Guest numbers have taken a dramatic drop so the focus seems to be on quality rather than quantity – and it's all about friends. Family guests are forensically chosen and kept to a bare minimum. It is only closest comrades and confidants who are getting the golden invites. With the benefit of hindsight, I question the wisdom of this trend – friends come and go, family are here to stay, for better or for worse.
While the wedding parties are getting smaller, the bridal parties are getting larger. Can't choose your nearest and dearest? Couples are upping their numbers to four-plus bridesmaids and groomsmen. And of course there has been the introduction of bridesmen, to create a role of honour for the bride's male best friend.
Since the change in legislation last year the demand for Humanist ceremonies has exploded. Solemnisers from the Humanist Association are already almost completely booked out for 2014.
What day? What season? What forest?
Sunday weddings are becoming more and more popular, as are winter weddings – personally my favourite. There's nothing quite like dusky afternoons, heavy velvet, soft fur, candles and roaring fires. Think slow cooking, poached pears, mature Cashel Blue, baked quince and starry nights. Woodland ceremonies are also an emerging trend, with long wedding veils, flowing dresses, twinkling fairy lights and the crunch of twigs underfoot. Together with a lush green canopy overhead, the setting amounts to a very beautiful, natural, sophisticated affair.
Alternative venues such as barns, theatres, tents and warehouses are becoming "the" thing for 2014. Couples can personalise such places and create unique experiences for themselves and their guests.
Traditional canapés are still popular but there has been a rise in tapas – little dishes such as warm black pudding combined with chickpeas, raisins and pine nuts, cones of vegetable crisps and spiced nuts to accompany the "bridal Bellini".
These allow for beautiful presentation at the drinks reception, especially when they are served from a crystal drink dispenser. The cocktails provide an elegant talking point and encourage guests to mingle. They are a great alternative for those who don't love bubbly.
The whole idea of "Bring me food" platters creates an informal-feast mode of dining. Sumptuous sharing platters along with good bread, dips such as beetroot hummus and baba ganoush, contribute to a more communal experience around the wedding dining table, making everything much more convivial and natural.
Long tables, often humbly dressed with battered silverware, honest-to-goodness earthenware and cotton table cloths, are taking over from traditional round-table dining.
Quality ingredients well sourced and seasonal, served simply and elegantly is what it's all about for 2014. Side dishes and accompaniments contribute hugely to the overall experience.
There is a return to homemade favourites, chilled light soufflés, Eton mess and, believe it or not, traditional apple tart and good vanilla ice cream.
Couples are also opting for a cheese cake, reminiscent of Roman times. Beautiful tiers of cheese with apples, grapes, chutneys, membrillo, decorated with fresh herbs and flowers. These are usually served after dinner on big wooden boards where turophiles gather and feast.
Late-night snacking on something a little different has spread to encompass a myriad of options including barbecue burgers, pizza, hot dogs, even paella. People want a treat after all that dancing.
Stacked sponges left un-iced but filled and decorated with fruit and/or flowers are huge at the moment. They're rustic, natural, look homemade and are soaring in popularity, especially in Ireland where we like things to be a little imperfect and homey.
Little pots of marmalade, shortbread with the couple's initials, packs of homemade postcards of the bride and groom are all really sweet, thoughtful and time-consuming gifts, 50 per cent of which are left on the tables at the end of the night. Is all that effort worth it ?
These have definitely bitten the dust. A rare sighting since 2010, they're a bit too Celtic Tiger for today's couples. Personally I'm grateful for their demise – strawberries and marshmallows dipped in cascading chocolate were never my idea of a perfect hors d'oeuvre.
I know photographs are important but you want your guests to have a vague recollection of your wedding day.
Seriously, who wants to don an apron over the silk dress and carve beef for the masses?
Sambos and cocktail sausages served as a barman bellows, "Last orders".
Baby blues and pinks are fading away, making way for neutral palettes with metallic accents; rich berry tones with gold; cool teals and mint with alabaster white.


