Sandra and Sean combine their significant talents to produce music across all genres as Body and Soul Duo. From acoustic jazz standards to dance music including curent Top 10 hits, their backing tracks and sound equipment are state of the art and replicates the sound of a full band.
Total professionals, the duo always dresses to suit the occasion - from funky Sunday sessions to formal corporate events. They will only add to the success of your event or venue.
It was great! It was really lovely.
Sarah, Manager, Logan and Albert Hotel 2017.
"Sandra and Sean really know how to rock out! We had people leaving their party upstairs in the function room to come and enjoy the great music in the public bar. We love having them play because they play such great tunes with so much energy. They clearly love what they do and are so good at it"
Josephine Frohlich, Functions Manager, Mr & Mrs G's Riverbar Brisbane. March 2018.
"Sandra and Sean are my go-to band for any function enquiries looking for live entertainment. They are thorough professionals who can be relied upon to do a great job. Their repertoire is nothing short of astounding - so many great tunes which people of all ages can enjoy. Their sound system is first class and pumps out a great sound. Don't look any further if you want your function to be amazing."
Kathleen Campbell, Brisbane May 2018.
"I booked Sandra and Sean to play at my recent birthday party. The guests were astounded at the sound and talent coming from these two people. The range of songs was amazing. They look great, sound great and added so much to my birthday celebrations."
Steve - Manager, Hotel Kununurra - 2017.
"Sean and Sandra recently played in our beer garden on Saturday night as part of their Tougher than Leather Tour in May 2017 and really rocked the place. Several of our long-time regulars commented that they were the best band we'd ever had in the pub! This is one duo that really delivers a sound much bigger than any other duo we've had here. We hope they return."
Julian - Manager, Tennant Creek Hotel, Northern Territory - 2017.
"It takes a good band to keep our clientele happy. Body and Soul had a great repertoire and socked it to us for hours. Sandra's vocals are top-class and Sean's guitar-playing is jaw-dropping."
Darren - Gullivers Tavern, Kununurra, Western Australia - 2017.
"Body and Soul toured WA and the Territory recently and played at the Tavern on a Saturday night. Their sound was amazing - like a full band - and the punters got to enjoy a fantastic range of different styles of music from pop to RnB and rock classics."
Ang Wright - Marketing Manager, Gap View Hotel, Alice Springs - May 2017.
"Recently we had Sandra and Sean perform two shows as a Cancer Council Fund Raiser. Body & Soul Duo and Willie Nelson's Love Child were both terrific shows, fun, energetic and crowd engaging. Sandra and Sean are both professional, friendly and love what they do. We are looking forward to having them back again to entertain the people of Alice Springs."
Thanks Sandra & Sean for making our daughter's 40th celebration a really memorable night. The guests were unanimous in praising your music and its vibrancy. Your selection and presentation really got the place bouncing and we really appreciated that unasked you continued well beyond the agreed finish time to keep the atmosphere going. It was a fantastic night.
We recently had Body and Soul play at my Mother's 70th birthday party.. Sandra and Sean are an outstanding duo who tailor made their sets to our requests and filled the dance floor. Everybody thoroughly enjoyed the music. They also extended their time by an hour and a half to keep the party vibe going, at no additional cost. Can't thank them enough..
"Thanks go to Sandra and Sean for yet another wonderful event over the Jumpers and Jazz Festival in Warwick..
Our guests at Rupert's Bar & Grill thoroughly enjoyed your RnB Divas and Blutopia shows Sandra's vocals are outstanding and she really knows how to engage with the audience. What Sean can do on his guitar is fantastic. He too can certainly get the crowd going. We would highly recommend venues looking for talent to get in touch with Body and Soul. You won't be disappointed. Your guests will love you for providing such talented performers. We don't think you can go wrong."
Body and Soul Duo has delighted our patrons with their varied music styles. They've become a favourite act at our Sunday afternoon session because they connect to all ages, with a good balance of sound and a great cross-section of material.
If you want sophisticated back ground music with an ambience of high fidelity, or a solid sound of swing, up beat tempos with percussion and perfection on vocals, then Body and Soul's the clear choice.
I have booked these artists for well-established clients across Queensland and have consistently received feedback about their fine musical talent and their ability to engage an audience. Sandra's vocals and personality shine through in each performance and Sean's virtuosic skill in a wide range of genres.
"Sandra and Sean have brought a touch of class to our establishment. I've enjoyed watching our clientele grow due to Body and Souls relaxed yet professional approach to entertainment, having performed here since November 2011. Both Sandra and Sean are a pleasure to deal with and I'd happily recommend this duo to any prospective employer."
We send a heart felt thanks and recommendation for the professionalism, musicianship and sheer enthusiasm of both Sandra's singing and Sean's guitar work. A not to be missed class act for every occasion - thank you Sandra and Sean for your help in pulling in the crowds..
Thank-you for adding such a great touch to party; lots of guests commented on what a treat it was to have live music. In particular, I'd like to thank-you for being punctual (it's nice to be able to rely on someone) and for meeting the brief we discussed as I designed the event. I feel confident that I could use your talents again to suit a variety of situations and I'm sure I'll be in touch..
The hotel guest loved Sandra and guitarist Sean. I found her to be friendly, professional and of course a great performer. Her music suited the tone and atmosphere of our Restaurant perfectly, and we really appreciated that she was willing to be flexible and would play guest's requests . I would definitely recommend Sandra to anyone looking for a jazz singer/band. In fact, one of the function Guest at the Hotel , remarked that he also loved her voice and would be looking to hire Sandra for future events at the venue! Thank You and look forward to working with you in the future.
We look forward to helping you make your next event really memorable by including us as your entertainers. Drop us a line to discuss details and get a quote.


An exciting opportunity for an experienced PA/EA to support Finance Director and wider team for this iconic British fashion retailer. They seeking a super organised, pro-active and highly adaptable EA to provide full senior level support.
A high profile role working directly for the Finance Director, but with regular exposure to the whole Executive Team and key stakeholders across.
As the gatekeeper for your Directors, you will provide invaluable support managing their diaries, arranging their travel bookings and itineraries, and supporting control of expenditure. As well as making sure every appointment and meeting are flawlessly scheduled, you'll guarantee that each Director is equipped with the necessary information and resources to meet their obligations.
You will remain vigilant of Directors' movements and responsibilities at all times by regularly monitoring their mailboxes and responding to relevant requests on their behalf. You will also coordinate and organise meetings by liaising with stakeholders in a timely manner.
You will oversee the smooth running of the office, which includes but is not limited to being a point of contact for all key stakeholders, sorting and actioning incoming office mail, and handling ad hoc queries from all areas of the business.
Your assistance will also be required for ad-hoc off-sites, events and visits from VIP guests.
As an experienced and forward-thinking EA, you will have a background working in a fast-paced demanding environment, ideally in the retail industry. You will have experience managing diaries and travel bookings for multiple people at a time, specifically at the senior level.
Focused and systematic, you will have the ability to manage and prioritise multiple demands. You will effectively managed your time between completing any ad hoc requests and fulfilling your normal day-to-day responsibilities. Your excellent attention-to-detail and organisational capability will ensure you respond to Directors' requests accurately and efficiently.
Your high level of resilience and ability to remain calm under pressure will enable you to deal with ambiguity as well as work effectively within certain constraints and timelines. You will operate proactively and be able to anticipate relevant issues before they arise. Your flexibility will also allow you to be responsive in situations that may change unexpectedly.


