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MRS JOHN CLAGGART'S SAD LIFE
The Widder Claggart speaks about music new and old, the malady of opera, art, life, death, people detested and not detested -- the detested are in the majority amidst much else.
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OOPS The review didn't make it!!!! One test of genius in art is that one always finds something new. In the work of Leos Janacek, Karol Szymanowski and Wiltold Lutoslawski there is simply no end to discovery. All fought internal and external battles to get their music heard. Their intensity of feeling, sometimes disturbingly expressed, always moving and intellectually fascinating, marks them as three of the 20th century's most enduring creators. Janacek's violin sonata was written at the same time as the three "Myths" of Szymanowski – in 1914. The Moravian Janacek, was 60, the Szymanowski, a Pole, was 36. Janacek was obsessed with the First World War, the dreamy esthete Szymanowski, was living with his partner, the great violinist Paul Kochanski, escaping into a world of edgy soaring, erotic fantasies. Janacek finalized his sonata in 1921, achieving a tempestuous and tender work. Its violent first movement alternates lyric lines and angry outbursts, building to a surprisingly reassuring D flat major triad. The second movement, called "Ballade" is one of the most gorgeous melodies from this composer, breathtakingly spun out and sustained, despite a violent episode. The third movement, marked "Allegretto", is a scherzo with some tough writing in a folk style (Janacek was a great collector of folk music) but the finale, Adagio, has a rhapsodic feel, alternating soaring melodies with violent eruptions and an ambiguous, tragic end. Szymanowski's decision to 'come out' affected his career well before his death in 1937, and it is only in the past thirty years that more people have become aware of his utterly singular mind. He treats three ancient Myths as the basis for a phenomenal demonstration of musical imagination. With Kochanski there to help, he was able to make practical his incredible coloristic imagination. His violin writing is original, flamboyant, subtle, bizarre, gorgeous – he plays fearlessly with harmonics, demands a vast array of techniques and takes crazy risks. Szymanowski. a virtuoso pianist, writes equally daunting and inventive accompaniments. There is simply nothing like this -- haunting, shocking, gorgeous. Lutoslawski (1913 – 1994) was one of the greatest 20th century composers. But his life was often in danger from reactionary Polish elements, The Nazis and then The Soviets. He had to hide much of his music for fear of reprisal. Subito (1992) was his last completed work. Like so many of his contemporaries he had gone through an rebellious phase rejecting romantic gestures, but as he aged, he came to embrace the full range of techniques in Western Music. Subito starts as fragments that come together as a refrain which occurs four times. Each time the refrain is followed by an 'episode' that uses material from the first refrain in surprising ways. Technically, the work is complex, yet its effect is hypnotic. Partita (1982) is an encyclopedia of compositional techniques, from improvisations (the work has two "Ad Libitum" movements, aleatoric, which means that crucial decisions are left up to the players) to a phenomenally planned and dense final movement, which even has a short, very moving homage to Szymanowski. The central Largo is an incredible intellectual achievement, free of tonality, amazingly inventive in chords and the use of harmonics in the violin, yet utterly inevitable in effect, absorbing and deeply moving. Isabelle Faust takes a voluptuous, songful approach to these works but she is a true virtuosa. Her pianist, Ewa Kuplec, offers terrific support. Though there is formidable competition in Lutoslawski by Anne Sophie Mutter, his late muse, and Gideon Kremer and Martha Agerich offer a stinging account of the Janacek, Faust holds up very well and this is a wonderful program overall. This, I guess, is an opera oriented blog, so I am not going to put opera down. And yet this gave me more pleasure that any highlight recording I've ever known.
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Can one really love opera?
Things got bass akward, the review is above. In looking around the opera 'net I am always shocked by how little the contributors know about music in general, how little they love music. On Opera-L for example there are few comments about the musical content of even the most familiar operas; and very few comments about the musical challenges singers must face even in the most beloved roles. How someone phrases, how they feel and use rhythm, how accurate they are in rendering what the composer wrote never seems to matter -- usually at all. Whether Milanov, for example, is really up to the grand phrases that are part of the middle Verdi style, phrases that start or end low in the voice and ascend to or descend from the heights do not figure in discussions of her -- according to them -- transcendent treatment of Leonora in Trovatore or Amelia in Ballo or Leonora in Forza. Of course perhaps it oughtn't to matter that her Italian is gobbledygook or that she is often very sharp. There is the same absence of understanding of whether Leontyne Price or Monserrat Caballe, heard most often by these people on glamorized studio recordings, can realize this musical rhetoric. Of course the use of dissonance as a device by singers to impart tension to the vocal line is never discussed. It is a commonplace that Maria Callas was "the greatest musician ever" so one after another of these people avers. But they are entirely ignorant or her compromises, they have no understanding of the musical challenges faced and solved by a truly remarkable musician-singer such as Jan De Gaetani, who often had to modify or invent a vocal technique to realize the immensely demanding new music she sang, or how Arleen Auger, delicately and sweetly, served the musical as well as the vocal demands of more conventional fare. One realizes that these 'opera experts' actually don't know anything. Their fetishes and fancies are triggered by non musical things from a timbre to received opinions by their equally ignorant friends to simple philistinism. Does Verdi have a chance against such insensitivity? No wonder he was regarded simply as an organ grinder composer. I've never seen anyone on these groups talk about how someone like Riccardo Muti shapes phrases into units of great beauty and tremendous effectiveness, even without star singers, and how the operas still work. Few of the tiny number of 'professional reviewers' still left are any better. I had a lot of training as a musician; that doesn't mean I was or am talented but at least I can hear. I understand how difficult it is to get it right, to really express powerfully within the music without the cheap tricks from omitted and simplified phrases but immense unwritten high notes to barking and screaming, always described as 'dramatic', though the faking singers have less good ideas expressively than the composer. I also like a lot of non vocal music; sometimes I find even chamber music more moving and involving than opera. I love the relief from words, stupid words often enough and silly carrying on. It was fun recently to write about music I love that had no voices, that needed close attention to work (the highlight LP was something that sooner or later reared its head when what seemed a small army of opera -- queens? -- volunteered the records they loved. The pop selections mattered to them; often the least interesting music in an opera. This is a review of an HM CD devoted to the violin/piano music of Janacek, Szymanowski and Lutoslawski.
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Doesn't EVERYONE blog??? Just think of the magnificent A.C Douglas, the most stupid, pretentious preposterous self parody on the opera 'Net.... wait -- aren't there are a thousand others? That ignorant scum is on my mind today. This is an exchange that was censured by the Cato of Opera-L, a compendium of morons administered by the Rite Aid Medicated Wipe, one Robert Kosovosky, the Little Libraian who could (get on his belly and spread his spotty cheeks).
WC Douglas to me: <What you mean, of course, you bloviating, pompous little peacock, <" Meaning" long ago escaped with this scumbag's brains through his colostomy bag but this was my reply:
How DARE you? I have never been called LITTLE in my life!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the rest of your garbage, anybody who knows anything, knows you are a preposterous joke, the sort of foul smelling corpse that spouts dated, inaccurate cliches about your fetish, Mr. Wagner, who was less Wagnerian than you. You are like the other fools here whose onanism produces only matter best enclosed in an old Kleenex and flushed.
Your deaf, psychotic, inartistic excrement makes you an unfortunate sample of these kinds of lists. As is a huge roach that scatters when the lights come on, you're good to scare the squeamish and impress the peculiar; but worthless about anything else you touch on. Mr. Wagner was surely not a nice man, and liked worship, but the books about him in action at Bayreuth show a fine contempt for the tiny minds like yours, that worshiped with no understanding.
Back to Nibelheim, you noisy mental dwarf -- though as with Alberich and the Rhine Maidens -- it would be sad to miss the hideous comedy of your mental scrambling after beauties you've neither felt nor understood but somehow invested a meaningless life in, which you will never grasp.
The LARGE Bloviating Albert Innaurato (a pseudonym your sad Mrs. Claggart uses when in the mood.)
Too much for Kosovksy, a delicate sensibility and so stupid that half the words above would escape him.
Oh, well, enough for one go through.
JC (Mrs)
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I notice on the pukeazoid (sp?) Opera Smell the horrors are wiping poor Eleanor Steber with their stupidity, or using her as an excuse for their ludicrous feuds. It's not like there are heroes there to root for. Opera as music is foreign to all but a few. Aesthetic positions are parodies of what morons might dream when they, unconscious, see phantasms of insight in their tiny brains. But even as a list that mostly and for long periods of time celebrates singers, dead ones, it is preposterous, idiotic and insulting. I knew Steber when she was older and struggling, and saw her often, luckily for me, in her better years, though I wish I had been older to really savor those. She is far from the only person who taught me that artists are thrown away in America. But the memory at that list censored as it is by the idiot Kosovsky is of a late, isolated bad performance she gave, after her operatic career was essentially over. She did it to help the Met (and perhaps to try and remind Bing and the others that she still had plenty to offer) but it was a last minute substitution in a killer role she really wasn't prepared for. She gambled and lost. But she was a great, valiant artist.
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under a linden tree
by Mrs. John Claggart | 1:43 am | Jan 31, 2013
A new CD features the ten most gorgeous minutes recorded by a tenor in Wagner since World War II. It is Jonas Kaufmannsinging from Act Two ofSiegfried "Dass der mein Vater nicht ist… Du holdes Vöglein!" -- otherwise known as "The Forest Murmurs." This fragment lies perfectly for him, in the very middle of his voice, with a brief G the highest note. His tone is sumptuous and flows effortlessly with the glamour, distinctiveness and immediate recognizability that define a great "classical" singer. He is able to sing over a wide dynamic range from breathtaking softness, always full bodied, to a ripe but never heavy sound at fuller voice, and there is wonderful contrast throughout.
He uses, apparently spontaneously, a quick messa di voce (the tone is swelled and diminished) and is able to mirror the feelings in this selection by shifting subtly the weight and resonance of his sound. Nostalgia and longing are conveyed with virile sweetness. There is a touch of the heroic in the darkness of sound he summons and yet there is a hypnotic, youthful float throughout. At this point Siegfried is still a vulnerable boy, which Kaufmann conveys precisely. Word and tone balance are perfect: his pronunciation is a musical pleasure in itself and it gives his sound specificity–every moment is realized fully.
Donald Runnicles, the conductor, gives Kaufmann plenty of space. This is a very romantic approach to the music. One challenge in this selection especially at this rather slow tempo is that of line; young Siegfried, alone in the forest, is talking to himself, lost in memories and as yet unknown desires–he stops now and then. And yet the tenor must manage a full, complete journey through this music, despite the pauses, the changes, the rhythmic shifts, the sudden anger at the memory of Mime. Kaufmann is simply phenomenal in doing this–one is aware of him through the silences, an effect achieved through precise rhythm, a very sensitive blending to the sonority of solo instruments, phrases that lead the ear on through silences and orchestral commentary.
The winds of the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin are terrific, and the sudden smile in the tone as he fails to make music with a reed is irresistible. True,Siegfried Jerusalem and Rene Kollo do this selection very well on their records too, and both are wonderfully accompanied (Bernard Haitink does so well by Jerusalem that it becomes a highlight of that entire Ring). Yet neither can manage the beauty and specialness of tone that Kaufmann shows here, and, terrific as they both are, neither spins out this music so languorously.
An older Wolfgang Windgassen does this stretch fairly well with Georg Solti, helped by Decca /John Culshaw's electrical magic–though neither he nor the conductor has the rhythmic firmness the section needs to live. The tenor is better with the tender Kna of 1956 . Ludwig Suthaus and Wilhelm Furtwaenglertogether create genuine magic, though the tenor's technique is one of shrewd compromises and the vicissitudes of the RAI orchestra are distracting.
One can also enjoy the heartier Hans Hopf under the wonderful Rudolf Kempeat Bayreuth (he's tenser under Erich Leinsdorf in the Met broadcast ). Another factor in favor of Windgassen and Hopf (both at Bayreuth) is that they are singing live and are miked in a "general" way. The one caveat I have about Kaufmann is that this is a spectacular sounding multi-microphone studio recording. In the album notes he praises the venue (the "old East Berlin radio studio") but evidently this acoustic has been arranged to flatter all concerned. Still, comparing apples to apples, this is a stunning testament to Kaufmann's remarkable talent.
