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Imagine yourself in a dangerous situation and visualize what actions you might take to survive and escape. Mental preparation while you are in a safe environment is the key.
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I've seen some of the IQMMA fighters fighting on other cards after they have fought on the reserve.
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Did you get a chance to check out the IQMMA events? I commentated at a few and thought they were very well run.
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The smoking cessation in pregnancy incentives trial (CPIT): study protocol for a phase III randomised controlled trial
CPIT III local research teams
Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences
Usher Institute
Centre for Population Health Sciences
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Moray House School of Education and Sport
BACKGROUND: Eighty per cent of UK women have at least one baby, making pregnancy an opportunity to help women stop smoking before their health is irreparably compromised. Smoking cessation during pregnancy helps protect infants from miscarriage, still birth, low birth weight, asthma, attention deficit disorder and adult cardiovascular disease. UK national guidelines highlight lack of evidence for effectiveness of financial incentives to help pregnant smokers quit. This includes a research recommendation: within a UK context, are incentives an acceptable, effective and cost-effective way to help pregnant women who smoke to quit?
METHODS: The Cessation in Pregnancy Incentives Trial (CPIT) III is a pragmatic, 42-month, multi-centre, parallel-group, individually randomised controlled superiority trial of the effect on smoking status of adding to usual Stop Smoking Services (SSS) support, the offer of up to £400 of financial voucher incentives, compared with usual support alone, to quit smoking during pregnancy. Participants (n = 940) are pregnant smokers (age > 16 years, < 24 weeks pregnant, English speaking), who consent via telephone to take part and are willing to be followed-up in late pregnancy and 6 months after birth. The primary outcome is cotinine/anabasine-validated abstinence from smoking in late pregnancy. Secondary outcomes include engagement with SSS, quit rates at 4 weeks from agreed quit date and 6 months after birth, and birth weight. Outcomes will be analysed by intention to treat, and regression models will be used to compare treatment effects on outcomes. A meta-analysis will include data from the feasibility study in Glasgow. An economic evaluation will assess cost-effectiveness from a UK NHS perspective. Process evaluation using a case-study approach will identify opportunities to improve recruitment and learning for future implementation. Research questions include: what is the therapeutic efficacy of incentives; are incentives cost-effective; and what are the potential facilitators and barriers to implementing incentives in different parts of the UK?
DISCUSSION: This phase III trial in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland follows a successful phase II trial in Glasgow, UK. The participating sites have diverse SSS that represent most cessation services in the UK and serve demographically varied populations. If found to be acceptable and cost-effective, this trial could demonstrate that financial incentives are effective and transferable to most UK SSS for pregnant women.
TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Trials, ISRCTN15236311. Registered on 9 October 2017.
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Peter Feiler (Halle an der Saale, Germany, 1981) lives and works in Berlin. He graduated from the 'Universität der Künste' in Berlin in 2007 where he has studied under Prof. Wolfgang Petrick and Daniel Richter.
Under the spell of rich details and bright colors, the spectator is lulled into a false sense of security only to then be hit by the full extent of the brutality of the human soul's very darkest side. Peter Feiler's grotesqueries cover the precarious subject of "what men can do to each other" with a childishly innocent patina standing in harsh contrast to repelling and nevertheless fascinating details. His protagonists' salacious, almost pornographic poses, scenes of abuse, rape, torture, adultery, are merely alluded at times, at times pointed out in blatant explicitness. "I am not a missionary", Peter Feiler says, "I don't want to change people. But maybe I can make them discover something good with their repulsion of my provocations."
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Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja (Jerez de la Frontera, 8 de janeiro de 1870 – Paris, 16 de março de 1930) foi um militar e ditador espanhol, fundador da organização União Patriótica inspiradora da União Nacional portuguesa. Era detentor do título nobiliárquico de Marquês de Estella e de Ajdir.

Biografia
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja nasceu em Jerez de la Frontera, província de Cádis, pertencendo a uma família de militares ilustres, na qual se destacava seu tio, Fernando Primo de Rivera , marquês de Estella, herói da terceira guerra carlista, governador das Filipinas e várias vezes Ministro da Guerra. Seguindo a tradição familiar, Miguel ingressou no exército aos 14 anos, tendo desenvolvido a maior parte da sua carreira em serviço nas colónias: Marrocos, Cuba e Filipinas, aonde acompanhou o seu tio. Nestes destacamentos, por mérito em combate, teve a oportunidade de ascender rapidamente na hierarquia militar pelo que em 1912 já era general.

Depois de uma intensa carreira política, desautorizado pelos altos comandos militares e pelo rei , em 1930, Primo de Rivera demitiu-se e autoexilou-se em Paris, onde morreu dois meses mais tarde, amargurado e desiludido com aquilo que entendia ser a ingratidão dos seus compatriotas. Foi sepultado no Cemitério de San Isidro, em Madrid, e mais tarde trasladado para a Basílica de la Merced em Jerez de la Frontera.

O seu filho mais velho, José António Primo de Rivera, sucedeu-o na actividade política, alegadamente para reabilitar a memória paterna, sendo uma das figuras gradas da implantação do franquismo e o fundador da Falange Espanhola.

