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As previous literature updates, I have performed a PubCrawler search looking for football articles in NCBI Medline (PubMed) and GenBank databases.
#1 Acute sleep hygiene strategy improves objective sleep latency following a late-evening soccer-specific training session: A randomized controlled trial
Reference: J Sports Sci. 2019 Dec;37(23):2711-2719. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2019.1661938. Epub 2019 Sep 6.
Authors: Vitale JA, La Torre A, Banfi G, Bonato M
Download link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6768094/pdf/fphys-10-01187.pdf
Summary: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of sleep hygiene (SH) education on sleep quality in soccer players after a late-evening small-sided-game (SSG) training session. Twenty-nine non-professional players were recruited and allocated to either an experimental group (EG, n = 17) that received SH education, or a control group (CG, n = 12). SSG consisted of 3 × 4 min in a 4vs4, with 3 min of recovery and was performed at 8.00 p.m. Sleep quality was monitored via actigraphy and sleep diary entries before (PRE) and two nights after (POST1, POST2) the SSG. Sleep latency (SL) differed between the two groups at POST1 (4.9 ± 5.4 vs. 15.5 ± 16.1 for EG and CG, respectively; p = 0.017, effect size [ES] = 2.0); SL values were lower at POST1 compared to PRE for the EG (-47%; p = 0.021, ES = 0.6). Subjective sleep quality was better in the EG than the CG at POST1 (8.6 ± 1.0 vs. 7.1 ± 2.0 for EG and CG, respectively; p = 0.016, ES = 0.9) with a significant improvement over PRE-values (+11.0%, p = 0.004, ES = 0.8). Although SL and subjective sleep quality did not decrease significantly from POST1 to POST2 values at POST2 no longer differed significantly form baseline and, hence, indicate that observed effects may be short-lasting. No other objective sleep indices were influenced by late-evening training or SH practices implemented by the EG. Soccer players may benefit from acute SH strategies to reduce the time to sleep onset after late-evening training sessions.
#2 New curve sprint test for soccer players: Reliability and relationship with linear sprint
Reference: J Sports Sci. 2019 Oct 13:1-6. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2019.1677391. [Epub ahead of print]
Authors: Fílter A, Olivares J, Santalla A, Nakamura FY, Loturco I, Requena B
Summary: The speed performance is involved not only in linear sprints, but also in a wide spectrum of multi-directional movements, such as curve sprinting. Curved sprint can be defined as sprint with gradual and continuous change of direction (COD). Although ~85% of the actions performed at maximum velocity in a professional soccer league are curvilinear sprints, there is not any specific test to assess this ability. This study aimed to analyse the reliability of a new curve sprint test, and compare its results with those obtained by soccer players in linear sprint. Forty experienced soccer players performed 3 attempts of curve sprint (using the penalty arc) to right and left side (17 m), and 3 linear sprints (17 m) in two different days. The ICCs (inter-session reliability) were 0.93 for sprint curve right side (CSRS) and 0.89 for sprint curve left side (CSLS), considered "acceptable". The CVs (intra-session reliability) were 0.87% in CSRS and 1.15% in CSLS. The coefficient of determination (R2) between linear and curve sprinting was ~35%. The association between curve sides was "very large" (r = 0.878; p < 0.01). In summary, we showed that "curve sprint test" is highly reliable, and that curvilinear and linear sprints are different and independent actions.
#3 The most demanding passages of play in football competition: a comparison between halves
Reference: Biol Sport. 2019 Sep;36(3):233-240. doi: 10.5114/biolsport.2019.86005. Epub 2019 Jun 14.
Authors: Casamichana D, Castellano J, Diaz AG, Gabbett TJ, Martin-Garcia A
Download link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6786330/pdf/JBS-36-86005.pdf
Summary: The purpose of this investigation was to determine the differences between halves in the most demanding passages of play in football players according to playing position and duration-specific activity. Global positioning system data were collected from twenty-three football players from a reserve squad of the Spanish La Liga. A total of 265 individual match half data were analysed across the competitive season. Players were categorised based on positional groups: full-back (FB), central defender (CD), midfielder (MF), offensive midfielder (OMF) and forwards (FW). The most demanding passage of match play was analysed using a rolling average method, where maximal values were calculated for five different time durations (1, 3, 5, 10 min and half completed) using distance (m·min-1), high metabolic load distance (HMLD; m·min-1) and average metabolic power (AMP; W·kg-1) as variables of interest. The differences between the first and second half increased as the rolling duration increased, reaching the greatest difference between halves in the complete half (45 min) in all the variables studied (ES = 0.54 ± 0.15, 0.75 ± 0.15 and 0.76 ± 0.15 in distance, HMLD and AMP). The CDs were the players that presented the greatest differences, and it was in the AMP variable where the greatest differences between the first and second half were found. Large decreases in AMP were found for CD (ES = -1.30 ± 0.36) and moderate decreases were found in AMP for FB (ES = -0.84 ± 0.30) and OMF (ES = -0.78 ± 0.37). These results provide insight into the most demanding passages of play to inform training practices for specific football playing positions.
#4 A method for predicting background advertisement exposure parameters in sporting events: Televised football game approach
Reference: PLoS One. 2019 Oct 17;14(10):e0223662. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223662. eCollection 2019.
Authors: Xiao Y, John C, Ren X, Zhang P
Download link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797103/pdf/pone.0223662.pdf
Summary: The background advertisement exposure parameters (BAEP) forms a premise for sponsorship negotiation and the basis for estimating the sponsorship value of background advertising. Prediction of the BAEP has a great contribution to the sporting events organizers and sponsors in terms of negotiating, decision-making for bidding, and income-generating. Virtual Reality (VR), technology was utilized to construct a virtual three-dimensional model of the sports venue and simulate the telecast of the event. Based on VR technology and computer graphics theory, a pre-event prediction method for estimating the background advertisement exposure parameters of sporting events was put forward. The pre and post measures of the thirty BAEP of televised football games were compared to verify the effectiveness of the prediction method. There was no significant difference between the pre- and post-measurement results for the same football game. The pre- and post-measurement results of the thirty BAEP of televised football games were tightly matched. Using the prediction method can predict the BAEP of televised football games effectively and overcomes the shortcomings of current prediction methods that inhibits the effectiveness of the prediction of exposure parameters due to changes such as the type of the sporting events, the size of the sports venue, the layout of the background advertisements, and the placement of the television cameras, etc.
#5 Trait Self-Control Discriminates Between Youth Football Players Selected and Not Selected for the German Talent Program: A Bayesian Analysis
Reference: Front Psychol. 2019 Sep 26;10:2203. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02203. eCollection 2019.
Authors: Wolff W, Bertrams A, Schüler J
Download link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6775196/pdf/fpsyg-10-02203.pdf
Summary: Trait self-control predicts success in various walks of life. Sports is a prototypical domain, where self-control is required, and there is evidence that successful athletes display superior self-control. Here, we assess if self-control already differs between athletes that were selected for a talent development program and non-selected athletes. Self-reported trait self-control was assessed in n = 25 (7 = female, 13.2 ± 1.7 years) youth football players who were part of the German talent development program and in n = 27 (6 = female, 13.6 ± 1.8 years) age and sex matched youth football players, who trained at the same clubs but had not been selected for the program. A one-sided Bayesian two-sample t-test yielded a Bayes factor of 54.99, indicating very strong evidence for the hypothesis that elite youth football players have higher trait self-control than non-elite youth football players. The 95% credibility interval indicates that the true value of δ lies between 0.28 and 1.42, indicating some uncertainty regarding the effects' magnitude. We show that already at young age, elite athletes display higher levels of self-control than their less successful peers. This underlines the importance of self-control as an important personality factor for success. These findings might have implications for talent selection and for sport psychological training.
#6 Clinical Features and isokinetic Parameters in Assessing Injury Risk in elite Football Players
Reference: Int J Sports Med. 2019 Oct 15. doi: 10.1055/a-1014-2911. [Epub ahead of print]
Authors: Liporaci RF, Saad M, Grossi DB, Riberto M
