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All Stories, General Fiction, Short Fiction
Sonatina by Daun Daemon
May 28, 2020 March 16, 2020 literallystories2014
That's where Kathleen would go if this had happened at a big box store, her carelessness broadcast over the loudspeaker. Instead, she lost something precious in the snow, in deep, cold, silent snow. Beautiful, but impossible to search — unlike the hard floors and ordered aisles of housewares and sports equipment, toiletries and toys.
She lost her ten-year-old daughter, April, and she wonders at the irony of that as she tacks down the icy hillside where her family came to sled nine days ago, in late January. She has plowed through snow every day and called April's name as if trying to invoke a spring thaw. All she sees before her is whiteness, blankness. The trees have lost their shape, becoming mere brushstrokes flat against the snow and sky. Her eyes are trained now for movement, for the odd, the unnatural. Like a little girl huddled against herself. A sudden pang of yearning for April startles her. She slips and tumbles.
Several of the searchers run to her aid, the sheriff reaching her first. She has thought of something important, information about April that he needs. He is close to calling off the search, has been for two days. It has drained the county's rescue budget, volunteers are weary, resources are needed elsewhere, he says. The helicopters and search planes have ceased flying over. Even the tone of local newspaper articles, which she reads every morning before driving the 40 miles out here, has become final.
Kathleen grabs his arm, looks in his drooping, sleepless eyes, and says, "April plays the piano. She was learning a sonatina, an advanced piece for her age. Clementi, I think. In C."
"Yes, Kathleen, you've told us." He says this so kindly that she wants to scream, push him violently away, stomp on his dirty tree-limb-scratched leather jacket. "Are you all right?"
No, she is not all right. She has heard music in the woods for the past four days, a solo that fades in and out, indecipherable. Just now, she almost recognized it, but then the music stopped. If the search is called off, she will never identify the instrument or the tune. She is afraid to tell the sheriff because he will think she is hallucinating. Instead, she says something else.
"She takes lessons every Tuesday from 3:45 until 4:30. I didn't call the piano teacher last week. He will be furious. His time is precious. April must go to her next lesson or he'll drop her."
If she had more tears, they would appear now, but she pushed the last one out three days ago. What she hasn't run out of yet is hope. Like an island castaway with a vial of life-sustaining medicine, she has apportioned a bit of hope for each day.
A woman appears behind the sheriff, his wife. Since the second day, she has hiked this mountain calling April's name and poking in snow drifts with the others. She throws back the hood of her yellow parka and exposes her chafed skin to the biting wind to hear Kathleen better. The day is clear, but bitterly cold, and Kathleen can see small red lines radiating around the woman's nose. She can't bear the sorrow and pity on this woman's face, a look she has seen more often as the days have passed.
The sheriff's wife wears another look, new to Kathleen, or at least one she hasn't noticed until now. It shocks her. It is an accusation: How horrible for you that you are the parent responsible for your child's disappearance. How will you live with yourself?
How will she? Kathleen hadn't considered it. She looks around at the remaining rescue workers, tracking dogs, volunteers. She realizes that other people have had the same thoughts. She feels it now. She backs away from the sheriff and his wife. They let her go without speaking. Everyone else leaves her alone, as they have from the beginning. At first, she had decided they were being respectful, focusing on their duties in the search and giving her the room to be frantic. Instead they are horrified by her, a mother who misplaced her child.
She scrambles toward the woods and again thinks through the circumstances, which she has repeated countless times to the sheriff, the volunteer coordinator, the reporters, her family.
Jim had told her not to go, but the boys were so rowdy, clamoring to race down the hill she had built to mythic proportions in her tales of childhood sledding. She hankered to do anything counter to Jim's wishes. They had descended that far. Only her father knew exactly where the hill lay on the mountain, and his visit with them was almost over, his flight back to the sunny comfort of Florida scheduled for the next day. Against Jim's wishes, she took them: her father, Todd, Matt, and April. She had thought of loading Grendel, their 110-pound Akita, into the Jeep, but at the last minute decided that his paws might freeze if he stayed out in the snow too long. A bad decision. Grendel may have been able to find April in those crucial first minutes.
In the early morning, the sky had been an even pearl gray, the air heavy and moist. The snow hadn't started falling until after their second run down the hill, a steep treeless slope wedged between two densely forested ridges. The bottom of the slope flattened out gradually into a glade, to which an unmarked half-mile path ran from the old logging road where they parked. Until the snow began, they could see from the glade to the top of the long hill and a short distance into the woods. The tiny swirling flakes conspired to confuse and obscure.
Her father was exhausted by the hike to the glade, but the boys had just gotten their feel for the run. One last time, she told them, looking at the darkening sky. The forecast called for heavy snow later in the day. She had planned to be on the road well before the storm began. Her father returned to the Jeep alone. April was tired, too, and he asked if she wanted to go with him. April knew if she did her brothers would tease her later, so she said no, quietly. Kathleen knew she would slow them down, and she should have made her go back to the car. Some part of her wanted to teach April a lesson about the consequence of choices, the part of her that mistakenly thought this the strategy of a conscientious parent. Her second bad decision, the one she has twisted around herself like a shroud these past nine days.
As she and the boys headed toward the hill, Kathleen turned to see April still watching her grandfather's disappearing form. Irritated, Kathleen had called to her sharply.
April!
April turned to her slowly, apprehensively, and Kathleen saw in her daughter everything she had wearied of in Jim. Her deliberate yet soundless manner. Her probing brown eyes. Her fragile body. Even her ordinary hair, mousy and straight, hair that resisted curling with vehemence. How did their genes combine to make her so different from the boys with their sturdy builds and dark blond curls?
