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Gyvybės žygio nuorodos
March of Life in Lithuania
March of Life is an international movement initiated by a German pastor Jobst Bittner. It seeks to fight modern antisemitism and expresses friendship and support for Israel.
March of Life was first organised in Lithuania on the 22nd-25th of September 2011. The event, which started in Germany and brought reconciliation and restoration among Christians and Jews in many nations, took place on the 22nd-23rd of September 2011 in Kaunas – a city, where the mass killing of Jews started. On the 24th-25th of September it spread to other Lithuanian cities – Vilnius, Panevėžys, Klaipėda, Plungė and nearby villages where mass murder occurred.
During the event, German Christians, who personally acknowledged their family guilt for the mass killings of Jews in Europe in the course of World War II and repented for that, marched in a unified parade. Lithuanians together with Jews, who have survived the Holocaust, and their children from various countries, marched from the massive massacre sites to the central squares of those countries. This was how the memory of those who were killed in the Holocaust was honoured.
The Holocaust in Lithuania
Even though the invasion first victimized the countries under German occupation, now they had also become perpetrators. This makes a working through of their past so difficult, even to this day. There still is an unbroken anti-Semitism in many of them that is connected to a lacking willingness to face the dark
side of their own past.
The Holocaust in Eastern Europe
In Eastern Europe, anti-Semitic attitudes are also still rife. It is only very gradually that these governments are starting to face the past. Without wanting to play down the German responsibility for the Holocaust in any way, in recent years there has been an increased focus on the support by local aides and helpers. Hitler's henchmen had willing helpers in the occupied nations, such as the former Ukrainian concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk, who was found guilty of complicity in murder in a thousand cases. The Germans could never have accomplished the millionfold murder of European Jews by themselves.
80th Anniversary of the Holocaust
In 2021 we will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Holocaust. On this occasion, we are planning to organise March of Life events but before that we want to lay the foundation and publish Jobst Bittner's book "Breaking the veil of Silence" in Lithuanian.
Jobst Bittner's book "Breaking the veil of Silence"
VšĮ "Prabudimo orkestras" (engl. Revival Orchestra) was granted the permission of the publisher to release Jobst Bittner's book "Breaking the veil of Silence" in Lithuanian. Our fellow Lithuanian Akvilė Weinert, who is living in Germany, has translated this relevant book and the process of editing is now in order. We are planning to release the book in fall 2020.
Today we want to share a few excerpts from the book "Breaking the veil of Silence".
Foreword by Dr. Michael L. Brown
This is a book that could only have been written by a German pastor and activist with a solid theological background, a deep devotion to the Holy Spirit, and a lifelong commitment to Israel.
Jobst Bittner is such a man. He studied under the late, heralded professor Martin Hengel, famous for his work on Judaism and Hellenism, and so Jobst has a thorough understanding of the Jewish roots of the Christian faith, a subject of foundational importance to this book. And as a pastor who believes in taking the gospel to the streets, he both speaks and acts, putting legs to his faith and bringing a living and public demonstration. He knows that only the power of the Holy Spirit can truly deliver the captives and make the brokenhearted whole.
Finally, as a man devoted to Israel and the salvation of the Jewish people, he can assess the painful legacy of the German church, but always with a hopeful eye that looks forward.
Other German Christian leaders have addressed the veil of silence that hung over the church during the fateful years of the Holocaust, among whom was Basilea (formerly Dr. Klara) Schlink, founder of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary.
With anguish of heart she wrote in 1958:
"We Germans were Satan's henchmen. In the midst of our people this hell was created… We are personally to blame. We all have to admit that if we, the entire Christian community, had stood up as 18 one man and if, after the burning of the synagogues [on Kristallnacht], we had gone out on the streets and voiced our disapproval, rung the church bells, and somehow boycotted the actions of the S.S., the devil's vassals would probably not have been at such liberty to pursue their evil schemes. But we lacked the ardor of love – love that is never passive, love that cannot bear it when its fellow men are in misery, particularly when they are subjected to such appalling treatment and tortured to death. Indeed, if we had loved God, we would not have endured seeing those houses of God set ablaze; and holy, divine wrath would have filled our souls."
(Israel, My Chosen People: A German Confession Before God and the Jews (Eng. trans., Old Tappan, NJ: Chosen, 1987), 39, 42-43)
But this is 2011, not 1958, and Pastor Jobst contends that the veil of silence – a multifaceted veil of silence – remains over the older and younger generations, and this veil must be torn down by identificational repentance and a positive, public witness.
In response, a sincere critic might ask, "Are we to endlessly repent of the sins of past generations? And is it even our place to do so?" Those are certainly worthy questions, and in my opinion, this kind of repentance is called for when: 1) The wounds of the past sins remain, which is certainly the case with regard to the subject matter of this book; and 2) The seeds of the past sins remain, and this too cannot be denied today.
And yet this is certainly not just another book about German Christians and the Holocaust. Certainly not. It is a call to dig deeper, to uproot every destructive and hurtful remnant that remains, and to move forward into wholeness, freedom, and life. And it brings a very specific call to a very literal March of Life, exalting Jesus and displaying what it really means to be one of His disciples.
As a Jewish follower of Jesus, myself indebted to Gentile Christians who introduced me to Israel's Messiah and Lord forty years ago, I commend this book to you.
Dr. Michael L. Brown
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Nigerias economy is projected to contract by 3.4 percent this year, government officials said on Tuesday, as dwindling oil revenues and the new coronavirus forced it to cut budget plans for a second time. The West African nation was assuming a lower petroleum price of $20 per barrel.
Nigeria, which emerged from a recession in 2017, was already contending with low growth of about 2 percent before oil prices plummeted. Africas top oil exporter relies on crude oil sales for about 90 percent of foreign exchange earnings and more than half of government revenue.
With global oil prices plunging, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said in March that this years record 10.59 trillion naira ($29.42bn) budget would be cut by about 15 percent.
At the time, she said the initial assumed oil price of $57 a barrel would be reduced to a worst-case scenario of $30 a barrel.
But on Tuesday, she said that benchmark would again have to be revised down.
We are in the process of an amendment that is bringing down the revenue indicator to $20 per barrel, Ahmed said in a web conference about the impact of low oil prices on the country.
Budget revisions need to be approved by legislators before being signed into law by the president.
Ahmed also said Nigerian oil and gas projects would be delivered much later than originally planned due to upstream budget cuts.
Nigerias economy has been battered by low oil prices following a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
It also plans to cut oil production to 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd), from the 2.1 million bpd initially proposed in the budget, under an agreement brokered by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Ben Akabueze, budget office director-general, said oil revenues were expected to fall by more than 80 percent. He said the government had revised its projections and expected the economy to contract by 3.4 percent this year compared with its previous expectation that it would grow by 2.9 percent.
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package io.kaif.model.debate;

import static io.kaif.util.MoreCollectors.toImmutableMap;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.*;

import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.function.Function;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.dao.EmptyResultDataAccessException;
import org.springframework.jdbc.core.RowMapper;
import org.springframework.jdbc.core.namedparam.NamedParameterJdbcTemplate;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

import com.google.common.cache.CacheBuilder;
import com.google.common.cache.CacheLoader;
import com.google.common.cache.LoadingCache;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.UncheckedExecutionException;

import io.kaif.database.DaoOperations;
import io.kaif.flake.FlakeId;
import io.kaif.model.KaifIdGenerator;
import io.kaif.model.account.Account;
import io.kaif.model.article.Article;
import io.kaif.model.zone.Zone;

