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Landing at Zaragoza
The ground handler at Luton airport informed us that they can not make arrangement to get fuel for our aircraft. We took a 10 minute short flight to Southend airport for refueling.
We departed Southend airport for our next flight to LeBourget air port in France .
Our next flight was to Cuatro Vientos airport in Madrid , but due to bad weather, we had to divert to Zaragoza (LEZG).
At Zaragoza a very friendly guy, how was also a pilot, took a special interest in our around the world trip. He offered to give us a ride from the airport and fine us a hotel.
We made it across Atlantic
Last segment of our cross Atlantic was the most eventful. We departed Reykjavik, Iceland, for Dublin, Ireland . Weather was good with few clouds at 3500 and icing level at 6000 feet. We climbed to flight level 110, which was over the top of the clouds.
Two hours in to our flight over the Atlantic we run in to light clouds. Outside temperature was -8 degrees and we started to get a little ice on our wings. We immediately requested higher flight level of 170 and started to climb before they cleared us. Temperature was -16 degrees at FL170 and we were not building ice, but to get a little more buffering we requested FL190.
With less than 10 knots of head wind, we had plenty of fuel to make it to London without stopping at Dublin , which was a fuel stop. We requested direct to London for Luton airport. We were cleared to our requested destination. Once over Scotland, We knew we made it over North Atlantic and it was a moment of rejoice.
An hour before landing at Luton, the Control Center informed us that there are no ground handlers available and we can't go to Luton . We requested to land at Birmingham airport that is about 200 miles north of London to call and make other arrangements. After landing and clearing immigration, we were able to get a ground handler at Stansted airport.
We departed Birmingham for Stansted. As we were approaching Stansted, It was getting late at night and the famous London fog was causing low visibility and overcast. The ceiling was 300 feet and getting lower. Stansted Approach asked for our conformation, "N266DC the ceiling is now approaching 200 feet, would you like to proceed on ILS". We accepted the approach and descended on the ILS to 200 feet above the ground, and we were still in the clouds. At that point we realized that is as low as we want to get. We pulled up and executed a missed approach. At that point the controller suggested for us to go to Luton that has a higher ceiling of about 400 feet, and getting lower, or divert to Southend with 1100 feed ceiling. We accepted Southend. On the way to Southend, Radar Controller said " N266DC you are now leaving my radar area, radar service is terminated, resume on navigation on your Owen". The feeling of being in the clouds and the Controller is telling you that you are on your own is indescribable. We are thinking," can they do this?" We immediately requested to divert to Luton since it was in his radar area. After all Luton was the air port that we wanted to go to start with.
At Luton , we had to try the approach twice. We made one missed approach and landed the second approach, coming out of the clouds at about 175 feet above ground and finally got our feed on the ground.
We will depart London on June 9th at 7 am.
More than half way across North Atlantic
We checked the aircraft this morning to find the source of the oil. The small amount of oil we had on the belly of the plane yesterday was from the starter and a loss bolt. It was an easy fix and we departed Nasarsauq about 5 pm for the second leg of our cross Atlantic flight.
We landed at Reykjavik, Iceland at 11:30 pm. It was a smooth ride, but we had to clime to 13000 feed to avoid building ice. We had to do an instrument approach landing at Reykjavik due to low ceiling. We brook out of the clouds at 700 feed and landed without the any problem.
It is 12:00 o'clock at night and it is still light outside. In Iceland , even after sun goes down at 10 pm, it remains light all night. It appears that the sun never leave Iceland .
We made our first leg across the North Atlantic from Goose Bay to Narsarsuaq. Climbing to 11000 feet and leaving the land behind you for icy water of North Atlantic was a bit nerve wreaking, but the flight was smooth.
We were unable to establish radio communication with Gander control, using our HF radio; however, at 11000 feet we were able to make contact them with our VHF radio.
Approaching Greenland and seeing icebergs and towering rocky coast of Greenland is breath taking. It is truly a nature masterpiece
It was the most difficult landing. Due to high mountains around the airport, we had to descent from 10000 to 900 feet in 5 mile final approach and land. Runway starts perpendicular to edge of the water and we had to duck a few icebergs on final approach, before landing. You can see the runway in the picture below. This picture was taken on our final approach.
After landing and parking, we notice a little engine oil on the belly of the plane. We cleaned up the oil and tried to find the source, but it was hard to find where it was coming from. We will check it again tomorrow. We may be delayed a few days.
This time of the year, sun will set about 9:30 and rise aging at about 3:00 am in Greenland . This is a difficult concept to get use to.
Icy Newfoundland
We departed LaGuardia Airport at 10:20 am for our next stop to Newfoundland . After 20 minutes of weave our way through a few active cells on the west side of Boston , we made to the clear blue sky. We had a very smooth ride and arrived in icy Goose Bay at 4:30 pm.
There is not much to see in Goose Bay , but it is a good fuel stop.
We are in New York
Donaldson Center
We arrived at Donaldson Center Airport at 8:15 am to load the aircraft for 10 am departure.
It was really nice to be greeted by friends and family and many others who learned about this adventure through the local newspaper.
Every one wished us a safe trip. It was an emotional morning that I will treasure forever. They released balloons as we taxied to the end of the runway.
Our first leg from Greenville to Philadelphia was about three hours. We were greeted by a small group of people who were extremely nice. They offered to take us to the Liberty Bell and bring us back to the airport.
Due to weekend, Liberty Bell exhibit is closed. If look really hard, you can see the Liberty Bell through the viewing widow behind us.
On the way to the Liberty Bell, they took us to a restaurant that served Persian food.
The owner of the restaurant was from Nepal . After learning about our trip, and specially Nepal being one of our stops, he asked to take a picture with us to post in his restaurant.