Actividade política

Apesar da sua formação e carreira, que naturalmente o ligavam aos militares africanistas — defensores da manutenção do império colonial — Primo de Rivera defendeu o abandono das colónias espanholas do norte de África, o que lhe trouxe alguns dissabores, incompreensões e represálias políticas.

No posto de general, transitou em 1919 para o serviço na Península, o que lhe permitiu conhecer de perto os problemas sociais e políticos da época. Foi capitão-general de Valência, de Madrid e de Barcelona.

Primo de Rivera, imbuído de ideais militaristas, marcadamente nacionalistas e autoritários, encabeçou a 13 de setembro de 1923 um golpe de Estado, suspendendo a constituição, dissolvendo o parlamento e implantando uma ditadura. O golpe encontrou a conivência de Afonso XIII e a aquiescência de boa parte do patronato, do clero, das forças armadas e dos meios conservadores.

Na sequência do golpe, Primo de Rivera encabeçou um Directório Militar que concentrou todos os poderes do Estado, excluindo da vida política os políticos profissionais.

Tendo em conta que substituíra um regime desprestigiado e em clara decomposição, prometendo uma ditadura meramente transitória, inspirada nos ideais regeneradores do final do , visando a restaurar a ordem e desarreigar a influência do caciquismo na vida política, inicialmente encontrou pouca resistência. Mesmo os socialistas mantiveram uma neutralidade benévola, dando-lhe o mérito da dúvida.

Na sua acção política, ainda que formalmente se inspirasse por vezes no modelo fascista da Itália de Benito Mussolini, a ditadura de Primo de Rivera foi mais moderada e conservadora.

Durante os anos do Directório Militar (1923-1925), perseguiu os anarquistas (cujo sindicato, a CNT, foi declarado ilegal), os comunistas (que haviam deixado o PSOE e aderido à ), suprimiu a Mancomunidade da Catalunha — o primeiro órgão administrativo que abarcou toda a Catalunha, desde o , e a primeira experiência de autogestão catalã — e perseguiu os catalanistas. Ademais, proibiu o uso das línguas regionais nos atos públicos.

Na acção política, eliminou os partidos e as instituições representativas da vida política, substituindo-os por tecnocratas conservadores, agrupados, a partir de 1924, na Unión Patriótica. Reforçou o proteccionismo estatal em favor da indústria nacional e fomentou a construção de grandes obras públicas.

Um dos seus maiores êxitos consistiu na consolidação da presença espanhola em Marrocos, através de uma vitória militar que pôs fim a anos de permanentes guerras e dificuldades — entre as quais avulta o "Desastre de Annual", a grave derrota militar espanhola de 1921, na região marroquina do Rife, pela qual haviam sido responsabilizados os militares e o próprio rei, o que propiciou o golpe de Estado de 1923.

O Desembarque de Alhucemas (1925) foi parte de uma operação combinada com o exército francês para acabar com a rebelião das cabilas do Rife. Apesar de contradizer as posições anteriores de Primo de Rivera sobre as colónias do norte de África, foi um êxito tão significativo que o animou  a institucionalizar a ditadura de forma duradoira. Para tal, o Directório Militar deu lugar a um Directório Civil (1925-30) e reuniu-se uma Assembleia Nacional (1927) que elaborou um anteprojecto de Constituição (1929). Aquele simulacro de Parlamento, claramente não democrático, mesmo assim mostrou a diversidade de posições políticas que havia entre os apoiantes da ditadura, contrapondo os católicos conservadores da velha cepa aos corporativistas autoritários atraídos pelo fascismo.

Divididas as hostes primorriveristas e arrefecido o relacionamento do ditador com o rei, as forças que apoiavam a ditadura não foram capazes de afrontar o auge da oposição, crescentemente unida e mobilizada ante a ameaça de ver perpetuar-se o regime. Socialistas e republicanos uniram-se na campanha contra a ditadura, numa oposição que ameaçava arrastar também a Monarquia que a havia apoiado. Estudantes, operários e intelectuais manifestavam-se contra o regime e os próprios militares conspiravam contra Primo de Rivera.

A 22 de junho de 1927 foi agraciado com a Grã-Cruz da Ordem Militar de Cristo de Portugal e a 30 de dezembro de 1929 foi agraciado com a Grã-Cruz da Ordem Militar da Torre e Espada, do Valor, Lealdade e Mérito de Portugal, no mesmo dia em que os seus dois filhos, ambos então alferes, Fernando Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia e Miguel Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, foram feitos Cavaleiros da Ordem Militar de Avis, e o seu filho, o então também alferes José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, foi feito Comendador da Ordem Militar de Cristo.

Finalmente, abandonado pelos altos comandos militares e pelo rei, Primo de Rivera apresentou a sua demissão (1930) e exilou-se em Paris, não sem antes recomendar a Afonso XIII alguns nomes de militares que poderiam suceder-lhe à frente do governo, entre eles o do general Dámaso Berenguer, que assumiu a presidência.

Influência em Portugal
A experiência ditatorial de Primo de Rivera foi seguida de perto pelos conservadores portugueses. O golpe de 28 de maio de 1926 teve clara inspiração no modelo espanhol e muitas das forças que o apoiaram tinham como referência política a acção do Directório Militar.