Summary: Football players frequently face the occurrence of non-contact injuries. Although there are likely multiple factors that contribute to increased risk of non-contact injury, it remains a challenge to correlate all these factors. However, it is not clear how much of individual training abilities may interfere in these events. As such, the primary aim of the present study was to determine whether the reduction of functional performance of the thigh in the isokinetic knee tests, anthropometric and morbid history can establish risk factors for lower-limb musculoskeletal injuries throughout the season. The incidence of injuries and odds ratios were calculated for suspected risk factors. Hamstring/Quadriceps conventional ratio outside of the safety range (55-64%) may be involved in the occurrence of non-contact muscle injuries and the risk for any musculoskeletal injuries in the lower extremities is 16 times higher when extensor peak of torque exceeds 10% and 12 times higher when flexor peak of torque difference was greater than 10%. This kind of evaluation can result in intervention programs that may decrease the risk of lower-limb musculoskeletal injuries. Based on these results we can establish a specific and individualized exercise program for each athlete and thus protect them during the season.
#7 Psychological characteristics of developing excellence in elite youth football players in English professional academies
Authors: Saward C, Morris JG, Nevill ME, Minniti AM, Sunderland C
Summary: This mixed-longitudinal prospective study examined the development of psychological characteristics of developing excellence in relation to the career progression of elite youth football players. In a 20-month period, 111 academy football players aged 11-16 completed the Psychological Characteristics of Developing Excellence Questionnaire (PCDEQ) on 1-5 occasions. This combination of single and repeated assessments resulted in a mixed-longitudinal sample of 226 completed PCDEQs. Players were then prospectively tracked, and their scholarship status assessed at follow-up, at age U17. Multilevel modelling revealed that coping with performance and developmental pressures scores increased with age, and that Category 1-2 academy scholars (4.35 ± 0.61) scored higher than Category 3-4 academy scholars (3.99 ± 0.67) and non-scholars (4.02 ± 0.78) (p < .05). Evaluating performances and working on weaknesses scores increased with age for Category 1-2 academy scholars (U12-U14 vs. U15-U16 = 5.16 ± 0.48 vs. 5.38 ± 0.45), compared to non-scholars (U12-U14 vs. U15-U16 = 5.11 ± 0.59 vs. 5.03 ± 0.71) (p < .05). Imagery use during practice and competition scores decreased with age (U12-U14 vs. U15-U16 = 4.45 ± 0.66 vs. 4.29 ± 0.70) (p < .05). A blend of PCDEs may facilitate optimal career progression. Football academies should develop players' PCDEs, with a particular focus on developing their coping skills and their ability to realistically evaluate performances and work on weaknesses.
#8 How does the modern football goalkeeper train? - An exploration of expert goalkeeper coaches' skill training approaches
Reference: J Sports Sci. 2019 Jul 16:1-9. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2019.1643202. [Epub ahead of print]
Authors: Otte FW, Millar SK, Klatt S
Summary: The football goalkeeper position arguably represents a unique role within the team sport. Despite its highly complex skill demands, research on football goalkeeping has only sporadically examined the position within isolated and limited parameters. In particular, there is limited literature on "modern" skill acquisition training methods and approaches within the field of goalkeeper training. In a cross-cultural study with fifteen expert goalkeeper coaches, researchers here examined the overarching research question of "how does the modern football goalkeeper train?". Semi-structured interviews explored expert coaches' views on critical skills for performance in goalkeeping and the training approaches used to develop these critical skills. Results indicate that four skill sets are considered essential by goalkeeper coaches, these are: decision-making skills, athleticism, mentality, and technical skills. In terms of developing these skills in goalkeeper-specific training, the majority of expert coaches apply a similar microstructure to training sessions. This structure involves a steady progression from simple to complex training tasks, where for large parts, isolated technical training appears to be prioritised over a holistic training approach that integrates technical skills and perceptual-cognitive components (e.g., decision making). Scientific and practical recommendations for researchers and practitioners in the field of football goalkeeper coaching are provided.
#9 The effect of age on between-match physical performance variability in professional soccer players
Reference: Res Sports Med. 2019 Oct 20:1-9. doi: 10.1080/15438627.2019.1680985. [Epub ahead of print]
Authors: Lorenzo-Martínez M, Rey E, Padrón-Cabo A
Summary: This study aimed to analyse the effect of age on between-match variability of physical performance in professional soccer players. For this purpose, observations on entire match performance were collected on 787 professional soccer players competing in the first or second division of Spanish league during the 2017-2018 season. Players were classified into six groups according to their age: G1 (≤22.5 years), G2 (22.6-25.1 years), G3 (25.2-27.5 years), G4 (27.6-30.1 years), G5 (30.2-33.1 years) and G6 (≥33.2 years). Coefficients of variation (CVs) were calculated individually for each player and performance variable: total distance, low- intensity, medium-intensity, high-intensity running (HIR), sprinting, number of HIR, number of sprints, average speed and maximal speed. The main finding of this study was that players under 25.2 years (G1 and G2) showed lower CVs for high-intensity activities (HIR and sprinting) in comparison with players over 33.1 years (G6). These findings provide useful information for soccer coaches, who could put extra attention on physical performance of the oldest players when they have to play an entire match, because their performance is more variable and uncertain in comparison with the youngest.
#10 Basal Serum Cortisol and Testosterone/Cortisol Ratio Are Related to Rate of Na+ Lost During Exercise in Elite Soccer Players
Reference: Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab. 2019 Oct 17:1-6. doi: 10.1123/ijsnem.2019-0129. [Epub ahead of print]
Authors: Castro-Sepulveda M, Cancino J, Fernández-Verdejo R, Pérez-Luco C, Jannas-Vela S, Ramirez-Campillo R, Del Coso J, Zbinden-Foncea H
Summary: During exercise, the human body maintains optimal body temperature through thermoregulatory sweating, which implies the loss of water, sodium (Na+), and other electrolytes. Sweat rate and sweat Na+ concentration show high interindividual variability, even in individuals exercising under similar conditions. Testosterone and cortisol may regulate sweat Na+ loss by modifying the expression/activity of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. This has not been tested. As a first approximation, the authors aimed to determine whether basal serum concentrations of testosterone or cortisol, or the testosterone/cortisol ratio relate to sweat Na+ loss during exercise. A total of 22 male elite soccer players participated in the study. Testosterone and cortisol were measured in blood samples before exercise (basal). Sweat samples were collected during a training session, and sweat Na+ concentration was determined. The basal serum concentrations of testosterone and cortisol and their ratio were (mean [SD]) 13.6 (3.3) pg/ml, 228.9 (41.4) ng/ml, and 0.06 (0.02), respectively. During exercise, the rate of Na+ loss was related to cortisol (r = .43; p < .05) and to the testosterone/cortisol ratio (r = -.46; p < .01), independently of the sweating rate. The results suggest that cortisol and the testosterone/cortisol ratio may influence Na+ loss during exercise. It is unknown whether this regulation depends on the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator.
#11 Comparison of Drop Jump and Tuck Jump Knee Joint Kinematics in Elite Male Youth Soccer Players: Implications for Injury Risk Screening
Reference: J Sport Rehabil. 2019 Oct 18:1-6. doi: 10.1123/jsr.2019-0077. [Epub ahead of print]
Authors: Lloyd RS, Oliver JL, Myer GD, De Ste Croix MB, Wass J, Read PJ.
Summary: Despite the popularity of jump-landing tasks being used to identify injury risk factors, minimal data currently exist examining differences in knee kinematics during commonly used bilateral jumping tasks. This is especially the case for rebounding-based protocols involving young athletes. The aim was to compare the frontal plane projection angles (FPPAs) during the drop vertical jump (DVJ) and tuck jump assessment (TJA) in a cohort of elite male youth soccer players of varying maturity status. A total of 57 male youth soccer players from an English championship soccer club participated in this study. Participants performed 3 trials of the DVJ and TJA, during which movement was recorded with 2-dimensional video cameras. FPPA for both right (FPPA-r) and left (FPPA-l) legs, with values <180° indicative of medial knee displacement. On a whole-group level, FPPA-r (172.7° [7.4°] vs 177.2° [11.7°]; P < .05; effect size [ES] = 0.46) and FPPA-l (173.4° [7.3°] vs 179.2° [11.0°]; P < .05; ES = 0.62) were significantly greater for both limbs in the TJA compared with the DVJ; however, these differences were less consistent when grouped by maturity status. FPPA-r during the TJA was significantly and moderately greater in the circa-peak height velocity (PHV) group compared with the post-PHV cohorts (169.4° [6.4°] vs 175.3° [7.8°]; P < .05; ES = 0.49). Whole-group data showed moderate relationships for FPPA-r and FPPA-l between the TJA and DVJ; however, stronger relationships were shown in circa- and post-PHV players compared with the pre-PHV cohort. Considering that the TJA exposed players to a larger FPPA and was sensitive to between-group differences in FPPA-r, the TJA could be viewed as a more suitable screen for identifying FPPA in young male soccer players.