@Repository
public class DebateDao implements DaoOperations {

  private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DebateDao.class);
  @Autowired
  private NamedParameterJdbcTemplate namedParameterJdbcTemplate;
  @Autowired
  private KaifIdGenerator kaifIdGenerator;
  private final RowMapper<Debate> debateMapper = (rs, rowNum) -> {

    return new Debate(FlakeId.valueOf(rs.getLong("articleId")),
        FlakeId.valueOf(rs.getLong("debateId")),
        Zone.valueOf(rs.getString("zone")),
        FlakeId.valueOf(rs.getLong("parentDebateId")),
        UUID.fromString(rs.getString("replyToAccountId")),
        rs.getInt("level"),
        rs.getString("content"),
        DebateContentType.valueOf(rs.getString("contentType")),
        UUID.fromString(rs.getString("debaterId")),
        rs.getString("debaterName"),
        rs.getLong("upVote"),
        rs.getLong("downVote"),
        rs.getTimestamp("createTime").toInstant(),
        rs.getTimestamp("lastUpdateTime").toInstant());
  };

  /**
   * although cached debate will be evict when content updated, but the total vote is not real time
   * value. so the voting count will be 10 minutes delayed currently. and DebateTree is not yet
   * cache yet, so user may see inconsistent.
   * <p>
   * TODO we should use refreshAfterWrite() here but due to guava loadAll() issue
   * (https://github.com/google/guava/issues/1975)
   * we have to use expireAfterWrite() to allow more loadAll() optimization
   */
  private final LoadingCache<FlakeId, Debate> debatesCache = CacheBuilder.newBuilder()
      .maximumSize(2000)
      .expireAfterWrite(10, TimeUnit.MINUTES)
      .build(new CacheLoader<FlakeId, Debate>() {
        @Override
        public Debate load(FlakeId key) throws Exception {
          return loadDebateWithoutCache(key);
        }

        @Override
        public Map<FlakeId, Debate> loadAll(Iterable<? extends FlakeId> keys) throws Exception {
          return listDebatesByIdWithoutCache(Lists.newArrayList(keys));
        }
      });

  @Override
  public NamedParameterJdbcTemplate namedJdbc() {
    return namedParameterJdbcTemplate;
  }

  private Debate insertDebate(Debate debate) {
    jdbc().update(""
            + " INSERT "
            + "   INTO Debate "
            + "        (articleid, debateid, zone, parentdebateid,replyToAccountId, level, "
            + "         content, contenttype, "
            + "         debaterid, debatername, upvote, downvote, createtime, lastupdatetime)"
            + " VALUES "
            + questions(14),
        debate.getArticleId().value(),
        debate.getDebateId().value(),
        debate.getZone().value(),
        debate.getParentDebateId().value(),
        debate.getReplyToAccountId(),
        debate.getLevel(),
        debate.getContent(),
        debate.getContentType().name(),
        debate.getDebaterId(),
        debate.getDebaterName(),
        debate.getUpVote(),
        debate.getDownVote(),
        Timestamp.from(debate.getCreateTime()),
        Timestamp.from(debate.getLastUpdateTime()));
    return debate;
  }

  public Optional<Debate> findDebate(FlakeId debateId) {
    if (Debate.NO_PARENT.equals(debateId)) {
      return Optional.empty();
    }
    final String sql = " SELECT * FROM Debate WHERE debateId = ? LIMIT 1 ";
    return jdbc().query(sql, debateMapper, debateId.value()).stream().findAny();
  }

  public Debate create(Article article,
      @Nullable Debate parent,
      String content,
      Account debater,
      Instant now) {
    //TODO evict DebateTree cache
    FlakeId debateId = kaifIdGenerator.next();
    return insertDebate(Debate.create(article, debateId, parent, content, debater, now));
  }

  public DebateTree listDebateTreeByArticle(FlakeId articleId, @Nullable FlakeId parentDebateId) {
    //TODO cache whole DebateTree
    List<Debate> flatten = listDepthFirstDebatesByArticle(articleId, parentDebateId);
    return DebateTree.fromDepthFirst(flatten).sortByBestScore();
  }

  List<Debate> listDepthFirstDebatesByArticle(FlakeId articleId, @Nullable FlakeId parentDebateId) {
    // TODO LIMIT in query, compute score in SQL
    // http://stackoverflow.com/a/25486998
    final String sql = ""
        + " WITH RECURSIVE DebateTree "
        + " AS "
        + " ( "
        + "    SELECT *, "
        + "           ARRAY[debateId] AS path "
        + "      FROM Debate "
        + "     WHERE articleId = :articleId "
        + "       AND parentDebateId = :parentDebateId "
        + "     UNION "
        + "    SELECT d.*,"
        + "           DebateTree.path || d.debateId AS path "
        + "      FROM DebateTree "
        + "      JOIN Debate d ON d.parentDebateId = DebateTree.debateId "
        + "     WHERE d.articleId = :articleId "
        + " ) "
        + " SELECT * FROM DebateTree ORDER BY path ";

    FlakeId parent = Optional.ofNullable(parentDebateId).orElse(Debate.NO_PARENT);
    Map<String, Object> params = ImmutableMap.of(//
        "articleId", articleId.value(), "parentDebateId", parent.value());

    return namedJdbc().query(sql, params, debateMapper);
  }

  public void changeTotalVote(FlakeId debateId, long upVoteDelta, long downVoteDelta) {
    if (upVoteDelta == 0 && downVoteDelta == 0) {
      return;
    }
    jdbc().update(""
        + " UPDATE Debate "
        + "    SET upVote = upVote + (?) "
        + "      , downVote = downVote + (?) "
        + "  WHERE debateId = ? ", upVoteDelta, downVoteDelta, debateId.value());
    //should we evict debatesCache ?
  }

  public Debate loadDebateWithCache(FlakeId debateId) throws EmptyResultDataAccessException {
    try {
      return debatesCache.get(debateId);
    } catch (ExecutionException | UncheckedExecutionException e) {
      logger.warn("loadDebateWithCache by id cache failed", e);
      return loadDebateWithoutCache(debateId);
    }
  }

  public Debate loadDebateWithoutCache(FlakeId debateId) {
    return jdbc().queryForObject(" SELECT * FROM Debate WHERE debateId = ? ",
        debateMapper,
        debateId.value());
  }

  public void updateContent(FlakeId debateId, String content, Instant now) {
    jdbc().update(""
        + " UPDATE Debate "
        + "    SET content = ?"
        + "      , lastUpdateTime = ? "
        + "  WHERE debateId = ? ", content, Timestamp.from(now), debateId.value());
    debatesCache.invalidate(debateId);
    //TODO evict DebateTree
  }