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43 Fun Things To Do With Your Kids On Long Island
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Growing up on Long Island, many children enjoy spending time at the beach, but since kids tend to get bored quickly, they are often looking for new and exciting things to do. For parents, keeping their kids entertained—and not by just letting them waste their days playing video games or watching TV—can be a full-time job. But since parents and kids often disagree about what constitutes fun, here are some ideas for family friendly things to do on Long Island.
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Spiral Genetics, Curoverse Ink Cloud Partnerships With Microsoft
Feb 10, 2016 | Uduak Grace Thomas
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Bioinformatics companies Spiral Genetics and Curoverse have signed agreements with Microsoft to make their respective bioinformatics platforms available on the company's Azure cloud.
Specifically, Spiral Genetics has deployed BioGraph, its proprietary method of compressing and querying large quantities of next-generation sequencing data, on the Azure cloud. Curoverse, meanwhile, is making Arvados, its open source platform for managing, processing, and sharing genomic and biomedical data available on the Microsoft cloud. Curoverse is also collaborating with Microsoft to develop shared tools for benchmarking genomics analysis pipelines that it hopes to release in April.
This is first time that Spiral's BioGraph solution will be available on the cloud, keeping a promise the company made when it launched the method late last year. Spiral's CEO Adina Mangubat said at the time that the company would offer both cloud and local installations of BioGraph.
Spiral developed BioGraph in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine. The solution features a merged graph storage structure and a specialized index that helps users manage and query NGS data quickly and accurately. Users can search individual and groups of genomes and they can compare multiple genomes to identify differences between them such as structural variants.
Moving BioGraph to the cloud was crucial for a number of reasons, Mangubat told GenomeWeb this week. Many centers generate large quantities of data and store them internally mostly for security reasons. But they also need to be able to share those datasets with collaborators working in multiple centers.
BioGraph is designed to reduce data footprint and coupling it with cloud infrastructure helps address the data movement challenge, she said. Furthermore, Microsoft is an ideal cloud partner because the company "has really focused strongly on all the challenges around data security and HIPAA compliance issues and all of those kinds of things that are really required for data of this kind of sensitivity," she said. "Azure is willing to take on liability for data in a way that we just haven't seen from other cloud providers."
Spiral plans to launch a beta version of BioGraph on the cloud in April that will provide an early iteration of the solution for users to try out at a discounted rate and provide feedback. The beta release will feature all of the algorithms and functionality that will be available in the final solution but will lack the "fit and finish" of the final release, Mangubat said.
Spiral will also release a number of general-purpose queries along with the beta. These will allow researchers to, for example, search for known variants associated with given disorders by sequence or by location across hundreds of individuals at once, Mangubat told GenomeWeb this week — this could be gene fusions or structural variants. Other sample queries that will be available at the beta release would let researchers search large cohorts for putative de novo variants associated with particular childhood disorders or they could search for sequences that have a particular range of allele frequencies in both cases and controls, she said. The company will also provide an application programming interface that lets users formulate their own research queries.
Spiral plans to demonstrate its cloud offering at a presentation during the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference in Orlando, Florida this week. Specifically, they will use it to search reads from more than 100 genomes including 17 platinum genomes at a rate of over 100,000 queries per second.
For its part, Curoverse decided to launch its software on Azure because of "clear demand" from customers, said CEO Adam Berrey. Some clients already had good institutional relationships with Microsoft and access to products and capabilities from the company that they wanted to be able to leverage for their genomics projects, he explained to GenomeWeb. Azure also offers a number of unique features that add to its appeal. For example, some users wanted more control over where their data was located. "Azure does a good job of keeping data in the country or region where you want the data kept," he said. "That was important to folks."
Adding to Azure's appeal is the fact that customers can rapidly deploy complex clusters on the infrastructure for projects. "A cluster computing environment like Arvados takes many servers to run the different capabilities so you have to spin up multiple virtual machines that run the different aspects of the Arvados system," according to Berrey. "Azure has some good capabilities for doing complex deployments like that."
Arvados' launch on Azure also coheres with Curoverse's business strategy, Berrey added. In addition to Azure, Arvados is also available on commercial clouds such as Amazon Web Services and the Google cloud platform as well as open cloud platforms like OpenStack.
"We don't have a SaaS model so we are not like DNAnexus or Seven Bridges where we run a central service [that] people load their data into," he said. "If you have an institutional relationship with Microsoft Azure and you've established pricing for that, we'll work with you to install Arvados into your Azure account and then you'll be able to load all your data into it and use all the features and functionality of Arvados."
In addition to retaining control over the data, customers also get "100 percent transparency" on pricing, Berrey added. "Curoverse sells support subscriptions so you pay us and we will maintain the software, provide technical and end user support and run the cluster for you." However, unlike existing SaaS vendors who roll in cloud costs along with software fees, "our rates are independent of what you pay for cloud storage and compute," he noted. There may be variations in pricing but the complexity and scale of the projects in question as well as the number of people that need support drive those changes, not the cloud infrastructure itself.
In addition to making its software available on Azure, Curoverse is also collaborating with Microsoft to develop new genomic pipeline benchmarking tools that will also be available on Azure. These planned tools will be designed to address two main issues affecting genomic analysis pipelines namely performance of the tools and the accuracy and quality of their results, according to Berrey. "We are working with Microsoft Research on a set of tools that will be open source and [available to] anyone ... to do more effective benchmarking and be able to more effectively compare pipelines with each other and see if the results they are getting ... are consistent," he said.
The partners plan to release their benchmarking tools at the end of April. They will implement them in the Common Workflow Language, which provides standardized specifications for describing tools and workflows in a way that makes it possible to run them in different compute platforms and environments that support the standard including Arvados.
GenomeWeb reached out to Microsoft for comments about these partnerships and its broader plans for the genomics space where it competes with the two main providers, Amazon and Google Genomics.
Microsoft declined to comment for this article but did say in an email to GenomeWeb that it intends to continue supporting genomics research. Last year, the Genomics Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz said that it was collaborating with Microsoft's research division to use Azure to analyze data from a number of ongoing genomics projects aimed at effectively diagnosing and treating cancer and other diseases.
Microsoft scientist David Heckerman said in a statement that the Azure cloud is the "ideal platform for genomic analysis because it provides reliable and scalable compute resources with a selection of machine configurations" and "enterprise-grade data security."
Spiral's BioGraph fits well with Azure because it lets users store genomes in a format with a small footprint, which allows collaborators and authorized users explore datasets without having to move very large data files physically, Heckerman said. In addition, "as a service layer on top of Azure, Arvados accelerates scientific discovery and clinical diagnostics using genomic and health data."
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Computing differentiation by difference - using an edge operator such as Sobel Operator in x and y directions. Display zero difference value in gray, i.e., I(x,y)=128, and other positive and negative values scaled and shifted accordingly in the range of [0, 255]. Compute these horizontal and vertical differential images separately. For 5*5 size filter, the differential operator (filter) can be designed as the weighted rows or columns of -1, -2, 0, 2, 1. These differential vectors can be further stacked with weights 1, 2, 4, 2, 1 for 5*5 filter. Pay attention to positive edges, negative edges and possible overflow and underflow in the filtered results. In the filtering, you will select certain constants to divide the results of convolution in order to prevent overflow of the filtered values.
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Thomas Bromley,  baron Montfort, également connu sous le nom de Lord Montford ( - ), est un homme politique britannique.