To suggest that nothing else here is quite so memorable is not at all to damn this CD with faint praise. If Kaufmann has some limits, much here is beautifully done, and his sophistication and insight are always very impressive. A role he has actually sung is Walther in Die Meistersinger – it was a concert that was broadcast and a tape survives. Of course, back then Kaufmann had a brighter, lighter sound. Here he sings with more weight but it seems to me, more beauty as well. The selection, the short "Am stillen Herd" from act one is only a morsel but it is done with much wit and charm.
I love the way he toys with rhythm, especially in the phrase "wie einst der Lenz so lieblich lacht, und wie er bald wohl erwacht" – he deliberately emphasizes the appoggiaturas on "lacht" and "erwacht" making something special of the last, a high E (dotted quarter), falling into the D below, a dotted eighth with a fermata over it–spinning his tone gorgeously from the higher to lower note. He also has a plausible trill at the end. This stretch too lies easily for him and the roundness of tone promises much if, as he promises in the notes, he actually sings the entire role again.
Kaufmann has not sung Tannhäuser and, in the liner notes, tells interviewerThomas Voigt that he had no intention of singing it–until he recorded "Inbrunst im Herzen." He has a lot of competition here and in general there isn't the wildness of Windgassen in the Bayreuth recording (who can forget his scream at "Da ekelte mich der holde Sang?") or the heartbroken, exhausted intensity of Ramon Vinay,also from Bayreuth, though he had a Southern accent (being from Chile?) Then there is Hopf again, a tough character bought low (better live than on the too closely miked EMI ).
Kaufmann does not try for that kind of intensity or rage. He sings with meaningfully inflected if not always crystalline words, wonderful line and an alluring tone, more enticing than the competition–yes, that includes the very capable Kollo and Seiffert , and someone named Domingo who cooks up heartbreak alla Zarzuela in a language of his own devising. Kaufmann conveys tense urgency and a sense of shame to start but then comes up with a chilling, eerie tone as he quotes the Pope cruelly dismissing Tannhäuser. His coloring and timing of the phrase, "Wie dieser Stab in meiner Hand nie mehr sich schmückt mit frischem Grün, kann aus der Hölle heissen Brand" is unforgettable.
But Kaufmann has planned this reading to build to the invocation of Venus. As the line gets higher and grows more fervid he opens his tone thrillingly and soars through the blasphemous praise of the Goddess – it's so stunning one is mighty disappointed that the excerpt ends so abruptly (the CD provides a Wolfram inMarkus Brück). So, the slow boil approach works very well, though it's not crazy enough for my taste.
Rienzi's Prayer is elegantly done; for one thing, he does the turn precisely and beautifully. If there isn't quite the solidity of Lauritz Melchior, compared to more recent tenors Kaufmann is more than competitive.
Of all the roles represented on this disc he is best known as Lohengrin. A performance I saw in Munich (with the great Michaela Schuster as Ortrud) was unforgettable. Here he sings both verses of "In fernem Land." He does well and yet there isn't quite the sweet float at the beginning I remember live (a performance in the run is on tape and quite wonderful), and I noticed some obvious vowel modifications. In particular he does something odd with the high A on the "i" in "Ritter" in the line "sein Ritter ich–bin Lohengrin genannt" and the earlier, longer A on "Gral" is also a modified vowel. Returning to other selections one the disc, one notices now and then some of these vowel changes – in the Tannhäuser especially.
This reminds me of a story Kaufmann told an early interviewer about the American pedagogue who rescued him from being a comprimario with a piping high voice by changing the way he produced his sound. It sounds as though he studied the so-called Stanley technique developed in America by Douglas Stanley, which had a real vogue in Germany. Jerome LoMonaco, a tenor in German houses, taught it, and there is also an Italian version taught by Arturo Morlocchi, whose star pupil was Mario del Monaco.
Stanley promises that his technique, which involves lowering the larynx as far as it will go and applying a lot of breath pressure, over time will build formidable volume and a strong dark timbre in the middle and lower part of the voice. Many pedagogues dislike this technique and, to be sure, it has real traps; on the other hand, true believers argue that used responsibly and not rigidly it does indeed build volume and impact, increase stamina and usually does not interfere with high notes.
Oddly enough, in his conversation with the Thomas Voigt in the liner notes, Kaufmann refers admiringly to Franz Volker because of his "beautiful" singing inLohengrin. But Volker taught the Stanley Method, with a spoon shoved down the throat to be sure the larynx was as low as possible and the tongue didn't ride up. I wonder about Kaufmann. The first time I heard him at the Met (Traviata!), his voice was small and light and did not project well. I had earlier heard him live in Zurich, in Königskinder >displaying a dazzling sexual charm and a lovely tone (it's now on DVD ), and very strong in Parsifal but his voice did not promise so much for a massive place like the Met. That obviously has changed. I don't believe Kaufmann is "locked" into the Stanley method but some aspect of it may be how he developed the dark lower range and fuller sound that now distinguish his singing.
After that demonstration of digression on parade we can return to this CD. I admit I was not terribly impressed with Kaufmann's Siegmund live; however, from a recording perspective he's better sounding than most others on disc. He's superior, certainly, to Peter Hoffmann in the New York Philharmonic first act, to Gary Lakes or Poul Elming, or the too light though attractive sounding Jerusalem, or Windgassen and Alberto Remedios for whom the role is too low, or the average Robert Schunk. Yes, James King sounds more at ease in the lower tessitura but is a duller interpreter. It must perhaps be said that if you didn't hear Jon Vickers in the huge Met, you have no idea how this music can sound on that immense scale, and so the smaller scope of Kaufmann's Siegmund isn't so apparent or relevant. (On the Leinsdorf recording , Vickers sings wonderfully and you do get a sense of the sheer impact and heart of his singing.)
In Kaufmann's performance of the monologue "Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater" that starts this collection, the tenor does indeed produce a chocolatey, rich tone in the low tessitura of this stretch of the role. But I hear some of those vowel modifications, a lack of power in reserve, suggesting there is perhaps some contrivance involved in producing this dark tone for so long. In the notes, Kaufmann mentions the Melchior live recordings where "his calls of 'Wälse' are endlessly long and endlessly big." Predictably, the high point of this aria is the build to the G-flat and G, with Runnicles slowing down just a bit to let Kaufmann savor the highest note excitingly.
In the Wesendonck Lieder, Kaufmann floats with great beauty and sensitivity through "Der Engel" and "Stehe still!"—among the best selections on the CD. In "Im Treibhaus" I noticed that laryngeal shift. "Schmerzen" and a rather loud "Träume" are solid but unmemorable readings. There's a shift in acoustics for "Schmerzen," where the voice doesn't sound entirely settled.
However, despite my quibbles and quiddities, this is a wonderful, stimulating collection by a remarkable singer.
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ISG shortlisted for North West Contractor of the Year
ISG has been shortlisted for North West Contractor of the Year at the Insider North West Property Awards 2018.
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When it comes to live music in Liverpool, new musicians have a tough act to follow in the Beatles. But with a great mix of jazz, classical, rock and pop on offer in the city, you can still enjoy a great night of live music without the Fab Four.
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Tutti De Sica
If you're in Rome between February 8 and April 28, I suggest you take a walk to the Ara Pacis Museum and spend a few hours at the Tutti De Sica exhibit. It's an affectionate collection of photos, personal belongings, clippings, film posters, objects, costumes, movie clips and television appearances of the life of one of Italy's film icons: Vittorio De Sica.
The show is the fruit of the work of 10+ years of laborious digging through archives, blowing up aged photos, and constructing a loving tribute to one of the greatest directors and actors of Italian and international cinema of the twentieth century
I was lucky enough to know him in the last years of his life, and he was a fantastic nonno.
It was very touching to see the detail and love that was put in the 360° lifespan exhibit. Nonno's grey pied-de-poule overcoat hanging at the entrance, hearing his voice playing through the crackling 78" vynil player; walking past a vanity with the wigs and makeup he wore in his early theater-days; the photos of his beginnings, and first film debuts as an actor first and director later; clippings of my mother's announced birth; the famous Oscar-winning bicycle, and next to it the 1946 Academy Award for Ladri di Biciclette, a film that changed the history of cinema.
The show is this and much much more, and through it's articulate visual timeline, it taught me a lot about the public figure, the filmmaker, the screenwriter. The man and grandfather I had down pat, it was the immense cultural heritage figure I sort of took for granted before seeing it all lovingly exhibited in the lower floor of the Augustan Altar of Peace built in 13 BCE and commissioned to celebrate the Pax Romana, the era of peace ushered by Emperor Augustus's military victories.
Stroll through the rooms, smile at the images of him gambling with a 6 year-old. Let Sophia's perfume waft from her vintage costumes. Fall in love with a black and white photo of my grandfather napping between takes, sheathed in a raincoat.
8 February to 28 April 2013
Tuesday-Sunday: 9:00 - 19:00
Last admission 1 hour before closing time
Adults: €11 Rome residents: €10 Concessions: €9
Information Tel. +39 060608 (daily 9.00 am – 9.00 pm)
Buy online www.omniticket.it
Additional booking fee: €1
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Michele | Cooking At Home Feb 11, 2013, 4:19:00 PM
What a wonderful tribute to your grandfather and what lovely memories for you.
Eleonora Baldwin Feb 11, 2013, 4:31:00 PM
Truly! Very touching, and the public response is amazing! Thank you for your comment.
Renuka Feb 11, 2013, 6:41:00 PM
Nice! Appreciate that!
Eleonora Baldwin Feb 14, 2013, 11:42:00 AM
Merisi in Vienna Feb 11, 2013, 6:48:00 PM
Wonderful, wonderful!
I so hope to get to Rome before the exhibition closes.
Thank you for the information, Eleonora,
Merisi
Oh you must, Merisina. It will blow your mind, just like it did with me...
Kathe W. Feb 12, 2013, 3:12:00 AM
splendid post-thanks for sharing this with us!
amelia from z tasty life Feb 12, 2013, 3:51:00 AM
magari fossi a Roma, Ele, davvero vorrei vederla questa mostra meravigliosa per un uomo eccezionale.
Davvero. Un peccato che tu non possa. Ma io vorrei suggerire di allestire una mostra viaggiante, per portare il calore e l'affetto che la contraddistingue, anche in America, dove avrebbe un successo enorme.
Anonymous Feb 12, 2013, 5:37:00 PM
The photos are so amazing! You are so lucky to have this to keep as memories in your mind (and of course, your heart!)
Indeed, Susan. And with each photo, each image, each film clip I am reminded of how fortunate I am.
Eddie Bluelights Feb 13, 2013, 1:42:00 AM
How extremely interesting, Lola. I knew you had roots in the film industry - I think you mentioned that lovely 'goddess' Sophia Loren' on occasion. Thanks for sharing.
btw Your coffee has gone cold at my place - if you would like to get your lovely derrier over you are most welcome ROFL. You will not my sense of humour has not degraded but I had a nasty shock recently as you might see if you'd like to make another cuppa.
Hugs ~ Eddie x
Damn Channel train got stuck between Gaul and Dover... Sorry. LOL
Your sense of humor is the only warm thing out there right now, so please keep it comin'
Ciao Edoardo
Eddie Bluelights Feb 14, 2013, 11:22:00 PM
Excuses! Excuses!
Just think you have missed something you have not had for a while - a plate of English fish and chips! LOL
Frank Feb 19, 2013, 3:25:00 AM
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Located in the north of Chile on the Bolivian border, San Pedro de Atacama and its surrounding region is something out of this world. A high dry desert, its high volcanic mountains dominate the horizon while its barren landscape is punctuated by the occasional shrub or rock outcropping. We stopped over on the way to Bolivia and this town of about 5,000 is full of tourists taking day trips to the surrounding areas. Most of the buildings in this town are made of brick and adobe and the streets are dusty but full of lively energy. The energy was particularly evident on the night we arrived because there was a big soccer match of Chile vs. Argentina, a rivalry that goes back a few centuries. There was a certain bohemian charm in San Pedro and no shortage of western style cafes and restaurants.
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J. M. Berger is a nonresident fellow with the Brookings Institution. Author of "Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam," a critically acclaimed history of the American jihadist movement. He is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy magazine. Co-Author of "ISIS: The State of Terror" J.M. Berger. An expert on violent extremism and terrorism. Mr. Berger help us understand the origins and evolution of ISIS.
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Q: How close do you have to be to someone to have a Room Match with them in Pokemon Duel? In Pokemon Duel, when I try to go into the Room Match module, I sometimes get a message telling me that the game could not read my GPS location.
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How does location factor into Room Matches? Is there a maximum distance that you can be from someone before you are unable to have a Room Match with them? Considering that I am almost always able to find at least a dozen other available players ready to duel, it would seem that the requirement for physical proximity is rather loose, if it even exists at all.