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package com.wandrell.tabletop.punkapocalyptic.report.datatype;

import java.util.Locale;

import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.base.datatype.AbstractDataType;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.defaults.Defaults;
import net.sf.dynamicreports.report.definition.expression.DRIValueFormatter;

import com.wandrell.tabletop.punkapocalyptic.model.availability.option.ArmorOption;

public final class ArmorOptionDataType extends
        AbstractDataType<ArmorOption, ArmorOption> {

    private static final long                            serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private final DRIValueFormatter<String, ArmorOption> formatter;

    public ArmorOptionDataType(
            final DRIValueFormatter<String, ArmorOption> formatter) {
        super();

        this.formatter = formatter;
    }

    @Override
    public final String getPattern() {
        return Defaults.getDefaults().getStringType().getPattern();
    }

    @Override
    public final DRIValueFormatter<String, ArmorOption> getValueFormatter() {
        return formatter;
    }

    @Override
    public final String valueToString(final ArmorOption value,
            final Locale locale) {
        return value.getArmor().getNameToken();
    }

}

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The macrolide antibiotics include natural members, prodrugs and semisynthetic derivatives. These drugs are indicated in a variety of infections and are often combined with other drug therapies.
Alprazolam, midazolam, temazepam, and triazolam are among the known substrates of CYP 3A4.
In summary, co-administration of a macrolide antibiotic (with the exception of azithromycin) with one of the highly metabolized benzodiazepines mentioned below should be avoided, or the dose of the benzodiazepine should be substantially reduced.
Erythromycin and Clarithromycin significantly increased triazolam peak plasma concentrations, prolonged elimination half-life.
The inhibitory effect of clarithromycin was greater than that of erythromycin.
Erythromycin and Clarithromycin are potent inhibitors; In contrast, azithromycin is a weak inhibitor.
Erythromycin resulted in undesirably severe and excessively long-lasting hypnotic effects of midazolam.
Erythromycin causes the inhibition of CYP 3A4-mediated metabolism of midazolam.
Clarithromycin reduces the clearance of midazolam.
Erythromycin impairs the metabolic clearance of alprazolam.
Clozapine: is a new antipsychotic agent used in the management of schizophrenia resistant to other neuroleptic medications.
Erythromycin has been reported to interact with this agent, presumably through inhibition of its metabolic clearance; case-reports of serious side-effects – including seizure, somnolence, disorientation, difficulty in coordination and ambulation – associated with the co-administration of erythromycin and clozapine .This drug combination should therefore be avoided.
clarithromycin inhibited the metabolic clearance (CYP3A-mediated) of pimozide resulting in elevation of plasma concentrations, significant prolongation of the QT interval, thereby increasing the risk of pimozide cardio toxicity. Accordingly, this drug association is contraindicated.
Erythromycin inhibit the CYP3A4 and, consequently, the metabolism of cisapride causing prolongation of QT intervals, and deaths.
Clarithromycin seems to exhibit a similar adverse reaction when co-administered with cisapride.
No studies have been yet reported regarding the potential of the other macrolides for such an interaction with cisapride.
Erythromycin inhibit CYP 3A4 causing increase in serum level of Simvastatin leading to toxic effect on skeletal muscle that may range from diffuse myalgia and myopathy to severe rhabdomyolysis which is dose –related.
Rhabdomyolysis is a complication known to be associated with concomitant use of lovastatin and erythromycin, clarithromycin or azithromycin. In order to reduce this risk, limiting the daily dose of lovastatin to 20 mg has been advocated.
disopyramide-erythromycin or clarithromycin also has the same interaction.
erythromycin cause an increase in hypoprothrombinaemic effect of warfarin which is associated with bleeding complications. .
Cyclosporin is extensively metabolized by CYP 3A pathway so there is considerable potential for interaction with macrolides. This is of particular relevance since cyclosporin has low therapeutic index.
So when macrolides are used in patients under cyclosporin therapy, trough serum cyclosporin concentrations and serum creatinine concentrations must frequently be monitored to allow appropriate adjustment of the cyclosporin dosage.
Tacrolimus is a new immunosuppressive agent that reacts with macrolides by the same mechanism.
Erythromycin and clarithromycin decreased theophylline clearance. From a practical viewpoint, given the relative unpredictability of the extent of the theophylline–macrolide interaction, it remains necessary to monitor serum theophylline concentrations whatever the macrolide being used, especially in those patients with baseline theophylline concentrations in the upper therapeutic range (15–20 mg l−1).
Interaction between erythromycin and carbamazepine.
Following oral administration of this macrolide, a two-to fourfold increase in carbamazepine serum concentration is observed. In carbamazepine-treated patients, serious manifestations of toxicity occur within the 3 days of the start of erythromycin therapy. The mechanism underlying this drug interaction is assumed to be the macrolide-induced inhibition of the CYP 3A4 isoform for which carbamazepine is a substrate.
Azithromycin and dirithromycin appear to be free from interaction with carbamazepine.
Terfenadine is a non-sedating antihistamine that undergoes nearly complete first-pass biotransformation through CYP 3A4 pathway to form an acid metabolite. In susceptible individuals, accumulation of the parent compound can cause QT interval prolongation that may result in torsade de pointes. Hazardous drug interactions involving this agent and some macrolides have been described. Given that the drug is essentially withdrawn from the market, it will not be discussed further.
Loratadine, another H1-receptor antagonist, is metabolized primarily by CYP 3A4 and, to a lesser extent, by CYP 2D6. Erythromycin reduced the metabolic clearance of loratadine.
Astemizole drug interactions with terfenadine have been extrapolated to astemizole. Warnings about the concomitant use of terfenadine and macrolides apply also for astemizole.
Clinical ergotism has resulted from the co-administration of ergots and erythromycin. This adverse effect is ascribed to the macrolide-induced inhibition of CYP 3A4, which is responsible for the metabolism of the ergots.
Accordingly, concomitant use of ergot alkaloids with erythromycin or clarithromycin is contraindicated.
People should be careful, for example, if they are taking erythromycin with vitamin K or vitamin B6, because the interactions between these can deplete the nutritional effects of the vitamins, but your doctor can advise accordingly. Erythromycin can also interact with calcium, digitalis from the foxglove plant and folic acid, so ask your doctor or pharmacist if these appear in your diet.
In addition, the physiological response to food intake, in particular gastric acid secretion, may reduce the bioavailability of azithromycin capsules, erythromycin stearate or enteric coated.


Pink lemonade adds a hint of tartness to the cake and cuts down on the sweetness factor. The crumbly crust paired with the velvety ice cream and rose pink colour is divine, and also adorable.
Mix cookie crumbs with melted Mirage margarine and sugar until mixture adheres to itself. If it's still too crumbly, add a tablespoon more of melted margarine.
Press crumb mixture into a parchment lined square cake pan. Chill for at least 30 minutes.
Mix softened ice cream with concentrated lemonade. Transfer ice cream mixture atop crust and smooth the top. Freeze firm for at least 6 hours or overnight. You can keep the pie in the freezer for up to a week.
Serve with whipped cream and sliced strawberries if desired.


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Abbotsford Office Opens
The grand opening of the Abbotsford Spirit of BC Committee office at the campus of the University College of the Fraser Valley took place in May 2006. The event included more than 100 people, who were treated to fresh bannock, barbequed salmon and performances by a live band.
"We're celebrating much more than an office opening," said Hon. John van Dongen, Minister of State for Intergovernmental Relations and MLA for Abbotsford - Clayburn. "We're honouring the Spirit of BC committee volunteers and their work for our community so far, and the great plans they have for the future."
"The Spirit of BC Committee has done a great deal to build community spirit in Abbotsford," added Hon. Mike de Jong, Minister of Labour and Citizens' Services and MLA for Abbotsford - Mount Lehman. "Now that they have an official home I hope more of our citizens will be encouraged to get involved in creating lasting legacies for our community."
Spirit of BC is a province-wide program that involves 95 Spirit of BC committees, representing over 200 communities across the province. These committees support local programs and help create opportunities in sport and recreation, arts, literacy, volunteerism, business and tourism. The program is supported by the Province of British Columbia. Visit SpiritofBC.com for more information.

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• Be proficient in spoken and written English.
Interested students are invited to submit their applications for fellowship to the Birzeit University's External Academic Relations Office no later than August 20, 2018. Application forms can be downloaded here: Birzeit Erasmus application form 2019.
In addition to the academic programme, the fellowships covers travel expenses and visa costs, campus housing and daily allowance during the study period. By the end of the programme, students will be awarded a post-graduate diploma in international gender studies and might be able to transfer 30 ECTS to the academic programme in their home country.


28/09/2013 · Please can you advise me on how I can better keep my afro and make it soft and for it to grow a lot better with out breaking. If u also know some good products and how to use them it would be greatly appreciated Thank you ⌂ how to make a phone holder for car 2/06/2017 · This video is the demonstration how you could make your straight hair into an Afro If your hair is silky straight this might not work.
8/03/2013 · Depends on how long your hair is and how tight your curls are. Once it reaches a certain length then it'll begin to fall down on its own. For me, it's about 2 years worth of hair growth (about 12 inches) before my hair stops growing out like an afro and falls down.
2/06/2017 · This video is the demonstration how you could make your straight hair into an Afro If your hair is silky straight this might not work.
Starting with Straight Hair: 1. Wash and dry your hair. 2. Try a mousse or volumizing cream made for heat if you want to add more texture to your hair.


