a deep understanding for the British song tradition and an empathy for a story. Recent recruit, singer-songwriter Jenny Sturgeon joins multi-instrumentalist and songsmith Ewan MacPherson and violist and fiddler Lauren MacColl to weave stories of landscape, place and time.
The Telford church used to record the music was featured in Channel 4's Restoration Man and is a special, hugely creative space, in a location which marries perfectly with the band's love of the islands, the outdoors and of nature. Salt House are based in the Highlands and Northern Isles and the music for Undersong was created over the past year between the Cairngorms and rural Aberdeenshire.
The ten songs on the album include new settings of poetry, a reworking of a Scandinavian ballad, and six new songs from Jenny and Ewan's own writing. The band deliver and arrange their material with an honesty and respect to the story, the words, and their lineage, whilst continuing to forge their own sound.


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Mar. 29, 2017 12:43 pm
Here's what Philadelphia nonprofits stand to lose if AmeriCorps is eliminated
Trump's proposed budget would cut the program, which places 2,716 young people in service positions around the city.
By Gwyn Garrison / contributor
Scott Emerick, Donald Trump, Hillary Kane
YouthBuild Philadelphia, Teach for America, City Year
PHENND
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A 2014 AmeriCorps event in Philadelphia.
(Photo by Mitchell Leff, courtesy of the City of Philadelphia)
Full disclosure: The author of the piece is a former AmeriCorps member who served in New Orleans from 2007 to 2009.
You can find this year's 2,716 Philadelphia AmeriCorps members conducting service across the city — in schools, food pantries, adult GED programs, mental health nonprofits, even partnering with city departments to tackle environmental issues.
However, the entire AmeriCorps program is currently under threat, as the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) – the agency that oversees AmeriCorps – would be completely wiped out under President Donald Trump's proposed budget.
CNCS supports over 80,000 AmeriCorps members nationwide each year, along with Senior Corps and the Social Innovation Fund. Its annual budget is $1.1 billion – which equates to approximately .03 percent of the federal budget. (By comparison, the U.S. Navy's new aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, cost $13 billion.)
The AmeriCorps program engages young people for a year of intensive service. Participants often include recent college graduates, but those currently in college or in other educational programs take part as well. The service may be part-time or full-time and is compensated with a small stipend.
In Philadelphia, nonprofit leaders say the end of AmeriCorps would have multiple consequences: on their staffing, services, budgets, fundraising, outreach — and, of course, the AmeriCorps members themselves. According to Hillary Kane, director of Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND), the AmeriCorps program is an invaluable tool in Philadelphia communities.
YouthBuild Philadelphia's class of 2016 completed almost 63,000 service hours cumulatively.
"It's sort of like a win-win: [There's] the service that happens in the community during the person's year of service, and then also it's the investment in the member themselves," she said. "These 75 college students [serving with PHENND] are not only serving their communities as a way to earn a little bit of money to stay in school, but then they're also themselves low-income, first-gen students earning the AmeriCorps scholarship."
Under the proposed Trump budget, this support for low-income volunteers — such as those serving at alternative charter school YouthBuild Philadelphia — would be eliminated. At the school, young adults who dropped out of high school not only get the chance to complete their high school education, they also serve as part-time AmeriCorps members. The school's class of 2016 students completed almost 63,000 service hours cumulatively, according to Executive Director Scott Emerick.
"They're internalizing an ethic of service and developing a really deep personal commitment to service," Emerick said. "That has a long-term impact both on their own lives and in the communities where they serve, where they learn, where they work, where they lead."
The YouthBuild Philadelphia blog details stories of how service has changed the lives of students like Daniel, who graduated from the program in 2016. Before coming to YouthBuild Philadelphia, Daniel struggled with anxiety and stress, attending several alternative and online schools before finding his fit. But at Youth Build Philadelphia, he discovered a community — and a love of service.
"I never thought that in this city there were good things that you could do," he said. With service, "I felt like I had a purpose." Daniel continues his service post-graduation through internships at the local SPCA and the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society. He is also enrolled in a pre-college program with the Community College of Philadelphia.
(Photo by Flickr user Ginny, used via a Creative Commons license)
Also concerned about how the potential cuts to AmeriCorps could affect his programs is Charles Adams, executive director of Teach for America (TFA) Philadelphia.
The AmeriCorps education stipend can be a major source of support for TFA members, Adams said. With 20 percent of the 2016 Teach for America Philadelphia corps having received Pell Grants, the post-service Segal AmeriCorps Education Award can also be an important source of financial support for participating members — as well as a big help in recruiting candidates to take part in TFA.
Adams also pointed to TFA Philadelphia's extensive reach into local communities as an indication of the impact of AmeriCorps on Philadelphia. One hundred and thirty Teach for America corps members serve in 50 Philadelphia schools. According to Adams, they're providing a "suite of holistic supports" for under-resourced Philadelphia schools. In addition, TFA Philadelphia has a network of 1,500 alumni in Philadelphia, one-third of whom are still teaching.
"You can't really replace AmeriCorps."
Hillary Kane
Darryl Bundrige, executive director of City Year, also indicated that a potential cut to AmeriCorps would dramatically influence his organization's outreach into the community, saying that the decision on the AmeriCorps program would have a "ripple effect" on the school communities where City Year members work.
City Year places 18- to 25-year-old participants in disadvantaged schools, where they support teachers, build school community and morale, and model "near-peer" guidance, working on an individual basis with students. There are currently 205 City Year members in 14 Philadelphia schools.
In looking at a potential future without AmeriCorps, Kane said PHENND would look for other funding sources, "but you can't really replace AmeriCorps."
"Even if I could replace the administrative money for my programs, I can't replace AmeriCorps itself," she wrote in an email, including "the special exemptions that people get for doing a year of service (such as student loan deferment) or the cache of being in a national program … not to mention the cost of the AmeriCorps awards."
Bundrige also named benefits to being part of a national program and said he foresees the potential end of AmeriCorps as cutting a pipeline into a major form of national service: Reflecting on the possibility, he said that he thought "a whole generation would miss the idea."
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The Longs Complex features baseball and softball fields, multi-sports field, and a full size lighted basketball court. The complex was named for Richard H. Long, a well-known industrialist and businessman in Framingham.
He built a shoe factory on Fountain Street, and later manufactured automobiles there. He donated the land for this complex.


CHELSEA star Eden Hazard is being linked with a move to Real Madrid - but does him saying he wants to be a Blues legend hint that he might stick around?
Hazard has 18 months left on his contract at Stamford Bridge, and the clock is ticking down on his future.
Chelsea will likely have to sell next summer to ensure they get something in the bank for the Belgian, who joined in 2012 for £32m.
The attacking ace won't reveal if he'll sign the mega contract offer on the table from Chelsea.
But Starsport's Merson is hoping he'll be sticking around.
Merse said: "Hearing Eden Hazard say he wants to become a Chelsea legend makes you wonder if he will end up staying at Stamford Bridge.
"I hope he does because he is the best player in the Premier League for me.
"There is no-one else who can do what he does. Hazard is one of those players who can pick it up on the halfway line, beat three players and score a worldy. He is just that good.
"If you're a Chelsea fan you have to be keeping your fingers crossed that the club makes him an offer that's too good to refuse and he signs a new contract.
"I don't know how they would replace him otherwise.
"He's added more goals to his game this season and he'll be one to watch this season because the pressure is off.
"Chelsea aren't in the title race so there isn't as much pressure on him and he can enjoy himself.
"Watch him go. I just think the more goals he scores the more attractive he becomes to Real Madrid. They are absolutely certain to go for him. They'd be mad not to.
"He must be tempted as well. He could score 30 goals a season in that league and he'd be playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world."
Hazard will be out strutting his stuff against tomorrow when Chelsea head to Crystal Palace (12pm).
The Belgian heads to Selhurst Park in top form having scored twice in the Boxing Day win at Watford.


