Many governing bodies at the federal, state and county level make development funds available to their constituent entities in the form of grants. These grants can be applied for by municipalities to augment tax collections in satisfying whatever needs may be covered under the grant guidelines.
But these funds are not equally distributed because they require application, justification and sometimes require matches. There are a myriad of charitable grants that are made available, some recurring annually, others only appearing as funds are secured. I firmly believe that the potential to earn considerable funding is enhanced by dedication and effort in discovering, persistently pursuing and diligently applying for available funds.
So when Councilwoman Susan Poage earlier this year proposed the formation of Township-sponsored committee to pursue grants and organize current grant efforts by our town volunteers, I fully endorsed the idea and anticipated enthusiasm from her fellow township leaders. Councilwoman Poage even had a professional grant writer from our community willing to volunteer her time to help lead this initiative. Much to my disappointment, the response was tepid and to-date has not realized any traction in our Township. The identification of available grants can be daunting, is time consuming and can be a complex pursuit. We missed two state DOT grants in 2014 and 2017; each typically totals about $200,000 annually. We could have paved a lot of roads with $400,000! One individual alone may succeed but a committee of people dedicated to the task, with assistance from an experienced leader, multiplies the potential success. We have people in our community – experts in their fields – willing to assist our current volunteer efforts, and secure more funds so our taxpayers can benefit from more services from around town. Why would such an amazing idea not be met with immediate warmth and acceptance?
Last February, Governor Phil Murphy announced an increase in the amount of Municipal Aid grant awards in New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), thanks to the recent gas tax increase, which more than doubled the amount of funds for local road and bridge safety improvement projects. Berkeley Heights received $275,000 in awards, which positioned us in a tie with Winfield Township for 15th among the Union County recipients, while neighboring townships such as Summit, Cranford and Union received twice as much or more. Not only do we lag behind our neighbors in the amount awarded, but we are yet farther behind due to having completely missed applying for any monies in 2017.
While the reasons for such variability may be sound, I feel strongly that Berkeley Heights can do better. These are funds that we have paid for and are there for the asking. We owe it to our residents to do everything possible to ask for the most we can get.
Like Boonton, we should aspire to deliver the best for our residents and together with Angie Devanney as Mayor, Stephen Yellin as Town Councilman and knowing we already have Councilwoman Poage's support, I pledge that, if elected, we will make every effort to deliver these kinds of results for Berkeley Heights.
The $28 million-turned $32 million Redevelopment Plan is going forward. We need to have new, independent-minded Council members that can ensure the project is managed as transparently and efficiently as possible.
The project already went $4 million over budget before a shovel was even put in the ground. This despite repeated statements from members of the governing body that they would hold the cost of the project below $28 million. In addition, the previous, publicly promoted statements the Mayor and Council made about the average tax increase residents would face were wrong. This is why Councilwoman Susan Poage (the only Democrat on the Council) voted "no" to spending the additional $4 million.
We fully support the need for a new Police Station, Emergency Dispatch Center, Town Hall, and Library, but are disappointed by the manner in which the Mayor and Council have handled the process. Many residents feel they have never even been informed about the project, let alone asked for their input and support, leading to an erosion of trust and confidence in township government.
Our Plan: We need to ensure the municipal complex projects stays within budget and is built in an appropriate timeframe.
Angie's tremendous record as the Berkeley Heights Township Administrator, along with Alvaro's 25 years of business experience experience and Stephen's in-depth understanding of Berkeley Heights issues, means they can hit the ground running in making sure the Municipal Complex project is handled much more effectively going forward. We will work hard to identify every possible way to hold down the cost of the project while finishing it in an appropriate timeframe; we will strive to achieve savings below the Guaranteed Minimum Price (GMP).
Another priority is to ensure the complex and the surrounding areas fit in with the town's Master Plan. The complex should also showcase environment-conscious features such as solar panels. In the future, we need to make a much stronger effort to actively educate and engage the public from the beginning of projects such as these, and to be more transparent with the process and the details.
The Union County Improvement Authority (UCIA) entered into a shared agreement with the Borough of Roselle and Roselle Board of Education to construct a Mind and Body complex consisting of a community center and early childhood school. The UCIA sought a Public-Private Partnership to realize cost savings, eliminate change orders that occur in traditionally publicly bid projects through a Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) and also provided for the lowest possible financing rate.
This is a similar process used for the Berkeley Heights Municipal Complex whereby EPIC Construction was selected and awarded the project and a Developer's Agreement was signed. The developer does not determine the scope of the project. The project price is based on architecture (rectangular building vs unique shape), programming (how much square footage for offices, meeting rooms, etc.), materials used (wood vs. brick, granite vs. marble, etc.) and how the building is outfitted (technology, furniture, etc.).
Programming is determined by the Governing Body. In Berkeley Heights, it is the Township Council who made the final decision about the scope and size of the project therefore setting a framework for the cost of the Municipal Complex. In Roselle, the Borough Council and Board of Education made the programming decisions and the UCIA selected a developer.
My husband, George and I were not the developers on the Roselle Mind and Body Complex, but rather served as part of the professional team for the developer, as listed in the official Request for Qualifications submission to the UCIA on January 16, 2016 by the developer. Contrary to the misinformation being spread by my opponent's supporters, we had no involvement with any other aspect of the project, including any decisions made about the cost and management of the project.
Residents deserve a campaign focused on facts and issues that affect our community, not relying on misinformation and fear-driven innuendo. I urge Mayor Woodruff and his team to join Stephen Yellin, Alvaro Medeiros and I in committing themselves to that kind of campaign.
Week 3 Question: How would you improve upon the process of selecting board members and volunteers to Township appointed committees? What do you think the County's role in local government should be?
How would you improve upon the process of selecting board members and volunteers to Township appointed committees?
A larger, more diverse group of volunteers should be appointed. There are many residents – myself included – who have applied to serve on these committees but have not been chosen by the Mayor. Meanwhile, others have been appointed to two or more committees, many of whom are vocal supporters of the Mayor and his running mates. This imbalance must be corrected if all residents are truly going to be welcomed to participate in local government.
We must do a much better job in recruiting residents who may be excellent committee volunteers but haven't been asked. Westfield's new Mayor, Shelley Brindle, and her team created a townwide, online application drive for committee volunteers, and several hundred residents responded for the first time! We should do the same thing, and put an easily accessible application on our website instead of forcing residents to file a paper request with the Clerk's office. This will also create a much larger "talent pool" for other volunteer opportunities, including the Fire Department and the Rescue Squad.
What do you think the County's role in local government should be?
If elected, my responsibility will be to put Berkeley Heights residents first. That means building a stronger, more effective partnership with Union County in order to get back more of our tax dollars, and that is what Angie Devanney, Alvaro Medeiros and I will do if elected.
This approach has had real results: just 15 years ago, an all-Republican Township Committee worked with an all-Democratic county Freeholder Board to create Snyder Park, instead of letting it become a 259-unit housing complex. One of the key people in making that happen was then appointed by that Republican Township Committee to be our Business Administrator: none other than Angie, whose record showed that having a (D) or (R) next to your name doesn't matter when it comes to making local government do things better.
Union County's role should be to act as a partner in our efforts to win every possible grant, develop reasonable shared service agreements, and support programs that protect the environment and promote inclusion. This partnership must be a two-way street, however. We must ensure our residents get a voice at the table and are treated as fairly as any other town, and that is a goal Angie, Alvaro and I will strive for if elected.
Each week leading to the November 6 election, the candidates running for Berkeley Heights Township Mayor and Township Council have the opportunity to answer question(s) that will be run in a series by TAPinto Berkeley Heights.
Week 3 Questions: How would you improve upon the process of selecting board members and volunteers to Township appointed committees? What do you think the County's role in local government should be?
There is considerable value that board members and volunteers can bring to the leadership and the Township as a whole. For that reason, the process to select members must be entirely transparent and that every effort must be made to be inclusive in member selection; the community should feel encouraged and welcome to volunteer. I was selected when I applied for membership on the Environmental Commission and for that, I am grateful. However, I also know that others who have applied for other committee memberships but were not selected without any reason given.
I am also a strong proponent of diversity and of collaboration. There are many people in Berkeley Heights with considerable skills and abilities or who are extremely creative and have out-of-the-box solutions. All of them can devise and help implement solutions to Township challenges that the leadership may otherwise not come up with. We should do everything possible to advertise committee membership, add new committees and include committee activity, reports and proposals in the public agenda, as well as in our strategic planning. Moreover, no one should ever feel that they are not welcome nor encouraged to join, nor be unaware of the opportunity to be an active volunteer.
In 2017, nearly $18 million, (24%) of our Township taxes were paid to Union County, an average of over $3,000 per household. Many of the major thoroughfares in our Township are county roads – Mountain Ave., Springfield Ave., Plainfield Ave., Union Avenue and Snyder. Many residents in Town are Union County employees and we have a substantial share of the Watchung Reservation footprint here in town. Clearly, the county is a major stakeholder in the Township and most certainly the Township deserves to benefit from our contribution to the county.
I believe it is incumbent upon our local government to coordinate with and work closely with the county to help defray costs that would otherwise drive our taxes higher. These may be take the form of library and recreation grants in which Berkeley Heights has inexplicably trailed our neighboring Townships – or completely missed available grants completely – or coordination on street signs, street lights and other means of improving the quality of commuting within the Township. Moreover, as recycling has become less convenient due to the limitations of what our Township Recycling contractor can now collect, Union County recycling events (many of which are held at the Nokia Labs Building), are an ever-more relevant solution to our recycling needs.
Finally, the county can serve as a resource for beneficial development and help to coordinate cost-saving shared service agreements with other county Townships. Together with Angie Devanney and Stephen Yellin, I pledge, if elected, to work much more closely with the county than what has been evident in recent years. We firmly believe it is foolhardy to ignore the county's potential role as a resource for Berkeley Heights. Rather, the county can be another valuable means to solving the challenges we face.


