FAQ: How Many Clusters Did You Use?
Both of my Bioinformatics papers above use the concept of bag of visual words. The first for classification, the second for pattern unmixing.
Visual words are formed by clustering local appearance descriptors. The descriptors may have different origins (see the papers above and the references below) and the visual words are used differently, but the clustering is a common intermediate step.
A common question when I present this work is how many clusters do I use? Here's the answer: it does not matter too much.
As you can see, if you use enough clusters, you'll do fine. If I had extended the results rightwards, then you'd see a plateau (read the full paper & supplements for these results) and then a drop-off. The vertical line shows N/4, where N is the number of images in the study. This seems like a good heuristic across several datasets.
Minimizing the AIC leads to lower accuracy! AIC was never intended to be used in this context, of course, but it is often used as a criterion to select the number of clusters. I've done it myself.
Punchline: If doing classification using visual words, minimsing AIC may be detrimental, try using N/4 (N=nr of images).
This paper demonstrates that microscopy images that were previously used for developing and assessing the performance of bioimage classification algorithms can be classified even when the biological content is removed from the images [by replacing them with white squares], showing that previously reported results might be biased, and that the computer analysis could be driven by artefacts rather than by the actual biological content.
Basically, the author shows that even after modifying the images by drawing white boxes where the cells are, classifiers still manage to do apparently well. Thus, they are probably picking up on artefacts instead of signal.
This is (and this analogy is from the paper, although not exactly in this form) like a face recognition system which seems to work very well because all of the images it has of me have me wearing the same shirt. It can perform very well on the training data, but will be fooled by anyone who wears the same shirt.
This is a very important work as it points to the fact that many previous results were probably overinflated. Looking at the dates when this work was done, this was probably at the same time that I was working on my own paper on evaluation of subcellular location determination (just that it took a while for that one to appear in print).
I expect that my proposed stricter protocol for evaluation (train and test on separate images) would be more protected against this sort of effect : we are now modeling the real problem instead of a proxy problem.
Computers can be much better than humans at this task.
Some (most? much of?) published literature overestimates how well computers do with the method being presented.
Note that there is no contradiction between the two, except that point 2, if widely believed, can make it harder to convince people of point 1.
 Normally, I'd review recent papers only, but this not only had this one escaped my attention when it came out (in my defense, it came out just when I was trying to finish my PhD thesis), but it deals with themes I have blogged about before.
 I tried a bit of testing around here, but it is hard to automate the blocking of the cells. Automatic thresholding does not work because it depends on the shape of the signal! This is why the author of this paper drew squares by hand.
Is Cell Segmentation Needed for Cell Analysis?
Is cell segmentation needed? Is this a necessary step in an analysis pipeline dealing with fluorescent cell images?
This is a common FAQ whenever I give a talk on my work which does not use segmentation, for example, using local features for classification (see the video). It is a FAQ because, for many people, it seems obvious that the answer is that Yes, you need cell segmentation. So, when they see me skip that step, they ask: shouldn't you have segmented the cell regions?
Remember Vapnik's dictum : do not solve, as an intermediate step, a harder problem than the problem you really need to solve.
Thus the question becomes: is your scientific problem dependent on cell segmentation? In the case, for example, of subcellular location determination, it is not: all the cells in the same field display the same phenotype, your goal being the find out what it is. Therefore, you do not need to have an answer for each cell, only for the whole field.
In other problems, you may need to have a per-cell answer: for example in some kinds of RNAi experiment only a fraction of the cells in a field display the RNAi phenotype and the others did not take up the RNAi. Therefore, segmentation may be necessary. Similarly, if a measurement such as distance of fluorescent bodies to cell membrane is meaningful, by itself (as opposed to being used as a feature for classification), then you need segmentation.
However, sometimes you can get away without segmentation.
An important point to note is the following: while it may be good to have access to perfect classification, imperfect classification (i.e., the type you actually get), may not help as much as the perfect kind.
 I'm quoting from memory. It may a bit off. It sounds obvious when you put it this way, but it is still often not respected in practice.
Available on figshare. Check it out!
Can't embed because WordPress would require me to pay a bit too much right now [it will probably be the only video I'll post this year].
I did this on Linux and was surprised at how much the open source video editing software has grown. Everything worked well and the interfaces were good. It only took a few hours (which seems a lot, but this might reach as many people as if I gave a talk and I'd certainly spend as much time preparing for a talk).
I wish I had a better microphone than my laptop microphone, though.
As I wrote on Wednesday, this paper has two main ideas: (1) traditional subcellular location determination systems do not generalize very well and (2) local features do better. I will now try to explain the first point in depth.
Evaluation of previous systems for automated determination of subcellular location from microscope images has been done using datasets in which each location class consisted of multiple images of the same representative protein. Here, we frame a more challenging and useful problem where previously unseen proteins are to be classified.
Define the classes of interest (e.g., the major organelles: nucleus, mitochondria, …).
For each class, choose a representative. It could be a protein which was fluorescently tagged or another fluorescent marker (like DAPI for DNA). In our work, we only used fluoresencent proteins, but the same logic applies to small molecular markers.
Collect multiple images of cells tagged with this marker.
Split up the set of images into training and testing groups. Learn a classifier on the training set, evaluate it on the testing sets.
Images of known proteins (left and right) are projected into a low dimensional space of features. Then an image of unknown label can be predicted by looking in this low dimensional space as well.
We can get very high accuracies, above 95% in some cases, with this family of systems, which have been interpreted as meaning that automated system can determine the location of proteins at high accuracies. There is a big hidden assumption in the reasoning, however!
The system is very good at recognizing this location.
The system is very good at recognizing this protein.
Under the second hypothesis, the system is very good at recognizing the marker you used for DNA (say DAPI), but may fail miserably when presented with another nuclear marker.
Fundamentally, to test between the two hypothesis above, we need datasets with multiple proteins per location. This is what we collected. And, when we tested the generalization ability of traditional methods, they fell short.
While a traditional approach was able to get 84% accuracy when it only needed to recognize the proteins it had been trained on (10 classes), it fell to 62% when it needed to recognize locations of new proteins. However, this is the important problem: to determine the location of new proteins, not the ones the system was trained on.
Over the next few posts I will explain how we tested this & then, finally, how we got some better results on this harder problem.
 There is an exception that I know of, from the beginning of the field: Danckaert et al. 2003 in Traffic. They used a neural network directly on the pixels with a single hidden layer. It would be very interesting to re-attempt this approach for cell images with the new technology in deep learning that was developed in the meanwhile (I don't have enough time to do it myself, so feel free to take this idea and run with it; or get in touch if you want to do it together).
 This image is in Wikipedia, but I put it there, so I don't need to credit it.
As you can see, this was 10 months in review, so I am very happy that it is finally out. To be fair, the final version is much improved due to some reviewer comments (alas, not all reviewer comments were constructive).
There are two main ideas in this paper. We could perhaps have broken this up into two minimum publishable units, but the first idea immediately brings up a question. We went ahead and answered that too.
1. The evaluation of bioimage classification systems (in the context of subcellular classification, but others too) has under-estimated the problem.
For each of these, select a representative marker (ie, DAPI for the nuclear class, &c).
Collect multiple images of different cells tagged with the representative marker for each protein.
Test whether a system trained on some images of that marker can recognise other images of the same marker.
Use cross-validation over these images. Get good results. Publish!
Here is the point of this paper: By using a single marker (a tagged protein or other fluorescent marker) for each class, we are unable to distinguish between two hypothesis: (a) the system is good at distinguishing the classes and (b) the system is good at distinguishing the markers. We show empirically that, in many cases, you are distinguishing markers and not locations!
This is a complex idea, and I will have at least another post just on this idea.
The natural follow-up question is how can we get better results in this new problem?
2. Local features work very well for bioimage analysis. Using SURF and an adaptation of SURF we obtained a large accuracy boost. The code is available in my library mahotas.
I had pointed out in my review of Liscovitch et al. that we had similarly obtained good results with local features.
I will have a few posts on this paper, including at least one on things that we left out because they did not work very well.
 All that I know. I may be biased towards the subcellular location literature (which I know very well), but other literatures may have been aware of this problem. Add a comment below if you know of something.