Após o 28 de Maio, a política portuguesa manteve essa referência, tendo a fundação da União Nacional, e o respectivo enquadramento orgânico e ideológico, seguido de muito perto o modelo da Unión Patriótica de Primo de Rivera.

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Prosecutors Looking at Turkey Lobbying by Michael Flynn's Ex-Firm
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WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing Turkey's U.S. lobbying and the companies that backed a pro-Turkey initiative handled by President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, according to people familiar with the matter.
In recent weeks, they say, a grand jury in Virginia has sought more information on efforts overseen by Michael Flynn's private company to discredit a U.S.-based Turkish cleric. Turkey has accused the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of orchestrating a failed 2016 coup attempt and has launched a...


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AD Ports forms strategic partnership for maritime connectivity with Angola
Fri, 20 Jan, 2023 By Arya M Nair, Intern Reporter
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Abu Dhabi Ports (AD Ports) Group has signed key strategic agreements with Angolan organizations to enhance maritime connectivity along Africa's west coast.
In the presence of Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of State, during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023, AD Ports Group entered into a framework agreement with the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Angola to begin collaboration on the development of maritime services and infrastructure across the country.
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Areas highlighted under the strategic framework agreement with the Ministry for potential future joint investment and development include ferry and cabotage services, maritime passenger terminals, and logistics platforms, as well as a Maritime Academy in Angola. The framework agreement also covers plans to consider the development of the Caio Deepwater Terminal at Cabinda Port, located in Angola's oil-rich northwest region.
Capt. Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi
MD & Group CEO
AD Ports Group
"Our collaboration with the Republic of Angola demonstrates AD Ports Group's commitment to supporting the UAE's strong and evolving relationship with Angola in line with the directions of our wise leadership. We are focused on building fast and efficient maritime trade routes, and we are pleased to bring our robust knowledge base to Angola and the ports located on Africa's west coast. These agreements reflect the trust the Ministry of Transport and the team at UNICARGAS have placed in us, and in our ability to contribute to Angola's economic growth plans."
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Ani (asomtavruli , nuskhuri , mkhedruli ა) is the 1st letter of the three Georgian scripts.

In the system of Georgian numerals it has a value of 1.

Ani represents an open central unrounded vowel , like the pronunciation of  in "father".

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Related letters and other similar characters
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Mchedlidze, T. I, The restored Georgian alphabet, Fulda, Germany, 2013
Mchedlidze, T. II, The Georgian script; Dictionary and guide, Fulda, Germany, 2013
Machavariani, E. Georgian manuscripts, Tbilisi, 2011
The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3, (1) Georgian, 1991-2013
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Q: Beginner to Array c# I don't really understand arrays and I need to create a variable of type 'array of songs' then initialize it to a new Array so it can store 4 references to Songs. How would I then create a loop that would run enough times to fill the array whilst calling the InputSOngDetails() method and store the return value in that method?
namespace Songs
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            InputSongDetails();
        }

        static Song InputSongDetails()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("What is the name of your song");
            string name = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine("What is the artists name");
            string artist = Console.ReadLine();

            int records;
            Console.WriteLine("How many records did it sell");
            while (!int.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out records) || records < 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("That is not valid please enter a number");
            }
            return new Song(name, artist, records);
        }
    }
}

This is my Songs class if needed
namespace Songs
{
    class Song
    {
        string name;
        string artist;
        int copiesSold;

        public Song(string name, string artist, int copiesSold)
        {
            this.name = name;
            this.artist = artist;
            this.copiesSold = copiesSold;
        }

        public Song()
        {
        }

        public string GetArtist()
        {
            return artist;
        }

        public string GetDetails()
        {
            return $"Name: {name} Artist: {artist} Copies Sold: {copiesSold},";
        }

        public string GetCertification()
        {
            if (copiesSold<200000)
            {
                return null;
            }
            if (copiesSold<400000)
            {
                return "Silver";
            }
            if (copiesSold<600000)
            {
                return "gold";
            }
            return "Platinum";
        }
    }
}

A: Fist, initialize your array of songs with new Song[ length ], then a simple for-loop will suffice.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Song[] songs = new Song[4];
    for(int i = 0; i < songs.Length; i++)
    {
        songs[i] = InputSongDetails();
    }
}

Or as the commenters suggest, just use a variable-length List<Song>.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    List<Song> songs = new List<Song>();
    for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    {
        songs.Add(InputSongDetails());
    }
}

Once you've mastered the basics, you can also accomplish this with a bit of Linq (though I wouldn't actually recommend it in this case):
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var songs = Enumerable.Range(0, 4)
                          .Select(i => InputSongDetails())
                          .ToList();
}