In 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared September as National Sewing Month, and what better way to celebrate than with a Girl Charlee Fabrics Sewing Contest? Sew up something fun with any Girl Charlee Quatrefoil Collection Fabric, then send one or two pictures of your finished project to gcblog@girlcharlee.com and you could win a $75 GirlCharlee.com gift card!
Sew up any project that you want...we want to see it all as long as the project is made with Girl Charlee Fabrics Quatrefoil.
All projects must be submitted by 11:59 PM PST, October 4th, 2015, and one winner will be announced on October 5th. Please share you projects on social media using the hashtag #girlcharlee and #gcsewandwin. Good luck!
Does it have to only be the Quatro foil fabric or can we mix and match?
Hi Kayla! As long as there is quatrefoil, you can absolutely mix and match contrasting fabrics :) Thank you!
Do you have to submit your entry on both email and social media?
Hi Emory! Posting on social media is a fun way to share your projects with others, but entries must be submitted via e-mail :) Thank you!
Thank you! Also, is it only one entry per item?
Hi Emory! Yes each item is one entry, but you can enter as many items as you like :) Thank you!
Could I enter the same item several times?


'As a mom of teenagers and confidant to many of their friends, I understand first hand many of their struggles and hopes for a bright future. A point in the right direction, an introduction to a potential employer, a hand with a resume, means so very much. Extrapolating that out to teens across the country who don't have support and many times are in critically sad situations, motivated me to create Kares.ca.


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$900 Million Ponzi Scheme Involves Grocery Network
A Miami Beach-based businessman and philanthropist was charged with fraud for conducting a $900 million Ponzi scheme where investors were sold securities that would fund his investment firm's grocery diverting business, the SEC said yesterday.
By Michelle A. Samaad | Updated on April 21, 2010
A Miami Beach-based businessman and philanthropist was charged with fraud for conducting a $900 million Ponzi scheme where investors were sold securities that would fund his investment firm's grocery diverting business, the SEC said yesterday.
The SEC alleged that Nevin K. Shapiro, founder and president of Capitol Investments USA, Inc., sold investors securities that he claimed would fund Capitol's grocery diverting business. Shapiro told investors that the securities were risk-free with rates of return as high as 26% annually. Instead, Shapiro allegedly used investor money to pay for other unrelated business ventures and to pay for a $5 million home in Miami Beach, a $1 million boat, luxury cars, expensive clothes, gambling, and season tickets to sporting events, the SEC said.

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Telaga Waja River is one of the longest track Bali White Water Rafting that located on east Bali, the river flows along the expanse of green fields, valleys, hills, cliffs and waterfall. Telaga Waja River is close to the biggest temple of Bali, the Besakih and cut the foot of the highest mountain of Bali that Mount Agung on the west side. With it's specific current, clean water, natural views and soft rapid. Telaga Waja River has becoming more and more popular among the adventure seekers on Bali to experience the thrill of holidays which combination between culture and nature.
The length of the White Wate Rafting track in Telaga Waja River is about 13km and can be reached about 2 hours. You can enjoy the beautiful scenery along the river with the rapids very challenging even at the finish point we will encounter rapids as high as 5 meters. Despite having rapids level 3-4 this river remains safe for beginner as long as participants comply with all instructions of the guides.


