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wogma rating: Beg or borrow, but do watch (?)
Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne
Genres: Based on true life story
Based loosely on the real-life story of a group of MIT students who ended up taking on Vegas casinos at their own game, 21 offers an entertaining alternative to the usual muliplex fare.
Jim Sturgess stars as Ben Campbell, MIT grad student and aspiring Harvard entrant, who finds himself swept up into the secretive MIT Blackjack team. Sturgess puts in a nicely layered performance, appearing equally believable as his character moves between geeky college boy and Vegas high-roller. Kate Boswoth chips in as likeable fellow team member Jill Taylor. Sadly, despite a decent performance, Bosworth finds her character mainly utilized as the love interest rather than as a strong female lead.
Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira and Jacob Pitts (as Choi, Kianna and Fisher respectively) make up the remaining team members, ably led by Kevin Spacey as college professor (and team mastermind) Mickey Rosa.
Of course, a nemesis is required, and Laurence Fishburne is well suited to the role of casino security chief Cole Williams. Despite not much material to work with, the ever-reliable Fishburne gets the job done and brings depth to his character.
Although inspired by the real-life adventures of the MIT Blackjack team, 21 is still very much a dramatized account. In fact, there has been some controversy surrounding the Hollywoodization of the story; particularly in the ethnic makeup of the cast. In real life, the MIT team members were predominantly of Asian-American descent. But in the movie account, the key players are caucasian.
Controversies aside, director Robert Luketic ensures that the story rolls along smoothly and does a skillful job of explaining the statistical principles behind card counting without boring the audience.
Of course, whenever card games are depicted in cinema, there's always some explanation required, even for a game as simple as blackjack. In 21, this exposition is less clunky than say, in Casino Royale, but it's still there. Still, in the trade-off between clarity and economy, Luketic makes the right choices.
Despite this, several of the scenes rather feel like they were shoehorned in to perk up the drama. I have sympathy for the filmmakers here – how do you sustain audience interest for two hours in a story about college kids playing cards? – but it's not hard to spot the melodramatic scenes injected to add spice to the story.
On balance, the movie is well-paced and still keeps a few surprises in store along the way. It also poses a few interesting questions - how does money change us? What really counts as 'winning' or 'losing'?
As welcome departure from the usual roster of summer blockbusters, 21 is well worth a watch.
This review is by guest reviewer Paul H. Paul is an international man of mystery, he comes from the UK and lives in Pune. Paul H also blogs at http://worldofpablo.com.
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More Apartments Coming to Detroit's Midtown District
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The Cass Corridor Neighborhood Development Corp. are ready to begin renovations on a project that's seven years in the making: the Cass Plaza.
"(These two buildings) are the gateway into the Cass Corridor," says Patrick Dorn, executive director of the CCNDC. "This project will remove the last big eyesores from this part of town. It will be more welcoming (as people come) into the city."
The plaza's buildings, 3550 Cass and 149 Davenport, will be gutted starting Jan. 2 and restored to their original early 20th-century appearance. Together, the buildings will include 47 units of affordable housing, which is in high demand, Dorn says.
Dorn's organization oversees about 27 buildings and manages 317 existing units with 97 percent occupancy. "We just renovated 24 units in another building, the Coronado (on Second Avenue). There were so many applicants, I could have filled it twice over," he says.
Rent at the Cass Plaza, expected to be completed by early 2015, will likely be on par with the organization's other properties, around $600 a month. A coffee shop will be open to the public in the plaza's lobby.
"Our organization has only two goals," Dorn says. "That's to provide safe and affordable housing and to enhance the life of the residents in the corridor."
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Rafal Milach, The First March of Gentlemen
By Loring Knoblauch / In Photobooks / September 28, 2017
JTF (just the facts): Published in 2017 by Muzeum Dzieci Wrzesińskich (book link here). Stitched hardcover in thick cardboard with thread enclosure, 72 pages, with 48 collages/photographs. Includes acknowledgement texts by Karol Szymkowiak and the artist, and a transcribed email exchange between Maciej Pisuk and the artist as an insert (all texts in Polish/English). In an edition of 600 copies. (Cover and spread shots below.)
Comments/Context: The Polish photographer Rafal Milach is quietly establishing himself as a consistently innovative maker of photobooks. His excellent 2014 book, The Winners (reviewed here), subversively documented the victors of state sponsored competitions and contests in contemporary Belarus – employing a clever hinged-page design, it revealed undercurrents of dark absurdity amid the tightly controlled photo ops. And his newest offering, entitled The First March of Gentlemen, is even more ambitious – it boasts one of the most striking and expressive photobook designs of 2017.
The First March of Gentlemen was made during a recent artist residency program in the town of Września in western Poland. For the better part of the past decade, the town has commissioned one photographer each year to make a body of work illustrating the town and its residents, with very few artistic constraints. Each residency culminates in a published photobook and an exhibition, the annual project bringing an outside perspective to everyday life in the region and forcing a reconsideration of the town's evolving identity, both past and present. Milach began his time in Września by diving into the archives/collections of various local photographers active during the 1950s, and it was there that he found both his initial inspiration and the raw material for his eventual project.
Particularly among the vintage black and white photographs of Ryszard Szczepaniak, Milach discovered unexpected patterns of behavior and attitude among the city's young men – they seemed to exude a certain kind of wise guy indifference to the real struggles taking place at the time. Well-dressed in suits, overcoats, and jaunty hats and standing with self-satisfied ease, they felt like a parody of the upstanding young men they were supposed to be. The smiles on their faces were alternately restrained, smug, and almost mocking, alluding to their overall sense of arrogant confidence. The images of soldiers and officers Milach unearthed also had the same easy going air of privilege and control. All of these men were seemingly friends, brothers, or like-minded elites, and they seemed overtly oblivious to or dismissive of the tumult of Communism and strict government control gripping the nation.
Perhaps the most famous moment in Września's history came half a century earlier, and Milach wanted to incorporate that collective memory into his works as well. Back in 1901, the local children went on strike against the increased influence of German/Prussian culture in their schools, and in particular, against the compulsory study of the German language. Milach has channeled that rebellious connection by making a selection of still life images of worn mathematical and geometrical models found in a local school. Once used as teaching aids, these welded metal cubes, pyramids, polygons, and stick/ball constructions are both wholly abstract and obliquely refer back to the facts of local history.
Armed with these two sets of imagery, Milach then proceeded to construct a series of intricate photocollages that cunningly merge the two. Like the spare Bauhaus compositions of László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt, Milach's collages isolate the bodies and geometric models from their original surroundings and place them into unlikely combinations and resonant situations. Many of the works pile the men into tight clusters, turning individuals into gatherings or even fabricated "demonstrations" and "protests". These groups are then placed inside the elemental mathematical forms, the interlocked edges and vertices creating something akin to cages or jails (the wrapped string enclosure that surrounds the book itself also echoes this feeling). Set against brightly colored two-tone backdrops that create a modified sense of depth and space, the resulting compositions are both boldly abstract and charged with symbolic historical relevance.
Several works go on to turn a group of opaque volumes into a makeshift landscape, with tiny figures placed in among the steep pyramids and semicircular halves. Using half cut pages to interrupt the visual flow, Milach creates clever sequential games of page-turn hide and seek, with children looking for hiding soldiers behind green "trees" and men squeezed into the yawning mouths of open cylinders. The artist uses a similar time lapse, stop motion effect in a series of images that replicates the meandering gathering of a crowd, with individuals and small groups slowly arriving and milling around. And he even turns a handful of soldiers into an improvised Whack-A-Mole game, with figures popping up from holes on a piece of painted wood and being pressed down by fingers from the sky.
In The First March of Gentlemen, Milach has delivered an intimate photobook experience that is both playful and quietly sophisticated, and this duality gives it much of its freshness and vitality. Its approachable simplicity draws us in, where we then alternate between formal and historical readings of his incisively smart compositions. In both construction and context, this is a photobook that memorably stands out, fervently reminding us that thoughtfully imagined old school photocollage can still be exciting and relevant.
Collector's POV: Rafal Milach does not appear to have gallery representation at this time. Interested collectors should likely follow up directly with the artist via his website (linked in the sidebar).
Read more about: Rafal Milach, Muzeum Dzieci Wrzesińskich
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Q: Assigning Today's Date to a Key and referencing this Key to Add 5 days I am trying to assign today's date to contVfrmDate and use the value/date to increment the next key with x number of days? Can it be done inside an object/dictionary? If yes, how?
const ccCustInfo = {
  cropConsultant: 'Test this',
  customerName:   'Customer',
  customerBranch: 'MULBERRY ',
  shippingAddress:'address',
  contractType:   'SKU',
  contVfrom:      'Contract Valid From',
  contVto:        'Contract Valid To',
  internalNotes:  'Internal Notes',
  contVfrmDate:    (new Date(Date.now()).toLocaleString().split(',')[0]),
  contVtoDate:     contVfrmDate.setDate(contVfrmDate.getDate() + 5)
}