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Il est le seul fils et héritier d'Henry Bromley (1er baron Montfort) et Frances Wyndham, fille de Thomas Wyndham, sœur et héritière de Sir Francis Wyndham,  baronnet de Trent, Somerset. Il est élu au Parlement en tant que l'un des deux représentants de Cambridge en 1754, poste qu'il occupe jusqu'à l'année suivante, lorsqu'il entre à la Chambre des lords à l'âge de 21 ans après le suicide de son père. Son siège aux Communes est repris sans opposition par son beau-frère Charles Cadogan, qui est ensuite élevé dans la pairie lui-même en tant que  comte Cadogan.

Il achète une maison de sept chambres à Sunbury-on-Thames en face de la Tamise pour y séjourner lors de son voyage d'affaires à Londres en 1783. Plus tard, le capitaine Lendy fait l'acquisition de cette maison, qui est devenue Lendy Place. Une rue adjacente construite sur une partie de ses jardins s'appelle Montford Close.

Il meurt en , à l'âge de 66 ans. Son fils unique, Henry, lui succède comme baron. Lord Montfort épouse Mary Anne Blake, sœur du député Sir Patrick Blake,  baronnet de Langham, dans le Suffolk à Marylebone en 1772.

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Baron de la pairie de Grande-Bretagne
Décès en octobre 1799
Naissance en janvier 1733
Décès à 66 ans