Choosing the right domain name for your business is a critical part of the startup process. There are many different elements that could impact the effectiveness of your domain, and by considering all the variables up front, you'll have a much better chance of securing the best, premium domain name from the very start.
Of course, while all those tips remain valid and important, things in the online world rarely stay the same for long. So, in this installment, we're going to take a look at 5 more things that you should consider when choosing a domain name.
if you offer a specific service in a localized area, consider making the location part of the domain name. LasVegasHeatingCooling.com or ArizonaArts.com can help you get in front of customers in those areas, and the names are very memorable and relevant to the products or services.
This can also have some impact on the search engine rankings, as well, because when people search for a local HVAC company or art dealer, they're likely going to type their location into the search bar in hopes of getting the most relevant results.
It's extremely important that you take the time and do the research to ensure that the name isn't already trademarked or copyrighted by someone else. You also need to look into the history of the domain name and ensure that it wasn't, at any point, owned by unscrupulous types.
Some domains have been owned by questionable companies who may have previously built a ton of links to it that all originate from questionable sites. If you buy a domain that is in this situation, you're going to have an uphill battle to remove those links and start ranking well in the search engines.
On the other hand, you may find a domain that already has a significant number of valuable links pointing at it. In which case, you can leverage that authority to get a head start on your new business.
Okay, you've got a short domain, you aren't using any hyphens, it's even fairly memorable. But can you pronounce it? And can you pronounce it properly?
Word of mouth can still affect a lot of your business, and that means that when someone recommends your site to someone else, it's got to be something that rolls off the tongue. This is tied very closely to the rule about being memorable, but the actual pronunciation has implications for your overall brand. If you have to use a pronunciation key to make sure that everyone knows how to say your name right, you've already done something wrong.
The easier it is to say, the easier it is to think about, and then we're more likely to remember it when the time comes to visit a website.
Keywords in the domain name can definitely have an impact on your search engine rankings, but not to the extent that they once did. Google doesn't put as much emphasis on exact match keywords as it once did, but remember: the best optimization strategies focus on targeting the user as much as it does the search engine.
That means if someone is searching for specific words, they'll be more likely to notice your site if those words appear in bold in your domain name.
Also, it's important to remember that you may offer more than one product or service, so if this keyword doesn't encapsulate your entire company, then you may want to avoid it.
So, if keywords aren't the best choice for your business, maybe an association with that keyword could be more effective. Say you want to sell books online, you could get a domain name like buybooksonline.com but that's a little bit on the nose and doesn't leave a lot of room for creative marketing and branding. booksellersellingbooks is likely overkill and clearly trying to fit in too many keywords.
Why not go for something that is associated with your industry, products, or services, but not tied directly to the keywords. ChapterHeading.com would have some wonderful branding potential while still being closely related to the products in question. CreasedSpine.com may be good for a used book store.
There are a lot of variables tied to choosing the perfect domain name for your company. Keep some of these guidelines in mind and you can get your business started on the right foot.
Having a keyword in domain name might be really helpful in search ranking but it's not that easy to get good domain name like that. Many or mostly most of the domain names which we think are usually taken. So it is better to think different domain name and name should be easy to remember and needs to be catchy to users. dotcom domain names are the best but dotcom domain name values are getting higher and getting a good domain name in dotcom is not easy. It is better to try nTLD's if they helps to get good domain name.


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24th September, 2016, 4:23 pm
Angela Rayner: "Women must be at the forefront of unifying our divided party"
Angela Rayner
This is the full text of the speech given by Angela Rayner, shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, at Labour Women's Conference today.
Thank you, Harriet for that wonderful introduction.
Conference, it is an honour to be here today at the annual Labour Party Women's conference, speaking to such a diverse crowd of politically active and engaged women.
I want to thank all the women on the stage, and those backstage, in the front row, and you all at the back there, for everything you do for our Party and our movement. And I want to say a special thanks to my mum who is also sitting here today at her very first conference.
You are all our community leaders, running the food banks, providing the childcare, sitting in the council meetings, campaigning for our NHS, fighting for decent pensions, struggling for equality in the workplace, running the household budget and running our hospitals.
All this and so much more.
Our Party has never been very good at saying thank you. So I want to say a sincere thank you to you all today.
Conference, in 2015, I was proud to make history as the first ever women elected as a Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne.
It took just 183 years and an all-women's shortlist for us to achieve that breakthrough in my constituency.
But we have more work to do right across the country to get more female Labour MPs, more female Labour councillors and even more female Labour Mayors.
So that's my first challenge to you all today for the future: get out there, let's see who amongst you can become the first Labour woman to become a directly elected Mayor. More female Labour leaders in local government, more female MPs, more female Mayors.
Like this hall today, my constituency is filled with inspirational women who inspire and motivate me every day. I want to give a special mention to the amazing women in my home towns of Tameside and Oldham. They are strong and mighty northern women.
One inspiration is our very own Dame Margaret Beckett MP, who was born in Ashton and cut her Labour teeth in the local CLP. God knows what it was like in those days, Margaret.
But since then, Margaret has become our first ever female Deputy Leader and the longest serving female MP in the House of Commons.
It is to women like Margaret that we owe a huge debt. For blazing the trail, for showing the way, for inspiring all of us women who follow, to reach ever higher.
That's why I am proud to announce that Margaret's home town of Ashton will be celebrating all of her achievements with the launch of our Dame Margaret Beckett Prize for Public Speaking for teenage girls.
Encouraging our young women, giving them confidence, spurring on our young women to become involved in politics and the life of our communities.
Inspiring us on – something Margaret has spent her whole life doing.
This leads me back to my mum and why I wanted her to be here today. My mum inspires me and I'd like to tell you all why.
My mum was born on the largest council estate in Europe and was one of twelve children. They lived in poverty. And when I say poverty I mean poverty in every sense.
She cannot to this day read or write and was bullied at school.
They barely survived let alone lived on what money the family had.
My mum never felt loved and didn't know how to love, hugs, cuddles and any signs of affection just wasn't the norm.
Throughout her life she has faced hardship and struggle. She tried her best to be a good mum and I know that now. I haven't always given her an easy ride.
It's fair to say my upbringing was only marginally better than my mum's. Mainly because of the interventions by the state and the advancement of equal rights in Britain.
My mum would be the first to admit she didn't know how to love us kids or how to care for us. Let's face it she didn't have the right role models or upbringing herself.
But you know what, she taught me that we have to keep fighting and improving the system. We have to break down the barriers that exist still to this day for many woman in our country and across the globe. She taught me through her own struggles that I was just as good as everyone else and to stand tall and be proud of who I am.
Speaking personally, this has been a bit of a whirlwind year for me.
I went from being a humble new backbench MP, fighting on behalf of my constituents, to the Whips office, then Shadow Pensions Minister, helping to champion the cause of the inspiring WASPI campaigners, and now the Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Women and Equalities.
You could not make it up.
I have a lot of people to thank. They know who they are. But I want to thank most of all my partner and my three children for the love, devotion and, occasionally, even the problems they have brought me. They are my rock. Without them I am nothing.
Throughout my journey they have kept my feet on the ground as a proud, working class mum, who also happens to be a Labour MP.
But I am an MP for a purpose. To change society for the better, striving for equality and justice for everyone, with all my heart.
Having my background and upbringing I know something about equality of opportunity.
And when it is missing.
It is missing today in every walk of our lives.
I have only ten minutes to speak and I've used up half already. I cannot do justice to the many crimes and struggles woman still face today across the UK and globally. I am sure you will be discussing some of these challenges and possible solutions during the workshops today.
Gender inequality affects us all. It affects our whole family and our society. We can never give up or stop fighting.
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
Giants like my mum who survived the abuse she has suffered and help break the cycle.
Giants like Margaret and Harriet that have blazed the trail for us in parliament.
Giants like the woman in this room and across the world that continue to fight and won't accept injustice and misogyny.
That same misogyny now rears its ugly head on social media. It is awful, hate-filled and cannot be tolerated. I condemn all abuse, harassment and intimidation unequivocally. On and offline.
Campaigns, such as 'Reclaim the Internet' are helping women to fight back.
Because these trolls want women to be seen and not heard, to keep quiet and know our place.
Well, they know what they can do with that.
Conference, today we have a female Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street. The second female Prime Minister of our country. I congratulate Theresa May.
But I cannot celebrate her arrival.
Nor can I allow our own failures to go unnoticed. The Conservative Party, the party of privilege and inequality, has stolen a march on Labour. Britain's greatest ever force for equality and emancipation.
Our Party of votes for women, of equal pay,the Sex Discrimination Act, the Race Relations Act, gay marriage and equal rights for the LGBT community. The Party of all-women short lists. The Party, where, down the road in Manchester, more than 50 per cent of our councillors are now women.
This is our proud legacy.
But conference, we need to continue the fight. Because we still have a long way to go before women can achieve true gender equality in our society and in our very own Party.
That is my second challenge to our movement we, the women, must show the way for Labour in the future. Women must be at the heart of our Labour movement. And it is up to you, in this conference, to make that happen. No-one else is going to do it.
Conference, none of us are fooled by Theresa May's one nation spin, and all her empty rhetoric about a meritocracy.
She has been at the heart of a failing Tory Government for the past six years.
Labour is now looking to the future. We have a new Leader, with a renewed mandate. And I congratulate Jeremy on his historic victory.
Our members have spoken and we must now hear them.
We are Her Majesty's Opposition. We have serious work to do.
So our Labour family must now come together and move forward as one Labour.
Because we all know that families sometimes fall out. Often, there are faults on all sides.
But in my experience, it is the women who invariably bring families back together.
That is my third challenge to this conference.
Bring back our Labour family.
And conference, it is us women who must be at the forefront of unifying our divided party. We have the unique skills and experience which can help bring our Labour family together.
Our passion, our energy and our knowledge must ensure that we hold the Tory Government to account. Every single day of the week.
Otherwise, the families who most rely on us to get on in life, will never forgive us if we let them down now.
We cannot turn inward again, while the Tories bring back grammar schools, destroy our hard-won rights in Europe, close down thousands of nursery schools, and privatise what remains of our public services.
Conference, I know what poverty feels like, I felt it as a child. My parents were lucky, they were supported by the safety net of a welfare state created by a Labour Government. Labour has been there for my family, cradle to grave, time and time again.
But that very same welfare state is now facing an ideological attack from this Tory Government.
Under the cloak of Theresa May's warm words about One Nation and meritocracy, they are intent on turning the clock back even further.
Worsening inequality. More food banks. Profit-driven privatised public services. Tax cuts for the richest. A bonfire of worker's rights, whether they are male or female.
Life is becoming harder for the majority of people. And it will be women and children, who will be hurt the most.
Our mothers. Our sisters. Our daughters.
We have a moral, political, and historic obligation to work together on behalf of working people.
It is our new mission.
We are one Party.
One Labour.
Now it is up to us to bring it together.
Tags: Harriet Harman / Margaret Beckett / Angela Rayner / Sex Discrimination / labour women's conference / Theresa May /
Angela Rayner is deputy leader of the Labour Party, Shadow First Secretary of State, party chair, national campaign coordinator and MP for Ashton-under-Lyne.
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I first met Gabriel at the Sunday Times in 1976. We had a few drinks together in the bar. I then watched him win The World Olympiad Championship in 1976 in Monte Carlo. He is one of bridge's characters. He speaks a bunch of languages and is an entertaining dinner companion.
He usually brings his own two bottles to the restaurant carried in a special wine case. He visited Florida and Maggie and I went down to eat at Bellines a rather fancy restaurant in Coconut Grove Miami.
We started with champagne and then went on to the excellent wines he had brought. He ordered an extra course along the way "When I take fish as a main dish I always take another course" he explained. While the bill was rather a lot I had fortunately won just enough money at rubber bridge that day to cover the cost!
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import helpers.models
import model_utils.fields
import taggit.managers

