Feel free to click. The Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, led by Scottish poet & essayist Norman Bissell, released Stravaig online. Issue 1 has found freedom inside the cyberworld and its content is exciting! Friends, poets, writers, essayists, artists, photographers, designers and filmakers creatively mapped, chartered inside one world. It's… Exciting! There is a place for everyone who practises the discipline of intellectual nomadism.
I still remember a friend who once asked me, "what is Geopoetics?" My poetic heart & mind attempted to describe something like "the natural art of opening to a world, finding our place within it and celebrating our connection with this very world within the realms of every rock, mountain and shore… This natural, real world, in which every rock, shell, sandgrain, snowflake, birdsong, flower counts. Not somebody's delusional mind – but the very cross-disciplinary movement to this world in which our human intelligence interacts. The widening of our knowledge to cross-cultural bonds, just like the crossing of continents via the ancient (now submerged) land bridges… Kenneth White speaks of walking away from those motorways of western civilisations in which too many generations of our ancestors met a dead-end by keeping their scope on one-way roads. Geopoetics offers freedom to wander whilst embracing a world intelligence, the human spirit and creative genius, irrespective of civilisation. This international movement has found many adepts over time, and The Scottish Centre for Geopoetics belongs to this Archipelago of current, practising intellectual nomads for our region (and beyond), which remains, White's native homeground.
Stravaig, this wonderful Scot word meaning stroll, wander, will cross your way, I hope.
Place, culture, world, in the words of Kenneth White.
Le nomadisme ne connaît pas de frontière!
Cela me chatouillait depuis quelque temps… A bon traducteur Google, salut!
"Eh bien quoi, pourquoi pas un petit détour géopoétique SPECIAL FRANCOPHONE POUR UNE FOIS?" Après tout, cela ne fait de mal à personne!
Benoît, Victoria et les amis de La Traversée, bonjour du milieu de l'Atlantique!
Mr Kenneth White ne cesse d'agrandir son archipel et regarder le monde à partir d'une île se révèle à la fois fort agréable et aventureux, puisque la longue vue vous permet, à partir d'une péninsule, la vision hyper-grand angle… Une longue vue, voire un télescope! Quel bonheur de se trouver balayé(e) par les vents, maquillé(e) par les embruns tout en se disant que, de toute façon, mieux vaut les odeurs d'iode et de kelp pourri que celles des abattoirs ou des longues queues aux embouchures d'autoroutes… Ha-ha, la vie d'insulaire sur cette latitude a le goût de sel!
je vous suis sur vos blogs respectifs, et j'aime vous lire quelque soit la langue choisie.
Ce mode d'expression reflette assez bien l'esprit de Kenneth White, qui se plaît à converser oralement ou à l'écrit dans ces deux langues, que je considère "jumelles".
A bon voyageur, salut, et bonne traversée!
When selecting my training courses for my October two-day In-Service Training last September, I came across one that immediately spoke to my heart. Its description read fascinating – its title said it all. Metasaga.
My new term began with a bang, as I met with a very inspiring course leader and group whilst on a on that particular course at school. Firstly, I was a little astonished to find the course under-subscribed… However, I felt far less surprised to find two of my fellow local poets/artists among our group, Fair Isle based Lise Sinclair and Hebridean bard & writer, Donald S. Murray, who teaches English in Sandwick. As a matter of fact, all participants were involved in the Arts at educational level.
A token of somebody's love… Friendship engraved on a stone, which finds its place around my neck. I made sure I would not forget it on my journey through autumn term. Metasaga is a compound word formed out of two words, meta, from metaphor and saga, from our neighbouring nordic friends. Storytelling is very much interwoven in the history & cultural heritage. As soon as our course leader began to explain what we were to undertake, my geopoetical heart began to sing deep inside!
Uyesound School headteacher Kate Coutts spoke very much like Kenneth White, father of Geopoetics, the albatross and intellectuial nomadism; she aims to help us find our place in the world around us by taking us on an inner journey.
Metasaga does not answer questions – it enables each journeyman to ask much deeper questions about him/herself in this world through culture, heritage and physical landscape..
Needless to say we did not stay very long in the classroom, for some adventure was waiting for us! Re-starting school in late October in not so clement weather conditions, I would have been surprised to spend an afternoon at Ninian Sands or even more nearby beach…Instead, we found ourselves meandering in and around our local museum and archives in Lerwick. Perfect! The museum houses everything we needed to undertake this shared inner journey. We each picked a spot, an object, a moment. Delight. We thought of themes, values, packaged the lot in some educational and/or more personal context… Dressed it with questions, pictures. We used our creativity, poetics, to make it happen and found joy in creating our group metasaga.
What a formidable tool to respond to individuals, young or slightly older to find themselves. Although Kate re-iterarted this was in no way a new concept, she nonetheless packaged it with grace to notably meet the needs of all, including those of our Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.
Next step? To introduce colleagues and pupils at my school and start sharing all its benefits! It has started. Our world is in motion.
Kenneth White will smile again. We, the intellectual nomads, have an additional way to find our place in the world.
I love my island at sunset.
Fire reverberates on each sandgrain; sandstones find pleasure on washed kelp… Feathers and stones always write stories in that earth tongue one does not always understand.
As feet find their roots in wet sand, I become one with Arcania.
There, on my way to daily walk by the shore, I kept in mind the text I read earlier that day, which I received from our curach skipper Macdougall. To my humble nomadic heart, it resonated like a message in a bottle. It speaks of continental inscriptions: geographaphs, chronographs, phonographs and paragraphs. It notably took me back to Gulliver, Friday and Robinson Crusoe.
It's big enough to sustain all kinds of assaults, pulls of the moon and man-made signatures. The water acts as a rubber and deletes traces from one's feet.
Earlier this year, I painted it with pixels. This blog entry was entitled Snapshots from Arcania …A summer before that, I painted it with words.
Strange feelings have filled my heart since yesterday.
In the light of the spoon-fed world, I was saddened by the news of Scotland's greatest poet the 20th century has ever met. Mr Morgan has inhabited my creative star ever since I collided with that visionary rendez-vous.
Such moment of glory resonates forever. Unlike any rock or metal, it will neither erode or corrode… However exposed to the sea.
How grateful to Alistair Cook I feel tonight! Kindred spirits really shine and find their way through the ever expanding world we call cosmos.
I am beginning to wind down. Outside, the Moon is waxing once again… The night is crisp and beautiful. Wir "Shetland hut" is tidy again… Have lit candles for my angels on either world and asked Uriel to appease that Icelandic ring of fire, poisoning of water sources for the sake of all Icelanders.
My little African sister is stranded somewhere in France… She among thousands of others, caught in the power of earth dust that grinds jet engines to a halt. What angers me is the fact the media highlight the event – they seem to focus on airlines' daily losses instead of folk's daily challenge. And so little on the people directly hit… There's something "wrong with the system". What if the eruption lasted a month or a year? Would it signal the end of the artificial world, as bankers, shareholders and politicians know it?
The world looks and tastes so different. Every single rock's a diamond – every beam of light, a blessing. Today the sky belonged to birds, flies, bumblebees, instead of helicopters and FlyB. And we have boats to move about… Humanity is resilient. In the face of "natural disasters", we do believe in miracles.
Mind you, earthly hiccups only become disasters when certain mankind's (profit's) affected… It's a matter of semantics. …What with those Icelandic bankers?
And all the dreamers are waking.
That last verse from Kate's track entitled Nocturn resonates deeply in my heart. It reads and sounds like a wake-up call… I think Kenneth White would love Kate's world, for both celebrate it in their respective way.
Let's now play back the Waterboys!
There's so much more than that wonder hit about the moon. Mr Scott's a troubadour with heart and feet firmly anchored in the beauty of our dear world.
"What is between the star and the sea? …What is between the bird and me?
And finish off with Björk herself.
Earth Intruders, Wanderlust… And will refer you to one place.