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Taichung Gateway park by Stan Allen Architects
Rose Etherington | 17 January 2008 9 comments
The proposed Taichung Gateway park by Stan Allen Architects will create a new urban district on the site of the former airport in Taichung, Taiwan.
The park, measuring 250 hectares, will provide the structure for future architectural and cultural development of the district.
Stan Allen Architects will also be designing several buildings to be integrated within the park.
The following text is from Stan Allen Architects:
TAICHUNG GATEWAY PARK
The municipality of Taichung, located one hour south of Taipei by high-speed railway, will create a new urban district on the site of the former municipal airport. This vast empty site offers an unprecedented opportunity to imagine a new urban paradigm that incorporates ecology, urbanism and architecture.
SAA's design integrates movement, program and ecology into a single system. The new image for the site is an immense green tract, an active site that distributes people, goods, bio-matter and energy throughout the site. It not only functions as the scaffolding for future development, but the figural void of the park creates a strong and progressive image for the future of the city.
Our proposal creates a single unifying element that incorporates as many program elements as possible: circulation, green space and natural ecologies, new cultural institutions research facilities, as well as major public attractors.
The new parkway infrastructure defines a zone of intense design investment while strategically opening up edges of the site to existing urban development pressures.
The project has just been awarded a Progressive Architecture Award (P/A Award) that should be announced in New York later this week.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


It's a pretty cloudy night here in NYC, but I did get some nice looks at tonight's Super Moon, Harvest Moon, Fourth In A Tetrad Lunar Eclipse. It was about here before a big cloud discouraged me and sent me back inside to fold laundry for a while; fortunately when I was done I decided to go back out and at that point it was fully eclipsed, deep red, and then one last look outside just now let me see the moon coming out from the other side of the shadow. Glad the clouds cooperated as much as they did and glad I gave getting a shot a shot - wasn't sure I would get anything but using a parked SUV (fortunately not one of those vehicles with the hair-trigger alarm) to steady the camera worked pretty well.
Norwegian Sea Stories and Bluegrass in Red Hook, Thursday, 9/24 - NOW FREE!
9/23 a.m. update - Carolina just contacted me and asked me to add that the concert is now FREE! Not sure what angel made this happen, and please do still register through Eventbrite (link further down), but - it's free! Donations to PortSide NewYork can still be made at the door or on their website, it's a good organization to support.
Helloooooo again from the usual September work madness! Got a backlog of things I want to post about but I'm gonna skip over those right now in favor of a quick lunch-hour sharing of a press release from my friend Carolina over at PortSide NewYork. They're hosting a terrific-sounding event featuring the NYC premier of Norwegian bluegrass Paradise Mountain Boys, who are generously donating this concert to support the organization, on Thursday night - sorry I didn't give a little more notice!
Tickets $15 on sale Event is FREE, please register at Eventbrite.
Love bluegrass? History buff? Interested in New York City's waterfront? PortSide NewYork has combined it all in one special night for you! Nestle in a sofa or dance into the night at the NYC premiere of the great bluegrass band Paradise Mountain Boys from Norway - and get yourself a NY WaterStory!
Produced by PortSide NewYork as part of our ongoing Red Hook WaterStories.
Norwegians were one of the major immigrant groups in Brooklyn from the late 19th to early 20th century. They were a major presence on NYC's working waterfront and on our historic ship, the tanker MARY A. WHALEN. They were first concentrated in Red Hook, Brooklyn. At their peak, there were almost as many Norwegians in Red Hook as there are residents in Red Hook today.
Hear about the first people to row across the Atlantic, Norwegians in 1896! And how Norwegian seaman stranded in here toughed it out in a Red Hook shanty town until Robert Moses cleared it out. and how Norwegians were a major presence on our historic ship the Mary A. Whalen .
BIO OF BAND PARADISE MOUNTAIN BOYS This is the NYC premier of the Paradise Mountain Boys! The band plays bluegrass the traditional way with all the band members around one microphone. Their six-piece acoustic outfit of mandolin, dobro, banjo, guitar and upright bass has its roots firmly planted in down-home acoustic music found in the Appalachian mountains. Traditional bluegrass and bluegrass gospel, with beautiful harmony singing is their thing.
7:00-7:45pm Ordering of food from local establishments (optional but there's some good food in Red Hook!), followed by three short history talks with slides. Speakers Lars Nilsen of the Norwegian Immigrant Association, Victor Samuelsen of the Norwegian Seaman's Church, John Weaver of PortSide NewYork.
Ha ha ha. "Cheerybabble resumes tomorrow", she said on Sunday, completely forgetting about how work gets in the middle of September, ha ha ha.
So I'll just change the order a little bit here and put Sunday of Labor Day Weekend first instead of going in date order. I went through my photos last night and put them up in a Flickr album - didn't caption yet but it's basically the race, the bow-to-bow pushing, the last competitor in the line toss contest, and then the spinach eating contests - didn't get much of the kids but Mandy and I had front-row seats for the adults and as usual, it wasn't pretty, but it was tons of fun!
Album ends with a dog ready for the mascot contest and a sailboat enjoying the quieting river. Click here to visit the album.
Terrific work as always by the Working Harbor Committee. Missed Capt. John Doswell but I know he would've been glad to see all of us out there having another great day celebrating the working boats of NY Harbor.
Happy Sunday! I'd planned to go back to my usual kayak cheerybabble today with a trip report from an unfancy but very nice solo paddle in J-Bay I went for on the 5th, but then I saw Tweezerman's comment on my 9/11 post. He mentioned the Boatlift video; I love that video, I loved what the maritime community did that day, and I'm so glad that I was able to play even the small role in those efforts that I did, helping out with the lines when Pier 63's John Krevey called some of the party boat captains who sometimes used his barge as a loading point for parties and offered the barge as an evacuation point. Being able to actually help people was such a good balance for the fearfulness of my underground morning flight from the WTC.
Photo taken from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, 9/11/2012. Remembering of course. We all have stories from the day; here's mine.
Well, ugh, September's going like a runaway train as usual and then some (more on the "and then some" when I'm good and ready and a little less swamped). I had a fabulous Labor Day weekend, hope yours was good too. I had a paddle and a swim and a tugboat race, there are a gazillion pix from the tugboat race that I just haven't had a chance to go through, so in the meantime, hey, how about another afternoon on Oahu?
Day 4 still, so woulda been Tuesday afternoon. I'd had a nice morning hike, I had a belly full of teri steak burger Buzz's style, which means basically a bunful of marinated, kiawe-wood-smoked steak (don't anybody clue them in about how usually "burger" means ground beef, OK?). I had wheels, I had some money, I had snorkel gear, and I didn't have to be anywhere at any particular time, so the afternoon was just free to flow the way it flowed - any trip should have some time like that, right? Ended up being a lovely smorgasbord of an afternoon - little of this, little of that, little of t'other.
I started with a stop at Lanikai Beach, reputed to be one of the most beautiful in the world. I'd heard snorkeling was pretty good here, so I'd decided to come check it out.
It is pretty, isn't it? And the sand is maybe the softest, finest sand I've ever felt anywhere. Mmm.
The problem with beautiful fine sand like this is that it doesn't take much wind and wave action to stir it up into the water. Beautiful beach, nice coral, good numbers of fish but visibility just wasn't good.
Fortunately this one honu decided to swim close enough for me to see, but after he went on his way, I decided to hele on. I left Kailua and headed for the North Shore, picking up the Kamehameha Highway in Kaneohe.
First stop was at He'eia State Park. I'd actually stopped here with thoughts of more snorkeling, Kaneohe Bay is good for that. Didn't find a promising place to get into the water (didn't look too hard though) but I was excited to see the He'eia Fishpond. This is a HUGE traditional Hawaiian fishpond that got taken over by invasive mangroves after the walls were breached in a flood in 1965, but it's been largely restored through the efforts of the not-for-profit group Paepae o He'eia and a whole lot of local volunteers. I had actually hoped to come volunteer here during my visit, I thought that would be a really fun, interesting, and maybe even moderately useful way to spend a morning, but they weren't having a work day while I was here. I made a small donation instead but I was delighted to stumble across it in my unplanned ramblings.
Also enjoyed seeing this shed sheltering traditional wooden canoes in various stages of construction.
Next stop was a totally unplanned one, just to grab a quick photo of the Hygienic Store. Then, back on the road.
For all of about twenty seconds, at which time I spied a sign on the side of this truck that proclaimed "HULI HULI CHICKEN". Remember when I was talking about the kiawe tree and how the wood is the key to the flavor of the classic island fundraiser, huli huli chicken? Well, huli huli chicken really is mostly sold as a fundraiser, so to get the real thing you have to find a school or a church that's doing it, which I hadn't done this time. BTW, if you're wondering about the name, "Huli" is Hawaiian for "flip over" (yes, when your canoe capsizes, it hulis). When an organization does a sale, the huli huli chicken company comes in with giant grills that are filled with kiawe wood and enough chicken for all the chickens people have ordered in advance plus extras for drive-ups drawn in by the smoke. The marinated chickens are put into these big frames with handles to cook, and when the cooks are ready to flip them, they yell, "Huli!". Hence, huli huli chicken! I was delighted to find a roadside stand selling the stuff.
Chicken and kalua pig plate with two scoop rice and mac salad (woohoo!). Onolicious!
I gave the chicken some rice. Chicken would've been weird.
Heading onward once again. Sun was getting low in the sky as I arrived at Shark's Cove in Pupukea, but there were still people out so I decided to join them. Third time will have to be the charm for a really good snorkel here, this time the light wasn't going to last for long and last time I'd locked my car keys in the trunk, which actually turned out to be lucky because otherwise I would've fried 'em in the drybag fanny pack that turned out not to be dry (this time I had a proper waterproof case that fit in the non-dry drybag nicely and that worked great) but it also meant not as much time as I would've liked. This is a lovely snorkel spot in the summertime (wintertime this is all big crashing waves).
Sea urchin - had to be really careful coming out later 'cause these guys are everywhere and it was getting pretty dark, but I made it ok.
four-spot butterflyfish, oh I really do have to make a proper visit here next time I come!
NOT THAT GUY AGAIN! This was actually a joke shot for Tane - when we'd gone to Hanauma Bay I was really shocked to see some guy snorkeling around with one of these ridiculous things - and then I was in hysterics 'cause he turned out to have ZERO sense of spatial awareness and somehow for a minute or two, wherever Tane tried to swim, da buggah was just always in her way. So I absolutely cracked up AGAIN when this guy is lining up the perfect selfie with sunset at Shark's Cove, so I took this and posted it on Tane's wall that night with the caption "Guess who was at Pupukea today!". Not the same guy but still funny.
And here's the sunset without selfie-stick guy. Prettier this way, yeah?
Farewell to Shark's Cove. I will be back!
After this it was dark so I decided to head on back to Lulu's place, bypassing Haleiwa.
And by the time I got back to Kapahulu Avenue I discovered I had enough room for one malasada. I posted this shot on facebook with the caption "Malasada Moon" - click the photo to see the moon better!
Lulu had warned me that Leonard's has gotten wildly popular and there's always a line. Wasn't too bad this night though and I had my malasada (and a mini pao doce for later consumption) pretty soon.
Malasadaaaaaaah! And that was the end of another great day.
Tuesday the 28th of July, I'd left pretty open. I was up pretty early (I'm not a morning person at ALL here in NYC, but since most of what I wanted to do on O'ahu was outdoors and required daylight, I took advantage of the time change that had me up much earlier than I usually am) and was out the door shortly after 8. First stop was at Snorkel Bob's on Kapahulu Avenue for mask, fins, and snorkel. I wasn't entirely sure of the whole day's plan yet but was I was pretty sure that there would be some snorkeling, probably at Lanikai Beach, which is by some accounts supposed to be the world's most beautiful beach.
First activity of the day ended up being a short hike on the Old Pali Road. This was kind of on a whim, I hadn't really thought of it until I was coming up on the offramp for the Pali Lookout, but this is another really nice short hike. I haven't really done it justice, treating it as a sort of a nice spur-of-the-moment addition to a day's activities, there are actually a couple of waterfall trails you can get to from the Old Pali Road if you give it a little more time, but once again, it's good to have something to look forward to on another trip trip. As it was, I just followed the old highway down to the new highway and turned around there instead of finding the ladder you use to get under the new highway and continue. It's another really nice easy trail, following the old highway as it does, and very lush and green and jungly, with sweet-smelling ginger to stop and sniff along the way.
View from the Pali Lookout, looking out towards Kaneohe. As usual, click on any photo for a better view!
View from the Lookout, looking at the knife-edged cliffs.
Plaque honoring the 50th anniversary of the old Pali Road, which opened in 1898.
Ignore the "Road closed" and "You shall certainly die from rocks falling on your head if you are foolhardy enough to pass this point" to get to the Old Pali Road trail.
Go to sleep, sleeping grass!
Lauhala. This tree's fronds are great for weaving; I actually had a lot of fun getting to try my hand at this myself later in the trip.
Octopus tree flowers. Wish I'd taken a picture of the entire growth that gives the tree its name - these branches covered with the flowerets grow in splayed multiple clusters, looking like octopuses reaching their arms out from the leaves.
Looking down at the tunnel that now takes drivers under the Pali.
Having worked up a nice appetite hiking, my next stop was Buzz's Kailua for lunch.
The only actual tropical drink of my entire trip, mainly chosen in honor of a co-worker who'd told me to drink a foofy drink for her. Special mai tai with pineapple juice - pretty yummy!
And what I really came for - kiawe wood grilled teriyaki burger, only somehow the chefs at Buzz's labor under the misapprehension that a "burger" is chunks of delicious tender steak on a bun. And I hope nobody ever tells them otherwise!
And now I needed to take a little time for the mai tai to wear off before I get back behind the wheel, so I walked over to Kailua Beach Park.
Ama like a bird - wonder if it makes the canoe fly?
Hibiscus - and that's it! Next up - first honu encounter of the trip!