In the Chrome Console, I see this error.
Uncaught ReferenceError: contVfrmDate is not defined
at <anonymous>:11:24

Found another simple solution since the to date defaults to 8 days out.
contVtoDate:     (new Date(Date.now() + (8 /*days*/ * 86400000 /*ms per day*/)).toLocaleString().split(',')[0])}
const ccCustInfo = {
          cropConsultant: 'Test this',
          customerName:   'Customer 5K FARMS',
          customerBranch: 'MULBERRY FL',
          shippingAddress:'3010',
          contractType:   'SKU',
          contVfrom:      'Contract Valid From',
          contVto:        'Contract Valid To',
          internalNotes:  'Internal Notes',
          contVfrmDate:    (new Date(Date.now()).toLocaleString().split(',')[0]),
          contVtoDate:     (new Date(Date.now() + (8 /*days*/ * 86400000 /*ms per day*/)).toLocaleString().split(',')[0])
}

A: You should realize that adjusting a Date object with .setDate() will change the original date. So you need two independent date objects:
    const frmDate = new Date();
    const toDate = new Date();

But the toDate needs 5 days added to it. The most direct way is to now use the .setDate() method on toDate. Do that by getting the day from frmDate and adding your 5 days:
toDate.setDate(frmDate.getDate() + 5);

The result looks like this:

const frmDate = new Date();
const toDate = new Date()
toDate.setDate(frmDate.getDate() + 5);

const ccCustInfo = {
  cropConsultant: 'Test this',
  customerName:   'Customer',
  customerBranch: 'MULBERRY ',
  shippingAddress:'address',
  contractType:   'SKU',
  contVfrom:      'Contract Valid From',
  contVto:        'Contract Valid To',
  internalNotes:  'Internal Notes',
  contVfrmDate:    frmDate.toLocaleString('en-US',{month: 'numeric', day: 'numeric', year: 'numeric'}),
  contVtoDate:     toDate.toLocaleString('en-US',{month: 'numeric', day: 'numeric', year: 'numeric'})
}
console.log(ccCustInfo);

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These are the books I read in July, 2013 – 16 books, 5 crime novels, 3 classics, 1 vol of sci-fi stories, 1 nonfiction and 4 women authors, 7 audio books, 1 paperback. About 6,300 pages – an average month in retirement, really.
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Spanish Civil War – WW1?


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The Grill Tent is always central at Catawbapoolza at Catawba College, North Carolina. After all, you really can't have a good party without good food. The guys are busy grilling burgers and hot dogs.
If you've strung a little tight with all the papers and exams as the college term winds down, then a good fun fight may be just the ticket. Place your bets on the winner.
Talk about some extreme fun. Several of my students wanted me to give this ride a try. After a big North Carolina barbecue sandwich, I thought not. Actually, I thought not before the sandwich, but the barbecue made a really good excuse in this case.
Swimmers just never get the glory, unless it Olympic time. Here are members of the swim team at Catawba College. My boys are swimmers too, so I say God Bless swimmers. I also say they sure eat more than you would expect. Throw on some extra burgers. They are also supposed to draw straws and send me a reporter from the team next year for newspaper. No. I wasn't kidding guys.
This is how excited my public speaking students get whenever they see me. OK. Not really. They do come up with some great speeches though, and I'm proud of them.
Today was our annual Catawbapoolza at Catawba College. It usually rains on the big spring party, so it was terrific that this year was sunny and warm. In fact, it felt like summer. That's always a great start to a day of grilled food and fun.
The festivities kicked off about 2 p.m. following the Blue and White football game and an Open House for students thinking about attending Catawba College. The Girl Scouts also had an event going on, so it was a very busy Saturday on campus.
I began the day at Open House but stuck around for Catawbapoolza. I've not missed a one since they started having them. That's been several years now. My boys always come with me, but this year my oldest is off at UNC Chapel Hill, and the younger one had a camping trip. I went kid-less, but that was fine. At a small college, I know most of our students, so I can bop around and visit with the college kids in a social setting for a change.
Catawbapoolza is kind of like a small town carnival. There are a variety of rides plus face painting and other fun activities. There's also plenty of food. In addition to the grill tent, they had pretzels, nacho chips, ice cream, and Frost Bites (a local favorite of shaved ice and various flavors) this year.
Various groups on campus pull this big event together. Student Government plays a key role, but other clubs also pitch in. On my end, I always take pictures. I advise for the student newspaper. Student staff photographers also get photos of Catawbapoolza, but I enjoy taking some as well. We like to showcase Catawbapoolza in the final newspaper each year.
Catawbapoolza was great this year. I need to be mowing my yard, but I think that can wait until tomorrow. Sometimes it's good to let your hair down and enjoy a beautiful day. This was a really nice one.


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Everyone from serious auto collectors to families snapping pictures of their dream cars packed the OC Fair & Event Center on Saturday for the Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction.
During its inaugural Orange County auction last year, Barrett-Jackson — which bills its events as the World's Greatest Car Collector Auctions — sold more than $15 million in cars. This weekend, organizers said they expected 70,000 people to attend the three-day event.
On Friday, more than $3.3 million in cars were auctioned, but the heavy hitting started Saturday. Bidders had a chance to buy rare collectibles like a 1968 Shelby GT-350 Mustang and a 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Berlinetta.
Robert DeMars owns an automobile appraising company based in Palm Springs that has offices everywhere from Miami to Milan. He said he has been coming to Barrett-Jackson events since 1971 — the first year the company hosted auctions.
"They put on a very nicely run event," DeMars said. "It's nice that they brought it to Orange County. We needed a large car auction in the L.A. area."
Big-time bidders were treated to special seating in a giant tent spanning the length of two football fields. There, fast-talking auctioneers were scheduled to sell cars from 2 to 9 p.m.
Most of the attendees, though, weren't buyers but car enthusiasts, out for the day to peer in the windows and under the hoods of hot rods, classics and custom cars.
"We're just a car family," said Damon Reynolds of San Diego, who drove up for the auction with his wife and daughter. "We're from Detroit, and in the summer there you can see cars like this all day every weekend. Out here, it's a little bit harder."
In addition to row upon row of auction cars, visitors also took in car demonstrations, browsed vendor booths and noshed on fair food.
The Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction continues Sunday at the OC Fair & Event Center. The auto auction begins at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $13 for adults, with discounts for students, seniors, military personnel and children. Parking is $10.