The effect of reinforcing styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) with functionalized carbon nanotubes on the mechanical and thermal properties of the nanocomposite was investigated. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were functionalized with phenol functional group to enhance their dispersion in SBR matrix. Surface functionalization of the CNTs was carried out using acid treatment and FTIR technique was utilized so as to ascertain the presence of phenol functional group. This was followed with the dispersion of the functionalized CNTs into a polymer solution and a subsequent evaporation of the solvent. This study has demonstrated the inherent capability of CNTs as reinforcing filler as demonstrated by the substantial improvement in Young's Modulus, tensile strength and energy of absorption of the nanocomposites. The tensile strength increased from 0.17 MPa (SBR) to 0.48 MPa while the Young's Modulus increased from 0.25 MPa to 0.83 MPa when 10wt% functionalized CNTs was added. With the addition of 1wt% reinforcement-a peak value of 4.1 KJ energy absorption was obtained. The homogenous dispersion of CNT-Phenol is thought to be responsible for the considerable enhancement in the reported properties. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Laoui T (2013) Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Styrene Butadiene Rubber - Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes Nanocomposites. Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures 21: 89–101. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1536383X.2011.574324.
The author wishes to gratefully acknowledge Dr. Rashid Sougrat (KAUST) for his help in TEM imaging.


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African Tribal Art, tabwa slave statue from Democratic Republic of Congo
African Tribal Art , tabwa slave statue from Democratic Republic of Congo. 48cm --18.8 inches high/weight:2kg. Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. The Tabwa people lived under Luba domination in small autonomous villages scattered within a territory that expanded from the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the northeast of Zambia, along Lake Tanganyika. The verb "tabwa" means "to be tied up" and refers to when these people were taken as slaves. During the 19th century, the ivory trade brought wealth to the region and Tabwa people gained their independence.
Today, they number 200,000 and are led by chiefs-sorcerers who rule over village chiefs and family chiefs. Their power is counterbalanced by male societies created on Luba prototypes and by female associations influenced by East African models.
Traditionally, Tabwa people made their living from hunting and blacksmithing; nowadays they cultivate millet, manioc. And corn, but they live primarily off fishing and hunting, for game is plentiful. The influence of Eastern Tanzanian neighbors on Tabwa art is seen in their use of linear geometric decorations, while their western neighbors, the Luba, influenced the incorporation of prestige objects into Tabwa life. The Tabwa worshipped ancestors, whose statues were the property of the lineage chiefs and sorcerers; these carried medications in their ears or in small cavities at the top of their heads. The Tabwa also worshipped the spirits of nature, who lived in trees and rocks. The installation of a supreme chief is of relatively recent vintage; formerly it was the function of the large ancestor figures to consolidate the power of the chiefs. Other statuettes were used for divination. The Tabwa also made twin figures that could be both dangerous and bearers of good luck. In the north of Tabwa country, the diviner was also a sculptor; consulted after a dream, he would create a new statue. Special attention was paid to scarifications, which embellish the body and recall social values. On the whole surface of the body, a recurrent motif consists of twinned isosceles triangles, the two bases of which symbolize the duality of life.
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Home Education Essex County College, St. George's University launch new medical education partnership
Essex County College, St. George's University launch new medical education partnership
Essex County College in Newark and St. George's University in Grenada announced they have launched a new medical education partnership.
ECC will become the Caribbean medical school's 22nd U.S. academic partner.
"We are excited to open up this innovative path to medical school for Essex County College's most motivated and passionate students," said Dr. G. Richard Olds, president of St. George's University.
"We look forward to helping talented ECC students pursue their dream of becoming a doctor sooner than they may have thought possible."
The new partnership will allow students to apply to a dual admission degree program where they can earn their undergraduate degree in biology/pre-medicine at ECC and after attend St. George's five-year medical program. Students in the program will complete their first three years of medical school in Grenada and then spend two years in clinical rotations throughout hospitals in the United States and United Kingdom.
"Students entering college with a clear desire to pursue careers in medicine should be rewarded for their enthusiasm and dedication," Olds said. "Through this new partnership, we can help students chart their course toward a medical degree before they take their first course at Essex County College."
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Trial / Bosco Ntaganda
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February 17, 2015 July 7, 2015 by Mariana Pena
Victim Participation Decision in the Ntaganda Case: How Does the System Compare to Previous Experiences?
Bosco Ntaganda, Commentary
Bosco Ntaganda, child soldiers, Laurent Gbagbo, legal representatives, participating victims, Registry, Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Office of Public Counsel for Victims, Rule 89
On February 6, 2015, Trial Chamber VI at the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision on victim participation at the trial stage in the Bosco Ntaganda case (February 6 decision). During pre-trial proceedings, 1,120 victims participated, specifically in relation to the confirmation of charges. The February 6 decision considers the process for victims to apply to participate in the Ntaganda trial proceedings and how the court will treat those applications.
The system for victims to apply to participate in proceedings before the ICC (application system or application process) has been under review. In decisions issued since April 2012, various chambers introduced changes to the application system in specific cases. The application process had been burdensome on the chambers, the parties, and the Registry, had created significant backlogs of applications, and appeared not to be effective for victims. Some of the reasons that contributed to these problems include the length of the application form (an initial form was 17-pages long, which was later shortened to a seven-page form) and the fact that the applications needed to be transmitted to the parties and therefore redactions had be applied in order to protect the identity of the applicants.
In different cases, the chambers have explored different options to put in place a more streamlined and less burdensome process. At the pre-trial stage of the Laurent Gbagbo case, a partly-collective application form was created. In the Kenya situation, at the trial stage, the chamber decided to do away with applications and order the Registry to instead "register" victims in both the case against William Ruto and Joshua Sang and the case against Uhuru Kenyatta. As a result, no applications or other information on the participating victims were transmitted to the parties, and therefore no redactions were needed. Significantly, they were not transmitted to the judges either. While the Kenya cases decisions ordered the Registry to undertake registration, in practice the legal representatives of victims were involved in identifying and vetting victims. Such an involvement of the legal representatives could create conflicts taking into account their mandate to represent victims. Finally, at the pre-trial stage of the Ntaganda case, the pre-trial chamber introduced a simplified one-page application form and ordered that applications be transmitted to the chamber and the parties. In submissions made prior to the February 6 decision, the Registry explained that it would take it about a year to process victim applications should the same system be maintained at trial.
Some of the decisions on the application process taken in different cases have considered the practice of previous cases, seeking to learn lessons and to build upon those experiences. The February 6 decisions considers in particular the systems put in place in the Kenya cases at trial stage and in the Ntaganda case at the pre-trial stage. After careful consideration of past practice and legal requirements, the chamber designs a new sui generis application process that builds upon the experience of various cases yet introduces new procedures. The main features of the new system in comparison to previous cases are discussed below. (For a full summary of the decision, see here).
Application Forms Maintained
In contrast to the Kenya cases, the application forms for participation are maintained. These had been abolished in the Kenya cases and replaced by registration forms only available to the Registry and the legal representative of victims. Instead, the February 6 decision orders the Registry to distribute and collect simplified application forms (like the ones used at the pre-trial stage of the case). The Registry must transmit all applications received to the trial chamber. In contrast to the system put in place at pre-trial, whereby any supporting material would be stored by the Registry and not transmitted to the chamber, the February 6 decision states that supporting materials must also be forwarded to the judges.
Strengthened Role for the Registry
The Registry had already acquired a stronger role in relation to analysis of victim applications for transmission to the chamber at the pre-trial stage of the Ntaganda case. The February 6 decision further reinforces that role. At the pre-trial stage of the case, the Registry had been instructed to group applications in accordance with relevant criteria (such as the nature of the crime, the location of the crime, or the location of the victims). Grouping was meant to simplify and expedite the decision-making by the chamber.
At the trial stage, the chamber delegates responsibility to the Registry for the assessment of the applications on the basis of criteria identified by the chamber. The Registry is requested to separate applications in three groups, but grouping is instead based on whether applicants meet the criteria to qualify as victims. The three groups are: applicants who clearly qualify as victims (Group A); applicants who clearly do not qualify as victims (Group B); and applicants for whom the Registry could not make a clear determination for any reason (Group C). This division in three categories has an impact on which applications are to be transmitted to the parties (see below).
The Registry must prepare one or more reports listing the victim applications that fall under each of the three groups. The Registry does not need to undertake an application-by-application analysis in those reports (such an analysis had been required according to the pre-trial system). The reports must be shared with the chamber, the prosecution, the defense, and the victims' legal representative.
Partial Transmission to the Parties
According to the decision, only the applications falling under Group C should be transmitted to the prosecution and the defense. This practice should reduce the amount of applications that need redactions and therefore lessen the Registry's workload. It should also contribute to a decrease in the parties' workload as it should bring about a fall in the number of applications that the parties receive and need to comment on.
Questions had been raised by the parties as to their right to receive and reply to all applications, as per Rule 89 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence. However, the chamber noted that the parties' right to reply to victim applications is not absolute and should be read in light of certain Rome Statute provisions.
All applications had always been transmitted to the parties in previous cases, except for the Kenya cases where the victims were simply registered and no communication of registration information was shared with either the chamber or the parties.
Ruling on the Applications by the Chamber
At the pre-trial stage of the Ntaganda case, while the report written by the Registry included an initial assessment on the applications, the final decision was to be made by the chamber. According to the February 6 decision, upon receiving any submissions from the parties on the applications falling under Group C, the chamber will assess them individually and make a determination. The chamber will also ratify the assessment made by the Registry in relation to applications falling under Groups A and B. This also differs from the system in place in the Kenya cases, where the chambers were not involved in any determination in relation to the applications.
Other Matters: Modalities for Participation and Legal Representation
The February 6 decision does not deal with the issues of modalities for victim participation at trial or legal representation. The modalities for victim participation will likely be decided upon in a future decision. With regard to legal representation, the chamber notes that a system involving representation by the Office of Public Counsel for Victim, which is an independent office within the ICC structure, of two groups of victims having a conflict of interest (child soldiers and victims who suffered from attacks) was put in place at the pre-trial stage. For the purpose of trial, the chamber orders the Registry to consult the victims that participated in the pre-trial stage as to whether that system should be maintained. The decision does not order the Registry to consult other victim applicants on either the system to be put in place or the qualifications that lawyers representing victims should meet.
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This is an extremely useful and precise commentary of the novelties included in the Ntaganda decision, which is not "ultra vires" as the Kenya one because it preserve the judicial mandate of the decision concerning who is to be recognized as individual victim in a given procedure under Art. 68.3 of the Rome Statute. The victim is an individual who decides to exercise a right, the right to participate in ICC proceedings (de facto always via a legal representative, due the technical complexities of the penal procedure), and it is always the Judge who must decide if the applicant is a victim, prima facie, in accordance with the definition of victim contained in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence and under applicable sources of International Law (art. 21, Rome Statute). Recognition of victims is, in and of itself, a crucial feature of the Rome Statute system.


