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Pope Francis offers Mass for prisoners after Italian prison riots
Courtney Mares | Catholic News Agency
Mar 11, 2020 • 3 Min Read
Pope Francis offers Mass in Casa Santa Marta on March 11, 2020. (Vatican Media/CNA
Following prison riots in Italy, Pope Francis offered Mass for prisoners and persecuted Christians on Wednesday during his televised daily Mass.
"Today, in a special way, I would like to pray for those who are in prison, for our brothers and sisters … they suffer, and we must be near to them in prayer, asking that the Lord might help them and console them in this difficult moment," Pope Francis said March 11 at the start of Mass in the chapel of Casa Santa Marta.
Twelve inmates have died in Italy in the past three days as prison riots broke out in response to Italian government restrictions put in place to deter the spread of the coronavirus that has infected 10,000 people in the country.
The Italian government decree signed March 8 that suspended all public religious ceremonies also denied prisoners the right to receive visitors, including family members, in prisons.
Prisoners began setting fires, taking hostages, and raiding prison medical clinics in prisons in northern Italy on March 8 in protest of the changes.
In a Modena prison, a total of nine prisoners died as a result of the unrest, and in Rieti, north of Rome, three prisoners died of overdoses of drugs stolen from the prison clinic, according to Reuters. Fifty prisoners escaped from a prison in Foggia in southern Italy.
Pope Francis announced on March 10 that this year's meditations for the papal Way of the Cross in Rome on Good Friday will include reflections on those who are suffering as prisoners today.
The meditations were written by Fr. Marco Pozza, the chaplain of the Due Palazzi prison in Padua, Italy. As of March 11, the annual Via Crucis at the Colosseum is still scheduled to take place in Rome in one month.
The nationwide quarantine and suspension of all public Masses in Italy will lift on April 3, barring further government restrictions.
Pope Francis thanked the parish of Due Palazzi prison for working together with the entire prison community to write the Via Crucis meditations during his livestreamed Wednesday audience. He said that he read the draft on March 10 and was thankful for the depth of the meditations.
In his morning homily, Pope Francis reflected in particular about the suffering of imprisoned persecuted Christians, and the suffering of Christ himself.
"Jesus tells the apostles that he will be sentenced to death, and will be mocked, scourged, crucified," Pope Francis said.
"We think of the persecutions of so many saints, of so many Christians, who not [only] are killed, but also are made to suffer and are humiliated all the way to the end," he said.
Pope Francis said that the devil is responsible for this persecution, calling it "the devil's fury" at his defeat.
"Let us think of many Christians, how they are cruelly persecuted. In recent times, the newspapers spoke of Asia Bibi: nine years in prison, suffering," the pope added.
Asia Bibi is a Pakistani Catholic woman who was sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy against Islam. She was acquitted and released from prison by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2018.
Francis warned that the devil uses vanity and the temptation of worldly success to lure people off of the path of Christ and to steer people away from the cross.
"Vanity, the worldly spirit is precisely the path that the devil offers to get away from the Cross of Christ. His own realization, careerism, worldly success: they are all non-Christian roads, they are all ways to cover the Cross of Jesus," he said.
"May the Lord give us the grace to discern the path of the Lord, which is the cross, from the way of the world, which is vanity," he prayed.
Homilies, Pope Francis, Prisoners
Courtney Mares
Courtney Mares is a Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency.
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STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford has dismissed point guard JJ Hones from the program for a violation of team rules.
Coach Tara VanDerveer announced the decision on Monday. Hones was a fourth-year junior who had hoped to come back for a fifth year if healthy next season. Hones had microfracture surgery on her left knee after last season.
Hones played 98 games in her Stanford career despite missing all or parts of two seasons with left knee injuries. She played in two national championship games and averaged 5.4 points and 3.0 assists per game in her career.


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Q: Concatenate mp4 files with different fps and sar using ffmpeg I need to merge six mp4 files into one. Here is the information on the files:
pt1.mp4
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 427:240], 998 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 11988 tbn, 47.95
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 127 kb/s (default)

pt2.mp4
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1280:1281 DAR 16:9], 1000 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 11988 tbn,
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 130 kb/s (default)

pt3.mp4
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1280:1281 DAR 16:9], 1001 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 11988 tbn,
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 127 kb/s (default)

pt4.mp4
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1280:1281 DAR 16:9], 990 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 11988 tbn,
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default)

pt5.mp4
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1280:1281 DAR 16:9], 994 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 11988 tbn,
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default)

pt6.mp4
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1280:1281 DAR 16:9], 997 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 11988 tbn,
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 127 kb/s (default)

After reading the documentation on ffmpeg, convert the files into ts and then concat:
ffmpeg -i pt1.mp4 -c copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts pt1.ts
...
ffmpeg -i pt6.mp4 -c copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -f mpegts pt6.ts
ffmpeg -i concat:"pt1.ts|pt2.ts|pt3.ts|pt4.ts|pt5.ts|pt6.ts" -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc output.mp4

But unfortunately the resulting file refuses to work normally, although separately the files are working.
Here is the log of the concatenation:
Input #0, mpegts, from 'concat:pt1.ts|pt2.ts|pt3.ts|pt4.ts|pt5.ts|pt6.ts':
  Duration: 00:33:11.57, start: 1.400000, bitrate: 7453 kb/s
  Program 1
    Metadata:
      service_name    : Service01
      service_provider: FFmpeg
    Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 427:240], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc
    Stream #0:1[0x101](eng): Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 125 kb/s
[mp4 @ 0x12e3080] Codec for stream 0 does not use global headers but container format requires global headers
[mp4 @ 0x12e3080] Codec for stream 1 does not use global headers but container format requires global headers
Output #0, mp4, to 'output.mp4':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf56.40.101
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p, 854x480 [SAR 1:1 DAR 427:240], q=2-31, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 48000 Hz, stereo, 125 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[mp4 @ 0x12e3080] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 195910409, current: 195909909; changing to 195910410. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[mp4 @ 0x12e3080] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 301545749, current: 301545544; changing to 301545750. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[mp4 @ 0x12e3080] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 475343963, current: 475340939; changing to 475343964. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[mp4 @ 0x12e3080] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 475343964, current: 475341963; changing to 475343965. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
[mp4 @ 0x12e3080] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 475343965, current: 475342987; changing to 475343966. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
frame=294625 fps=38748 q=-1.0 Lsize= 1645766kB time=03:18:14.48 bitrate=1133.5kbits/s
video:1449809kB audio:186316kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.589257%

Perhaps this is due to a different frame rate, five pieces fps 23.98 and one 29.97?

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Siam Dernrod is a bus company based at the Southern Bangkok Bus Terminal (Sai Tai Mai). This serves as an advantage as the Southern Bangkok Bus Terminal is also a shopping complex with various types of shops, selling products from accessories to food and beverages. Passengers can kill some time, should they arrive early at the terminal.
Since the Southern Bangkok Bus Terminal is one of the main bus terminals in Bangkok, you can expect to see a lot of buses stopping there. Passengers can easily spot the Siam Dernrod bus due to its striking white and blue colors. Siam Dernrod's air-conditioned buses offer passengers a comfortable journey, both near and far. Siam Dernrod also requires all bus drivers to comply with safety regulations to ensure that passengers reach their destinations safely.