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view from the car: good morning New York!
At dawn, you can hear birds chirping, early runners breathing, tree branches murmuring, mothers pushing sleepy babies in carriages, cyclists pedaling. Later come sports enthusiasts crowding the open fields, tourists and horse drawn carriages. It turns into a magical place, which is free and open to everyone.
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Kang Tae Oh Confirmed To Star Opposite Park Eun Bin In New Drama
It's official: Kang Tae Oh will be joining Park Eun Bin in the upcoming drama "Extraordinary Attorney Woo"!
On April 8, it was confirmed that Kang Tae Oh would be starring in "Extraordinary Attorney Woo," which will air jointly on ENA and Netflix.
The drama will tell the story of Woo Young Woo, a young lawyer with Asperger's syndrome who joins a major law firm (to be played by Park Eun Bin). Due to her high IQ of 164, impressive memory, and creative thought process, the brilliant Woo Young Woo graduates at the top of her class from the prestigious Seoul National University for both college and law school—but she still finds herself struggling when it comes to social interactions.
Kang Tae Oh will be playing male lead Lee Jun Ho, an attractive and thoughtful law firm employee whose handsome looks and caring personality make him extremely popular at the office. While working side by side with Woo Young Woo, he forms a meaningful connection with the lawyer that gives rise to new and unfamiliar feelings.
"Extraordinary Attorney Woo" is currently scheduled to premiere in June.
In the meantime, watch Kang Tae Oh in "Doom at Your Service" with subtitles below!
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Living Room Redesign: What's your type?
Now that the days of obligatory towering speakers, bulky VHS machines and boxy tube TVs are over, you have lots of options to redesign your living room set-up according your personality and viewing habits.
Slimmer, sleeker tech and lots of streaming media options have opened up a world of possibilities. So, when it comes to living room redesign, what's your type?
Cat fights in prison! Diabolical politicians! High drama-lovers, you know who you are. Elevate your environment to match the dramatics with this eye-catching setup.
TV: As stunning in design as it is in picture quality, Samsung's 75" ES9000 LED TV is, literally, the gold standard. Did you see its rose gold bezel? Did you seee it? Plus it's a smart TV, which means you can voice-command and motion control it. Did I mention the rose gold bezel? Be still my heart.
Console: Lawson-Fenning's Oak Niguel cabinet has just the right amount of brass flash—and inside, it's lacquered (for the really dramatic, choose red). The piece is big enough to compliment the TV, yet dark enough not to overwhelm the room.
Object: Like gold pick-up sticks, this sculpture from Dwell Studio gives the room a dynamic burst of "pow!" so that even between episodes, the drama is always on.
Amazon Fire TV and Netflix app: Tune in your favorite Netflix exclusives, like Orange is the New Black, and Amazon Prime exclusives like House of Cards, with instant-streaming Amazon Fire TV. It's complete with voice search (that works!), and more than 200,000 movies and shows in its library. And to keep the drama going wherever you are, try the Netflix app, and catch your favorite shows on all your devices.
Are you the type to crank up the music video channel and bounce around the room? Hey, some girls just wanna have fun, and if you're one of them, your design setup shouldn't whisper, it should roar! Try on these bright, bold picks for size.
TV: Why choose plain black when you can have glossy white with blue accents? This Samsung LED TV is not only stylish, but doubles as a computer monitor, so it's great for gaming, streaming… or even doing work when you're not watching. Perfect for a dorm room, where space is a premium and gadgets should do double duty.
Console: This snazzy piece is an IKEA bargain. The Besta Burs TV unit adds punch to a room, and it contains big drawers to hide your less-pretty gear.
Lamp: This handmade desk lamp from Onefortythree is swimming pool-cool in glossy aqua. It sets off the bright console, and gives the room another big color jolt.
Chromecast and Vevo app: Chromecast is tiny and affordable (perfect for bold girls who also happen to be broke girls). It's a thumb drive-sized device that syncs your device and your TV, streaming tons of apps, from YouTube to HBO Go to anything you've recorded on your phone. Keep the fun going with Vevo's app, so you can enjoy the latest music videos wherever you happen to be.
A little bit sweet, a little bit offbeat, maybe with mismatched mugs in your cabinet and a few vintage dresses in your closet…in a word, you're eclectic. You can carry your style into a hip, laid back living room with a few easy pieces.
TV: This Sony BRAVIA has built-in WiFi to make it easy to switch from TV to streaming content, before you even add a set top box (though that'll expand your choices big time, which is essential for the eclectic watcher). Its simple lines keep the TV in the background, so your cool accessories and decorations can take center stage.
Console: West Elm's Mid-Century Media Console looks like a pricey piece from the fifties, but its drawers and doors are sized for today's equipment, and open smoothly on modern hardware. Plus the wood is responsibly sourced, and certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Cool!
Succulent planter: This hanging planter from Redraven Studios is perfect for a small space…or to fit in with all your existing, beloved ephemera.
Mug: There's nothing like a cozy mug to warm up both your belly and your space. This pick from LEIF is great for tea…or for stashing those spare thumb drives, ear bud adustors or other gizmo-related stuff.
Roku 3 and Hulu app: I'm willing to bet that you enjoy a smart rom-com…and as I mentioned, though your WiFi TV offers some things, the Roku 3 streams more than anyone. So you can have your Emma Stone, plus TED talks, A&E, or whatever else strikes your fancy today. Add the Hulu Plus app to instantly stream more favorites to your phone.
What's your living room personality? Tell me in the comments!