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Q: mActivity from Fragment.onAttach() not retained I have setup a Observable/Subscriber with RxJava. The Observable is created in MainActivity. The Subscriber is a  android.support.v4.app.Fragmentcalled MyFragment. The Observable gets data from RESTful service and stores the data in a SQLite db on the device. This works. When its work is done, which takes 4 or 5 seconds such that MyFragment has already processed onCreate(), onCreateView() etc., the subscriber, MyFragment, is notified via its implemented onNext() method (this works) and is then reads data from the SQLite db (this also works) and is the supposed to populate a view (this does not work).
The problem is that my class member mActivity is null in the method loadDataFromSQLite(). The lesson I think I am learning is that nothing with a Fragment can be done outside of methods in the Fragment class (from onAttach() to onDestroy())
That being the case, how do I do this?
See below for code snippets:
MyFragment.java
public class MyFragment extends Fragment implements Observer<String> {

    private Activity mActivity;

    @Override
    public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
        super.onAttach(activity);
        mActivity = activity;
    }

    ...

    @Override
    public void onNext(String string) {
        loadDataFromSQLite();

    }

    public void loadDataFromSQLite() {
        <get data from SQLite>
        // now want to populate view
        // mActivity is null
        mTableLayout = (TableLayout) mActivity.findViewById(R.id.fragment_table_layout);
    }
}

fragment_table_layout.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/table_wrapper"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <ScrollView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scrollbars="none"
        tools:ignore="UselessParent">

        <TableLayout
            android:id="@+id/fragment_table_layout"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <!--  fill in data in MyFragment.java -->
        </TableLayout>

    </ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>

Edit:
I should add the I also tried calling getActivity() in place of mActivity, but it returns null

A: Clearly this line is a problem:
mTableLayout = (TableLayout) mActivity.findViewById(R.id.fragment_table_layout);

This means you are casting a view that doesn't belong to that Fragment, in that Fragment. All view plumbing of a Fragment (including finding that TableLayout) should be done in Fragment.onCreateView. Later you can use their references elsewhere in the Fragment, like this:
TableLayout mTableLayout;

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ...) {
   View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_layout, container, false);
   mTableLayout = (TableLayout) view.findViewById(R.id.fragment_table_layout);
   ...
   return view;
}

Another thing is that you cannot configure one of two processes to update the other one simply because you expect it to take longer. This is unreliable and this is what you do by calling a REST API to update a fragment that you're not sure has been created. You can force the creation of a Fragment by invoking FragmentManager.executePendingTransactions() but you still need to prepare for the case when the fragment is already gone when REST response arrives.
It is also important to note that keeping a reference to an Activity is a bad idea. You should always use getActivity in a Fragment. If at any point it returns null then it means the Activity the Fragment is anchored to is not yet created or already destroyed.

A: You have a problem because you're presuming that onNext will be called after onAttach, but as you've noticed, that's not necessarily the case. I would say you have two options:

*

*subscribe to the observable in the onAttach and not before, that way you're making sure that the onNext will be called after;

*in onNext check if the activity is null and if it is, save the data for later. then in onAttach check if you have the data and if yes, visualize it. that way you will be able to save some time by loading the data concurrently with initialization of the fragment, but you will have to have a method that will be called twice with inside something like if (getActivity != null && mData != null) { ... }.
So, the first one is more elegant, but the second might be more efficient.
PS. obviously, all findViewById should be done in onCreateView().