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Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMFN)
9.32-1.18 (-11.24%)
Open 9.50
Bid 0.00 x 0
Ask 0.00 x 0
Day's Range 8.52 - 9.50
Avg. Volume 44,877
PE Ratio (TTM) 776.67
Earnings Date Jul 30, 2020
Forward Dividend & Yield N/A (N/A)
Ex-Dividend Date Sep 11, 2008
1y Target Est N/A
STATION PLACE SECURITIZATION TRUST 2021-WL1 -- Moody's upgrades provisional rating on one class of certificates to be issued by Station Place Securitization Trust 2021-WL1
Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") has been advised that the size of the issuance for Station Place Securitization Trust 2021-WL1 (the transaction) has increased from $400,000,000 to $600,000,000 since Moody's initially assigned provisional ratings to 6 classes of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) issued by the transaction on January 13, 2021. The securities in this transaction are backed by a revolving pool of newly originated first-lien, fixed rate and adjustable rate, residential mortgage loans which are eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae ("the agencies"). The pool may include FHA streamline mortgage loans or VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinancing Loan (IRRR) which may have limited valuation and documentation, by no more than 15% of the balance.
Economic Growth Expected to Accelerate as Vaccine Deployment Quickens and Warmer Weather Approaches
The U.S. economy is expected to grow 5.3 percent in 2021, a substantial improvement from the currently projected 2.7 percent contraction in 2020, with a strong pick-up in growth projected to commence over the spring months, according to the latest commentary from the Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. The latest forecast of full-year 2021 real GDP growth is an upgrade of 0.8 percentage points from the previous month's forecast, reflecting the ESR Group's view that the expansion of COVID-19 vaccination efforts and the approach of warmer weather will likely reverse the economic weakness experienced at the end of 2020. The ESR Group also noted that the continued recovery will likely be considerably faster than the recovery following the Great Recession and upgraded its 2022 growth forecast by 0.4 percentage points to 3.6 percent. Immediate risks to the forecast center around the path of the pandemic and progress on vaccination distribution. Impediments to that process could result in meaningful, adverse impacts to the timeline of projected growth. Otherwise, the ESR Group believes that conditions are favorable for a strong recovery, with inflationary pressure and higher interest rates being the most significant longer-term risks to growth.
China's economy rebounds from pandemic, grows 2.3% in 2020
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac can keep future earnings, per agreement between Treasury and regulators
'Until the Enterprises can raise private capital, they are at risk of failing in the next housing crisis,' Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria said, in announcing the agreement.


This weekend was our Thanksgiving giveaway at the food pantry. The local Jaycees (a volunteer group. Do we not have these in Minnesota? I feel like they have a ton here and I keep reading about them in the South and other parts of the country but I've never heard of them in MN) have been working with Friends In Deed for about fifteen years to put on the annual Thanksgiving Gobbler. They partner with us and give food to make Thanksgiving meals to our clients, do all the fundraising and food collecting, put together bags for the clients and give them all out. All I really had to do was be there to tell them where to put things in the pantry and lay down the law with my clients who tried to take advantage of people they didn't recognize.
Sunday when we had the actual giveaway was cold and rainy and we were stuck outside. It made the clients go down to a mere trickle of people, which worked out well for us because there was never a long line, but we still had people coming the whole time and gave away food to about 200 families.
Just a small portion of the prepared bags on Saturday when they were all prepared.
Car full of mashed potato boxes.
And work getting done in the pantry.
"When death finds you, may it find you alive"


The Rose-Hulman Advanced Powertrain Engineering Squad (APES) recently moved into a new home at their campus's Student Innovation Center. The facility was opened during Rose-Hulman's Homecoming weekend at the end of September and team members have since spent hours streamlining the tools and materials used in their shop. Working in a clean shop is of utmost importance to the Rose-Hulman APES, since it is the area where the team spends the majority of its time. The shop is a place for work, sweat, and the building of future dreams. The team takes the motto, "A Clean Shop Is a Dream Shop," to heart in the EcoCAR 2 pit area.
What are the main reasons to keep a clean shop? According to team leader Jon Nibert, "a clean shop is a sign of good stewardship, a concerted effort to make the area as clean as possible shows care for the work being done." The team agreed that safety was the number one factor. To reinforce this, safety glasses were made readily available upon entering the EcoCAR 2 pit area.
A clean shop also makes it easy to find tools, which helps the team run efficiently. "A clean shop leads to a stress-free work area as well," said John Martin, a junior member of the EcoCAR 2 team. The team plans to keep the shop as spotless as possible throughout the season, in order to keep the work flow going and keep the concentration where it's needed: Building a fantastic vehicle for EcoCAR 2!
EcoCAR 2 organizers look forward to checking out Rose-Hulman's clean new shop at their EcoCAR Facility Inspection this March.


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import logging

logger = logging.getLogger('collective.flattr.migrations.migrations')

def migrate_1000_1001(portal_setup):
    """ Doing nothing. Here the profile-collective.flattr:migrate_1000_1001
    should be imported
    """
    logger.info('Running all import steps from collective.flattr:migration_1000_1001')
    portal_setup.runAllImportStepsFromProfile('profile-collective.flattr:migration_1000_1001')
    return


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Au monde ist eine Oper in 20 Szenen von Philippe Boesmans (Musik) mit einem Libretto von Joël Pommerat. Die Uraufführung fand am 30. März 2014 im Brüsseler Opernhaus La Monnaie/De Munt statt.

Handlung

Im Haus eines reichen Waffenfabrikanten versammelt sich seine Familie. Anlass scheint der Geburtstag der jüngsten Tochter zu sein, aber der offenbar schwer kranke Fabrikant möchte auch seine Nachfolge im Unternehmen klären. Protagonisten sind außer diesem seine drei Töchter, zwei Söhne, ein Schwiegersohn und eine fremde Frau, die letzterer ins Haus bringt. Jede Person hat eigene Probleme und Geheimnisse, die im Verlauf der Handlung symbolhaft angedeutet, aber nie völlig offenbart werden. Themen wie Mord, Krankheiten oder Inzest klingen an. Außer dem jüngsten Sohn Ori wird keine Person namentlich vorgestellt.

Szene 1. Die Familie versammelt sich im Haus des Fabrikanten. Auch die Rückkehr des jüngsten Sohnes Ori, der nach fünf Jahren seine Laufbahn in der Armee aufgegeben hat, steht bevor. Im Zimmer befinden sich außer dem Vater bereits sein ältester Sohn, der Ehemann der ältesten Tochter und die mittlere Tochter, die eine Karriere als Fernsehstar gemacht hat.

Szene 2. Die jüngste Tochter, die als Ersatz für ein verschwundenes Mädchens adoptiert worden war, fühlt sich in der Familie ungeliebt und unsicher. Ihre mittlere Schwester versucht, sie zu trösten. Auch die älteste Schwester ist anwesend. Der älteste Sohn und der Schwager schauen kurz herein. Sie wundern sich, warum Ori noch nicht da ist.

Szene 3. Endlich trifft Ori ein. Der Vater fragt ihn, warum er die Armee verlassen habe und welche Pläne er für die Zukunft habe. Ori gibt keine klare Antwort.

Szene 4. Die jüngste Tochter schaltet den Fernseher ein. Die zweite ist darüber ungehalten und schaltet ihn wieder aus. Ori gibt zu, dass er ein Buch geschrieben habe – eine "kleine Phantasie" – das er herumreicht. Alle sehen sich dem Einband an, doch niemand schaut hinein. Plötzlich platzt eine fremde Frau in die Gesellschaft. Der Schwager erklärt, dass er sie engagiert habe, damit sie seine Frau während ihrer Schwangerschaft unterstützt. Die beiden ziehen sich in ein Nebenzimmer zurück, um über ihre Aufgaben zu sprechen.

Szene 5. In einer möglicherweise als Traum der zweiten Tochter zu interpretierenden Szene bewegt die fremde Frau die Lippen im Playback-Verfahren synchron zu dem von einem Mann gesungenen Lied My Way.

Szene 6. Die jüngste Tochter ist immer noch verzweifelt, weil sie sich in der Familie nicht akzeptiert fühlt. Ihre beiden Schwestern versuchen sie zu trösten.

Szene 7. Ori trifft sich mit der ältesten Tochter in deren Schlafzimmer. Die zweite Tochter kommt hinzu, um mit ihnen über die Probleme und Albträume der jüngsten zu sprechen. Nachdem sie wieder gegangen ist, erzählt die ältere Schwester Ori von ihren Kindheitserlebnissen. Die beiden küssen sich.