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RTI: Enslaved Parrot
Above: A protest march against the proposed changes in the RTI Act, in New Delhi/Photo: Anil Shakya
The amendments to RTI law restrict citizens from taking power into their hands and curb the independence of Information Commissioners. Is it time to wake up and smell the coffee?
By Shivanand Pandit
The Right to Information (RTI) Act bestows on citizens the right to own and retrieve information from government organisations. It says that in a democracy, the government belongs to its citizens who are the potentates. The fundamental aim of the Act is to embolden citizens, ensure transparency and make the government liable for better governance. It has helped unearth many scams since 2005. Thus, the Act has helped citizens act as vigilance inspectors in discovering the dishonest deeds of the government.
In 2004, the first draft of the RTI Act was presented in Parliament. It recommended the appointment of Information Commissioners (ICs) to protect citizens' right to information. The Bill was discussed by a parliamentary committee over six meetings. In it, the chief commissioners were given the same status as secretaries to the government and other commissioners with joint secretaries. The RTI Act, 2005, had its origins in the apex court verdict which was pronounced in 1981.
However, amendments made to the Act in July 2019 were unfortunate. The Lok Sabha passed the RTI Amendment Bill, 2019, within three days of its introduction. Initially, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, the YSR Congress Party and the Biju Janata Dal opposed it. However, in the Rajya Sabha, they joined strength with the NDA. The Opposition parties failed to put up a united front and this gave rise to numerous questions.
The amendments announced placed ICs under the thumb of the government. Thus, one more autonomous institution will become an enslaved parrot.
The most controversial amendments are that the terms of office of the central and state Information Commissioners will be decided by the central government and their remuneration and allowances, along with the terms and conditions of service, will be regulated by the central government (see box).
Such void and spurious proposals indicate the underhand motive of the government and place the Information Commissioners under the capricious regulation of the government. The government also proposes to consider the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners differently on the grounds that they have dissimilar mandates.
The RTI was employed by citizens to get information right from the village ration shop to the RBI. Numerous questions were raised on demonetisation, non-performing assets, defence deals, electoral bonds, unemployment issues, the appointment of various judicious authorities, namely, Central Vigilance Commissioner, Election Commissioners, and so on. Now the government wants to amend this.
Prime stakeholders, the CIC and the ICs were kept in the dark and not consulted before introducing the Bill. The draft of the Bill was not made available to the members in advance and no time was allotted to them to study the pros and cons. Enough time was also not given to parliamentarians between the introduction and discussion of the Bill. Thus, the Bill's introduction undermines the provision of the Pre-Legislative Consultation Policy which stipulates public revelation and discussion on draft legislation. Due to this, MPs, citizens and the media did not know the contents of the Bill. All this raises questions about transparency.
The government's contention that the RTI is not a constitutional right cannot be upheld. Numerous judicial pronouncements of the Supreme Court have conferred this right on the citizens of the country. The ruling government is also of the opinion that the RTI Act was passed in a hurry in 2005. According to sources, all the provisions were critically evaluated by the Parliamentary Standing Committee after consulting governmental, non-governmental and related stakeholders in 2005. While the government argues that amendments to the Act are routine streamlining and rationalisation of procedures, the haste and mystery should not undercut citizens' right and obstruct itchy questions.
Many concerned citizens exhibited their discontent regarding the amendments and felt it was a bid to hijack democracy. It is sad that the government wants to weaken the strong legislation which gives power to citizens to raise the flag against the government in various spheres.
Citizens should wake up to save the RTI. They must write to the president, asking him not to sign the Bill. It is the responsibility of the citizens to safeguard the Constitution. In addition, we can force the government to focus on the real challenges faced by independent organisations and send the Bill to a Parliamentary Select Committee for in-depth verification. The government may amend a law but cannot stop a united movement. If we fail to save the RTI, this sunshine law will lose its gleam.
Sadly, there has not been sufficient public pressure on the government to abstain from murdering the true spirit of the original decree. Poor people need food and not transparency and freedom. They are aware that they have been deprived of their basic rights through a net of false promises based on documents that are mentioned, but never publicised. But as per the RTI, these documents were made available to all. This is the main reason why we must oppose any law which makes the RTI misleading and deceptive.
Although the UPA government gave a huge gift to the country in the form of RTI, it failed to market it properly. The BJP, on the other hand, grabbed the RTI as a golden opportunity to expose corruption and other cracks in the UPA government. However, the hasty amendments to the Act make us ask valid questions: Why is the government scared of RTI? Does it want to continue the autocratic style of governance? Is the government worried that the RTI is strong enough to topple it from power? There are many questions to be answered.
—The writer is a Goa-based financial and tax specialist
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But his cat decided to ingest the pill instead. He didn't know what the consequences would be, but he figured it was only one pill and it was late Friday and the vet was already closed. He assumed because the product was safe for him, it must be safe for pets too.
Sadly, his cat Sabel died 24 hours later: he found her the next morning in a puddle of her own fluids.
Cats lack an enzyme that allows the body to metabolize the drug, so they are very susceptible to acetaminophen toxicity. Last year, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center handled close to 300 such poisonings from around the country. Although less likely, the drug can also be toxic to dogs.
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Founder: Christy Innouvong-Thornton
Lao Isaan American daughter of refugees. She is the Founder of Tuk Tuk Box and co-founder of Courageous Kitchen, a 5013c food education charity for refugee communities. Her mission is to shape young leaders through culinary education. She first asked herself when she took the plunge and moved to Bangkok: How can I connect with my roots? Through cooking and, more importantly, providing for the people who reminded her so much of her family; she has continued to feed and raise awareness for the diaspora. Christy's favorite dish is her mom's Lao lemongrass sausage 'sai oua' with piping hot sticky rice.
Cofounder: Beatriz Aurelio-Saguin
Tuk Tuk Box is my "vehicle" of learning about my family's deep history and diving into my questions growing up: who am I? Where is my family from? What did my ancestors eat, experience, and how did they live?
Tuk Tuk Box to me is for all the Southeast Asians out there who have felt underrepresented this whole time. I want people to look at the stories we share, the food we create together, and the love we put into the brand and see themselves and also be inspired to talk about their culture, foods, and identities.
Growing up, my family always instilled in me their values through food. I learned to cook at an early age and was alway eager to learn new things. With much pleading to learn if I wanted to go into the culinary world, a family friend graciously let me learn the ins & outs of a small town restaurant kitchen when I was young enough to get a workers permit in high school (& to this day when I need food lessons). Stories were always a part of the kitchen experience and with every meal - my grandparents, family members, and parents always had an emotional connection to it. One of my first memories is eating rice, under the serving table, out of my uncles storefront's rice cooker in the Philippines when we visited them.
I am a daughter of immigrants whose family hails from Jakarta, Pangasinan, and the Visayan Islands in the Philippines. My parents migrated to the Southern United States and I was born in Florida. I grew up in an interesting intersection of the Bay Area in a town where Napa meets the North Bay Area. I went to undergrad at California State University, Sacramento and lived in the Sacramento food scene for almost a decade then went to graduate school at the University of San Francisco for my Masters in Public Health. I am completing my Masters degree in Global Health. Currently, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As I navigated my way through the nuances of being a first generation Southeast Asian American in school I developed a strong connection and passion for knowing what made my community what it was and finding out how it shaped me. I went to school and studied history, but my community's history was never told. Going through school and college, I learned early on our community was not represented greatly in all topics- especially that of health.
During my undergraduate college years, I helped in the development of specific Southeast Asian focused health programs where I worked on both Capitol Hill and the CA state Senate, and often lectured on the detrimental effects of model minority myth, wage gap, and war trauma in this country to anyone who would listen. I found that my passions lied in uplifting the Southeast Asian community, making sure we were not forgotten. In 2018, I graduated with a Masters of Public Health focused on policy, advocacy, and leadership and went on to pursue a Masters in Global Health, as well as work for a Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community serving organization where I focused on helping develop and implement (API) health policy and initiatives. With my goals and passion in my heart and mind, I was able to present on topics like Nutrition deficiencies in infants in Cambodia for the Consortium on Universities for Global Health, attend both the University of Peace of the United Nations in Costa Rica and La Salud Pública de Havana Cuba, and work with students from The Courageous Kitchen. Through my travels and global health experience, I still found a big gap and question I kept asking- why was there a lack of Southeast Asian focus in addressing health disparities? Why weren't we at the tables being a part of these discussions?
Fast forward to 2020- Christy and I had been talking for years about a "vehicle" for addressing social change on a grander scale. We always found ourselves asking- How can we bring our community voices and uplift them together? What can we do to bring Southeast Asians to the table? One question I always asked is - if people don't know our food, how would they even know who we are?
Operations Manager: Allison Barcelon
Second generation bicultural Chinese American with Spanish and Mexican ancestry. Food has been a consistent way for Allison to get in touch with the different parts of her mixed race heritage. She hopes to use food to connect with and empower others. Looking back, she remembers eating rice with everything - Even Shake 'n Bake pork chops! Her favorite dish is steamed catfish with fermented black bean sauce, served with rice of course!