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Remember the way you were?
Do you recall the outrage in late 2003 over CBS refusing to show the mini-series "The Reagans?" Apparently, many took exception to the fact that Ronald Reagan would be played by actor James Brolin, married to the ultra-liberal Barbra Streisand. In the October 30th, 2003 installment of her "Truth Alerts", Babs accosted Conservatives for their objections to the film.
This is what the Right Wing does when they are faced with a truth that is not 100% positive for their side - they spread vicious lies and attacks and scream and yell until they get their way. Instead of boycotting and trying to have the movie changed, why don't they all just wait to see the film when it airs like the rest of us?
Never mind that it was actually CBS who released a statement saying "Although the miniseries features impressive production values and acting performances, and the producers have sources to verify each scene in the script, we believe it does not present a balanced portrayal of the Reagans for CBS and its audience."
Nevertheless, Babs believed back then that a TV-movie about her pal Bill Clinton would be passed through unfiltered.
Can you imagine what a biopic of Clinton would include? Of course, Clinton fans understand and accept the truth about the former president. They know that although he was a great president in many ways, overseeing economic prosperity and making great strides in creating a more peaceful world, he was also flawed. They don't try to prevent depictions of the truth from getting out there.
Really? Well, a Reuters story published yesterday seems to refute that claim.
Amid an election-year debate over who can best defend America, U.S. congressional Democrats urged ABC on Thursday to cancel a TV miniseries about the September 11 attacks that is critical of former Democratic President Bill Clinton and his top aides.
Chronicling events leading to the September 11 attacks, the movie suggests the Clinton administration was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to deal properly with the gathering threat posed by Islamic militants.
C'mon, Babs! You seemed to be such an advocate for "artistic freedom", as you referred to it, back in 2003 when "The Reagans" was under fire.
Your concert tour doesn't start for another month. Certainly you could find time to remind people of your firmly held belief that you libs "don't try to prevent depictions of the truth from getting out there."
NFL Week 4: Arresting Developments.
Jesse's gems.
Take a T.O., Terrell.
Twins culminate phenomenal turnaround with playoff...
NFL Week 3: No offense, the first two weeks have s...
The Curse of Buckner: Year 2.
This Rosie has many thorns.
NFL Week 2: For openers, not bad.
In the land of cheese there's plenty of whine.
Remembering 9/11/01.
A look back at the Minnesota Organization of Blogg...
Taking their ball and going home.
NFL Week 1: A wild ride.
Tiger "Tigg Daddy" Woods
Thank You, President Bush!

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We've found 7 Sports Halls in Isleworth.
THE GREEN SCHOOL is a Main owned and operated by DIOCESE OF WESTMINSTER.
GUMLEY HOUSE CONVENT SCHOOL is a Main owned and operated by SPJ (TRUSTEE).
ISLEWORTH AND SYON SCHOOL FOR BOYS is a Main owned and operated by LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW.
OSTERLEY SPORTS AND ATHLETICS CENTRE is a Main owned and operated by LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW.
WEST THAMES COLLEGE is a Small Hall owned and operated by WEST THAMES COLLEGE.
ISLEWORTH AND SYON SCHOOL FOR BOYS is a Small Hall owned and operated by LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW.
ISLEWORTH LEISURE CENTRE AND LIBRARY is a Small Hall owned and operated by LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW.


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The Obamacare Agony of LD38's Bob Gordon
By Politicker Staff • 11/16/13 6:21pm
As President Barack Obama struggles with the political backlash from a mangled Obamacare rollout, at least one federal lawmaker from New Jersey pounced with a vengeance.
Resident movement conservative U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-5) issued a statement on Friday amid chatter about a possible serious 2014 Democratic challenger.
"Countless constituents have contacted my office regarding the negative effects Obamacare is having on their health care, their businesses, and volunteer service organizations," Garrett griped. "Despite the president's repeated promise that 'if you like your plan, you can keep it,' more than 800,000 New Jerseyans will no longer be able to keep their plans. Yesterday, I was hopeful that the president would finally agree to delay the implementation of his health care law, but instead he offered a 'fix' that is nothing other than a lifeboat with a hole in it. As so many of us feared, Obamacare is just not fixable. The American people need a full and permanent delay of this unworkable law."
The congressman made his critique while state Sen. Robert Gordon (D-38) seriously contemplates a challenge next year.
Gordon just won re-election in a battleground district targeted by Gov. Chris Christie's campaign team as a potential pickup in the state Senate.
But while the senator is said to love the idea of being able to run against the Tea Party on the Democratic line in Bergen County with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), there is real party hand-wringing about the potential deleterious effects of Obamacare.
Garrett wants to waste no time in nailing down the president's healthcare overhaul as the culprit.
Filed Under: New Jersey Politics, nj back room
SEE ALSO: Jimmy Davis running for mayor of Bayonne


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Biografia
Angela nacque in una famiglia di Foligno, si sposò in giovane età e trascorse una vita "selvaggia, adultera e sacrilega".
Dopo una giovinezza della quale non conosciamo praticamente nessun particolare, Angela si convertì tramite una confessione al cappellano del vescovo in una data che gli studiosi collocano all'incirca verso il 1285. Dopo la morte del marito, dei figli e della madre, entrò nel Terz'ordine Francescano nel 1291 (altra data ipotetica), vivendo sull'esempio di Francesco d'Assisi in penitenza e nella radicale imitazione di Gesù Cristo, meditando soprattutto la sua Passione, come fece Margherita da Cortona e più tardi Camilla da Varano, ossia la clarissa suor Battista.

Angela da Foligno morì il 4 gennaio 1309, come è scritto in uno dei diversi codici manoscritti del Liber e venne da sempre venerata con il titolo di Beata e Magistra Theologorum, ossia Maestra dei Teologi, perché in vita attorno a lei si era raccolto un Cenacolo di figli spirituali, tra i quali si annovera Ubertino da Casale. Il suo corpo riposa a Foligno nella chiesa di San Francesco e santuario di Santa Angela.