They lost her during a snowball fight, which Kathleen started. Todd and Matt ran from her, sidetracking into the woods to gain an advantage. Gleeful, playful, intent — she followed, thinking April was right behind her, calling back once early on for April to keep up. The fight couldn't have lasted more than ten minutes, but by the time Kathleen and the boys had collapsed in a heap of giggles near the top of the hill, April was gone. They hadn't noticed that the snow was falling much faster, filling in their tracks, cutting off the view of the glade below. For a few seconds, Kathleen hesitated. But then …
She's gone back to Grandpa, the boys yelled as they ran ahead, picking up the sleds where they had dropped them. Kathleen hesitated again, this time wondering where April would have turned back, how far up the path. Then her boys called to her for the last run. They would catch up to April, they said, maybe even pass her on the way down.
When they trudged back to the Jeep, having gone crazily off the trail once, disoriented by the thick curtain of flakes, Todd, the middle child, was the first to notice.
Where is April? he demanded of his grandfather.
Where is April? their grandfather, confused, asked the boys.
Then they panicked, looking wildly around and screaming her name. Kathleen emptied her purse into the snow, digging for the cell phone she knew she had tossed onto the kitchen counter before leaving home. She hadn't wanted Jim to disturb them. Her, to disturb her. Kathleen looked up at the dark fortress of trees on the slope, now almost obliterated by the driving snow.
Todd and Matt headed for the woods, but their grandfather stopped them. We need more people, he said. He understood the danger of letting them search for their sister alone, the risk of their getting lost as well. The boys sensed he was right.
They left April to find help, knowing she was alone in the storm, the snow filling in her tracks, the wind scattering her cries. Hours passed before a rescue team was mobilized and on the mountain. By nightfall, when the searchers finally agreed on a plan, the wind chill had dropped to two below zero. That whole night, Kathleen could think only that April's hot pink wool gloves were worn thin on the fingertips because her hands had inexplicably begun to lengthen this year, that they should have stopped at the Target on the highway for a new pair but hadn't because her boys were so eager to get to the slope.
Since Kathleen lost her daughter, she has had and finally dismissed other thoughts. That a bear came out of hibernation to take April to its den and is looking after her. That another person on the mountain with them has taken her for a ransom and will contact them soon. That Jim has abducted and hidden her and only pretends to grieve. When the search has ended, he will leave the boys and her to start a new life in an exotic place like Tasmania or Tahiti. He loves April more than the rest of us, doesn't he? Kathleen thinks. Like her father, April is cautious and deliberate, obsessively concerned about other people — traits that make her father a good pediatrician. The boys are reckless and self-absorbed. Like me.
By the time Kathleen reaches the top of the hill, she's heaving and stops to catch her breath, to survey the terrain again. She sees Jim below talking to the sheriff, pointing angrily into the woods at the base of the slope. This gesturing is as uncharacteristic as the screaming argument they had six nights ago. He accused her of losing sight of April and having maternal eyes for only Todd and Matt. His madness so upset the boys that they fled to April's room, where Kathleen later found them fingering their sister's ruffled pink bedspread, stroking her dolls' hair.
Their perpetual laughter has died. Now their eyes are flat and dark, not glimmering with mischief. They haven't gone back to school. They don't speak directly to Kathleen. She is ashamed of herself for what this ordeal has made of them. Dull mannequins. Vacant and disengaged. Simply there.
While April is not there.
Kathleen imagines April in the snow, a mantle of glistening whiteness draped about her thin shoulders, finally the center of her mother's attention. Kathleen stumbles and grabs a tree limb to steady herself. Suddenly, April's quietness is vastly significant. Without April, how can Matt and Todd be her boys? How can Kathleen adore their boisterousness yet crave her daughter's serenity? April's expressiveness was not in words or actions, as with Todd and Matt, but in her silence. Hers was a subtle spirit.
No, was.
The desperation of not knowing lifts, the shroud about her loosens and falls away.
"April," Kathleen says softly.
The wind calms to a pleasant breeze; the sun warms her face a bit. From far beyond the forest, Kathleen hears the music again. With complete joy, she recognizes the sonatina, perfectly executed, gently expressed. How natural the music was for April. How brilliant a performer she would have become. Kathleen closes her eyes, listens, and watches. The music changes, and Kathleen sees April. She is grown and sitting at a baby grand piano in a concert hall. Her hair, swept up expertly for the performance, shines under the lights. Her shimmery pale pink gown defines a lithe figure. Her graceful fingers caress the keys with a gentle firmness. The piece she plays is more difficult than the Clementi — a Mozart sonata, perhaps. The music ends, and she allows herself a confident, radiant smile. She scans the audience, on its feet in approbation. She finds her mother's face and nods, acknowledging, loving.
Kathleen opens her eyes and ventures into the sparkling woods, though where she walks the snow has been packed by legions of boots. If she pushes herself beyond the bootprints, if she continues to seek April where she has not yet looked, in impossibly obvious but hidden places, Kathleen knows she will finally find her.
Daun Daemon
Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay
Tagged free reading, literally stories, loss, missing child, motherhood, relationships, Short Fiction, tragedy
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4 thoughts on "Sonatina by Daun Daemon"
The backstory was entered at the perfect time. Moreover, the parallel between April's loss in the snow and Kathleen's covering up reality is wonderfully done. And there are the little touches, like the unrealistic fantasies she tried to support and her refusal of letting her child out of the present tense. There is no other proper ending here than the open one selected. Anything else would be dishonest.
Very well written, the story absorbed my attention from the start. The different aspects of the situation arise naturally, how Kathleen perceives others' feelings towards her, changing from sorrow and pity to accusation, and how she deals with that. It was interesting that when April disappeared, the story doesn't say she went to find her… the grandfather stopped the two boys, but what was Kathleen doing? The whole backstory enters a kind of dreaming, coming to the point when Kathleen visualizes April as an adult….it's kind of a slow awakening. At the end, she runs away, carrying her guilt and her hope…. she escapes to the dream again.
Hi Daun,
You controlled the reveal beautifully.
Brilliant inclusion of the back story regarding the differences in the kids and the hint of resentment as April was 'her father's daughter' type of thinking.
I really enjoyed this!