He also gave us his brother's home phone number in Nepal, and insisted for us to stay at his brother's home once we get to Katmandu at Nepal .
After visiting the Liberty Bell we departed Philadelphia at about 7 pm for LaGuardia New Your. This was a 25 minute flight.
As we flow over the Statue of Liberty, we requested to circle the Lady Liberty for a second viewing and the ATC granted our request while flying IFR in the busiest corridor in US.
The personnel at the NY airport showed much interest in our trip, signed our book, and very kindly offered to give us a ride to a hotel for our overnight stay.
May 29, we are Still at Donaldson Center
We are still at Donaldson Center (KGYH), Greenville, South Carolina and will start our trip very soon.
Departure date Saturday June 2nd 2007 at 10:00 am
Our first stop will be at Northeast Philadelphia airport (Atlantic Aviation terminal) on June 2nd at 1pm. We will be visiting the Liberty Bell, as the symbolic gesture for the start of our flight.
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Arkansas House speaker files resolution to oust lawmaker
By Andrew DemilloThe Associated Press
Fri., Sept. 13, 2019timer1 min. read
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas' House speaker took the first step Friday toward removing a lawmaker who has refused to step down after pleading no contest to not paying state income taxes.
Speaker Matthew Shepherd filed a resolution to remove fellow Republican Rep. Mickey Gates, who was arrested last year and charged with not filing returns from 2012 through 2017. As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Gates in July pleaded no contest to one count of not filing or paying income taxes. He was ordered to serve six months' probation and repay the state.
Shepherd last week said he was seeking Gates' removal, which will require two-thirds support of the majority-GOP House. A date has not been set for the House to take up the resolution.
"The resolution speaks for itself," Shepherd said in a statement issued by his office. "I am now working with House staff on the process moving forward. I will advise the members and make public the schedule once finalized."
The three-page resolution refers to a law enacted this year preventing anyone who pleads guilty or no contest to a "public trust crime" from running for or serving in the Legislature but said that's not the main basis for the action. It instead cites the House's authority under the Legislature to discipline its own members.
Gates' attorney has argued it would be unconstitutional to expel him using that law since it adds to the qualifications spelled out in the Arkansas' constitution on who can serve in the Legislature. Attorney Jeff Rosenzweig said Gates has no plans to resign and intends to seek re-election next year.
Rosenzweig also noted that, under Arkansas' constitution, the House couldn't expel him for the same reason if he's ousted and is re-elected next year. He said they would have to see whether the resolution passes before deciding on any legal action.
"Unless and until it passes, there's no legal action to take," he said.
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eBay Installs 100 TBs of Nimbus Flash Memory Storage for Virtualization
World-class virtualization deployment sees provisioning times slashed from 40 minutes to 3 minutes with Nimbus S-Class systems
San Francisco, CA, August 2, 2011 – Nimbus Data Systems, Inc., the provider of award-winning intelligent solid state storage systems for next-generation datacenters, today announced that eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, has deployed more than 100 terabytes of Nimbus S-Class flash memory to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. The scale of the Nimbus deployment at eBay, which started with one system and expanded to 12 systems in less than one year, makes it among the world's largest consolidated deployments of network-attached flash storage for virtualization today.
The selection of Nimbus came after eBay carefully evaluated its existing hard disk-based storage systems, flash-based caching solutions, and tiered storage architectures. eBay required a storage solution with tight integration with VMware virtual infrastructure, iSCSI connectivity over 10 Gigabit Ethernet, ease of administration, and inline deduplication to reduce storage capacity requirements. In the end, eBay was most attracted to the performance, efficiency, simplicity, and comprehensive SAN and NAS software capabilities of the Nimbus Sustainable Storage™ platform. The Nimbus solution delivered near line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI performance to the VMware hosts while consuming 78 percent less energy and 50 percent less rackspace than conventional disk-based solutions.
"The scope and scale of the eBay platform requires technology solutions that help us innovate faster and deliver outstanding results to our users, both internally and across eBay.com. Nimbus' S-class solid state storage system delivers exceptional performance and response time that was not possible before with traditional disk-based systems," stated Michael Craft, Manager, QA Systems Administration. "Most impressively, Nimbus delivered a solution based entirely on flash memory, not a hybrid approach, at a price point comparable to primary disk arrays and with no software licensing fees to boot."
"We are delighted to support eBay's next-generation VMware infrastructure and efficient datacenter vision with our Sustainable Storage platform," stated Thomas Isakovich, CEO and Founder of Nimbus Data Systems. "Nimbus' S-Class system and HALO storage operating system provide the most comprehensive software capability, the most non-disruptive scalability, the most versatile networking options, and the lowest cost per terabyte of any enterprise flash system. As organizations migrate from spinning disk to flash-based storage, wins like eBay demonstrate the maturity and superiority of Nimbus solutions as well as the market readiness for flash adoption in enterprise SAN and NAS environments."
"The eBay win is a testimonial to the merits of flash in large-scale environments and a significant vote of confidence for Nimbus' combination of network-attached flash storage with management software," stated Jim Handy, Chief Analyst with Objective Analysis. "A growing number of CIOs have started to replace conventional HDD arrays with flash because of its significant performance advantage. These users are later delighted to find that the flash solution also gives them power, cooling and rackspace improvements. Since Nimbus provides both the hardware and software required in such systems, the company is well positioned to capitalize on this important shift in storage architecture."