If you are a stay at home mom and find that time hangs heavy on your hands, you can keep yourself happily engaged in a lucrative business.
It is fun and keeps you busy.
Well, I am speaking about a business of a child care center popularly known as a day care center. Most of the parents are working today and have nobody at their homes to take care of their kids. Starting with a day care business is an excellent way to kick start with a fair business that has a good cause associated with it. This way, you get an opportunity to earn money as well as serve the society.
Do you have the patience and can you handle yourself with equanimity when faced with a dozen or so squalling kids?
Do you have the budget and space at home?
Can you meet licensing regulations for your area and if not, what additional resources and processes would you have to factor in?
Will you offer teaching facility and if so which program to use and are you a competent teacher? If not, how much does it cost to employ qualified people?
The going rate for day care in your region?
The competition? If there are a dozen or so centers offering day care or childcare services you may be hard put to find a single client.
The answers should give you a better idea of whether you should proceed with starting a childcare center of your own. If you are positive, go ahead.
You may have some funds, but it is better to look for other options too. You can obtain government funding from Child and Adult Food Care Program if you aim to make it a business. If you wish to launch childcare services on a non-profit basis, the scope of obtaining grants is wider.
Different States in the US have different laws for licensing child care services. Understand them, get a copy of the regulations and make sure you comply with them. Some states may have exemptions if the number of children below the age of 12 is less than 3. Your home should have a separate area for daycare facilities, and it should meet hygiene standards, be well-ventilated, lighted and heated. The area should have a smoke detector and a fire extinguisher. There are lots of other requirements you will have to comply with.
It is easy to take up a franchise. This way, you just take care of providing the premises and make it ready. You get customers walking in through the door because you become part of an established chain. This may involve payment of high franchise fees for childcare. If you become an independent childcare services provider, you have to advertise and promote.
You cannot just prepare your premises and sit back for people to walk through the door. Advertising and promotions involve expenses, so provision for these in your financial plans are a must. Handbills, flyers, spots on local radio and TV, newspaper ads social media and other avenues will need to be pursued vigorously in the initial stages of promoting child care services.
An ordinary day care center for kids takes care of normal children. You could also focus on children with special needs. Consider the implications before going in that direction.
A careful review will help you make a decision and succeed in your venture.