Today was non-members varnishing day, when those who have entered the Summer Exhibition come to see where their works have been hung. It begins with a church service when we stop the traffic, process down Piccadilly led by a steel band, and attend a church service in St. James's. It must be one of the more secular occasions of the church year, conducted with vim by Lucy Winkett. Then everyone goes back to the RA to eat strawberries, judge the hang, and hear who has won the prizes.


While walking thru Downtown Coeur d' Alene as I do most every Saturday I noticed on big business totally gone. That business is the Americantiques Antique Mall that was located in the 200 block of N 4th St. next door to Cisco's Antique Shop. I was, for a moment, saddened that Americantiques was no longer. But some quick research helped to discover that they have not gone out of business, only relocated to a new free standing building further north in Coeur d' Alene.
Americantiques has re-opened their business in the former Rodda Paint store at 6456 N. Government Way across the street from Silver Lake Mall. And that's not all that's new with Amercantiques, as the store has been re-branded going from a traditional antique mall to a full estate sale center. The store has even been re-named as the Americantiques Estate Sales Center. The new store still sells antiques and collectibles just like before but they have also now added other items found at estate sales like furniture, craft items , houseware items , yard items, tools and much much more.
Americantiques Estate Sales Center is having a grand opening thru the entire month of April and their recent ad mentions they plan to update merchandise continually. Americantiques began a couple of years ago in the Silver Lake Mall and moved for about a year to the space Downtown mentioned earlier in the article.


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Harrow East residents claiming jobseekers fell by 54% since 2010
"These figures show there is more financial security for people in work, and more families with the security and stability of a regular pay packet," says Harrow East MP, Bob Blackman
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New figures have shown that the number of people in Harrow East claiming Jobseeker's Allowance has fallen by 954, a 54% drop since 2010.
The figures show that over 400,000 more people across the country are in work compared to a year ago, with a record number of people working in the private sector.
Harrow East MP Bob Blackman suggests that business confidence in the economy is shown by nearly three quarters of a million vacancies, and jobs are being created locally.
The figures also show that average pay growth is at 2.9%, the fastest rise since 2002, while inflation was only 0.1%, meaning Harrow East residents have more money in their pockets.
Youth unemployment has also continued to fall, down 215,000 since 2010.
The Harrow East MP has welcomed the figures, claiming that across London, people are getting off benefits and into work with 524,050 more people in work since the last Labour Government.
There are reportedly over two million more people across the UK now in work than at the end of thirteen years of a Labour Government according to the Conservative MP.
Mr Blackman added: "With wages continuing to rise and 54% fewer people relying on Jobseeker's Allowance, these figures are great news for people who want to work hard and get on in Harrow East.
"These figures show there is more financial security for people in work, and more families with the security and stability of a regular pay packet.
"These strong results are down to the hard work and determination of people here in Harrow East, and demonstrate the success of the Conservatives' one nation approach and clear economic plan.
"We need to keep working though that plan - supporting firms, increasing training and providing more free childcare for working parents, as well as introducing a National Living Wage - so that everyone can succeed and achieve their full potential."
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Police officers rushed to hospital after young woman sprays them in suspected acid attack in South London
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Kommunalvalget i Esbjerg Kommune 2021 blev afholdt som del af Kommunal- og regionsrådsvalg 2021 tirsdag d. 16. november 2021. Der blev valgt 31 medlemmer af byrådet, hvilket betyder, at der skulle 16 mandater til at danne flertal. Valget afholdtes i 24 stemmeområder, hvor der i alle områder åbnedes for valget kl. 8.00 på valgdagen på nær Mandø, der først åbnede kl. 9.00. Den siddende borgmester Jesper Frost Rasmussen genopstillede som spidskandidat for Venstre, mens Jakob Lykke, der tidligere har siddet i byrådet fra 2002 til 2009, var spidskandidat for Socialdemokratiet i Esbjerg.

Modsat ved Kommunalvalget i Esbjerg Kommune 2017 var Konservative denne gang med i valgforbund med Venstre og de øvrige borgerlige partier, da partiet ikke ville risikere samme stemmespild i blå blok, som man oplevede i 2017.

Jesper Frost Rasmussen blev genvalgt som borgmester i en konstitueringsaftale mellem Venstre, Konservative, Nye Borgerlige, SF og Dansk Folkeparti.

Optakt
I optakten til valget i foråret 2021 var Esbjerg en af de kommuner, hvor der så ud til at ske ændringer i borgmesterposten som følge af den store landspolitiske opbakning til Socialdemokratiet. Det kunne betyde, at borgmesterposten for første gang i den nye Esbjerg Kommune kunne komme på socialdemokratiske hænder. Esbjerg var derfor blevet udpeget til en svingkommune, der burde følges tæt. Allerede i foråret blev også de første mulige stridspunkter i valgkampen udpeget, herunder vindmølleprojektet i Tjæreborg Enge samt Esbjerg som den ene af to kommuner, der som en del af Nærhedsreformen satte skolen fri i tre år.

Opstillede partier
Flere partier indgik aftale om valgteknisk samarbejde, herunder Venstre, Konservative, Nye Borgerlige, Dansk Folkeparti, Liberal Alliance, Borgerlisten, Kristendemokraterne og Esbjerglisten i et samarbejde. I den røde blok havde Socialdemokratiet, SF og Enhedslisten indgået et valgteknisk samarbejde, imens Radikale Venstre stod uden for samarbejdet, da de ikke ville erklære sig hverken røde eller blå.

14 kandidatlister var opstillet til kommunalvalget i Esbjerg Kommune, heriblandt 4 lokallister. I alt var der 110 kandidater at vælge imellem.
 Socialdemokratiet (A) stillede op til valget med 20 kandidater og med Jakob Lykke som spidskandidat. Jakob Lykke var ny spidskandidat hos socialdemokratiet efter John Snedker, der til de forrige tre valg havde været spidskandidat, trak sig som følge af utilfredshed med den politiske linje.
 Radikale Venstre (B) stillede op til valget med Anne Marie Geisler Andersen som spidskandidat, der vurderedes at have gjort et stort stykke arbejde blandt andet med at ændre den politiske kultur i Esbjerg Byråd.
 Det Konservative Folkeparti (C) stillede op til valget med 11 kandidater og med May-Britt Andrea Andersen som spidskandidat.
 Nye Borgerlige (D) stillede op til valget med Sabrina Bech Røn som spidskandidat.
 Borgerlisten (E) stillede op til valget med Maria Høj Pedersen som spidskandidat efter stifteren Henrik Vallø havde trukket sig fra kommunalpolitik.
 Socialistisk Folkeparti (F) stillede op til valget med Diana Mose Olsen som spidskandidat. Mose Olsen havde desuden meldt sig som borgmesterkandidat.
 Liberal Alliance (I) stillede op til valget med Peter Nikolajsen som spidskandidat.
 Kristendemokraterne (K) stillede op til valget med Inge Marie Jensen som spidskandidat.
 Dansk Folkeparti (O) stillede op til valget med Olfert Krog som spidskandidat, der også var partiets spidskandidat i 2017. Dette blev afgjort ved kampvalg mod nuværende viceborgmester Susanne Dyreborg, der også stillede op til Folketingsvalget 2019 og ligeledes er kandidat til Regionsrådet på et opstillingsmøde i august 2021.
 Esbjerglisten (T) stillede op til valget med Hans K. Sønderby som spidskandidat, der i den seneste periode meldte sig ud af Dansk Folkeparti for senere at stifte Esbjerglisten efter en intern stridighed forårsaget af Sønderbys opfordringer til Kristian Thulesen Dahl om at gå af.
 Partifrit Samfund (U) stillede op til valget med kandidaten Anders Nielsen.
 Venstre (V) stillede op til valget med 27 kandidater og med Jesper Frost Rasmussen som spidskandidat.
 Frihedslisten (Æ) stillede op til valget med Claus Charles Clausen som spidskandidat.
 Enhedslisten (Ø) stillede op til valget med Sarah Nørris og Oscar Fink som spidskandidater. Partiets kandidater var opstillet på partiliste

Alternativet stillede ikke op til valget, da de siden sidste valg havde nedlagt lokalafdelingen.