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On the Occasion of Mananeeya Eknathji JanmaShati Parva, an All India Janjati Netrutva Sammelan was organised at kanyakumari from 14-17 Sept 2015. The theme was "Sanskriti aur Vikas Saath-Saath - Hum Karenge Ek Saath".
Through Sammelan it's observer that how much unity there was underneath such beautiful variety. It's follow up will be in 3 areas: Shiksha, Svaasthya and Sanskriti.
On the Occasion of Mananeeya Eknathji JanmaShati Parva, 'Satyakam' - new training centre building was inaugurated by Mananeeya Sri P. Parameswaranji, All India President of Vivekananda Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra at Kanyakumari Vivekanandapuram Campus on 14th September 2015, on the same TITHI of Yugabd 4995, i.e. before 122 years (11 Sept 1893), Swami Vivekananda gave the historical message of Universal Brotherhood at Parliament of World Conference.
Ma. Balakrishananji, All India Vice President of Vivekananda Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra, performed the Gou-Pooja. In this occasion senior Life-workers of Vivekananda Kendra also present.
SatyaKam known for his truthfulness & fearlessness in Indian culture, pray the new training centre building in his name strengthen the character of Life-workers, who delicately work for the spreading & inculcating message of the Swami Vivekananda in the society with Man Making - Nation Building Yajna.
You can also be part of this Yajna by becoming Patron of Vivekananda Kendra Pratisthan, more detail can be found here.
"Our life is projected by the basic bodily needs for sustenance such as food, and shelter is necessary to protect oneself from heat, cold, wind, rain and against dangers. These are the basic wants and vital necessities.
But apart from wants, there are cravings in the life of a man and they are different from needs. Desire for a particular type of food, sexual hunger and such other hankerings are cravings and not wants. Sexual hunger is described as a biological need, but it is not a thing without which man cannot live.
Wants are most essential for survival, but cravings are not; one can live without a craving. One will not die if one does not have costly, attractive dress or savings or house or similar possessions. These cravings are innumerable and a permutation and combination of them presents a good picture. They arise out of a sense of possessing or owning something."
40% on advance payment (packing & forwarding not included).
30% for the 6 months from the date of dispatch. (if payment is done after 6 months (even after 1 day - no discount will be given).
Recalling the contribution of Swami Vivekananda in awakening India and introducing the Indian philosophy of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world, the Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Nirmal Singh said that Swami Vivekananda is revered as one of the most prolific thinker as well as philosophers of present era.
The Deputy Chief Minister was speaking at a function organized by the Vivekananda Kendra today at SNS Public School to commemorate Swami Vivekananda's historical address delivered on 11th of September 1893 in the World Parliament of religions in Chicago. The day is being observed as the Universal brotherhood day to highlight his ideology and contribution.
Dr. Singh said that Vivekananda is credited with raising interfaith awareness and strengthening the concept of nationalism in colonial India and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion, adding that Vivekananda's ideologies find universal acceptance cutting across the barrier of religion and region.
Exhorting upon the teachers to draw inspiration from the unique Guru-Disciple relationship of Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda in the history of spiritual master which helped Swami Vivekananda to remove his doubts and stride on the spiritual path, he said, "being a teacher myself I feel that we have an pivotal role to ensure that our students think logically and apply positive reasoning in every field, ".
"The younger generation can be the best torch bearers of the legacy of Swami Vivekananda and reinforce a sense of pride in our traditions, ethos and cultural heritage", he elaborated and added that religion is not just a way of worship doctrines or rituals rather it's a manifestation of our understanding the divinity within us and the translating the same it into good deeds.
The Deputy Chief Minister said that India is on the threshold of change under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and we are creating a niche in the socio-political and economic arena. He maintained that India has it's strength in its spiritual heritage and a beautiful amalgam of different culture and ethos.
On the occasion, a symposium was also held on the topic "Swami Vivekananda's contribution in awakening India" wherein students from various schools participated and highlighted the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda.
Radhika Choudhary, Anjum Akhtar and Haroon Yusuf were adjudged first, second and third respectively in the competition and were felicitated by the chief guest.
MLA Jammu West Sat Sharma and Shiv P. Raina were the guest of honour on the occasion while Virendrajeet Singh, Chairman Deen Dayal Upadhaya Research Institute, New Delhi and Chairman DBN Trust presided over the function.
G. C. Sanhotra and Dr. O. P. Gupta functionaries of Vivekananda Kendra Jammu exhorted upon the masses to follow the teachings of Swami Vivekananda to make India Vishwa Guru, so that universal brotherhood based on mutual respect and tolerance can be achieved.
Swami Vivekananda carried the message of our Motherland to the whole world. Eternal message of our motherland is 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'. The message of brotherhood. In this modern age he delivered the message in most powerful words. West was very haapy and eager to receive the message.
To commemorate Swamiji's speech at Chicago, Vivekananda Kendra celebrates Universal Brotherhood Day on 11th September.
This year a week long programme for youth was conducted by Nagpur branch of Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari. Inspiring thoughts of Swami Vivekananda were taken to youth through the competitions like elocution, P Pt/Cliptivity presentation, Bharatiya Samskruti Pariksha and Street Play. The whole event was planned by young karyakartas of Nagpur branch. From their discussion sprang up an innovative idea of Cliptivity ( a short message giving film ) competition and it got very good response. Towards the end of the week a 2 days workshop was organized on the subjects 'Be a Hero' on the 1st day and 'Be and Make' on the 2nd. Shri Sandeepkumar Salunkhe - an IRS officer - who is presently working as Deputy Director of NADT ( National Academy of Direct Taxes ) handled the sessions on both the days and boosted the spirit of the youth to excel in their personal career as well as to devote their time & energy for the society. 400 students from 30 colleges participated in these activities.
Culmination of this week long activities was a programme organized on the occasion of Universal Bratherhood Day. Programme started with prayer followed by introductory remarks by Nagpur Nagar Sanchalak Dr Hedawoo, superintendent, Govt. Medical College. A song 'Dharma ke liye jiye . . . ' was sung by sanskar varga students. On this occasion Kendra Activities were introduced to the audience. The book DARSHAN DHYEYASAKTICHE brought out by Vivekananda Kendra Marathi Prakashan Vibhag depicting ma Eknathji's reminiscences in Marathi written by Shri Arun Karmarkar was published in the programme. Chief guest Shri Sandeepkumar Salunkhe emphasized on the importance of positive thinking and using the energies for the betterment of the society in his inspiring talk and video clips. Shri Sandeepkumarji, Dr Hedawoo and Nagpur Nagar Pramukh Sushri Gauri Kher distributed the prizes to the winners of the competitions. Mementoes were bestowed upon the young karyakartas of Kendra who have passed secondary and Higher Secondary Exams. The programme ended with vote of thanks and Shanti Mantra.
Two Universal Brotherhood Day programs are organized in Kamrup bivhag at Guwahati today by VK Branch Guwahati. One at Ugratara Nagar, Guwahati with 270 attendance and other by Initiative of a Kendra Karyakarta Smt Minati Dey Ulubari Vistar Pramukh in a NCRT Teacher Training Program with 70 teachers from different districts of Assam. Swamiji's Chicago address was read and discussed amongst the teachers after deliberation on the Importance of the day by Smt Minati Didi.
In Ugratara Nagar Swami Devaswarupananda Maharaj Assistant Secretary R.K.Mission Guwahati was chief guest. In His deliberation Pujyapad Maharaj ji narrated the background of Swamiji's journey to the World Parliament of Religion, its impact on West and East. Dr. Saraju Das Former HOD Dept of Philosophy Handique Girls College, an Educationist and Social worker was Guest of Honour. She emphasized on Swamiji's call to the youth of India. Three books were released.
A group of ten Karyakartas presented a chorus on the occasion.
The follow up program with five yoga satra in Guwahati was announced.
On 10 September for the first time in newly formed Kamakhya Nagar UB Day was celebrated. Attendance was 28. Man. Meera Didi was present as speaker. Swamiji's life from Naren to Swami Vivekananda, His realization in Sripad Shila the solution of National problems as Raising the dormant spirit and organizing the mass and the purpose of attending WPR was the core of lecture.
One more program on Universal Brotherhood Day had been organized at Vasistha Nagar, Guwahati on 13 September 2015.