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package com.murati.oszk.audiobook.ui;

import android.app.ActivityOptions;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.app.FragmentManager;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.res.Configuration;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.design.widget.NavigationView;
import android.support.v4.view.GravityCompat;
import android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarDrawerToggle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.app.MediaRouteButton;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.murati.oszk.audiobook.MusicService;
import com.murati.oszk.audiobook.OfflineBookService;
import com.murati.oszk.audiobook.R;
import com.murati.oszk.audiobook.utils.FavoritesHelper;
import com.murati.oszk.audiobook.utils.LogHelper;
import com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.CastButtonFactory;
import com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.CastContext;
import com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.CastState;
import com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.CastStateListener;
import com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.IntroductoryOverlay;
import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailability;
import com.murati.oszk.audiobook.utils.MediaIDHelper;

/**
 * Abstract activity with toolbar, navigation drawer and cast support. Needs to be extended by
 * any activity that wants to be shown as a top level activity.
 *
 * The requirements for a subclass is to call {@link #initializeToolbar()} on onCreate, after
 * setContentView() is called and have three mandatory layout elements:
 * a {@link android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar} with id 'toolbar',
 * a {@link android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout} with id 'drawerLayout' and
 * a {@link android.widget.ListView} with id 'drawerList'.
 */
public abstract class ActionBarCastActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private static final String TAG = LogHelper.makeLogTag(ActionBarCastActivity.class);

    private static final int DELAY_MILLIS = 1000;

    private CastContext mCastContext;
    private MenuItem mMediaRouteMenuItem;
    private Toolbar mToolbar;
    private ActionBarDrawerToggle mDrawerToggle;
    private DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout;

    private boolean mToolbarInitialized;

    private int mItemToOpenWhenDrawerCloses = -1;