A: This is not really an answer as much as it is a tip for getting input from the user in a console application which might be useful to you (well, the answer is in the last code snippet, but p.s.w.g has already covered that very well).
Since an interactive console session usually ends up with a lot of Console.WriteLine("Ask the user a question"); string input = Console.ReadLine();, and, as you've already done very well, include some validation on the input in some cases, I've found it handy to write the following methods below.
Each of them take in a string, which is the prompt for the user (the question), and return a strongly-typed variable that represents their input. Validation (when needed) is all done in a loop in the method (as you've done):
private static ConsoleKeyInfo GetKeyFromUser(string prompt)
{
    Console.Write(prompt);
    var key = Console.ReadKey();
    Console.WriteLine();
    return key;
}

private static string GetStringFromUser(string prompt)
{
    Console.Write(prompt);
    return Console.ReadLine();
}

public static int GetIntFromUser(string prompt = null)
{
    int input;
    int row = Console.CursorTop;
    int promptLength = prompt?.Length ?? 0;

    do
    {
        Console.SetCursorPosition(0, row);
        Console.Write(prompt + new string(' ', Console.WindowWidth - promptLength - 1));
        Console.CursorLeft = promptLength;
    } while (!int.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), out input));

    return input;
}

With these methods in place, getting input is as simple as:
string name = GetStringFromUser("Enter your name: ");
int age = GetIntFromUser("Enter your age: ");

And it makes writing the method to get a Song from the user that much easier:
private static Song GetSongFromUser()
{
    return new Song(
        GetStringFromUser("Enter song name: "),
        GetStringFromUser("Enter Artist name: "),
        GetIntFromUser("Enter number of copies sold: "));
}

So now our main method just looks like (and this is the answer to your question):
private static void Main()
{
    var songs = new Song[4];

    for (int i = 0; i < songs.Length; i++)
    {
        songs[i] = GetSongFromUser();
    }

    Console.WriteLine("\nYou've entered the following songs: ");

    foreach (Song song in songs)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(song.GetDetails());
    }

    GetKeyFromUser("\nDone! Press any key to exit...");
}

Additionally, here are some suggestions for improving the Song class.