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Born Monday, March 31, 1732
Died Wednesday, May 31, 1809
(Franz) Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
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(Franz) Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio, and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet."
Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original." Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe. He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a teacher of Beethoven, and the older brother of composer Michael Haydn.
Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, a village that at that time stood on the border with Hungary. His father was Mathias Haydn, a wheelwright who also served as "Marktrichter," an office akin to village mayor. Haydn's mother Maria, née Koller, had previously worked as a cook in the palace of Count Harrach, the presiding aristocrat of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music; however, Mathias was an enthusiastic folk musician, who during the journeyman period of his career had taught himself to play the harp. According to Haydn's later reminiscences, his childhood family was extremely musical, and frequently sang together and with their neighbors.
Haydn's parents had noticed that their son was musically gifted and knew that in Rohrau he would have no chance to obtain serious musical training. It was for this reason that, around the time Haydn turned six, they accepted a proposal from their relative Johann Matthias Frankh, the schoolmaster and choirmaster in Hainburg, that Haydn be apprenticed to Frankh in his home to train as a musician. Haydn therefore went off with Frankh to Hainburg, 7.5 miles away; he never again lived with his parents.
Life in the Frankh household was not easy for Haydn, who later remembered being frequently hungry and humiliated by the filthy state of his clothing. He began his musical training there, and could soon play both harpsichord and violin. The people of Hainburg heard him sing treble parts in the church choir.
There is reason to think that Haydn's singing impressed those who heard him, because in 1739 he was brought to the attention of Georg von Reutter, the director of music in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, who happened to be visiting Hainburg and was looking for new choirboys. Haydn passed his audition with Reutter, and after several months of further training moved to Vienna in 1740, where he worked for the next nine years as a chorister.
Haydn lived in the Kapellhaus next to the cathedral, along with Reutter, Reutter's family, and the other four choirboys, which after 1745 included his younger brother Michael. The choirboys were instructed in Latin and other school subjects as well as voice, violin, and keyboard. Reutter was of little help to Haydn in the areas of music theory and composition, giving him only two lessons in his entire time as chorister. However, since St. Stephen's was one of the leading musical centers in Europe, Haydn learned a great deal simply by serving as a professional musician there.
Like Frankh before him, Reutter did not always bother to make sure Haydn was properly fed. As he later told his biographer Albert Christoph Dies, Haydn was motivated to sing well, in hopes of gaining more invitations to perform before aristocratic audiences—where the singers were usually served refreshments.
Struggles as a Freelancer
By 1749, Haydn had matured physically to the point that he was no longer able to sing high choral parts. Empress Maria Theresa herself complained to Reutter about his singing, calling it "crowing." One day, Haydn carried out a prank, snipping off the pigtail of a fellow chorister. This was enough for Reutter: Haydn was first caned, then summarily dismissed and sent into the streets. He had the good fortune to be taken in by a friend, Johann Michael Spangler, who shared his family's crowded garret room with Haydn for a few months. Haydn immediately began his pursuit of a career as a freelance musician.
Haydn struggled at first, working at many different jobs: as a music teacher, as a street serenader, and eventually, in 1752, as valet–accompanist for the Italian composer Nicola Porpora, from whom he later said he learned "the true fundamentals of composition." He was also briefly in Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz's employ, playing the organ in the Bohemian Chancellery chapel at the Judenplatz.
While a chorister, Haydn had not received any systematic training in music theory and composition. As a remedy, he worked his way through the counterpoint exercises in the text Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux and carefully studied the work of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, whom he later acknowledged as an important influence.
As his skills increased, Haydn began to acquire a public reputation, first as the composer of an opera, Der krumme Teufel, "The Limping Devil", written for the comic actor Johann Joseph Felix Kurz, whose stage name was "Bernardon." The work was premiered successfully in 1753, but was soon closed down by the censors due to "offensive remarks." Haydn also noticed, apparently without annoyance, that works he had simply given away were being published and sold in local music shops. Between 1754 and 1756 Haydn also worked freelance for the court in Vienna. He was among several musicians who were paid for services as supplementary musicians at balls given for the imperial children during carnival season, and as supplementary singers in the imperial chapel (the Hofkapelle) in Lent and Holy Week.
With the increase in his reputation, Haydn eventually obtained aristocratic patronage, crucial for the career of a composer in his day. Countess Thun, having seen one of Haydn's compositions, summoned him and engaged him as her singing and keyboard teacher. In 1756, Baron Carl Josef Fürnberg employed Haydn at his country estate, Weinzierl, where the composer wrote his first string quartets. Fürnberg later recommended Haydn to Count Morzin, who, in 1757, became his first full-time employer.
Years as Kapellmeister
Haydn's job title under Count Morzin was Kapellmeister (music director). He led the count's small orchestra and wrote his first symphonies for this ensemble. In 1760, with the security of a Kapellmeister position, Haydn married. His wife was the former Maria Anna Theresia Keller (1730–1800), the sister of Therese, with whom Haydn had previously been in love. Haydn and his wife had a completely unhappy marriage, from which the laws of the time permitted them no escape. They produced no children.
Count Morzin soon suffered financial reverses that forced him to dismiss his musical establishment, but Haydn was quickly offered a similar job in 1761 by Prince Paul Anton, head of the immensely wealthy Esterházy family. Haydn's job title was only Vice-Kapellmeister, but he was immediately placed in charge of most of the Esterházy musical establishment, with the old Kapellmeister, Gregor Werner, retaining authority only for church music. When Werner died in 1766, Haydn was elevated to full Kapellmeister.
As a "house officer" in the Esterházy establishment, Haydn wore livery and followed the family as they moved among their various palaces, most importantly the family's ancestral seat Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt and later on Esterháza, a grand new palace built in rural Hungary in the 1760s. Haydn had a huge range of responsibilities, including composition, running the orchestra, playing chamber music for and with his patrons, and eventually the mounting of operatic productions. Despite this backbreaking workload, the job was in artistic terms a superb opportunity for Haydn. The Esterházy princes (Paul Anton, then from 1762–1790, Nikolaus I) were musical connoisseurs who appreciated his work and gave him daily access to his own small orchestra. During the nearly thirty years that Haydn worked at the Esterházy court, he produced a flood of compositions, and his musical style continued to develop.
Much of Haydn's activity at the time followed the specific musical interest of his patron Prince Nikolaus. Thus, in about 1765 the Prince obtained, and began to learn to play, the baryton, an uncommon musical instrument similar to the bass viol but with a set of plucked sympathetic strings. Haydn was commanded to provide music for the Prince to play, and over the next ten years produced about 200 works for this instrument in various ensembles, of which the most notable are the 126 baryton trios. Around 1775 the Prince abandoned the baryton and took up a new hobby: opera productions, previously a sporadic event for special occasions, became the focus of musical life at court, and the opera theater the Prince had built at Esterháza came to host a major season, with multiple productions each year. Haydn served as director of the company, recruiting and training the singers and preparing and leading the performances. He also wrote several of the operas performed and wrote substitution arias to insert into the operas of other composers.