Il Memoriale e le Instructiones
La Santa, per verificare le sue esperienze mistiche iniziò a confidarsi con un frate A., suo parente e consigliere spirituale (la tradizione suole sciogliere la A., chiamandolo frate Arnaldo). Egli stese un Memoriale, da sottoporre a esperti tra cui il cardinale Giacomo Colonna, che l'approvò prima del 1297. Questa "autobiografia spirituale" mostra i trenta passi che l'anima compie raggiungendo l'intima comunione con Dio, attraverso la meditazione dei misteri di Cristo, sull'Eucaristia, e intorno alle tentazioni e alle penitenze.

Il Memoriale rappresenta la prima sezione di quello che noi conosciamo come il Liber, uscito in edizione critica a cura di Thier e Calufetti nel 1985. La seconda parte, curata da diversi (ignoti) redattori e nota come Instructiones, contiene invece documenti religiosi di vario tipo tra cui le lettere che Angela spediva ai suoi figli spirituali.

Scritti
Angela da Foligno, Memoriale, Edizione critica e introduzione a cura di Enrico Menestò; Traduzione, apparati e indici a cura di Emore Paoli, Spoleto, CISAM, 2015
Angela da Foligno, Lettere e pensieri, Introduzione, traduzione e note di Sergio Andreoli, I edizione, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), 1998
 Angela da Foligno, Il libro, Introduzione, traduzione e note di Sergio Andreoli, III edizione, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), 2004
  (edizione in fac simile e trascrizione del ms.342 della Biblioteca Comunale di Assisi, con quattro studi di Langeli et al.)
 Angela da Foligno, Il Libro, Introduzione, traduzione e note di Salvatore Aliquò, IV edizione riveduta e corretta da Sergio Andreoli, Città Nuova Editrice, Roma, 2009

Note

Bibliografia
 Sergio Andreoli, Angela da Foligno maestra spirituale, II edizione, Editrice Franciscanum, Roma, 1996
 Sergio Andreoli, Angela da Foligno, III edizione, Gruppo Edicom, Rho (Milano), 1998
 Sergio Andreoli, Angela da Foligno, III edizione, Edizioni Cantagalli, Siena, 1999
 Sergio Andreoli, Angela da Foligno, Invito alla lettura, I edizione, Edizioni San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), 1999
 AA. VV., Angela da Foligno e il suo culto. I. Documenti a stampa e nel web (1497 ca - 2003), a cura di Sergio Andreoli, Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Paul Lachance e Francesco Santi, I edizione, Edizioni del Galluzzo per la Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Firenze, 2006
 AA. VV., Angela da Foligno «alter Franciscus», II edizione, Editrice Franciscanum, Roma, 2008
 Sergio Andreoli, Angela da Foligno Penitente francescana, III edizione, Edizioni Messaggero Padova, Padova, 2008
 Sergio Andreoli, Via Crucis in cammino con Angela da Foligno, I edizione, Città Nuova Editrice, Roma, 2009
 Il Liber di Angela da Foligno e la mistica dei secoli XIII-XIV in rapporto alle nuove culture, "Atti del XLV Convegno storico internazionale, Todi, 12-15 ottobre 2008", CISAM-Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, Spoleto, 2009
 Massimo Vedova, Esperienza e dottrina: il Memoriale di Angela da Foligno, prefazione di J. Dalarun, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, Roma, 2009.
 Fortunato Frezza, Liber Lelle. Il Libro di Angela da Foligno nel testo del codice di Assisi con versione italiana, Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, Firenze, 2012.
 Angela da Foligno, Memoriale. Edizione critica a cura di Enrico Menestò, Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013 (Società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo latino)

Voci correlate
 Foligno

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Santi per nome
Santi italiani del XIV secolo
Santi francescani
Santi canonizzati da Francesco

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Be careful of what you ask for! While the Southwest is still in the grips of a drought, the recent rains in Northern Arizona has brought some relief to the area. The summer monsoon season has been especially generous to us this year. But with all this moisture, something was bound to happen.
Monday morning, September 9th, as the Xanterra mule packers rode down below Cedar Ridge with their supplies, they came across a rock slide with huge boulders blocking their way. There was nothing to be done but turn around and head back up to the South Rim so they could use the Bright Angel Trail instead.
Chris Brothers, one of the hard-working trail crew guys, ran down to check the status of the rock slide and got these great photos. The report from Chris is that the rock slide is about a half mile below Cedar Ridge on the South Kaibab Trail. Currently, hikers are able to get through, but it is impassable by livestock. They will send crews in Tuesday the 10th to clear the slide. He estimates that it will take two days to have the trail ready for mule traffic.
This means that anyone taking a mule ride will be going down and up the Bright Angel Trail until the rock slide is cleared and the trail is repaired. Hikers are still able to take the trail at this time although the trail is obviously a bit rough through the slide area.
Thanks for the update, Chris. And thanks to you and the rest of the trail crew for all the work you do in all kinds of weather conditions!


Titus 2:11-12 is a favorite passage of mine. "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age,"
This passage tells us that the power to live our lives as Christians comes from the Holy Spirit. It is quite a relief to me that I do not have to muster this power on my own. All any of us have to do is invite the Holy Spirit into our lives, through prayer, and ask Him to help us live a good and Christian life. If we do this through daily prayer, I assure you this prayer will be answered. You will look at life in a different way, have different priorities, and a different level of joy. I have lived on both sides and there is no comparison between living a life outside of God's will and living one in it.
It is not enough to renounce sin and evil desires, we must also live actively for God. As the above passage indicates, we must say no to ungodly activities and we must also say yes to active service for Christ. We are called to get involved in activities that advance the Kingdom of God here on earth. We must use the gifts and talents God has given each of us to do His work during our very short life on this planet.
Titus 2:11-12 reminds me of a quote by the 19th century pastor Adoniram Gordon, "It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living."


On February 18, we released our seventh annual Sun Life Canadian Unretirement Index, which has tracked how Canadians' attitudes and expectations about retirement have evolved since the financial crisis began in 2008.
Read our Bright Paper Mind the Retirement Gap [PDF, 8 pages]. This looks specifically at key findings and insights around the gender differences between how men and women view and plan for their retirement. It also examines the benefits of participating in a workplace savings plan vs. not participating.
Coming soon! Our cheat sheet looks at ways to help shrink the gender gap when it comes to savings and retirement at a glance, and lists the top 5 workplace savings plan advantages.
Fewer Canadians expect to retire at age 66 (51% in 2008 vs. 27% in 2014), and an increasing number say it's because they need to cover basic living expenses.
The number of Canadians who say they will be working at age 66 because they need to has begun to decline from 53% in 2008 to 65% in 2013 to 59% in 2014.
Debt reduction remains Canadians' top financial priority.
The survey found a significant increase in the average amount of retirement savings Canadians expect to have. It jumped from a low of $385,687 in 2012 to $417,870 in 2013 and to $556,495 in 2014.
While plan members were overall more confident about planning for their future and their retirement outlook, they are still underestimating how much they'll need in retirement. Sun Life Financial's Retirement Planner on mysunlife.ca can help plan members determine how much income they'll need to win in retirement.