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Ben Harper Welcomed Fifth Child in June: Find Out His Unique Name!
By Liz Calvario 1:05 PM PDT, September 20, 2017
Ben Harper is a dad again!
The 47-year-old musician and his wife, Jaclyn Matfus, welcomed their first child together, a son named Besso, on June 17, Harper's rep confirmed to ET.
News that they were expecting was revealed in March. Harper has four other children from previous relationships, including 16-year-old son Ellery and 12-year-old daughter Jaya from his second marriage to ex-wife Laura Dern. He also shares daughter Harris and son Charles with his first wife, Joanna Harper.
The "Steal My Kisses" singer and Matfus tied the knot on New Year's Day in 2015. This is the social advocate's first child.
RELATED: Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton Expecting Baby No. 2!
On Monday, the lovebirds stepped out for the 27th Annual Simply Shakespeare benefit at UCLA's Freud Playhouse in Westwood, California, where they showed some adorable PDA on the red carpet.
Congrats to the new parents!
Reporting by Angelique Jackson.
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Opinion | | July 27, 2011, 5:01 pm
Is a $248,000 playhouse for the kids necessary? (3 letters)
By DP Opinion
Re: "Over the top and out of touch," July 23 Ruth Marcus column.
Ruth Marcus writes about over-the-top playhouses the wealthy are building for their children and grandchildren. Dan Burnham, the former chairman of defense contractor Raytheon, spent $248,000 for a two-structure playhouse for his grandchildren at "his vacation compound." As adorable as he claims it is, it has to leave most Americans wondering why conservative senators and representatives are so determined that people with extreme wealth should not pay more taxes.
We all know how many people in our communities are homeless and how many children don't have adequate food. What do the wealthy add to the economy and the good of their communities when they are given tax breaks?
Janice Mowry, Lakewood
Ruth Marcus writes about "the disconnect between the faltering economy and the spare-no-expense attitude of the luxury playhouse crowd." She says, "When people are losing real houses, you ought to feel a little queasy about spending thousands on play ones."
In her haste to pass judgment on "the luxury playhouse crowd," Marcus has ignored an important point: Building luxury playhouses is providing jobs. Would she rather see the builders out of work and losing their houses too?
Fred Knauke, Denver
Re: "Do the very wealthy really need all they have?" July 25 letter to the editor.
I am far from wealthy, but I respect the folks who are wealthy. They have worked hard for what they have, which is the American Dream. The rich who have earned all that money deserve to keep it. Look at all the movie stars, NFL players and so on who have done good things and donated millions to charities. Don't bicker about "taking" their money in higher taxes because you might not have enough. Leave the wealthy alone.
Colleen Prescott, Denver
These letters were published in the July 28 edition.
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Why doesn't Denver Public Library block pornography sites?
Re: "Library no place for pornography," July 2 editorial.
Your editorial states that the Denver Public Library doesn't allow access to pornographic websites. That is not true. I had an experience a few weeks ago which distressed me.
I realized the man at the terminal next to mine was looking at pornography. He tried to engage me in conversation. I told a librarian and she said she would take care of it. Before leaving, I asked what she did. She explained that she had passed by his terminal a few times but didn't find him on porn sites, and their policy is that they have to catch a person actually on the site before they can do anything.
The whole experience was disgusting and creepy. For a young woman or a child of either sex, the man was clearly a threat. His effort to engage me in conversation while looking at porn is an act of sexual assault. I have been a victim of sexual assault, and the library is the last place I feared being subjected to this.
I want you to investigate why the library allows access at all. Why aren't these sites blocked?
H. Schechter, Denver
This letter was published in the July 28 edition.
Repealing roadless rule would threaten lands
Congressional leadership has been attacking conservation efforts in full force, prompting open season on our open spaces. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has recently proposed an abominable bill, the Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act, which will prohibit federal protection for some of Colorado's most pristine landscapes. What's more shocking is that several Colorado representatives are co-sponsoring this bill.
Little Bookcliffs of Colorado would be one of the affected areas, falling victim to unrestricted development and loose management. This area is a haven for wild horses. We should do everything in our power to protect this land, as it captures the character of Colorado as a place for wildlife to roam free.
McCarthy's proposal is a severe attack on Colorado's precious lands and wildlife, and it should be stopped at all costs.
Andrew Linares, Denver
Sexual assault victims have a right to free medical forensic exams
Re: "Alleged rape victim in Cox case believed she was drugged," July 23 news story.
Your article stated that the victim in the Perrish Cox rape case was "told that unless she filed a police complaint, [a sexual assault exam] would cost her $500." We are concerned that it seems the victim in this case was provided with incorrect information and we want readers to know that all sexual assault victims should have the option to receive a medical forensic exam free of charge.
Both federal and state law were recently changed to allow sexual assault victims to receive a medical forensic exam at no cost even if they choose not to file a report. Sexual assault professionals are working to increase awareness around these law changes in their respective fields, as well as among the general public. For more information, contact the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault at info@ ccasa.org or 303-839-9999.
Erin Jemison, Denver
The writer is executive director of the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Pianos on Denver's 16th Street Mall bring music to life
Re: "Seven octaves of expression," July 26 Lifestyle story.
Kudos to Douglas Brown for his lovely piece on the 16th Street Mall pianos and the therapeutic power of music for those who make it.
The Downtown Denver Partnership's piano effort is a wonderful plus for the city, for both players and listeners.
Our beloved city does a meager job of promoting and supporting local live music, especially in the heart of the city where it belongs most.
But those pianos and the recent Day of Rock are great steps toward putting music in the daily lives of everyone who calls downtown home.
Marty Jones, Denver
Pushing the debt ceiling battle to the brink (5 letters)
Both the president and Congress have maneuvered themselves into a game of musical chairs where the one who is left standing with the ability to avoid a default is the loser. Whatever happens, they should be ashamed that they have treated this serious issue with such disdain. They have held our economy and our livelihood ransom to their inflexible, ideologically driven agendas.
The Republicans' failure to consider enhanced revenue, especially that which would moderately impact our nation's wealthiest 2 percent, and the Democrats' fearful inability to tackle entitlements and serious cost-cutting until this late date are a reflection of their desire to represent the special interests in their respective parties and a failure of their duties to the rest of us.
William C. Lee, Evergreen
Monday night, the president addressed the nation for 15 minutes and all he said was the same political rhetoric he has been trumpeting for weeks. It is obvious the president is only interested in his re-election. He wants enough increase in the debt limit to carry us to the election. How convenient for him.
I'm convinced no plan will bring us to fiscal sanity without a balanced budget amendment, coupled with spending to a certain percentage of GDP. Guess what? Such plan has already been passed by the House in a bipartisan vote. The president promised to veto it before it was even voted on.
Government has proven time and time again its irresponsible discipline in spending. The time is now to rein it in and bring us toward fiscal solvency.
Now, who is serious about solving the debt crisis?
Peter Bruno, Arvada
House Speaker John Boehner's speech Monday night was an exercise in absurdity. His claim that his Cut, Cap and Balance Act is a sensible bill that President Obama is irrationally rejecting only makes sense to those who don't understand the issues, haven't read a newspaper, and don't know anything about his bill. He actually had the audacity to claim to have passed the bill with "bipartisan" support. With "yes" votes for this bill coming from five Democrats and 229 Republicans, the term "bipartisan" is the last word I would use to describe it.
The Republican Party has a talent for stubbornly standing its ground, even in the face of overwhelming opposition, allowing radical agendas to pass simply because those on the other side of the aisle refuse to show the same unyielding resolve.
We cannot let Boehner and the Republicans win this one. There is too much at stake.
Trevor Byrne-Smith, Broomfield
Speaker of the House John Boehner says that when the government is spending more money than it takes in, the solution is to spend less. I doubt that many would disagree with that position. My questions is this: Where was that philosophy during the eight years that George W. Bush was president and Congress, including many of the same Republicans who seem suddenly to have seen the light, was helping W. spend the country into record deficits with tax cuts for the wealthy and two unfunded wars?