1779 was a watershed year for Haydn, as his contract was renegotiated: whereas previously all his compositions were the property of the Esterházy family, he now was permitted to write for others and sell his work to publishers. Haydn soon shifted his emphasis in composition to reflect this (fewer operas, and more quartets and symphonies) and he negotiated with multiple publishers, both Austrian and foreign. Of Haydn's new employment contract Jones writes: "This single document acted as a catalyst in the next stage in Haydn's career, the achievement of international popularity. By 1790 Haydn was in the paradoxical, if not bizarre, position of being Europe's leading composer, but someone who spent his time as a duty-bound Kapellmeister in a remote palace in the Hungarian countryside."
The new publication campaign resulted in the composition of a great number of new string quartets (the six-quartet sets of Op. 33, 50, 54-55, and 64). Haydn also composed in response to commissions from abroad: the Paris symphonies (1785–1786) and the original orchestral version of The Seven Last Words of Christ (1786), a commission from Cádiz, Spain.
The remoteness of Esterháza, which was farther from Vienna than Eisenstadt, led Haydn gradually to feel more isolated and lonely. He longed to visit Vienna because of his friendships there. Of these, a particularly important one was with Maria Anna von Genzinger (1754–93), the wife of Prince Nikolaus's personal physician in Vienna, who began a close, platonic relationship with the composer in 1789. Haydn wrote to Mrs. Genzinger often, expressing his loneliness at Esterháza and his happiness for the few occasions on which he was able to visit her in Vienna; later on, Haydn wrote to her frequently from London. Her premature death in 1793 was a blow to Haydn, and his F minor Variations for Piano may have been written in response to her death.
Another friend in Vienna was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whom Haydn had met sometime around 1784. According to later testimony by Michael Kelly and others, the two composers occasionally played in string quartets together. Haydn was hugely impressed with Mozart's work and praised it unstintingly to others. Mozart evidently returned the esteem, as seen in his dedication of a set of six quartets, now called the "Haydn" Quartets, to his friend.
The London Journeys
In 1790, Prince Nikolaus died and was succeeded as prince by his son Anton. Following a trend of the time, Anton sought to economize by dismissing most of the court musicians. Haydn retained a nominal appointment with Anton, at a reduced salary of 400 florins, as well as a 1000-florin pension from Nikolaus. Since Anton had little need of Haydn's services, he was willing to let him travel, and the composer accepted a lucrative offer from Johann Peter Salomon, a German violinist and impresario, to visit England and conduct new symphonies with a large orchestra.
The choice was a sensible one because Haydn was already a very popular composer there. Since the death of Johann Christian Bach in 1782, Haydn's music had dominated the concert scene in London; "hardly a concert did not feature a work by him." Haydn's work was widely distributed by publishers in London, including Forster (who had their own contract with Haydn) and Longman & Broderip (who served as the agent in England for Haydn's Vienna publisher Artaria). Efforts to bring Haydn to London had been undertaken since 1782, though Haydn's loyalty to Prince Nikolaus had prevented him from accepting.
After fond farewells from Mozart and other friends, Haydn departed Vienna with Salomon on December 15, 1790, arriving in Calais in time to cross the English Channel on New Year's Day of 1791. It was the first time that the 58-year-old composer had seen the ocean. Arriving in London, Haydn stayed with Salomon in Great Pulteney Street (London, near Picadilly Circus) working in a borrowed studio at the Broadwood piano firm nearby.
It was the start of a very auspicious period for Haydn; both the 1791–1792 journey, along with a repeat visit in 1794–1795, were greatly successful. Audiences flocked to Haydn's concerts; he augmented his fame and made large profits, thus becoming financially secure. Charles Burney reviewed the first concert thus: "Haydn himself presided at the piano-forte; and the sight of that renowned composer so electrified the audience, as to excite an attention and a pleasure superior to any that had ever been caused by instrumental music in England." Haydn made many new friends and, for a time, was involved in a romantic relationship with Rebecca Schroeter.
Musically, Haydn's visits to England generated some of his best-known work, including the Surprise, Military, Drumroll and London symphonies; the Rider Quartet; and the Gypsy Rondo piano trio.
The great success of the overall enterprise does not mean that the journeys were free of trouble. Notably, his very first project, the commissioned opera L'anima del filosofo was duly written during the early stages of the trip, but the opera's impresario John Gallini was unable to obtain a license to permit opera performances in the theater he directed, the King's Theatre. Haydn was well paid for the opera (300 pounds) but much time was wasted. Thus only two new symphonies, No. 95 and No. 96 "Miracle", could be premiered in the 12 concerts of Salomon's spring concert series. Another problem arose from the jealously competitive efforts of a senior, rival orchestra, the Professional Concerts, who recruited Haydn's old pupil Ignaz Pleyel as a rival visiting composer; the two composers, refusing to play along with the concocted rivalry, dined together and put each other's symphonies on their concert programs.
The end of Salomon's series in June gave Haydn a rare period of relative leisure. He spent some of the time in the country (Hertingfordbury), but also had time to travel, notably to Oxford, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University. The symphony performed for the occasion, No. 92, has since come to be known as the Oxford Symphony, although it had been written in 1789.
While traveling to London in 1790, Haydn had met the young Ludwig van Beethoven in his native city of Bonn. On Haydn's return, Beethoven came to Vienna and, during the time up to the second London visit, was Haydn's pupil. Haydn took Beethoven with him to Eisenstadt for the summer (where Haydn found he had rather little to do) and also taught Beethoven some counterpoint. While in Vienna, Haydn purchased a house for himself and his wife in the suburbs and started remodeling it. He also arranged for the performance of some of his London symphonies in local concerts.
By the time he arrived on his second journey to England (1794–1795), Haydn had become a familiar figure on the London concert scene. The 1794 season was dominated by Salomon's ensemble, as the Professional Concerts had abandoned their efforts. The concerts included the premieres of the 99th, 100th, and 101st symphonies. For 1795, Salomon had abandoned his own series, citing difficulty in obtaining "vocal performers of the first rank from abroad," and Haydn joined forces with the Opera Concerts, headed by the violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti. These were the venue of the last three symphonies, 102, 103, and 104. The final benefit concert for Haydn ("Dr. Haydn's night") at the end of the 1795 season was a great success and was perhaps the peak of his English career. Haydn's biographer Griesinger wrote that Haydn "considered the days spent in England the happiest of his life. He was everywhere appreciated there; it opened a new world to him."
Years of Celebrity in Vienna
Haydn returned to Vienna in 1795. Prince Anton had died, and his successor Nikolaus II proposed that the Esterházy musical establishment be revived with Haydn serving again as Kapellmeister. Haydn took up the position on a part-time basis. He spent his summers with the Esterházys in Eisenstadt, and over the course of several years wrote six masses for them.