The VGAEXTAA6IN 6-inch VGA Port Saver Cable/coupler avoids expensive repairs to a computer or display. It does this by extending the port by 6in, thereby eliminating the weight and stress that would typically be placed on the port by a VGA cable. This is especially useful in an environment where cables are unplugged and re-inserted frequently.


They are a series of comical sketches drawn by a Norfolk-based pilot while he was imprisoned in a German PoW camp.
And now the pictures by Polish Squadron Leader Bohdan Stanislaw Arct are to be returned to his home country thanks to a Great Yarmouth researcher and an Ely widow.
Sdn Ldr Arct was flying a Mustang from RAF Coltishall on September 6, 1944 when he was shot down and then imprisoned in Stalag Luft Barth in Western Pomerania in Germany.
He drew the series of eye-catching humorous sketches of life in the PoW camp and they ended up in the possession of Flight Lieutenant Peter Cutchey, who by a twist of fate had been shot down on the same day in a Lancaster bomber, flown from RAF Oakington in Cambridgeshire, and was in the same camp.
Mr Cutchey died in 2017 and his widow Joan, from Ely, contacted the research group website Aircrew Remembered, which is run by Kelvin Youngs of Great Yarmouth along with technical help from his brother Stefan in Norwich, to say she had the sketches.
It was Mr Cutchey's dying wish that the sketches be handed over to a Polish museum.
That wish is now being enacted by Aircrew Remembered, with Mr Youngs contacting the Polish Aviation Museum to see if it wanted them - a request they happily accepted.
He is now in the process of arranging to visit the Krakow-based museum to deliver the artworks.
Mr Youngs, 66, and who works for Great Yarmouth Borough Council, said: "As our website receives over 2,000 hits a day we are often contacted by surviving relatives wishing to donate items such as log books and medals to us. We decline, but advise them where perhaps associations and museums may well be interested.
After the war Mr Arct also became an accomplished writer with dozens of publications - mostly in his native language. However, none of his PoW sketches have ever been published.


In this issue of The Other Journal, we take up the themes of time, history, and eschatology: What is the nature of time? How does time influence and shape the modern world and those who inhabit it? Is God in or out of time? What is the relationship between theology and history? How might historical investigation function in a theological register? How will time end? Or how does Christianity's varied conceptions about the end of things influence our present moment?
David J. Schmidt sees the face of Christ in the members of the migrant caravan.


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Meet Orhan
Orhan is from Gaziantep and used to have his own shoemaking workshop. He joined Sabah two years ago to manage our leather stock. He ensures everything is running smoothly between leather selection and cutting. His older brother, Mehmet, is the head of quality control at the Sabah Atelier. Orhan has three daughters.
Upper Sewing
Ali skillfully sews the upper leathers of every pair of Sabahs. He joined the Sabah atelier three years ago having fled the Syrian civil war in Aleppo for southeast Turkey. He is now taking English lessons and we converse in a mixture of Turkish, English and Arabic. Ali is always smiling as you can see.
Meet Cihan
Junior Stitcher
Cihan is 20 years old and from Gaziantep, Turkey. He joined the Sabah Atelier two years ago as an apprentice to our master stitcher. He can now stitch 12 pairs per day. He signs every pair of Sabahs he stitches with a vertical line "|". His father also works in the Atelier as a stitcher. On the weekends, he plays football ("soccer") with his friends.
Leather Cutting
Ali cuts the leather for almost every pair of Sabahs we make. He is 44 years old and from Aleppo, Syria. He left Aleppo with his wife five years ago to escape the civil war. He joined the Sabah workshop as he was previously cutting leather in a high heel shoe factory in Aleppo.
Meet Yilmaz
Yilmaz is from Gaziantep. He began learning to stitch Sabahs two years ago. He previously was a shoe salesman in Gaziantep's ancient bazaar selling traditional slippers. He wanted to learn to stitch because he prefers to be an artist and sees stitching as an art. He signs every pair of Sabahs he stitches with a horizontal line "-".
Meet Erol
Control Manager
He is 27 years old and from Gaziantep, Turkey. He is the quality control manager of Sabah production and also handles the packaging, packing and counting of every pair before they leave Gaziantep for New York City. In other words, he keeps us organized and accountable. The consistency and quality of Sabahs has come along way since we started making them three years ago.
Meet Ismael
He is 28 years old and from Gaziantep, Turkey. As part of our recruitment effort to grow the workshop, Ismael began to learn the craft of stitching three years ago and is now one of our most proficient stitchers. He also trains the younger generations. In his free time, he loves to play backgammon and soccer with his friends. He is also an avid movie watcher.
Meet Kemal
Kemal is 19 years old and from Gaziantep, Turkey. He is the newest member of the Sabah workshop having joined us just after completing high school last year. He is responsible for the detailed cleaning of each pair after it is stitched and is also in-training to become a Sabah stitcher. He is almost ready.
Meet Bulent
Bulent is responsible for lasting one out of every three pairs of Sabahs produced. Lasting, the process of wrapping the leathers around a plastic form to set the shape of the shoe, is one of the most difficult jobs because it requires a mix of precision and extreme strength. Bulent also loves to cook, especially barbecue.
Meet Atilla
Atilla has been a shoemaker for over 20 years and has been with Sabah since day one. He is responsible for lasting, the process of wrapping the leathers around a plastic form to set the shape of the shoe. After work, he is a dedicated family man and loves spending time with his wife and children.
Meet Huseyin
While lasting Sabahs, Huseyin is always cracking jokes in the Sabah workshop. Heís a real comedian. He has been in shoemaking for over 15 years now. In his free time, he plays a lot of backgammon with his friends, enjoys a good Turkish Kebab, and is a big fan of Turkish football.
Meet Mehmet
Mehmet is 55 years old and oversees quality control at all stages of production at the Sabah workshop. With over thirty years experience in shoemaking, he joined the Sabah workshop two years ago as we expanded the team and production capacity. Since he joined, the refinement and attention to detail of every pair has increased immensely.