Resultater
Valget gav Venstre flest mandater, mens 7 af de opstillede lister ingen mandater fik. Dermed blev der ikke plads til nogen af lokallisterne i den nye kommunalbestyrelse. Nye Borgerlige blev dog for første gang valgt ind i Esbjerg Kommunes byråd.

Valgte medlemmer af byrådet

Resultater efter afstemningsområde
Som det ses af nedenstående var der store lokale forskelle både på partitilslutning og stemmeprocenten generelt. Særligt bemærkes det, at stemmeprocenten i Esbjerg Ø var rekord lav ned, hvor ned mod 50 % af de stemmeberettigede afgav deres stemme. Mandø havde som vanligt største stemmeprocent efterfulgt af Tjæreborg med en stemmeprocent på 73,53 %. Socialdemokratiet blev største parti i flere dele af Esbjerg og Esbjerg Ø, mens Venstre vandt størst opbakning i områderne ved Ribe og Bramming. I Høm, Gørding og Gredstedbro fik partiet over 50 % af stemmerne.

Konstitueringen
På valgnatten mellem d. 16. og 17. november stod det klart, at Jesper Frost Rasmussen genvandt borgmesterposten. Det skete ved en konstituering mellem Venstre, Konservative, Nye Borgerlige, SF og Dansk Folkeparti. Venstre fik samtidig en fremgang på 4,4 procentpoint af stemmerne og gik derfor 2 mandater frem sammenlignet med den forrige byrådsperiode. Venstres fremgang sammen med en generelt styrket blå blok gjorde, at en bred konstituering ikke havde været nødvendig.

1. viceborgmester blev Nicolaj Aarøe (C), der blev valgt ind med 1.233 personlige stemmer og er ny i kommunalbestyrelsen, mens 2. viceborgmester blev Jørn Boesen Andersen (F). Udvalgsformandsposterne fik Diana Mose (F), May-Britt Andrea Andersen (C), Jørgen Ahlquist (A), Jakob Lykke (A) og Henning Ravn (V).

Referencer

Esbjerg Kommune
Esbjerg Kommune 2021

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Equine infectious anemia (EIA), or swamp fever, is a viral disease that occurs worldwide. The disease is usually spread by horse flies biting an infected horse, then biting a healthy horse. The disease can also be transmitted by the use of nonsterile needles and blood-contaminated surgical instruments.
Horses that recover usually remain carriers of the disease. The death rate is low.
There is no specific treatment or vaccine for EIA. Treatment consists of supportive therapy of intravenous fluids and vector control. Infected horses should be promptly isolated.
There is no cure for EIA, so prevention is the key to controlling the disease. The Coggins test is a simple blood test that is widely accepted as a way of determining carriers of the disease. The Coggins test is often required to transport, show, sell, or board a horse. Coggins tests should be updated yearly. Owners of positive horses have to make the choice to put the horse down (euthanized) or have the animal permanently quarantined. Transportation of positive horses is prohibited.


Reading the story about owners clearing the snow from corners, the city should practice what it preaches. Try removing snow from the corner of your street where the city plows the snow there — what they call tucking in the corners — making it two or three feet high with heavy, wet, compacked snow. Look at all the city property that doesn't get shoveled or plowed.


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Сандаун () — тауншип в округе Редвуд, Миннесота, США. На 2000 год его население составило 242 человека.

География
По данным Бюро переписи населения США площадь тауншипа составляет 92,9 км², из которых 92,9 км² занимает суша, водоёмов нет.

Демография
По данным переписи населения 2000 года здесь находились 242 человека, 86 домохозяйств и 66 семей.  Плотность населения —  2,6 чел./км².  На территории тауншипа расположена 91 постройка со средней плотностью 1,0 построек на один квадратный километр. Расовый состав населения: 99,17 % белых, 0,83 % — других рас США. Испанцы или латиноамериканцы любой расы составляли 1,65 % от популяции тауншипа.

Из 86 домохозяйств в 38,4 % воспитывались дети до 18 лет, в 73,3 % проживали супружеские пары, в 2,3 % проживали незамужние женщины и в 22,1 % домохозяйств проживали несемейные люди. 20,9 % домохозяйств состояли из одного человека, при том 8,1 % из — одиноких пожилых людей старше 65 лет. Средний размер домохозяйства — 2,81, а семьи — 3,28 человека.

30,2 % населения — младше 18 лет, 5,0 % — в возрасте от 18 до 24 лет, 28,1 % — от 25 до 44, 21,5 % — от 45 до 64, и 15,3 % — старше 65 лет. Средний возраст — 38 лет. На каждые 100 женщин приходилось 116,1 мужчин.  На каждые 100 женщин старше 18 приходилось 119,5 мужчин.

Средний годовой доход домохозяйства составлял 52 708 долларов, а средний годовой доход семьи —  54 167 долларов. Средний доход мужчин —  30 417  долларов, в то время как у женщин — 18 750. Доход на душу населения составил 19 270 долларов. За чертой бедности находились 4,4 % семей и 8,3 % всего населения тауншипа, из которых 15,0 % младше 18 и 4,9 % старше 65 лет.