Szene 8. Die jüngste Tochter gesteht ihrem Schwager, dass sie ältere Männer bevorzuge. Er glaubt ihr jedoch nicht und hält ihr einen Vortrag über Wahrheit und Lüge. Sie schaltet den Fernseher an, worauf die zweite Tochter einen Wutanfall bekommt und sie zwingt, ihn wieder auszuschalten.

Szene 9. In einer weiteren möglichen Traumszene der mittleren Tochter liebkost die fremde Frau die jüngste Tochter.

Szene 10. Die zweite Tochter wurde durch Rufe der fremden Frau geweckt und unterhält sich mit ihr, die in einer fremden Sprache antwortet. Ihr älterer Bruder und der Vater kommen kurz hinzu. Als sie gegangen sind, erkennt die zweite Tochter, das ihr Schwager in einer dunklen Ecke des Zimmers alles angehört hat. Ori verkündet, dass er nach draußen gehen wolle, um frische Luft zu schnappen.

Szene 11. In Gegenwart ihres schlafenden Vaters berichtet die zweite Schwester von drei in der Nacht ermordeten Frauen. Sie hat Angst. Nur der Gedanke an den Schutz durch Männer wie ihren Vater beruhigt sie. Verstört kehrt Ori von seinem Spaziergang zurück. Er hat noch nicht die ersehnte Ruhe gefunden und zieht sich zurück. Die zweite Tochter bemerkt, dass Ori Probleme mit seinen Augen hat. Die fremde Frau und der Schwager kommen hinzu. Alle schauen gebannt auf den Fernseher – zuerst begeistert, dann mit zunehmendem Entsetzen. Die älteste Schwester schaltet den Fernseher schließlich aus, doch die jüngste ist so mitgenommen, dass sie zusammenbricht. In einer möglichen Traumszene der zweiten Schwester singt die fremde Frau noch einmal im Playback My Way.

Szene 12. Die beiden älteren Schwestern sorgen sich über Oris Gesundheit. Der inzwischen schwer kranke Vater hat alle zum Familienrat zusammengerufen. Ori kommt mit Verspätung. Der Vater teilt ihm mit, dass er ihn ausersehen habe, die Leitung des Unternehmens zu übernehmen. Der verstört wirkende Ori zögert jedoch mit seiner Zustimmung. Er verlässt das Zimmer verlässt und läuft dabei wie blind gegen eine Wand. Als die Schwestern wieder allein sind, klagt die jüngste erneut über ihre eigenen Sorgen. Die mittlere Schwester stellt fest, dass die älteste es offenbar vermeidet, über ihre Schwangerschaft zu sprechen.

Szene 13. Die mittlere Schwester vertraut der älteren an, dass sie von der fremden Frau geträumt habe. Seit dem Familienrat ist eine Woche vergangen, doch Ori gibt im Gespräch mit der zweiten Schwester zu, dass er sich noch nicht zu einer Entscheidung durchringen konnte. Sie vermeint, Blut auf seinem Gesicht zu sehen.

Szene 14. Bei der nächsten Familienversammlung erwartet der Vater ungeduldig die Entscheidung Oris. Der kommt erneut zu spät und gesteht den anderen seine Unentschlossenheit.

Szene 15. Die jüngste Tochter offenbart ihrem Vater ihre Vorliebe für ältere Männer und gibt zu, dass sie für ihn schwärmt.

Szene 16. In der folgenden möglichen Traumszene der zweiten Tochter stellt Ori die fremde Frau zur Rede: Er behauptet, ihre Identität zu kennen und keine Angst vor ihr zu haben. Dann ermordet er sie.

Szene 17. Eine weitere Traumszene – Die fremde Frau "singt" wieder My Way. Diesmal ist sie unbekleidet.

Szene 18. Die beiden älteren Töchter haben aus dem Zimmer der jüngeren Schreie gehört und stehen besorgt vor der Tür. Ihr Schwager berichtet, dass er den Vater nicht finden könne – da kommt dieser aus dem Zimmer der jüngsten Tochter. Die zweite Tochter erzählt der ältesten von Gerüchten, nach denen es Bilder von Ori gebe, auf denen er mit Blut beschmiert sei. Die fremde Frau erscheint und beschimpft den Ehemann der ältesten Tochter in ihrer eigenen fremdartigen Sprache.

Szene 19. Die älteste Tochter gesteht der mittleren, dass sie nicht wisse, wer der Vater ihres Kindes sei. Der schwerkranke Vater teilt den anderen unter Mühen mit, dass Ori nun einverstanden sei, die Familiengeschäfte zu übernehmen. Die zweite Tochter freut sich über eine neue Fernsehshow mit Tieren, die sie übernehmen soll.

Szene 20. Ori trägt nun eine schwarze Brille. Die älteste Schwester versichert ihm, dass sie ihn verstehe. Alle versammeln sich vor dem Fernseher, um die Show der zweiten Tochter zu sehen – doch der Vater ist verwirrt und erkennt sie nicht. Er fragt sie ernsthaft, ob er sie nicht aus dem Fernsehen kenne. Der älteste Sohn und die älteste Tochter führen ihn aus dem Zimmer. Die zweite Tochter umarmt die fremde Frau. Schließlich sind nur noch die drei Schwestern im Raum, und die älteste schaltet den Fernseher ein. Sie und die jüngste sind hingerissen vom Auftritt der mittleren Schwester und versichern ihr lachend, wie schön und lustig sie sei. Die zweite Schwester jedoch bricht von Gefühlen überwältigt zusammen.

Gestaltung

Instrumentation

Die Orchesterbesetzung der Oper enthält die folgenden Instrumente:

 Holzbläser: zwei Flöten, zwei Oboen (2. auch Englischhorn), zwei Klarinetten (2. auch Bassklarinette), zwei Fagotte (2. auch Kontrafagott)
 Blechbläser: zwei Hörner, zwei Trompeten, zwei Posaunen, Tuba
 Harfe
 Klavier, Celesta
 Schlagzeug (vier Spieler): Pauken, Glockenspiel, Vibraphon, Maracas, Tamtam, Triangel, kleines Becken, vier Tumbas, Crotales, glass chimes, Röhrenglocken, Große Trommel, vier Bongos, vier Toms, zwei Becken, Snare drum, Tenor drum, Marimba, drei Holzblocks, Tamburin, Templeblocks, Peitsche
 Akkordeon
 Streicher

Musik

Die Tonsprache des Werks ist postmodern und weitgehend tonal. Die Musik ist melodisch. Sie erinnert an diejenige des späten 19. Jahrhunderts, enthält aber auch einige modernere Elemente. Die instrumentalen Zwischenspiele gemahnen an die Zwischenmusiken älterer Filmmusik. An manchen Stellen erinnert die Musik an die Licht- und Schattenspiele in Debussys Pelléas et Mélisande. Es gibt liedhafte Arien mit Anklängen an den Belcanto. Aus dem Bereich der Unterhaltungsmusik kommen Elemente wie das Akkordeon, das Chanson-Zitat und ein Tango. Die Grundierung ist dennoch düster mit betonten Bässen und Blechbläsern.

Libretto

Das Libretto der Oper stammt von dem Dramatiker und Regisseur Joël Pommerat. Es basiert auf seinem eigenen gleichnamigen Theaterstück, dass 2004 im Théâtre national de Strasbourg uraufgeführt worden war. Pommerat hatte Au monde wie alle seine Stücke in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den vorgesehenen Darstellern entwickelt und musste die Charaktere nun einem anderen Autor anvertrauen. Lediglich die Rolle der fremden Frau (eine Schauspielerinnen-Partie) konnte weiterhin von Ruth Olaizola gespielt werden. Deren von Olaizola selbst geschriebener Text steht in einer vom Baskischen inspirierten Sprache.

Werkgeschichte

Bei der Uraufführung am 30. März 2014 im Brüsseler Opernhaus La Monnaie/De Munt sangen und spielten Richard Angas (Vater), Werner van Mechelen (ältester Sohn), Stéphane Degout (Ori), Charlotte Hellekant (älteste Tochter), Patricia Petibon (zweite Tochter), Fflur Wyn-Rogers (jüngste Tochter), Yann Beuron (Ehemann der ältesten Tochter), Ruth Olaizola (fremde Frau). Die musikalische Leitung des Symphonieorchesters von La Monnaie hatte Patrick Davin. Regie führte der Librettist Joël Pommerat, Bühne und Lichtdesign stammten von Eric Soyer, und die Kostüme von Isabelle Deffin. Diese Elemente hatte Pommerat von der Produktion der Theatervorlage übernommen. Die Aufführung wurde von Arte Concert im Internet übertragen und von den International Opera Awards 2015 als "beste Uraufführung" ausgezeichnet.