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Selena Gomez Just Announced on Instagram That She Had a Kidney Transplant
By Lily Herman
Photo: Selena Gomez/Instagram
On Thursday morning, Selena Gomez made a huge announcement on her Instagram: She said she laid low over the summer because she'd undergone a kidney transplant due to her lupus, a chronic autoimmune condition that can affect many parts of the body.
The singer and actress said she'd received many questions about where she had been during the past few months, especially as she continued to release new music but didn't seem to be promoting it. "I found out I needed to get a kidney transplant due to my Lupus and was recovering. It was what I needed to do for my overall health," she explained. "I honestly look forward to sharing with you, soon my journey through these past several months as I have always wanted to do with you. Until then I want to publicly thank my family and incredible team of doctors for everything they have done for me prior to and post-surgery."
Gomez saved the best thank you for last, praising her friend Francia Raisa for giving her a kidney. "There aren't words to describe how I can possibly thank my beautiful friend Francia Raisa. She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me," she wrote. "I am incredibly blessed. I love you so much sis."
Gomez also recommended that supporters check out the Lupus Research Alliance to learn more about the autoimmune condition. According to the alliance's website, scientists estimate that roughly 1.5 million Americans of all ages are living with the disease, which has no cure and can take months (and in some cases, years) to diagnose. While Gomez has known about her lupus for years, she didn't address it publicly until 2015, sharing that she'd undergone chemotherapy to manage her symptoms.
More on surgery:
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Brandon coined the term, 'Visual Logic℠' — the art and grammar of bringing meaning and emotion to content — to describe the multidisciplinary approach he and his team bring to information and learning design.
Brandon's work has been showcased at the Museum of Modern Art. He has taught Data Visualization and Design in the Master Of Science in Applied Analytics program at Columbia University School of Professional Studies.
Brandon holds a B.A. in International Animation from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. He has studied Design Thinking at MIT, the Art of Data Visualization at New York University and has a certification from the University of Texas at Austin in Data Visualization.
Brandon once ran over 80 miles in a month...now he's just tired.
"Living the dream, always chasing another."


← Best Romantic Read Award – whoopeeeee!
Women Aloud and free podcasts – yup, free!
I was proud to be asked to take part in an innovative project – an charity anothology of short stories in audio form in support of the Helena Kennedy Foundation: Women Aloud.
We had a great launch in London at the Women's Library, with a stirring speech from a young woman who had been helped through university by the Helena Kennedy Foundation. Her education had been interrupted through her family circumstances, and HKF gave her the extra support she needed to succeed.
As you can see, there are loads of great authors on this CD, and it makes a great Christmas present. Buy it here.
In support of National Short Story Week I took part in a podcast hosted by broadcaster Sue Cook, and with writers Rowan Coleman and Sophie King. Sue Cook usually puts her excellent writing programme, The Write Lines, out on BBC Radio Oxford, but she agreed to create a special podcast for National Short Story Week, and you can listen for free, here. I took part in the 'Women's Fiction' podcast but, as you'll see, there are great podcasts about the British Short Story and Children's Fiction, too.
The National Short Story Week website is really worth looking at, by the way – an amazing free resource.