The country cannot dig itself out of the hole that Republicans helped to create via spending cuts alone. That approach will ensure economic catastrophe (even if the U.S. does not default on its obligations), which will plunge our country back into recession, which, in the apparent view of Republicans, will be good for them politically and bad for President Obama. Never mind the effect on the country.
K. Packard, Livermore
Our country is spending $1.5 trillion more than it collects in taxes
every year. Our president talks about the rich not paying their fair share. He wants those who pay the most to pay more. Half of America does not pay any federal income tax. What's fair about that?
Mike Ellis, Denver
Monumental status for Chimney Rock
U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton has introduced legislation to establish Chimney Rock as a national monument. I applaud the congressman's efforts to protect one of the most culturally significant areas in southwestern Colorado. A thousand years ago, ancestral Pueblo people were drawn to Chimney Rock's twin pinnacles. They built more than 200 homes and buildings in this "spiritual center."
A dramatic celestial event is the site's most fascinating feature: Every 18.6 years during a lunar standstill, the moon rises at its maximum northerly position exactly between the twin spires of Chimney Rock.
As a national monument, American Indians would retain access for traditional uses and local ranchers could continue grazing. Archaeological tourism is a mainstay of the southwestern Colorado economy. Chimney Rock will attract visitors and much-needed revenue and jobs, and its new status will prove that cultural preservation means economic development.
Deborah J. Gangloff, Cortez
The writer is president and chief executive of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
The heat output of CFLs vs. incandescent bulbs
Re: "Energy efficiency and the right to choose a light," July 24 letter to the editor.
Jeff Weirbach's letter regarding compact fluorescent lights, in which he writes, "Vincent Carroll's column is filled with omissions," itself has a glaring omission. Yes, CFLs generate much less heat than incandescent light bulbs, thereby reducing cooling costs, but only for three or four summer months, and then primarily at night when lights are generally needed and cooling probably isn't. However, in the six- to seven- month heating season, when light bulbs are used four to eight hours more per day, CFLs still give off less heat and so heating costs must rise commensurately, more than offsetting any summertime savings.
Barry Gager, Sedalia
Archbishop Chaput's departure from Denver (2 letters)
Re: "Denver archbishop's move to Philadelphia," July 22 letters to the editor.
The letter-writers in last Friday's paper regarding Archbishop Charles Chaput's transfer to Philadelphia understandably took his side regarding his stance on church doctrine, as they have every right. But they really should understand the history of the Catholic Church a little better.
The doctrine of the church has changed many, many times over the course of the last two millennia, including on matters of abortion, reincarnation, witch burning, heretic dispatching and a host of other matters. Chaput can be applauded for standing by the doctrine of today's church, but let's not just wash the rest of its history under the rug because it's inconvenient to admit the whole truth. There is just too much of that going on in the world today as it is.
Robert Laughlin, Littleton
Archbishop Charles Chaput's consistent and dynamic leadership for immigration reform and his voice of compassion and grace toward "the stranger" in our land will be greatly missed. Archbishop Chaput led by example in battling against fear and hate, and always spoke for those who could not speak for themselves or who were marginalized by the narrative of racism. The example of pastoral love and accompaniment by Archbishop Chaput will be his legacy to many other faith leaders in our community who must now assume the vacuum in leadership for justice and righteousness.
Fidel "Butch" Montoya, Denver
The writer is director of H.S. Power & Light Ministries-Latino Faith Initiative.
Why was strip-club owner allowed to coach?
Re: "Strip-club boss loses coach job," July 22 news story.
The Post reports that Troy Lowrie, the owner of PT's Showclub, among other strip clubs, had been coaching the Golden High School tennis team since 2009. He was terminated from his school position recently after being arrested for "furthering the act of prostitution," for allegedly asking a female undercover police officer to "work for him." The school district noted that, prior to being hired, Lowrie had passed a criminal background check.
The article appeared just below The Post's report on the sentencing of Broomfield coach Travis Masse to a potential life sentence for exploiting teenage girls for sex.
What on earth were they thinking in Golden?
What's next, hiring marijuana dispensary owners as school counselors just as long as they can pass criminal background checks?
Some heads need to roll over this one. I hope that The Post will follow up on this story to see if anybody at Golden High School is held accountable for this breathtaking lack of judgement.
Bruce E. Conant, Denver
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The Surprising Time Your Sex Life Will Regain that Spark
You may have to wait for a while.
By Megan Friedman
That marital "dry spell" might last longer than you'd like. According to a new study, a typical married couple's sex life tapers off after a while, and doesn't pick up again until 50 years in.
RELATED: How To Make Sex Get Better And Better With Age
Researchers from Louisiana State, Florida State, and Baylor Universities analyzed data from 1,656 married adults from age 57 to 85. They found that frequency of sex had a "U-shaped" pattern when compared to duration of a marriage; there was more sex early on, and much later on, but a dip in the middle. It wasn't until 50 years into a marriage that sex tended to have a "modest rebound" in frequency.
Like a fine wine, sex may get better with age–possibly because you're more relaxed and confident as you get older. "As people age, they tend to be more even-keeled," researcher Samuel Stroope said in a press release, "which may help cut down on marital conflict and facilitate regular sexual activity into advanced age."
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The research also showed that people who stay in their first marriages have sex more often than people who are remarried. But people who were remarried still reported equal levels of satisfaction and physical pleasure, despite having less frequent sex.
The study, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, argues that an uptick in sex may have to do with a sense of permanence in a marriage. "You may have a higher level of trust when you feel that your spouse isn't going to go anywhere," Stroope added. "The expectation that the relationship will continue may give you more reason to invest in the relationship–including in sexual aspects of the relationship."
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Clare Mulley
The Spy Who Loved
The Woman Who Saved the Children
A popular public speaker, Clare is a regular at literary and history festivals around the country, has given a TEDx talk at Stormont and spoken at the House of Lords, Royal Albert Hall, British Library, Imperial War Museum, National Army Museum and Special Forces Club, as well as at many schools and societies. She also contributes regularly to TV and radio.
Please use the contact form to book Clare as a speaker.
4 Feb, 1pm, Home Start Royston & South Cambs literary lunch, tickets available The Woman Who Saved the Children
6 Feb, 4pm, Millfield History Conference, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
13 Feb, 7.30pm, Bishop Stortford College Festival of Literature, The Spy Who Loved
17-19 Feb, Tour of Northern Ireland for For Your Freedom and Ours
20 Feb, Estació de França, Barcelona, The Woman Who Saved the Children
5 March, 11am, Theatre Royal Bath, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
5 March, 4pm, Royal High School Bath, The Spy Who Loved
7 March, 1.30-4.30pm, Saffron Walden Arts Trust/Saffron Walden Museum, life writing workshop
1 April, Save the Children conference
2 April, Shropshire Supper Club, The Woman Who Saved the Children
29 April, The London Library, Spy Panel with Rick Stroud & Sonia Purnell
8 May, 11.45am, Chiddingstone Castle Lit Fest, Discussing war stories with Michael Morpurgo for VE Day
9 May, 10.30am, Chiddingstone Castle Lit Fest, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
11 May, 2.30pm, Buntingford U3A, The Woman Who Saved the Children
21 May, Great Bardfield Meeting House, The Woman Who Saved the Children
5 June, 7.30pm, Braintree Museum, The Spy Who Loved
16 June, 6pm, Metropolitan Police Military History Society, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
25 June, Saffron Walden County High School, The Great Historical Write!
6 July, 1.30pm, Huntingdon & Peterborough Federation of WIs, The Woman Who Saved the Children
6 Oct, 7.30pm, Horringer & Ickworth WI, The Spy Who Loved
14 Oct, 7.45pm, Much Hadham WI, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
26 Oct, 6.45pm, The Reform Club, The Spy Who Loved
11 Nov, Little Waldingfield History Society, The Spy Who Loved
18 Nov, 8pm, Barrington Society, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
20 Jan, 2.30pm, Melbourne U3A, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
26 Jan, 8pm, Comberton Antiquarian Society, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
22 Feb, White Waltham Airfield Joystick Club, The Spy Who Loved
15 February 2021, Dunstable U3A, The Spy Who Loved
10 March, British Modern Military History Society, The Women Who Flew for Hitler
Clare at the National Army Museum
The Woman Who Saved the Children:
Optioned for screen by BBC and theatre playwright Charlotte Bogard Macleod.
Republished in UK for Save the Children's centenary.
Published in Spain.
Published as a Naxos Audiobook, narrated by Joely Richardson.