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The Hungarian avant – garde journal MA (Today), was founded and edited by Lajos Kassak (Ersekujvar, 1887 – Budapest 1967). He was a metal worker, self-thought painter and poet whose fertile and innovative visual, literary, editorial design, theoretical and critical work, together with his avant-garde attitude, managed to create the most coheren opus in the Hungarian art of the 20th century as well as the international inluence and acclaim. He is called th father of many modernisms. In 1915 Kassak launched the revolutionary journal A Tett (Action) gathering the young anti-war intelligentsia. It was soon banned. hen he launched the MA journal based on the avant-garde activism inspired by Dada. Herewith he published contributions from artists like Georg Grosz, Kurt Schwitters and Hans Rich ter. He printed the Construcivist manifestoes Keparchitecura (he Architecture of Image, 1922), Vissza akaptafaho (Return to Foundations, 1923) and A konstruktivizmusrol (About Constructivism, 1923). During the Hungarian Sovie Republic (3/21/1919 – 8/6/1919) he was member of the Writing Bureau but soon quit because of the ideological conlic with its leader Bela Kun. However, he still considered himself a socialist. After the revolution had failed, the edito rial stuf moved to 1920 to Vienna where it continued with publication. Inspired by Laszlo Moholy – Nagy, Kassak turned to the esthetics of Constructivism. On the pages of the MA in 1921 he published the theoretical guidelines fo Hungarian Constructivism. Along Brancusi, Arp and Schwitters, in November 1924, his work is displayed at the "Firs International Exhibit of Contemporary Art" in Bucharest. He returned to Budapest in 1926. He began publishing th leftist journals Documentum (Document, 1926-1927), and Munka (Work, 1928-1939). he rise of Nazism in German and the creation of the puppet regime in Hungary frightened him. He published his autobiography Egy ember elet (A Man's Life) in 1937. he chapter dealing with his involvement in the Hungarian Soviet Republic provided ground for prosecution. However, he kept publishing in leftist journals; after the war, from 1945 until the ban in 1947, h was managing editor of the journal Kortars (Modernity). In 1947 he became the president of the Art Committee of th Social-Democratic Party; in 1948 the MP, but was soon relieved of duty. Criticizing the cultural politics in 1953 got him thrown out of the Party. he authorities banned him from publishing until 1956 when he became the president of the then inluential Writer's Association. After the failure of the Hungarian Uprising in 1957, the Party placed the ban on travel, exhibitions and publishing. Despite that his local and international inluence steadily grew. His work wa included in the great retrospective of Dada –in Zurich Kunsthalle, and Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, both held in 1966 he editorial politics of Lajos Kassak and journal MA have greatly re-directed Zenit toward its constructivist esthetic the collaboration between the two journals was long and amicable, many collaborators had worked for both publica tions. he legacy of Kassak' activism, at the beginning of the 70's, had strongly inluenced the artists from Vojvodin gathered around the group Kod, the journal Ut, and the cultural center Tribina mladih (Youth Tribune) in Novi Sad he Kassak Museum in Budapest, located in the building in which he lived, is taking care of his legacy today.
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Q: XHR Update fails with string containing a "#" where form post succeeds I'm moving away from standard form posts (to PHP PDO) to asynchronous XHR posts to update a mysql database (again PHP PDO), using prepared statements calling mysql stored procedures.
Using HTMLSpecialCharacters / UTF-8 etc. to sanitise inputs (both in XHR version and form post version). Also setting charset=utf8 in my PDO connection string.
The problem is that if I pass the XHR version a string containing a "#", the update fails. The returned error SQLSTATE[23000] indicates that a completely separate column cannot be null (as per table constraint).
There are several fields being inputted and regardless of which contains the "#", the same null constraint is violated.
Note that the field being set to null is the last being set with $stmt->bindvalue.
Also, I'm using $_GET[] in the bind values, not $_POST which was the issue in a similar question.
I understand that I could replace the "#" on write and put it back on read (I'm already doing this with line breaks) but I've a sneaky suspicion that I'm missing something fundamental here (I'm a bit new to AJAX and PHP).
There are no issues with "#" (or line breaks for that matter) in the standard form post.
TIA for any pointers

A: Yay... I figured it out, or to be honest I gave up and tried a different method. Instead of posting the values as part of the url with the content-type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded, I posted the data as json using content-type = application/json.
Not only has the problem gone away, but I've no more need to find and replace line breaks and #s.
The json approach seems the most logical, and the least painful.


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Q: can't append text to string array due to Initializer for conditional binding error My code below works perfectly if i switch the strings for the ints. However with the String where it is it is not working.
import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet var txt: UITextField!
var arrayOfInt = [String]()

@IBAction func submit(_ sender: Any) {
    if let text = txt.text {
    if let name = String(text){
        arrayOfInt.append(name)
    }}}

}

A: You are (unnecessarily) initialising a String from a String using String(text); Unlike Int(_ string:String) this is not a failable initializer.
It is possible that a String cannot be parsed to an Int, so you need to check that Int(text) didn't return nil, but a String can always be initialised from a String.
When you say
if let name = String(text) {

The compiler give you an error because the if let... conditional binding construct requires an optional, but String(text) does not return an optional.
Your code can be simplified to:
class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet var txt: UITextField!
    var arrayOfString = [String]()

    @IBAction func submit(_ sender: Any) {
        if let text = sender.text {
            arrayOfString.append(text)
        }
    }
}


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        if(returningWord.toLowerCase() == 'fuck'){
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Бра (від  — «рука») — художньо виконаний настінний освітлювальний прилад; поширився з 17 століття як настінний свічник, слугував світильником і прикрасою приміщень. Бра буває з одним або кількома джерелами світла, виготовляється з металу, скла, пластмаси та інших матеріалів.

Призначення бра
 Заміна люстр в маленьких приміщеннях. Наприклад, в деяких квартирах дуже низькі стелі і вішати люстру просто недоцільно, у той час як маленьке бра на стіні буде виглядати досить непогано.
 Виділення світлом деякого предмету інтер'єру, що висить на стіні, такого як дзеркало або картина.
 Поділ приміщення на ділянки. За допомогою бра та дзеркал можна виділити деякі ділянки одного приміщення світлом, таким чином, розділивши його на кілька ділянок.
 Декоративна прикраса.
 Освітлення будинків, парканів, господарських блоків зовні. При цьому використовуються настінні світильники зі ступенем захисту  IP, яка передбачає використання на вулиці.