(1931- ) US author whose work makes effective use of his years in the Air Force (1951-1955) and in the engineering profession (1957-1970), and reflects in its pragmatic tone – though not in its plotting, which can be pixillated – his training in behavioural psychology (he has a 1974 PhD in speech). Much of his fiction can be described as Survivalist, insofar as military tales set in a Post-Holocaust or Ruined Earth America necessarily inhabit survivalist terrain; but the violence of his better work is relatively restrained, and the libertarianism (see Libertarian SF) which underpins his conception of proper behaviour cannot be described as unthinking. Collections like High Tension (coll 1982) and Firefight 2000 (coll 1987; vt Firefight Y2K 2000), the latter including both fiction and nonfiction, amply demonstrate the cogency of his concerns.
Ing began writing sf with "Tight Squeeze" for Astounding in February 1955, though he became prolific only in the late 1970s. His first novel, Soft Targets (1979), interestingly copes with terrorism in a Near-Future setting, though a besetting weakness for melodrama diverts attention from the serious points he makes about the fatal precariousness of societies in the advanced Western World. Ing is, in fact, much less interested in that precariousness than in its consequences, and his most significant work, the Ted Quantrill sequence – Systemic Shock (1981), Single Combat (1983) and Wild Country (1985) – is set in a desolated and paranoid post-Bomb USA under the thumb of a theocracy. (The similarity of this setting to Robert A Heinlein's Future History is sufficiently obvious to count as a homage.) Quantrill's life, as he matures, presents a model of and argument for the individual who admits no restraints upon his behaviour but his own recognizance. That Quantrill does not behave poorly derives, perhaps, more from the author's decency than from the peculiarly American notion (Libertarian SF) that near-absolute autonomy makes one fully human, and that this argument could be strengthened by using the name of the notorious war-criminal William Cantrell (1837-1865) as a kind of imprimatur. Other titles of interest include several novels written as with Mack Reynolds, based on complete first drafts written in the years before Reynolds's death in 1983; they are Home Sweet Home: 2010 A.D. (1984), Eternity (1984), The Other Time (1984), in which an archaeologist uses Time Travel to help the Aztecs defeat the Spanish, Trojan Orbit (1985) and Deathwish World (1986).
see also: Colonization of Other Worlds; Immortality; Lagrange Points; Social Darwinism.


DJ Snake Lines Up Offset, 21 Savage, Gucci Mane & Sheck Wes For "Enzo"
DJ Snake's "Enzo" features a stacked lineup of automobile connoisseurs.
The quotable track off "Mudboy" feels like a conscious sequel to "Mo Bamba."
Sheck Wes & Lil Yachty Trade Bars On "N***as Ain't Close"
Sheck Wes and Lil Yachty join forces on slow-burning collaboration.


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Q: Using jQuery to hide sub-menu's on click (only one open at a time) I'm having an issue trying to get the sub menus to work as I'd like. Here is my list of requirements (and what I've got so far):

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*Only have one sub menu open at a time (works)

*Have clicking toggle the sub menu (not working on same item)

So the issue right now is when you click to open a sub menu, if you click the same parent anchor it won't close. The other functionality works fine though.
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$('.menu-item-has-children > a').click(function () {
    if ($(this).hasClass("show")) {
        $('.sub-menu').removeClass('show');
    } else {
        $('.sub-menu').removeClass('show');
        $(this).next('ul').toggleClass('show');
    }
});

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Why Choose Us

Affordability

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Advanced Technology

Contact

Contact Us

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Appointments

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#menu-menu-1 li.menu-item-has-children ul {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: -1;
    transform: translateY(-100%);
    opacity: 0;
    transition: all .3s ease;
}

#menu-menu-1 li.menu-item-has-children ul.show {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
    transform: translateY(0);
    opacity: 1;
    transition: all .3s ease;
}

I appreciate your help!

A: You need to check the A-Elemets children in your if-statement ( not the element itself where the listener is registered):
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$('.menu-item-has-children > a').click(function () {
    if ($(this).next('ul').hasClass("show")) {
        $('.sub-menu').removeClass('show');
    } else {
        $('.sub-menu').removeClass('show');
        $(this).next('ul').toggleClass('show');
    }
});

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Cichy Don (ros. Тихий Дон) – radziecki czarno-biały historyczny melodramat filmowy z 1930 roku.

O filmie
Pierwsza ekranizacja kozackiej epopei radzieckiego noblisty Michaiła Szołochowa, w reżyserii Iwana Prawowa i Olgi Prieobrażenskiej, którzy jednak sfilmowali tylko dwie pierwsze części powieści Cichy Don. Film powstał jako niemy, następnie w 1933 roku został udźwiękowiony.

Fabuła

Obsada
 Nikołaj Podgorny – Pentielej Mielechow
 Andriej Abrikosow –  Grigorij Mielechow
 Aleksandr Gromow – Piotr Mielechow
 Jelena Maksimowa – Daria
 Emma Cesarska – Aksinia
 Raisa Pużna – Natalia
 Gieorgij Kowrow – Stiepan Astachow
 Wasilij Kowrigin – Prokofij Mielechow
 Tichon Diczenski – ataman chutoru
 Leonid Jureniew

Linki zewnętrzne
 Opis filmu w bazie kino-teatr.ru
 Opis filmu w bazie russiancinema.ru

Filmowe adaptacje utworów Michaiła Szołochowa
Filmy o I wojnie światowej
Radzieckie adaptacje filmowe
Radzieckie filmy czarno-białe
Radzieckie filmy historyczne
Radzieckie filmy nieme
Radzieckie filmy z 1930 roku
Radzieckie melodramaty