Im Februar 2015 übernahm die Pariser Opéra-Comique die Produktion. Abgesehen von Frode Olsen als Vater und Philippe Sly als Ori blieb die Besetzung unverändert. Hier spielte das Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, wieder unter Leitung von Patrick Davin.

Die deutsche Erstaufführung fand am 6. Dezember 2015 im Theater Aachen statt. Es handelte sich um eine Neuproduktion in einer Inszenierung von Ewa Teilmans mit einem Bühnenbild von Oliver Brendel und Kostümen von Andreas Becker. Die musikalische Leitung hatte Justus Thorau. Die Darsteller waren Randall Jakobsh (Vater), Pawl Lawreszuk (ältester Sohn), Hrólfur Sæmundsson (Ori), Sanja Radisic (älteste Tochter), Camille Schnoor (mittlere Tochter), Suzanne Jerosme (jüngste Tochter) und Johan Weigel (Ehemann der ältesten Tochter) und Marika Meoli (fremde Frau).

Aufnahmen

 3./9. April 2014 – Patrick Davin (Dirigent), Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie. Richard Angas (Vater), Werner van Mechelen (ältester Sohn), Stéphane Degout (Ori), Charlotte Hellekant (älteste Tochter), Patricia Petibon (zweite Tochter), Fflur Wyn-Rogers (jüngste Tochter), Yann Beuron (Ehemann der ältesten Tochter), Ruth Olaizola (fremde Frau). Live aus dem Théâtre La Monnaie Brüssel in der Besetzung der Uraufführung. Audio: Cyprès 0004643CYP (2 CD). Video: Internet-Übertragung auf Arte Concert.
 26. Februar 2015 – Patrick Davin (Dirigent), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Frode Olsen (Vater), Werner van Mechelen (ältester Sohn), Philippe Sly (Ori), Charlotte Hellekant (älteste Tochter), Patricia Petibon (zweite Tochter), Fflur Wyn-Rogers (jüngste Tochter), Yann Beuron (Ehemann der ältesten Tochter), Ruth Olaizola (fremde Frau). Live aus der Opéra-Comique Paris. Radiosendung vom 14. März 2015 auf France Musique.

Weblinks

 Inhaltsangabe und Werkinformationen (PDF, englisch) auf der Website der Opéra-Comique
 Inhaltsangabe und Werkhintergründe (PDF, französisch) auf der Website der Radio Télévision Belge Francophone
 Frieder Reininghaus: Rezension der Uraufführung in der Neuen Musikzeitung
 Christoph Schmitz: Rezension der Uraufführung im Deutschlandfunk
 Au Monde. Aufführungsinformationen im Archiv des Theater Aachen

Einzelnachweise

Operntitel
Oper in französischer Sprache
Oper von Philippe Boesmans
Oper aus dem 21. Jahrhundert
Musik 2014