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New mental health campaign to ask 'How are you, really?' to South Asian Calgarians
The campaign logo for the Punjabi Community Health Services "How are you, really?" campaign. COURTESY PCHS
By Aryn Toombs
Asking how a person is, can far too often be small-talk as opposed to a question posed to elicit a thought out, intentional answer.
For Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS), asking "how are you, really," is the start of a larger conversation around mental health in Calgary's South Asian community.
"It's to encourage honest conversations within the South Asian community, to de-stigmatize mental health, and have conversations about well-being and mental health," said PCHS Executive Director Nina Saini.
The organization is launching the campaign with an event, beginning on Jan. 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Genesis Centre. Attending is free, and people can sign up through the PCHS website at www.pchscalgary.com.
January's event will include a campaign video, a keynote speech by Calgary-based family physician Dr. Gaganjot Sandhu, a presentation by PCHS about mental health and counselling, networking opportunities, and a light lunch.
PCHS will also be holding an additional three forums at later dates on specific community-focused mental health issues, like domestic and gender-based violence, intergenerational trauma, and family dynamics.
Providing culturally appropriate mental health support
A large focus of the campaign will be helping members of Calgary's South Asian community have better access to culturally appropriate mental health services.
"It's different norms and traditions—being mindful of that is really important in counselling because the conversations don't sound the same. They don't sound the same, first of all, in language, which is a factor when seeking support. And also in the framework of understanding those norms that are specific to the community," Saini said.
"Understanding there are gender differences, there are different traditional mindsets, and in a lot of these multi-generational households. There's a lot of different factors for each ethno-specific community."
Close to 40,000 Calgarians speak Punjabi at home as their primary language.
Within Calgary, the South Asian community makes up about 10 per cent of the entire population. Servicing the needs of the large and growing community, said Saini, isn't about privilege. It's about access to an essential service in the same way that's provided to the general population.
Another focus is on helping members of the South Asian community come to understand that mental health is just as important as physical health.
"We believe that mental health is just as important as physical health, and it is time for us to prioritize it as such," said PCHS counselor Sajjad Mahmood.
"There also needs to be community safety for people to feel like they have psychological safety."
Proactive support before a crisis
Saini said that the goal here was to bring power and agency back to people within the South Asian community around mental health services. They want to do it before that need becomes dire.
"The intention of this campaign and the event is to be proactive, and let people know that there is psychological safety in our community. That we should be having these conversations before people are leading to higher degrees of mental health issues, or turning to alcohol and drugs," Saini said.
"It's really unfortunate with our organization, people don't come to really answer 'how are they, really.' It's normally when they're past the point of there's no question that they're not OK."
She said that PCHS is not just a non-profit health organization. They're an advocate for the community in order to foster greater awareness and outreach for mental health.
"When I say advocacy, it's not just within the South Asian community, it's also within the mainstream sector, different levels of government, and really having to address that ethno-specific services are needed because they are a different community. The needs and nuances are different as well."
Another unique aspect of PCHS is that they serve both the victims of domestic abuse and the perpetrators. That's an effort to break the abuse cycle.
"We do really see that it is not a one-sided solution. To just support one side knowing that perpetrators are also in a cycle of violence that needs to end as well," Saini said.
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This is an odd blog post to be writing, but I am leaving Axisweb and MMU to take up a new role as a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham next week and wanted to say bye, and share a few things from working on the Models of Validation Project and the Social Works? Programme! First off is a massive THANK YOU to all the amaze people I have worked with on the Axisweb team, Amanda and everyone I have met/spoken to who has been involved in the project.
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I intend to keep in touch with the project as it develops. so I am not totally leaving everyone (can you tell I am sad). Anyway see ya for now and shout out to Silver Spice - the best home cooked curry in Wakefield where EVERYONE should be going for their £2.75 curry lunches - personal fave: potato and aubergine.


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Q: Asp.Net slow with IE 11 I have an Asp.Net 4.5 web application. Since we migrated to IE 11 we have the following
performance issue: Whenever I click on a button, the button stays selected for nearly
two seconds and then the request is executed. This does not happen with IE 10 or Firefox.
Is there any IE 11 specific configuration I have to consider?
I profiled the application with ants profiler, with Internet Explorer's developer tools
and Visual Studio debugger. I did not find anything special on java script side nor on server side.
We are using DevExpress controls and a little bit of jQuery.
I know that I am very general, but we have no idea, what the problem could be.

A: After removing all java script, jquery etc, the problem did not disappear.
So we investigated more into the page itself. The reason for performance problems
was an update panel we used. Adding the workaround from
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2000262
fixed the problem immediately.

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Q: Jenkins pipeline in IntelliJ with GDSL. Warning: 'node' cannot be applied to '(groovy.lang.closure)' I am using Jenkins with Pipelines and have defined a scripted pipeline using a Jenkinsfile. It looks something like this:
node {
  /* some stages */
}

I have imported the GDSL File that comes with Jenkins into IntelliJ. Now I got syntax highlighting but the whole file is being highlighted in a single warning block for which IntelliJ shows the following message:
'node' cannot be applied to '(groovy.lang.closure<Object>)'

I thought it might be that the node object is not supported as root by the syntax definition, but if i try to write pipeline as root then the same warning appears.

A: I found a solution. A small change is required in the pipeline.gdsl file (e.g. the GDSL file which was downloaded from Jenkins and placed into IntelliJ by us).
Find the following line in the gdsl file:
method(name: 'node', type: 'Object',
       params: [label:java.lang.String, body:'Closure'],
       doc: 'Allocate node')

And add this line in addition to the previous one:
method(name: 'node', type: 'Object',
      params: [body:'Closure'],
      doc: 'Allocate node')

This will create an overload definition in the Syntax tree that tells IntelliJ that the node method has two version one which accepts both a String and a Closure, and another which accepts only a Closure.

A: To solve the same issue, but with pipeline:

'pipeline' cannot be applied to '(groovy.lang.Closure)'

Add:
method(name: 'pipeline', type: 'Object', params: [body:'Closure'], doc: 'Pipeline root element')