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narcoterrorism
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun Terrorism carried out to prevent interference with or to divert attention from illegal narcotics trafficking.
noun Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.
noun the financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade
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narco- + terrorism; coined by former President Fernando Belaúnde Terry of Peru in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nation's anti-narcotics police.
And just as the reality isn't new, so likewise propaganda falsely accusing enemies of inolvement in narcoterrorism is a hoary old agit-prop trick.
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With the cessation of the 1980s civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the Honduran armed forces refocused their orientation toward combating transnational threats such as narcoterrorism and organized crime.
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Psalmodia  – chór Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie został powołany do życia w 1988 roku w Instytucie Liturgicznym na Wydziale Teologicznym. Na podstawie dekretu Wielkiego Kanclerza PAT ks. Kardynała Franciszka Macharskiego dnia 31 maja 1996 stał się chórem Papieskiej Akademii Teologicznej, a nie tylko zespołem instytutowym. Od samego początku działalności chórem dyryguje maestro Włodzimierz Siedlik.

Dyrygent chóru. Współpracownicy
Włodzimierz Siedlik w latach 1995–2010 sprawował funkcję dyrektora artystycznego Chóru Polskiego Radia w Krakowie, jest także dyrygentem Chóru Akademickiego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Ukończył z wyróżnieniem Akademię Muzyczną w Krakowie oraz podyplomowe studia z zakresu emisji głosu na Akademii Muzycznej w Bydgoszczy. Jest pracownikiem naukowym Uniwersytetu Papieskiego i prowadzi zespół chóralny od jego powstania. Z Psalmodią zdobył szereg nagród dyrygenckich, sam jest m.in. laureatem Krajowego Konkursu Dyrygentów w Poznaniu w 1990 roku, a w roku 2001 otrzymał nagrodę Jerzego Kurczewskiego za całokształt osiągnięć w zakresie chóralistyki.

Na przestrzeni lat z zespołem pracowało wielu asystentów dyrygenta, m.in. Joanna Gutowska-Kuźmicz, Agnieszka Trela, Robert Kucharzyk, Katarzyna Śmiałkowska, obecnie funkcje te pełnią Łucja Nowak i Ivan Vrublevskyi. Funkcję akompaniatora pełni Marek Pawełek. Wszyscy asystenci ukończyli Akademię Muzyczną w Krakowie.

Od roku akademickiego 2001/2002 chór nie jest tylko jednostką wydziałową, ale mogą w nim śpiewać studenci i absolwenci innych kierunków, również z innych uczelni. Z tego powodu, aktualnie w skład zespołu zaliczyć można wielu studentów i absolwentów Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej oraz pozostałych uczelni krakowskich (UP, ASP, AM, UEK).