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WG Grace and Don Bradman may be spinning in their graves at the news an English cricket club have switched to using a vegan ball from the traditional leather one.
Earley Cricket Club in Reading a town 64 kilometres west of London had already introduced a vegan tea for their players.
That was down to their founder and chairman Gary Shacklady who found most cricket club teas consisted of ham sandwiches, not much use to him when he became a vegan.
Now they have gone the full hog and introduced a vegan cricket ball - a synthetic animal products-free one covered in rubber instead of leather.
"It does behave like a leather cricket ball, but it bounces more and it's more difficult to grip," Shacklady told the Daily Mail.
"But we're enthused by it and we're hopeful of finding a better version."
Shacklady, who founded the club 12 years ago and at 33 is the youngest cricket club chairman in England, is hoping other clubs in their Berkshire Cricket League will follow their lead.
The school teacher says there was not much opposition when he proposed switching the tea to a vegan menu two years ago.
Ham and beef sandwiches have been replaced by the likes of Moroccan tagine, lasagne and meat-free spaghetti Bolognese.
"The teas have been well received as our players understand and support the reasoning behind the decision," said Shacklady, who set up the club 12 years ago.
"When other teams come to us, they pile their plates high.
"And when they eat the food, nobody complains.
"Although you usually get one middle-aged white man who is horrified - it's fine, he doesn't have to eat it. But the point is that everyone can."


LithophoneSS is a percussion instrument consisting of rock boards which are struck to produce musical notes. This stone instrument was discovered from the Stone Age remains, which may have existed for over 3000 years. The lithophone is similar to instruments such as the metallophone or xylophone however, unlike those instruments, it has clear natural sounds that would cleanse your soul. Experience this unique sound now!