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Hopewell Culture Copper
Written by Park Guide, Sarah Hinkelman
Copper might not be an "exotic" raw material to you. Can you think of any uses for copper?
We use copper often in our daily lives, probably without even knowing it.  You might see bits of copper on the sidewalk or even in your pocket since it is the metal that coats pennies. It also is used in many electronics since it is a great material for transferring energy. Copper was also used to create one of our nation's most recognizable monuments, the Statue of Liberty!
We see it a lot in our everyday life, but for the people of the Hopewell culture in the Scioto River Valley 2,000 years ago, copper was a sacred metal. They used this beautiful metal to create some of the ceremonial objects archeologists found in the earthworks here at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.
Most of the copper found in the earthworks in the Scioto River Valley came from sources in and around Lake Superior, a nearly 800-mile journey (one way!).
NPS photo/A. Weiland
Copper is one of just a few metals that can be found in a form that is usable by humans. The people of the Hopewell culture valued it for its various qualities. Like many materials used in Hopewell ceremonial art, it was shiny when polished and able to reflect sunlight or the glow of a fire. The metal can also be shaped by hand. Ancient artists, folded, hammered, drilled, and rolled copper using stone and bone tools. Just like today, the metal was used to create jewelry and decorations. But the decorations created in the Hopewell tradition were part of ceremonial regalia that included: beautiful earspools, headdresses, buttons, tinklers (rattle like ornaments), axes, plates, and many other shapes and patterns including the falcon effigies that serve as our park symbol.
Collecting copper was no small feat. The people of the Scioto River Valley had to travel over 300 miles by foot and boat to mine copper from either Lake Superior or the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Most of the copper found in the earthworks in the Scioto River Valley came from sources in and around Lake Superior, a nearly 800-mile journey (one way!).  Some came from sources in the Appalachian Mountains, and these ancient Ohioans could have collected quartz crystal, mica, and other exotic materials in these mountains, kind of like how we collect souvenirs from vacations and special events. Some of the copper from Ohio mounds could have been carried here in glacial ice and meltwaters. These ancient travelers likely encountered other groups across the eastern United States, forming close connections and relationships allowing their Hopewellian beliefs and practices to spread.
A copper effigy depicting a peregrine falcon excavated from the Mound City Group unit of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.
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Hopewell copper objects were made particularly for religious ceremonies, likely playing roles in animating myths, and used in song and dance. The material in its final form was viewed as a living thing with a spirit and was given ceremonial burials in the mounds here at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Historic and modern American Indian tribes continued to view copper as a sacred metal with spiritual powers. The metal is associated with Mishipeshu, the Great Lynx or Water Panther, the protector of copper. In Ojibwa oral tradition, the Great Lynx is a powerful dragon-like animal with a feline face and paws, its deer-like horns are made of copper and its body is covered with scales and dagger-like spikes running down its back and long copper tail. This being has the power to create storms and drown humans. Mishipeshu must be revered through offerings so that one may pass safely along the waters of Lake Superior and acquire its precious metal, copper.
While we might not see copper as exceptionally special, it was powerful and valued by the people of the Hopewell culture 2,000 years ago and many American Indian tribes past and present. You can see some of the magnificent copper pieces created in the Hopewell tradition on display in our museum at Mound City along with some of the other fantastic exotic materials used by these Native Americans to create beautiful works of sacred art.
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Georgia Tech Jumps Four Spots in Bloomberg Businessweek Undergrad Rankings
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business jumped four spots (to 37th) in Bloomberg BusinessWeek's latest national rankings of the top undergraduate programs in business.
Scheller is 12th among public universities (and top among public schools in the State of Georgia).
This year, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked 132 of the approximately 400 accredited undergraduate business programs in the country. Its rankings are based on five components: student assessment, academic quality metrics, employer opinion, median starting salary, and a "feeder school" score (which reflects how many students undergrad programs send to top MBA programs).
"I am extremely proud of the excellent quality of the business school's undergraduate program. We're gratified that the rankings are increasingly reflecting all we have to offer students," says Dean Steve Salbu.
Scheller College is currently ranked 27th by U.S. News & World Report for best undergraduate business programs.
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Q: Insert an image into a BIRT report with a secured URL I wanted to load an image in my report with an URL.
The following stackoverflow question answers that.
How to insert an image into a BIRT report with an URL properly?
However, my URL is not public and requires authentication to access. Like, adding an Authorization token in the header.
How can I intercept the request to insert Authorization token?