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Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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EXCEL (EXtension and Continuing Education for Life), The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
HKAPA EXCEL runs continuing education programmes in performing arts, uses performing arts components as tools to provide corporate training, and organises performance-based productions for custom-made clients.
The concept of life-long learning is a world-wide phenomenon, and has been given impetus by the HKSAR Government. Established in 2001, HKAPA EXCEL, the continuing education arm of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, is proud to be making its contribution within the sphere of the performing arts, related technical arts, and film and television.
Partnering with and on behalf of the Academy, EXCEL aspires to be a platform to promote creativity in performing arts, and enhance arts literacy, interest and appreciation through offering high quality life-long learning performing arts education programmes, as well as custom-made professional training for corporate and government clients, and the production of corporate events that require performing arts expressions.
Since 2006, EXCEL has been innovatively using drama techniques to help corporations with staff training and development.
HKAPA School of Music
The School of Music provides comprehensive and performance-focused training for students to become professional performers, composers and teachers of music. Hong Kong has seen a rapid and continued expansion of the performing arts scene in recent years, with a corresponding increase in job opportunities. The School of Music offers an ideal training environment which prepares its students for the demands likely to be placed on them when they enter the music profession.
Courses in Chinese and western music run side-by-side. Students may choose to major in a Chinese instrument, a western instrument, voice, or composition and electronic music.
Major Study Areas
Western Music
Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Classical Guitar, Harp, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Saxophone, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Bass Trombone, Euphonium, Tuba, Timpani and Orchestral Percussion, Piano, Voice
Gaohu, Banhu, Erhu, Zhonghu*, Gehu (Cello)*, Bass Gehu (Double Bass)*, Yangqin, Liuqin, Pipa, Ruan, Sanxian*, Guzheng, Guqin, Dizi, Suona, Guan*, Sheng, Chinese Percussion, Conducting for Chinese Orchestra**
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Composition and Electronic Music
Established by Government Ordinance in 1984, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts is a leading Tertiary institution in performing arts in Asia.
It provides professional undergraduate education and practice-based postgraduate studies. The study encompasses the following:
Theatre and Entertainment Arts
Its educational philosophy reflects the cultural diversity of Hong Kong with emphasis on Chinese and Western traditions and interdisciplinary learning.
The Academy awards bachelor honours degrees and master's degrees accredited by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications. Diploma and advanced diploma programmes are also offered in Chinese Opera, Dance and Music.
Aside from the main campus in Wanchai, Béthanie, the site of the institution's Landmark Heritage Campus in Pokfulam, has housed training facilities for the School of Film and Television since 2007.
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Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice
The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice was founded in 1929.
Located in a beautiful neo-Gothic building, the Academy holds a variety of artistic events such as concerts, master classes, workshops, competitions and conferences both on national and international levels, combined with didactic activities.
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Royal Irish Academy of Music
36-38 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland
The Royal Irish Academy of Music is a home of musical excellence and dynamism, a place of teaching and learning which consistently achieves its objective of transmitting and maintaining the highest standards of performance and appreciation in all musical disciplines.
Founded in 1848, the Academy is Ireland's oldest musical institution.
As a national 32-county institution, the Academy embodies and reflects the traditions and heritage of Irish musicianship. The Teaching Staff includes many international and national prizewinners, members of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and many individuals whose names have become synonymous with music education in Ireland.
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, 3 Conservatory Drive, Singapore 117376
Inspirational life-affirming music-making is at the heart of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. Centred in one of the world's most innovative and dynamic countries, we believe we are uniquely placed to offer today's world a distinct and powerful contemporary Asian voice.
Sited in a state-of-the-art contemporary facility at the cultural heart of the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Conservatory offers a multifaceted cosmopolitan environment for music and music education for the 21st century.
Founded in 2003, the Conservatory has quickly established a reputation as the most exciting international conservatory in Asia and one of the most distinctive in the world. With its focus on nurturing excellence and identity, the Conservatory is primarily an undergraduate institution, offering full financial support (fees, accommodation, stipend) for all of its 220 BMus students thanks to the support of the Yong Loo Lin Trust and other donors. Additionally, there are boutique programmes at Masters level, for Continuing Professional Education and for Singapore's most talented teenagers (the Young Artist Programme). NUS students are also able to access most class activities as elective components of their degree.
To augment its educational offer, YST also hosts an extensive performance calendar with around 200 concerts annually, including a range of international artists and ensembles as well as students and faculty events. There is also a significant community engagement and professional integration programme in Singapore, Asia and across the globe. Additionally, the Conservatory is involved in a range of international networks and partnerships which further enhance the student educational experience as well as ensuring that YST continues to evolve. Students are also supported to find their own pathways into the world, with support available also for exchanges, festivals, projects and competitions.
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3ER
The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the National Conservatoire of Wales, and part of the University of South Wales Group, competes alongside an international peer group of conservatoires and specialist arts colleges for the best students globally, enabling students to enter and influence the world of music, theatre and related professions.
Set in the grounds of Cardiff Castle, bordering one of the largest and most beautiful urban parks in the UK, the College is well known for its distinctly warm and welcoming character. With just over 600 students there is a real sense of community and we are able to offer our students an outstanding level of support.
The College educates some of the most talented students from around the world, aiming to give them not just the technical and craft skills they'll need to succeed at the top levels of the profession, but also to help them to develop their individual artistic 'voice.'
The College's events calendar encompasses over 300 public performances every year including orchestral concerts, recitals, drama, opera and musical theatre. The creative diversity of the college ensures a stimulating environment and broad experience for students of all disciplines.
Their dedicated teachers have a wealth of professional and industry experience and the college collaborates with a number of high-profile arts organisations, including Welsh National Opera, BBC NOW, visiting artists and directors, to ensure that the unique vocational nature of our training programmes reflect the current practices and conditions of the professional world.
100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G2 3DB
UK region: Scotland
The Royal Conservatoire is Scotland's national centre of professional vocational training in performance arts. Located in the heart of Glasgow, its orientation is the contemporary international scene, leading the way as one of Europe's top conservatoires, offering a rare breadth of artistic disciplines.
The Royal Conservatoire provides everything students need to excel at their chosen discipline and go beyond their artistic voice. Students flourish thanks to the extraordinary blend of intensive tuition, a rigorous performance schedule, working with professional counterparts, and the space to create with others across the disciplines.
RCS' vision is that graduates will enrich the performing arts with new work and will create the future of performance for generations to come. The conservatoire experience is one of total immersion where you can discover and develop your optimum potential.
RCS facilities include six professional performance venues; a high ratio of practice rooms per student; three recording studios; percussion studios; professional stage technology; four bespoke dance studios; new studios for technical, design, scenic art, set-building and costume design and construction.