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Тауншипы округа Редвуд


Several years ago, when I was still a member of corporate America, I had a friend named Idel T. We worked for the same company, and I saw him every day. He's the guy who came into my office every morning and emptied my wastebasket.
Idel and his wife, Irina, and their two daughters were part of the tide of Russian-Jewish immigrants that has swept onto American shores during the past 20 years or so. Like thousands of others, they settled in Detroit.
Idel was well past retirement age when I knew him. He had wispy white hair and his shoulders were a bit stooped.
But he didn't want to sit at home. He wanted to be out, in contact with people, experiencing America. So he took a job emptying wastebaskets and shredding the huge stacks of computer printouts generated by our department.
"Georgie," he'd tell me with a big grin, "if I no do my job, whole company stop. I am most important person in company except for president."
Every day when Idel came into my office, we'd talk. We talked about what was going on in the world, what Gorbachev was doing, whether the communists would ever give up power, the violence in the Middle East, or the latest terrorist outrage. We talked about American politics, too: about elections and promises and scandals.
Sometimes Idel told me about his life in the Soviet Union, or showed me pictures. One fading snapshot, rounded and smoothed at the corners, showed him as a young man with slick dark hair and a pencil-thin moustache, cutting a dashing figure in his Red Army uniform.
In another picture, a middle-aged Idel stood next to a stocky man in front a brick industrial building. He and the man were dressed in long overcoats and wide-brimmed fedoras.
"This is warehouse where I was manager," Idel told me. "This man," he said, jabbing the photo with his finger, "he was communist boss at warehouse. He think he was big shot!" he said, his voice colored with bitterness.
Idel had experienced the horrors of a repressive dictatorship and a failed economic system. One day, he told me a story about trying to get a telephone in Russia.
He and Irina were living in a tiny apartment in a large building in the suburbs of Moscow. Only one apartment in the building had a telephone. Idel wanted a telephone, too. So he put in his application and began to wait. Weeks of waiting turned into months. Months turned into years.
When they finally left Russia, they still had not received a phone.
"I tell them I want phone in my apartment," Idel told me. "And they say OK, they will come in two days. And in two days they come and bring telephone, just like they say. And then," he paused here for effect, "and then they ask me what color I want!"
Idel's voice was full of wonder, as if he still could not believe what he was telling me.
'Think about it, Georgie," he said. "In Russia we wait 20 years and never get telephone. In America they come in two days and ask what color we want."
As I think they used to say on some TV sitcom, "What a country!"
I have not seen Idel in several years. Knowing him enriched my life. I miss him now.
I'm glad he got out of Russia. I'm glad he was able to work. I'm glad he could finally speak freely, about any subject he chose. And I'm glad he was finally able to get his telephone, and get it in any color he wanted.


The Death Angel (could that be Abaddon the destroyer?) passed over the children of Israel (with the blood of a lamb, per God's protection), killing the firstborn of Egypt (the unrighteous).
Posted on December 14, 2018 December 11, 2018 by HH Sir Godfrey Gregg D.DivPosted in DevotionTagged DAILY THOUGHTS, St. Vincent.


In the seminar, Westwin invited Mr. Dominiek Pouwer from TMO Group and Mr. Carter Zheng from Westwin to introduce the landscape and practices of WeChat e-commerce and WeChat advertising, in which positive feedbacks were well received.
During Mr. Pouwer's speech named "How to start your China eCommerce from WeChat store?", he gave an overview on the current trends in eCommerce on Wechat, how can merchants create a unique proposition and long-term make Wechat part of their Multi-Channel Strategy.
Later on, Carter Zheng addressed the latest trends on WeChat advertising to the crowd, along with WeChat ad options and how can brand utilize WeChat advertising for business growth in China market with his speech, "Bring Quality Traffic from WeChat Ads".
We wish to extend our warmest thanks to our distinguished guest speakers to deliver their valuable insights. We would also thank each one of you in attendance – hope you can enjoy our event and had a chance to learn, communicate and inspire.
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DSpace RoadMap and Vision presentation given (in part) during the "DuraSpace Plenary" talks at the Open Repositories 2013 conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. This presentation was given on July 11, 2013.
NOTE: This is just the "active" committers team. The 10 Emeritus Committers (most of which had 5+ years of service to DSpace) are not listed.


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In Hearthstone, every player character is represented by a Hero that they choose to represent their decks.
Every Hero during a match has thirty health points and starts a match with one mana crystal. If a Hero's health pool is reduced to zero, that player has lost the game. Heroes cannot directly attack minions or other Heroes, however they can use a multitude of Spells, Hero Powers, and Weapons in order to deal damage to their opponents.
There are nine Heroes in Hearthstone to choose from. Each Hero has a unique Hero Power and gains access to unique Spell and Minion Cards unavailable to other Hero classes.
When building a deck, the first option a player has is to choose a Hero. The Heroes are based on characters from the Warcraft Lore and each Hero has a playstyle that reflects the abilities avaliable to that given character.
For example, the Mage is a Spell caster and therefore their cards are mainly based around casting spells.
Can be played Aggresively with Charging minions, or defensively with Taunting minions, uses Weapons.
An all around Hero that can play aggresively or offensively, cast spells, heal minions and use Weapons.
A to-the-face style character which uses Weapons and abilites such as backstab to directly destroy enemies.
A mixture between a Tank and a Healer, they are able to heal, use Weapons and a multitude of Spells to destroy their opponents.
Uses a variety of Secrets and Beasts to hunt down the opposing Heroes. They also use bows and can shoot the opponent directly in the face.
The master of Nature. The only class with the ability to increase their own mana pool. They use a variety of offensive and defensive abilities.
The Warlock is an aggresive style Spell caster that plays with death. Some of their Spells are powerful enough to destroy any minion.
The Wizard of Warcraft, able to cast a multitude of spells to burn their enemies, freeze their enemies or simply turn them into sheep.
The main support Hero. They are able to Heal their minions and themselves, enchant their minions with extra statistics and control the minds of their opponents.
When first starting your journey in Hearthstone, you will go through the Tutorial playing as the Mage, Jaina Proudmoore. This will be the only Hero available for you to play in both PVP and PVE. However, unlocking the other classes in the game is done simply by winning against the Hero you want to unlock.
If a player wishes to unlock a specific Hero, they can go into Practice mode and choose a computer controlled opponent of the Hero they want to unlock, once the player defeats this computer opponent, they will unlock the Hero it was represented by.
If a player is happy with playing the Mage, they can go straight into playing against other players in Play Mode, where if they win matches they will unlock the Heroes of the opponents they beat.
As you play any given Hero, you will unlock the Hero specific minion and spell cards, these cards are rewarded upon each Level up.
Every Hero that you currently have unlocked, has a Level and and experience bar. Experience points are gained from winning matches.
From Levels 1-10 a player will be rewarded with all of the basic cards for the class they are playing. Beyond Level 10, players will start to unlock Golden versions of the same cards they gained from Level 1-10.
The maximum Hero Level is 60.


President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Heads of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon and Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar were among several Nigerians present at the Eagle Square Abuja on Monday to celebrate Nigeria's 58th Independence Anniversary.
Pesident Buhari signs the guest book alongside while Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (right), service chiefs and other top government officials watch.
Air display by the Nigerian Air Force.
Gen. Yakubu Gowon (standing) waves in excitement during the parade.
Buhari witnesses takes the salute.
L-R: Gowon; Abdulsamali Abubakar and President Buhari.
President Buhari inspecting the Guards of Honour.