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Which Game Characters would help you Move House?
A month ago, I moved into my new home. The house is a big project in itself, with lots of renovation work and plenty of TLC required. Between the DIY and the new school term, I've had very little time to game in the last few weeks. That hasn't stopped me thinking about video games, which is how we've arrived at the vitally important question above.
The home you currently reside in might be your first, or your fifteenth. Regardless, at some point you will have to move. The act of boxing, transporting, and unboxing your entire life will take a considerable amount of time and effort. Whilst the prospect of living somewhere new and shiny is exciting, the act of getting there is not. When this immense event un-folds, you will hopefully have friends and family to assist you, or have hired help.
Weird Theory: why doesn't Link rule the world?
…but should Link be feared as well? Once the evil is vanquished, the war is won and Link's job is complete, what would the hero do next? Does he slip quietly back into the simple life he had before his adventure began?


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I've shared my passion, skills and creativity with education projects at the British Council, BBC, Film Education, BFI and many others around the world.
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Creativity encourages problem solving, collaboration, flexibility and occasionally logical thinking.
When students create something, they make decisions, this helps learners to remember information and processes. Students can learn to trust their instincts and creative approaches to solving problems. A flexible learner is a more resilient learner and one that can adapt.
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Q: Changing position of axes in Axes3D I am using mplot3d from the mpl_toolkits library. When displaying the 3D surface on the figure I'm realized the axis were not positioned as I wished they would.
Let me show, I have added to the following screenshot the position of each axis:

Is there a way to change the position of the axes in order to get this result:

Here's the working code:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D

ax = Axes3D(plt.figure())
def f(x,y) :
    return -x**2 - y**2

X = np.arange(-1, 1, 0.02)
Y = np.arange(-1, 1, 0.02)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y)
Z = f(X, Y)
ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, alpha=0.5)

# Hide axes ticks
ax.set_xticks([-1,1])
ax.set_yticks([-1,1])
ax.set_zticks([-2,0])

ax.set_yticklabels([-1,1],rotation=-15, va='center', ha='right')

plt.show()

I have tried using xaxis.set_ticks_position('left') statement, but it doesn't work.

A: No documented methods, but with some hacking ideas from https://stackoverflow.com/a/15048653/1149007 you can.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D

fig = plt.figure()
ax = ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
ax.view_init(30, 30)

def f(x,y) :
    return -x**2 - y**2

X = np.arange(-1, 1, 0.02)
Y = np.arange(-1, 1, 0.02)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(X, Y)
Z = f(X, Y)
ax.plot_surface(X, Y, Z, alpha=0.5)

# Hide axes ticks
ax.set_xticks([-1,1])
ax.set_yticks([-1,1])
ax.set_zticks([-2,0])

ax.xaxis._axinfo['juggled'] = (0,0,0)
ax.yaxis._axinfo['juggled'] = (1,1,1)
ax.zaxis._axinfo['juggled'] = (2,2,2)

plt.show()

I can no idea of the meaning of the third number in triples. If set zeros nothing changes in the figure. So should look in the code for further tuning.
You can also look at related question Changing position of vertical (z) axis of 3D plot (Matplotlib)? with low level hacking of _PLANES property.

A: Something changed, code blow doesn't work, all axis hide...
ax.xaxis._axinfo['juggled'] = (0,0,0)
ax.yaxis._axinfo['juggled'] = (1,1,1)
ax.zaxis._axinfo['juggled'] = (2,2,2)

I suggest using the plot function to create a graph


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Yerevan History Museum
Title: Yerevan History Museum
Subject: Yerevan, List of museums in Armenia, Saint Paul and Peter Church, Yerevan, Zvartnots Cathedral, Constitutional Court of Armenia
Collection: City Museums, History Museums in Armenia, Museums Established in 1931, Museums in Yerevan
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The main facade of the museum
1/1 Argishti street, Yerevan, Armenia
Collection size
History of Yerevan
Armineh Sargsyan
The Yerevan History Museum (Armenian: Երևանի Պատմության Թանգարան (Yerevani Patmut'yan T'angaran)) is the history museum of Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. The museum was founded in 1931 as the Communal Museum. Currently, the museum It is located in a building attached to the Yerevan City Hall.
The architect of the building was Jim Torosyan.[1]
Scientific council 3
The museum today 4
Exhibition halls 5
1931-1936 Yerevan Fire Department building
2 rooms in 2nd floor
1936-1994 Blue Mosque ("Gök Jami") 58
1994-1997 Hripsime Female Gymnasium 3
1997-2005 School №1 after Stepan Shahumyan
Mashtots Street 23
2005–present Yerevan City Hall
At the beginning, the museum was located in two rooms, on the second floor, of the Yerevan Fire Department building. In 1936, it was moved to the Blue Mosque (Gyoy-Djami) where had functioned for sixty years. From 1994 to 1997, the museum was located in the building of former Hripsime Female Gymnasium. From 1997 to 2005, the museum functioned in one of the adjacent buildings of the school N1 named after Shahoumian. In 2005, the museum was established in a new building. It forms an architectural complex together with Yerevan Municipality.
There are more than 87,000 objects exposed in the Yerevan History Museum. They represent the local material and spiritual culture from ancient times to the present day. The collections of archaeology, ethnography, numismatics, fine arts, written records, photography and others, kept in the storage of the museum, tell a vivid story about the past and the present of the capital city and its people. There are three scientific expositions of the museum, that have collected, studied and showed objects highlighting the history of Yerevan.
The scientific council affiliated to the museum has had the best intellectuals and artists of the time as its members, including:
Alexander Tamanian
Toros Toramanian
N. Bouniatian
M. Mazmanian
Martiros Saryan
G. Gyurdjian
Taragros
A. Sargsian
Stepan Lisitsyan
Y. Shahazyz
A. Barkhoudarian
B. Arakelian
T. Hakobian
The museum today
The museum is a leisure place for people of all ages, occupation and preferences. Presently the public relations experience of the museum has gained new application. The museum-school ties are being strengthened acquiring new meaning and importance. The museum is in continual contact with old citizens as well as citizens of young generation. The mass media always highlights the everyday life of the museum and the events dedicated to the city. Each year the publications of the personnel increase in number.
The inauguration of the main exposition of the museum took place on 3 April 2007 during which the President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharian, Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharian, and other high officials were present.
The main exposition of the museum consists of three parts.
List of museums in Armenia
History Museum of Armenia
Erebuni Fortress
National Gallery of Armenia
List of Armenian Genocide memorials
Charents Museum of Literature and Arts
Aram Khachaturian House-Museum
Matenadaran
^ Yerevan History Museum, new building
Albert Parsadanyan. School Companion. Yerevan, VMV-Print, 2008, pp. 102–103.
Articles containing Armenian-language text
Museums established in 1931
Museums in Yerevan
History museums in Armenia
Russia, France, Armenia, Italy, Armenian Genocide
Azerbaijan, Turkey, Ukraine, Yerevan, Soviet Union
Armenian language
Old English language, Armenia, Greek language, Proto-Indo-European language, Indo-European languages
Armenia, Aram Khachaturian, History Museum of Armenia, Matenadaran, National Gallery of Armenia
Saint Paul and Peter Church, Yerevan
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Yerevan, Ukraine, Armenian Apostolic Church
Zvartnots Cathedral
Armenia, Vagharshapat, Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Azerbaijan, Jerusalem


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Q: trace a route avoiding a street ¿is't possible to trace a route with GPS location from point A (the GPS location of user) to point B (a marker given by the user), ¡¡but!!, avoiding a street on google maps API?
i have half of this, i know how to trace A to B with GPS location on google maps api doing a click on some button, but im not sure if i can avoid some street.
This is an example of what i want to do, assuming the blue marked street is the one that i cant cross