Leeds College of Music
3 Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7PD
UK region: North-East England
Leeds College of Music is a leading European conservatoire providing music education to a community of over 1900 musicians through a variety of programmes, including undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses, numerous short courses and Junior LCoM for those aged 9-18.
The conservatoire opened in 1965 as Leeds Music Centre, providing a Light Music course with a significant focus on Jazz. In 1993 Leeds College of Music launched the first Jazz degree in Europe, and in 2004 became the first UK conservatoire to offer Popular Music, Music Production and later Music Business.
50 years since its inception, the conservatoire now has a diverse offering of music degrees spanning Popular Music, Classical Music, Jazz, Music Production, Music Business, Film Music, Songwriting and Folk.
Leeds College of Music is the first and only English conservatoire to hold All-Steinway School status. The conservatoire is also a designated Apple Accredited Training Centre, a regional hub for BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors), and a Roland Academy in association with Roland UK.
Over the last 50 years, numerous musicians, industry experts and supporters have been formally associated with the conservatoire. Fellows include Dame Fanny Waterman, Ronnie Scott, Django Bates, Courtney Pine OBE, Marc Almond and most recently Johnny Kalsi. Dr Terry Bramall CBE, Snake Davis, Lesley Garrett CBE, Jeremy Lascelles and John Wallace CBE are Vice Patrons.
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Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS, UK
The Royal College of Music is one of the world's great conservatoires, training gifted musicians from all over the world for international careers as performers, conductors and composers.
Founded in 1882 by the then Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), the RCM has trained some of the most important figures in British and international music life, including composers such as Holst, Vaughan Williams, Turnage and Britten; conductors such as Leopold Stokowski, Sir Colin Davis and Sir Roger Norrington; singers such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Sir Thomas Allen and Alfie Boe; instrumentalists such as Sir James Galway, John Lill and Natalie Clein.
With 840 students from more than 60 countries studying at undergraduate, masters or doctoral level, the RCM is a vibrant community of talented and open-minded musicians. RCM professors are musicians with worldwide reputations, accustomed to working with the most talented students of each generation to unlock their artistic potential.
Regular visitors include the likes of Lang Lang, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Bernard Haitink. The RCM's many performing groups – including five orchestras, two jazz bands and the RCM International Opera School – are celebrated for the vitality and excellence of their performances, and are regularly invited to perform at significant venues both in the UK and overseas.
Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT, UK
The Royal Academy of Music is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822.
Housed in a beautiful old building, surrounded by famous paintings and the historic instruments and manuscripts in the museum, the Academy is one of the most progressive conservatoires in the world. Students access cutting-edge technological resources, the programming is groundbreaking and there are thriving composition, jazz and musical theatre departments.
Academy professors and Heads of Departments are distinguished musicians at the top of the profession, continually attracting outstanding talent from across the globe. No other institution has produced so many outstanding conductors, a list which includes Sir Simon Rattle, Edward Gardner, Ilan Volkov, Ludovic Morlot, Susanna Mälkki and Mark Wigglesworth.
An unparalleled number of RAM graduates join leading orchestras worldwide, and recent principal positions include the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York.
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
King Charles Court, Greenwich, London SE10 9JF, United Kingdom
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is the UK's only conservatoire of music and contemporary dance.
Leaders in music and contemporary dance education, Trinity Laban also provide exciting opportunities for the public to encounter dance and music, and access arts health programmes. The unequalled expertise and experience of our staff and our world class facilities are housed in landmark buildings.
In 2005, Trinity College of Music and Laban, leading centres of music and contemporary dance, came together to form Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the UK's first ever conservatoire of music and dance.
Trinity Laban's innovative course provision, exciting performances and groundbreaking education, community and social inclusion work make them a leader in the advancement of creative artistic practice. Their unique conjunction has created exciting opportunities for collaboration between instrumentalists, singers, composers, dancers and choreographers.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DT, United Kingdom
Selected as one of the top ten institutions for performing arts in the world (QS World University Rankings 2016), the Guildhall School is one of the world's leading conservatoires and drama schools, offering inspiring undergraduate and postgraduate training in the performing arts.
A thriving Junior Guildhall, the recent addition of the Centre for Young Musicians, a Creative Learning outreach division and a range of Summer schools and short courses further complement the outstanding opportunities available.
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham B3 3HG, United Kingdom
UK region: West Midlands
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a world-class institution providing exceptional training for the musicians, actors, stage managers and performers of the future.
Our outstanding facilities attract the best and brightest students to Birmingham, along with internationally renowned performers and teachers.
With limitless collaboration opportunities for staff and students, the Conservatoire is a stimulating environment with an international reputation which celebrates diversity.
A unique environment inspiring performers to achieve in our fast-paced creative economy
In 2017, Birmingham Conservatoire completed an exciting merger with Birmingham School of Acting. It has successfully brought together complementary disciplines for an unrivalled creative experience. As a student, you will benefit from phenomenal music teaching and performance spaces which are located alongside state-of-the-art production and recording facilities.
Musicians are able to draw on performance skills or promote their work across digital channels and actors and set designers can deliver performances where music is essential to the artistic results.
It's an exhilarating place to learn with a unique, electric atmosphere, which inspires and brings together acting and musical talent. Our courses are helping students meet the demands of today's fast-paced creative economy.
We also have a highly successful Junior Conservatoire, which provides young musicians with specialist tuition that develops and nurtures individual talent.
Professional, dedicated staff with invaluable industry experience
We are fortunate to have a team of talented staff who work directly with industry and who are dedicated to ensuring our students become successful and employable. They give our students the confidence and skills to believe in their own potential and achieve their goals.
From full-time course directors to our specialist visiting tutors and guest directors, every one of them has enjoyed a successful professional career and many are still active artists and practitioners.
Royal Northern College of Music
124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD, United Kingdom
UK region: North-West England
The RNCM is a leading international conservatoire located in the heart of Manchester, with a reputation for attracting talented students, teachers, conductors and composers from all over the world.
Now in its fifth decade, the RNCM is relatively young, but its rich history spans back to 1893 when Sir Charles Hallé founded the Royal Manchester College of Music. In 1973, this institution merged with the Northern School of Music, and the RNCM was born. Today, the College is a thriving conservatoire with around 320 teaching staff and over 800 students from 60 different countries.
Complementing this role, the RNCM is also a vibrant live music venue offering unparalleled opportunities for students to perform regularly to public audiences and to work alongside professional musicians and visiting artists. Housing four major performance spaces, including a professionally-staffed, fully-equipped Theatre and recently refurbished Concert Hall, the College presents more than 400 concerts each year, ranging from RNCM orchestras and ensembles and large-scale opera productions, to a host of touring companies and external hires.
The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) rated the RNCM the UK's leading music college for research. We have since been awarded two Times Higher Education Awards: Excellence and Innovation in the Arts (2015) and Outstanding International Student Strategy (2016).