    private CastStateListener mCastStateListener = new CastStateListener() {
        @Override
        public void onCastStateChanged(int newState) {
            if (newState != CastState.NO_DEVICES_AVAILABLE) {
                new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        if (mMediaRouteMenuItem.isVisible()) {
                            LogHelper.d(TAG, "Cast Icon is visible");
                            showFtu();
                        }
                    }
                }, DELAY_MILLIS);
            }
        }
    };

    private final DrawerLayout.DrawerListener mDrawerListener = new DrawerLayout.DrawerListener() {
        @Override
        public void onDrawerClosed(View drawerView) {
            if (mDrawerToggle != null) mDrawerToggle.onDrawerClosed(drawerView);
            if (mItemToOpenWhenDrawerCloses >= 0) {
                Bundle bundle = ActivityOptions.makeCustomAnimation(
                    ActionBarCastActivity.this, R.anim.fade_in, R.anim.fade_out).toBundle();

                Intent intent = null;
                switch (mItemToOpenWhenDrawerCloses) {
                    case R.id.navigation_allmusic:
                        intent = new Intent(ActionBarCastActivity.this, MusicPlayerActivity.class);
                        intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                        intent.putExtra(MediaIDHelper.EXTRA_MEDIA_ID_KEY, MediaIDHelper.MEDIA_ID_ROOT);
                        break;
                    case R.id.navigation_playlists:
                        intent = new Intent(ActionBarCastActivity.this, MusicPlayerActivity.class);
                        intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                        intent.putExtra(MediaIDHelper.EXTRA_MEDIA_ID_KEY, MediaIDHelper.MEDIA_ID_BY_QUEUE);
                        break;

                    case R.id.navigation_favorites:
                        intent = new Intent(ActionBarCastActivity.this, MusicPlayerActivity.class);
                        intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                        intent.putExtra(MediaIDHelper.EXTRA_MEDIA_ID_KEY, MediaIDHelper.MEDIA_ID_BY_FAVORITES);
                        break;

                    case R.id.navigation_downloads:

                        if (!OfflineBookService.isPermissionGranted(ActionBarCastActivity.this)) {
                            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), R.string.notification_storage_permission_required, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                            return;
                        }

                        intent = new Intent(ActionBarCastActivity.this, MusicPlayerActivity.class);
                        intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                        intent.putExtra(MediaIDHelper.EXTRA_MEDIA_ID_KEY, MediaIDHelper.MEDIA_ID_BY_DOWNLOADS);
                        break;

                    case R.id.navigation_settings:
                        intent = new Intent(ActionBarCastActivity.this, SettingsActivity.class);
                        break;

                    case R.id.navigation_feedback:
                        //intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_APP_ERROR);
                        //startActivity(intent);

                        String appPackageName = getPackageName();
                        intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id="+appPackageName));
                        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_WHEN_TASK_RESET | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                        break;
                    case R.id.navigation_about:
                        intent = new Intent(ActionBarCastActivity.this, AboutActivity.class);
                        break;
                    case R.id.navigation_quit:
                        //TODO: review notification bar cleanup

                        stopService(new Intent(ActionBarCastActivity.this, MusicService.class));
                        finish();

                        System.exit(0);
                        break;
                }
                if (intent != null) {
                    startActivity(intent, bundle);
                    finish();
                }
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onDrawerStateChanged(int newState) {
            if (mDrawerToggle != null) mDrawerToggle.onDrawerStateChanged(newState);
        }

        @Override
        public void onDrawerSlide(View drawerView, float slideOffset) {
            if (mDrawerToggle != null) mDrawerToggle.onDrawerSlide(drawerView, slideOffset);
        }

        @Override
        public void onDrawerOpened(View drawerView) {
            if (mDrawerToggle != null) mDrawerToggle.onDrawerOpened(drawerView);
            if (getSupportActionBar() != null) getSupportActionBar()
                    .setTitle(R.string.app_name);
        }
    };

    private final FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener mBackStackChangedListener =
        new FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onBackStackChanged() {
                updateDrawerToggle();
            }
        };

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        LogHelper.d(TAG, "Activity onCreate");

        int playServicesAvailable =
                GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance().isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);

        if (playServicesAvailable == ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
            mCastContext = CastContext.getSharedInstance(this);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        if (!mToolbarInitialized) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("You must run super.initializeToolbar at " +
                "the end of your onCreate method");
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onPostCreate(savedInstanceState);
        if (mDrawerToggle != null) {
            mDrawerToggle.syncState();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        if (mCastContext != null) {
            mCastContext.addCastStateListener(mCastStateListener);
        }

        // Whenever the fragment back stack changes, we may need to update the
        // action bar toggle: only top level screens show the hamburger-like icon, inner
        // screens - either Activities or fragments - show the "Up" icon instead.
        getFragmentManager().addOnBackStackChangedListener(mBackStackChangedListener);
    }