If you missed out on the coverage of Lakmé Fashion Week, WeddingSutra has cherry picked the best of bridal looks from all the collections that were shown on the ramp.
Some pieces in this collection caught our eye for its use of darker colours such as gold, black, sindhoori and with a blend of intricate mirror work embroidery along with cut-danas.
Anushree Reddy's signature style of vintage flora fused with age-old Hyderabadi zardozi makes for romantic flirty lehengas. What's not to love?
Although there was no theme tying the collection together, there were a few lehengas worth considering if shopping for trousseau.
Modern cuts, contemporary silhouettes, subdued pastel color palette, understated embroidery – there is a lot that would appeal to brides who don't want the bling in this collection from Divya Reddy.
Ritu Kumar fans will not be disappointed. The collection had the trademark Ritu Kumar feel with silks and adami, Kyari, Shikargah and floral butis via the timeless gold and silver weaving of Benaras.
Silk sarees, lehengas, ghararas and farshis too – you can go old school traditional with Gaurang Shah's Samyukta collection. Gaurang has beautifully incorporated Kanjeevaram, Khadi, Uppada, Paithani, Benarasi, Patan Patola, Kota Dhakai and added traditional embroidery like zardozi, gotta, doria, Marodi, aari and chikankari to create a riot of colors.
While we may not understand the story line of this collection, there are a few interesting timeless lehengas here that we would recommend purely because Krishna Mehta has a great sense of color and cuts.
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The Office of Sustainability would like to announce the publication of our new Sustainability Toolkit for Meetings and Events. This guide will help faculty, staff, and students integrate more sustainable initiatives and facets into their meetings and events.
Our goal is to minimize the amount of materials and waste generated at events and to follow our Sustainability Value which is, to preserve our collective future by embracing the full impact of our decisions.
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On the second day of school Dylan received the "Star Student" award and was so excited and proud of himself. And I must admit, so was Mommy!
Little did I know this would be the first of many "Star Student" awards for my little boy. He is doing very well in Kindergarten and learning so much so fast. It's true what they say about kids ... little sponges!


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The $765 million proposed settlement between the NFL and players who sued the league for allegedly concealing a link between football and brain damage ended up in court-ordered mediation only after the judge told players' attorneys that the bulk of their case was in "real danger of being dismissed," a source familiar with the negotiations told "Outside the Lines."
And while NFL attorneys confidently indicated that they would take the case to court, U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in the same discussion in her Philadelphia court chambers in July told league attorneys that at least part of the case was likely to survive, a possibility that would expose the league to potentially embarrassing disclosures and a continuing public relations nightmare.
Thus began a seven-week odyssey that culminated with Thursday's settlement announcement. The settlement, which still must be approved by Brody, would put $675 million of the $765 million aside to compensate former players and families of deceased players who have suffered cognitive injury. Other money will be used for baseline medical exams, and research and education at a cost of $10 million. Once it covers attorneys' fees of players, the league will pay out close to $1 billion.
Shortly after the July meeting with Brody, Christopher A. Seeger, a litigation attorney who represented the players, and Brad S. Karp, a partner with one of the NFL's outside law firms, met to discuss a potential settlement. The two men had held preliminary discussions as early as the previous August, but negotiations did not become serious until after the July meeting. Those negotiations, which involved former U.S. District Judge Layn Phillips, the court-appointed mediator, included dozens of sometimes-heated meetings and phone conversations and continued as late as 2 a.m. the day the settlement was announced.
Once in mediation, the players demanded slightly more than $2 billion to settle the case, the source said. The NFL indicated that it was unwilling to offer more than a token settlement and said it was prepared to try the case.
One attorney who represents dozens of players but was not directly involved in the negotiations said he was told that the NFL had initially offered "peanuts" and that the proposed compensation was commensurate with a "dog-bite" case. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello declined to comment Saturday.
Brody had signaled that she was going to side with at least part of the league's argument that some players covered by the collective bargaining agreement should not able to sue the league. That would have gutted the lawsuit in two ways. First, it would have removed many of the nearly 6,000 former players and/or their families suing, including, lawyers for the players believed, players who appeared in the league from 1994-2010, the controversial period at the heart of the lawsuit. Second, those who remained would have faced a major hurdle proving fraud allegations, given that the NFL's controversial concussion committee wasn't formed until 1994.
Even so, as meetings continued with Phillips and Brody, it became clear that the NFL was potentially facing years of litigation, even if many of the plaintiffs were to be tossed out of the case.
The negotiations became more urgent during the past two weeks, the source said. For the players, part of the urgency was forced by a Sept. 3 deadline that had been set by Brody for the two sides to report back to her. Lawyers for the players had become convinced that Brody would not extend the deadline and was prepared to make a decision that might weaken the lawsuit significantly. For the NFL, the pressures were clear. The league was eager to avoid having the matter hanging over the 2013 season.
To encourage a settlement, Brody repeatedly reminded the NFL about the continuing public relations damage. "She put a lot of heat on both sides and didn't let us get comfortable," the source said.
The meetings usually took place in New York at the offices Seeger Weiss LLP and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. The meetings included up to a dozen people, including one lawyer from the NFL, along with Phillips. Only a handful of the many attorneys hired by players took part in the settlement negotiations.
Lawyers for the players consulted with economists and actuaries to try to calculate how much money would be needed to cover the neurocognitive needs of retired players now and in the future. The calculations are difficult, in part because of the continuing debate over the science and the lack of knowledge about the prevalence of neurodegenerative disease in former players.
Part of the NFL's strategy to bring the players' monetary demands down included pointing out that years of litigation would have the effect of denying the players -- many of who needed medical and financial assistance -- the help they needed.
Some players and their families have criticized the $765 million settlement as too small to matter for an industry that generates nearly $10 billion annually. Including legal fees, which have not been determined, the financial burden to the NFL is likely to approach $1 billion. If a significant number of players were to exercise their right to opt out of the settlement agreement, Brody has the option of not accepting the settlement overall or issuing a ruling on the league's motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
According to the source, Brody, in the July meeting and in several follow-up discussions involving either her or the federal mediator, indicated to players' attorneys that they faced significant legal challenges. "Don't you think this case can be settled -- a lot of guys are going to be out of court," Brody told lawyers for the players, the source said. The source added: "The comments were always very consistent, it wasn't just posturing. It was, 'You guys have real legal hurdles here.' "
Lawyers for the players feared that among those disqualified would be players who appeared in the league from 1994 through the mid-2000s. During that era, a research arm assembled by former commissioner Paul Tagliabue repeatedly denied that concussions led to long-term brain damage in NFL players and attacked independent scientists who asserted otherwise.
That likely would have left older, retired players who were most in need of attention but had a more difficult case that the NFL concealed the connection between the sport, concussions and chronic neurodegenerative disease.