By this time Haydn had become a public figure in Vienna. He spent most of his time in his home, a large house in the suburb of Windmühle, and wrote works for public performance. In collaboration with his librettist and mentor Gottfried van Swieten, and with funding from van Swieten's Gesellschaft der Associierten, he composed his two great oratorios, The Creation (1798) and The Seasons (1801). Both were enthusiastically received. Haydn frequently appeared before the public, often leading performances of The Creation and The Seasons for charity benefits, including Tonkünstler-Societät programs with massed musical forces. He also composed instrumental music: the popular Trumpet Concerto, and the last nine in his long series of string quartets, including the Fifths, Emperor, and Sunrise. A brief 1797 work, "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" ( "Emperor's Hymn"), achieved great success and became "the enduring emblem of Austrian identity right up to the First World War" (Jones); in modern times it became (with different words) the national anthem of Germany.
During the later years of this successful period, Haydn faced incipient old age and fluctuating health, and he had to struggle to complete his final works. His last major work, from 1802, was the sixth mass for the Esterházys, the Harmoniemesse.
Retirement, Illness, and Death
By the end of 1803, Haydn's condition had declined to the point that he became physically unable to compose. He suffered from weakness, dizziness, inability to concentrate and painfully swollen legs. Since diagnosis was uncertain in Haydn's time, it is unlikely that the precise illness can ever be identified, though Jones suggests arteriosclerosis.
The illness was especially hard for Haydn because the flow of fresh musical ideas waiting to be worked out as compositions (something he could no longer do) continued unabated. His biographer Dies reported a conversation from 1806: [Haydn said] "I must have something to do—usually musical ideas are pursuing me, to the point of torture, I cannot escape them, they stand like walls before me. If it's an allegro that pursues me, my pulse keeps beating faster, I can get no sleep. If it's an adagio, then I notice my pulse beating slowly. My imagination plays on me as if I were a clavier." Haydn smiled, the blood rushed to his face, and he said "I am really just a living clavier."
The winding down of Haydn's career was gradual. The Esterházy family kept him on as Kapellmeister to the very end (much as they had with his predecessor Werner long before), but they appointed new staff to lead their musical establishment: Johann Michael Fuchs in 1802 as Vice-Kapellmeister and Johann Nepomuk Hummel as Konzertmeister in 1804. Haydn's last summer in Eisenstadt was in 1803, and his last appearance before the public as a conductor was a charity performance of The Seven Last Words on December 26, 1803. As debility set in, he made largely futile efforts at composition, attempting to revise a rediscovered Missa brevis from his teenage years and complete his final string quartet. The latter project was abandoned for good in 1805, and the quartet was published with just two movements.
Haydn was well cared for by his servants, and he received many visitors and public honors during his last years, but they could not have been very happy years for him. During his illness, Haydn often found solace by sitting at the piano and playing his Emperor's Hymn.
A final triumph occurred on March 27, 1808, when a performance of The Creation was organized in his honor. The very frail composer was brought into the hall on an armchair to the sound of trumpets and drums and was greeted by Beethoven, Salieri (who led the performance), and by other musicians and members of the aristocracy. Haydn was both moved and exhausted by the experience and had to depart at intermission.
Haydn lived on for 14 more months. His final days were hardly serene, as in May 1809 the French army under Napoleon launched an attack on Vienna and on May 10 bombarded his neighborhood. According to Griesinger, "Four case shots fell, rattling the windows and doors of his house. He called out in a loud voice to his alarmed and frightened people, 'Don't be afraid, children, where Haydn is, no harm can reach you!' But the spirit was stronger than the flesh, for he had hardly uttered the brave words when his whole body began to tremble." More bombardments followed until the city fell to the French on May 13. Haydn was, however, deeply moved and appreciative when on May 17, a French cavalry officer named Sulémy came to pay his respects and sang, skillfully, an aria from The Creation.
On May 26, Haydn played his Emperor's Hymn with unusual gusto three times; the same evening he collapsed and was taken to what proved to be to his deathbed. He died peacefully at 12:40 a.m. on May 31, 1809, aged 77.
On June 15, a memorial service was held in the Schottenkirche at which Mozart's Requiem was performed. Haydn's remains were interred in the local Hundsturm cemetery until 1820, when they were moved to Eisenstadt by Prince Nikolaus. His head took a different journey; it was stolen shortly after burial by phrenologists, and the skull was not reunited with the other remains until 1954.
Character and Appearance
James Webster writes of Haydn's public character thus: "Haydn's public life exemplified the Enlightenment ideal of the honnête homme (honest man): the man whose good character and worldly success enable and justify each other. His modesty and probity were everywhere acknowledged. These traits were not only prerequisites to his success as Kapellmeister, entrepreneur and public figure, but also aided the favorable reception of his music." Haydn was especially respected by the Esterházy court musicians whom he supervised, as he maintained a cordial working atmosphere and effectively represented the musicians' interests with their employer. Haydn had a robust sense of humor, evident in his love of practical jokes and often apparent in his music, and he had many friends. For much of his life he benefited from a "happy and naturally cheerful temperament," but in his later life, there is evidence for periods of depression, notably in the correspondence with Mrs. Genzinger and in Dies's biography, based on visits made in Haydn's old age.
Haydn was a devout Catholic who often turned to his rosary when he had trouble composing, a practice that he usually found to be effective. He normally began the manuscript of each composition with "in nomine Domini" ("in the name of the Lord") and ended with "Laus Deo" ("praise be to God").
Haydn's primary character flaw was greed as it related to his business dealings. Webster writes: "As regards money, Haydn was so self-interested as to shock [both] contemporaries and many later authorities .... He always attempted to maximize his income, whether by negotiating the right to sell his music outside the Esterházy court, driving hard bargains with publishers or selling his works three and four times over; he regularly engaged in 'sharp practice' and occasionally in outright fraud. When crossed in business relations, he reacted angrily." Webster notes that Haydn's ruthlessness in business might be viewed more sympathetically in light of his struggles with poverty during his years as a freelancer—and that outside of the world of business, in dealings, for example, with relatives and servants and in volunteering his services for charitable concerts, Haydn was a generous man.
Haydn was short in stature, perhaps as a result of having not been fed well throughout most of his youth. He was not handsome, and like many in his day he was a survivor of smallpox; his face was pitted with the scars of this disease. His biographer Dies wrote: "...he couldn't understand how it happened that in his life he had been loved by many a pretty woman. 'They couldn't have been led to it by my beauty.'"
His nose, large and aquiline, was disfigured by the polyps he suffered during much of his adult life, an agonizing and debilitating disease that at times prevented him from writing music.
Chi spira e non spera
V. Shimkus plays J. Haydn Piano Sonata No.54 in G major
Haydn : Symphony No. 94, 'Surprise', 2nd movement
In Rehearsal: Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker (Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten)
Horowitz plays Joseph Haydn Sonata in F major Hob. XVI 23 - I. Allegro moderato
The Heavens are Telling - Haydn
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Popular from Haydn
Paul Gilbert - "Haydn Symphony No. 88"
Haydn - Symphony No. 6 "Le Matin" - Mov. 1/4
Haydn- Insanae Et Vanae Curae (St. John's College Choir.)
Quartet No.2 in D minor, Opus 76 "Quinten" by Joseph Haydn
(IX) F.J. Haydn -〈The Creation〉Oratorio / Die Schöpfung, Oratorium (Christopher Hogwood)
(IV) F.J. Haydn -〈The Creation〉Oratorio / Die Schöpfung, Oratorium (Christopher Hogwood)