Osiągnięcia
W ciągu dwudziestu lat działalności chór uczestniczył w szeregu festiwali i wygrywał rozmaite konkursy. Wymienić należy między innymi takie osiągnięcia, jak:
 1993 – Ogólnopolski Turniej Chórów Legnica Cantat - nagroda za najlepszy debiut, nagroda za najlepszą technikę wokalną i nagroda specjalna - Srebrna Lutnia
 1994 – XXIX Międzynarodowy Festiwal Pieśni Chóralnej w Międzyzdrojach – I miejsce i złoty medal w konkursie Współczesna Muzyka Chóralna
 1995 – Międzynarodowy Festiwal Muzyki Cerkiewnej w Hajnówce – wyróżnienie
 1995 – Międzywojewódzki Konkurs Chórów w Krakowie – II nagroda
 1996 – XXXVI Międzynarodowy Festiwal Muzyki Religijnej w Loreto (Włochy)
 1996 – Międzywojewódzki Konkurs Chórów w Krakowie – I nagroda
 wyróżnienia i nagrody podczas konkursów kolęd w Myślenicach, konkursach muzyki chóralnej w Niepołomicach, Krakowie oraz Łodzi
 2009 – IV Festiwal Chóralny Cantate Domino w Krakowie – I nagroda
 2009 – XI Małopolski Konkurs Chórów w Niepołomicach – Złota Struna i Nagroda Specjalna burmistrza miasta
 2010 – zajęcie trzeciego miejsca w 41. Turnieju Chórów Legnica Cantat
 2012 – Małopolski Konkurs Chórów - Niepołomice - Grand Prix
 2013 – XIV Międzynarodowy Festiwal Chóralny "Ad Gloriam Dei" w Pińczowie - Grand Prix
Od początku chór bierze udział w życiu kulturalnym Krakowa (Tynieckie Recitale Organowe), oraz w wydarzeniach uczelnianych oraz kościelnych (np. przygotowanie papieskich pielgrzymek w 1991, 1997, 1999 i 2002 roku). Zespół ma na swoim koncie wiele niepowtarzalnych doświadczeń muzycznych. Wymienić tu należy:
 2008 – otwarcie XII Wielkanocnego Festiwalu Ludwiga van Beethovena – IX Symfonia
 2008 – wykonanie Mszy Koronacyjnej W.A. Mozarta
 2008 – współudział w XII Letnim Festiwalu Operowym w Krakowie – operetka "Baron cygański" J. Straussa
 2009 – oprawa artystyczna narodowych uroczystości na Wawelu z okazji dwudziestej rocznicy upadku komunizmu w Polsce
 2009 – udział w koncercie z okazji nadania honorowego obywatelstwa Ostrowca Świętokrzyskiego kompozytorowi Henrykowi Mikołajowi Góreckiemu
 2009 – udział w Międzynarodowym Festiwalu Muzyki Kameralnej w Zakopanem "Muzyka na szczytach"
 2010 – oprawa artystyczna uroczystej mszy św. na otwarcie Roku Chopinowskiego 2010 w Krakowie w katedrze wawelskiej. Chór wykonał wraz z Capellą Cracoviensis pod dyrekcją Jana Tomasza Adamusa Mszę F-dur Józefa Elsnera i utwory Moniuszki, Nowowiejskiego oraz samego Chopina w chóralnych opracowaniach Jana Węcowskiego
 2010 – oprawa artystyczna uroczystego pogrzebu Pary Prezydenckiej dnia 18 kwietnia w kościele Mariackim oraz w katedrze wawelskiej w Krakowie
 2010 – udział w III Festiwalu Muzyki Filmowej w Krakowie jako część chóru Pro Musica Mundi - koncert pod batutą Tan Duna wraz z Leszkiem Możdżerem oraz wykonanie oprawy muzycznej trzeciej części filmu Władca Pierścieni połączonej z projekcją – dyrygent – Ludwig Wicki.

Zespół współpracuje z instytucjami i zespołami z Krakowa. Wymienić tu należy przede wszystkim: Chór Polskiego Radia, Filharmonię Krakowską, Operę Krakowską, Orkiestrę Młodej Filharmonii, Orkiestrę Akademii Beethovenowskiej, Capellę Cracoviensis, Sinfonieta Cracovia.

W 2008 roku chór został przyjęty do międzynarodowej federacji chóralnej Pueri Cantores. Tego samego roku do życia został powołany Krakowski Chór Męski pod dyrekcją Marcina Wróbla (debiut na konkursie w Niepołomicach 4–5 kwietnia 2009, I nagroda finansowa w kategorii chór męski i Złota Struna). Nieco później zadebiutował Krakowski Chór Żeński, którym kieruje Katarzyna Śmiałkowska (debiut – 28 czerwca koncertem w Zespole Klasztornym Sióstr Sercanek w Krakowie). W skład obu zespołów wchodzą chórzyści i chórzystki Psalmodii, a próby odbywają się w dodatkowych godzinach pracy.
Chór koncertuje za granicą – m.in. w Szwecji (kongres Federacji Pueri Cantores), w Niemczech i Belgii (w ramach ministerialnego programu Promocja Polskiej Kultury Za Granicą).
W sezonie artystycznym 2009/2010 zespół wykonał ponownie Mszą Koronacyjną oraz – po raz pierwszy – Requiem W.A.Mozarta (w ramach V Dni Muzyki Kościelnej – wydarzenie zarejestrowane przez TVP).
28 lutego 2010 roku, wraz z Capellą Cracoviensis, chór zainaugurował obchody Roku Chopinowskiego w Krakowie.