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BTS Achieves First Ranking of the Most Popular Boyband in Social Media
By : Chodijah Febriyani And Aldi Firhand A | Sunday, March 18 2018 - 18:48 IWST
Gov't to Boost Digital Connectivity in E. Nusa Tenggara
Shawn Mendes Promises Collaboration With BTS Will Happen
MV Dope Bangtan Boys Touch 300 Million Views
INDUSTRY.co.id - South Korea - The charm of South Korean boy band Bangtan Boys or commonly called BTS is back to success. The reason, a music analysis company, Next Big Sound gives ratings to the most popular artists in social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Wikipedia and Tumblr.
Quoted from billboards, Saturday (17/3/2018) assessment method based on the addition of friends, fans and followers along with the artist's appearance. And, the results have been set on March 8, 2018 ago.
As a result, the upbringing of the agency Big Hit Entertainment is leading with the acquisition of 34.2 million mentions on Twitter and 1.3 million reactions on YouTube. Meanwhile, EXO dropout from SM Entertainment, was ranked second with the acquisition of 525 thousand readers on Wikipedia, and 985 thousand reactions on Instagram.
Then, the third position is occupied by GOT 7. Previously, GOT7 had occupied the top position on the world's leading chart, Billboard with Mad album which was released in 2015 ago.
And, for the first time Wanna One entered in the top five with the acquisition of 7.3 million reactions on Instagram and 58 thousand new followers and fans.
Gov't Issues Regulation on Songs, Music Copyright Royalties Management
A Pink Will Hold Concert in Jakarta in Late September
Kanye West Give Offers To Fill The Deadpool Film Soundtrack
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Me, Myself & Shirley
Cindy Williams To Star In One-Woman Show
By Kathleen Bennett
Cindy Williams will take the stage at the Annenberg Theater in the West Coast Premiere of her one-woman show, Me, Myself & Shirley for a limited four-show engagement January 20-22, 2022. Tickets are on sale now and available at www.MeMyselfandShirley.com All Seats, all shows $55.00.
The legendary star of the iconic comedy series, Laverne & Shirley will share memories of her career and hilarious backstage tales from her lifetime in entertainment. Although best known for her role as Shirley Feeney, Cindy Williams is a versatile actress and comedienne who overcame a challenging childhood to pursue her love of acting and found stardom.
During Me, Myself & Shirley, Williams will chronicle the stories, the secrets, the embarrassing moments, and the highs and lows of her life in Hollywood. Her career includes working with Academy Award- winning directors Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, George Cukor, Roger Corman and Jack Nicholson and in several films including two nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: American Graffiti and The Conversation. Her friends and co-stars include Penny Marshall, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler, Richard Dreyfus, Gene Hackman, Dame Maggie Smith, Gene Kelly, Andy Kaufman, and Robert Duval.
Me, Myself & Shirley creative team includes lighting design by Jose Santiago, video logistics by Josieu Jean, video designs by Declan Duggan & Zak Hudson, Justin Duggan as production associate, and production supervision by Charles H. Duggan.
About Cindy Williams
Born in Van Nuys, California, Cindy became interested in acting during high school. After graduation she attended L.A. City College where she majored in Theatre Arts. After leaving college, she landed her first television roles on Room 222, Nanny and the Professor and Love, American Style. Some guest-starring roles include Law & Order: SVU, 7th Heaven and 8 Simple Rules. Other appearances include starring in an episode of The Odd Couple for CBS, A Dream of Christmas for Hallmark Channel and Sam and Cat for Nickelodeon.
Cindy's stage credits include the national tour of Grease playing Miss Lynch, the national tour of Deathtrap with Elliot Gould, The Female Odd Couple with Joanne Worley, Steel Magnolias as Ouiser Boudreaux and, in 2007, she made her Broadway debut in the role of Mrs. Tottendale in the award- winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone. She also appeared as Rev. Mother Mary Regina in Nunsense and Nunset Boulevard: The Nunsense Hollywood Bowl Show. Cindy appeared in Menopause: The Musical in Las Vegas for three years, then reprised her role at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. She also co-starred in the premiere of Middletown with Don Most, Didi Conn and Adrien Zmed at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas and at The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Cindy has enjoyed the privilege of working with extraordinary directors. Her first film was for Roger Corman in GAS-S-S-S with Talia Shire and Ben Vereen. She appeared in Travels with My Aunt with Maggie Smith, directed by George Cukor, and The Conversation with Gene Hackman, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Next, she co-starred with Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford in American Graffiti directed by George Lucas, a low-budget film that went on to become a box office smash and film classic.
Among her favorite honors are her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, her TV Land award for Fan Favorite as well as winning Best Actress at the L.A. Comedy Film Festival for the Indy film Stealing Roses. Cindy also garnered a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) nomination for best supporting actress in American Graffiti. Unfortunately, she was beat out by Ingrid Bergman. Cindy still wonders how the heck that happened.
Cindy's book Shirley, I Jest!: A Storied Life was released to much critical acclaim and is available in paperback.
Connect with Me, Myself & Shirley: www.MeMyselfandShirley.com
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WHAT: Cindy Williams starring in Me, Myself & Shirley, a one-woman show
WHEN: Thursday, January 20 at 7:00 pm; Friday, January 21 at 7:00 pm, Saturday, January 22 at 2:00 pm and Saturday, January 22 at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Annenberg Theater, Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 N Museum Dr,
TICKETS: All Seats, All Shows: $55.00 at www.MeMyselfandShirley.com
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ULI Japan Council Meeting - Fall 2022
Hibiya Mitsui Conference Hibiya Mitsui Tower Tokyo 100-0006 JAPAN
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Presentation - Mr. Joseph Kraft
Presentation - Mr. James Kondo
Panel Discussion - Asia Pacific Market Overview
*Council-members only. The registration link has been shared with the members by email.
Joseph Kraft
CEO, Rorschach Advisory Inc.
Joseph Kraft was born in 1964 in Yokosuka, Japan. He graduated with a business degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. Joined Morgan Stanley in 1986 and transferred to its Tokyo office in 1987. At Morgan Stanley, he specialized in currency option trading, and from 2000 oversaw FX and fixed income trading as Managing Director. In 2007, he joined Dresdner Kleinwort Tokyo as head of Capital Markets and from 2010 he joined the Bank of America Tokyo where he served as Deputy Branch Manager and Head of FX Sales & Trading. In 2015, Kraft started Rorschach Advisory Inc., which focuses on providing economic and political research on Japan to investors. Additionally, he was appointed as an outside Board Director at SBI FX Trade in 2017 and at Sony Group in 2020. He speaks fluent Japanese.
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James Kondo
Chairman, Board of Directors, International House of Japan
James' career spans policy, technology, academia and social arena. In the policy arena, James was President of the Asia Pacific Initiative (API) that merged with the International House of Japan. He was also Special Advisor at the Cabinet Office and a co-founder of the Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI). In the technology arena, James is Co-Chair, Silicon Valley Japan Platform and Co-Chair, World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan. He was previously Chairman of Twitter Japan and Vice President of Twitter Inc. In academia, James is Visiting Professor at Keio Medical School. Previously, he was Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi Business School, Visiting Scientist at MIT Media Lab, and Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. In the social arena, James co-founded TABLE FOR TWO, a Davos-initiated social program that simultaneously addresses global hunger and obesity, and Beyond Tomorrow, a youth leadership and scholarship program established after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011. He is also a Global Trustee and Japan Co-Chair of Asia Society. James was a visiting student at Brown University, graduated from Keio University and Harvard Business School and was a World Fellow at Yale University. He was selected: Young Global Leader, New Asian Leader, a member of Global Agenda Council at the World Economic Forum, Asia 21 Fellow at Asia Society, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, and Inamori Fellow of Inamori Foundation.
Khoo Teng Chye
Chairman, ULI Asia Pacific
Mike Owen
Executive Director, ULI Japan
Jaryoung Choi
IGIS Asset Management Co., Ltd
Choi has 20 years of experience in the real estate and distribution sector at Nomura Research Institute in Seoul. Since December 2021, she joined IGIS as managing director of IGIS's Future Strategy Center (Strategy & Research) where she oversees investment strategies development and business growth strategies of the firm.
Jean de Castro
Chief Executive Officer, ESCA Inc.
Jean is the CEO of ESCA Inc., a Filipino-owned full service Engineering Firm that provides Engineering Design, Project Management and Building Information Modelling (BIM) services to local and foreign clients for more than 35 years. She is also the CEO of ESCA International Inc. (EII), an engineering outsourcing company that provides high value outsourcing services to clients abroad. Jean is a certified BIM Manager by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) of Singapore and a certified Program Manager under the Philippines Constructors Association (PCA). She is an experienced litigator with extensive construction arbitration and commercial litigation experience from her years with Villaraza Cruz Marcelo and Angangco Law Offices and MOSVELDTT Law Offices. She is also a trained arbitrator of the Philippine Dispute and Resolution Center (PDRCI). She recently graduated from the Senior Executive Institute (SEI) Program of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) in the United States. She worked with Bloomberg TV Philippines as a business news anchor for "First Up", which included segments focusing on the real estate industry. She was also a Consultant of the Privatization and Management Office of the Philippine Government where she advised on conflict of claims, privatization, joint venture agreements, negotiated procurement and public bidding of government assets. Jean was an Oblation Scholar at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where she graduated magna cum laude from the Political Science Program. She received her law degree from the same university in 2006, finishing fifth in her class. She passed the Bar for the following year. She joined Villaraza Cruz Marcelo and Angangco as a litigation associate in 2007 where she was consistently awarded Best Associate and was promoted in 2010 to Senior Associate.