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Possedoni (ur. 7?? – zm. 8??) – biskup Seo de Urgel od 814 roku do 823 roku.

Przypisy

Biskupi Seo de Urgel
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#pragma once

#include <string>

namespace AI
{
	enum class Bark
	{
		LostSightOfPlayer,
		StartPlayerSearch,
		StaringAtPlayer,
		RegainedSightOfPlayer,
		Bother,

		//reactions
		Dismiss,
		FoundPlayer,
		LostPlayer,
		HeardSomething,
		SawSomething,

		BeginInvestigation,
		EndInvestigation,

		GreetFriend,
		ChitChat,

		GoingToSit
	};

	/*
	Barker displays a message onscreen for a certain duration
	*/
	class Barker
	{
	public:

		//sets the bark string to be shown along with how long to show it
		void bark(std::string s, float duration = 5.f);

		//called once per frame to determine whether to continue displaying the bark or not
		void update(float dt);

		bool isBarking();

	private:

		//how much longer to display the bark
		float timeRemaining {0.f};
		//are we barking?
		bool barking {false};
		//the actual string to show
		std::string speech;
	};
}

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Simply phenomenal theatre. Drop everything – play truant, pull a sickie, whatever it takes – but make sure that you get to The Children's Hour before the run ends early next month.
I have been in two minds about the growing phenomenon of celebrity-led theatre in the West End. Whilst it fills out theatres with star-spotters and causes irritating hikes in ticket prices that don't necessarily reflect the quality of the production, I tend to err on the side of celebration. Anything that gets more people who don't ordinarily go to the theatre down those aisles and into the audience is generally a bonus in my book – there is little doubt that it brings new patrons to live theatre and thus helps to keep the artform thriving in these troubled financial times.
It probably helps that the celeb lead plays that I have seen of late have been of truly stellar quality. The last such drama was All My Sons at the Apollo, led by Zoe Wanamaker and David Suchet. That was a critical and crowd-pleasing barnstormer, but I'd like to propose an argument that I didn't forsee. Elizabeth Moss and Keira Knightly have topped it.
The Children's Hour is simply but beautifully staged. The costumes are straightforward but period-perfect – elegant 1930s understatement in a style reminiscent of Moss's other day job, the wonderful Mad Men. Lillian Hellman's script doesn't waste a word and manages to intersperse genuine laughs with a harrowing examination of injustice, prejudice, entitlement, despair, sexuality and libel. It is delivered by a fantastic cast, within which the supporting roles played by Bryony Hannah, Tobias Menzies and Ellen Burstyn glow as brightly as those of the famous leads.
Bryony Hannah (below, centre) in particular is astonishing. Her unfaltering portrayal of the odious pupil Mary is remarkably involving. This performance can't help but bring back memories of school bullies and how completely unconquerable they seemed from the limited perspective of a child under their power. A fantastic physical and emotional performance marks this actress out as one to watch.
Moss has always been on the 'right' end of the critical spectrum. Anyone who can start their career in the public eye via regular roles in The West Wing and Mad Men couldn't deny that they have been blessed to be associated with projects of such quality. Knightly is the more famous of the two, but her mixed bag of film roles has historically made her the recipient of similarly mixed reviews from a less enraptured crowd of commentators. Both young women have now been on our screens for over ten years, but this play must prove beyond doubt that they have graduated to a point in their careers where they must be taken seriously as stage professionals. They are both on hair-raising and furious form in roles that stretch and exploit their considerable talents.
Yet this play is far more than a serious vehicle for celebrity talent. Aching with poignance, it is a piece of social history that manages to demonstrate – in the case of the power of rumour and scandal to unfairly destroy reputations, livelihoods and individuals in an instant – just how little the world has progressed in the nearly 80 years since its premiere.
This is a fantastic example of how theatre should be done. Don't miss out on the opportunity to experience it for yourself.
The Children's Hour is at the Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, until Saturday May 7th. Tickets available at the box office: 0844 871 7622. A limited supply of same-day tickets are released at 10am daily for £15 at the Comedy Theatre itself. I arrived bang on 10 o'clock and managed to get seats in a box. It was the best £15 I've spent in years. Enjoy.


USD/JPY is expected to consolidate with bullish bias after hitting the three-week high of 123.97 on Wednesday. It is underpinned by the positive dollar sentiment (ICE spot dollar index last 97.13 versus 96.60 early Wednesday) after Federal Reserve Chairwoman Yellen reaffirmed that the central bank remained on a path to raising its interest rates this year in her semi-annual testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. The pair is also boosted by a higher-than-expected 0.4% on-month rise in the US June PPI (versus forecast 0.2%), the healthier-than-expected US July Empire State manufacturing index of 3.9 (versus forecast 3.0), and a stronger-than-expected 0.3% on-month increase in the US June industrial production (forecast 0.2%) and capacity utilization of 78.4% (versus forecast 78.1%). USD/JPY is also supported by the demand from Japan's importers and the Bank of Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy. But USD/JPY gains are tempered by the Japanese exports and lower US Treasury yields (10-year slipped 4.3 bps to 2.355% Wednesday).
The daily chart is positive-biased as the MACD and stochastics are bullish, five-day moving average is above 15-day moving average and is advancing.


The competition is conducted by CONNECTHER annually which aims to elevate the status of women and girls everywhere.
→ The participants should be enrolled in undergraduates program (global) OR should be a full-time high school student.
→ One director (Participant) is allowed to enter maximum 2 short movies in the competition.
→ First, the participant (Director of the short film) will have to provide personal details such as name, full address, city, state & zip code, phone number, valid email id, grade, the name of the school, name of the country.
The participants can submit their short movie only through online mode on the official website at http://www.connecther.org. After filling the application form the participants have to enter the link of the short movie made by them in the box given there.
The length of the short movie sent by the participants must be between 3-6 minutes.
The short film must be an original work of the participant and it should not infringe any copyright or ownership agreements.
At the end of the short film, the participants have to add a slide that shows at least 2 or more organizations that are working on solutions to the issue area that the participants address in their short film.
The film must contain the following still image as End Marker.


When compiling a presentation for school, a volunteer organization or another circumstance, most of us turn to PowerPoint. But now there's another option.
A few months ago as part of a project, a computer education teacher at my school suggested to try a new presentation device: prezi.com. What a friend and I found was a fun and exciting website that made our class presentation stand out.
My favorite part of Prezi is that there is little to no structure. All you have to do is double-click, and a word box will appear in which you can type. In addition, you can insert pictures and shapes, or create a web of ideas. Every Prezi element is like a graphic in that you can make it bigger or smaller and turn it at any angle.
The presentation is what sets Prezi apart from other sources. At this website, you can link items to each other in the order you want them presented, creating a path. To move on to the next item, all you have to do is click, and it will be zoomed in on. Each element will be displayed individually or a few items in a group.
Perhaps the best thing about Prezi, though, is that it is fairly easy to use. When first accessing the website, you can watch a demonstration on how it operates or just navigate around the site yourself. Either way, Prezi is an amazing presentation tool, and I encourage you to try it yourself.


ARRA News Service: Nevada Voters Want E-Verify -- Will Their Sen. Reid Give In To Them?
Nevada Voters Want E-Verify -- Will Their Sen. Reid Give In To Them?
By Roy Beck, Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA: A Zogby poll found that it is difficult to locate anybody in Nevada who doesn't support the E-Verify program to keep illegal foreign workers out of jobs. Yet, Nevada Sen. Reid has been blocking a long-term reauthorization of E-Verify for months. Friday, he finally gave in and said the Senate can vote on the program, but insiders say to watch out for a parliamentary trick that will block the vote at the last minute on Tuesday.
The recently released Zogby poll was taken just before Senate Majority Leader Reid pulled a parliamentary stunt on the Stimulus bill and killed a requirement that all Stimulus jobs be run through E-Verify to ensure that illegal aliens don't get them. Zogby found that 77.7% of Nevada voters wanted E-Verify in the Stimulus bill. But Reid pulled it out. You have to wonder just who Sen. Reid is working for. Frankly, it looks like some powerful force is holding something sinister over Reid's head because his consistent support for illegal immigration is so unpopular with voters who he will ask to re-elect him next year.
Why would he endanger his popularity at home by working against enforcement and working for the outlaw businesses and outlaw unions that rely on cheap, compliant illegal foreign workers? Secret promises to some campaign contributors may be the force causing him to work against nearly four of every five Nevada voters, some suggest, pointing out that the state's gambling industry that is so cozy with Reid has not always worked in the most honorable ways for the public good. These are ugly insinuations, but they are the kind of conjecture that arises when a Senator works so hard against the interests of his voters who overwhelmingly tell pollsters they disagree with his actions. . . .
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) just announced a study that found illegal immigration costs Nevada $630 million annually. The state is looking in the face of big budget deficit. Its unemployment is over 9%. Nevada voters are growing restless and will become more so as they learn of Sen. Reid's preferential actions for illegal workers and the companies that hire them. Zogby found only 33.9% of Nevada voters approve of the amnesty that Sen. Reid recently promised that he will engineer through the Senate this year. And 76.5% of Nevada voters believe the illegal immigration favored by Sen. Reid has a negative impact on the state budget. The FAIR study concluded that Nevada taxpayers are paying $515 million a year to educate the children of illegal aliens, $85 million a year on unreimbursed health care for illegal aliens, and $31 million a year to incarcerate criminal illegal aliens. . . .
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Today, we're taking a look at Dragonite-GX (Dragon Majesty 37/70). Being a GX means the usual, improved stats, possibly better effects, a GX attack, gives out two prizes if KOed, and may be benefitted or hindered by other cards. Being a Stage 2 means it'll be slow to get in play outside of Rare Candy. 250 HP is the highest based on printed HP scores, though that still isn't safe enough of being OHKOed by a select few decks. Being weak to Fairy can vary its severity. And the retreat cost of three is hefty, though searchable with Heavy Ball.
Dragonite-GX has no ability, so it'll come down to three attacks. Dragon Claw costs L for 70 damage. For something that's cheap and doing this much damage without drawbacks is very generous. Gigs Impact costs WLCC for 200 damage, with the clause saying this Pokémon cannot attack next turn. Another decent attack whose side effect can be circumvented by switching out and re-promoting it to the Active. Dragonporter-GX costs CCC and puts three dragon Pokémon from the discard pile onto your Bench. For the most part, it doesn't care which stage it is, but for past cards, you cannot put a Break Evolution because part of the information in the card is missing. The deck would be clunky anyways if you've tried to put Hydreigon or Noivern inside a Dragonite deck.
So how do we use it? Both Dragon Claw and Dragonporter would be the focus. Dragonporter is needed to fetch dragon Pokémon from the discard pile onto your bench. Ideally supporting Pokémon that can help Dragonite. Altaria's Fight Song is probably the best partner with Dragonite-GX, as each one grants 20 additional damage. Considering Dragon Pokemon isn't hitting any other Pokémon for weakness, outside of BW-era Dragons, every little damage helps. With three Altaria, Dragon Claw now does 130 damage, enough to 2HKO anything. And Choice Band hasn't been attached yet! And since it cost only one energy, you can flush all damage with Max Potion and just use your manual attachment.
That's what I can think of when trying to use it; it'd be like picking up where Garchomp/Altaria left off but with more durability. There's no sanctioned Prerelease for dragon Majesty mostly because those packs are inside gift boxes. Assuming you host one, then being a Stage 2 could be a pain, risk one of the evolutionary line in the prize and actually drawing into it.
Dragonite GX (DRM 37) swoops into the Pokemon TCG out of the Dragon Majesty expansion set. This Stage 2 Dragon Pokemon has 250 HP and three attacks. Dragon Claw, for a single Lightning energy, does 70 damage. Giga Impact does a whopping 200 damage but prohibits Dragonite from attacking on its next turn. Dragonporter GX – for three Colorless energy – allows you to put any three Dragon Pokemon from your discard pile directly onto your bench.
I have seen players use the Dragon Claw strategy with Choice Band, smacking away for 100 damage and then using Max Potion to remove all damage its opponent inflicts during the next turn (in the 1,004 attacks I tracked from August 28 through October 20, only 14 of them did 250 or more damage). Giga Impact does good damage but requires at least one Water energy. And Dragonporter seems like it might be a great way to put three really good evolution Pokemon on your bench without having to invest in the resources to normally evolve them (this could potentially free up a dozen card slots in Stage 2 decks if you're counting Basics, Stage 1's, and Rare Candy).
I've only gone up against Dragonite GX twice, and I've beaten it both times. No top finishing deck at any major tournament has played even a single copy. Dragonite GX joins the long list of Stage 2 GX Pokemon that just can't compete in today's meta.