  public List<Debate> listLatestDebateByReplyTo(UUID replyToAccountId,
      @Nullable FlakeId startDebateId,
      int size) {
    FlakeId start = Optional.ofNullable(startDebateId).orElse(FlakeId.MAX);
    ImmutableMap<String, Object> params = ImmutableMap.of("accountId",
        replyToAccountId,
        "start",
        start.value(),
        "size",
        size);
    return namedJdbc().query(""
        + " SELECT * "
        + "   FROM Debate "
        + "  WHERE replyToAccountId = :accountId "
        + "    AND debaterid <> :accountId "
        + "    AND debateId < :start "
        + "  ORDER BY debateid DESC "
        + "  LIMIT :size ", params, debateMapper);
  }

  public List<Debate> listDebatesByTimeDesc(FlakeId startDebateId, int size) {
    FlakeId start = Optional.ofNullable(startDebateId).orElse(FlakeId.MAX);
    return jdbc().query(""
        + " SELECT * "
        + "   FROM Debate "
        + "  WHERE debateId < ? "
        + "  ORDER BY debateId DESC "
        + "  LIMIT ? ", debateMapper, start.value(), size);
  }

  public List<Debate> listZoneDebatesByTimeDesc(Zone zone, FlakeId startDebateId, int size) {
    FlakeId start = Optional.ofNullable(startDebateId).orElse(FlakeId.MAX);
    return jdbc().query(""
        + " SELECT * "
        + "   FROM Debate "
        + "  WHERE debateId < ? "
        + "    AND zone = ? "
        + "  ORDER BY debateId DESC "
        + "  LIMIT ? ", debateMapper, start.value(), zone.value(), size);
  }

  public List<Debate> listDebatesByIdWithCache(List<FlakeId> debateIds) {
    if (debateIds.isEmpty()) {
      return Collections.emptyList();
    }
    Map<FlakeId, Debate> results;
    try {
      results = debatesCache.getAll(debateIds);
    } catch (ExecutionException | UncheckedExecutionException e) {
      logger.warn("list debates by id cache failed", e);
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Pypestream, a startup promising to be an alternative to the often frustrating customer service experience. At the time, founder and CEO Richard Smullen was being a little coy about what the company was actually doing, but now he's ready to share more details.
Basically, Pypestream is a messaging app where businesses create accounts to connect with consumers. Each account includes different "Pypes", which represent different types of communication — for example, a retailer might create one Pype for customer support, one for returns, one for deals, one for news and so on.
If you want something from the business, you open the relevant Pype and start messaging them, pretty much the same way you'd text message with the a friend. And by leaving Pypes "open," you're opting in to receive certain kinds of communication from the company, such as deal alerts.
For consumers, Smullen said this offers a support channel that doesn't involve spending minutes or hours on hold. He also said it should feel more natural than the automated systems that sometimes answer our calls.
To be clear, a business' Pypestream messages will be generated by a mix of automation and human support. But even when you're not really texting with a human being, Smullen said the interactions will feel more natural than trying to converse with a computerized voice.
Businesses, meanwhile, get to save on the high cost of call centers, and they also get an open channel to continue communicating with customers — Smullen argued that a consumer is much more likely to opt-in to Pypestream messaging than they are to download an app for each and every company.
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Some brands are also creating a presence on the big consumer messaging apps, but Smullen suggested that those apps don't have the kinds of business-focused features that Pypestream does — it will support payments, and there will be a file cabinet that stores all the documents shared in your communication.
"We're not a person-to-person platform, we're not a group collaboration system," he said. "We're one-to-many from an entity or brand or a club or a sports team or a celebrity, and then one-to-one back." In other words, a business can push a message broadly to any interested consumers, and then consumers can respond in an individual fashion, without any of their information getting shared.
Smullen said brands could eventually use it to share content with consumers, too. Ultimately, he sees Pypestream becoming the one place where a customer can go anytime they need to interact with a business.
In fact, as he talked about different uses, about how you might go about your life and get all your business needs met through the app, it reminded me of the promise behind mobile assistant apps like Magic and GoButler. The difference is, with an assistant app, you type in a general request and message back-and-forth about how to fulfill it. With Pypestream, you pick a specific business and a specific task, and then you start messaging (which, again, means the business has a direct relationship with the customer).
Pypestream isn't yet broadly available to consumers, but Smullen said he's in the process of bringing business on-board. The initial customers include Washington Gas and Billboard.