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Helt Supports Abolishing Most Vaccine Exemptions
Posted: 2019-02-25 10:58:00	by Danise Lee
SALEM, OR -- The Measles outbreak in the Pacific Northwest has prompted State Representative Cheri Helt (R-Bend) to co-sponsor a bill that would end non-medical vaccination exemptions for school children. She says many preventable childhood diseases are making a troubling comeback, "We are seeing diseases that have previously been eradicated coming back, with this recent measles epidemic, and I believe this is only the tip of the iceberg."
Helt tells KBND News she realizes some groups will be upset with the provisions in the bill, "This legislation takes away all exemptions except medical exceptions, to opt out of vaccines." That includes religious exemptions. She says the focus is on improved public health and dispelling immunization myths, "These medications are scientifically proven;, they're safe, and they save lives. We have to make sure that we are able to have everybody get them because they are not effective unless everybody gets them." She says there's a growing, but misguided, public sentiment that vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they prevent. She hopes HB 3063 will help educate parents, "We could see Polio come back; we could see Rubella come back. And we have to prioritize, as legislators, for public safety."
The bill remains in committee. "One of the things that you will see from me as a legislator is that I lead with my heart and I lead with my mind," says Helt, "And this is at the heart of what I believe is right, to make sure that we're prioritizing public health."


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HomeTURKEYMarmara Region34 IstanbulTurkey to Share Vocational Education Reform with OECD Countries
Turkey to Share Vocational Education Reform with OECD Countries
28/11/2022 34 Istanbul, Education, GENERAL, HEADLINE, Marmara Region, TURKEY, Life
In cooperation with the OECD and the Ministry of National Education, the conference titled "Building a Future-Ready Vocational Education and Training System: Learning the Experiences of Vocational Education and Training Reforms in Turkey" to discuss the reform carried out by Turkey in the field of vocational education, OECD countries and non-members will be held with the participation of many countries.
Hosted by the Ministry of National Education, with the cooperation of the OECD and the European Education Foundation, the OECD - Turkey Vocational Education Conference to be held on December 1, 2022 at the OECD Istanbul Center will be attended by countries such as Austria, Switzerland, Albania, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Croatia, Morocco, Slovakia, and Georgia. Many international organizations and our country's business world, sector representatives and NGOs will participate as well.0
Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer made an assessment regarding the OECD-Turkey vocational education conference and said, "We met with OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann in Paris, where we went to attend the 'Transformation of Education Preliminary Summit' in Paris in June. Secretary General Cormann enthusiastically welcomed the transformations Turkey has made in the field of education, especially in the field of vocational education. The Secretary General said that we should share this experience with OECD countries and other countries in the region for inspiration. In this context, we will host a vocational training summit in Istanbul with the participation of OECD countries and non-member countries." said.
Regarding the content of the conference, Minister Özer said, "At the conference to be held under four thematic groups, the suitability of vocational and technical education to the needs of the labor market, innovations in vocational and technical education, flexibility and inclusiveness in vocational and technical education, and transition support after vocational and technical education will be discussed." gave information in his words.
Özer stated that Turkey has made a silent revolution in the field of education in the last twenty years and said, "Turkey is not mind-blowing in this way; It has become a country that transfers its experiences to other countries and shares its experiences. This is a source of pride for us. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this point, especially our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan." used the phrases.
The conference will share experiences with policy makers and social partners from OECD countries and other countries on policies and practices that are sensitive to vocational education systems, flexible, innovative and supporting the transition of students to the changing business world.
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Red Bull BC One E-Battle Last 8 Contestants Sharing Their Trumpets
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OECD Istanbul Headquarters Opened
Alstom Turkey with Haydarpaşa Anatolian High School Vocational and Technical Education Cooperation Memorandum Signed Between
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Vocational Training for Yüntaş Drivers
Vocational Training Centers Liaison Offices Open
Cooperation between MEB and TOBB in the Field of Vocational Training Centers
A New Era Has Started at BELTEK Vocational and Technical Education Courses
EU Vocational Training Project in Cooperation with TCDD and ADIF
EGO Driver Training
TCDD Vocational Training and Summer Internship Applications
TCDD Vocational Training and Summer Internship Applications Postponed
Logistics Vocational Training Center Project to Sign Contribution to Employment
Vocational Training Center of ESO sets an example
UTİKAD Added Another New to Online Vocational Training Seminars
A Resource of 4,6 Billion Liras in the Last Two Years for Vocational Education Programs
Vocational Training Cooperation Between MEB and Maritime Chambers
First Justice Vocational Training Center in Prison Opened
ESOB Vocational Training Center Liaison Office Opened
Eskişehir Chamber of Industry Vocational Training Center Opens
International Vocational Training Days Held for the First Time in TRNC
New Regulation by MEB to Strengthen Vocational Training Centers
Skilled Hands Meet Vocational Training Fair Has Started
Employment Guaranteed Vocational Training Course from BUTGEM
Demolition Works of Heavily Damaged Buildings Started in Düzce
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On Feb 1st, 2011, ESPN analyst Jay Bilas joined Twitter. Three years later he has amassed 658,000 followers. He followed no one, not a single soul…until today. Meet Jay's first follower, @adorablelacey, an 8-year-old cancer survivor adopted by the Michigan State basketball team. We've written about Lacey Holsworth a few times, most recently on Sunday when she helped the Spartans cut down the nets in Indianapolis.
Naturally, Lacey was quite shocked when she heard about her new follower.
Lacey had a setback recently, suffering a seizure on Wednesday. But she's up and around already, fighting like she always has. Here's how you can help Lacey and her family.


Learn ways to talk to your children about the importance of managing money. To be presented by Ms. Jing Wang of New York Life Insurance.
Another strong turnout for this year's Chinese New Year Party, friends and families gathered to enjoy good food, performance, and games. Wish everyone a prosperous Year of Rooster.
CCLS hosted a trick or treat session between classes on Friday, October 28. A yearly tradition, this event is a favorite for students of all ages.
Another fun day and superb turnout in this year's CCLS summer outing. Over 120 people signed up for the event, and we could not have asked for better weather (barring from swimming in the pond 🙂 Thank you everyone for your participation and great help making this year's CCLS Summer Classic a success!


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Sultan Shah (muerto en 1193) fue un demandante del título de Shah de Corasmia desde 1172 hasta su muerte. Él era el hijo de Il-Arslan.

En 1172 Il-Arslan murió y sus hijos comenzaron a pelear por quién lo sucedería. Sultan Shah era el hijo menor, pero se lo consideraba el heredero formal y su madre, Terken Khatun, lo colocó en el trono. El hijo mayor, Ala ad-Din Tekish, huyó al Kanato de Kara-Kitai y pidió que lo entronizaran en lugar de su hermano, prometiendo un tributo anual a cambio. Le dieron un gran ejército, y pronto partió hacia Corasmia.

Sultan Shah y su madre, al enterarse de la llegada de Tekish, decidieron huir, y Tekish se instaló en Corasmia sin oposición en diciembre de 1172. Sultan Shah y Terken Khatun lograron obtener el apoyo de Mu'ayyid al-Din Ai-Aba, un ex emir selyúcida que se había establecido en Nishapur desde el colapso del poder selyúcida allí. En 1174 dirigió un ejército en Corasmia, pero fue derrotado, capturado y ejecutado por Tekish. Después de la muerte de Ai-Aba, el Sultán Shah finalmente encontró refugio con los Guridas, pero Terken Khatun fue perseguida y asesinada por las fuerzas de Tekish.

A fines de la década de 1170, el kan de Kara Kitai recordó a Sultan Shah, que todavía vivía en el territorio Gurida. Tekish se había vuelto rebelde, negándose a pagar tributo y matando a los oficiales de Kara Kitai. Sultan Shah salió del exilio y un ejército de Kara Kitai fue enviado para reinstalarlo como Shah de Corasmia. Tekish logró detener esta ofensiva, sin embargo, abriendo los diques del Amu Darya, inundando el camino del enemigo.