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Johnny Appleseed Days this weekend in Paradise
Logan Ardinez, 5, waits while Luke Ardinez, 4, reaches for an apple from the basket of Ken Prentiss, who portrayed Johnny Appleseed during the 127th annual Johnny Appleseed Days festival at the Terry Ashe Recreation Center Saturday in Paradise. - Trevor Warner — Paradise Post
Ken Prentiss, as Johnny Appleseed, tells a group of youngsters at the Johnny Appleseed Days festival Saturday afternoon the story of Johnny Appleseed and his adventures. - Trevor Warner — Paradise Post
The warm weather and family atmosphere made the 127th annual Johnny Appleseed Days festival at the Terry Ashe Recreation Center a success. - Trevor Warner — Paradise Post
By Paradise Post |
PUBLISHED: October 3, 2015 at 6:12 p.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2018 at 2:09 p.m.
Paradise >> Magalia youngsters Luke and Logan Ardinez couldn't wait to meet Johnny Appleseed Saturday.
"Look there he is," said mother Noelle Ardinez pointing to Ken Prentiss, who was decked out in his finest Johnny Appleseed garb, complete with a basket of apples and a tin pot on his head.
The Ardinez brothers were happy to take an apple from the basket when offered.
"They've been talking about him all year and learning about him in school," Noelle Ardinez said. "Now they get to meet him."
Luke, 4, and Logan, 5, weren't the only ones excited to meet Johnny Appleseed. Children and adults alike gathered to listen to Prentiss, as Johnny Appleseed, tell his story, which he told every hour on the hour as part of the annual Johnny Appleseed Days festival at the Terry Ashe Recreation Center.
This is the festival's 127th year, making it the oldest harvest festival in the state, said Monica Nolan, executive director of the Paradise Ridge Chamber of Commerce, which hosts the event.
Nolan said she thinks Saturday's attendance was a record turnout thanks to the help of media partners, signs and banners.
Johnny Appleseed Days is always a popular event, she said. It also brings out local entertainers and, with about 100 vendors on site, gives visitors a chance to do some early Christmas shopping.
"It has that community harvest festival feel that people like," she said.
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"We're putting out the welcome mat to Paradise with hot apple pie," she said.
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Shelley, who hails from Stockton, said she liked the hometown, family atmosphere of the festival.
DeSilva said he used to live in Paradise, but had never attended Johnny Appleseed Days. He brought Liechty to Paradise to give her a historical tour.
"We saw all the activity and we decided to stop by," he said.
In addition to the atmosphere, DeSilva said he was enjoying the warm weather. It was good to be back in Paradise, he said, where he enjoyed "the familiar smell of local events."
And with the aroma of apple pie wafting through the air, he just had to have a slice.
"I wanted to see what the pie tastes like," he said.
Johnny Appleseed Days continue 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Terry Ashe Recreation Center located at 6626 Skyway.
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Stephen Knight (1)
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Talking to the Radiator
Andrew Saint, 2 October 1997
Corbusier's Formative Years
by H. Allen Brooks.
Chicago, 506 pp., £51.95, June 1997, 0 226 07579 6Show More
"... Did the fact that he came from Switzerland's drabbest town have something to do with it? La Chaux-de-Fonds has little excuse. Lifted high in a bowl of the Jura, it is fringed by mountains and pines, in which Emeritus Professor Allen Brooks, musing from the tranquillity of retirement, revels at leisure ..."
Daniel Soar: Leveson Inquiry, 21 June 2012
"... but nobody really seemed to care. As Watson and Martin Hickman make plain in Dial M for Murdoch (Allen Lane, £20), the news that News International was involved in systemic corruption wasn't news to everyone: not to the police, not to many politicians, not to much of the press. It's just that the people who knew about it didn't want to talk about ..."
Marilyn Butler, 22 January 1981
Three-Quarter Face
by Penelope Gilliatt.
Secker, 295 pp., £7.95, September 1980, 9780436179587Show More
Show People
by Kenneth Tynan.
Weidenfeld, 317 pp., £8.95, October 1980, 0 297 77842 0Show More
When the lights go down
by Pauline Kael.
Boyars, 592 pp., £8.95, August 1980, 0 7145 2726 2Show More
"... up Tynan's book and much of Gilliatt's. Tynan is here bent on recommending his new form, which he does by insinuating that it is an older activity than his former practice of reviewing: Many publishers believe that modern readers care only for long-distance, marathon writing, and that there is no room left for such middle-distance, eight hundred metre ..."
Hugging the cats
John Bayley, 14 June 1990
by Gay Clifford.
188 pp., £14.99, May 1990, 0 241 12976 1Show More
Selected Poems 1940 – 1989
by Allen Curnow.
Viking, 209 pp., £15.99, May 1990, 0 670 83007 0Show More
Collected Poems and Selected Translations
by Norman Cameron, edited by Warren Hope and Jonathan Barker.
Anvil, 160 pp., £14.95, May 1990, 0 85646 202 0Show More
by Enoch Powell.
Bellew, 198 pp., £9.95, April 1990, 0 947792 36 8Show More
"... collective enjoyment. The rarity is to find something not like a 'poem', more like a person. Allen Curnow, like the later Auden, has the gift of making a contraption with a guy inside it, someone whose interest is not that of being a poet. Nor of coming from New Zealand. He has his own country, caught in a transparent ..."
The Real Magic
David Sylvester, 8 June 1995
A Biographical Dictionary of Film
by David Thomson.
Deutsch, 834 pp., £25, November 1994, 0 233 98859 9Show More
"... inquisitiveness that makes the action ambiguous. Cagney is charged with restlessness, and yet he always contrives to discharge the agitation daintily or with conscious style. Watch him listen to other players and you will realise how often other actors cruised. If he is frightening it is because of that attentiveness ..."
Smarter, Happier, More Productive
Jim Holt: 'The Shallows', 3 March 2011
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
by Nicholas Carr.
Atlantic, 276 pp., £17.99, September 2010, 978 1 84887 225 7Show More
"... I don't own a computer, have no idea how to work one,' Woody Allen told an interviewer recently. Most of us have come to find computers indispensable, but he manages to have a productive life without one. Are those of us with computers really better off? There are two ways that computers might add to our wellbeing ..."
Marilyn Butler, 2 September 1982
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. I: Medieval Literature Part One: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition, Vol. II: The Age of Shakespeare, Vol. III: From Donne to Marvell, Vol. IV: From Dryden to Johnson
edited by Boris Ford.
Penguin, 647 pp., £2.95, March 1982, 0 14 022264 2Show More
Medieval Writers and their Work: Middle English Literature and its Background
by J.A. Burrow.
Oxford, 148 pp., £9.95, May 1982, 0 19 289122 7Show More
Contemporary Writers Series: Saul Bellow, Joe Orton, John Fowles, Kurt Vonnegut, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Pynchon
by Malcolm Bradbury, C.W.E. Bigsby, Peter Conradi, Jerome Klinkowitz and Blake Morrison.
Methuen, 110 pp., £1.95, May 1982, 0 416 31650 6Show More
"... a few excisions. Ford was a follower of F.R. Leavis, and it could be argued that through the Guide he did more than anyone except Leavis himself to disseminate Leavisite views. This was an achievement at the practical rather than the theoretical level, since Ford came later than the pioneer, innovative group which in the Thirties shared with the Leavises the ..."
John Lanchester, 11 July 1991
Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon
edited by Stephen Egger.
Praeger, 250 pp., £33.50, October 1990, 0 275 92986 8Show More
by Joel Norris.
Arrow, 333 pp., £4.99, July 1990, 0 09 971750 6Show More
by Tony Parker.
Pan, 256 pp., £4.50, May 1991, 0 330 31528 5Show More
by Bret Easton Ellis.
Picador, 399 pp., £6.99, April 1991, 0 330 31992 2Show More
by Helen Zahavi.
Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris.
Mandarin, 366 pp., £4.99, April 1991, 0 7493 0942 3Show More
"... macabre,' Dennis Nilsen, the biggest multiple killer in British criminal history, has remarked. He went on: The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they are. They have, every one of them, got their deep dark thoughts with many a skeleton rattling in ..."
Magical Orange Grove
Anne Diebel: Lowell falls in love again, 11 August 2016
Robert Lowell in Love
by Jeffrey Meyers.
Massachusetts, 288 pp., £36.50, December 2015, 978 1 62534 186 0Show More
"... In the summer of 1935, when he was 18, Robert Lowell and two friends from St Mark's School – Blair Clark and Frank Parker – rented a house in Nantucket. Under Lowell's direction, they studied the Bible (with special attention to the Book of Job) and ate cereal with raw honey and 'badly' cooked eels ..."
Even When It's a Big Fat Lie
Alex Abramovich: 'Country Music', 8 October 2020
directed by Ken Burns.
PBS, eight episodesShow More
"... and delivered a history lesson. 'The lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War,' he said. 'Men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand.' Kelly's comments echoed the president's remarks in the rally's immediate aftermath. ('Some very fine people on both sides,' Trump ..."
Love, Lucia
Lucia Berlin: Letters to August Kleinzahler, 4 August 2005
"... Only person I had then was Uncle John who was rarely there or sober. The disillusion when he hit the kid and dog was Awful for me. The year or so left was lonely hell. Only reason i'm telling you this is that i know i have dealt with these few years ad nauseum. Problem is everytime I am scared, hurt, miserable, lonely or in trouble I go straight ..."
Pound & Co.
August Kleinzahler: Davenport and Kenner, 26 September 2019
Questioning Minds: Vols I-II: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
edited by Edward Burns.
Counterpoint, 1817 pp., $95, October 2018, 978 1 61902 181 5Show More
"... his eyesight, probably as a result of syphilis, and hoped the Writing Ball would help. But first he had to master touch-typing. He soon gave up on the experiment. But he noticed that when he wrote down his thoughts on the Malling-Hansen his writing ..."
Female Bandits? What next!
Wendy Doniger: The incarnations of Robin Hood, 22 July 2004
Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography
by Stephen Knight.
Cornell, 247 pp., £14.50, May 2003, 0 8014 3885 3Show More
"... to Robin Hood, one of the gangsters asks: 'Who's Robin Hood?' And another replies: 'Well, he was a hood, some Englishman who lived long ago and had an operation going for him in the forest. And I guess the "robin" means he stole birds.' Robin is more likely to be a nickname for Robert, though the resonance with ..."
Horror like Thunder
Germaine Greer: Lucy Hutchinson, 21 June 2001
Order and Disorder
by Lucy Hutchinson, edited by David Norbrook.
Blackwell, 272 pp., £55, January 2001, 0 631 22061 5Show More
"... Oxonienses, and Sidney Lee who follows Wood in the DNB, Order and Disorder is the work of Sir Allen Apsley (1616-83). The poem described by Lee as 'rarely accessible', now easily accessible in David Norbrook's modern spelling edition, offers according to Norbrook 'a particularly strong corrective to the conventional view that literature after 1660 ..."
The man who made men seem like a good idea
Gaby Wood, 6 March 1997
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
by Graham McCann.
Fourth Estate, 346 pp., £16.99, September 1996, 1 85702 366 8Show More
"... A man has been mistaken for somebody else. He has been kidnapped, forced to drink a bottle of bourbon and sent off to meet his death in a stolen car. He survives, and decides it is time to get things straight. He bribes his way into the hotel room of the man he is supposed to be ..."