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The future of biomedical engineering
by Gus Iversen, Editor in Chief | June 26, 2020
From the May 2020 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Once upon a time, biomedical engineering simply meant repairing, servicing, or ensuring regulatory compliance of medical devices in the hospital. As new technologies have given the specialty a much broader and more integral place in the hospital, it seems like those days are long gone.
If the annual HIMSS meeting took place this year it would have been the 10th year that Paul Frisch, chief of biomedical physics & engineering at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, was involved in showcasing the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion, a full-scale demonstration of how a variety of emerging technologies are utilized in the clinical space. This year, the pavilion was to include Advanced Biomedical Engineering as a component of the pavilion, but of course the COVID-19 outbreak had other plans.
Since we are unable to visit the pavilion first-hand, HealthCare Business News asked Frisch to tell us about the presentation, and the technological changes advancing the field of biomedical engineering.
"The intelligent hospital looks at all the new and evolving technologies that are used to create a seamless environment for passing data between devices, between clinical applications, and to be able to aggregate data in such a way, delivering it either to the medical record or to the point of care with a variety of commercial devices," said Frisch. "These new technologies change the face of biomedical engineering, so we no longer look at stand alone type of devices, we look at devices that are fully networked and integrated, creating a whole new paradigm in which biomedical engineering works."
As part of that sea change, biomedical teams are getting involved on the project level in RFID and RTLS implementation to manage hospital inventory, monitor workflows and optimize business processes. Meanwhile, 3D printing, which initially came to biomedical engineering as a tool for rapid prototyping and reverse engineering of various things in the medical space, has entered the clinical sphere for producing anatomical models for surgical planning, generated from imaging exams.
"We are all moving toward reconstruction and implants, which will come down the pike in the not too distant future," said Frisch. "So 3D printing opens up a whole new environment that biomedical engineering will be involved in, and I think all the groups will have significant partnerships and affiliations with radiology and surgery."
These changes have ushered in a whole new set of regulatory challenges to be dealt with. New rules and guidelines have been presented both by CMS and the Joint Commission that biomedical departments are working to advance.
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In his presentation Mr Miklós Kovács, the President of the KMKSZ presented the problems and the shortcomings of the Ukrainian electoral system, which are disadvantageous for the ethnic minorities. The number of the Hungarians is around 150 000 in Sub-Carpathia, which makes impossible for a Hungarian political party to reach the 5% parliamentary threshold. Accordingly, the parliamentary representation is possible only by representative from individual constituencies. Therefore, it is very important to create a constituency that includes the majority of the Hungarian population living in the area. In the last ten years this criteria was guaranteed by the relevant clauses of the electoral law aimed at the respecting the ethnical composition of the regions. However, the new electoral law does not contain any rule on defining the constituencies with respect to the ethnical composition of the population. "Consequently, for the Hungarian community in Sub-Carpathia it is of utmost importance to create such a constituency that contains the majority of the Hungarian minority ensuring the chance to elect a representative, who can consistently represent the interests of the Hungarian minority on the national level." – said Miklós Kovács. The borders of the constituencies will be drawn in April-May, therefore it was important that the visit of the Hungarian delegation from Sub-Carpathia to Brussels took place before that.
Mr László Brenzovics, the Vice-President of the KMKSZ and the Vice-President of the Sub-Carpathian County Council in his speech pointed out the troubles with the education system of the Hungarian minority and the equivalence of the degrees. The Ukrainian State does not ensure any possibilities for the university entrance examinations to be taken in a minority language. It is not formed a coherent system and method for the equivalence of the degrees which are gained in other countries either. This creates a serious problem for those people who belong to an ethnic minority and want to study in a university or make carrier in the academic sphere. "The question of learning and studying in ones mother language is an essential issue to save the identity of a national minority" – emphasized in his speech László Brenzovics.
Kinga Gál, the Vice-Chair of the Minority Intergroup and the Chair of the meeting emphasized in her remarks that it is very important to give the chance to the ethnic minorities to present their problems personally. In this spirit the Intergroup welcomed every minority organization to present their problems in the European Parliament in the last two and a half years. The Intergroup could strengthen their voice and forwarded their information to other MEP's. The Vice-Chair called on the Ukrainian government to be adherent with the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. "I am glad that our guests can meet with prominent members of the EU-Ukraine Delegation of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European External Service during their visit." – said Kinga Gál after the meeting.
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The R.A. Pickens II House is a historic house at 1 Pickens Place in Pickens, Desha County, Arkansas. It is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, with a side gable roof that projects over the front facade to form a porch supported by square wooden columns with Doric elements. The main entrance is centrally located, with a keystoned semicircular transom and matching sidelight windows. The house was built about 1940 using elements of the former Pickens plantation house, which had been built on the site in the 1880s. The Pickens family, which still owned the house in 2019, operated one of the largest plantations in Desha County. The house is one of the area's finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture.
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This past year, Director of Growth Strategies Stefan Jonasson analyzed past growth initiatives of the Unitarian Universalist Association. He was looking for patterns: what things worked in their time and what may not have worked then but could work now. What he saw over and over again was a tendency for initiatives and programs to reach their peak effectiveness by their seventh year and then plateau or decline after that. Many, many initiatives have a natural life cycle of seven years. Where have we seen this pattern before?
It was right about the same time that Stefan noticed the seven-year cycle in program effectiveness that there was talk about letting the Breakthrough Congregations (BTC) program quietly go away. BTC started in 2005. It was a growth initiative that annually lifted up the good work of 4 congregations and encouraged other congregations to learn directly from then. The videos of each congregation through the years can be found here.
It was a behind-the-scenes, labor-intensive effort. The people who originally got the BTC ball rolling were now in new leadership positions with new initiatives capturing their attention. We wondered if it was making a cost-effective impact by only reaching those who could go to General Assembly. And we had a convenient "out." It was convenient that Justice GA was on the horizon and people's attentions would be drawn in new directions. The idea was to let it quietly go away and listen to what people missed about it (if anything) and then find new ways to meet that need. After seven years, we are now inclined to ask whether or not not a program may have run its course.
I wasn't ready. As a religious educator I strongly believe in the core model of BTC of congregations as curriculum toeach other. Borrowing from Kurdek, I examined the original intent of BTC, which was to identify those congregations that had achieved significant and sustained numerical growth and give them an opportunity to share at General Assembly (through videos and workshops) what they've done, and how they've done it. It was the videos and workshops, that were so onerous. And that they happened at General Assembly made the learning opportunity more exclusive than was widely helpful.
I pondered. What are other ways to examine the story of the Breakthrough Congregations? How can the BTC program intersect with other growth strategies? What are other ways to report the story? What do we as Unitarian Universalists have in common that we might use as a teaching vehicle? The idea stewed for a while and then all at once the lightbulb went on. The UUWorld!
Examine our stories in fresh ways that open our imagination as to what is possible.
Communicate our stories to as many Unitarian Universalist as possible.
Utilize the talents of previously untapped leaders at the UUA.
Be more intentional with media and educational support and opportunities.
Brought together a cross department team to collaborate, cross-fertilize and energize each other.
The public relations specialist coached the BTC and a district growth specialists designed a study guide.
Was the new design worth the morphing effort? Time will tell. We're giving it a year to evaluate whether the renewed initiative is impacting congregations. But I can tell you that the effort put into reimagining BTC has made an impact on the leaders within our the institutional Association that serves Unitarian Universalism.


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The exceptionally popular annual CAST Member's Exhibition is an opportunity for all CAST members to show their artwork in the CAST Gallery.
CURATOR: BLAIR FRENCH // INTERLACE is an exhibition of new video installations by three of Australia's most exciting moving image artist, curated by Associate Director of Sydney's Performance Space, Blair French, INTERLACE was produced for inclusion in the 2004 Sydney Biennale's Parallel Program, where it received critical acclaim and was widely reviewed.
CURATOR: MARIA MACDERMOTT // As part of the CAST'S annual Emerging Curator Program, Maria MacDermott has curated Timepiece.
A solo exhibition by Tasmanian-based artist Neil Haddon, PITCH 041 presents a collection of new paintings and wall works. As well as works based around the grid, targets and stripes, PITCH 041 includes a number of recent works that take Australia's obsession with home renovation as their subject.
CURATOR: PHILIP WATKINS // Time masquerades as empty units, a dream of increments of nothing, to fill as we choose. In reality the coalescence of time with the abstraction of currency equates time with money, dividing up duration outside our control and shaping life into an equation balanced between the cost of labour time and the cost of living.