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"We're Here For You" Say Aberdeen Performing Arts
By Duncan Harley with thanks to Andy Kite.
In March 2020 Aberdeen Performing Arts switched off the lights in its three iconic venues: His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen Music Hall and the Lemon Tree amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
Shows were cancelled and staff put on furlough. Lockdown had struck and, like it or not, the theatre doors slammed shut on 17th March ironically on the very eve of a week long run of 'A Monster Calls'.
You really couldn't make it up.
Cancellations of Buddy Holly, Once and Something About Jamie swiftly followed and a planned May run of The Gondoliers described in glowing terms as 'Sunny, funny and with more 'tra la la las' per square inch than any other opera in the canon' is as they say, dead in the water.
But, as they say, the show must go on and today Aberdeen Performing Arts has announced a set of stay-at-home projects and initiatives designed to keep the North-east connected and engaged in arts and culture during the pandemic lockdown.
Titled 'We're Here For You', the initiative spans a range of activities for all ages, from re-creating favourite album covers, to online piano recitals, all with the aim of encouraging contact and creativity in the North-east while under lockdown.
Aberdeen Performing Arts Chief Executive, Jane Spiers, says:
"There's never been a time when we need to be more connected and here for each other. Here for You is about celebrating the amazing creativity we all have within us and across the North East.
"We've been so impressed with the entries we've had for our 'Build Your Own HMT' project, and we can't wait to see what our 'When Life Gives You Lemons' project brings, re-creating your own album cover!
"Our Here for You activities are also a small thing we can do to say thank you to our audiences who have been so supportive and raised £50,000 to date to keep our charity alive when we rely so heavily on ticket sales."
An early project, 'Keep The Lights On At HMT', seemingly resulted in a flood of home built model versions of His Majesty's Theatre and a new initiative, 'Armchair Audiences', gives theatre goers a chance to sit back, relax and join a weekly theatre discussion each Tuesday at 6pm (bring your own ice cream).
The first event in the Armchair Audiences series is a collaboration with The National Theatre and features a free streamed performance of Jane Eyre.
More @: https://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/
Posted by Editor at 12:41	Tagged with: Aberdeen, APA, Arts, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Entertainment, HMT, Lockdown, Music, Music Hall, Pandemic, The Lemon Tree, Theatre
On Your Feet @ HMT – Duncan Harley Reviews
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Duncan Harley reviews On Your Feet – The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan at His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen.
Despite the expansive title, this is really a biopic of Gloria.
Thin character development leaves husband/manager Emilio, played here by George Ioannides, lagging.
Portrayed as caring, charming and occasionally comedic, that's about all you get of the essence of the man.
Gloria, a splendid Philippa Stefani, and her mum and her gran hold the plot strings and the show is really about the Estefan brand.
Plot-wise, an attempt is made to set the bands rise against a mid-20th century geo-socio-political scene in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. Havana born Gloria's family flee to Miami following Castro's takeover.
Dad Jose – Elia Lo Tauro, participates in the disastrous Bay of Pigs CIA inspired invasion of Cuba and is later exposed to a toxic chemical defoliant whilst serving in Vietnam. He gets ill and dies.
A later traffic accident leaves Gloria wheel-chair bound. She miraculously recovers. The band face determined music industry hostility. They overcome this.
In short, the link-story is all about triumph in the face of adversity. But it's still paper-thin in places and perhaps over-reliant on tear-jerkers.
There are better musicals in the biopic juke-box pack, think Jersey Boys and Beautiful. But of course, none have a back catalogue which crosses over so many musical genres.
Ballad, disco, pop, samba all feature and in both Spanish and English.
Combined with the shows drop dead gorgeous dance numbers and, as a piece of uplifting entertainment, it works. Staging, and lighting and sound – superb. Ensemble/swing/band all good.
In all there are some twenty-one stunningly performed musical numbers. But please can I have some more plot sir?
Entertainment: 3/5
Stars: 3/5
On Your Feet is @ HMT Aberdeen until Saturday 14 March.
Words © Duncan Harley, Images © Aberdeen Performing Arts
Posted by Editor at 15:07	Tagged with: Acting, Arts, Dance, Drama, Entertainment, HMT, Music, Performance, Review, Song, Theatre
Dial M For Murder @ HMT – Duncan Harley Reviews
Duncan Harley reviews Dial M for Murder at His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen.
The unfaithful Margot – a splendid Sally Bretton, kills the hitman hired by tennis-pro husband Tony and heads to death row. Enter Inspector Hubbard who, assisted by Margot's lover Max, solves the crime and cheats the hangman.
Well, truth is Hubbard got it wrong first time around but he eventually gets his bearings.
Case solved, end of story, all live happily ever after. Well not quite.
Dial M is one of those classic thrillers where we, the audience, are in on the perfect-murder plot from the start. But, and all power to them, it takes ages for the police to catch on. If only they had asked us at the start.
But that's not how these things work.
This is a four-hander which means you won't ever see hitman Captain Lesgate and DCI Hubbard on stage at the same time since both are ably played by Christopher Harper. Of the two, Hubbard is the most believable and has the unenviable task of sorting out who did what to whom and how.
Lesgate just has to do and die and frankly he deserves the latter. An unlovable rogue, he joins Tom Chambers' Tony in the over-egged dialogue stakes.
In truth though, the Inspector really is neither one thing nor another.
Although things pick up in the second act, the DCI Hubbard character bumbles early on between watered-down Taggart and smartened up Columbo.
The sharp suits certainly fit the era but a sometimes-thin script detracts and the police assault on Max – played by Michael Salami, seems without context.
The convoluted plot is eventually unravelled. But it's still laboured at times.
Perhaps the period setting is partly to blame. Originally a 1950s piece, Dial M has been re-imagined within the 1960s for this production.
2020 might have been better. Beset by references to the likes of 'press button A', kerb appeal might have been enhanced by the addition of a mobile phone or two.
All in all, though, this is a decent stab at the perfect crime thriller. And there's nothing more entertaining than a good murder.
Entertainment value: 4/5
Dial M for Murder is showing @ His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen until 22 February
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Posted by Editor at 12:50	Tagged with: 1960s, Acting, Arts, Dance, Drama, Entertainment, HMT, Murder, Music, Performance, Review, Song, Theatre
We Will Rock You @ HMT – Duncan Harley Reviews
Duncan Harley reviews We Will Rock You at His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen.
Mad Max meets Star Wars in this hilariously camp re-run of the Queen back catalogue. We Will Rock You (WWRU) is of course a jukebox musical and the Ben Elton inspired story is at best weak at the knees.
But it doesn't really matter. Few come to this show to dwell on the plot.
It's all about the Queen numbers. And the show features a shed load of them.
Set 300 years into the future, WWRU is set in a world dominated by Globalsoft, an outrageously oppressive corporate giant run by the Killer Queen, which dominates society to the point where free thought and creativity have been all but obliterated. Enter hero Galileo Figaro – a splendidly cast Ian McIntosh.
A bohemian and a dreamer by nature, Galileo – following various adventures including an Arthurian guitar hunt ending in Wembley Stadium – re-invents rock, defeats the Killer Queen and gets the girl.
So that's all right then. But, as I said, the plot is simply a modest vehicle for the music and the entertainment value is where it's at.
Truth is, with a 25 strong Queen song list including the likes of Radio Ga Ga, Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We Are The Champions and Fat Bottomed Girls it would be hard to fail.
Add in a roller-coaster of panto-inspired innuendo, lots – and I mean lots – of fast and furious choreography and of course a Bohemian Rhapsody finale and the whole thing works brilliantly.
Stars? Amy Di Bartolomeo's Oz for one. Her solo No One But You (Only the Good Die Young) is to die for. Adam Strong's Commander Khashoggi – delightfully camp. Michael McKell's Buddy – suitably stoned. Swing/Ensemble – simply brilliant! Technically stunning throughout.
Go see. And don't forget to pack your air guitar.
@ His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen until 15 February
Posted by Editor at 06:30	Tagged with: Acting, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Drama, Entertainment, HMT, Music, Performance, Queen, Review, Song, Theatre
Frankenstein @ HMT Aberdeen – Duncan Harley Reviews
Duncan Harley Reviews Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen.
The task of re-animating dead flesh is not for the faint hearted but, at some two hundred years distance from publication of the original novel, Mary Shelley's tale of a latter-day Prometheus continues to fascinate.
During the summer of 1816, Mary Shelley along with Lord Byron and Mary's future husband – the poet Percy Shelley holidayed near Geneva.
Freakish weather curtailed their plans and a ghost story competition ensued. Mary famously triumphed and in 1818 – aged twenty, she published the Gothic horror novel we now know as Frankenstein.
She was later to record:
"How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?"
Multiple takes on the story have emerged during the subsequent years and the nightmarish tale of science versus god has spawned a plethora of sensationally bonkers Hollywood films and theatre adaptations.