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Eschach ist eine Ortschaft der Stadt Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg.

Die Ortschaft liegt im Süden des Stadtgebiets. Sie besteht aus dem Gebiet der bis zum 31. Januar 1974 selbständigen Gemeinde Eschach und ist in drei Wohnbezirke gegliedert:

Der Wohnbezirk Weißenau besteht aus den Wohnplätzen Fidazhofen, Höllholz, Mariatal, Neuberg, Rahlen, Rasthalde, Teuringer, Torkenweiler, Weiherstobel, Weingartshof und Weißenau. Der Wohnbezirk Obereschach besteht aus den Wohnplätzen Aich, Alznach, Benzen, Flappach, Furt, Gutenfurt, Häldele, Hüttenberg, Karrer, Kemmerlang, Lachen, Lauterach, Obereschach, Oberhofen, Sickenried, Strietach, Untereschach und Waidenhofen. Beim dritten Wohnbezirk handelt es sich um Gornhofen, bestehend aus den Wohnplätzen Bauren, Blaser, Bottenreute, Bruggen, Christushof, Fildenmoos, Gornhofen, Kögel, Obersulgen, Obertennenmoos, Schwärzach, Tennenmoos und Vordersolbach.

Geographie

Die Wohnorte der Ortschaft Eschach liegen im Schussental und auf den östlichen Anhöhen über dem Schussental.

Im Ortschaftsgebiet gibt es drei Naturschutzgebiete: den Egelsee bei Gornhofen, das Kemmerlanger Moos und das Mariataler Wäldle.

Geschichte

Die Ortschaft geht zurück auf das vorderösterreichische Amt Eschach und das alte Weißenauer Klosteramt mit dem Zentrum Oberhofen, wo früher das Siechenhaus für Pestkranke stand. 1826 wurde das Amt Oberhofen, das Amt Eschach und einige kleinere Parzellen zur Gemeinde Eschach innerhalb des Oberamts Ravensburg vereinigt. 1849 wurde die Staatsdomäne Weißenau eingegliedert. 1853 wurden die Teilgemeinden Eschach und Weißenau innerhalb der Gesamtgemeinde Eschach gebildet, die 1932 wieder aufgelöst wurden. Der Sitz der Gemeinde Eschach befand sich in Oberhofen.

Politik

Die Ortschaft stellt als Wohnbezirk Eschach 6 der 32 Ravensburger Gemeinderäte. Diese werden in unechter Teilortswahl gewählt.

Das Rathaus der Ortschaft Eschach, in dem auch der Ortschaftsrat tagt, befindet sich in Oberhofen. Der Ortschaftsrat von Eschach hat 17 Mitglieder (Wohnbezirk Weißenau 8 Sitze, Wohnbezirk Obereschach 7 Sitze, Wohnbezirk Gornhofen 1 Sitz und der Ortsvorsteher als 17. Mitglied). Ein städtischer Beamter, der vom Gemeinderat im Einvernehmen mit dem Ortschaftsrat bestellt wird, fungiert als hauptamtlicher Ortsvorsteher und Vorsitzender des Ortschaftsrats ohne eigenes Stimmrecht.

Im Ortschaftsrat sind die CDU und die Grünen mit je sieben Sitzen, die SPD mit zwei Sitzen und die FDP mit einem Sitz vertreten (Stand: 2019).

Wappen
Die Gemeinde Eschach führte von 1934 bis 1974 ein Wappen, das einen Abtsstab als Symbol zur historischen Zugehörigkeit zum Kloster Weißenau und Wellenbalken als Symbol für die Flüsse Schussen und Schwarzach zeigt. Die Wellenbalken können auch als Symbol für den zweiten Namensbestandteil "-ach" des Gemeindenamens verstanden werden; so wird das Wappen teilweise zu einem "redenden Wappen". Seit der Eingemeindung 1974 nach Ravensburg wird das Wappen nicht mehr amtlich benutzt. Es wird jedoch weiterhin inoffiziell von der Ortschaft Eschach verwendet.

Wappenbeschreibung: In gespaltenem Schild vorne in Blau ein links gekehrter silberner Abtsstab, hinten in Silber zwei blaue Wellenbalken.

Religionen

Eschach ist wie das gesamte Ravensburger Umland römisch-katholisch geprägt. Die Gemeinde ist Sitz der folgenden Pfarreien, die alle zum Dekanat Allgäu-Oberschwaben gehören:
Pfarrei St. Walburga, Gornhofen
Pfarrei St. Johann Baptist, Obereschach
Pfarrei St. Petrus und Paulus, Weißenau
Zusammen mit der Gemeinde St. Antonius von Padua in Oberzell sind sie zur Seelsorgeeinheit Ravensburg-Süd zusammengefasst.

Die evangelische Kirchengemeinde Eschach gehört zur Gesamtkirchengemeinde Ravensburg im Dekanat Ravensburg. Sie hat 1.650 Mitglieder (Stand: 2004). Die Gemeinde wurde nach dem Neubau des Lukas-Gemeindezentrums in Oberhofen 1993 gegründet. Neben dem Gemeindezentrum wird auch der Kapitelsaal des Klosters Weißenau für Gottesdienste genutzt.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

Landwirtschaft

Das Ortschaftsbild Eschachs ist nach wie vor von der Landwirtschaft geprägt. Dominierend sind die Sonderkulturen der Bodenseeregion, darunter der Obstbau (hauptsächlich Äpfel), Hopfen, Erdbeeren und Spargel. Obst, Erdbeeren und Spargel sowie selbst hergestellte Säfte und Schnäpse werden vielfach in Hofläden verkauft. Die alte Weinbau-Tradition belegen heute noch Ortsnamen wie Weingartshof und Torkenweiler (von Torkel).

Ansässige Unternehmen

In den Klostergebäuden der ehemaligen Abtei Weißenau und umliegenden Neubauten ist das staatliche Zentrum für Psychiatrie Weißenau untergebracht. Eine im 19. Jahrhundert zunächst im Kloster eingerichtete Bleich- und Appreturfabrik bestand bis ins 21. Jahrhundert in weitläufigen Industriegebäuden in unmittelbarer Nähe des Klosters, die Produktion wurde allerdings 2006 eingestellt. Die Gebäude und Grundstücke wurden 2007 von der Stadt Ravensburg erworben. In Weißenau sind ansonsten hauptsächlich Handwerks- und Handelsbetriebe ansässig.