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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
Bill Gates named Shoe Dog one of his five favorite books of 2016 and called it "an amazing tale, a refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like. It's a messy, perilous, and chaotic journey, riddled with mistakes, endless struggles, and sacrifice. Phil Knight opens up in ways few CEOs are willing to do."
Fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and launched a company with one simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his car in 1963, Knight grossed eight thousand dollars that first year. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In this age of start-ups, Knight's Nike is the gold standard, and its swoosh is one of the few icons instantly recognized in every corner of the world.
But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always been a mystery. In Shoe Dog, he tells his story at last. At twenty-four, Knight decides that rather than work for a big corporation, he will create something all his own, new, dynamic, different. He details the many risks he encountered, the crushing setbacks, the ruthless competitors and hostile bankers—as well as his many thrilling triumphs. Above all, he recalls the relationships that formed the heart and soul of Nike, with his former track coach, the irascible and charismatic Bill Bowerman, and with his first employees, a ragtag group of misfits and savants who quickly became a band of swoosh-crazed brothers.
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Arts & Culture » Theater Critic's Choice
by John Corbett
The importance of the British collective AMM for any of today's radical music cannot be overstated. Their brand of freely improvised sound set the stage for industrial, noise rock, and ambient 30 years ago, and they successfully brought together strands from free jazz and experimental classical music, yielding an altogether new agglomeration. Meanwhile, AMM actively sought to bridge the perceived gap between the physical and psychological materials of sound and the social practices of music making--to give the lie to the supposed elitism of abstraction. Their concerts were sprawling adventures in real time. (No pious artistes, these--a few years ago I saw an AMM concert at which audience members were encouraged to come and leave as they liked, with none of the conventional discomfort at leaving when bored.) Now, after more than three decades of intense audio investigation, AMM live on as the longest continuing ensemble in free music, turning acoustics into a tool for deep inquiry. Since their first records in the 60s--including the currently available AMMUSIC 1966 (Cuneiform) and The Crypt--12th June 1968 (Matchless)--AMM have deployed a unique kind of improvising built on a steady accumulation of textures, simultaneous sounds (including long tones, drones, scrapes, and oscillations), and the singular musical vocabularies of the ensemble's participants. Once fittingly described as "laminar," AMM create a dense, noise-saturated set of stratified layers. Over the last decade or so, the group's core personnel has consisted of Keith Rowe on guitar and percussionist Eddie Prevost (both founding members, along with the late composer, pianist, and music philosopher Cornelius Cardew) and virtuoso avant-garde classical pianist John Tilbury. Rowe virtually invented the "tabletop" approach to guitar--imagine a combination of John Cage's prepared piano and Leon McAuliffe's lap steel--a tool now being intently explored by Chicago's own Kevin Drumm. Last time I saw them, though, AMM's secret weapon was Tilbury. In the midst of Rowe's electric sound-sheets and Prevost's rolling toms, brittle snare, and bowed cymbals, the pianist somehow slipped in a genuinely harmonic statement, his fingers spiderlike as they slinked one sly melodic line after another. AMM very rarely come to town; their 1984 visit to the Arts Club resulted in the recently reissued Combines and Laminates (Matchless). In the superb acoustic environs of Goodspeed Recital Hall, this promises to be an event not to miss. Saturday, 7 PM, Goodspeed Recital Hall, University of Chicago, 1010 E. 59th; 702-8670.


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Lord Singh of Wimbledon, the Director of the Network of Sikh Organisations gave a Sikh view on abortion last week, during a debate secured by Baroness Knight of Collingtree.
He said, "My Lords, as a Sikh, I am totally opposed to abortion on any grounds except that of real and serious danger to the mother's health, and it is important that those who facilitate gender-selective abortions should be punished with the full rigour of the law. However, laws cannot create good behaviour; they can only define the boundaries of unacceptable behaviour. We must also look to education in tackling negative and outmoded cultural practices.
The Sikh religion is not a religion in which "thou shalt" or "thou shalt not" are strictly imposed; Sikh teachings are couched in terms of gentle guidance about what we should or should not do to lead a responsible life. One of the few exceptions is a total condemnation of female infanticide. Sadly, this was all too common in the India of 500 years ago and was linked to the inferior status of women throughout the world.
From the very start of the religion, Guru Nanak taught the dignity and complete equality of women. Sikh women have always been able to lead prayers and occupy any religious position. The 10th guru, Guru Gobind Singh, gave women the name or title Kaur—literally, "princess"—to emphasise their dignity and complete equality. A Sikh woman does not have to take her husband's name but remains an individual in her own right.
Despite the clarity of such teachings, negative sub-continent culture for some, even in the Sikh community, leads to discrimination against women and girls. Perversely, it is women who are often responsible, with mothers lavishing extra attention on male children. Even in the West today, a new birth is frequently accompanied by a joyous cry, "It's a boy!". It is not so long ago that the birth of a girl to royalty was greeted as a national calamity, on a par with the loss of a test match.
We all have to work much harder to fight gender discrimination and gender prejudice through tighter laws and education."
Other Peers who participated in the debate, included Lord Patten, Baroness Barker, Baroness Hollins, The Lord Bishop of Leicester and Baroness Flather.


Russ Liquid is a three piece live electronica band that mixes soulful funk music with future bass music. The front man, Russell Scott is not only well versed in multiple instruments including the saxophone and trumpet, but he also plays the keys, and produces the bands electronic tracks. Guitarist Andrew Block adds powerful guitar solos to the bands live performance, while Deven Trusclair keeps the beat rolling on the drums. All members have been predominantly influenced by the New Orleans jazz scene and it shows in their music. Enjoy the recap we made of Russ Liquid playing at the Aggie Theatre, located in Fort Collins, CO on February 9th, 2018.