Thankfully, this new but ambitious theatrical take by Rona Munro steers clear of the bolt-necked cadaver approach. The familiar story is acted out by a cast of seven who perhaps struggle to inhabit some dozen roles.
Greg Powrie for example plays three distinct characters. But there is little apart from minor costume/accent changes to clearly differentiate the individual roles. He is not alone in this.
The central role is that of Mary Shelley herself – played by Eilidh Loan. As she pens her debut novel, she also directs the action on stage.
At first, and all power to Eilidh, this approach is intriguing and shows promise. She is after all the real monster albeit in creative guise.
These are her words and she gets to decide who lives and dies.
Thoughts are expressed, written down and the plot is duly acted out. Then more thoughts are expressed written down and duly acted out. Actors rush around delivering frantically shouted lines between her constant interjections and the stage takes on the chaotic energy of an inner-city road junction.
At first this appears fresh and promising. But as the performance progresses the approach takes on a slightly repetitive quality which eventually sours the narrative. Neither one thing nor another, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein cries out for urgent reappraisal.
Michael Moreland's portrayal of the monster is more than adequate.
Lighting, sound and set do full justice to the story. But there is perhaps a need to re-think the urgency of the plot and maybe lessen Mary Shelley's iron grip.
This really should have been a completely decent bit of theatre. Prepare to be horrified.
Directed by Patricia Beneckie, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein plays @ HMT Aberdeen until 8 February.
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Posted by Editor at 20:48	Tagged with: Acting, Arts, Drama, Entertainment, Gothic, HMT, Horror, Novel, Performance, Review, Theatre
Beautiful: The Carol King Musical @ HMT – Duncan Harley Reviews
Duncan Harley Reviews 'Beautiful – The Carol King Musical' at His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen.
As jukebox musicals go Beautiful hits the sweet spot. Familiar songs, slick choreography and simple staging litter the production.
Add Daisy Wood-Davis to the mix, sprinkle in a measure of 60's pop culture fold-in some sugary bio and cook slowly.
Result? Mouth-watering!
OK, perhaps the bio is a little bit hazy in places. The story dwells on Carol's first marriage and kinda glosses out the other three.
And maybe music insiders would express surprise at the portrayal of a sugar-sweet music industry bereft of draconian contracts and stingy executives.
But this is entertainment at its best, and not by any means a social history class. So, if the audience comes out smiling, all is well in nostalgia-land.
Alongside the familiar Carol King solos, and there are quite a few, the show makes great play of the fact that the early King was in essence a prolific maker of hits. But for other people.
She later found her own voice, but her early career saw her sweating as a jobbing-songwriter in Broadway's Brill Building churning out production line hits for rising stars. Bryan Ferry, James Taylor, The Carpenters, Roberta Flack, Neil Sedaka and The Drifters all sequestrated her talent to good advantage.
Finally, she divorced from song-writing partner/would-be playwright Gerry Goffin – played here by a splendidly manic-depressive Adam Gillian.
The post-split storyline involves her own solo hits with albums such as Tapestry and Rhymes and Reasons taking the international charts by storm.
Directed by Marc Bruni and based on the book by Douglas McGrath, this musical version of the Carol King story is more than just a Jersey Boys take on the familiar hits however.
The musical reeks of empowerment through adversity and the plot moves steadily but relentlessly through the highs and lows until, at the very end – but no spoilers here, the narrative culminates in a poignant but triumphant conclusion.
Along the way the plot threads a path through sit-com and drama with some twenty-five familiar songs spread along the way.
Favourites? Daisy Wood-Davis shines as Carol with Laura Baldwin's up-beat Cynthia a close second. Song highlights? Be-Bop-a-Lula, You've Got a Friend and of course Beautiful.
This musical drama is stuffed with familiar hits and features 'guest appearances' by the likes of Neil Sedaka, The Drifters and The Righteous Brothers at every turn – honest injuns. What's not to like?
Stars: 4.5/5
Words © Duncan Harley, Images © HMT
Posted by Editor at 19:54	Tagged with: Acting, Arts, Comedy, Culture, Dance, Drama, Entertainment, HMT, Music, Performance, Pop, Review, Song, Theatre
Cinderella @ HMT – Duncan Harley Reviews
Duncan Harley reviews Cinderella at His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen.
Comic Christmas capers in Aberdeen wouldn't be quite the same without the annual HMT panto and this years rags to riches take on Cinderella stars soprano Rachel Flynn as Cinders with doors opening this month for a five-week run.
Naturally, wicked step-sisters are to the fore and the cast list for 2019 includes Call the Midwife star Laura Main who delivers a sterling performance as the Fairy Godmother, River City funny man Paul-James Corrigan who shines as Buttons, Two Doors Down Joy McAvoy plus River City Sally Howitt as the Stepsisters and Prince Charming is played by Emmerdale Paul Luebke.
Dancer/choreographer Louie Spence plays a delightfully camp Dandini with Alan McHugh leading the action as the outlandishly-costumed Baroness Heifer McHardup.
Outwitting step-sisters involves both humour and determination and there are plenty of laugh-out-loud slap-stick moments along the way alongside a multitude of double-entendres and slick comedy routines.
Lavish special effects and merciless lampoons litter the plot.
Sound and set are sublime and the Trump gets an obligatory bashing as does the city of Dundee. And there is a quite splendidly tongue-twisting comedy-Sushi routine which is to die for.
Last years disappointing dwarfs have thankfully been supplanted for 2019 by an ultra-slick troupe of tap-dancing pumpkins.
Astaire would be impressed. And there are pyrotechnics galore.
But it's all in the best possible taste as the classic Dandini line 'Now, this of course is where Prince Charming holds his balls and dances' clearly illustrates.
Buzzing with energy from very beginning to royal wedding, Cinderella @ HMT sparkles. Go see.
Directed and written by Alan McHugh, Cinderella plays at His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen until Sunday 5 January 2020
Words © Duncan Harley, Images © HMT and © Qdos Entertainment
Posted by Editor at 10:57	Tagged with: Acting, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Drama, Entertainment, HMT, Music, Pantomime, Performance, Review, Song, Theatre
Cabaret @ HMT Aberdeen – Duncan Harley Reviews
Duncan Harley reviews Cabaret @ His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen.
This unfolding story of the demise of the Weimar Republic is seen through the eyes of young American novelist Cliff Bradshaw – played here by Charles Hagerty – and is loosely based around Christopher Isherwood's classic 1939 novel "Goodbye to Berlin".
A central focus is the doomed love affair between English cabaret performer Sally Bowles, played here Kara Lily Hayworth, and Cliff who has come to Berlin to complete a novel but soon finds himself involved in other distractions.
Alongside his pursuit of Sally, a serial manizer, Cliff soon finds himself involved in money-laundering for the fascists and is witness to a moral decay which will ultimately destroy the easy-going morality of a city known by many at the time as the Babylon of Europe.
Much of the action takes place in the Kit Kat Club – a place where 'Here there are no troubles … Wilkommen, Leave your troubles outside … We have no troubles here! Here, life is beautiful.'
John Partridge plays the magnificently camp Emcee at the Kit Kat. And while budding storm-troopers prowl the streets, paying customers can look forward to an evening of sleazily decadent bondage-inspired entertainment. All of the dancers, both girls and boys, he says are virgins.
'But you can try them if you like!'
Replete with both a rich tapestry of flesh and a familiar stable of songs: 'Wilkommen', 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me', 'The Money Song', 'Perfectly Marvellous' and many more; the plot moves awkwardly between club, street and Fraulein Schneider's apartment building.
The club scenes are deliciously believable. The rest, less so. It's not as if the shocking street violence or malevolent menace of fascism is out of place. It's just that the dialogue in places is somehow dated.
The marketing hype describes 'Show-stopping choreography, dazzling costumes and iconic songs' and while this is genuinely the case, the spoken lines often lack lustre and the underlying politics – the elephant in the room – is perhaps understated for an audience distanced from such events by a curtain of some 90 years.
Technically splendid – the set, songs, choreography and lederhosen are magnificent – this electrifyingly camp production sets a high bar which it fails to quite reach.
Directed by Rufus Norris, Cabaret plays at His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen until Saturday 16 November 2019
Posted by Editor at 17:28	Tagged with: Acting, Arts, Cabaret, Dance, Drama, Entertainment, HMT, Music, Performance, Review, Song, Theatre
True North Festival 2019 – Craig Chisholm Reviews
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Review and photos by Craig Chisholm.
Now in its 5th year Aberdeen's True North Festival has long since proved itself to be the most entertaining, eclectic and rewarding event in the music calendar for the North East of Scotland.
Its wide range of events and artists have started to draw in the crowds from afar.
Saturday night headliners, The Twilight Sad in particular attracted fans from across Europe and even as far afield as Australia, albeit via England.
Events kicked off with the now traditional Thursday night performance at the Lemon Tree – one which, quite literally, blew the roof off.