Auf Eschacher Gebiet liegen mit den Gewerbegebieten Mariatal und Karrer die zwei bedeutendsten neueren Wirtschaftsstandorte der Stadt Ravensburg, die in der Kernstadt seit längerer Zeit kaum neue Gewerbeflächen ausweisen kann. Im Karrer und in Mariatal (beide im Schussental) sind zahlreiche mittelständische Betriebe ansässig, darunter Vetter Pharma und pro solar.

Am Rande des Gewerbegebiets Karrer betreibt der Landkreis Ravensburg seit 1975 eine Mülldeponie, das Entsorgungszentrum Gutenfurt.

Die Kläranlage Langwiese (im Schussental zwischen Untereschach und Oberzell bei Lachen gelegen) in Trägerschaft des Abwasserzweckverbands Mariatal reinigt die Abwässer der Städte Ravensburg und Weingarten sowie der Gemeinden Baienfurt und Berg.

Verkehr

Durch Eschach führt die Bundesstraße 30 (Ulm – Friedrichshafen), von der bei Oberhofen die Bundesstraße 467 nach Tettnang abzweigt. In Weißenau gibt es einen Haltepunkt an der Bahnstrecke Ulm–Friedrichshafen, der von der Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn (BOB) bedient wird. Linienbusse verbinden die Ortsteile untereinander und mit der Ravensburger Kernstadt.

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In Eschach gibt es drei Schulen. Neben der Grundschule Obereschach, die den Namen Stefan-Rahl-Schule trägt, existieren noch die Grundschule in Weißenau, sowie die Klinikschule Weißenau.

Forschung

Die Außenstelle Weißenau der Universität Tübingen betrieb ab 1960 an der Rasthalde in einem Wald bei Weißenau ein Radioteleskop mit 26 m Durchmesser. Die radioastronomischen Beobachtungen wurden 1992 eingestellt; die Anlage ist inzwischen demontiert.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Museen
Die Ortschaft Eschach besitzt ein kleines Heimatmuseum am Torplatz in Weißenau. Außerdem gibt es in Oberhofen im Dorfgemeinschaftshaus ein kleines Museum, welches von der Dorfgemeinschaft Oberhofen errichtet wurde.

Musik
Im ehemaligen Festsaal des Klosters Weißenau finden klassische Konzerte des Kulturamts der Stadt Ravensburg sowie des Kulturkreises Eschach e. V. statt. Musikvereine in Gornhofen, Obereschach und Weißenau (Musikverein Sternberg) pflegen die Blasmusik.

Sehenswürdigkeiten

Das Kloster Weißenau ist eine Hauptsehenswürdigkeit der Oberschwäbischen Barockstraße. Auch Obereschach und Gornhofen liegen an der Hauptroute dieser Ferienstraße.

Zur ehemaligen Prämonstratenserabtei Weißenau gehört die barocke Klosterkirche (heute Pfarrkirche St. Peter und Paul), die von 1717 bis 1724 von Franz Beer von Blaichten erbaut wurde und die mit einem frühbarocken Chorgestühl aus dem Jahre 1635 ausgestattet ist. Sie verfügt über eine klassizistische Orgel von Johann Nepomuk Holzhey. Außerdem sind die Heilig-Blut-Reliquie, das Konventsgebäude mit seinem für Konzerte genutzten, reich stuckierten Festsaal, das Torgebäude und das Wirtschaftsgebäude des Klosters wichtige Sehenswürdigkeiten in Weißenau. Das Denkmal der grauen Busse stellt ein Mahnmal für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen "Euthanasie" dar.

Die barocke Pfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist in Obereschach wurde zwischen 1751 und 1754 erbaut.

Die Pfarrkirche St. Walburga und Ottilie in Gornhofen ist ebenfalls ein barockes Bauwerk und stammt aus dem Jahre 1728.

Im Friedhof Mariatal steht die Kapelle St. Maria und Nikolaus. Die Kirche wurde 1166 geweiht, auch der Friedhof geht vermutlich auf die Gründung des Prämonstratenserinnenkonvents Mariatal im 12. Jahrhundert zurück und ist damit einer der ältesten der Region. Im Zuge einer Pestepidemie wurde der Friedhof 1628/1629 erweitert und dient seit 1662 als Pfarrfriedhof. Zuletzt wurde der Friedhof 1978 erweitert.

In Untererschach steht die 1616 erbaute Kapelle St. Georg; zu ihrer Ausstattung gehört eine Pietà von Michel Erhart.

Sehenswert sind auch der Rahlenhof, die ehemalige Sommerresidenz der Weißenauer Äbte (heute Teil des Zentrums für Psychiatrie), sowie das Backhaus mit Schaubrennerei in Oberhofen.

Sport

Das Sportleben ist von den Angeboten der Sportvereine SV Weißenau und TSV Eschach geprägt.

Regelmäßige Veranstaltungen

In Weißenau findet jährlich ein Heimat- und Kinderfest statt. Eschacher Schüler und Bürger nehmen auch am Rutenfest Ravensburg teil. Seit 1960 betreibt die Narrenzunft »Narren-Au« Weißenau die schwäbisch-alemannische Fasnet, unter anderem mit einem traditionellen Nachtumzug von Narrengruppen aus ganz Oberschwaben.

Die drei ortsansässigen Musikvereine veranstalten jeweils Jahreskonzerte.