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Internationally Renowned Spinal Surgeon Thomas J. Errico, MD, Joins Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Internationally renowned pediatric spinal surgeon, Thomas J. Errico, MD, has joined the Nicklaus Children's Hospital Orthopedic Surgery Program's Center for Spinal Disorders and Pediatric Specialists of America (PSA), the multispecialty group practice of Nicklaus Children's Health System.
Prior to joining Nicklaus Children's, Dr. Errico served as chief of the Spine Center at NYU Langone Health in New York City, where he led for more than two decades a team renowned for its innovation and patient-centric care.
"Dr. Errico is an internationally recognized expert our team has known for years," commented Harry L. Shufflebarger, MD, director of the Division of Pediatric Spinal Surgery at Nicklaus Children's Hospital.
Dr. Errico earned his medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, before completing a residency in orthopedics at NYU Langone Medical Center and a fellowship in spine surgery at Toronto General Hospital in Canada. Early in his career, he trained under three prior presidents of the Scoliosis Research Society: Dr. Gordon Engler, Dr. John Kostuik and Dr. Theodore Waugh.
Dr. Errico is board certified in orthopedic surgery. He holds more than 150 registered patents and has been instrumental in developing some of the latest and most innovative techniques in spinal surgery. Dr. Errico served as president of the International Society of the Advancement of Spine Surgery from 2010-2011. In addition, he was president of the North American Spine Society from 2003-2004. Dr. Errico has multiple publications in scientific journals and is involved in pediatric spine surgery research as part of the Harms Study Group, which is supported by the Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation and adult spine surgery research as a former member of the International Spine Study Group.
The Center for Spinal Disorders at Nicklaus Children's Hospital provides diagnosis and treatment of spinal disorders in children and teens. It has established itself as one of the most experienced and successful in the nation in treating spine disorders in children. In fact, the program's director – Dr. Harry L. Shufflebarger – was instrumental in developing surgical spine treatments now in use around the world and he continues to contribute extensively to clinical research to advance treatment practice. The team is among national leaders using dashboard reporting with colleagues around the country to develop best-practice guidelines. These standards have been implemented and significantly decreased the length of hospital stays after scoliosis surgery.
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This is a Forex Video Tutorial on "Set And Forget Price Action Forex Trading Strategies" This Video Explains How To Trade Set and Forget Forex Strategies So you Can Place a Trade, Walk Away From The Computer Screen and Still Have a Life and A Job…The idea behind this style of trading is that the trade will either be stopped out or make a profit. Enjoy!
In this video we are discussing the "set and forget" forex trading auto strategy. This means you let the market do its thing; walk away, set your orders and then forget the trade. This is a very simple trading strategy; we use price action signals to alert us to the trading opportunities, we then place a limit or market order to enter, place a stop loss, than place a conditional order to cancel the stop loss if the profit target is hit.
In this video we are looking at a GBPJPY daily candlestick chart and a price action reversal setup off the 147.00 level that alerted us to the trading opportunity in this market. I placed a sell on limit at 146.00, a stop loss just above 147.20, so say a 130 pip stop loss. The set and forget strategy places a conditional order to take profit at a minimum of 2 times risk, so a 260 pip profit target in the case of this setup.
If you sit there and watch the market and watch your charts you will invariably experience an emotional drama and are very likely to end up "meddling" in your trade and thus screwing them up.
This idea of walking away from the market and letting it do its own thing can be one of the best things you can do to improve the bottom line of your trading account. Removing yourself from the market and from looking at your trades is one of the best ways to eliminate emotion from your trading. Use my set and forget price action forex trading strategy to improve your forex trading.
Hi Nial, I just wanted to give a big thanks for your help. I've learned so much from your articles and I"be just started watching your Videos.
Really helpful great website too first time checking this out :).
This is good stuff you are doing nial. Keep up the good work.
I will be definitely giving this a go next week.
Thank you for making the VDO.
I find it difficult to not interfere with my targets, most times i modify my targets after getting into trades, exiting prematurely. What do you suggest i should do to improve in this?
If i don't watch my trades after entering won't i be loosing opportunity to learn from live price action ?
Thanks Nial ! You keep everything simple and easy to understand for others.
Nice and practical system. Thanks for sharing your field of expertise. This is simple and stressed free way of trading!
very educative video. may God be with you always.
130 pips, it s crazy! And takes way toooo much time to get 260.
Hey Nial I enjoy and learn from your course and really love your lessons.
thanks,Nial I"m very like you lesson.
I like the simple, clean approach. Also anything that gets me away from staring at charts. I'll give this a go. Cheers mate.
Set it, and Forget it! I love it. Well done on the video by the way. Very easy to understand. Great instruction.
I like your set and forget way of trading, when you watch the trade too much going on in your head. I trade mainly on the 4 hour time frame using moving averages, support and resistance and going with the trend. i am very interested in learning how to trade price action.
As always — nice and clear and simple. Can't wait to be joining you and your team later this month. I'm a 72 yr old Senior on a tight fixed income and your July Special is quite an offer and something I will be taking advantage of.
Nice one Nial,I've been confused by too many indicator type systems for a long time now.Not any more!!!
Awesome video as always. Looking forward to being able to sign up for your training course.
thank you very much for publishing your videos, they are indeed very instructional, effective and simple to understand.
You're an amazing guy, Nial, and I actually got a lot from your post. Mine is however a basic idea of how the forex market works, and I need more than that if I'm to trade. Would you teach me?
It's a pretty informative post.It's my first visit.I like very much your way of presentation.Some great information to be absorbed in this post.Thanks a lot for sharing.I have bookmarked this for my friends. Keep blogging.
Dear Nial,I am a begeiner trader and this video for me is like an encourageing to go on. You make in simple and you keep it simple,great video, thank you.
whoa!!Nial this video awesome,it just simplified the art of forex trading,thumbs up Nial.
As usual well done again. I love the simplicity of price action. Related to price action I am looking very closely at Point and Figure charting. This is a price only way of looking at the market with the focus on supply and demand.
Thanks again for your articles and method of trading.
I haven't yet started trading but I feel I can't wait to start already! Thanks Nial and may the good Lord, bless you always.
Thank you Nial you have really changed the way i look at the market.
thanks Nial… thanks for the article the other day about why traders fail. Given the market conditions the temptation to over trade has been relatively easy… infact too easy… so have been taking profit to reduce greed and risk…oddly enough I actually applied a rule which is "be patient"…as a result over the last few weeks I traded less and reworked my trading plan to keep it simple and made profit… I do use the 10 ema and RSI in my trading plan to keep me in check but otherwise I trade using price action to "set and forget"… and like in the video, I look at my trades at the end of NY session and review my trades for the next day… I first saw this video nearly a year ago and seeing this video again is confirmation to "keep it simple".
Nial, you are a blessimg to mankind. Thanks a lot. I followed your simple method today and made some pips.
I enjoy to read your pinbars charts and thank you for your teaching in freindly time and efforts.
I enjoyed this video and the simplicity of the concept. I thank you for your efforts.
The little voice in my head tells me that I want to do this, but shouldn't because if the trade turns around on me I need to get out. I wouldn't know if it turned around if I set and forget.
Nice going Nial!!!! Thank you teaching in such a freindly and simple manner.
Another Great Video. Thanks for keeping us in training through these free video lessons. I always enjoy each presentation that you do.


I Want to Kick the Feng Shui Confusion to the Curb!
Are you confused about Feng Shui?
If you are, you are not alone.
Why is Feng Shui such a confusing subject?
It was made so on purpose.
Who made Feng Shui confusing?
Chinese rulers who wanted to keep the true knowledge only for themselves.
How can one discern true knowledge from erroneous beliefs introduced into Feng Shui?
That's easy! Take this course and you will never be confused about Feng Shui again.
Moni has a gift for simplifying complex Feng Shui concepts and presenting the essential information in a clear, concise and easy to understand manner. This is a great course for learning the basics of Feng Shui quickly and easily. I really enjoyed and benefited from this course.
All Nine Steps to Feng Shui courses are written in such a way that you never feel overwhelmed by too much information. By providing small blocks of information, the material is easy to understand and assimilate, and fun to learn. It is extremely easy to stop and restart lessons and to go at your own pace.
SECTION 1; What is Feng Shui?
Great experience, easy to follow, easy to understand and quite different from what I had learned in the past.
Under each lesson, there is a section for comments. Post your question there and Moni will reply within 48 hours.