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Review Request #12 - Created March 21, 2015 and updated March 31, 2015, 11:29 p.m.
illumos project to eliminate dependencies on external libraries.
that might conflict with an "external" OpenSSL.
requirement to allow end users to choose their own OpenSSL.
approach Keith laid out doesn't really help you.
associated with actually checking in a copy of the code.
and "out" (building the code out in the userland gate, or similar).
just like the userland gate does, but the similarity stops there.
"reach over" to the unpacked/patched code.
We can directly use the patches from the userland gate.
build both.  Which you deliver is a packaging choice.
Which you use in build is a configuration choice.
either the "sunw_" prefix ones, or the normal ones.
Build the tests (validation of libssl, libcrypto).
March 21, 2015, 2:09 a.m.
March 31, 2015, 11:14 p.m.
+ illumos project to eliminate dependencies on external libraries.
+ that might conflict with an "external" OpenSSL.
+ requirement to allow end users to choose their own OpenSSL.
+ approach Keith laid out doesn't really help you.
+ associated with actually checking in a copy of the code.
+ and "out" (building the code out in the userland gate, or similar).
+ just like the userland gate does, but the similarity stops there.
+ "reach over" to the unpacked/patched code.
build both. Which you deliver is a packaging choice.
March 31, 2015, 11:29 p.m.