Performed at London's Roundhouse Theatre with Helena Bonham Carter, Joely Richardson and Sue Perkins.
BBC1 D-Day 75 with Huw Edwards, Dan Snow, James Holland & Michael Morpurgo
BBC1 Newsnight with Kirsty Wark
BBC2 Rise of the Nazis documentary-drama
BBC World News with Matthew Amroliwala
BBC Radio 4 PM, with Evan Davis
BBC Wales, and various regional stations.
Podcasts include:
The Spectator Books Podcast with Sam Leith
Dan Snow's History Hit
Better Known with Ivan Wise
Helen Carr's Hidden Histories
The House of Lords
The Royal Albert Hall
The Piłsudski Institute
The Theatre Royal Bath
The Hawker Typhoon Preservation Trust
Newnham College Cambridge
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Nuthampstead Airfield
A tour of Belfast to For Your Freedom and Ours
Various literary and history festivals including Chalke Valley History
Many schools and societies.
Literary and History Festivals
Including the Chalke Valley History Festival, Wimpole History Festival
Alderney, Devizes, Wrexham, and Whitstable Literary Festivals
The Women Who Flew for Hitler UK paperback launched at the Imperial War Museum, London. The Women Who Flew for Hitler was also published in paperback in the USA; translated into Polish and Finnish; and published in audio.
Clare was a contributing author to the Jewish Lives Project, published by The Jewish Museum, London.
Broadcast this year has included Sky News, History Hit TV, and Radio 5 Live, and many regional radio interviews and podcasts including BBC Ulster, BBC Essex, BBC Cambridge, Cambridge 105 and Newstalk 106 Ireland.
Clare became an honorary patron of the Wimpole History Festival, and spoke at this and many other history and literary festivals, including the Chalke Valley History Festival, HistFest London, Gloucester History Festival, London History Festival, and literary festivals at Henley, Clapham, Wimborne, Flamstead, Lambeth, Stoke Newington, Sherborne, the Borders Book Fest in Melrose, Cornwall's Port Eliot Festival, and the Anglo-Frech lit fest in Parisot, France.
Clare felt honoured to speak at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, Battle of Britain Memorial Day, and for a tour of Northern Ireland organised by the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building with talks for the Imagine Belfast Festival of Politics and Ideas, The Young Offenders College, Hydebank, The Intelligence Corps Association NI, Orange Lodges in Portadown, Sandy Row and Randalstown, and BBC Ulster.
Clare has also spoken at The Women's University Club; Nuthampstead Airfield, Save the Children Belfast; Topping & Co, Ely; Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club in London; The Art House Crouch End, book shops from Wales to the West End, and various historical, literary and community societies.
Clare wrote the BBC Radio 4 Reith Lecture quiz 2018, and reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today. Among others, she has also blogged for Refugee Action, Safe Passage and Project Propeller, the annual air veterans' reunion.
Clare continues to support Save the Children and English PEN, and volunteers as the Patron of Reading at Saffron Walden County High School.
The Women Who Flew for Hitler was published in the UK and USA in hardback and as an audio-book, to excellent reviews in The Times, Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, New Statesman, Literary Journal, TLS, The Week, The Oldie and features in the Daily Mail, BBC History magazine, Britain at War magazine and New York Post.
Radio and TV has included BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme, Women's Hour and numerous regional radio shows. TV highlight was Clare's part in David Jason's Secret Service for More4.
Podcasts included Dan Snow's 'History Hit', BBC History Magazine 'History Extra', and the Bletchley Park podcast.
Clare was Chair of the Judges for the Historical Writers Association Non-Fiction Award 2017. The winning book was This Orient Isle by Jerry Brotton.
Literary and History Festivals included Cheltenham, Althorp, Dublin, Henley, Isle of Wight, Beverley, Milton Keynes, Wimpole, Gloucester, Lavenham and the BBC History Festival in York. Clare was also delighted to become an Honorary Patron of The Wimpole History Festival.
Clare gave a TEDx talk at Stormont, and spoke for the University Women's Club; Central Family Court; JW3 Jewish Centre; HWA 'History by the River'; Ognisko Polskie – the Polish Club in London; and the Imperial War Museum Duxford for their Battle of Britain day. She also led her tour of SOE sites in London-Paris for Historical Trips.
In May Clare helped unveil a bronze bust of Krystyna Skarbek by artist Ian Wolter at Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club in London.
Clare continues to host events at Saffron Screen, interviewing scriptwriter Alex von Tunzelmann after a screening of her film Churchill, and author Shrabani Basu after Abdul and Victoria.
The exhibition Respected and Protected: The Rights of Children, featuring Clare's first book subject, Eglantyne Jebb, the founder of Save the Children, continues at London's Central Family Court, 42 High Holborn.
Clare continues to volunteer as the Patron of Reading at Saffron Walden County High School, and for English PEN.
TV included Clare commenting on Eva Braun's home movies for Channel 5's 'Adolf & Eva: Love & War' www.channel5.com/show/adolf-eva-love-war and an appearance on BBC 'Look East' to discuss the unveiling of 4 new blue plaques to honour SOE agents: bbc.in/2ggc1SL
Radio highlight was talking with Gen Sir Graeme Lamb and Matthew Paris about Krystyna Skarbek/Christine Granville for BBC Radio 4, 'Great Lives'.
Penguin Random House USA published The Spy Who Loved as an audiobook: http://ow.ly/QVE3306E2vU
As well as leading a tour of SOE sites in London-Paris for Historical Trips, Clare gave a talk for the FANY and spoke at a range of literary and historical festivals and events around the country.
In June, Clare was proud to join Writers Against Racism, and she supported English PEN's Refugee writing anthology book launch in July.
In March, Royal Mail honoured Clare's first biographical subject, Eglantyne Jebb, among other British humanitarians in set of stamps.
Clare contracted as historical consultant for Universal Studios film of The Spy Who Loved
Clare speaks at The British Library, Liverpool John Moores University, Cambridge University Polish Society, Alderney literary festival, Waterstones Piccadilly, the Aldershot Military History Festival for Special Forces Week, the Harrogate History Festival and the launch of Katy Carr's album Polonia at Ognisko, The Polish Hearth Club.
Clare interviewed on BBC Radio 2, 'The Arts Show'; NewsTalk Radio Ireland and LiveFM Ireland
The Spy Who Loved featured in The Wall Street Journal
Clare writes about female special agents for The Telegraph
The Spy Who Loved optioned by Universal Studios.
English Heritage shortlist Krystyna Skarbek to receive a Blue Plaque in London.
The Spy Who Loved published in China and Hungary, in paperback in the USA, and as a British audiobook. Vogue calls it 'one of the summer's most spell-binding sagas'.
Then Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, and Polish Ambassador Witold Sobkow, lay flowers with Clare at Krystyna Skarbek/Christine Granville's grave.
The Folio Society republish Xan Fielding's Hide & Seek with an introduction by Clare.
Clare interviews Rebecca Lenkiewicz, co-writer of Ida.
Clare becomes Patron of Reading at Saffron Walden County High School.
Poland awards Clare the 'Bene Merito' national honour, presented at the Polish Embassy by then Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.
Clare appears on BBC1 News, ITV News, Channel 5, and the The History Channel.
The Spy Who Loved published in Poland, and in the USA to excellent reviews in The Wall Street Journal, and by Ben Macintyre in The New York Times.
The Spy Who Loved ranked by Amazon as a 'Best Book of the Month' for June and July, a 'Favourite Book of Spring', and a 'Best Book of the year So Far'.
Clare lectures at among other places the National Army Museum and the Imperial War Museum Churchill War Rooms in London, and the Warsaw Rising Museum in Warsaw.
The Spy Who Loved published in Britain to excellent reviews in The Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The TLS, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Express, The Sunday Express, The Spectator, The Economist, and The Literary Review among others.
Clare interviewed on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme, and 'Women's Hour'.
Clare lectures at, among other venues and festivals, the Polish Embassy in London, the Special Forces Club, the London Capital Club, the Oxford, Cambridge, Cheltenham, Dartington and Isle of Wight literary festivals, and the the Chalke Valley History Festival.
The Woman Who Saved the Children published to excellent reviews in the Daily Mail, The TLS and The Sunday Times. The book has won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club prize.
Then Prime Minister Gordon Brown describes The Woman Who Saved the Children as 'a truly brilliant book'.
Clare lectures at the Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge and London literature festivals among others, and at events in USA.
Clare interviewed on BBC Radio 4 'Women's Hour', and BBC Radio 2's 'Good Morning Sunday'
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Les Polonaises de Chopin sont un ensemble de pièces musicales composées par Frédéric Chopin, majoritairement pour le piano soliste. S'adjoignent une composition pour musique de chambre lIntroduction et Polonaise brillante en do majeur, op. 3, composée pour violoncelle et piano et une concertante l'Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante op. 22, pour piano et orchestre, qui existe aussi pour piano seul. Chopin a écrit sa première polonaise en 1817, alors qu'il avait 7 ans ; sa dernière est la Polonaise-Fantaisie de 1846, trois ans avant sa mort. Parmi les polonaises les plus connues figurent la Polonaise « militaire » en la, op. 40, n° 1, et la Polonaise « héroïque » ou « au tambour » en la♭, op. 53.