La mayor parte del ejército Kara Kitai decidió regresar a casa, pero el sultán Shah convenció a su comandante de que dejara un contingente de tropas con él. Con esta fuerza se dirigió a Jorasán, todavía bajo el control de varias tribus Oghuz y emires Selyúcidas. Logró derrocar a varios gobernantes locales, lo que resultó en la conquista de Sarakhs, Tus y Merv en 1181. También hostigó a los territorios Guridas alrededor de Badghis.

Durante los siguientes años, el Sultán Shah siguió siendo una amenaza para Tekish, quien se vio forzado a realizar expediciones a Jorasán varias veces como resultado. A pesar de esto, Sultan Shah no pudo lograr ningún avance significativo contra su hermano. También tuvo problemas ocasionales con los Gurida; en una campaña 1189/1190 invadieron su territorio, lo derrotaron y tomaron algunas de sus posesiones.

En 1192, el sultán Shah decidió lanzar una expedición contra Corasmia, aprovechando la ausencia de Tekish allí; este último estaba en ese momento en el oeste de Irán tratando con los selyúcidas de Hamadan. Mientras la campaña estaba en curso, sin embargo, él murió (1193) y Tekish se apoderó de algunas de sus posesiones, reuniendo las tierras Corasmias.

Bibliografía
Biran, Michael. The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Boyle, J. A. . The Cambridge History of Iran Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1968.