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Fuel retailers making 'shocking' 19p a litre profit after failing to pass on oil price cut, RAC warns
Fuel retailers should be scrutinised by the government if they fail to cut prices, a RAC boss has suggested.
Petrol and diesel prices remain high despite a reduction in the wholesale price of oil.
Retailers are overcharging by as much as 12p per litre for petrol and 10p per litre for diesel, according to the RAC.
The motoring body claims that oil prices fell by around 10 US dollars a barrel on Friday in response to concerns about the Omicron coronavirus variant.
But it said this is yet to be reflected at the pumps.
RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams estimated that retailers are making a "shocking" 19p profit on every litre of fuel they sell, more than treble the pre-pandemic figure of 6p.
He said fuel companies might "resent" being told that their fuel is overpriced, but that "doesn't change the fact that they should cut" prices.
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Petrol stations across the country ran out of fuel following panic buying in September
Mr Williams added: "If they don't, we feel they will lose credibility with drivers, although it's very difficult for motorists to vote with their feet because they have nowhere else to go.
"If a substantial cut doesn't materialise, we feel this is worthy of government scrutiny as there's no public body monitoring fuel prices to see if they're fair.
"With fuel prices at record highs drivers are in dire need of some respite at the pumps and now it's impossible to blame the prices on rising oil costs.
"It seems as though retailers think they can get away with charging more for fuel because of the public's general acceptance of rising energy prices."
The average cost of a litre of petrol and diesel at UK forecourts is 147.64p and 150.85p respectively.
Filling a typical 55-litre family car with petrol or diesel is around £19 more expensive compared with 12 months ago.
In September, the country was at the height of a fuel crisis that saw shortages across the country.
It started when it emerged that BP had told the government it was prioritising the restocking of its branded filling stations because of a shortage of tanker drivers.
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What a fun hour and half!!!!
The captain and first mate were so nice, pretty sure the 1st mate was speaking Gaelic to people in the cove!!! The coves were beautiful and the rock formations left you in awe. The Captain let us navigate the vessel and they took pictures of us in front of the light house, so good people thought they were photoshopped.
We did not expect to be able to find and take a bout tour at Peggy's Cove, but we kind of walked right into this one. Had a great time on this one hour boat ride. The Captain stops the boat in front of the Lighthouse and the first mate takes pictures of all on board...got a great picture. Also, kids on board get to drive the boat for a short while. Relaxing ride, great scenery, and accommodating crew, all for a reasonable price!
The crew and Peter the captain were fantastic with my 90yr old grandmother. We had a lovely day and saw several puffins and gray seals. Highly recommended as it is close to Halifax and the tours take place on a boat that is easy to maneuver in to get the best views of the wildlife. Also, the view of Peggy's Cove lighthouse on the way is not to be missed.
This was a highlight of our trip. We had a great time and caught lots of mackerel, as well as some pollack and cod. Staff. We're very friendly.
Incredible!! I will never forget.
Thank you very much, saw a humpback and several big tuna.
Breathtakingly beautiful & amazing, Thank you both.
Great Trip, awesome scenery and great crew.
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Mongabay Series: Forest Trackers
Drug trafficking threatens Indigenous Shipibo communities in Peru
by Enrique Vera on 3 September 2021 | Translated by Sarah Engel
The Flor de Ucayali municipality belongs to Indigenous Shipibo-Conibo communities and has been the site of intense deforestation, according to local sources and satellite data.
Community members say the driver of forest loss is illicit coca cultivation. Coca is used to make cocaine.
Shipibo-Conibo residents say they have been threatened by armed drug traffickers.
Authorities have intervened, but residents say the threats continue. Satellite data and imagery show continuing deforestation in the area.
Nine months ago, Abdón was one of 40 Indigenous people from the Peruvian municipality of Flor de Ucayali who traveled, for the last time, to the border between his community and the village of Santa Sofía. This area, located in the northeastern section of Flor de Ucayali, is reportedly now a violent enclave of drug trafficking and illegal logging. Sources say coca crops are expanding around the primary forest, and an armed wing of drug traffickers has caused the withdrawal of the Indigenous Shipibo-Conibo people who used to conserve the forest. In 2020 the leaders of Flor de Ucayali complained of what they said were incessant deforestation and death threats, triggering an inspection by the district attorney.
Prior to the Sept. 2020 inspection, members of the Flor de Ucayali Monitoring Committee said individuals with pistols demanded they present identification when they attempted to enter their ancestral territory, and that areas of the forest had been cleared coca crops – from which cocaine is produced. Some community members said that the same thing happened to other Shipibo-Conibo people who came to the area to hunt or fish. They were also warned not to stay in the forest or cross the area after 4:00pm or they would risk being shot.
Deforestation for coca in Flor de Ucayali. Image courtesy of FECONAU.
Abdón said that, in mid- 2020, they followed a trail of bottles and cans scattered between the trees until they found a pit used for cocaine production. He said they were guided there by a strong, acidic fuel smell that emanated from the drug lab, and that Indigenous community members were shocked by the chemical residue contaminating the river that flows through their town.
" 'If you all go out and the police come, the only ones responsible will be you. And you all are going to disappear with your families'," Abdón said a man with a gun in his hand had told him near the cocaine pit.
A forest full of problems
Flor de Ucayali is situated on the bank of the Utiquinía River, in the district of Callería in Peru's Ucayali region. It is one of the 30 Indigenous communities that make up the Federation of Native Communities of Ucayali (FECONAU). About 70 Shipibo-Conibo families live there and dedicate their time to small-scale agriculture. Since 1987, the community has held title of a territory of 21,800 hectares (about 53,869 acres), 94% of which is covered by dense rainforest. Flor de Ucayali currently has a valid forestry permit to use 15,896 hectares (about 39,280 acres) of secondary forest for commercial purposes.
It takes seven hours by speedboat to reach the center of the Flor de Ucayali community from Pucallpa, the capital of the Ucayali region. Julián, a member of the Flor de Ucayali Monitoring Committee, told Mongabay Latam that the committee previously monitored the forest without issue. However, he said everything changed when drug traffickers began to control the area and that the committee and community members are no longer able to safely patrol their forest.
"By monitoring with points, we estimate that the deforestation exceeded 2,000 hectares [about 4,942 acres]," Julián said. "Reaching the coca farms means not returning."
Miguel Guimaraes, the president of FECONAU, explained that among the communities in this Indigenous area, Flor de Ucayali has been the most affected by deforestation caused by drug trafficking.
Deforestation in Flor de Ucayali. Image courtesy of community members.
According to Julián, incursions into the area by illegal loggers-turned-coca farmers began in 2006. He recalled that at first they came sporadically and in small groups. However, he said a lack of state police presence and enforcement allowed for an increasing invasion by coca farmers, loggers and drug traffickers, and these problems were particularly exacerbated in 2018.
A disputed investigation