    @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
        if (mDrawerToggle != null) {
            mDrawerToggle.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        super.onPause();

        if (mCastContext != null) {
            mCastContext.removeCastStateListener(mCastStateListener);
        }
        getFragmentManager().removeOnBackStackChangedListener(mBackStackChangedListener);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        //super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

        // Cast Menuitem
        if (mCastContext != null) {
            mMediaRouteMenuItem = CastButtonFactory.setUpMediaRouteButton(getApplicationContext(),
                    menu, R.id.media_route_menu_item);
        }
        return true;
    }

    private static final String FRAGMENT_TAG = "uamp_list_container";
    public String getMediaId() {
        //TODO: cast by main activity
        MediaBrowserFragment fragment = (MediaBrowserFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(FRAGMENT_TAG);
        if (fragment == null) {
            return null;
        }
        return fragment.getMediaId();
    }

    private void deleteEbook() {
        if (!OfflineBookService.isPermissionGranted(this)) {
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), R.string.notification_storage_permission_required, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            return;
        }

        Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), R.string.action_delete, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        //TODO: async delete
        OfflineBookService.removeOfflineBook(getMediaId());

        //TODO: refresh control state
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

        if (mDrawerToggle != null && mDrawerToggle.onOptionsItemSelected(item)) {
            return true;
        }

        //Try to get mediaId
        String mediaId = null;
        try {
            if (this.getClass() == MusicPlayerActivity.class) {
                MusicPlayerActivity musicPlayerActivity = (MusicPlayerActivity) this;
                mediaId = musicPlayerActivity.getMediaId();
            }
            else if (this.getClass() == FullScreenPlayerActivity.class) {
                FullScreenPlayerActivity fullPlayer = (FullScreenPlayerActivity) this;
                mediaId = fullPlayer.getMediaId();
            }
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Log.d(TAG, "Unable to fetch mediaId");
        }

        //Favorites Toggle
        if (item != null && mediaId != null && item.getItemId() == R.id.option_favorite ) {
            item.setIcon(
                FavoritesHelper.toggleFavoriteWithText(mediaId,ActionBarCastActivity.this));
            return true;
        }

        //Download button
        //TODO: if not downloaded yet
        if (item != null && mediaId != null && item.getItemId() == R.id.option_download) {
            return OfflineBookService.downloadWithActivity(mediaId,ActionBarCastActivity.this);
        }

        //Delete button
        if (item != null && mediaId != null && item.getItemId() == R.id.option_delete) {
            AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
            builder.setMessage(R.string.confirm_delete_question)
                .setTitle(R.string.action_delete)
                .setCancelable(false)
                .setPositiveButton(R.string.confirm_delete,
                    new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                            ActionBarCastActivity.this.deleteEbook();
                        }
                    }
                )
                .setNegativeButton(R.string.confirm_cancel, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                        dialog.cancel();
                    }
                });
            AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
            alert.show();
            return true;
        }

        // If not handled by drawerToggle, home needs to be handled by returning to previous
        if (item != null && item.getItemId() == android.R.id.home) {
            onBackPressed();
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        // If the drawer is open, back will close it
        if (mDrawerLayout != null && mDrawerLayout.isDrawerOpen(GravityCompat.START)) {
            mDrawerLayout.closeDrawers();
            return;
        }

        String mediaId = null;
        if (this.getClass() == MusicPlayerActivity.class) {
            MusicPlayerActivity musicPlayerActivity = (MusicPlayerActivity)this;
            mediaId = musicPlayerActivity.getMediaId();
            if (mediaId != null && mediaId.startsWith(MediaIDHelper.MEDIA_ID_BY_SEARCH)) {
                Intent home = new Intent(ActionBarCastActivity.this, MusicPlayerActivity.class);
                home.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                home.putExtra(MediaIDHelper.EXTRA_MEDIA_ID_KEY, MediaIDHelper.MEDIA_ID_ROOT);
                startActivity(home);
                return;
            }
        }

        // Otherwise, it may return to the previous fragment stack
        FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager();
        if (fragmentManager.getBackStackEntryCount() > 0) {
            fragmentManager.popBackStack();
        } else {
            // Lastly, it will rely on the system behavior for back
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void setTitle(CharSequence title) {
        super.setTitle(title);
        mToolbar.setTitle(title);
    }