Comme avec les mazurkas, Chopin s'inspire d'une danse traditionnelle, de caractère cérémonial et de tempo modéré. Dans presque toutes ses polonaises Chopin donne cette indication de tempo, notée maestoso dans ses manuscrits. Si Chopin a popularisé le genre des polonaises, il n'est pas le premier à en composer, lui-même faisant référence à celles de Carl Maria von Weber, et Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

Chopin a écrit au moins 23 polonaises pour piano seul, trois ont été publiées à titre posthume avec des numéros d'opus, six ont été publiées à titre posthume sans numéro d'opus, au moins sept sont perdues. La grande partie de ces danses, est composée quand il vit en Pologne. La première est aussi sa toute première composition alors qu'il est agé de sept ans, et est publiée par son père, la dernière l'est en 1829. Après cette date, et son départ du pays à la suite de l'invasion russe, il reste cinq ans sans en composer. En 1834 il reprend la composition de polonaises, qui rompent avec l'esprit et le style de ses compositions de jeunesse, elles traduisent ses années d'exil et témoignent de son patriotisme. Ces sept  polonaises sont les seules publiées de son vivant.

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Sauf indications, elles sont composées pour piano seul. Abréviations catalogues : B pour Brown, KK pour Kobylanska, et S1 et P1 pour Chominski.

 Plusieurs polonaises perdues (KK Vf )
 Polonaise no 11, en sol mineur, composée et publiée en 1817 sans numéro d'opus, dédicacée à la comtesse Wiktoria Skarbek, (B. 1, KK IIa/1 S1/1) éditée par le père de Chopin.
 Polonaise no 12 en si bémol majeur, composée en 1817, et publiée en 1947 (B. 3, KK IVa/1, P1/1).
 Deux polonaises présentées le 26 septembre 1818 à l'impératrice Maria Fyodorovna, mère du tsar Alexandre Ier de Russie, à l'occasion de sa visite à Varsovie ; elles sont aujourd'hui perdues.
 Polonaise no 13 en la bémol majeur, composée en 1821 et publiée en 1902 dédicacée à  Wojciech Żywny (B. 5, KK IVa/2, P1/2 ) l'attribution à Chopin est mise en doute.
 Polonaise en sol dièse mineur, composée en 1822, et publiée en 1864 dédicacée à Mme. Du-Pont (B. 6, KK IVa/3, P1/3). La date de 1824 est proposée par certaines sources.
 Polonaise datée de 1825, sur des thèmes d'après Rossini et Spontini (Le Barbier de Séville); mentionnée par Chopin dans une lettre datée de novembre 1825, perdue (KK Vf).
 Polonaise no 8 en ré mineur, Op. posth. 71/1, composée en 1825, publiée en 1855 (B. 11).
 Polonaise no 15 dite Polonaise de l'«Adieu» en si bémol mineur composée vers 1826-27, publiée en 1879 (B. 13, KK IVa/5, P1/5), dédicace à "son ami Guillaume Kolberg, en partant pour Reinertz". Inclut une citation d'après La gazza ladra de  Rossini.
 Polonaise no 9 en si bémol majeur, Op. posth. 71/2, composée en 1828, publiée en 1855 (B. 24).
 Polonaise no 10 en fa mineur, Op. posth. 71/3, composée en 1828, publiée en 1855 (B. 30).
 Polonaise no 16 en sol bémol majeur, composée en 1829 (juillet), publiée en 1870 (B. 36, KK IVa/8, P1/8)
 Introduction et Polonaise brillante pour violoncelle et piano en ut majeur op. 3, composée en 1829-30, publiée en 1831 (B. 41/52).
 Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante en mi bémol majeur op. 22, composé en 1830-34, publié en 1836 (B. 58/88). Pour piano et orchestre, il existe aussi une version pour piano seul.
 Polonaise composée vers juillet 1831 (KK Vc/1), perdue.
 Polonaise mentionnée dans une lettre de Chopin datée du 10 septembre 1832 (KK Vc/3).
 Deux Polonaises, opus 26: no 1 en ut dièse mineur, allegro appassionato (B. 90/1) et no 2 en mi bémol mineur (B. 90/2), maestoso, composées en 1834-35 et publiées en 1836. Dédicacées à Joseph Dessauer.
 Deux Polonaises, opus 40, n° 1, allegro con brio dite « Militaire » (B. 120) et n° 2, allegro maestoso (B. 121), composées en 1838-39 (octobre 1838 pour la no 1) dédicacées à Julian Fontana.
 Polonaise no 5, en fa dièse mineur opus 44 dite « tragique » (B. 135), composée en 1840-41 et publiée en 1841. Dédicacée à mme la Princesse Charles de Beauveau, née de Komar.
 Polonaise no 6, en la bémol majeur, opus 53 dite « héroïque » (B. 147), composée en 1842 et publiée en 1843. Dédicacée à Auguste Léo.
 Polonaise-Fantaisie en la bémol majeur op. 61 (B. 159, composée en 1845-46 et publiée en 1846. Dédicacée à Mme A. Veyret.