This map of Alaska, the largest state in the United States, lets you discover the region's incomparable wilderness and compelling history. Features parks, forests, and wildlife refuges, showing both existing sites and proposed areas. Published in June 1975 as part of the "Close-up: U.S.A." series, with two articles including "Preserving America's Last Great Wilderness."


Homa Mistry, CEO, Trail Blazer Tours India, takes a very despair outlook to the omission of tourism and hospitality from the Union Budget 2017-18. "Tourism has been going through very tough times and we have realized we are on our own. I did not have any expectations from the government and as always the Budget did not have anything for the tourism and hospitality industry. I am just not surprised," he says. Mistry remains cautious about the upcoming Goods and Services Tax. "We are however looking forward to the Good and Services Tax (GST) Bill which too shall be more of a bomb dropped on us," he adds.


We covered a number of topics. I wanted to make a review of the session. Here are the major topics. THIS NOT THE BERNIECRATS CHICAGO CHAPTER ENDORSING HIS CANDIDACY OR THE CHAPTER SPEAKING FOR HIM. All content on this document can be seen by viewing the FB Live videos.
Would Senator Biss work to amend the state constitution to get rid of the flat tax?
Would you support policies to help organic AG in the state of Illinois?
He mentioned how it is important to go after large AG conglomerates. That there needs to be a movement of people against giant conglomerates as a whole to be successful. He did mention later that the state needs to "rethink" our policy of subsidizing Agri-business.
"The answer to your question is Yes." He did add he does not feel like full legalization of recreational marijuana is "around the corner" but the people need to push the legislator in that direction. He also mentioned that the most important step is to "aggressively" expand the medicinal marijuana law that we have now.
Speaking on criminal justice reform.
Wants former convicts to be on "a neutral playing field" when they leave prison. Also spoke on how the state of Illinois can sue formerly incarcerated people to pay back the cost of their incarceration. He helped pass a bill to stop that and the governor vetoed it.
On supporting a bill on capping rent increases.
He supports the bill even though he does not represent the city, where the bill was introduced. He does acknowledge there is a lack of affordable apartments in the suburbs.
He supports it. He also supports a $15 minimum wage that does not include the "tip credit" condition. He acknowledged that it would be need to be a gradual increase. While he did say we need to wait to see how its impact in California, Washington and New York, he feels it will ultimately work out there. He is introducing a bill that pays government subcontractors $15 an hour. He wants a minimum wage that goes up with inflation. He also wants to grow organized labor in the state.
On the ACA. More specifically would he support a Medicare/Medicare expansion for all Illinois residents?
"Yes, of course." Later he said if the ACA is repealed the state would have to "step in to that breach." Also, that we need to push Gov. Rauner to take a stance on this to see if he plans to do nothing if the ACA is repealed.
Asked about a state bank.
Did not feel he was informed well enough on to make a decisions on one way or another. He did say that he hears good things and that it is an intriguing idea. He does acknowledge that the state's money being in large financial institutions is damaging the states. He did say he likes the concept "100 percent" but would need to know more about it.
Asked about financial transaction taxes.
"Financial transaction taxes are the best tax." He admits it couldn't pass now, but we need to make the case in Illinois. He also said that it is better to do on the national level because there is more money to be had and companies can't leave one state to move to another to avoid the tax. He says the fastest way to raise money from taxes is to close corporate tax loop holes, then reworking the tax code to tax a higher percent at the top AND then passing a financial transaction tax.
Said raising money from labor unions was important and the way they give money is through their PACs. Wants to raise his money from individual voters. Emphasized that a campaign financed by individual contributions would help create a "movement people are invested in." Did mention that he wouldn't refuse money from people that he didn't agree with, but would let them know he doesn't agree with them.
Who does he endorse for Chair of the DNC?
Asked about if a voter can't vote against Mike Madigan, what can they do?
He says his elected official who is a Democrat can because Madigan has to get the votes from that official.
On the topic of minority communities being left behind and the disproportionately high unemployment in the African-American community.
He says Illinois must reinvest in those communities. The state needs to reinvest in schools, infrastructure and public work. Hiring teachers, construction workers and public works employees from those communities he feels is key.
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Q: Mapping field names to different schema field names in mongoose I am creating a backend service for a MongoDB database and I am using Mongoose to work on the db. Someone created all the fields with all lowercase letters on the database and if I don't create the schemas with the exact casing and I use camel casing on my schemas and interfaces so none of my queries work.
Is there a way to ignore casing on field names or specify the collection property directly when creating the schema?
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This is something I can do with golang mongo-driver:
type Company struct {
    ID        primitive.ObjectID `bson:"_id"`
    Name      string             `bson:"name"`
    Address   string             `bson:"address"`
    TaxNumber string             `bson:"taxnumber"`
}

All the field names on the collection are all lowercase but the struct field names are all PascalCase.

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A Sonic Forces egy platformjáték, amelyet 2017. november 7-én adtak ki (Japánban november 9-én) PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch és Microsoft Windows platformokra.

A történet
Dr. Eggman laborjában kezdődik, aki éppen egy nagyon gonosz tervet eszelt ki a világ elfoglalása és Sonic kiiktatása céljából. Később Eggman a robotjaival rátámad a város lakóira, de megjelenik Sonic és legyőzi a robotokat. Megtámadja Eggman-t is, de hirtelen megjelenik Shadow, a gonoszok oldalán állva, és elhárítja a támadást. Aztán megjelenik Zavok (a Sonic Lost World-ből), Metal Sonic, Chaos (a Sonic Adventure-ből) és egy új gonosztevő, aki még Sonic-nál is gyorsabb. Sonic megpróbálja legyőzni őket, de kudarccal jár és fogságba esik.