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Bucknell announces 2022 football schedule
By Kevin Kelley - March 10, 2022
Photo: Danny Wild-USA TODAY Sports
The Bucknell Bison have announced their 2022 football schedule, which features games against Central Michigan and Yale.
Bucknell is scheduled to open the 2022 season on Saturday, Sept. 3 with a non-conference game at home at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium in Lewisburg, Pa., against the Towson Tigers.
Other non-conference opponents for the Bison in 2022 include VMI (Sept. 10), Central Michigan (Sept. 17), and Yale (Oct. 15) on the road and Marist (Nov. 19) at home. Non-conference contests against Yale and Marist were previously unannounced.
The Bison will open Patriot League action at home on Oct. 1 against Lafayette. Other Patriot League opponents visiting Lewisburg in 2022 include Colgate (Oct. 29) and Fordham (Nov. 5).
Bucknell will travel to face Patriot League foes Holy Cross (Oct. 8), Lehigh (Oct. 22), and Georgetown (Nov. 12).
Below is Bucknell's complete schedule for the 2022 season, plus a link to their schedule page which will be updated with kickoff times and TV as they are announced:
2022 Bucknell Football Schedule
09/03 – Towson
09/10 – at VMI
09/17 – at Central Michigan
09/24 – OFF
10/01 – Lafayette*
10/08 – at Holy Cross*
10/15 – at Yale
10/22 – at Lehigh*
10/29 – Colgate*
11/05 – Fordham*
11/12 – at Georgetown*
11/19 – Marist
* Patriot League contest.
Bucknell finished the fall 2021 campaign 1-10 overall and 0-6 in Patriot League action. The Bison are entering their fourth season under head coach Dave Cecchini, who holds a 6-20 overall record at the school.
"We're very excited to open our 2022 campaign at home against Towson," Cecchini said. "The outstanding game day atmosphere at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium will help us start our season off on a high note. We also have an incredible opportunity to go up against Central Michigan, a quality FBS program that is coming off a bowl win, in week three. Overall, we have a unique non-conference schedule, playing five teams from five different conferences."


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All Time Low Tour Dates & Concert Tickets
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Pop-punk band All Time Low takes their name from the lyrics of popular pop-punk band New Found Glory. All Time Low has become a favorite at Warped Tour dates and performed concert dates at some of the biggest festivals around the world. All Time Low is mixing it up on their upcoming tour dates... read more
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Pop-punk band All Time Low takes their name from the lyrics of popular pop-punk band New Found Glory. All Time Low has become a favorite at Warped Tour dates and performed concert dates at some of the biggest festivals around the world. All Time Low is mixing it up on their upcoming tour dates by playing places that you wouldn't normally think to have shows.
Guitarist and lead singer Alex Gaskarth, guitarist Jack Barakat, bassist Zack Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson all met while attending high school in Baltimore, Maryland. All Time Low recorded the EPs The Three Words to Remember in Dealing with the End and Put Up or Shut Up, as well as their debut LP, The Party Scene all before graduation day. Immediately after graduation, All Time Low began playing tour dates across the country as their music crept towards mainstream popularity. In 2007 All Time Low released their second album, So Wrong, It's Right, and the single "Dear Maria, Count Me In" went gold without much promotion or airplay. The members of all time low reached the next plateau of success with their 2009 album, Nothing Personal which became the band's best-selling and highest charting album to date. The album debuted at #4 on the charts and was followed by an appearance in the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack. By this time, All Time Low was headlining concert dates on the Warped tour, as well as supporting some of the biggest names in music -- like Eminem and The Flaming Lips -- on festival tour dates.
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This is the same setup as the Google Coral Dev board, which is a similar size, and also aimed at embedded machine learning for hobbyists and professionals alike!
For Hobbyists like us? It seems to be a perfect blend of powerful machine learning possibilities in a factor familiar to anyone who has fiddled with a Raspberry Pi. While you can use machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow on a Raspberry Pi, the Jetson Nano is much more suited to the task.
Price is another aspect we haven't covered yet. The Google Coral Dev board retails at $ 149.99 while the Jetson Nano is only $ 99. Unless the Coral Dev board can bring something unique to the table, hobbyists and small developers might find the extra $ 50 a hard stretch to justify.
While the Google Coral Dev board is powerful, it doesn't stack up to the Raspberry Pi in some ways. The Raspberry Pi is a great hobby computer for DIY electronics. It can also double as a desktop computer in a pinch.
It's an exciting time to be tinkering with SBCs! If you are new to it and want a place to start, get a Raspberry Pi and follow our ultimate getting started guide!
Read the full article: Will the Nvidia Jetson Nano Replace the Raspberry Pi?


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Welcome... This is Altahmazi Contemporary Art, featuring the artwork of the Arabic painter artist, from the Kingdom of Bahrain, and a member of the Bahrain Arts Society, Khalid Al-Tahmazi, who has exhibited in national and international art exhibitions and has possessed artworks in the Bahrain National Museum, London, Canada, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
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Al Tahmazi transcends this lyrical abstraction and tends towards a more conceptual abstraction, refusing the arbitrary separation between figuration and abstraction. For him, space is more than just a simple alchemy of pigments, it is literally a concept.
It gives me great pleasure to exhibit other artists from around the world in the "Artist of the Month" section of Infinitee Designs. Congratulations and many thanks go out to all of these great artists for their unique styles and dedication to art.
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In art, abstraction means that the artist changes the appearance so it no longer looks realistic. Artists use abstraction in many ways and for many different reasons. The artist may leave out details, shift the point of view, exagerate, simplify or otherwise distort the image.
Modigliani changes the face to simple, exagerated shapes.
Cubist style shows more than one point of view.
Site created by Hal Fielding ABSTRACT ART EXPLAINED: Non-objective abstract art is unknowable. This is why we are tempted to look for objects in paintings where there aren't any. For this reason it is more of a challenge to create an abstract painting that has meaning. All the elements of good representational art should be present, namely color, form, composition, perspective, etc. It can be compared to abstract music (music where a melody cannot be discerned). Not being able to identify a melody in music is like not seeing any recognizable objects in non-objective art. Hopefully you will like it. Art that has to be explained has failed.