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Choosing the Next Watchman
In a recent New York Times op-ed, Geoffrey R. Stone, of the University of
Chicago, called attention to the disingenuousness of the argument that judges—in
particular, Supreme Court justices—are ever merely implementing the "original
meaning" of the Constitution. Indeed, every time a pundit or a politician
advocates for the appointment of judges who will "strictly construe" the
Constitution, we should remember there is not a judge on the Court—now or
ever—who did not believe he or she was not strictly construing the Constitution.
Whether a commentator agrees likely has as much to do with his or her feelings
about the result as it does the methodology the judge employed to determine the
meaning of the Constitution.
We will have another opportunity to revisit these issues when President Obama
announces his nomination of a successor to Justice John Paul Stevens. He has
said, as Presidents do, that he has no litmus test for potential nominees. At this
writing, two federal court judges—Merrick Garland of the Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit and Diane Wood of the Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit—as well as the Solicitor General, Elena Kagan, have been named
as the leading candidates.
Each of these attorneys attended an elite law school, clerked for a U.S. Supreme
Court justice, and has had a storied legal career. Garland is a former federal
prosecutor whom President Clinton nominated for the bench in 1997. Wood is a
former law professor and lawyer in the Clinton Justice Department; President
Clinton nominated her for the bench in 1995. Kagan worked as a lawyer in the
Clinton administration and was dean at Harvard Law School before assuming the
Solicitor General's post.
As Timothy Egan, writing in the New York Times, recently noted, and as Renée
Landers and I discussed in Jurist following the nomination of Justice Sonia
Sotomayor, debates about strict construction and litmus tests aside, the Supreme
Court is sorely lacking in diversity of experience. With the retirement of David
Souter last year, there is no justice on the Court with significant experience in
state government. With Justice Stevens's retirement, there is no justice who did
not attend either Harvard or Yale for law school, and none who has not spent a
significant part of his or her career working in either academia or for the federal
Of the three leading candidates, only Judge Wood was educated outside of the
northeast, having attended the University of Texas for college and law school.
Why is this important? Because, when all the justices share similar educational
and professional experiences, the Court as a whole may be missing legal
perspectives informed by, say, the experience of having attended a law school
where doctrine is as important as theory, or of having worked in private practice
or in a state court system, where most American lawyers spend their days and
most cases, civil and criminal, are tried.
"In the end," as Professor Landers and I wrote last year, "by confining the
shortlist of potential nominees to those lawyers with certain backgrounds,
Presidents overlook the opportunity to add to the Supreme Court another kind of
diversity, one that may be just as important as racial and gender diversity. These
Presidents deprive the public of justices who may see the world and the legal
issues it presents in ways that are different and more helpful than those justices
whose views on the law were shaped by essentially similar educational and
professional experiences."
Posted by Lawrence Friedman at 4/27/2010 No comments:
Labels: Friedman, Nominations, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Stevens and Bright Line Rules
Taking up the thread from my colleague, Professor Friedman, I too think now is a good time to think about some of the themes that we can see in Justice Stevens' writings. Like Professor Friedman, I too see a consistent effort by Justice Stevens to resist an overly formalistic approach to constitutional jurisprudence. While many who favor formalism do so in the belief that this is the best way to curb judicial activism, Justice Stevens's writings illustrate how such a goal can prove illusory when it comes to cabining the authority of judges.
There is no better example of this than in the contrast between Justice Stevens's and Justice Scalia's opinions in Kyllo v. United States. In Kyllo, the police, using a thermal imaging device, observed the suspect's home from across the street. The police suspected Kyllo of illegally growing marijuana in his home and they hoped that the thermal imaging device would help them detect any excessive heat emanating from the house. The police scan revealed that Kyllo's roof and a side wall were relatively hot. Based on this and other information, the police obtained a search warrant and discovered marijuana and evidence of a growing operation in the house.
The issue for the Court was whether Kyllo had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the heat emanating from his house that could be detected by this special imaging device. Concerned about the impact that advancing technology can have on privacy rights, a majority of the Court, in an opinion by Justice Scalia, held that Kyllo did have a reasonable expectation of privacy and the observations by the police constituted a warrantless search of the home. Critical to Justice Scalia's analysis was his concern about protecting the sanctity of the home, the very core area of Fourth Amendment protection, from invasion through technological advances. He attempted to draw a bright line by ruling that sensory-enhanced observations that reveal information regarding the interior of the home that would not otherwise be observed without physical intrusion constitute a search, where the technology is not yet in use by the general public.
In his dissent, Justice Stevens took a less formalistic approach to the problem, noting that the heat waves observed by the thermal imager were not in fact information about the interior of the home. Rather, the device detected heat emanating off of the walls of the home, and that same information could be observed in any number of ways. Justice Stevens also saw the formalistic bright line rule that the majority hoped to craft as illusory. Most significantly, Justice Stevens noted that by linking the Fourth Amendment protections to the availability of new technology, Justice Scalia was setting the stage for a reduction in privacy protections once the technology achieves a certain level of general use.
At the end of this dissenting opinion, Justice Stevens states that, rather then resolving the rather mundane issue before it, Justice Scalia and the majority attempted to craft an all-encompassing rule for the future. According to Justice Stevens, the Court departed from the "tried and true counsel of judicial restraint."
It is quite a role reversal to have Justice Stevens accusing Justice Scalia of excessive judicial activism, but his dissenting opinion in Kyllo demonstrates well one of the key guideposts of his jurisprudence. Wary of formalism and cognizant that an excessive devotion to bright line rules can produce benefits that are more perceived then real, Justice Stevens frequently opted for a different, more nuanced and, in many cases, a more common sense approach to the constitutional problems that confront the Court.
Victor Hansen
Posted by Victor Hansen at 4/23/2010 No comments:
Labels: Hansen, Justice Stevens, Privacy
Justice Stevens and the Commerce Clause
With the retirement announcement last week of Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, it's not too soon to begin to think about how history will view his 34 years on the high court. As many commentators have noted, Justice Stevens was the last appointed without a televised confirmation, and he may have been the last truly non-partisan pick. Looking over his many opinions, what stands out, particularly in more recent years, is not his leadership of the so-called "liberal" wing of the U.S. Supreme Court, but his unyielding effort to steer the Court away from a formalism that threatened at times to undermine the continuing vitality of our constitutional commitments.
An example is Justice Stevens's opinion for the majority in Gonzales v. Raich. That 2005 case concerned the question whether the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) prevented individuals in California from possessing, obtaining, or manufacturing cannabis for their personal medical use. At the time, California was one of several states that authorized individuals to use marijuana for medicinal purposes. Whether these laws ran afoul of the CSA depended in part upon whether the CSA was within Congress's power to enact under the Commerce Clause.
That the Act could be constitutionally challenged was a result of the Court's attempt to rein in Congress's power under the Commerce Clause in two earlier cases, United States v. Lopez, a 1995 decision, and United States v. Morrison, a 2000 decision. In each of those cases, a majority of the Court concluded that Congress could not regulate intrastate activity having a substantial effect on interstate commerce unless that activity has some relation to "commerce" or some some kind of "economic enterprise." In Lopez, the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 failed this test because the Act criminalized mere possession of a gun, which, in the Court's view, was not an inherently commercial or economic activity.
One could reasonably have believed that this reason would apply to a federal law prohibiting marijuana possession for personal medicinal use, and that is precisely what Justice Sandra Day O'Connor argued in her Gonzales dissent--that the "possession and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes has no apparent commercial character." As she correctly observed, "Everyone agrees that the marijuana at issue in this case was never in the stream of commerce."
This line of reasoning, if carried to its logical conclusion, would have severely curtailed the ability of Congress to act under the Commerce Clause. But Justice Stevens, in his Gonzales majority opinion, steered the Court back toward an approach more deferential to Congressional judgments. Under that approach, when Congress elects to regulate a national market in a commodity--and there is no real doubt the CSA is an effort to do just that--the Court will not second-guess Congress's determination that the exemption of local possession of one commodity could have a substantial effect on the larger interstate market.
Of course, the Commerce Clause must have some limits--the Constitution, after all, is a grant of enumerated powers to the federal government. But whether an activity does or does not have a commercial character is a judicially-contrived limit that privileges judicial assessment of just what makes an activity commercial over the decided judgment of the majority of the people's representatives in Congress. So what limit is there on the commerce power? Well, there is democracy: as Chief Justice John Marshall put it nearly two centuries ago, "The wisdom and the discretion of Congress, their identity with the people, and the influence which their constituents possess at election are, in this, as in many other instances ... the sole restraints on which they have relied, to secure them from its abuse."
Labels: Commerce Clause, Friedman, Justice Stevens
Close Counts in Horseshoes and Miranda Warnings
In February, the Court announced the latest in a line of cases related to the sufficiency of Miranda warnings. In Florida v. Powell, the Court held that even though the police did not specifically inform the suspect that he had the right to consult with an attorney during questioning, what he was told was sufficient to convey that information.
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Court set out what it hoped would be a set of simple, easy to apply set of warnings that the police must give to a suspect before engaging in any custodial interrogation. The Miranda Court hoped that these warnings would help to level the playing field between a suspect and the police in the pressure-filled and coercive environment of a custodial interrogation. The Court also believed that a simple set of warnings would help to extract the Supreme Court and the lower courts from having to sort out the very fact-bound and inherently conflicting evidence that had, up to that time, characterized much of the litigation over the voluntariness of confessions.
Looking back now 44 years after Miranda, Florida v. Powell is another reminder that the Miranda Court's vision has not been realized. On the contrary, Miranda has created a complex, confusing and inherently inconsistent body of caselaw and it leaves us wondering whether Miranda really solved anything.
The specific rights and warnings that the Court set out in Miranda were: the right to remain silent, the warning that anything the suspect says could be used against the suspect, the right to have an attorney present during questioning, and the right to have an attorney appointed if the suspect could not afford one. In Powell, the Court was asked to rule on the adequacy of the standard warnings used by the Tampa Police Department. The Tampa warnings did not specifically tell the suspect that he or she had the right to have an attorney present during questioning. Rather, the warnings told the suspect that he or she has the right to talk to a lawyer before questioning, and that the suspect has the "right to use any of these rights at any time you want during questioning." The Court, in an opinion written by Justice Ginsberg, found that, while these warnings did not track exactly the requirements of Miranda, the warnings sufficiently informed the suspect that he or she could have an attorney present during questioning.
It is true that the Tampa Police Department's warnings do not depart drastically from the Miranda requirements, but the question remains: if Miranda set out such bright line guidance, why depart from it at all? Could it be that the police are hoping that by simply throwing in a catch-all phrase at the end of the warning, the suspect will not fully make the connection between the right to consult with counsel before questioning and the right to have counsel present during questioning? When the Court approves of these "close enough" warnings procedures like the one in Powell, is it also signaling that it too does not think much of the protections provided by Miranda? What does seem sure is that a healthy majority of the Court, both liberals and conservatives, will continue to pursue a course of Miranda jurisprudence that departs from the simple guidance that the Miranda Court hoped to achieve.
Labels: 5th Amendment, Hansen, Miranda, Police Interrogation
J.D. Salinger's Privacy Precedent
At the time of his death in February, J.D. Salinger was as well known for the lengths to which he went to protect his privacy as for his stories about Holden Caulfield and the Glass family. Those efforts included litigation, in a case Salinger brought against Random House, publisher of an unauthorized biography called J.D. Salinger: A Writing Life, written by the other named defendant, the writer Ian Hamilton.
Hamilton researched and wrote the book in the mid-1980s, without any assistance from his subject or the vast majority of the subject's friends and acquaintances. This was not unusual; in several chapters, Hamilton canvassed the many failed attempts by journalists over the years to learn more about the reclusive Salinger, including visits to Cornish, New Hampshire, where Salinger resided, to query the townspeople about the legendary and mysterious author. (Among the townspeople whom reporters approached was Judge Learned Hand, who summered in Cornish and declined to speak to an reporter from Newsweek about his friend and neighbor. In the book Random House eventually published, In Search of J.D. Salinger, Hamilton discussed their warm friendship, as did Gerald Gunther, many years later, in his biography of Hand.)
Though individuals closest to Salinger would not cooperate with him, Hamilton did have access to many of Salinger's unpublished letters. In the first complete draft of A Writing Life, he quoted from those letters, so that readers might get a sense of the way in which Salinger expressed himself—his "tone," as Hamilton put it. When Salinger (having obtained a galley copy of the then-unpublished book) objected, Hamilton turned to paraphrasing the letters. But Salinger did not withdraw his objection, and instead sought a preliminary injunction in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Random House defended on the ground of fair use. The defendants prevailed in the District Court, but the First Circuit had other ideas. In Salinger v. Random House, the court reasoned:
To deny a biographer like Hamilton the opportunity to copy the expressive content of unpublished letters is not, as appellees contend, to interfere in any significant way with the process of enhancing public knowledge of history or contemporary events. The facts may be reported. Salinger's letters contain a number of facts that students of his life and writings will no doubt find of interest, and Hamilton is entirely free to fashion a biography that reports these facts. But Salinger has a right to protect the expressive content of his unpublished writings for the term of his copyright, and that right prevails over a claim of fair use under "ordinary circumstances."
The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari.
The First Circuit's decision provides protection for unpublished work—at least, it provides protection for the work's "expressive content," as distinguished from the "facts." But does the decision really protect privacy? That depends, of course, on how privacy is defined and measured. Alan Westin famously described privacy as "the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others." Privacy, in other words, is about the extent to which we can control the dissemination of information about ourselves.
On this understanding, Salinger v. Random House really doesn't offer any kind of broad guarantee of personal privacy. To be sure, the decision safeguards those form of the thoughts that we commit to paper but do not publish. And this is something—we may take some comfort in knowing that the law will protect the way in which we choose to express ourselves within the confines of a communication we neither intend nor desire to share with the world.
Importantly, however, the Salinger case provides virtually no protection for the information contained in an unpublished expression of thought, which can be mined for what it is worth. "The facts," the court concluded, still "may be reported." In short, Salinger's effort to stop disclosure of his unpublished letters resulted in a decision that shields the words with which we choose to explain ourselves, not the substance of what we say.
Labels: 1st Amendment, Friedman, Privacy