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The Venezuelan government is planning to produce a television miniseries on the life of late President Hugo Chavez in what it described as a "counter-attack" on a series on the same subject produced by Sony Pictures.
The first episode of the Sony Pictures series, entitled El Comandante, is due to air on Colombian TV later on Monday.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said El Comandante gave a distorted view of his predecessor in office.
President Chavez died in March 2013.
Venezuelans are divided on how they view their former president and his legacy.
To explain their unwavering backing, his supporters point to the significant reductions in inequality, poverty and malnutrition which Venezuela experienced under his leadership from 1999 until his death from cancer 14 years later.
His detractors accuse him of being a populist who ruined Venezuela's once prosperous economy through mismanagement.
According to Sony Pictures, El Comandante, while based on the life of Mr Chavez, is a work of fiction containing a high dose of "romance, espionage, betrayal and heroism".
Mr Chavez is played in the 60-hour-long episodes by three actors, spanning his life from child, to adolescent and adult.
The Colombian actor portraying him as an adult is Andres Parra, who played the infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in the TV series El Patron del Mal (Boss of Evil).
Parra said he had spent a long time trying to get to grips with the particular diction and rhetorical flourishes of Mr Chavez, whose lengthy speeches used to draw large enthusiastic crowds.
But Mr Chavez's successor in office, President Maduro, has been scathing in his criticism of the series, accusing it of "twisting the truth".
"We have to go on the counter-attack," Mr Maduro said.
On Sunday, Venezuela's Culture Minister Adan Chavez announced that shooting would soon start on a Venezuelan-Cuban co-production about Hugo Chavez's life.
The culture minister, who is the brother of the late president, said the working title would be "The True Chavez".