It's a night of punk attitude and organised chaos as London alternative rock band Shame and hotly tipped up and coming Glaswegian band Rascalton entertained the crowds. Rascalton's set is an engaging and entertaining blast of no-nonsense Clash inspired garage punk, soaked in Buckfast and Glaswegian street attitude.
They've already been hotly tipped by the NME as well as local and national press and it's not hard to see why as they snarl, shout and pound through a adrenalin fuelled opening set. They're back in Aberdeen on the 14th December at the Cellar – miss them at your peril.
Headliners, Shame share the same punk ethos backed up with boundless energy and enthusiasm.
The band are championed by the likes of Radio 6 Music DJ Steve Lamaq and contemporaries of bands such as Idles and Fontaines DC.
Frontman Charlie Steen is a blur of energy as he stalks the stage and dives into the crowd on numerous occasions.
And it's on one of those occasions that he inadvertently brings the roof down by knocking tiles off the ceiling and into the crowd. The tiles are clutched like trophies by the hyperactive mosh pit as they lose themselves in a great energetic set.
Friday –thankfully – starts in a more laid back and relaxed fashion at the wonderful Tivoli Theatre with an opening set by the equally wonderful Martha Ffion.
The Irish born, Glasgow based songwriter runs through a set that's influenced by classic songwriting, stirring dream pop and the shadow of Glaswegian indie stalwarts such as Belle and Sebastian.
Her melodic, catchy songs would have won a few new converts on the night.
Wick rock band Neon Waltz are next up. They've already played True North in previous years so will not be strangers to a lot of the crowd.
In that time they've matured in style and poise and have honed their stage craft, no longer naïve youngsters from the North of Scotland but a band capable of International appeal.
Headliner, Bill Ryder Jones is quite the veteran by now with over 20 years of experience at the still young age of 36.
He started playing with Merseyside rockers, The Coral as far back as 1996, when they formed, and was their guitarist for 5 albums, leaving in 2008.
Since then he has become an accomplished solo artist, standing on his own merits and releasing 5 solo albums and even scoring the music to a few short films.
His sound is dreamy and expansive recalling, at times, the sonic adventures of shoegaze whilst still displaying his song writing talents.
From the Tivoli, it's a quick walk up to the Lemon Tree for the evenings other main performance.
Originally to be headlined by BC Camplight, he had to pull out the day previous due to illness.
Fortunately, local treasure Kathryn Joseph volunteered to step in and perform a short opening set which allowed original opening act The Ninth Wave to step deservedly up to headliner status.
Kathryn should be no stranger to anyone in the Aberdeen music scene, or even to those further afield.
She cut her teeth locally working in The Lemon Tree, performing in bars and venues such as the Tunnels.
Her sparse, haunting minimalist music, consisting mainly of piano and vocals, has led to critical acclaim, winning the 2015 SAY awards album of the year, and to recognition by her contemporaries and her musical influences, even appearing on the bill for The Cure's feted 2018 Hyde Park concert at the behest of Robert Smith.
As usual she doesn't fail to deliver with an inspiring set of melancholic songs and her now trademark swear word heavy between song banter. A joy to behold, as was expected.
Headline band, The Ninth Wave transport the crowd back in time to the early 80s New Romantic Blitz Club, whilst pushing forward with their synth heavy retro-futurism.
Their sound and style may not be for anyone old enough to remember the likes of Soft Cell or Japan but their ice cool demeanour and ability to engage the crowd provides an entertaining and enlightening set.
The weekend brings out the bigger events with both Saturday and Sunday's early evening performances taking place at the newly refurbished Music Hall.
Headlining on Saturday is Scottish indie rock band The Twilight Sad.
It's a triumphant gig for them, almost a homecoming as lead singer James Graham is no stranger to the area, having members of his Mother's family staying in the North East.
He looks and sounds genuinely thrilled to be performing at the Music Hall, telling stories of passing it as a youngster and promising to his Dad that he would play there one day.
The band have played various smaller venues in Aberdeen in previous years – working themselves up from the Tunnels and the late, lamented Moshulu through the Lemon Tree and now to here.
Powering through a set heavy on tracks from latest album 'It Won/t Be Like This All The Time' and featuring an touching cover of Frightened Rabbit's 'Keep Yourself Warm', it's an emotional and powerful set that steals the weekend.
Opening for The Twilight Sad are Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert.
This is the penultimate performance of their collaboration before they return to their solo careers.
To be honest, the two of them can do no wrong whether together or apart and tonight's show is a wonderful showcase of their respective talents, their eye for a melody and the lyrical genius of their songs.
As much as it's great they'll be back performing solo you have to hope that there's a reformation in a few years which produces new material of an equally high standard.
Late night at the Lemon Tree is more dance orientated the euphoric rave of Free Love and the Electro pop of Self Esteem.
Free Love are an entertaining and engaging live act, refusing to be constrained behind a bank of synths and mixers like most acts of this style.
Flanked by a pair of ladies in robes and holding flowers, lead singer Suzi Rodden throws herself completely into the performance, dancing barefoot into the crowd, writhing on the bar and spreading the gospel of Free Love's high-NRG utopian dance music.
No less restrained, but less likely to bump into you and spill your pint whilst you're at the back of the venue, are Self Esteem. The new project of former Slow Club singer and multi-instrumentalist Rebecca Lucy Taylor, the band is a move from her former indie folk act and into pure pop.
Complete with choreographed dance moves, matching red outfits and loads of hooks and melody she easily wins over the Saturday night crowd and keep them dancing well past midnight.
There's one more gig at the Lemon Tree and that's late on Sunday night as Ibibio Sound Machine take to the stage.
Fronted by the colourful and flamboyant singer Eno Williams the band perform an impressive set of West African funk and electro. The clash of styles works well and their visual, eye catching style lends to the occasion, giving a cosmopolitan and worldly flair not usually seen in Aberdeen on a Sunday night.
Before that, at the Music Hall, the stars are out in force for a run through of Scottish rock and pop classics under the banner of Rip It Up Live!
Taking their name from the classic Orange Juice track and influenced by the 2018 National Museum of Scotland exhibition, an array of talented Scottish performers, both established and up-and-coming, run a through a 25 track set that covers everything from the Cocteau Twins to Simple Minds; Garbage to The Associates & from the Eurythmics to The Proclaimers it's an entertaining and rewarding through Scottish pop history.
Curated by Radio DJ Vic Galloway, the all star cast includes TV presenter and frontman of The Skids, Richard Jobson, actress and legendry frontwoman of Altered Images, Claire Grogan, Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie, punk pioneers The Rezillos and many, many more.
Credit again for the festival must go to Aberdeen Performing Arts who have made it yet another weekend to remember. See you again in 2020!
Posted by Editor at 22:40	Tagged with: Arts, Entertainment, Festival, Hall, Live, Music, North, Performance, The Lemon Tree, Theatre, Tivoli
The Crucible @ HMT – Duncan Harley Reviews
Duncan Harley reviews The Crucible @ HMT Aberdeen
The last Scottish witch met a fiery end at Dornoch in 1727 ending what some saw as the domination of the devil in local affairs.
Smeared with tar following a short trial, Janet Horne was burned alive in a barrel following an accusation of consorting with the forces of darkness.
In 1950's America however, the devil-incarnate took the form of McCarthyism – perhaps best defined as the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
Many intellectuals, artistic folk and politicians fell afoul of the new inquisition. And Arthur Miller's play The Crucible took an allegorical stab at that modern-day witch hunt against those accused of the crime 'Un-American activities' using the medium of the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th century.
And now, this no-holds barred portrayal of the overly-righteous paranoia that was McCarthyism is subject to fresh interpretation by Scottish Ballet.
Shocking in its intensity, this exquisite take on the witch-trial agenda dwells on the currency of falsely framed accusations, fearsome events and the power of inquisitors over life and death and morality.
Penned in the 1950's and set in 1692, the familiar story is set among the Puritan colonists of Massachusetts. A backdrop of infidelity, a declaration that god is dead and a smidgeon of pagan ritual leads to accusations of witchcraft. And within a short timeframe events have spiralled terrifyingly out of control.
Alongside Peter Salem's hauntingly edgy new score, American Helen Picket's choreography shatters the myth of Puritanical purity.
Adolescents dance naked in the moonlight, farmer Proctor – Nicholas Shoesmith and servant Abigail – Constance Devernay frolic in the farmyard and voodoo makes an unwelcome appearance.
Nothing is as it seems and the fault lines of a wildly dysfunctional community are soon tested to destruction.
Simple staging accents the rawness of this tale of persecution and David Finn's choice of gloomy lighting adds poignance throughout. This is no over-bearing stage-set.
Stark and poignant, this adaption of Miller's play for dance sets a high bar indeed.
Choreographed by Helen Pickett and based on the play by Arthur Miller, The Crucible plays at His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen until Saturday 5 October.
Posted by Editor at 23:24	Tagged with: Acting, Arts, Ballet, Crucible, Dance, Drama, Entertainment, HMT, Music, Performance, Review, Scottish, Theatre