    @Override
    public void setTitle(int titleId) {
        super.setTitle(titleId);
        mToolbar.setTitle(titleId);
    }

    protected void initializeToolbar() {
        mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        if (mToolbar == null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Layout is required to include a Toolbar with id " +
                "'toolbar'");
        }
        mToolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.main);

        mDrawerLayout = (DrawerLayout) findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        if (mDrawerLayout != null) {
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            if (navigationView == null) {
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            populateDrawerItems(navigationView);
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        } else if (SettingsActivity.class.isAssignableFrom(getClass())) {
            navigationView.setCheckedItem(R.id.navigation_playlists);
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        if (getSupportActionBar() != null) {
            getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(!isRoot);
            getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(!isRoot);
            getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(!isRoot);
        }
        if (isRoot) {
            mDrawerToggle.syncState();
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    /**
     * Shows the Cast First Time User experience to the user (an overlay that explains what is
     * the Cast icon)
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        if (view != null && view instanceof MediaRouteButton) {
            IntroductoryOverlay overlay = new IntroductoryOverlay.Builder(this, mMediaRouteMenuItem)
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But that's not what peace is. That's just a truce. General McArthur said "A truce just says you don't shoot for awhile. Peace comes when the truth is known, the issue is settled, & the parties embrace each other."
Peacemakers don't just try to stop conflict. They're doing something far more meaningful, something healing and restoring. They try to bring about reconciliation and relationship, even if it means going through the conflict.
ILL: I had friends who once got into a conflict situation. One was a single guy who had taken the others, a couple, out one evening. But the evening went so late that it put them and their babysitter out. They had quite a heated but honest discussion, and do you know what? Their friendship grew! That couple could have just avoided the whole thing, but they confronted the truth in love and a deeper relationship resulted.
The cross was the greatest act of violence and conflict possible. In fact, much of Jesus ministry involved conflict and confrontation. He wasn't afraid of it because he was committed in love to working through that if need be to bring reconciliation.
Peacemakers don't try to stop conflict, they work for reconciliation.
From Alex Huggett's Sermon "Blessed Are the Peacemakers"


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Since no one else made a voice comparison for all the VAs of Toad/Kinopio, I decided to make one. Sorry if I missed anyone and didn't know the name of one.
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A really nice and enthusiastic young crowd at the Proact Stadium in Chesterfield for the second semi-final of the UEFA u17s tournament between World Champions England, and undefeated Netherlands. Both playing their 5th match in 12 days with the Three Young Lions having had an extra day's rest after their quarter final win over Norway in Burton upon Trent.
A year ago in Croatia England were 1-0 up on Spain in the final until a last minute headed equalizer from a corner and then lost on pks to the Spaniards, but a few weeks later won the World Cup in grand style.
Earlier in the day I had been in Rotherham at the New York Stadium to surprisingly see a very attack minded Giovane Azzuri beat Belgium 2-1. A school afternoon with dozens of buses bringing about 2,000 children to add to the 500 or so prawn sandwich brigade in the main stand. The kids, many in yellow high viz jackets chanted for eiher Italy or the Belgians. A great atmosphere.
I have been amused at all these matches how 20 size 5 balls are lined up and kicked or thrown into the crowd by the players. Hopefully most ended up in the hands of the kids, who of course play with size 3 or 4 balls. Matbe a lot more size 1 mini balls instead would have been a better idea? Is anybody listening?
In Chesterfield 8,000 fans poured into the stadium, which seats just over 10,000. The next day Chesterfield FC were up before The FA for some dodgy dealings. Their former CEO Chris Turner owned an academy across the road which he charged big prices to bring in foreign youth players as a private enterprise and which is now closed. The club is accused of using his business to illegally pay a couple of senior club players.
The Netherlands had advanced in the quarter final against the Republic of Ireland when a questionable call by the Czech referee had seen the final Dutch penalty retaken after a 2nd yellow and red card to 16 year old gk Jimmy Corcoran of Cherry Orchard FC and Daishwan Redan of Chelsea had retaken the kick and scored.
The referee was later disciplined for being inconsistent and not penalizing Joey Koorevaar of Feyenoord for the same thing. Corcoran, who due to his youth, is eligible for next year's tournament in Ireland BUT has a one match suspension hanging over him for TWELVE MONTHS. UEFA stupidity Martin O'Neil who had left the stands to admonish the referee on the pitch was not handed any UEFA penalty.
A fast and furious start and in the 2nd minute Young Lions goalie Luca Ashby-Hammond of Fulham FC was injured in a goalmouth tussle. England had 2 players suspended for yellow cards and one injured and sent home. 6 matches to play in the final is quite a lot. At the same time in Southern Lithuania in Alytus and Mariyampolis the 8 team womens UEFA u17s is taking place in only 2 small stadiums. Germany beat England 8-0 and Spain beat Finland 1-0 in yesterdays's semi finals.. In a couple of months the UEFA u19 mens tournamen,t with England the reigning champions, is also only 8 teams and is in the two West Coast Finnish towns of Kokola and Vasaa.
Half time in Chesterfield was 0-0 with England hitting the post and a near miss late on. It was anybodies match with 40 minutes to go. Both defences held out with some great saves by both keepers. England lacked the flair and creativity of a year ago and there were tired legs on both sides, and neither knew how to create space up front.
So we went to penalties, The Netherlands for the second tome in as many matches. They each traded five goals apeice with gk Ashby-Hammand scoring the fourth past his opposite number. Netherlands made it 6-5 and up comes Folarin Balogun of Arsenal whose attempt is brilliantly saved by Joey Koorevaar who dived to the right. So the Dutch go into their 3rd title at this age group in Rotherham on Sunday evening.
According to Dutch coach Kees van Wonderen," It was a game we suspected it would be. Not a tacttical game, a fighting game. It is enormous for the lads to play England in England. Tonight we are the luckier team of the two but the happiest."
England coach Steve Cooper." It was a really good game, two good teams. Congratulations to the Netherlands. They had a brighter start but we soon settled down. Its our 5th game and we were missing players and it could have gone either way, and so can penalties."