6 hónap telt el és Sonic barátai nem kaptak semmilyen hírt Sonic-kal kapcsolatban, ezért Knuckles vezetésével megalapítják az ellenállást, amelyhez egy fiatal újonc is csatlakozik. Hír érkezik, mely szerint Sonic még életben van, Eggman űrbéli bázisának börtönében, így Knuckles elküldi az újoncot a Space Port-ba egy űrhajóért. Ezalatt a városban Tails Omegat próbálja megjavítani, de a csatornából megjelenik Chaos és rátámad. Hirtelen megnyílik egy portál, amelyből előbukkan Klasszikus Sonic és megsemmisíti Chaos-t. Tails annyira örül Klasszikus Sonic-nak, hogy azt gondolta: a sors küldte őt.

A Death Egg-ben Sonic egy börtönben raboskodik, de megjelent Zavok és négyszemközt akar szembeszállni Sonic-kal. Sonic legyőzte Zavok-ot, aki viszont eltűnt, a Death Egg pedig elkezdett remegni, Sonic pedig futásnak ered. Később Sonic összefutott Avatarral, aki Sonic megmentésére indult, de most együtt térnek vissza a Földre. Az ellenállásnál nagyon örülnek, hogy Sonic újra köztük van. Knuckles elküldi Sonic-ot és Avatart a Green Hill-i fegyverraktári piramisba, eközben Amy felhívja Sonicot, hogy Silver a rejtélyes gonosztevővel harcol. Silver épp vesztésre áll, amikor megjelenik Sonic és elhárítja a támadást. A rejtélyes gonosz neve Infinite (aki eredetileg egy zsoldoscsapat vezére volt, ám erről a Sonic Forces képregényben és az Episode Shadow DLC-ben lesz szó), aki szembeszállt Sonic-kal, végül Infinite győzött.

Eközben Tails és Klasszikus Sonic Green Hill-ben vannak, amiképp Eggman és Infinite is, akik éppen a Phantom Ruby prototípusról beszélnek és arról, hogy Sonic életben van. Amint Infinite elment, Klasszikus Sonic rátámadt Eggman-re, aki később az Egg Dragoont is beveti. Miután Klasszikus Sonic legyőzte Eggman-t elmondta, hogy 3 nap múlva megvalósítja gonosz tervét, majd távozott.

Szereplők

Az ellenállás
 Sonic, a sündisznó – A játék főhőse, egy szuper gyors kék sündisznó.
 Klasszikus Sonic – Sonic egy másik dimenzióbeli változata, aki miután legyőzte a Phantom King-et (Sonic Mania), a Phantom Ruby hatására átkerült ebbe a dimenzióba.
 Avatar – Egy fiatal újonc, aki az ellenállás soraiban harcol. Nemét, faját és kinézetét a játékos szabja meg.
 Miles "Tails" Prower – Egy sárga két farkú róka, Sonic legjobb barátja.
 Knuckles, a hangyászsün – Egy piros hangyászsün, az Ellenállás vezére.
 Amy Rose -Egy rózsaszin sündisznó aki szerelmes Sonic-ba és az ő fegyvere a Piko Piko kalapács.
 Shadow, a sündisznó – Klasszikus Anti-hős, képes a Chaos kontrollra, és rakétacipőivel olyan gyors mint Sonic.
 Rouge, a denevér – Egy fehér denevér, az Ellenállás kémje.
 E-123 Omega – A Team Dark harmadik tagja, Eggman egykori robotja.
 Silver, a sündisznó – Egy szürke sündisznó a jövőből.
 Vector, a krokodil – A Chaotix detektíviroda főnöke.
 Espio, a kaméleon – Ninja képességei vannak, a Chaotix detektíviroda kémje.
 Charmy, a méh – A Chaotix detektíviroda légi felderítője, 8 éves.

Az Eggman birodalom
 Dr. Eggman – A játék főgonosz, egy 300 IQ-val rendelkező örőlt tudós. A mai gonosz terve hogy Infinite és a klónok segítségével elfoglalja az egész világot és megszerezte a 99,99%.
 Orbot – Eggman piros robot segédje.
 Cubot – Eggman sárga robot segédje.
 Infinite – Eredetileg egy zsoldoscsapat vezére volt, Eggman szolgálatában. Shadow megsemmisítette Infinite csapatát, valamint Infinite-t is legyőzte és lenézte őt. Infinite a Phantom Ruby erejének segítségével akart legyőzhetetlenné válni.
 Shadow, a sündisznó – Shadow át állt Eggman oldalán, a Sunset Heights nevű pálya végén Shadow le akarta győzni Sonic-kot, de megjelent az igazi Shadow és legyőzte az ál-Shadow-t.
 Metal Sonic – Sonic robot másolata, de ő is egy klón, és a Red Gate Bridge nevű pályán egy óriás Metal Sonic-kot kell legyőzni.
 Zavok – A Deadly Six vezére volt, aki bosszút akart állni Sonic-kon, amiért legyőzte őt és a csapatát (Sonic Lost World), de kiderült hogy ő is egy klón.
 Chaos – Egy vízember (ami egy átalakult Chao), aki valamiért Eggman oldalán állt, de kiderült róla, hogy egy klón.

2017 videójátékai
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Nintendo Switch-játékok
Platformjátékok
PlayStation 4-játékok
Sega-videójátékok
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What is the religion of Bernie Sanders?
Bernie Sanders is Jewish by birth and upbringing but is hardly one today. Born in New York to a Jewish father who immigrated from Poland and a US-born Jewish mother, Bernie Sanders grew up attending a public elementary school in the morning and a Hebrew school in the afternoon.
As is traditional for Jewish boys, Bernie Sanders celebrated his bar mitzvah - the coming of age ceremony that marks the age of accountability - on his 13th birthday.
During his early 20s, he traveled to Israel and even lived in a kibbutz - the Jewish collective community - for a few months.
As his adulthood progressed, however, Bernie Sanders drifted away from Judaism. At 47 years of age and 22 years after his first marriage to a Jew ended in divorce, he married a Roman Catholic (see Bernie Sanders background).
What does Bernie Sanders believe today?
Also see Islam: what the West needs to know and Christian God vs Allah.
Who is the God of Bernie Sanders?
See God of Justice and Jesus: Lord, Liar or Lunatic.