Literatur

Chronik des Kreises Ravensburg. Landschaft, Geschichte, Brauchtum, Kunst. Chroniken-Verlag Boxberg, Hinterzarten 1975
In Eschach daheim. Ortsverwaltung Eschach, Ravensburg 2012 (Online-Version)
Beate Falk (Hrsg.): Eschach in alten Ansichten. Europäische Bibliothek, Zaltbommel/Niederlande 1986, ISBN 90-288-3465-6
Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger: Gemeinde Eschach. In: Beschreibung des Oberamts Ravensburg. Cotta, Stuttgart und Tübingen 1836 (Volltext bei Wikisource)

Weblinks

Ortsverwaltung Eschach
Informationen der Ortschaft auf den Seiten der Stadt Ravensburg
Dorfgemeinschaft Oberhofen

Einzelnachweise

Ehemalige Gemeinde (Landkreis Ravensburg)
Geographie (Ravensburg)
Gemeindeauflösung 1974


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HENRY PURCELL Fantasias for the Viols 1680
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Purcell's fifteen Fantazias have come down to us as a manuscript kept at the British Museum, most of whose pieces are dated. As they would not have aroused any interest at the time, the young composer did not even attempt to have them published, and they only appeared in print, edited by Peter Warlock, in 1927! This unique collection of pieces of from three to seven parts, a true "sum" of polyphonic thinking, to which only Bach's Musical Offering and Art of Fugue may be compared, are the product, incredible as it may seem, of a very young composer of twenty-one at the beginning of his all too-short career. Written during the summer of 1680, they bring two centuries of uninterrupted instrumental tradition in England to a crowning conclusion.
Intèrprets
HESPÈRION XXJordi Savall, dessus de viole. Wieland Kuijken, basse de viole.Sophie Watillon, hautecontre de viole.Eunice Brandao, Sergi Casademunt, ténors de viole.Marianne Müller, Philippe Pierlot, basses de viole.
Llista de Temes
1. Fantasia Upon One Note 3'033 FANTASIAS IN 3 PARTS2. Fantasia I 3'123. Fantasia II 2'374. Fantasia III 3'333 FANTASIAS IN 4 PARTS5. Fantasia IV, June 10 1680 3'466. Fantasia V, June 11 1680 3'297. Fantasia VI, June 14 1680 4'008. In Nomine in 6 Parts 1'473 FANTASIAS IN 4 PARTS9. Fantasia VII, June 19 1680 4'2110. Fantasia VIII, June 22 1680 3'5811. Fantasia IX, June 1680 5'033 FANTASIAS IN 4 PARTS12. Fantasia X, June 30 1680 4'0213. Fantasia XI, August 18 1680 3'0514. Fantasia XII, August 31 1680 3'3015. In Nomine in 7 Parts 3'44
Château de Cardona (Catalogne). Octobre 1994
The Fantazia for consort of viols is one of the glories of English music, and this unique repertoire, spreading over nearly two centuries, represents the loftiest and most perfect kind of instrumental chamber music written in Europe before the era of the classical string quartet. Between the early sixteenth and the late seventeenth century hundreds of such "Fancies" appeared, and the greatest masters of the age – Byrd, Gibbons, Lawes, Jenkins, Locke and many others produced masterpieces of the kind. But in the face of the victorious progress of "the new-fangled violin", the Fantazia grew rapidly out of fashion, to be replaced by the Dance Suite or the Sonata: the Restoration of 1660 gave the signal to the invasion of continental music, above all French, which enjoyed the exclusive favour of Charles II. The admirable set of Fancies by Matthew Locke published in that very year, 1660, was the last of its kind to find a publisher. It was Purcell's immediate model. Purcell's fifteen Fantazias have come down to us as a manuscript kept at the British Museum, most of whose pieces are dated. As they would not have aroused any interest at the time, the young composer did not even attempt to have them published, and they only appeared in print, edited by Peter Warlock, in 1927! This unique collection of pieces of from three to seven parts, a true "sum" of polyphonic thinking, to which only Bach's Musical Offering and Art of Fugue may be compared, are the product, incredible as it may seem, of a very young composer of twenty-one at the beginning of his all too-short career. Written during the summer of 1680, they bring two centuries of uninterrupted instrumental tradition in England to a crowning conclusion. Indeed, Purcell must have been aware that his endeavours were as out-of-date, and thus as transcendental and unselfish as Bach's writing the Art of Fugue some seventy years later. In the manuscript just mentioned are to be found three Fantazias of three parts, nine (plus a fragmentary tenth) of four parts, most accurately dated and written in close succession between the 10th June and the 31st August 1680, sometimes succeeding each other at only one day's interval, one of five parts, one of six and one of seven. These pieces are short, none of them exceeding a hundred bars in common time. They each consist of two to five episodes, contrasting in mood and tempo. Let us set apart at once the two pieces in six and seven parts: they are In Nomines. This was a peculiar form of the Fantazia, based on a cantus firmus in long notes around which the other instruments weave their counterpoints. The cantus is the plainsong Gloria tibi Trinitas according to the Sarum rite. The Tudor composer John Taverner had written one of his most masterly Masses on that tune, and the passage in the Benedictus setting of the words In nomine, featuring the entire Cantus, was especially admired and gave rise to a number of transcriptions. This enticed other composers to try their hand at similar, but this time purely instrumental settings, and thus the genre of the In Nomine was born, of which the two by Purcell are the latest in existence before Peter Maxwell Davies revived the genre in our own time. The very strict rules applying to the In Nomine result in norms differing from those found in Purcell's remaining Fantazias. Their idiom is more austere, more archaic, their tempo remains invariable, and the permanent presence of the Cantus precludes the homophonic episodes of transition found elsewhere. However, each of them breaks down into three sections, featuring as many themes, whose polyphonic fabric is successively confronted to the Cantus. The only harmonic audacities to be found (though they were not audacious at that time) are the familiar false relations due to the coexistence of the ascending and descending shape of the melodic minor scale. Purcell's In Nomine of seven parts surpasses its neighbour of six parts both in size and quality of inspiration.
Examining the remaining thirteen pieces, we notice a growing care for unity and integration: the first Fantazia of three parts calls for no less than six successive themes, whereas the masterly ninth four-part Fantazia (probably the climax of the whole series) is entirely built on two motives of four notes each. The norm is two or three themes, separated or framed by those homophonic episodes where Purcell's harmonic genius celebrates its greatest triumphs. Only two pieces (the third of three parts and the ninth of four parts) dispense with them, and thus have only two sections each.