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Update below: On Wednesday, I ordered a Fedora laptop for $150. On Thursday, I called the reseller of this item to get a feel for customer service and figure out whether my buyer's remorse was justified.
As background, a Swedish company called Medison unveiled a laptop called the Celebrity, which is dirt cheap and runs Fedora. I ordered one as did a bunch of other folks.
On ZDNet and elsewhere thoughts about Ponzi schemes or worse came to the fore.
I called 2Checkout.com, the reseller that's handling orders for the Medison Celebrity, and talked to a customer service rep.
The experience was fine and I was on hold for about 3 minutes or so. The customer service rep assured me that Medison is a real company and not some scam.
I came away feeling better. Courtesy of a talkback to my prior post, I found a link that addresses my concerns in more detail. Apparently 2Checkout.com has had more than a few callers about this Medison laptop.
Our customers are our business, and we would like to assure you that your thoughts, as well as the overall web reaction in regard to this product have been closely monitored. From the earliest posting on slashdot and engadget to the wide breadth of current discussion, we have been keeping abreast of the marketing spread of the suppliers product, as well as the responses the campaign gathered. We understand the importance of viral information dissemination, as well as the value of the consumer investigations and feedback. Your warnings, excitement, and apprehension have all been noted and we are taking steps accordingly to ensure that your concerns do not go ignored, and to protect both your interests and ours.
Medison itself seems to be the source of the greatest customer concern. The company, while only recently a licensed business entity, has been in operation since 1996. All information we have received from them has been thus far verifiable and free of major discrepancies.
As a reseller for thousands of vendors multinationally, we are unable to maintain a personal, on site style of oversight of every account and seller. We do not require a company to provide an extensive, unquestionable groundwork of business experience to market their products via 2Checkout. Nor is it even feasible to do so without alienating the individual or small business reseller, who are most in need of a turnkey services such as ours. However we do have a detailed process of checks and balances, as well as active monitoring procedures, in place to ensure that in the event a supplier is unable to fulfill their obligations. Our end user customers will not bear the brunt of any unfortunate activity. These practices have of course been amplified in this particular case due to the scope of the vendor's activity.
We have nothing to gain from working with a non-reputable supplier, and in insulating our customers from abuse, are indeed the only ones with something to lose. Conducting honest, risk free transactions in all our resale activities is indeed as important to us as it is to you, and we strive for it at every turn.
2Checkout maintains strict shipping policies to ensure that no funds are removed from the buyers account before a product has been marked as shipped within our system. This ensures that not only will the supplier not be paid before the item has shipped, the customers card will not even complete the transaction, the funds will only be held in an authorized state. Furthermore, until the initial run of orders has been fulfilled and received by the customers, any deposited funds for products en route will be held within the vendors account pending receipt from the buyer.
My charge is protected and I'm confident in 2Checkout.com.
Medison is still sketchy to me and 2Checkout.com appears slightly worried about them.
And I'm evaluating why I'm so skeptical of Medison when I've purchased items from people I don't know at all via eBay. Is Medison any better or worse than Joe Schmoe from Louisville?
Update: I also started doing more homework on Medison. Here are a few more items to ponder.
There is a Yahoo Group for Medison and it appears that CEO Valdi Ivancic is directly responding to questions. His email address is also readily available. Crooks usually aren't this available.
"Communities on the web have been speculating if the company is yet another scam company trying to get money out of people placing orders on the product. Medison is therefore coming out with a promise to refund the money to those who, for some reason, would not get a laptop delivered within 3 months after the order was placed in the Medison web shop. Medison is doing business with a major banking institution in the USA who taking care of the credit card payments from the customers placing an order on the Medison Celebrity laptop.
It has been a tremendous pressure on the website the last 48 hours and we have had no chance to administrate and take care of all phone calls and incoming e-mails. The support line closed down temporarily due to unexpectedly high traffic."
Ivancic added that the support line will be up soon and Medison is swamped with orders.
"There is no need for people to worry about not getting the laptop delivered. If we don't deliver the laptop within 3 months after placing the purchase order, we will give you your money back. This way we want to make clear that Medison is not a scam company as some individuals have been spreading around the word on the communities. We are a serious company and we are here to stay!"
In the group there was also a back and forth about credit card refunds.
In addition, I checked the court filings and this subsidiary didn't show up.


Hi, I'm Albee. I'm currently using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010. I can't open my excel files directly by double clicking it, but I managed to open it by open the excel page and open the files within it. It pop up a window when I tried to open by double click. The window said that the excel file is not a valid win32 application. How can I solve the problem?
If not, navigate to one of such files, rightclick on it and choose open with.
Set the checkbox, to open it permanently with Excel.