by Amorim Corks when it comes to aging wine. The university is working with the PlumpJack Group, a wine and hospitality company, cofounded by billionaire philanthropist Gordon Getty and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, to assess the quality and aging potential of different closures. The goal is to provide direction for the industry so vintners can make informed decisions about what to use on their bottles.
The two-year study will analyze wines under three different types of closures—screw caps, synthetic corks and natural corks. The test group, which consists of 200 bottles of Cade Sauvignon Blanc 2011, will be monitored every few months using a spectrometer to detect changes in color. The wines will also be chemically analyzed using oxygen sensors placed inside the bottles. The sensors allow the university to measure how a wine is aging without opening it. The wines that show differences will be opened at the end of the study and tasted to determine if the quality has been compromised.


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Surprise Donation of More Than $435,000 from Staples Funds Local Classroom Projects through DonorsChoose.org
Staples and Katy Perry Help Dallas Teachers Bring Learning to Life in Their Classrooms
Help Teachers in Your Community and Enter for a Chance to Win $50,000 Scholarship
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) announced that every Boston and Metrowest project posted on DonorsChoose.org received full funding as part of Staples' $1 million donation to DonorsChoose.org, a charity that has funded more than 700,000 classroom projects for teachers and has positively affected more than 18 million U.S. students. As part of the Staples for Students campaign, Staples and Katy Perry continue to help teachersmore...
Staples and Katy Perry Help Chicago Teachers Bring Learning to Life in Their Classrooms
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) announced that all college and career prep projects and all middle school and high school literacy projects posted on DonorsChoose.org in Chicago received full funding as part of Staples' $1 million donation to DonorsChoose.org, a charity that has funded more than 700,000 classroom projects for teachers and has positively affected more than 18 million U.S. students. As part of the Staplesmore...
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) announced that every Dallas teacher-led project posted on DonorsChoose.org received full funding as part of Staples' $1 million donation to DonorsChoose.org, a charity that has funded more than 700,000 classroom projects for teachers and has positively affected more than 18 million U.S. students. As part of the Staples for Students program, Staples and Katy Perry continue to help teachersmore...
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Staples Partners with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Enable Youth Learning Opportunities During the Summer
As part of Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Summer Brain Gain program, hundreds of Staples employees are reading to local youth to help combat summer learning loss
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) and Boys & Girls Clubs of America are teaming up this summer to help prevent summer learning loss for thousands of kids and teens. To celebrate National Summer Learning Day on July 14th, over 150 Staples volunteers in 17 communities including Boston, New York, and Denver, will participate in one-to-one or group reading sessions with local youth. Each summer in America, an estimated 43 millionmore...
Katy Perry and Staples Unveil Public Service Announcement to Celebrate and Support Teachers Across America
Staples Made a $1 Million Donation to DonorsChoose.org and Is Encouraging Customers to Donate In-Stores or Online
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New Brunswick government extends Campobello ferry service to address COVID concerns
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick is extending ferry service to Campobello Island until Feb. 7 to address residents' concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Residents of the island — which is connected by a bridge to the state of Maine — want a year-round ferry service so they don't have to enter the United States in order to reach the New Brunswick mainland.
The state of Maine has seen a dramatic spike in COVID cases in recent weeks and had 16,291 active infections as of Friday.
The seasonal ferry service, which transports people from Campobello Island, N.B., to nearby Deer Island, N.B., had already been extended in September and service was due to end on Sunday.
Transportation Minister Jill Green said Friday the service will continue to be offered four days a week, depending on the weather.
She said in an email that discussions have taken place with the federal government, but at this point, no permanent solution is being considered.
C-K residents not fazed by 2nd lockdown
Chatham-Kent residents appear to be unfazed by the new lockdown, saying it has not affected much of the new routine they developed since the first lockdown in March. On Tuesday, Premier Doug Ford announced Ontario would be entering a second state of emergency and as of Jan. 14, a 28-day stay-at-home order came into effect with the exception of exercise and essential outings. "It's got to be done," said Chatham-Kent resident Fred Ansell, 53. "It's one of those things where we don't know what could happen (without a lockdown)." Previously, Ontario implemented a coloured zone system to identify regions with the highest COVID-19 rates to be shut down. Residents agreed this time it was necessary to take a holistic approach. "I think it was necessary even for Chatham-Kent. We need a proper lockdown for a month," said Chatham-Kent resident Man Preet, 29. Preet said to her, the second state of emergency and the stay-at-home order is not much different than the recommendations issued during the holidays, but she hopes it will give the government more power to crack down on individuals breaking COVID-19 protocol. "But it will still be hard to control because anyone can lie about where they're going," she said. A married couple in their 80s also said they believed a lockdown could only be effective if fines were issued. "We've been living the same way for a year; nothing's changed for us. We feel terrible (that people are breaking the rules) because if they did what we did, we would get to where we needed to be," said the 82-year-old woman shopping for both her and her husband so as to not put him at risk. Ansell is also welcoming a shutdown for the schools. Previously his children were doing in-person learning, but with rising cases he said it is not worth the risk. "We have older parents, my kids' grandparents, so it's not worth risking their lives." He said his best advice to other parents trying to home school their children is to take it one day at a time. One resident, Bernie McMillan, said he hates the thought of a province-wide COVID lockdown and would prefer to put the mental health needs of residents first. "This is one of the places with the lowest case count in Southwest Ontario. This is not good for mental health," he said. "I have a friend who is an EA with three kids and she is definitely not having the best time with it." His shopping partner, Dustin Isaac, concurred stating that he was from Walpole Island, which only had one active case, reported on Jan. 11. One thing most residents agreed on was that small local stores deserve the chance. "I think small stores should be allowed to open up as much as box stores," Ansell said. McMillian is sad to see small local antique stores or clothing shops temporarily close when he feels that they will adhere more to social distancing protocols. Ansell added that overall the response both municipally and provincially to COVID-19 has been ad hoc due to the unprecedented nature of the global pandemic. "So it's hard to say, we'll just have to wait until the end of it to see what we could have done differently." Only one resident interviewed said they believed the second lockdown was an attempt by the government to harm small business for a big capital game and felt a communist regime was coming on with the new measures.Jenna Cocullo, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Chatham Voice


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Job Description:Responsible for supporting the Direct to Customer organization's continuous improvement initiatives by structuring and initiating processes and projects to achieve organizational and departmental continuous improvement objectives. Utilizes a broad range of analytical processes, data sources, and business factors to evaluate a diverse set of issues and deliver actionable recommendations to executive sponsors. Provide analytical support by dissecting and structuring a wide range of complex business problems, extracting and analyzing data from a variety of sources, utilizing facts/data to derive a conclusion, and constructing presentations that distill complex analytical findings into communications that are intended to inform and influence decisions related to policy, procedure, and business practices. Responsible for identifying operational opportunities to improve customer experience and reduce cost to serve, initiating and leading cross-functional projects to drive continuous improvement and creating models and processes to measure and communicate improvement. Provide peer mentoring, and internal departmental procedural review and process improvement recommendations to drive overall efficiency deliver ongoing business improvement.Responsibilities:Requires competency in customer focus, change & innovation, strategic thinking, relationship building & influencing, talent management, results focus and inspirational leadership.


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Fiduciary of two ESOPs agrees to pay back misappropriated funds
A trustee of the Gagne Precast Concrete Products Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan has agreed to restore $225,000 to the ESOP and take other corrective action to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By Paula Aven Gladych | Updated on January 03, 2012
A trustee of the Gagne Precast Concrete Products Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan has agreed to restore $225,000 to the ESOP and take other corrective action to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor. The suit alleged that Stephen Thomas individually and as a trustee for the plan violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
The department filed suit against Thomas regarding the Gagne ESOP in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in February 2011, following an investigation by the Boston Regional Office of the department's Employee Benefits Security Administration. The investigation found that Thomas violated his fiduciary duty by misappropriating or improperly diverting plan assets. He also was asked to pay back $75,000 to the Frank L. Woodworth Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, for which he also was a trustee.