The deep melancholy so characteristic of Purcell's temper results in the fact that only five pieces are set in major keys. His favourite g-minor (a predilection he shares with Mozart) is to be found no less than four times, and three further Fantazias are in d-minor. Except for only three pieces, flat keys are favoured. But beyond that rather restrained choice of tonalities, these pieces feature a prodigious tonal mobility, unexcelled anywhere before the twentieth century. Constant and very fast modulations (at times, up to four or five different tonalities within a single bar!) drive the composer into regions practically uncharted in his day, such as f-sharp, c-sharp or even g-sharp minor, as well as D-flat major, b-flat and e-flat minor. The systematic use of chromaticism, of changing function of a "pivot" note (for example a leading-note becoming a dominant), of irregular resolutions or even false relations, the wealth of appoggiaturas, of double and triple suspensions… Such are the means used by Purcell to express his feverish and tormented soul. But close analysis shows all these audacities to be the result of supreme contrapuntal logic, where nothing is left to chance: thus Purcell thinks above all horizontally, and his most disquieting encounters are due to the superposition of lines which modern analysis often shows to belong to two or three different keys. Here we have to bow to a contrapuntal virtuosity which even Bach never excelled: themes superposed to their mirror, to their augmentation, sometimes to their retrogradation, combination of two or even three simultaneous themes in their different shapes, sometimes in double canon, are all applied with baffling ease. Moreover, Purcell hardly uses "mechanical" devices, such as sequences, imitations, fugatos, etc. In his music we find total freedom allied to total rigour, and the triumph of asymmetry, the leading feature of the baroque spirit, also shows in the flexibility and variety of rhythms, freely striding over the bar-line.
There now follows a short survey of some of the most felicitous details to be found in the Fantazias in three, four and five parts.
In the First Three-part Fantazias (in d-minor), as homogeneous as the following ones in spite of the multiplicity of its motives, one should notice the bouncing syncopations of the second section, so modern in effect, and the "meteoric" modulations of the following section, where twelve tonalities are touched in as many bars, finding the way back to the opening d-minor after having reached as far out as e-flat minor!
In the Second Three-part Fantazia (in F-major), it is the concluding homophonic episode that amazes us: the F-major close of the previous section is followed, without any preparation except for a brief silence, by E-major (a shattering and highly dramatic stroke), which turns out to be the dominant of A-major, after which a labyrinth of complex modulations, with chromaticisms and suspensions of Mozartean boldness, leads to the conclusion. Notice the extraordinary bass line, falling in successive fifths in two steps (semitone and diminished fifth!).
As to the Third Three-part Fantazia (in g-minor), a marvel of free polyphony, its second half features endless modifications in the melodic and rhythmic structure of the theme, combined and superposed to its own inversion.
Right from the beginning of the First Four-part Fantazia (in g-minor), dated June 10, 1680, the entrances of the admirable theme occur in three different keys (g-minor, c-minor, f-minor, the latter acting as a true "secondary tonic"). Again the central homophonic episode is of startling boldness: through the use of tonal shufflings, of pivotal notes (leading notes becoming dominants), of interrupted cadences totally modern in spirit (one of them, from the dominant of D-major to that of C-major, is done through a false relation f-f sharp and an ascending skip of a minor ninth of the upper voice!), one reaches the remote keys of F-sharp major and B-major. From the latter, d-minor is most abruptly returned to in less than a bar, owing to a prodigious double suspension of the altus and bass. But in fact, according to horizontal reading, the whole place is strictly tonal, in d-minor: this is true sorcery!
In the Second Four-part Fantazia (in B-flat major) dated 11th June, 1680, attention goes above all to the pathetic chromatic overture of ten bars, skirting up to D-flat major, whose expressive tension is due both to the melodic lines, high-strung in their painful ascent, and to the altered chords and irregular resolutions resulting from melodic chromaticism in all the voices. The lively closing section of this Fantazia beguiles through the very English folk-song character of its theme.
The Third Four-part Fantazia (in F-major) dated 14th June, 1680, with its exceptionally lively and merry opening, also features a marvellous slow middle section, which owes its expressive intensity to the genius with which the composer uses suspensions.
The Fourth Four-part Fantazia (in c-minor) dated 19th June, 1680, dark-hued, austere and tragic, one of the supreme masterpieces of the series, is probably the most baffling, owing to its harsh and searing discords: this is the triumph of the false relation, used in a purely linear spirit, but with an evident aim at expressing pain of the soul (g-f sharp against f natural, then b flat-a against a-flat). At bar nine, the suspension (a natural) of the second voice, while purely thematic, results in the absolutely modern tonal effect of an unprepared chord of the augmented fifth (f-a-d flat), whereas it is merely a second inversion of b-flat minor with suspended landing note!
More classical and more tonal, the Fifth Four-part Fantazia (in d-minor) dated 22nd June, 1680, whose polyphonic fabric is particularly tight, frequently evokes Bach's Art of Fugue. Towards the end, one notices sudden and fast interrupted cadences, related by minor thirds, such as are to be found in Cesar Franck and the late romantics (b-flat minor dominant to g-minor, then g-minor dominant to e-minor)!
The Sixth Four-part Fantazia (in a-minor) dated June 23,1680, begins with a slow harmonic overture, like the second, but more intimate and elegiac. It leads to an admirable polyphony superposing four different rhythms, the three upper voices playing the same theme in different time values, whereas the bass features another theme, with powerful syncopations. As early as by bar four, the inversions of those various elements appear, and the whole is combined, with astonishing stretti, into a muscular counterpoint which could belong to our own century (cf. Michael Tipett).
The Seventh Four-part Fantazia (in e-minor) dated 30th June, 1680, whose harmonic middle-section is more extended than usual, opens with a theme whose characteristic dactylic rhythm, as well as its expression and elaboration, irresistibly call to mind the Allegretto from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
As to the Eighth (in G-major) dated 18th August, 1680, its soft and serene light comes as a soothing ray of sunshine after the sombre pieces which precede it. But neither the tasty shufflings between modal and leading sevenths, nor the false relations resulting from the parallel progress of voices in different keys are absent here.