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No better way of concluding a year's worth of glorious music-making! Ensemble LTJJI at Hutt Valley Chamber Music's final 2018 concert.
By Peter Mechen, 15/10/2018
Hutt Valley Chamber Music presents Ensemble LTJJI
Vesa-Matti Leppänen and Andrew Thomson (violins)
Julia Joyce (viola) / Andrew Joyce ('cello) / Diedre Irons (piano)
MOZART – Piano Concerto No.12 in A Major K.414
(arranged by Mozart for string quartet and piano)
DVOŘÁK – Piano Quintet in A Major Op.81
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt
Monday, 15th October
Undoubtedly a mouth-watering prospect on paper, this concert nevertheless had some surprises in store, almost entirely in the realm of the transcription of Mozart's Piano Concerto K.414 for piano and string quartet, made by the composer himself to increase the music's likelihood of being played in whatever form. He obviously had very little faith in the extent of his audiences' musical sensibilities, describing in a letter of December 1782 to his father the difficulties of pleasing audiences of the time : – "…in order to win applause one must write stuff which is so inane that a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligible that it pleases precisely because no reasonable man can understand it…"
In this same letter, quoted by the writer of this present concert's excellent programme notes, Mozart talks about this work being one of a group of three concerti (K.413-415) "from which connoisseurs alone can derive satisfaction", but which those listeners less knowledgeable could still enjoy "without knowing why….", a gentle sideswipe at the conservative Viennese tastes of the time. The original concerto was scored for oboes, horns and strings, though Mozart himself sanctioned the work's performance without winds, and obviously went from there to recasting the work as a piano quintet.
Transcriptions of any work involving an orchestra for smaller forces are often revelatory, as anybody who's familiar with Franz Liszt's recasting of all the Beethoven symphonies for solo piano will know (and, frustrated with the limitations of a single keyboard when dealing with the "Choral" Symphony, Liszt reworked that particular transcription and produced an additional version – for two pianos!). For some people such activities remain anathema – to entertain or consider anything but the original is regarded as a misguided effort, a corruption and even a betrayal! Others, including myself, prefer to think of transcriptions (skilled ones, of course!) as a kind of "added value", even when "reduced" forces are used!
Such people of the former persuasion ought to thank their lucky stars they weren't born in the Baroque era! – there, (and afterwards for a good while) transcriptions abounded, as musicians lived and worked in a far less self-conscious and more pragmatic performing environment than today's. In fact our era's obsessiveness with "urtexts" is a relatively recent phenomenon, as witness the rise (and fall) of once-common performances of things like Hamilton Harty's arrangements of both Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" and "Water Music" – what it means is that symphony orchestras don't get to play this music in any form except the original version(s), any more – which they're too big and wrongly constituted instrumentally to attempt without criticism – talk about cutting off noses to spite faces!
Back to Mozart, and to the performance of the "Quintet" version of the Piano Concerto in A Major K.414 – the missing wind parts were responsible, in the original version, primarily for "colour" rather than thematic content, and thus able to be practically dispensed with on that score, though to enjoy what one remembered of the music's full flavour one had to have recourse to one's imagination at times! Still, I found this transcription a fascinating curiosity, however much I might have missed those colours and timbres – and with musicians of calibre the playing offers delights over and above such considerations, as was certainly the case here!
From the work's beginning one registered the care and responsiveness of the players to the different dynamics and nuances of the lines, the writing here so sensitively and subtly detailed, one felt treated like a guest at a delicious supper, the piano adding to the repast its own special flavour under Diedre Irons' sensitive fingers. To the strings' lovingly-caressed lines during the development the piano contributed a discourse which in itself was a miracle of declamation, Irons' playing (as I've often noted) unfailingly articulate, her every touch a delight, every trill, every ornament a unique experience for the listener.
The strings' rich cantabile at the slow movement's beginning was raptly taken up by the piano, the ensemble producing a typically Mozartean amalgam of rarefied loveliness expressed with both tenderness and strength. And we were made aware of a darker side to existence, as the strings' heartfelt answer to the piano's lyrical musings was immediately succeeded by a brief but telling sea-change towards anxiously-shadowed realms, before the opening calm was restored.
The players relished the fanfare-like whoops of glee shortly after the finale's jog-trot beginning, before worrying a repeated three-note descending figure almost to death, pursuing it in its various incarnations right throughout the music's course! Eventually, the strings cranked up some concerted excitement and "surrounded it with their wagons", leaving the piano to explain it further in a cadenza, one which became amusingly interactive, the to-ings and fro-ings between piano and strings allowing the tiny tune to escape and scoot to safety, amid some "oh well, what a great adventure!" concluding statements from the ensemble!
As it turned out, the evening's fun was just beginning, the Dvořák Quintet being given what I would describe as "the works" by this gifted ensemble. Right from the deceptive, gently-rocking introduction, the music was projected with enormous volatility involving both eloquence and energy, the lyrical phrases spaciously articulated, and the contrasting rhythmic thrustings startling in their dynamic force! I loved the sweetly-laden quality of the players' lyrical lines, as well as the players' focused attack and sustained energy during the more agitated sequences.
Along the way the individual contributions to the music's ebb-and-flow were delivered with distinction, Andrew Joyce's eloquent cello solo at the movement's beginning matched by Julia Joyce's similarly sonorous viola solo which introduced the second subject. The violins' work in thirds – a characteristic Dvořákian fingerprint – perfectly demonstrated the qualities brought to tone, line and ensemble by leader Vesa-Matti Leppänen and second violin Andrew Thomson, as Dvořák put his themes through their various paces, the whole melded together by Diedre Irons' strong, flexible playing at the piano.
The second movement was a Dumka, originally a kind of epic Ukranian ballad of a melancholic nature, but appropriated by Slavic composers to characterise music that typically changes its mood abruptly, alternating between melancholy and gaiety. Dvořák certainly made this form his own in many instances throughout his music, most profoundly in his famous "Dumky" Trio, where each of the movements is a "dumka" in its own right. Here, it was the music's melancholy which straightaway set the mood, the piano's extraordinary poignant lament answered by a deep-voiced viola solo, the playing from both musicians straightaway touching the heart! True to its penchant for volatility, the dumka then set the sounds bustling along energetically, pizzicato strings and piano relishing their rhythmic criss-crossings! The 'cello, soon afterwards joined by the viola, then returned to the opening theme, a sequence of great beauty, though again the discourse was interrupted by a more vigorous section, a physical and exhilarating scherzo-like episode! And so on….interestingly, a reviewer writing in London's "Athanaeum" magazine in 1888 found this movement all too much: – " It is difficult to regard the form of the "Dumka," or elegy, as satisfactory. Two themes are presented several times, each with various modifications, but without any regular development. The movement, therefore, gives the impression of patchiness, despite the beauty of the melodies." Chacun à son goût!
Described as a "furiant" (though nothing to do with "furious" or "fury", as the Czech word means "loudmouth" or "unrestrained person") the third movement lightly skipped its devil-may-care way through the world, the performance here dancing between moments of feathery brilliance and rollickingly good humour. The players pulled back for the heart-easing trio section, the viola giving voice to a lullabic version of the main theme, one which lulled our senses before suddenly accelerating back into the high-spirits of the opening dance.
And so to the final movement, beginning with a call to attention and a summons to the dance, a joyful rustic-sounding celebration of a delight in living! I remember reading a commentator's words many years ago, written in regard to the same composer's Fifth Symphony (which we heard Orchestra Wellington play, earlier this year) – "…an expression of joy so intense that it brings tears…" – a thought that could have applied just as well to these players' exuberance and delight in bringing us such joyous music. What visceral engagement with the allegro's rhythms! – what charm, and insouciance they brought to the folkish second subject, with its touches of melancholy – and how deftly they launched the fugato's mischievous excitement, tightening the interactions almost to combatative point before winding the music down, allowing the viola to steer things back to the music's second subject, and the piano to grandly give the signal that the threads must be gathered up and set in order!
So it was that the music becalmed in order that heads be counted and everything else put right with the world – the strings repeated the piano's signaling gesture in agreement, and everybody turned for home, with the meandering steps through the gloaming gradually quickening and turning to a playful race, carrying all before it in a last frisson of playful excitement. And when we had finished acknowledging these splendid musicians' efforts with our applause, it seemed to all of us that there would have been no better way than what we had heard to finish Hutt Valley Chamber Music's 2018 concert season!
Reviews - Concerts |	 chamber music
← Admirable concert of well-chosen music from Wellington Youth Orchestra under Mark Carter
Polished viola student performances of Bach suites plus some unfamiliar music at St Andrew's →