Abstract: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neurological disorder that affects nearly 2 million adults, mostly in their prime of youth. An environmental trigger, such as a viral infection, is hypothesized to initiate the abnormal behavior of host immune cells: to attack and damage the myelin sheath surrounding the neurons of the central nervous system. While several other pathways and disease triggers are still being investigated, it is nonetheless clear that MS is a heterogeneous disease with multifactorial etiologies that works independently or synergistically to initiate the aberrant immune responses to myelin. Although there are still no definitive markers to diagnose the disease or to cure the disease per se, research on management of MS has improved many fold over the past decade. New disease-modifying therapeutics are poised to decrease immune inflammatory responses and consequently decelerate the progression of MS disease activity, reduce the exacerbations of MS symptoms, and stabilize the physical and mental status of individuals. In this review, we describe the mechanism of action, optimal dosing, drug administration, safety, and efficacy of the disease-modifying therapeutics that are currently approved for MS therapy. We also briefly touch upon the new drugs currently under investigation, and discuss the future of MS therapeutics.


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James Murray Barbour (1897–1970) is an American acoustician, musicologist, and composer best known for his work Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey (1951, 2d ed. 1953). As the opening of the work describes, it is based upon his unpublished dissertation from 1932, his interest having been sparked by musicologist Curt Sachs having shown him Marin Mersenne's Harmonie Universelle. Murray Barbour taught at Ithaca College, New York, 1932–1939, and Michigan State College (later University), 1939–1964. Murray Barbour adapted the Strähle construction for use in approximating equal temperaments.

He is also the author of
"Synthetic Musical Scales", The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 36, No. 3, (Mar., 1929), pp. 155–160.
Trumpets, Horns and Music (1964). Michigan State University.
"A Geometrical approximation to the Roots of Numbers", American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 64, 1957. p. 1–9.

See also
Equal temperament
Musical temperament
Musical tuning

References

External links
"Barbour, J. Murray (James Murray), 1897–1970", id.loc.gov.

Music theorists
1897 births
1970 deaths
20th-century musicologists
Michigan State University faculty
Ithaca College faculty