The Ninth and last Four-part Fantazia (in d-minor) dated 31st August, 1680, the most rigorous and most perfect of all, has only two rather extended sections, each one resting upon a mere four notes! The first uses a purely horizontal theme (a-g-b flat-a) close in spirit, as can be seen, to the illustrious B-A-C-H, and whose inversion is identical to its retrogradation. These various forms are combined and superposed in an almost "serial" fashion! The same applies to the second section, which rests upon two ascending fourths (a-d-c-f). Here modulations are bolder than anywhere else, tonalities change with lightning speed, sometimes at every beat! There are a few bars of linked dominants (at a whole tone's distance) by chromatic motion, which the young Schoenberg would certainly not have disowned! In the course of twenty fast bars, one notices as many as thirty changes of tonality, encompassing sixteen different keys! Bach never reached a comparable tonal mobility, far from it!
A Tenth Four-part Fantazia (in a-minor), of a much later date (24th February, 1683), remained unfinished. The extant thirty-one bars constitute a single section on a single theme, the harmonic idiom being less tormented and more restrained than usual.
Emerging from such superhuman mental tensions, a true oasis of peace and freshness is reached with the single Five-part Fantazia (in F-major), one of Purcell's most celebrated pieces, since this is none other than the Fantazia upon One Note, the fourth of the five voices maintaining a long-held C throughout, around which the other voices weave the most suave and harmonious counterpoints. The music features only the most fleeting halo of melancholy during the two brief homophonic episodes in the middle and at the end. The held note is generally used as a dominant, either of F-major or f-minor; in the central Slow, one briefly touches A-flat major, and the merry ensuing fast section, which combines a spirited theme in the character of an English folksong with the typical motive in semiquavers upon which the Finale of Mozart's 39th Symphony (in E-flat major, K. 543) was to rest one century later, takes off in C-major before regaining the main key. Nothing can describe the radiant sweetness of this music!
The collection obviously remained unfinished: at the head of the ensuing In Nomine of six parts, we read the autograph words: "Here begineth the 6, 7 & 8 part Fantazia's", but the manuscript stops after the second of these…
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Budget 2016-17: Government adds tax to Employees' Provident Fund
GOI has proposed to bring EPF at par with NPS, which has a tax rebate on 40 per cent of the corpus while the remaining 60 per cent is taxable.
The Finance Minister has proposed that at the time of withdrawal, 60 per cent of the corpus of the EPF will be taxable. However, what comes as a reliever is that the same will be applicable from April 1 onwards, which implies that the funds accumulated till March 30 will not come under the purview of this tax regime.
The Government has taken this step to bring EPF at par with the National Pension Scheme, where there is a tax rebate on 40 per cent of the corpus.
There has been resistance from several employees' unions on this tax implication where they have marked this as double taxation.
The Government has taken note of the resistance from the employees' unions and Jayant Sinha, MOS, finance, was quick to clarify on twitter—"We have noted concerns about changes in tax treatment for EPF/PPF/NPS. Full clarification with FAQs will be issued shortly."
"In any case, please recognise that we are only talking about prospective changes. Existing savings are not impacted in any way," he added in a second tweet.
However, the remaining 60 per cent of the corpus can remain tax free provided it is reinvested in annuity (pension) products for earning regular income. Additionally, when the remaining corpus is transferred to the heir, post the employee's death, the same shall remain free of any tax.
According to another clause added by the Government, if the employer's contribution towards the EPF account exceeds Rs 1.5 lakhs annually, the surplus amount will be taxable with the employee having to bear the tax burden for the same.
However, this rule will primarily impact people whose basic salary crosses Rs 104,166 per month as it is mandatory for the employee to contribute 12 per cent of the basic towards EPF. This implies that people with average salaries will not be affected by this rule.
For salaried people, there is some relief in the form of increased limit of HRA. The Government has proposed to increase the tax deduction limit under 80 GG on HRA from the existing Rs 24,000 pa to Rs 60,000 pa.
In addition there is tax relief of Rs 50,000 per annum on a loan of Rs 35 lakh in 2016–17 for the first-time home buyers, provided the house cost does not exceed Rs 50 lakh.
The other good news is that the Government has proposed to pay 8.33 per cent towards the pension schemes of all new employees who earn a salary of up to Rs 15,000 per month. This will be applicable for the first three years of employment. The Government has allocated a budget of Rs 1,000 cr for the same.
In the organised sector, people with a salary of Rs 15,000 per month, pay 12 per cent of their basic pay towards EPF. If the Government pays 8.33 per cent of their basic salary, there will be a deduction of only 3.67 per cent towards EPF. This implies that the take-home salary for this segment will increase.
Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, said, "In order to incentivise creation of new jobs in the formal sector, the Government of India will pay the Employee Pension Scheme contribution of 8.33 per cent for all new employees enrolling in EPFO for the first three years of their employment."
"This will incentivise the employers to recruit unemployed persons and also bring into the books the informal employees. In order to channelise this intervention towards the target group of semi-skilled and unskilled workers, the scheme will be applicable to those with salaries up to Rs.15,000 per month," he added.
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P H Singh March 1, 2016 at 8:43 am
In fact NPS was expected to be like EPF. They did it other way round. The intent to these scheme is to provide a help not to the employee, but the person who lives decades after his retirement with no regular means of livelihood.Since we do not have any active social scheme for these retires, who have paid a lot of income tax and other taxes, neither most of them are supported by their next generation, the full protection to the schemes like NPS, EPF are must to let them survive on their own foot. Any way they have paid enough taxes and contribution to the society during their employment days.
Secondly, if the Govt wants to collect a tax out of these retirement schemes, it should make some schemes for the livelihood and medical benefits to these retires.
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BBC Sports Personality Betting Guide 2012
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The British Broadcasting Corporation Sports Personality of the Year dates back to 1954 when Paul Fox came up with the idea while he was editor of the magazine show, Sportsview.