Due to deforestation and alleged death threats, the leaders of Flor de Ucayali presented a complaint to regional authorities. The complaint prompted the Sept. 2020 inspection by the Office of the Public Prosecutor Specializing in Environmental Matters of Ucayali, Peru's ecological police, the Directorate of Forest and Wildlife Management of the Regional Government of Ucayali, leaders from FECONAU and a group of residents of the affected community.
Linda Vigo, a lawyer from the Legal Defense Institute (IDL), said that the district attorney had a "resistant attitude" from the start and that. "They looked the other way," Vigo said. The case was closed January 2021.
In late 2020, IDL, FECONAU, the Federation of Indigenous Kechua Chazuta Amazonian Peoples (FEPIKECHA), and the international organization Forest Peoples Programme sent a report to the Congress of the Republic of Peru that documented the "immense and devastating deforestation" observed during the inspection in Flor de Ucayali. The report also claimed the Public Ministry of Peru's account of the situation was inaccurate, and that more deforestation had occurred than the ministry had reported.
About 40 Shipibo-Conibo community members from Flor de Ucayali accompanied the inspection conducted in September 2020. Image courtesy of FECONAU.
In an interview with Mongabay Latam, José Guzmán Ferro, the provincial prosecutor from the Office of the Public Prosecutor Specializing in Environmental Matters of Ucayali, said that after the inspection his office filed a report with an anti-drug agency in the hopes that they would intervene.
Meanwhile, many community members said that increasing criminal activity and deforestation are slowly cornering them. Matías Pérez-Ojeda del Arco, advocacy coordinator of the Forest Peoples Programme in Peru, agreed. "The paradigm that [land] titling resolves a community's problems is broken," he said. "If it is an abandoned community, it's possible that the adjacent [communities] could initiate illegal activities."
Deforestation and death threats
Satellite data from the University of Maryland (UMD) visualized on Global Forest Watch show primary forest loss in Flor de Ucayali skyrocketed in 2020, growing more than five-fold over 2019. While preliminary data for 2021 indicates deforestation has abated some this year compared to 2020, the number of tree cover loss alerts recorded by UMD so far in 2021 is still above the average rate.
Satellite data from the University of Maryland show forest loss has been concentrated in the northeastern part of Flor de Ucayali.
According to Nelly Aedo, the director of the Indigenous Communities program at the Ombudsman's Office, the absence of government presence in these remote areas of Peru is one of the factors that keeps communities there at risk of invasion.
"There are communities that have titles, like Flor de Ucayali, but they are alone and unprotected," Aedo said. "Illegal loggers often have violent attitudes, and drug trafficking is a cruel illegal activity."
Shipibo-Conibo community members said that while they were patrolling another damaged area in early 2021, a logger accosted them and told them that he knew the names of those who had made complaints to authorities. "It will cost us nothing to shoot you all," he allegedly yelled. The community members said that the drug traffickers log the forest while they wait for the next crop of coca to grow.
Ramiro is a member of the Flor de Ucayali community who said he lived in fear that the loggers and coca farmers near Santa Sofía would identify him as one of the people who had prompted the inspection. He said he even considered leaving town for safety. He said that during that uncertain time, a group of outsiders arrived in the community by boat and fired several shots into the air. "'Anyone who goes back [into the forest where coca is grown] will not come out alive'," Ramiro said one of the strangers shouted between the staccato of bullets. He said they attacked his farm and his house the following week. "No one was injured, miraculously," Ramiro said.
The situation continued to escalate. Guimaraes, the president of FECONAU, said he received a series of shocking photos via text that showed men being tortured and dismembered. Accompanying the photos was a threatening message: "Continue with what you are doing, and the same thing will happen to you."
According to the Ombudsman's Office, the regions of Amazonas, Ucayali, and San Martín have the highest numbers of Indigenous people who have reported intimidation by loggers, drug traffickers and illegal miners. The office registered 25 murders of Indigenous and environmental defenders between 2013 and 2021, nine of which occurred in 2020 and 2021. The Ombudsman's Office said the Indigenous groups that are most heavily affected are the Asháninka, the Catacaibo, the Shipibo-Conibo, the Awajún and the Wampís.
Trees cut down to make room for coca crops. Image courtesy of FECONAU.
Luis Pacheco Cornejo, the director of the Peruvian National Police anti-narcotics unit (DIRANDRO) in Pucallpa, said the criminal networks operate independently with each element that makes up their criminal group: the coca farmers, the armed wing, cocaine producers in drug labs, and the drug traffickers themselves.
The Pucallpa arm of DIRANDRO reported that the districts of Callería, Masisea, Yurúa, Purús, and Padre Abad have the highest rates of deforestation. Within these jurisdictions, the areas with the highest rates of deforestation are the Indigenous communities of Santa Rosa, Santa Ana, Chachivai, Santa Clara de Uchunya, and Flor de Ucayali, according to DIRANDRO.
"When the Indigenous people complain of deforestation, they are not considered 'the aggrieved.' 'The aggrieved' is the government. So, the government does not protect them in the field. This is why the cases have been closed," said Pérez of the Forest Peoples Programme.
Two community members from Flor de Ucayali who were willing to be interviewed for this article said they have hired personal security due to death threats. The Protocol for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders was activated for one of the two people. Using this protocol, which is operated by Peru's Ministry of Justice, an alert was generated so that police would be called to guard the person and, if necessary, transfer the person to a secure area. However, both community members say that these protections have been ineffective at deterring threats.
An investigation conducted by the Regional Government of Ucayali confirmed the complaints of Shipibo-Conibo communities. Image courtesy of area community members.
On July 1, an intervention was conducted in Flor de Ucayali by forest monitoring personnel from the Regional Government of Ucayali, representatives from the Prosecutor's Office for Environmental and Anti-Drug Matters, the Peruvian police, and the Peruvian Navy. Prosecutor José Guzmán Ferro said that the intervention was a "shocking verification" of how coca is planted throughout the area. During the intervention, supplies, shacks, and three coca maceration pits were destroyed. Guzmán believes that periodic interventions will stop criminal operation in the area.
Satellite data and imagery, however, show deforestation has only increased since the July intervention.
Satellite imagery shows clearings proliferated in July and August.
Some community members also don't agree with Guzmán's assessment. Guimaraes, the president of FECONAU, said that there is still not an effective, permanent security strategy for Flor de Ucayali.
"They leave the community members as if they are bait," Guimaraes said.
The names of some Indigenous community members have been changed for their safety.
This story is a translated and updated version of one reported by Mongabay's Latam team and first published in Spanish on our Latam site on July 12, 2021.
Banner image courtesy of FECONAU.
Editor's note: This story was powered by Places to Watch, a Global Forest Watch (GFW) initiative designed to quickly identify concerning forest loss around the world and catalyze further investigation of these areas. Places to Watch draws on a combination of near-real-time satellite data, automated algorithms and field intelligence to identify new areas on a monthly basis. In partnership with Mongabay, GFW is supporting data-driven journalism by providing data and maps generated by Places to Watch. Mongabay maintains complete editorial independence over the stories reported using this data.
Article published by Morgan Erickson-Davis
Amazon People, Amazon Rainforest, Drug Trade, Environment, Featured, Forests, Green, Habitat Destruction, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Cultures, Indigenous Groups, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Timber, Tropical Forests