In reality, we're not asked that question much at all but, seeing as how I'm here and you're reading this, I'll give it to ya straight, with some FFFudge on it.
As FFF with SpeedFreaks, I've remained relatively anonymous inside the show, which helps avoiding bill collectors, FCC Fines and jury duty... but there have been those rarified occasions where I actually spill into an open mic during this gangly irreverent program sprung from the noggin of Kenny Sargent (not his real name either) 13 lucky years ago. Lately, I've had this nice leaky nod into airtime with my moniker gracing eccentric contributions of broken news (aka FFF News) that fill in the Non-Motorsports cracks at the end of the program.
As FFF I do twirl some of the "behind the scenes" production dials. Precious few "scenes" in radio you say? Sure, but we've also had three (3) different TV incarnations of this 'Freak Show' on SPEED, ESPN2 and MavTV and even a coupla pending spin-offs as well.
which often consists of striking back at seeming legions of other programs that covet our beloved SpeedFreaks name, stopping one particular in its tracks slated for a national network that would have glued our honorable title on a sure fire hit show about two guys on the run from blowing up their neighborhood meth lab.
Hint: Therein reveals the secret origin of the FFF condensation… came from it being too hard to say my F name three times on the air as our mock turtleneck law firm, an on-air "inside" joke in our wee salad days.
Precedent to SpeedFreaks, there were daring and resourceful adventures together building the Sarge's broadcast empire which grew from an NFL halftime field goal kicking competition vs. drunks on long deceased Pirate Radio, to being a blonde drawling Texan "Geysheen" on Japanese TV "Ax-Wave," (their version of MTV, replete with subtitles and Kenny's cowboy boots dominating the master shot), to Kenny running dogs through gauntlets on a Discovery show with great sets & bad audio called Zig Zag Alpha Dog Challenge, to snagging Emmy Nominations doing the only Pop Music Report on a major Los Angeles News station, merging that into weekend sports anchor and a whole Sargent Saturday Night to himself in prime time UPN TV to do "whatever" and getting another Emmy nom for it.
Prior to all that FFF practiced mostly leash law and entertainment management, plus some published editorial appearances in such printed (what?) works as Rolling Stone, L. A. Times, Performance Magazine, UK's NME, Creem, etc. and even rock concert merchandising. To date, Kenny Sargent holds the record for 307 mentions in Performance Magazine… for some reason.
People may laugh, but I also was the 'rock commentator' on a short lived KTLA-5 Calendar Show, hosted a rock program on KPFK radio called "The Skeptic Tank®" and could be seen on such programs as "Divorce Court" and at the end of the radio movie "FM" (look fast).
But came that fateful millennium model year 2000 when Kenny, tired of human restrictor plates, pink shirted producers pointing pejoratively at his earring before the cameras got hot at UPN, decided to be his own casting director and conjure SpeedFreaks in the kitchen sink (where most good clean ideas come from) and by 2001, SpeedFreaks the Speed Odyssey was well on its way. And is still in orbit as we speak.


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Zenyatta and 13Z celebrating their shared birthday. The Queen turns ten years old, and her little one is now a whole year old. It feels like yesterday that we were awaiting his arrival at Lane's End.


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Does Mattarella's election point to new Italian centrism?
February 9, 2015 Kevin Lees	Leave a comment
It's hard to escape the sense that last week's election of Sergio Mattarella as the successor to Italian president Giorgio Napolitano is one more data point bending toward the conclusion that Italian prime minister intends to transform his Partito Democratico (PD, Democratic Party) into a hegemonic movement akin to the 21st century successor to the old postwar Christian Democrats, pulling and dragging it ever to the center.
Renzi kept his choice for the Italian presidency closely held until almost the very last moment, and when he did reveal his choice, he ensured Mattarella's prompt election on the fourth ballot, the first vote of the presidential electors during which a simple majority was sufficient. He did so even after sometimes-ally Silvio Berlusconi indicated that he would back an alternative candidate, irking Renzi's partner on Italy's recent push for electoral and senatorial reform as well as labor market reform.
Today, it is clear that Renzi is the most talented Italian politician since Berlusconi emerged in 1994. Still, he's attempting to pull off an odd balance — the policy audacity of Margaret Thatcher alongside the political vision of Aldo Moro, with a hint of the Machiavellian power principles developed so many centuries ago in Florence, the city that Renzi himself governed until last February.
Politically, Mattarella's election is a clear victory for Renzi, who surpassed the majority he needed by a margin of 130 votes in the 1,009-elector body. It demonstrates, of course, that he enjoys the support of his historically fragmented party's legislators, avoiding the fiasco that beset his predecessor as PD leader, Pier Luigi Bersani.
Since Renzi took over the premiership one year ago, pushing aside his own party's more technocratic prime minister Enrico Letta, Renzi hasn't moved as quickly as he himself once hoped to institute major economic and political reforms that could pull Italy out of its economic doldrums, which began long before the current economic crisis and precipitate what has now become a triple-dip recession amid the highest unemployment rate in postwar Italy. Continue reading Does Mattarella's election point to new Italian centrism? →
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The United States PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act
CQ #267 - Janaury 16, 2023
by Anne Eglash MD, IBCLC, FABM
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The United States PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act extends protections for lactating employees beyond the 2010 Break Time for Nursing Mothers Law.
The Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act: What You Should Know
The US Breastfeeding Committee
What is the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act, and how does it differ from the 2010 Break Time for Nursing Mothers Act?
The US Congress passed the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act on December 29, 2022.
Prior to the PUMP Act, the 2010 Break Time for Nursing Mothers Act gave hourly employees the right to take lactation breaks during work. Employers were required to provide reasonable break times and private, non-bathroom spaces for lactating employees to pump. However, approximately 25% of lactating individuals were not covered by the Break Time Law, particularly salaried employees.
The PUMP Act expands the right to pump breaks in appropriate spaces for nearly all lactating workers. The PUMP Act, which goes into effect April 28th, 2023, also makes it possible for an employee to file a lawsuit against their employer when the law is violated.
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What do you think are true statements regarding the PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act? Choose 1 or more:
The PUMP Act does not apply to flight attendants or pilots.
The PUMP Act only covers those who identify as mothers.
There is a 3-year delay for railway workers and motorcoach service operators.
Pumping time counts as time worked if the employee is not completely relieved from their work duties during the pumping break.
The PUMP Act only applies to employers with more than 50 employees.
The PUMP Act provides protections for lactating employees for 2 years following the birth of the child.
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Correct Answers: A, C, and D (not B, E, or F)
The United States Breastfeeding Committee
Please visit https://www.usbreastfeeding.org/the-pump-act-explained.html.
IABLE Comment by Anne Eglash MD, IBCLC, FABM
The PUMP Act for Nursing Mothers, a step in the right direction, covers employees regardless of their gender. Employers with fewer than 50 employees are still covered under this law, although they may be excused from complying when providing the required break time and space would impose an 'undue hardship', which is expected to be very rare.
The Act provides protection for pump breaks in a clean private non-bathroom space for one year after the birth of the child, not 2 years, despite the fact that nearly all medical professional societies recommend breastfeeding for 2 years.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is also new legislation effective June 27, 2023. It provides additional protections for all lactating employees, including flight attendants and pilots who are not covered by the PUMP Act, as it guarantees a right to reasonable accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions such as lactation. Reasonable lactation accommodations include break times along with clean private non-bathroom spaces for milk expression.
A few issues are not addressed by the PUMP Act. Some lactating workers are at risk for loss of benefits if their paid hours drop below the requirement needed to retain benefits. The PUMP Act also does not address the use of wearable pumps while working without a break, although using wearable pumps should be considered a reasonable accommodation as defined by the Pregnancy Workers Fairness Act. All comments on these legislative changes are welcome!
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Jessica was a fellow at the Getty Centre in Los Angeles, based in the Getty Foundation, and holds an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art.


Is the Internet Forever? Will the Technology of Today Protect our Records?
Digitization is the byword. In our quest to store data and deliver it faster, are we missing something? I mean, is the internet forever? The American electrical grid is an engineering whiz of the twentieth century, yet should that go down, what shall we do? We know that natural electricity is in the atmosphere, but we have not captured that essence. Instead, wires and plugs are used. A truer method of capturing electricity has not been invented. In this respect, everywhere that we walk, it should be available (without wires etc), as well as the internet. There is mention of the "grid," and how a nuclear bomb can wipe out communications. And the experts are saying that the grid has grown old and is now in need of basic repairs. How about online banking where our financial transactions are revealed in great detail and passed along to such people as credit bureaus? Data breaches along the grid are occurring with great drama. Every city and state is on the grid. And, as genealogical records become readily available over the internet with the stroke of a key (if one is connected to the grid), who is to say that its expanding technology (with its bots and algorithms ) could not destroy our records in a momentous event just as Julius Caesar did when he flamed the Alexandria Library in 48 BC? So now we are encouraged to place data on the "cloud" in order to recovery it at any time or place. Really? May I inject here, that if the IRS edits your income tax returns, you better take paper copies of your records! Perhaps as we enjoy the new technological advances, we should factor in the possibility of another destroyer?