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If you just got into the Gears 3 Multiplayer Beta, then you'll notice that there's only one mode playable available at the start. As fun as the Gears 3 twist on Team Deathmatch is, you will want something more sooner or later.
Thankfully, Epic Games has released a schedule of when new gametypes will be added to the already addictive and fun multiplayer. Here's the list below.
April 18th – April 24th: Team Deathmatch (TDM) on Thrashball and Checkout.
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Eurozone Factory Prices Highlight Deflation Risk
Deflation.com Staff • February 02, 2016
Fears of deflation persist in Europe, despite the European Central Banks's vow to successfully fight it.
In January, many of Europe's firms reported a slowdown in new orders and new export business. The Manufacturing PMI in Germany is at a three-month low, and stands at a five-month low in France.
Read this excerpt from a Feb. 1 Bloomberg article:
In its monthly manufacturing report, Markit Economics said price pressures "remained on the downside" and output charges fell for a fifth month. In addition, all countries in its survey reported declines, the first time that's happened in 11 months.
President Mario Draghi said the European Central Bank's stimulus policies will be reviewed in March as the region's inflation rate may drop below zero again because of oil's slump. Price growth has been slower than the central bank's goal of just under 2 percent for almost three years.
"The euro zone's manufacturing economy missed a beat at the start of the year," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit. "If the slowdown in business activity wasn't enough to worry policy makers, prices charged by producers fell at the fastest rate for a year to spur further concern about deflation becoming ingrained."
You can read the entire article by following the link below:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-01/euro-area-factories-cut-prices-as-deflation-risks-loom-large
Hoisington Investment Management Economic Overview
The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation
Money for Nothing: Real Wealth, Financial Fantasies and the Economy of the Future


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Oberkochen is a municipality (officially a town, despite its size) in the Ostalbkreis, in Baden-Württemberg, in Germany, central Europe.

Name
The name "Oberkochen"  consists of the two German words "ober", meaning "above" or "upper", and "Kocher", the name of the local river. The name indicates, that this settlement lies above the river Kocher or on its upper part. The river Kocher has its spring just to the south of Oberkochen and runs to the north. Therefore, the village next to the north of Oberkochen is Unterkochen, with the German "unter" meaning "lower" or "under".

Geography
Oberkochen is located in and above the valleys of the rivers Kocher and Langertbach between the area of Albuch in the west and north and the area of Härtsfeld in the east. The highest point in the area of Oberkochen is the top of the Volkmarsberg mountain (743 m above sea level). Directly south of the city the river Kocher has its origin.

The city consists of two main parts: the downtown area with the city center, Spitztal, Lenzhalde and Brunnenhalde and the Heide area, which lies 100 m above the city on a hill to the northeast.

History

Timeline

Schultheiß and mayors of Oberkochen
From 1553 until Feb 25th 1803 Oberkochen had two Schultheißen, one of the catholic Ellwangen and one of the Protestant würtembergian Königsbronn. Since 1933 Oberkochen has a mayor, who wears a livery collar since Oberkochen became a city in 1968. The collar was donated by trade, commerce, industry and liberal professions.

Population
During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the population of Oberkochen was reduced from c. 500 to c. 100 inhabitants. It took nearly 200 years to reach a population of 500 again. In the 19th century the population saw a greater rise due to the industrialisation.

The next remarkable growth took place after World War II, when the population quadrupled from 2,000 to 8,000 people in just 20 years. One of the main reasons for this growth was the relocation and expansion of the company Carl Zeiss. In 1968 Oberkochen became officially a city, which is remarkable, because at this time a population of 10,000 people was a condition for towns in Germany to become a city. The reason for the premature change in the status of Oberkochen was the intense growth of the population prior to 1968, which made the mayor Gustav Bosch, as well as the responsible authorities believe, that a population of 10,000 would be reached soon. Therefore, the change of the status of Oberkochen from town to city was applied for and finally granted. Despite these expectations and actions the population stalled instead and even saw a slight decrease.

Today, there are more commuters working in Oberkochen than working people living there.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms spells: "In blue three (2:1) golden roses." (German: "In Blau drei (2:1) goldene Rosen.")

The coat of arms was introduced in 1968 and is based on the one of the "Görig von Kochen" from 1404. He owned several pieces of land in Oberkochen. The colours were chosen without historic meaning.

Infrastructure

Transport
Oberkochen can be reached by using the Bundesstraße 19 ("B 19"), which runs along the Kocher-Brenz-Valley from north to south. Oberkochen has two junctions to the Bundesstraße, Oberkochen-North ("Oberkochen-Nord") and Oberkochen-South ("Oberkochen-Süd"). The nearest Autobahn is the Bundesautobahn 7 with the Aalen-Oberkochen-junction, which is reached via the B19 and L1084 after an 11 km drive from Oberkochen.

Oberkochen has no traffic lights. The traffic is mainly reglemented by the priority to the right rule, roundabouts and crosswalks.

By train Oberkochen is connected through the Brenz Railway, which is used by the Regional-Express of the DB Regio company. The nearest connection to national and international train services is made via the Aalen railroad station, which is 10 km away from Oberkochen  and has a direct link to it. The railroad station of Oberkochen has two platforms and is friendly for disabled persons, i.e. people using wheelchairs, through an elevator. It is possible to buy tickets for the train on a ticket machine located on the platforms.

Oberkochen does not have an own airport. The nearest airport with regular national transportation is the Stuttgart Airport (IATA: STR, ICAO: EDDS) which is a 90 km drive by car away from Oberkochen.

Education
Oberkochen has three municipal and one Roman Catholic kindergarten. There is a Gemeinschaftsschule, the Dreißentalschule, which contains a primary school and a secondary school, where a Mittlere Reife can be awarded. There is a Förderschule, the Sonnenbergschule also. The local Gymnasium is the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium, named after the scientist Ernst Abbe. There also is a Musikschule (music school). Oberkochen has no university and the next university can be found in Aalen.

The local folk high school is located in the building of the city hall. For a wider set of courses there is also a folk high school in Aalen. The municipal library was installed in the old Protestant church. It contains 19.000 media volumes and faces over 40.000 check outs per year.

Sacred buildings
The St.-Peter-und-Paul-Kirche (German for: St. Peter and Paul Church) is the local Roman Catholic church and was consecrated October 25, 1900. This church was the replacement for an older church from the Baroque period.

The local Protestant church is the Versöhnungskirche (German for: Reconciliation Church), which was consecrated in 1968. The predecessor of this church became the local library.

Despite the growing Muslim community there is no mosque in Oberkochen. The nearest mosque can be found in Aalen.

Economy
After World War II, the Allied troops moved parts of the Carl Zeiss Company in Jena to Oberkochen. Today, the headquarters of the Carl Zeiss AG are located in Oberkochen. Another important business is the Leitz company, which is the world-leading manufacturer for wood-processing tools.

International relations

Oberkochen is twinned with:

  Dives-sur-Mer, France, since 1984
  Montebelluna, Italy, since 1992
  Mátészalka, Hungary, since 2008

Honorary citizens

References

External links
 Official site

Ostalbkreis
Württemberg