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Critically acclaimed for The King of Hearts in Saint Etienne Opera, Aurélie Ligerot is distinguished by "A flexible phrasing, a luminous timbre, clear highs, and a dramatic sense and perfect gestures" (Concertclassic.com, March 2016 ). She performs in the major French houses such as the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, The Opéra National de Bordeaux, the Opera companies of Avignon, Marseille and Toulon where she sings the tribute of honor in Macbeth and the high priestess in Verdi's Aida, Anna Kennedy in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Andreloun in Gounod's Mireille, and Bianca in The Jano Rondine in Janaček's Jenufa. Parallel to her studies at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, the operatic company Opera Bastide has offered her principal roles, including Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, and Michaela in Carmen. Abroad, she sings Donizetti's Love in Sarzana (Italy) and Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at the Hamburger Kammeroper (Germany), and recently Leïla in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers at Opera Romana Craiova (Romania).
Her repertoire of sacred music includes Bach's 140 and 150 cantatas, Zelenka's Missa Votiva, Mendelssohn's Symphony 2 "Lobgesang", Rossini's Small Mass, Carmina Burana by C. Orff and Poulenc's Gloria. She has regularly performed with Antoine Chenuet, director of the program The Night Romance, and with the pianist François Henry in a work based on Théophile Gautier: Théophile Gautier, Muse of the Composers or One Does Not Trifle with the Melody, a program based on de Musset's work with Jacques-François Loiseleur des Longchamps and Stéphanie Humeau. Her solo recital Désire[s] provides the beautiful part of the verist repertoire. This season, she takes on the role of Violeta in Traviata with the company Figaro Si Figaro Là. This recital will be on May 25 in a musical conference by Brigitte Durup on Verdi with tenor Olivier Trommenschlager.
Born in 1978, he began playing the piano at the age of 8. Admitted to the National Conservatory of Paris (CNR) in 1991, he entered the piano class of Pierre Réach and Marie-Louise Langlais organ. He works in parallel with Laurence Allix, renowned pedagogue. In 1993, he won the Ermend-Bonnal Prize of the first André Marchal International Organ Competition in Biarritz. In 1994 he attended the National Conservatory of Music (CNSM) in Paris, studying piano with Jean-François Heisser, and chamber music with Christian Ivaldi, and winning first prize in piano. He then took master classes with Rena Shereshevskaya in Colmar, while continuing his studies at the CNSM in Paris.
Simon Adda-Reyss has the privilege of receiving frequent advice from the master Olivier Messiaen. Both on the organ, on the piano and as a soloist or orator, he regularly performs in Paris (theater Châtelet, auditorium of the Musée d'Orsay, home of Radio France, etc), in the provinces, and abroad; notably in Moscow where he played in the grand hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the direction of Yuri Bashmet, and then in Japan, where he will perform again this year in Tokyo as part of the Ginza Chanel Chamber Music Festival. He was the accompanist of the singer Jane Rhodes. Recently, he played in the story of Babar F. Poulenc with actress Marie-Anne Chazel. Simon Adda-Reyss improvised the music of the modern series of drawings, broadcast on Canal + in 2000/2001. That same year, he was also chosen as piano accompanist by actor François Morel.
Always passionate about teaching and the transmission of knowledge, Simon Adda-Reyss holds the C.A., obtained under the supervision of the higher education of the National Conservatory of Music of Paris. In 2008, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the same school.
Simon Adda-Reyss also performs in partnership with the violinists Julien Dieudegard, Akiko Yamada and Nemanja Radulovic, the cellist Atsushi Sakai, and the singer Simon Edwards.
Nicolas Hartmann studied cello with André Navarra and Philippe Müller at the CNSM in Paris where he won a first prize in cello and chamber music in 1981. He then perfected himself at the Geneva Conservatory in the class of Guy Fallot and obtained a virtuosity prize in 1983. He followed master classes with Pierre Fournier, János Starker and Boris Pergamenschikow. In 1986, he won the Maria Canals International Competition in Barcelona.
He successively became principal cello of the Musikkollegium Winterthur (from 1987 to 1988), of the Orchester des Pays de Savoie (1989 to 1992), of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra (1989 to 1991) and since 1992, he has held the position solo cello of the National Orchestra of Lyon.
She started cello at the age of 5. She joined the Strasbourg CNR where she won a gold medal in the class of Jean Deplace. She then perfected with Reine Flachot at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, obtaining the Higher Diploma of Concert, and then with Edmond Baert at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, where she was awarded the Higher Diploma with Grande Distinction.
She is the principal cellist of the Symphonic Orchestra "Région Centre Val de Loire-Tours", with whom she has performed Boccherini, Haydn and Saint-Saëns concertos. She is also regularly invited by the opera orchestras of Paris and Firenze.
She participated in 3 creations of the director Thierry Bédard with the company Notoire, "Encyclopedia of the dead", "The censored Library", "In Hell" (TGP of St-Denis, national scenes).
She has signed many recordings: concerto by Emil Cossetto (Radio France), duets with piano (Sude) and chamber music by Philippe Hersant (Triton).
She is a founding member of the trio Pilgrim, with which she records the two trios of Mendelssohn (Triton), performs a complete Beethoven trios at the festival 5X7 in Vevey, and creates in September 2018 a work by Martin Matalon whose trio Pilgrim is dedicatee .
Red Radoja graduated from Tirana University of the Arts (piano) and the University of Strasbourg (musicology). He is dedicated to piano teaching at the Luneville Music School, to ethnomusicological research and to the promotion of his works as a concert pianist or director of the chamber ensemble "Le petit opéra lorrain" 'Ensemble Alliance' association (Epinal).
2010 "The song of Garrie" suite for piano Éditions Fortin.
2011 "The Dodone Oak" choral (SSAA) Fortin Editions.
2014 "The strength of the brave" (piano) Éditions Fortin.
2014 "The first snow" choral (SATB) Éditions Fortin.
2015 "Hunting on the lands of the Dukes of Lorraine", suite for piano Editions Fortin.
Lyuba Dmitrieva was born on July 7, 1994 in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.
In 2018, she graduated with honors from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in the genre of People's Artists of Russia, studying under Professor Friedrich Lips.
In 2010 and 2011, she won first prize in the A.L. Repnikova International Competition of performers on folk instruments in Petrozavodsk, Russia.
In 2010, she won first prize in the Open All Russia festival competition of children and youth creativity "Golden Boat".
She won the Grand Prize at the "Golden Boat" Open All-Russian festival in 2012 and 2013.
She won the Grand Prize at the Russian competition of performers on folk instruments "Gems of Russia" in 2012 and 2013 in Ivanovo.
In 2014, she won first prize at the International Competition of folk music ensembles "The Fascination of Singing Strings" in Petrozavodsk.
In May 2014, she won the bronze medal at XIII Youth Delphic Games of Russia in Volgograd plus a special diploma for a bright personality.
In addition to participating in competitions, Lyuba has a very rich concert schedule. She performs both as soloist and with the Klava band under the leadership of the People's Artists of Russia directed by actor Anatoly Zhuravlev. She is also a soloist of the instrumental trio.
Elena Rigun was born on November 20, 1984 in Kaliningrad Russia. She graduated from music school in cello and then took up the double bass at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she studied under Professor E.A. Kolosov.
She performed with the Kaliningrad Regional Symphony Orchestra, playing in ensembles of various genres and eras, including the baroque, classical, jazz, and folk. She participated in the bass quintet known as Bass Divas, which became famous for its performances in the Bolshoi Theater in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. She also participated in a television project on the federal channel in the show, "Winner".
In 2017, as part of the World Youth Orchestra, Ms. Rigun performed in the city of Sochi.
In the summer of 2018, she participated as a soloist of the ensemble of the production and premiere of the opera Crime and Punishment, which took place in Perm as part of the annual Dygilevsky Festival.
In 2018, Ms. Rigun won third prize in the International Competition of performers at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.
Elena Rigun is presently under contract with the Concert Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory under the direction of A. Levin. She also plays in the Klava ensemble for a play by Anatoly Zhuravlev, as well as collaborating with the Y. Kkuklachev Cat Theater, where she plays in the quintet for the play "Fluffy Rhapsody".
She was born in 1994 in Irkutsk (Russia). In 2003 she began to study the piano, in 2007 – the saxophone. In 2014, she graduated from the Krasnodar College of Music named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov class saxophone.
From 2016 I am a student of the 4th course of the RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC NAMED AFTER GNESIN, a class of professor M.Shaposhnikova.
Ekaterina is a laureate and winner of many international, All-Russian and regional competitions: winner of the "XVI Open South-Russian Competition of Performers on Wind and Percussion Instruments" (Rostov-on-Don, 2014), "X Open All-Russian Competition of Young Performers on Wind and percussion instruments to them. Yu.A.Bolshiyanova "(Krasnodar, 2013), laureate of the 1 st degree competition" Music. Opening. Talent "(January 2018, Suzdal), laureate of the III degree of the III All-Russian open competition of performers on wind instruments. A.G.Nikitanov (April 2018).
Extensive experience in orchestras and various ensembles (from 2013 to 2017 exemplary youth pop-jazz orchestra "New Wave" (Krasnodar), saxophone quartets (Moscow).
Burlutskaya Olga. Born on 01/17/1992 in the village of Beloozersk, Voskresensky District, Moscow Region (Russia).
Graduated from the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music in 2018.


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We ran the benchmark of DSSTNE using the Movielens data set. Training Parameter Specific
* 27278 input/output dimensions
* 3 Hidden Sigmoid layers with 1024 each
* RMSProp learner
* 256 Batchsize

Time taken to run one epoch is considered for performance comparison

## DSSTNE
Use the Config at [config.json](dsstne/config.json). Follow the [example](../docs/getting_started/examples.md) and change the training command
```bash
train -i gl_input.nc -o gl_output.nc -d gl -c config.json -b 256 -e 20 -n gl_network.nc
```

## TensorFlow
[autoencoder.py](tf/autoencoder.py)
```bash
autoencoder.py -u 1024 -b 256 -i 1082 -v54 --vocab_size 27278 -l 3 -f /input/data/ml20m-all.remotcc
```