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The chairman is the Swiss organist, harpsichordist and musicologist Jean-Claude Zehnder (1941). Zehnder studied at the Winterthur Konservatorium, at the Universität Zürich and at the Musikakademie Wien with Anton Heiller and in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt. In 1966 he accepted the position of organist and choirmaster at the Evangelische Stadtkirche in Frauenfeld and began teaching organ and harpsichord at the Winterthur Konservatorium. From 1972 till 2006 he led the organ department at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
As a performer and a researcher Zehnder has focused on the Baroque period, specializing in the stylistic development and performance practice of Johann Sebastian Bach. As a result of this he has published studies mainly on the early works of Bach. For this he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dortmund in 2002.
Zehnder has published numerous recordings (e.g. Bach's Orgelbüchlein and Die achtzehn Leipziger Choräle) and as a concert organist he has performed throughout Europe. In addition to his concert activities, he has been – and still is – internationally active as a juror at organ competitions and as a lecturer of organ courses like the Sommerakademie für Alte Musik in Innsbruck and the Organ Weeks in Muri and Arlesheim.
Zehnder is also the titular organist of the Johann-Andreas Silbermann/Metzler organ (from 1761) at the Dom in Arlesheim.
Nathan Laube (1987) earned his Bachelor of Music Degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied organ with Alan Morrison. In 2010–2011 he spent one academic year at the Conservatoire Rayonnement Régional in Toulouse, studying with Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen, followed by a graduate degree program in 2011 at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart Germany as a student of Ludger Lohmann. He has been the recipient of both William Fulbright and DAAD fellowships.Laube is an internationally renowned concert organist and pedagogue. In addition to serving on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, USA) as Associate Professor of Organ, as International Consultant in Organ Studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK) and since 2021 as organ professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Laube's extensive recital career includes major venues spanning four continents.
Nathan Laube is a regular guest at international American and European organ festivals, appearing in the capacity of a performer, lecturer, and teacher of masterclasses. In 2016, he was chosen to play the inaugural recital of the restored Harrison & Harrison organ of King's College Chapel in Cambridge (UK), and had the honor of serving as the first artist-in-residence of the 1738 Müller organ in St. Bavo in Haarlem.
Laube's CD recordings are available on the labels Naxos and Ambiente.
The French composer, organist and pedagogue Éric Lebrun (1967) completed his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris. He studied with Gaston Litaize and Michel Chapuis and graduated with the highest honors, winning a 'Premier Prix' for organ and three other first prizes, as well as earning a diploma in music history. He has worked with distinguished organists such as Anne-Marie Barat, Daniel Roth, Michel Bouvard and Olivier Latry and with pianist Bruno Rigutto. With musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman he worked on reconstructing music used in 17th century religious services.Éric Lebrun has been an award winner and finalist in several international competitions. After winning the Grand Prix de Chartres in 1990 he was appointed titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll instrument at the Parisian church Saint Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, a position which he holds to this day. With his wife, organist Marie-Ange Leurent, he forms an organ duo for four hands
Since 1990, Éric Lebrun has been a lecturer at renowned music academies like the Conservatory of Fontainebleau and the Sorbonne. As a teacher he contributed to the training of many young generation interpreters, several of whom won international competitions. He was founder of the didactic class at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Paris, and the Organ Academies of Nemours (with André Isoir), Sarlat and Bourron-Marlotte in the Fontainebleau area. He is currently Professor of Organ at the Conservatory at Saint-Maur des Fossés and Honorary Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Aarhus (Denmark), and gives international masterclasses at music academies such as The Royal Academy of Music in London and the conservatories of Bologna and Piacenza.
Éric Lebrun's recorded albums include the complete works of Jehan Alain, Maurice Duruflé, César Franck and Alexandre Boëly, and (in collaboration with his wife) of Dieterich Buxtehude, Gaston Litaize, and J.S. Bach. He is the author of several books, including biographies on Dieterich Buxtehude, Alexandre Boëly (with Brigitte François-Sappey), César Franck, J.S. Bach and Claude Debussy. As a composer Éric Lebrun has written about fifty works including the cycle Mystères du Rosaire, Trois Poèmes Liturgiques (commissioned by the Sacred Music Festival of Sylvanès Abbey), Sonata Sacra for organ (commissioned by the Comminges Festival) and Canticum Fratris Solis based on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi (inaugural performance by France-Musique).
Reitze Smits (1956) studied organ, harpsichord, composition, improvisation and musicology in Utrecht and The Hague. He won awards in several international organ competitions (Toulouse, Bruges, Nijmegen). As a concert organist he has performed in many European countries. With his own baroque ensemble Concerto Strumentale he has appeared at several international festivals, achieving success with his effective 'reconstructions' of Bach organ concertos. In collaboration with vocal soloists, he conducted a series of cantatas by Bach and other German baroque composers, including a performance of the St John Passion.As a teacher Reitze Smits has trained many students who have proceeded to become successful musicians. He is a teacher of organ and improvisation at the Music Academy of Utrecht and the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and he has been a guest lecturer at international organ courses in Haarlem, Toulouse, Brno, Mallorca and at other venues.
In his CD recordings Reitze Smits is known to explore the interface between repertoires for organ, harpsichord and pianoforte. In doing so he has arranged and recorded several organ pieces based on works originally written for piano or orchestra, including Mendelssohn's 'Variations Sérieuses' and works by Satie, Poulenc and Milhaud. Also his own compositions Five Light Pieces, Distant Music and Tripartite have now appeared in print.
In the year 2000 he established the foundation of the music festival 'Voor the Wind', of which he was artistic director until 2017. The purpose of this festival was to promote the organ to attract new audiences by combining the instrument with other performing arts, like dance, jazz or youth theatre. In 2011 the festival took to the international stage with a new name, 'Connecting Arts', bringing concerts and performances to Toulouse, Copenhagen and Malmö a.o.
In 2010 Reitze Smits was awarded the prestigious Sweelinck Prize for his contributions to the Dutch organ culture.
The Italian Pier Damiano Peretti (1974) studied organ with Antonio Cozza and composition with Wolfgango Dalla Vecchia at the conservatory of his hometown Vicenza. Masterclasses led him to organists like Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Harald Vogel, Jean-Claude Zehnder, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Rinaldo Alessandrini. After his graduation in 1996 he continued his studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where he worked with Herbert Tachezi and Michael Radulescu. He graduated with distinction in 2002. He completed his education with an Erasmus stay in Hamburg with Wolfgang Zerer and Pieter van Dijk, as well as with further courses in composition at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (a.o. with Wolfgang Rihm).Peretti won awards in several international organ competitions (Bologna, Pretoria, Innsbruck, Toulouse, Hamburg); in 1999 he was the winner of the prestigious St. Albans International Organ Competition. As a composer he writes pieces for and with organ, as well as chamber music, orchestral and vocal works. His compositions earned him several awards: a first prize at the Organ Composition Contest Saarlouis-Lisdorf in 2017 and the Audience Prize at the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für Neue Musik in 2018, a.o. In 2015 he received the 'Outstanding Artist award' of the Austrian government.
From 2002 to 2009 Pier Damiano Peretti taught as an organ professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, before being appointed professor at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in March 2009. He is regularly invited as a member of the jury at international organ competitions (Nürnberg, Weimar, Tokyo, Odense, Dublin, Montreal, St. Albans) and also gives guest lectures and masterclasses at international organ institutions such as Edinburgh Organ Academy, Hochschule Stuttgart, GOART Göteborg, Norddeutsche Orgelakademiekademie Stade, the Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg, Organeum Weener, Piteå Music Academy, Associazione Italiana Organisti di Chiesa, Leipziger Orgelakademie and the Korean Organists Convention.
Related to his busy concert schedule, Peretti travelled throughout Europe, the Far East, Israel and Canada performing repertoire from early to contemporary music. His CD recordings are published by Ursina-Motette, Carrara, IFO-Records and Naxos and include music by Italian and Spanish baroque composers, Dieterich Buxtehude's complete choral-fantasias, Bach's Dritter Theil der Clavierübung, and Organ works by Marco Enrico Bossi and Bruno Bettinelli.
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Hello everyone I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend! Today I have some miniature 1:12th scale pastries to share with you, these are some fresh eclairs ready to be put into a bakery window!
I am really enjoying the light box I made last week, its perfect for photographing miniatures! I''ll post about the light box soon.
The little board the eclairs were on in the first picture is also handmade by me. I made it by painting a piece of cardboard with Raw Sienna acrylic paint. I plan to make more of these little boards, I could do so many things with them and they are fun to make!
I also made a few brownies! I really enjoyed sculpting these, the texture was so much fun to make!
A dollhouse person will enjoy eating this brownie!
Great detail this time around. Looking awesome!
This post makes me hungry! That little dollhouse person will be happy to find these miniature brownies and eclairs!