Autumn. There is a fresh breeze and cottonwood trees along the creek are yellowing, their leaves fluttering. California Buckeyes are already brown and bare. Acorns drop from the large Valley Oaks along my driveway onto the roof of my car with a loud pling.
Acorn woodpeckers roost in my grand oak trees and shout loudly as they fly among the leafy bower, all in a great happy flock. White patches on their underwings flash as they travel to and fro. The woodpeckers kept me company as I carted loads of fresh cut wood from my neighbor's yard into mine: an arduous job. Tree cutters had cut a leaning tree from my side of the irrigation flume but left the wood on her side. I will use it for firewood next season. An arduous task. Next I will use my dolly to try moving the heavy stumps. I am reminded of the value of levers.
Then I went on a river walk. Cache Creek is so low that I can wade across patches that usually rush with deep water. I enjoyed the slippery rocks and cool water on my legs because the days are still hot. I used a deer path over an exposed island and picked up a flat red rock that I will use in my driveway where I have laid a snaky design of other river-smoothed rocks. I kept an eye out for Indian grinding rocks that might have been covered by water. I peered at the cliffs on the far side, wondering if I would see the burrow nest of a kingfisher. And rattlesnakes. My neighbors have seen quite a few this year and one neighbor let me help skin one last week. He will use it for a hat band.
Then I crossed over to the high broad riverbank on the far side. Native Americans must have camped here at one time; I just felt it. Tall yellow grass brushed my legs, blue oaks and foothill pines dotted the meadow. I was all alone on the river. A ghost pine had dropped loads of fresh cherry-brown pine cones and I stooped to pick them up, beating them against a flat boulder to shake their seeds free which I stuffed into my pockets. When I waded back across the river, I startled a group of water birds (what kind?) from their evening roosts on boulders in the middle of the flow. Today I will return to that spot to gather more seeds because my pockets weren't large enough.
In the evening, I drove to the Guinda Grange where a group of women gather weekly to do crafts together. I sorted twigs and leaves from wild huckleberries I had gathered in the woods several weeks ago. We talked about husbands dead and alive, and how they can disappoint or support us; also about how they sometimes appear in our dreams – or others' who tell us about them.


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What Drove Pfizer's Stock Price Growth Between 2016 And 2018?
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MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - 2019/03/03: Pfizer Pharmaceuticals World Headquarters ... [+] building in New York City. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE) stock price grew over 30% from around $32 levels by the end of 2016 to around $43 by the end of 2018, primarily driven by expansion of margins. Pfizer's stock price growth was higher than the 28% jump seen for Merck, and around 10% growth seen for Johnson & Johnson. This outperformance can partly be attributed to the company's ongoing restructuring, where it plans to merge its consumer healthcare business with that of GlaxoSmithKline, and merge its established products portfolio with that of Mylan's. Also, Pfizer has gotten approvals for key biosimilars that could add strong revenue growth going forward, in our view.
In this note we focus on the factors that drove growth for Pfizer's stock between 2016 and 2018. We can break down the movement in the stock price into three factors: 1. growth in revenue, 2.change in net income margin and share count, and 3. expansion of P/E multiple. You can look at our interactive dashboard analysis ~ What Factors Drove Over 30% Growth In Pfizer's Stock Between 2016 And 2018? ~ for more details.
#1. Revenues Grew 1.6% From $52.8 Billion In 2016 to $53.6 Billion In 2018. The Biggest Change In Revenue Was Driven By The Company's Oncology Drugs Segment.
Pfizer's oncology drugs portfolio added $1.8 billion in sales between 2016 and 2018., driven by higher Ibrance sales (Look how Ibrance fares in breast cancer drugs market).
The company's legacy pharma, consumer healthcare and biosimilar also added $1.6 billion over the same period, driven by higher alliance revenues from Eliquis, which has become the top novel oral anticoagulant in the U.S in total prescriptions. Read more on Eliquis here.
Look at our interactive dashboard analysis for an in depth view on Pfizer's revenues.
#1.1 Pfizer's Revenue Growth Has Been Slower Than Some of Its Peers
#2. Adjusted Net Income Grew At A Faster Pace Compared To Pfizer's Revenues, Due To Margin Expansion
Pfizer's adjusted net income grew from $14.8 billion in 2016 to $18.0 billion in 2018.
This can be attributed to margin expansion and modest growth in revenues.
Adjusted net income margin grew from 28% to 33% over the same period.
We discuss the factors that impacted the margin in the below section.
#2.1 Total Adjusted Expenses Declined From $32.3 Billion In 2016 To $29.8 Billion In 2018.
Notable Change Can Be Seen Primarily In The Income Taxes, Which Were Impacted By The TCJA (Tax Cuts & Jobs Act), And Its Related Adjustments In Non-GAAP Items.
Look at our interactive dashboard analysis for in depth view on Pfizer's expenses.
#2.2 Adjusted EPS Has Also Seen Strong Growth, Led By Higher Net Income And Lower Share Count
Pfizer's adjusted EPS grew from $2.40 in 2016 to $3.00 in 2018, driven by higher adjusted net income and lower share count.
No. of shares declined from 6.2 billion to 6.0 billion over the same period, amid the company's authorized share buyback plan of $11.0 billion from December 2015.
#3. Price To Earnings Multiple for Pfizer Expanded Between 2016-2018, And It Has Been In Line With That of Johnson & Johnson But Lower Than That of Merck
Pfizer's P/E multiple expanded from 13.6x in 2016 to 14.3x in 2018.
This compares with Johnson & Johnson, which saw its P/E multiple contract from 17.1x to 14.7x during the same period. The stock price corrected in 2018, amid multiple litigations filed against the company.
Merck's P/E multiple expanded from 15.6x to 17.4x over the same period, amid additional approvals for Keytruda, and strong Keytruda sales.
Note these multiples are arrived by using the stock prices at the end of the year, and corresponding adjusted earnings reported for that year.
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Quit politicking and get to work!
Are our state legislators and governor just a bunch of clowns?
We'd hope not. But the way they are behaving is nothing short of clownish. A joke.
We'd laugh if it was at all funny. It's not.
With the future of our state at stake, Republicans want to cut taxes to the bone and forget the services, while Democrats are throwing tax-increase Lawn Jarts - the dull-tipped kind- at gravel, just hoping something might stick.
It is ridiculous. It is an embarrassment. It might be the final nail in the coffin we call an economy here in Michigan.
Back a couple months ago when a hard-fought compromise produced a replacement for the expired Single Business Tax, there was some reason for state voters to hope Lansing could get its act together and pass a budget.
How naive of us, the citizens of Michigan, to think our senators and representatives could quit their political lunacy and come up with a solution - even a bad one. But they can't even do that as the state races toward an Oct. 1 shutdown over intractability.
Lawmakers are just as angry with each other as we are with them. We note, too, that many of these same "lawmakers" want to eliminate term limits so they can spend more time not passing budgets and not compromising and not doing the state of Michigan's business.
Frankly, we don't care if they break out in towel-slapping and rubber-band shooting at this point, as long as they do SOMETHING other than blame each other for the black hole the Capitol has become.
But alas, neither side is stirring and now it is too late for voters to take it out of their hands by referendum in November.
It seems painfully obvious to us that some sort of tax increase is mandatory to bail out a $1.75 billion deficit in Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposed budget. Even slashing that leaves $1 billion short.
There are many options, from an increase in income tax, to more business taxes, to more sales taxes especially on services. And in an economy moving away from making products toward one which generates services, how can the state afford to overlook that potential revenue stream?
Recently former Govs. William Milliken (a Republican) and James Blanchard (a Democrat) joined forces to say five steps are needed to fix the financial instability that has plagued Michigan since 2001. The recommendations include raising taxes, consolidating local government functions, reducing health care insurance and retirement costs of school employees and other public workers, and cutting prison spending.
"Policymakers must summon a sense of urgency, courage, pragmatism and bipartisanship," the panel said.
Fat chance. We suppose they are feeling the urgency, but the Legislature clearly lacks courage, pragmatism and bipartisanship.