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Music Heard on The Air, Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Oumou Sangare, Malian Musician and Auto Executive
Fatoumata Diawara Sings for Peace and the Emancipation of Women in Mali
Marco Werman had the chance to speak with Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, who had landed from Mali's capital Bamako just three days earlier. Like most of her musical colleagues back home right now, music takes a backseat to the daily concerns of war.
The music has died in northern Mali as Islamic extremists exert control
Northern Mali was taken over by militants and Islamic extremists and now they're in the process of implementing a system of Sharia law in that part of the country. That's meant an end to musical performances across the part of the country controlled by the extremists.
Lifestyle & Belief
Music in Northern Mali is Silenced by Islamist Extremists
Extremists in the occupying north of Mali have banned secular music on radio stations.
Anchor Marco Werman profiles Mali's best-known female singer -- Oumou Sangare.


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Afghan Women Leaders
A leadership capacity-building initiative
2011 – Parliament
Mardis de l'ESSEC
Conference at the French Parliament
2014 – Local High Peace Councils
2019 – High Level
French Parliament
The main objective of this new edition of our program was to improve and promote the participation of Afghan women in national governance, politics and the peace process.
During one week in France in June 2019, fifteen high level Afghan women did:
attend a 4-day capacity-building seminar in the following areas: negotiation, conflict management, consensus building, team building and leadership. Issues of women's inclusion in peace processes will also be addressed and participants will be supported in the development of a concrete strategy and action plan to develop their meaningful participation in the peace process in Afghanistan. It will also be an opportunity to create a network of collaboration and mutual aid between them and to strengthen their cohesion, which will contribute to a greater efficiency and the success of their actions;
meet with French women leaders, including MPs and Senators; it will be an opportunity for discussions and exchanges of good practices;
meet the media (through interviews and a press conference) and the public through two major interactive conferences that will allow them to shed light on the situation in Afghanistan, its impact at the regional level and in Europe, and the situation of Afghan women and the challenges they face in this current complex context.
Context (May 2019)
Since the late 1970s, Afghanistan has experienced a state of civil war punctuated by foreign occupation. The Taliban regime has been particularly harsh for women, especially from the point of view of education which was forbidden to them. After the fall of the Taliban government and the appointment of Hamid Karzai as interim president of Afghanistan, the country convened a Constitutional Loya Jirga (Council of Elders) in 2003 and a new constitution was ratified in January 2004. The Afghan Constitution adopted states that "the citizens of Afghanistan – whether male or female – have equal rights and duties before the law". Since then, women have been allowed to return to work, the government no longer forces them to wear the burqa, and they have even been appointed to important positions in the government. Despite all these changes, many challenges remain. The repression of women is still widespread in rural areas where many families continue to prevent their own mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters from participating in public life.
A first presidential election was held in October 2004 and Hamid Karzai was elected President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. It was followed by legislative elections in September 2005. The National Assembly – the first legislature elected freely in Afghanistan since 1973 – began to sit in December 2005, and has included a significant number of women elected. After several elections since then, this number has remained steady thanks to the women quota included in the new constitution. The Afghan Parliament (Wolesi Jirga) has two chambers: the first has 249 seats, of which 69 are currently occupied by women. All these years, elected women and men alike have been confronted with a particular climate of palpable tension at all levels in the country, but also with increasing expectations of the population (most of whom were not satisfied during the previous mandates).
The efforts of the international community are undeniable, the city of Kabul and the big cities have been transformed in a generally positive way. Roads and infrastructure have been built. A professional army is in place. The results of efforts in the education sector, especially girls, are promising. But despite unprecedented investments of the international community, the situation in Afghanistan remains complex and worrying. Clashes and tensions have resumed seriously in recent years. It is very difficult to estimate the number of victims, homeless, internally displaced persons and refugees abroad. The year 2018 was a particularly deadly year.
The result of the last presidential election in 2014 that brought Ashraf Ghani to the helm of the country is still contested. Given the difficulties the country faces, the legislative election of October 2018 was late and the final results are still not officially confirmed. The independent electoral commission has a lot of trouble separating votes from fraud.
The presence of the Taliban in Afghanistan is becoming more and more widespread and the number of victims both within the police force and the civilian population is increasing. US President Donald Trump has appointed a new envoy for reconciliation in Afghanistan (Zalmay Khalilzad). His mission is to coordinate and carry out actions to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table. He tries to find the best way to reach a negotiated settlement of the conflict. The Russians took exactly the same initiative. Bilateral meetings with the Taliban organized at the regional level either by the Americans or the Russians have taken place and recently the pace has accelerated. However, the Taliban still refuse to negotiate with the Afghan government.
Resolution 1325, adopted in 2000 by the UN Security Council, recognizes and encourages the role that women can play in peace and security issues. It takes into account the consequences of the war on women, as well as their contribution to the settlement of conflicts and the perpetuation of peace. Unfortunately, since then, women have been included in very few peace processes and conflict resolution. This is the case in Afghanistan where, in all the initiatives mentioned, Afghan women seem to have no voice: their voices are almost inaudible and they fear being victims of this peace process.
The next presidential election scheduled for the Fall 2019 is worrisome in such a context. The political debate in Kabul has already begun. For the moment, there is no woman candidate.
The coming months are therefore crucial for the country and especially for women as they are facing major challenges. This program aims to meet these needs.


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poet ~ author ~ playwright
lens-based work
poetry/prose
plays/films/broadcasting
public works/exhibitions
sailing projects
stephen | morrison
Ian Stephen is a writer, artist and storyteller from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He graduated from Aberdeen University (B Ed with distinction) before working for 15 years in the coastguard service, based in Stornoway. Since 1995 he has worked full-time in the arts, after winning the inaugural Robert Louis Stevenson award.
The practice of navigating through the geography of stories has been a key element of his work across the arts since a Creative Scotland Award in 2002. Ian was the first artist in residence at StAnza, Scotland's annual poetry festival, creating a verse-blog from a winter voyage to Orkney in the week preceding the 2004 festival. Since then the poem as a track-record of your way through water or overland has also been a key element of his work.From the late 70s on, his poetry and short fiction have been published in numerous UK journals, and in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the USA. His St Kilda lyrics were published in Berlin and performed in Cologne and Bonn. A parallel text new and selected poems, Adrift, was published by Periplum in the Czech Republic.
In 2016 Saraband (Glasgow) published his selection from 35 years of making poetry from observing seaways and shorelines. It was featured in a performance event at Museum nan Eilean and Faclan (Hebridean Book Festival) featuring Peter Urpeth on piano and Garry Carr on double bass.
a new and selected poems on sea-related themes
In his first work of non-fiction, (Adlard Coles Nautical/Bloomsbury, Stephen outlines a history of his personal love-affairs. all of them with boats. He also proposes that there is a useful comparison between navigation and storytelling.
This is the first part of a proposed trilogy linking seascapes and stories.
Stornoway and Fraserbugh
A Book Of Death And Fish (Saraband, 2014)
is Ian's first novel, many years in the making and building on his experience of the short story form. It was a book of the year choice in The Guardian (Robert Macfarlane), The Herald (Candia McWilliam), The Glasgow Review (Graeme Macrae Burnett - 2016 Booker shortlisted author)
It is a book in two parts but the intention is to complete a trilogy, exploring strands of east and west coast Scotland but also the shockwaves of broader European history and the diaspora. Past and present are filtered through the individual gazes of engineer, cook and historian Peter MacAulay and his daughter Anna Richter MacAulay.
Ian is presently completing his second novel, funded by an open project Award from Creative Scotland. It's working title is Sunwise. It is based on linking several traditions relating to an epic Atlantic voyage in an open boat with the wife of the steward of St Kilda aboard. The stories were also woven into a performance Deiseal/Sunwise with new music from Mike Vass and illustrations by Christine Morrison. a filmed version was part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, 2020.
Top image:El Vigo at anchor, Shiant Islands.
All images and video by Ian Stephen except where credited.
© Ian Stephen 2011


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Q: Star micronics receipt printer image from database I have a sm-t300i and im trying to figure out how to print a image from a database. I have the image data but not sure how to plug it in. I have successfuly added a image from the assets but not sure how to from raw image data. Code below is from assets. Also for some reason the image in the code below will not center is there something else i need to do to center the image. Thank you.
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A: Looks like you can just convert the base64 and make it a bitmap
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