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Microsoft warns of new supply chain attacks by Russian-backed Nobelium group
The Russian-backed hacking group responsible for the SolarWinds attack has been targeting more companies with the goal of disrupting the worldwide IT supply chain. In a blog post published Monday, Microsoft cautioned of new attacks by Nobelium, revealing that it notified 140 resellers and technology service providers targeted by the group. As part of an ongoing investigation, Microsoft said it believes as many as 14 of these organizations have been compromised since May. Incident response policy (TechRepublic Premium). Known for an attack last year that exploited a security flaw in network monitoring software from SolarWinds, Nobelium has lately been targeting a different segment, specifically resellers and other service providers that manage cloud services and other technologies for customers. The group's likely goal is to obtain direct access that resellers have to the IT systems of their customers. If successful, Nobelium would then have a way to impersonate a technology provider and attack its downstream customers. "These attacks have been a part of a larger wave of Nobelium activities this summer," Microsoft said. "In fact, between July 1 and October 19 this year, we informed 609 customers that they had been attacked 22,868 times by Nobelium, with a success rate in the low single digits. By comparison, prior to July 1, 2021, we had notified customers about attacks from all nation-state actors 20,500 times over the past three years." SolarWinds attack: Cybersecurity experts share lessons learned and how to protect your business (TechRepublic). Identified as part of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, Nobelium is just one of the players in the Kremlin's efforts to gain access to organizations in the technology supply chain to conduct surveillance. The so-called cyber cold war has been heating up in recent years as nation states and groups operating on their behalf have launched attacks designed to not only spy on but destabilize rival governments. The U.S. hasn't been shy about pointing the finger at Russia and China as two of the main perpetrators behind several key incidents. The 2020 SolarWinds hack took advantage of a security vulnerability in the firm's Orion networking monitor platform. By exploiting this flaw, the attackers were able to monitor internal emails at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments and compromise other government agencies and private sector companies around the world, all of whom used the Orion product. Initially, the culprit was publicly identified as a Russian-backed group; eventually the U.S. and other entities placed the blame specifically on Nobelium. To carry out the latest incidents outlined by Microsoft on Monday, Nobelium employed such techniques as phishing campaigns and password spraying, a brute-force tactic through which hackers use automated tools to try to obtain the passwords of a large number of accounts in one shot. This trick relies on the inclination of people to use weak passwords or reuse their passwords across multiple sites. "Nobelium is a truly persistent adversary," said Jake Williams, co-founder and CTO at BreachQuest. " Often organizations fail to fully remediate incidents, leaving the threat actor access to the network after the remediation is considered complete. Nobelium is one of the best in the threat actor ecosystem at remaining undetected after a remediation attempt. This is not a DIY project for most organizations and will likely require professional assistance to be successful due to the variety of tools and tradecraft used." SolarWinds-related cyberattacks pose grave risk to government and private sector, says CISA (TechRepublic). In another blog post published Monday, Microsoft issued warnings to cloud service providers, organizations that rely on elevated privileges and downstream customers, all of whom could be vulnerable to attacks from Nobelium. The company said that it discovered the group targeting privileged accounts of service providers to move laterally in cloud environments and gain access to downstream customers. Noting that Nobelium didn't exploit a security vulnerability this time as it did in the SolarWinds hack, Microsoft said the group's more recent tactics have included supply chain attacks, token theft, API abuse, and spear phishing. "When cybercriminals find an attack method that works, they stick with it," said Panorays CTO and co-founder Demi Ben-Ari. " So it's not surprising that the Nobelium threat group, which was responsible for the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack last year, is continuing to target downstream customers through their service providers in order to inflict maximum damage." In its blog post, Microsoft issued several specific recommendations for cloud providers and their customers, such as enabling multi-factor authentication, checking activity logs and removing delegated administrative privileges when no longer needed. Microsoft's recommendations are thorough but also time-consuming to implement. That type of effort poses challenges for many organizations. "Implementation of some of the recommended mitigation measures, such as reviewing, hardening and monitoring all tenant administrator accounts, reviewing service provider permissions and reviewing auditing logs, should be table stakes for security in any larger organization," Williams said. "However, the reality is that most organizations are resource strapped. This makes complying with these recommendations difficult for more organizations." But even organizations lacking in time, resources or staff can better secure and protect themselves with some core cyber hygiene practices. "The good news is that organizations can help prevent these kinds of attacks by implementing security best practices including enabling MFA and minimizing access privileges," Ben-Ari said. "To accomplish this rapidly and effectively, however, it's crucial to have a robust and automated third-party security management program in place to assess supply chain partners, close cyber gaps and continuously monitor for any issues." Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping abreast of the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices. Delivered Tuesdays and Thursdays
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Accountants, It's Time to Take the Driver's Seat to Mitigate Climate Change
Stathis Gould | March 11, 2020
Join IFAC & ACCA for a virtual Climate Week event on Tuesday, September 22, focused on creating value in a climate emergency
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As the impacts of climate change accelerate, treating climate as a systemic risk means that climate policy has to influence change in the system. Carbon pricing mechanisms are therefore a necessity (although not a panacea) as price ultimately changes behavior and choices.
Carbon pricing directly encourages investment in innovative low-carbon technologies that would more quickly reduce emissions. Economists and business leaders recognize this and are pushing for carbon pricing through the Climate Leadership Council, which proposes a plan for carbon dividends that will cut US CO2 emissions in half. As has been shown by British Columbia, introducing a carbon tax helped cut emissions with no negative impact on the province's growth rate.
Unfortunately, much of the progress on climate action so far amount to baby steps. As was made abundantly clear at the World Economic Forum this year, "audit geeks" and accountants have an important role to play.
We know that businesses that fail to address the prospect of carbon taxation and higher carbon prices will face great costs to both their bottom-lines—a global carbon tax is estimated to cost businesses $4 trillion—and their reputations. It's time that accountants help move the needle more significantly—and more globally.
As the global voice of the accountancy profession, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) supports market-based policy and regulatory initiatives that lead organizations toward low-carbon business models as well as more reliable, relevant, and comparable disclosures on climate risk. The chief executives of the Accounting Bodies Network of the Prince of Wales's Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) initiative also highlight the need for market-based policy incentives as well as better disclosure in their Call to Action in Response to Climate Change.
Carbon pricing regimes and a global carbon market can help countries get closer to the ambitious targets set by the global Paris Agreement in 2015. As climate action becomes a more urgent political priority, governments cannot be satisfied with incremental improvements in reporting and disclosures alone. This is where market-based policy comes in. It ensures that those most responsible for climate change are paying for its impacts.
Carbon pricing either through a carbon tax or emissions trading schemes (ETS), gives businesses the flexibility to select their own response and adoption strategies while specifically reflecting the social cost of CO2 emissions into a company's financial statements. Those clear financial consequences are likely to drive action to mitigate emissions and reduce demand for carbon-intensive products and services. Business will treat these costs like any other operating cost and aim to reduce them.
An increasing number of companies are already applying internal carbon pricing to promote change within their operations and investments. For example, amid intense scrutiny aimed at the entire technology sector for failing to reckon with its climate footprint, Microsoft applies internal carbon pricing to drive its investment in renewable energy and increase energy efficiency.
Improving reporting on climate risk and its financial implications—and moving toward new models—is essential. This is a critical time for accountants to not just prepare for inevitable carbon pricing, but to get ahead of it.
In their roles as CFOs and finance professionals, accountants can ensure their organizations are future-fit by helping make choices that factor in potential carbon pricing—and the coming surge in climate-related regulation. This includes utilizing internal pricing to inform decisions about capital investments and to better identify risks and opportunities and how strategies and plans might need adjusting.
By identifying climate risk and assessing the strategic, operational and financial implications, accountants are in a good position to contribute to discussions that lead to low-carbon business models that support sustainability and profitability.
If, as a profession, we fail to identify and empower these changes, the question will come: Where were the accountants when these make-or-break decisions were made?
If we want business to respond to the climate emergency, we need to look down the road rather than in the rearview mirror. It's time for accountants to take the driver's seat.
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Stathis Gould is responsible for IFAC member engagement and leads IFAC's advocacy for professional accountants working in business (PAIB) and the public sector. A key element of his work is developing thought leadership and guidance in support of enhancing the recognition of and confidence in professional accountants as CFOs, business leaders, and value partners in the context of sustainability/ESG, data and digital transformation, and other emerging business trends and issues. Before joining IFAC, Stathis worked at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), where he was responsible for planning and overseeing a program of policy and research that promoted and developed management accountancy. Prior to serving the accountancy profession, he worked in various roles in the private and public sectors in the UK. There, Stathis delivered financial and performance management in the National Health Service and worked for a technology company responsible for delivering the localization of software and content across the globe. Stathis holds a BA in European Business Studies, an MBA (with distinction), and a postgraduate certificate in Environmental Management, Economics, and Policy. He is a member of the Institute of Management Accountants. See more by Stathis Gould
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The Inland Empire Economic Partnership and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce announced today that UPS Senior Chief Information Officer Juan Perez will deliver a keynote address at its annual one-day conference, 2017 Southern California Logistics & Supply Chain Summit, taking place April 20 at the Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center in Pomona.
Perez will join more than 500 attendees and over 20 industry experts in providing information on the state of the logistics and supply chain industry, the economic engine of Southern California.
Perez is the Chief Information Officer for UPS and a member of the UPS Management Committee, which is responsible for the company's long-range vision and strategy.
At the Summit, Perez will be sharing on the company's technological advancements in logistics and supply chain including UPS's Package Flow Technologies and ORION, the On-road Integrated Optimization and Navigation system that optimizes delivery routes to improve service and efficiencies. He also supported the development of the UPS Access Point™ Network technology. UPS Access Point locations allow customers to choose when, where, and how they want their packages delivered.
In 2013, he was recognized by Computerworld as a Premier 100 IT Leader. In 2015, Perez was also recognized as one of the top 100 Hispanic IT leaders by the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC) and by the Atlanta Telecom Professionals (ATP) with the 2015 Leadership Award demonstrating UPS's leadership in technology. He has also been named as a 2016 Top Latino Leader by the Council for Latino Workplace Equity.
UPS is the major sponsor of this year's Logistics & Supply Chain Summit, an annual event co-hosted by the Inland Empire Economic Partnership and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.
Summit attendees will learn from logistics and supply chain industry leaders as they share their experiences in growing and managing a profitable business and discuss the issues that face one of the region's signature industries.
More information, including registration and sponsorship information, is available on the summit website, www.socalsupplychainsummit.com.
The Summit is organized by the Inland Empire Economic Partnership and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce with key support from the Drucker School Center for Supply Chain & Logistics, Distribution Management Association and the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals.


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