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There Is Nothing Like A Dane
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
10/01/2014 - & October 2, 3, 2014
Carl Nielsen: Overture to Maskarade – Symphonies No. 5, Opus 50, & No. 6, "Sinfonia semplice"
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Gilbert (Music Director/Conductor)
A. Gilbert (© New York Philharmonic Orchestra)
Carl Nielsen is amongst the handful of composers of such singularity that one is frustrated in finding antecedents or followers. Yet as Maestro Alan Gilbert has known for many decades now, the Dane's singularity makes him the most challenging, most colorful, most (seemingly) accessible and (seemingly) enigmatic that he is having an obvious joy in conducting all the symphonies of this composer. He will have recorded all the concertos, the symphonies, and (hopefully) his Helios Overture, one of the most atmospheric tone poems of the last century.
Last night was (in Mr. Gilbert's words) "wall-to-wall Nielsen", and it attracted an almost full house, though I doubt they were totally familiar with Nielsen. Some of us wore our "I Heart Nielsen" badges with utmost pride. But the conductor didn't need a badge. He conducted the Maskarade overture like it was a circus parade. He conducted the very polarized Fifth Symphony with bravado, with stern attention to the percussion and wind solos, and, those countless fugues, with as much transparency as possible. (Those fugues are so complex that they can be unavoidably blurry in performances, unlike late recordings with their focused microphones.)
As for the Sixth Symphony, this was a virtual concerto for orchestra two decades before Bartók. Mr. Gilbert was tempted for the wild exaggeration–and he, thankfully didn't resist the temptation.
C. Nielsen (© Wikipedia)
Some people still don't know the music of Carl Nielsen, and trying to describe him is not easy. A story in the program tells of a meeting with the Danish master and Arnold Schoenberg in 1925, where the two of them apparently "chuckled" over which one was most dissonant, most erratic.
The truth is, that while Nielsen may have been a Brahmsian in his first few symphonies, he rode on the cusp from the Late Romantic to the Avant-Garde Apex. And while the dissonances are shown in his music, he, unlike Schoenberg, actually hid them, in the guise of a jester's motley or a satanic cloak, or in those amazing fugues, or in the most grandiose orchestral color.
Maskarade, then, was not only the title of the first work, it gives symbolic illustration of Nielsen the composer. Except that he doesn't wear a single mask. The music in the Fifth goes from luscious (if feral menacing) landscapes to wild percussion and snare cadenzas, from flute and clarinet solos to 19th Century Germanic landscape paintings, to the most delicious horn solos.
A Mahler or Bruckner or Rott did the same thing but retained linear continuity. Nielsen keeps the same motives, but he darts off in different directions at the unforeseen times.
Mr. Gilbert certainly has the orchestra to make these variegated moods live. After all, Leonard Bernstein had the same love for Nielsen. But his recordings of the Fifth, while rich and broad, didn't even attempt when the conductor did last night. Describing this symphony as a Manicheistic war between light and darkness", Mr. Gilbert made certain that the music rose above the polarity of emotions, he balanced the grand murals with the eccentric solos.
But it was in the Sixth Symphony that Mr. Gilbert gave a performance I could never even imagine. The glockenspiel opening, which was continued throughout the whole work, led to storms, tranquility, The second movement, called Humoreske, is played usually as a debonair parody. Mr. Gilbert decided to make it a full-fledged attack. This wasn't so much Harlequin as the original diabolic Til Eulenspiegel. For the introduction, he spaced out the different solos–triangles, drum tapes, wind notes– them over the orchestra. After that, Mr. Gilbert rode the orchestra like it was a mad bull, with burlesque trombone glissandi, percussion and flatulent sounds which should never be heard in a proper concert hall.
The third movement was yet another fugue (they were countless), and continued unto a full-fledged last movement which was–in both senses of the word–utterly grand.
The opening Maskarade will be part of the Gilbert-Nielsen recording cycle, but I could frankly watch that performance without the music. Mr. Gilbert, relatively conservative in his movements, here leaped and jumped, cued in everybody, and showed a physical enthusiasm for the composer which–even for the unsuspecting audience–was unavoidably infectious.
Harry Rolnick


Not every city has the proper political and social environment to sustain growth. In fact, there are some cities who are completely opposed to growth and work very hard to maintain the status quo, regardless of how the world is changing around them. Land developers and investors specifically look for cities that are fully open to growth and progress. Cities that have municipalities open to growth and development are prime locations to build large commercial and multi-family properties. These cities often have future land use maps where they outline land and color code them based on the zonings, or type of properties they will allow within the border. This is a city that is looking to grow and they actually have a plan for it.
These cities will be ready to help you with anything you need to get that land developed, especially with a growing population or major change in infrastructure. The cities that are not open to growth have three major characteristics that are clear signs that growth or development are NOT in their future. The first is purely political. Even if city officials are pro-business and development, well-organized opposition can sway votes and cause projects to die. Maybe not with the city, but with the people in the city as well.
The city officials may have an election coming up or there are strong opposing forces and any major moves may hurt their campaign and position. It could even carry to the lenders in that if they realize there is opposition, even though they could say "Yes," they will say "No," to avoid public ridicule. Politics can be a huge constraint to growth in a city. The second is that the people voted into local office are elected to keep the city the way things are. The politicians are put into office because of their commitment to keep things the same so growth and development are out of the question. They focus in maintaining not growing which is suicide for a developer. You can bet 30 acres of raw land zoned commercial will not be approved as a new mall or office park. The red tape and barriers would be so thick, that it would take years and years before a project would ever be approved- or ever approved for that matter. City officials would simply lay every obstacle in your route before they would allow such huge changes. These are the cities a land developer MUST avoid unless they want to spend 3-5 years spending money and trying to get a project approved.
The third is state law restricts local governments from planning growth. So the local government may have ideas, but the state restricts them from actually moving forward. There may be extremely strict guidelines or jurisdictions or even conflicting views between the local and state governments. And you know where this leaves the land developer or investor? In the middle running around with no real future for a project. This is where you do NOT want to find yourself. As you can see, there are multiple reasons as to why a land developer or investor would not want to work in a specific city. You can easily find out by asking to the local brokers. You can ask them if the municipality is open to development. They will either say, oh yes definitely. In fact, they may mention that the local government will provide tax incentives for the jobs that are created and will be willing to help any way they possibly can.
Or, you may get, our city government is very strict and it takes a while for projects to be approved. A simple discussion with the local brokers and even Chamber of Commerce will give you a good idea if they will be open to working with you and your proposal. Otherwise, no matter how good the deal looks theoretically, leave it alone if the city won't cooperate. Don't expect that red tape to disappear- it rarely does without a good, long, expensive fight. As a commercial real estate land developer or investor, the golden rule is to only work in cities that are willing to work with you. It makes the process so much easier and enjoyable working in a city that welcomes your presence and efforts.


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Oyo PDP Tells Dep.Governor To Resign Now
Nafisat Arogundade
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo state Monday asked the state deputy governor, Rauf Aderemi Olaniyan, to resign immediately having defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
PDP in a statement by its Oyo state publicity secretary, Akeem Olatunji, accused the deputy governor of willfully abandoning the political party and the votes that produced him as such on the party's joint ticket.
The PDP said any attempt by the defecting deputy governor and his new party " to steal Oyo people's mandate through the backdoor after the last ruling party was utterly rejected at the 2019 governorship poll" will be resisted legally.
The party stated that the PDP leadership in the state, South west region, and national levels all intervened at different intervals to resolve whatever the situation fueling the suspected defection plan but to no avail.
PDP stated that the defecting deputy governor, "should not pretend not to know what is right next to do after leaving the political platform that sponsored him and Makinde on the joint ticket if truly he has any atom of the Yoruba 'omoluabi' toga he always ascribed to himself."
PDP noted that while section 40 of the constitution of Nigeria guarantees freedom of association of any person, the deputy governor ought to be enlightened by the same constitution when it stipulated that the ticket upon which he contested the 2019 governorship election alongside Governor Makinde as a deputy was not an independent candidate ticket.
"Our position is simple and very clear on this matter and has legal implication. The votes in any election in Nigeria are to political parties and not candidates.
"And it is on this note that the PDP as the ruling party in the state is advising the deputy governor, Rauf Olaniyan, not to be carried away by the lies and deceits told him by a political neophyte such as 'Mr Jagba' and be bamboozled into self delusion of thinking that he can be used as a tool to steal Oyo people's mandate through the backdoor.
"Failure to follow this advice and adhere strictly to it from the PDP which is the legitimate owner of every single vote casted by the electorate in the 2019 governorship election, the PDP shall not hesitate to immediately deploy every constitutional means to prevent this daylight robbery.
"It is only when you contest election as an independent candidate and win and then decides to move to any political party of your choice that you become the owner of the votes cast by the electorate," the party stated.
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