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Classical music: Here are many more FREE online and streamed concerts to follow and listen to as you quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 public health crisis and coronavirus pandemic, live streaming of concerts has taken off. It started with daily broadcasts of past productions by the Metropolitan Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic.
Local organizations have followed suit. They include the Madison Symphony Orchestra; the "couchertos" of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra; the twice weekly "tiny desk concerts" by the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society sent to email newsletter subscribers and other recorded audiovisual performances; and local recordings made by Rich Samuels and aired on WORT-FM 89.9.
Here is a compilation, from the British radio station Classic FM with many other FREE listings that also get updated: https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/live-streamed-classical-music-concerts-coronavirus/
Here is another listing of FREE live streams and archived performances from Minnesota Public Radio (MPR): https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2020/03/16/free-online-classical-concerts
And below are several more that The Ear has checked out and recommends:
CARNEGIE HALL LIVE
Carnegie Hall (below), America's premier concert venue, has started a series of live streams that include world music, jazz and of course classical music.
The format includes conversation and remarks from homes as well as first-rate live performances from the past. (You can also hear many of the concerts on radio station WQXR in New York City: https://www.wqxr.org)
This past week, The Ear heard an outstanding concert with three pianists, all of whom appeared in Madison last season: Emanuel Ax, who performed an all-Beethoven recital at the Wisconsin Union Theater, played the piano and acted as host; Orion Weiss, who performed a Mozart concerto with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra; and Shai Wosner, who gave a terrific master class and a memorable recital on the Salon Piano Series at Farley's House of Pianos. If you missed it, it is still archived and accessible.
On this Thursday, April 30, at 1 p.m. CDT you can hear violinist Joshua Bell with pianist Jeremy Denk and cellist Steven Isserlis.
Here is a link: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Watch-and-Listen/Live-with-Carnegie-Hall?sourceCode=31887&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsYigzumB6QIVjIbACh061Qz2EAAYASABEgJE3fD_BwE
Deutsche Grammophon, the world oldest record label, which was established in 1898, has several online series of live streams and archived concerts.
They include "Moment Musical" (Musical Moment) by Daniel Barenboim and guest artists, broadcast from the Pierre Boulez Saal (concert hall) in Berlin.
Barenboim, who started as a child prodigy pianist and ended up being a world-class conductor who once headed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has done solo piano and chamber music concerts with the Piano Quintet and two solo pieces by Robert Schumann; the epic Diabelli Variations by Beethoven; and an all-Chopin program of encores. You can also find individual ones on YouTube.
Along more promotional lines, DG also offers a "Best of" series that features movements and excerpts from their newer recordings by some of the best known artists – including pianists Lang Lang, Danill Trifonov, Yuja Wang, Vikingur Olafsson, Jan Lisiecki and Seong-Jin Cho; conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Andris Nelsons; opera singers Anna Netrebko and Elina Garanca.
Here is a link to DG's homepage from where you can get to the various series: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC34DbNyD_0t8tnOc5V38Big
Closer to home, every Friday you can listen to weekly concerts by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra called "Musical Journeys."
Performers include the MSO's new music director Ken-David Masur as well as guest conductors like Jeffrey Kahane and the past conductor Edo de Waart.
You can hear the past five episodes, and join new ones. You can also hear past concerts by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (below) on Wisconsin Public Radio. Broadcast time is Sunday at 2 p.m.
Here is a link to Musical Journeys: https://www.mso.org/about/music/mso-musical-journeys-5/
VIOLINIST DANIEL HOPE AT HOME
British violinist Daniel Hope – who has performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra — has been streaming chamber music concerts from the living room of his home in Berlin.
A prolific concert artist and 25 recordings and four Grammy Award nominations to his credit, Hope (below) has many invited guests and offers a wide range of repertoire.
Here is a link with past episodes. You can also click in upcoming episodes: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC-019356/hope-home/
Are there other sites and streamed performances that you recommend?
Please leave the name and a link in the Comment section.
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Classical music: WQXR radio names 19 musicians to watch in '19. What do you think of the choices? Who would you add?
What will 2019 bring in the way of classical music?
What and who should we be looking at and paying attention to?
WQXR — the famed classical radio station in New York City – recently published its list of 19 to watch in '19, with detailed reasons for and explanations of their picks.
It seems like a pretty good choice to The Ear, although there is always something of a parlor game aspect to such projects.
Nonetheless, the list covers a fine variety – instrumentalists and vocalists, young and old, American and international, the well-known and the up-and-coming such as the opera singer Devone Tines (below, in a photo by Nikolai Schukoff).
Some names will be familiar to Madison audiences – such as pianist Inon Barnatan, violinist Nicola Benedettti, the JACK Quartet and cellist Steven Isserlis — especially through their live appearances at the Wisconsin Union Theater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Mead Witter School of Music and the Madison Symphony Orchestra plus broadcasts on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Here is a link to the list: https://www.wqxr.org/story/wqxr-presents-19-19-artists-collaborations-upcoming-year/
The Ear can think of some other musicians that he would add to the list.
An especially deserving one of them is the young American virtuoso pianist George Li (below, in a photo by Simon Fowler).
Born in China and brought as a child to the United States by his parents, Li attended Harvard and just finished his master's degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. (At the bottom, you can hear Li play virtuosic music by Liszt and Horowitz in the YouTube video of a Tiny Desk Concert at National Public Radio or NPR.)
Li won the silver medal in the 2015 at the 15th Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow and had a lot of people talking about the energy and excitement of his playing. He was praised for both outstanding technical prowess and deep expressiveness.
He then took first prize at a piano competition in Paris.
Ever since, he has been steadily booked. At 23, the amiable Li has already toured China, Japan and Russia and seems to have a very busy schedule ahead of him, judging by his posts on Instagram.
He has also released his first recording on the Warner Classics label, a fine CD that received many positive reviews from critics, including this one.
The program includes Haydn's Sonata in B minor, Chopin's Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor "Funeral March," Rachmaninoff's "Variations on a Theme of Corelli," and Consolation No. 3 and the popular Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt.
Given all the concertos he is now performing, it would not surprise one to see his next recording be a concerto, possibly the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto N. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23, which brought him instant acclaim.
Here is a link to his website: http://www.georgelipianist.com
And here is a link to his entry in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Li
Keep your ears and eyes on George Li.
What do you think of the choices made by WQXR?
Who would you add to the list of musicians to watch in 2019, and why?
If possible, maybe you can include a YouTube link to a performance, live or recorded, in your comment.
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Classical music: Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma goes to NPR to perform and talk about spending 58 years learning and playing Bach
Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma has just recorded the six suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach for the third time.
Ma, now 62, started learning them when he was four years old.
Over so many years, his approach has changed. He says he finds new things in the music as he himself changes and matures, much the way you see different things in the same novel you read at 18 and then again at 55 after you have experienced more of life.
That's why Ma calls his latest recording "Six Evolutions." And truth be told, to The Ear his interpretations seem lighter, dancier and more up-tempo while his earlier readings seemed heavier, sometimes even gooey thick.
Anyway, the cellist (below), who has won 19 Grammy Awards and has often performed in Madison at the Wisconsin Union Theater, recently stopped by the studios of National Public Radio (NPR) for a Tiny Desk Concert.
He played three movements, and he talked about his long experience with playing and learning and exploring Bach to students, who loved him.
It is well worth listening to.
Here is a link: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/639206471/yo-yo-ma-tiny-desk-concert
Do you have an opinion about Ma's current readings of solo Bach versus his past ones?
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Classical music: Grammy-winning Eighth Blackbird performs Saturday night at the Wisconsin Union Theater. Go early and don't miss the half-hour student "warm-up" show
Of course the main event at the Wisconsin Union Theater this Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. is the performance by the four-time Grammy-winning group Eighth Blackbird (below), which specializes in performing contemporary composers and new music.
Here is a link with more information – videos, sound samples, reviews, the program and tickets — about the concert by Eighth Blackbird, which you can hear giving a Tiny Desk Concert for National Public Radio (NPR) in the YouTube video at the bottom.
https://union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/event-calendar/event/eighth-blackbird/
But if you can, go to the concert early.
That's because The Ear wants to give a loud shout-out to the Wisconsin Union Theater for offering a pre-concert concert of student players at 7 p.m. (There is also a free pre-concert lecture by conductor Randal Swiggum at 6 p.m.)
The students play Bach, Vivaldi, folk music and more. They set the mood and get you ready, kind of like the warm-up band at a rock concert. They also restore your faith in the future of classical music.
This time the young performers will be the Suzuki Sonora Strings of Madison.
They are fun, impressive and inspiring. The Ear remembers hearing violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn praise the Suzuki Sonora Strings and the Suzuki method for starting her on her own career. (Hahn, far right in the front, is seen below with the students.)
And below is a statement provided by Esty Dinur, the director of marketing for the Wisconsin Union Theater, about why they feature the students — an idea that The Ear praises highly because he thinks it expands and rewards the audience as well as the students.
Music education needs more of this kind of public visibility that doesn't isolate the young learners and performers but instead integrates them into the mainstream classical music scene.
Here is the statement by Dinur:
"We have so far hosted two groups of young musicians, the Suzuki Sonora Strings and the group known previously as Madison Music Makers and currently as the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (WYSO) Music Makers.
"The Sonora Strings (below, seen from the balcony) performed before the concerts by Hilary Hahn in the 2015-2016 season and Joshua Bell in the 2016-2017 season. They will be performing again this Saturday ahead of the concert by Eighth Blackbird.
"WYSO Music Makers (below) performed before last season's Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (and I learned that one of the LAGQ musicians played with them—from behind the shell!). We may add other young musicians in the future.
"We view them as the artists, teachers, audience members and advocates of the future, the people who will continue loving and spreading the love of classical and other music.
"As such, we're excited to have the ability to provide them with experiences by world-class musicians in a world-class venue.
"It is always wonderful to see them working so hard on stage, being serious and intent and excited. It is also wonderful to see their parents and families derive such pleasure and justified pride for the accomplishments of their kids.
"We are also delighted to be able to present groups that are more diverse than the usual classical music crowd. The future promises to be significantly more diverse than the present. It's nice to be able to bring that future onto our stage and our audience right now.
"Reactions from all quarters have been great. The kids, their teachers and their families are all very appreciative of the opportunity. So far, I've heard nothing but good feedback from the audience which seems to enjoy both watching and listening to the youngsters and to appreciate the intent behind their performances.
"Finally, these shows may be taxing at times for our staff but they're happy to shoulder the challenges in order to participate in this important work."
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Classical music: NPR plays musical anthropologist and goes into the field to bring back a live recording of glam pianist Yuja Wang playing Prokofiev at the Steinway Factory in New York City.
The Ear has to hand it to NPR's terrific classical music blog "Deceptive Cadence" and to NPR's "All Songs Considered."
For quite some time now, NPR has featured "Tiny Desk Concerts" — classical, jazz, folk, roots music — during which major performers play live in the crowded NPR studio. They are easy to link to and stream over your computer or maybe even your TV set these days. (NPR books great guests, including, below bottom, superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma.)
You can also find NPR links to and archives of other live performances -– often through radios stations such as WQXR-FM in New York City and WGBH in Boston –- and include a recital of live music in major halls and venues, including one of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy and Frederic Chopin by the acclaimed Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes at Carnegie Hall (below). And there are many, many others.
And now Deceptive Cadence seems to be acting like musical anthropologist. The time they went out "into the field" – that is, not in the usual venues and concert halls.
That's not unheard of, of course. That is how the great composer Bela Bartok (below) started out as a musical anthropologist or ethnologist of Hungarian and Romanian folk music, and then used his research to morph into one of the pioneers of musical modernism. Chopin used Polish music like the mazurka to create a new Romanticism. And in American folk music, the musical anthropology of Alan Lomax is legendary.
Specifically, NPR went to the piano factory of Steinway and Sons in New York City and recorded the red-hot glam pianist Yuja Wang playing the fiercely difficult Toccata in D Minor, Op. 11, with all its hypnotic repetition of a single note, by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev on a brand new Steinway concert grand. (You can see and hear it in a YouTube video at the bottom. Don't forget to click on the icon that is second from the right to enlarge the video image to fill your computer screen.)
The music and the physical virtuosity or dexterity is amazing to behold.
It is also kind of cute and informal to watch the diminutive figure of the glamorous Wang playing difficult cert music in a cold, wood-strewn and equipment-strewn warehouse in fingerless wool hobo gloves that go up her forearm –- but only after she uses the reflective fallboard above the keys to put on glossy lipstick and so complete her outfit of black fur-like boa, black stiletto heels and geometrically high fashion black-and-white dress.
Ah! Those tribal ceremonies and native attire!
Anyway, here is a link to the performance by Yuja Wang at the Steinway and Sons factory in the borough of Queens, not the usual Steinway showroom in Manhattan where most pianists test and choose pianos for their performances.
The Tiny Desk Concerts archive has lots of kinds of live performances.
For example, here is the famed Kronos Quartet (below) doing a recent Tiny Desk Concert featuring its latest recordings. Many other such concerts by other artists have been archived and are readily accessible:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/246393060/kronos-quartet-tiny-desk-concert
And here is a link to the archive, with links to other older archives, of music Live in Performance housed at NPR. It includes chamber music, orchestral music (below is the Mideast peace-promoting Palestinian-Israeli West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under co-founder and director Daniel Barenboim in Carnegie Hall), operas and recitals:
http://www.npr.org/series/10210144/classics-in-concert/?ps=sa
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Jonathan Richter is an active conductor, vocalist, and music educator based in the Boston area. In addition to his role as director of the Youth Chorale, Young Women's Chorale and Youth Camerata at the New England Conservatory, Richter also serves on the faculties of Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA. Additionally, he is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting at Boston University.
From 2009-2011, Richter was the Director of Vocal Music at Plymouth North and South High Schools, the two public high schools in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Prior to his appointment in Plymouth, he completed a Master of Music degree in choral conducting at Yale University and bachelor's degrees in music (B.A.) and education (B.S.) at the University of Connecticut. He has studied conducting with Ann Howard Jones, Marguerite L. Brooks, Simon Carrington and Peter Bagley. Additionally, Richter has participated in masterclasses and private conducting lessons with Helmuth Rilling, Stephen Layton, Nicholas McGegan and Paul Hillier. Jonathan and his wife Arielle live in Braintree, Massachusetts.


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