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Q: Connection Error on Microsoft Bot after publishing it on AWS I am trying to publish a bot that I coded in C# through visual studio 2015 on to AWS. I installed the Amazon Cloud SDK and was able to successfully publish the bot to AWS. I updated the bot endpoint with the address it gave (http://benbot-dev.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/). But when I go to Microsoft Bots site and test the bot connection it says Unable to connect to the remote server. Please help. I am thinking it is the https endpoint issue. But I am not sure how to get an API Gateway endpoint, if I should.
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System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: An error occurred while sending the request. ---> System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 52.42.245.162:443
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   at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Exception& exception)
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We encourage a sense of teamwork through our house system but also in everything that we do each day. Learning is a journey which poses challenges on the way, but we encourage perseverance and independence – skills much needed in everyday life. Through our creative approach to learning and within a safe an caring environment, our children grow and succeed and provide a positive contribution to our school and community.
:: Within our small village school, we aim to provide a safe and structured environment where children's enthusiasm to learn is encouraged and where the unique personality of each child is valued.
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Parent Involvement in Special Education: Initial Barriers to Participation
Lelona Carey
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Education Leaders (IDPEL)
Linda Lengyel
Carol S. Parke
Rose Mary Mautino
parent involvement, parent participation, special education
There is considerable evidence that parent involvement with schools has a positive effect on student behavioral and academic outcomes. Parent and school partnerships for students with disabilities are mandated by law and the two primary types of participation are communication between school and home and parent participation in educational decision making for their child. The special education evaluation and eligibility process, which is the parent's introduction to special education, is replete with lengthy documents. Initial interactions set the stage for many years of parent and school meetings to come. The purpose of the study was to determine if there are parent and family factors that are related to parent contributions to the initial IEP meeting. Parent factors were parent education levels, parent reading level, parent history of receiving special education services, family socio-economic levels, and parent experiences with special education services. An additional purpose of the study was to see if there are significant differences between the readability levels of special education documents and reading levels of parents of students with disabilities. Data was collected over a six month period from 30 parents who participated in the initial IEP meetings for their children. Data was collected by interviewing the parent and parent reading levels were determined by administering individual reading achievement tests, the WIAT-II. Data for the parent participation in the initial IEP meeting variable was collected by direct observation. Readability of the individual Evaluation Reports was obtained using three separate readability scores; the SMOG, the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Index and the Flesch Reading Ease. Additionally, two parents were asked additional semi-structured interview questions in order to gain further information about barriers to IEP participation.
Carey, L. (2006). Parent Involvement in Special Education: Initial Barriers to Participation (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1714


I know it seems like I'm flirting from one project to another lately! But I pulled this out to finish it for a friend.
Of course, I decided only two days before it had to be done. But that's how I roll!
I wanted to make it bigger so I had to add a row of blocks. At least I had done some cutting ahead of time.
I did have this on hand for backing.
Now, what to quilt? I used a piece of plastic placed over the quilt top to try a few things out.
This is the pen I used on the plastic.
Come back on Friday to see how this finished up!
I love the quilt. And the plastic is such a good idea! Are those 2 inch squares?
I'll be back on Friday to see, but I am already sure it will be beautiful!
I love the idea of the plastic. I am hoping you do the wavy lines on the green block. I will wait and see how you decide.


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