Silly me, thinking that the fuss about my blog had died down. How wrong could I be? Last week Battleaxe was in national media s**t storm. Note to other bloggers – you may think massive explosion of attention directed at your blog would be good – but be careful what you wish for…. Was also looking after grand daughter for the week… who, as readers will know, is not the easiest. Special thanks to Philosopher for helping to fend off press and for long-suffering support.
Mowgli and Kaa the Python – see below..
Now then media, if you are reading this, it's all over. Yesterday's non-news. I am not mentioning any key words here, or making any links, so Googling will be futile.
Fellow bloggers – why do we write blogs? I know some people do it to help sell books, make money from promoting products etc., but I know plenty are like me – just do it because?
It was all a bit like working through classic stages of trauma – first, I couldn't believe what I was seeing – numb disbelief and shock. Then, grief, guilt, fear, paranoid anxiety, followed by anger until now, just about, acceptance.
Last week's papers are now lining cat trays and wrapping chicken carcasses.
The horrible Daily Mail was the first national daily on the scene, shamelessly twisting my words to fabricate a 'story' – in this case, the classic favourite, 'war' between women. Why does the media love creating, then feeding readers this ridiculous trope?
However, reassuringly, I also learned that things that appear in the media just pass many people by. One day last week – the worst day, I went down to town with GD. I was feeling sick with dread getting on the bus for fear of judgmental pointing fingers….. GD, as ever, galloped straight for the back seat, so I had to follow her down the aisle past people reading their free copies of the Metro. My photo was plastered all across it. Did anyone notice me? Of course not…. We went to the Automata exhibition on the Pier, ate lunch in a cafe and spent what felt like hours and hours in H &M. Did anyone notice me? Of course not.
Even better, yesterday I was coming home on the bus from town – lovely sunny day, sat outside Cafe Nero feeling almost human. Anyway, a man I know gets on the bus as well.
'How are you?' sez he. I shrug – 'So-so'.
'No – it was the national media storm'.
'WHAT ABOUT? SURELY NOT YOU???
'I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING!' Even now, the other passengers are not interested… but of course, this is Hastings….
Anyway, I promise this is the very last on this. Normal Battleaxe service is now resumed.
Previous Post A sad week for Battleaxe – she de-platforms herself…..


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