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The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has cost more than 11.000 lives and the health systems in the most affected countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, are still struggling. Researchers from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium and partners of the University of Conakry and the Centre National de Formation et Recherche de Maferinyah, in Guinea, as well as the University of California, San Francisco, USA, write in the Lancet Global Health that the use of maternal and child health services have not yet recovered to their pre-outbreak levels.
The researchers sought to quantify the consequences of the Ebola outbreak on maternal and child health services in the highly-affected region Forested Guinea. They did a retrospective study on women and children attending public health facilities for antenatal care, institutional delivery, and immunisation services in six of seven health districts in Forested Guinea (Beyla, Guéckédou, Kissidougou, Lola, Macenta, and N'Zérékoré).
Dr. Alexandre Delamou is completing a PhD at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. Together with his colleagues he observed a strong negative trend in maternal and child care during the outbreak, with for example fewer deliveries and antenatal care visits in health structures during the outbreak in comparison to the period after the outbreak. The use of services was not completely re-established after the end of the outbreak in 2016. The same trend was observed for most vaccinations. The researchers say targeted interventions are needed to get maternal and child health services back on track.
Since 2017, Guinea-Conakry is a new partner country in the capacity building programme of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, funded by the Belgian Development Cooperation. Experts from Antwerp will work with the Centre National de Formation et Recherche de Maferinyah and its local partners in Guinea to build local research and institutional capacity as part of the strengthening of the national health system in the post-Ebola era. Activities include the training of health care professionals, who were particularly affected by Ebola.
The paper in Lancet Global Health: Effect of Ebola virus disease on maternal and child health services in Guinea: a retrospective observational cohort study
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The world of construction is heading for continued growth in many economic hotspots around the world in 2016. London, for example, has been experiencing an unprecedented boom in commercial office space and this is now spreading to other major UK cities such as Birmingham and Manchester. There is simultaneously an evolution occurring globally in the way we design and create our buildings. Worldwide, the trend is to create buildings with the final user occupants top-of-mind from day one.
BIM Demands
The growing user-centric construction trend is now supported by some key standards developments, which are again percolating into design and construction practises across the globe.
For example, from April this year the UK Government will require all firms involved in creating public buildings in the UK to conform with Level 2 Building Information Modelling (BIM) demands. Level 2 BIM requires much tighter, ideally 3D model-based, building specifications to ensure smoother commissioning so that they work better for occupants from the outset and are easier to maintain, underpinning upgrading schedules for buildings' equipment and systems.
The Government Soft Landings (GSL) protocol, which demands that new government buildings are designed with user experience in mind, is also being rolled out. The 'soft landings' strategy is being adopted to foster a 'bump-free' transition from construction to occupation and optimise operational performance. The Soft Landings Framework is a joint initiative between BSRIA (Building Services Research and Information Association) and UBT (Usable Buildings Trust).
Available on the BSRIA website, GSL is an open-source framework intended to "smooth the transition into use and to address problems that post-occupancy evaluations show to be widespread." It was updated in 2014 to align with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 2013 work stages.
This framework includes five key stages:
Ensuring that the client's needs and required outcomes are clearly defined
Reviewing comparable projects and assessing proposals in relation to facilities management and building users
Ensuring operators properly understand systems before occupation
Stationing a soft landings team on site to receive feedback, fine-tune systems and ensure proper operation. Typically this will last 4 to 6 weeks, but may be longer for complex buildings such as hospitals and may be shorter for simple buildings such as shops
Outstanding issues are resolved and post-occupancy evaluations are fed back for future projects. It is suggested that this period lasts for three years. In year 1, problems are identified, training provided and systems fine-tuned. In years 2 and 3, performance is reviewed, and post-occupancy surveys carried out, but with reviews becoming less frequent.
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Arun Jaitley Dies: Former Finance Minister and Senior BJP Leader Arun Jaitley was Passes Away 24th August
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Arun Jaitley Died: Former Finance Minister and BJP Veteran Arun Jaitley was Passes Away 24th August 2019
Former finance minister Arun Jaitley
Arun Jaitley was an Indian politician and attorney. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Jaitley served as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of the Government of India from 2014 to 2019
BJP stalwart and former finance minister Arun Jaitley died on Saturday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He was 66. In a brief statement, the hospital said Jaitley died at 12.07 pm. "It is with profound grief that we inform about the sad demise of Arun Jaitley, former finance minister of the government of India, at 12.07 pm on August 24," the hospital said in a statement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, BJP President and Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress party's Sonia Gandhi were among a gamut of leaders who expressed their grief and offered condolences to the bereaved family.
Arun Jaitley dies at 66, last rites to be held on Sunday
Jaitley was admitted to AIIMS on August 9 and was treated by a multi-disciplinary team of senior doctors. Hospital sources had earlier said he was on life support. Jaitley, a lawyer by profession, had been a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet in the BJP government's first term. He held the finance and defence portfolios, and often acted as the chief troubleshooter of the government.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in the UAE, said Mr Jaitley was a "political giant, towering intellectual and legal luminary."
"Arun Jaitley Ji was a political giant, towering intellectual and legal luminary. He was an articulate leader who made a lasting contribution to India. His passing away is very saddening. Spoke to his wife Sangeeta Ji as well as son Rohan, and expressed condolences. Om Shanti," PM Modi tweeted.
With the demise of Arun Jaitley Ji, I have lost a valued friend, whom I have had the honour of knowing for decades. His insight on issues and nuanced understanding of matters had very few parallels. He lived well, leaving us all with innumerable happy memories. We will miss him!
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 24, 2019
Jaitley did not contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election, because of his ill-health. Earlier in May, Jaitley was admitted to AIIMS for treatment. He had undergone a renal transplant on May 14 last year at AIIMS with Railways Minister Piyush Goyal filling in for him in the finance ministry at that time.
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