Płyty
W 2002 roku chór nagrał płytę "Te Deum Laudamus", na której znajdują się utwory polskich kompozytorów, muzyka cerkiewna oraz inne dzieła chóralistyki. W 2007 roku, zespół wraz z Chórem Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego i Chórem Akademii Rolniczej w Krakowie nagrał dzieła Henryka Mikołaja Góreckiego. Szczególnie ważne było zarejestrowanie utworu "Pieśń Rodzin Katyńskich" – po raz pierwszy w historii. Płytę wydała wytwórnia Pomaton EMI w 2008 roku.

W 2011 roku na płycie "Totus Tuus" zarejestrowanych zostało dziewięć utworów Henryka Mikołaja Góreckiego, wśród nich światowa premiera fonograficzna: "Pod Twoją obronę".
Skład Chóru, biorący udział w nagraniu, to blisko 70 osób, dyrygował maestro Włodzimierz Siedlik.
Nagranie miało miejsce w kościele OO. Redemptorystów pw. Matki Bożej Nieustającej Pomocy w Krakowie

W 2012 roku Chór wydał kolejną płytę składającą się wybranych dzieł Stanisława Moniuszki. W nagraniu, udział brało blisko 55 chórzystów, czworo solistów: Anna Filimowska-Wolfinger – sopran, Elżbieta Król-Dryja – alt, Piotr Szewczyk – tenor, Maciej Drużkowski – baryton, organy – Marek Pawełek (wykonawca dwóch utworów organowych znajdujących się na płycie), dyrygował maestro Włodzimierz Siedlik. Nagrań dokonano w kościele świętych Augustyna i Jana Chrzciciela w Krakowie. Wydawcą płyty jest Stowarzyszenie PASSIONART.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Chór Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie "Psalmodia"
 Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
 Stowarzyszenie PASSIONART

Zobacz też
 Chóry akademickie w Polsce
 chóralistyka

Chóry akademickie
Chóry w Krakowie


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Dow, S&P 500 end at highs after data, stimulus in place
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the end of the trading day on Aug 1, 2013 in New York City. The Dow and S&P 500 ended at record highs on Thursday, with the S&P 500 rising above 1,700 after strong data on factory growth and as central banks said they would keep monetary stimulus in place. -- PHOTO: AFP
Aug 2, 2013, 6:00 am SGT
http://str.sg/ZTLp
NEW YORK (REUTERS) - The Dow and S&P 500 ended at record highs on Thursday, with the S&P 500 rising above 1,700 after strong data on factory growth and as central banks said they would keep monetary stimulus in place.
Stocks were broadly higher, with all 10 S&P 500 sectors in the black, though growth-sensitive financials, industrials and consumer discretionary shares registered the biggest gains. The Dow transportation average rose 3.2 per cent, also closing at a new high.
Google shares, up 1.9 per cent at $904.22, and Apple , up 0.9 per cent at $456.67, were among companies giving the S&P 500 its biggest boost, along with financials. JPMorgan Chase shares gained 1.5 per cent to $56.54 while Bank of America was up 2.4 per cent at $14.95.
Data on weekly United States (US) initial jobless claims and national manufacturing came in better than expected. The Institute for Supply Management index of national factory activity for July rose to its highest level since June 2011.
"The talk we've been hearing that the second half is going to be better than the first. We saw some follow-through on that.
The ISM showing expansion in a lot of different areas is one of the main reasons why Wall Street (was) rallying today," said Mr Brian Amidei, managing director at HighTower Advisors in Palm Desert, California.
Global central banks remained accommodative on Thursday, with European Central Bank President Mario Draghi reiterating the ECB's rates will remain at their present level or lower for an "extended period."
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve, in its latest policy statement, gave no hint that a reduction in the pace of its bond-buying program was imminent, as the economy continues to recover but is still in need of support.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 128.48 points, or 0.83 per cent, at 15,628.02, a record close. It also hit a new intraday high of 15,650.69. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 21.14 points, or 1.25 per cent, at 1,706.87, also a record. The benchmark S&P surpassed 1,700 early in the session after failing to break above that level on Wednesday.
The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 49.37 points, or 1.36 per cent, at 3,675.74. The index hit a fresh 13-year high.
The drop in initial claims, coupled with Wednesday's better-than-expected ADP employment report, bodes well for July payrolls data on Friday.
Yelp Inc surged 23.2 per cent to $51.50 after the consumer reviews website posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and forecast third-quarter revenue above analysts' expectations.
Pioneer Natural Resources was the S&P 500's biggest percentage gainer after reporting second-quarter results. The company's shares jumped 12.5 per cent to $174.15, after hitting an all-time high of $180.99 earlier in the session.
On the downside, Exxon Mobil Corp dipped 1.1 per cent to $92.73, the biggest drag on the Dow and the S&P 500, after reporting a sharp drop in quarterly profit on lower oil and gas output production and weaker earnings from its refining business.
After the bell, shares of LinkedIn rose 6.3 per cent to $226.51 after it reported a big jump in quarterly revenue.
Volume was roughly 6.85 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, above the average daily closing volume of about 6.4 billion this year.
Advancers beat decliners on the NYSE by about 1.6 to 1 and on the Nasdaq by about 2.6 to 1.


Gardens should not be stagnant. They are living creations that change on their own and need to be physically controlled or guided.
Mar. 26, 2009 3:40 p.m.
Plants that become too large should be cut back or removed. When plants or part of the garden becomes an eyesore, make changes. As lifestyles change, the garden must also change. It, like the interior of the house, it reflects who you are.
Assess the garden on a regular basis. How regular depends on time, commitments and the love of gardening. Start with the trees and shrubs. Are they attractive and healthy or are they crowded and overgrown? Were they initially planted in the correct location?
The majority of trees and shrubs are small when they are planted. A common mistake is to plant them where they look good at pot size as opposed to mature size. As the plants grow and mature they outgrow their location and at best look awkward. At worst, they rub against the house, or make the house and yard, appear very small. It is not unheard of to have one large tree dominate the back yard.
Trees can be pruned on a regular basis to keep them smaller. Large trees can not be made smaller and still be attractive. Cutting trees back to large stumps, pollarding, is unattractive and detrimental to the tree. The top of spruce trees should not be cut off to make them shorter. This opens the tree to insects and weather. As a result the tree is more likely to come down in a wind storm than trees that are left intact. If a large tree is a problem, remove it at the ground.
Shrubs are more versatile plants springing back from all sorts of neglect. While they do best if they are pruned on a regular basis it is possible to take an old, half-dead shrub and rejuvenate it over three or four years. The old parts of the plant must be systematically removed to allow new growth to form.
It is hard, next to impossible to rejuvenate evergreens such as junipers and cedars. If their needles or scales die they turn brown, detracting from the plants naturally green foliage. The brown needs to be removed which can leave the plants strangely shaped and unsightly. Leave the dead in cedars until mid-summer as they might produce new growth. Bottom branches that die, either due to lack of sunlight or become lunch for deer, will not grow back. The plants will always look leggy. While it is possible to camouflage this during the growing season. In winter the trunks are visible.
As gardens in this area are stark from October until April, it is important that the mainstays, trees and shrubs are attractive.
Once the trees and shrubs have been assessed, look at the flowerbeds and pots. Were they attractive last year? Would they look better if the beds were larger? Do they take up too much time? Do the colours of the plants compliment the house?
If the beds were attractive all season they can be left as is. If they only bloomed for two of the four months, then new plants should be added, ones that bloom at the appropriate times. The size of the flowerbed makes a difference in how they look and how easy they are to plant and maintain. A narrow or strip flowerbed usually only holds one height and variety of plants. When that plant is not blooming, it isn't attractive. The narrow strip is also more likely to dry out than a wider one.
Landscapers recommend that a flower border be at least five feet (1.5 metres) in depth. This allows for a multitude of different plants each with their own height, shape and blooming time. When planted properly, border will always have an area of interest.
The same concept of larger is better works for pots. The larger the pot, the more plants, the more soil and the less often it needs to be watered.
As for the colour of the flowers, choose ones that complement the house.
Time is a big factor. If there isn't time to take care of the plants, remove them. Plants that are neglected are not attractive. It is better to take good care of a little area than neglect a large one.
Planning now makes future decisions easier.


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Q: CORS works in chrome but not firefox, angularjs I'm trying to use angularJS with a Jetty backend.
Preflight CORS requests are working fine in chrome but in firefox I get this CORS error:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://remote.machine:8080/api/v1/provisioning/users/current-user. This can be fixed by moving the resource to the same domain or enabling CORS.
The Headers for the options request are as follows:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:06:12 GMT
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, PUT, POST, OPTIONS, DELETE
Access-Control-Max-Age: 3600
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Authorization, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=eyv8cpnnfphy1b0121uzt293y;Path=/
Content-Length: 0
Server: Jetty(9.2.2.v20140723)

The angular request is set up as follows:
$http.get(AS_API_URL + '/provisioning/users/current-user', {
            headers: {
                'Authorization': 'Basic ' + base64EncodedAuth
            }
        });

For some reason these headers work fine in Chrome but not in Firefox, does anyone have a clue as to why? Do I need to provide more info?
EDIT:
Musa was right about the Access-Control-Allow-Headers being malformed.
I edited the Jetty Server so the header now reads:
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Authorization, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept

I give my thanks to you Musa, you just saved my day :)

A: To expand upon Musa's answer in the comments, Firefox is blocking the request because the following header has the header twice instead of once:
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Authorization, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept

should be changed to
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Authorization, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept

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