Chris Chataway received the award in its inaugural year, with voters adjudging him to be the British sportsperson whose actions most captured the public's imagination.
Overall, there have been 58 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards handed out. In terms of sports, athletics has dominated with 17 victories. The other sports that have had more than one win are Formula One (six), football (five), boxing (four), cricket (four), cycling (three), figure skating (three), tennis (three), eventing (two), golf (two) and swimming (two). And athletics has dominated the places as well, with 13 runner-up finishes and 15 third positions.
Only three people have been named the BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice. Boxer Henry Cooper achieved the feat first by virtue of his 1967 and 1970 victories, with Formula One drivers Nigel Mansell (1986 and 1992) and Damon Hill (1994 and 1996) emulating Cooper's accomplishment. Snooker star Steve Davis, who in real life is far more interesting than his nickname, holds the record for the most podium finishes. The six-time world champion was first in 1988, second in 1981 and 1987 and third in 1984 and 1989.
Following criticism of the all-male short list for the 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, the BBC introduced an expert panel to determine the 12 sportspersons for this year's prize. The dozen stars who made the short list are, in alphabetical order, Nicola Adams, Ben Ainslie, Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah, Katherine Grainger, Chris Hoy, Rory McIlroy, Andy Murray, Ellie Simmonds, Sarah Storey, David Weir and Bradley Wiggins. The British public will vote during the live show on the night of 16 December 2012.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Betting Tips
Bookmakers think that the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award will end up on the mantelpiece of Tour de France winner Wiggins but surely the first-ever British winner of the world's most famous bicycle race does not deserve to be trading at around the 4-11 mark ahead of the public vote.
First, there is the case against Wiggins. While there is no doubt that Wiggins is a superb cyclist, there is a feeling that he won the Tour de France because of his all-powerful team and its reluctance to let Chris Froome ride away from his compatriot in the mountain stages. Also, Wiggins is a prickly character whose personality is not to everyone's liking. And finally, it may be asking a lot for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year to go to the same sport in consecutive years. Not since the early 1980s has a sport taken out the prize two years in a row. Wiggins may win, however he does not make any appeal whatsoever at 4-11.
For BBC Sports Personality of the Year betting purposes, Farah is the contender on which to focus. As big as 17-2 to win the award, Farah ticks a helluva lot of boxes.
First, Farah's became the first Briton to win a distance gold medal and, by adding the men's 5,000 metres to the 10,000m, he joined an elite international club.
Second, Farah's two gold medal runs were the most memorable moments of the London 2012 Olympic Games for the majority of British viewers. Not even Andy Murray winning gold in the men's singles at Wimbledon topped Farah's thrilling wins.
And third, Farah endeared himself to the British public with his humility, heart-warming personal story and, of course, the Mobot, a dance that it has taken Psy's Gangnam Style to usurp. Britons will remember the Mobot long after South Korea's one hit wonder has returned to anonymity.
Farah is worth backing in a range of BBC Sports Personality of the Year markets. As well as being overpriced at 17-2 to win the prestigious award, he stands out at around 13-8 to win without Wiggins and, also, at around 8-15 to make the top three. The 8-15 really looks like buying money.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Betting Offers
The presence of such a short-priced title favourite in Wiggins limits the BBC Sports Personality of the Year betting offers that bookmakers can frame. Meaningful BBC Sports Personality of the Year betting offers are likely to be in short supply so simply make sure that you are taking the best possible odds about your particular fancies. We do recommend betting on the entertainment markets on the bookmakers listed below.
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BBC Sports Personality of the Year Betting Strategies
Oppose the favourite
Wiggins is bidding to become the third cyclist to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in five years and he is up against some very stiff competition in Farah, Ennis and Murray, any of whom would be a more than worthy winner.
Support the Mobot
Inexplicably, Farah has drifted steadily since the London 2012 Olympic Games even though the vote to determine this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year winner will take place during the live broadcast on BBC Television so there is no way that anyone has got an unassailable advantage yet.
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Record-breaking data center, best street view of Nvidia revenue with gaming revenue, but supply constraints remain a concern
Posted on: August 22, 2021 August 22, 2021
The Nvidia Corp. share price rose in an extended session Wednesday after chipmaker profits beat Wall Street estimates, and how the company's outlook reflects ongoing chip supply constraints around the world. I took.
After a few hours, stocks initially oscillated between small gains and losses rose more than 2% to end the extended session. This is due to a 2.2% reduction in regular sessions, ending at $ 190.40. Stock closed in Split adjustment On July 6, it hit a record high of $ 206.99. All stocks and per share figures are shown as adjusted split.
Chipmakers based in Santa Clara, Calif., Are expected to generate $ 6.66 billion to $ 6.94 billion in revenue in the third quarter or current quarter, but FactSet polled analysts an average of $ 6.57 billion. Anticipate the benefits. On the conference call, the conversation quickly became about how this prospect was affected by supply constraints.
except Cryptocurrency mining processorOr, CMP is aiming to deflect mining demand from GPUs designed for gamers, and Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said over the phone that revenues would increase by more than $ 500 million in a row. I expect it. CMP generated revenue of $ 266 million in the second quarter and is expected to generate minimal profit in the third quarter.
"Most of this continued revenue growth will come from the data center," Kress said. "We expect the game to gradually increase, but keep in mind that the supply is still limited."
"Therefore, the third quarter results are not in-game seasonal, and this is the offering that we believe will be available in the third quarter," Kress said.
"We have sufficient supply to meet our business growth plan for the second half of the year," Nvidia CEO Jen Sung Hwan said on the phone. "We look forward to realizing our growth plan for next year. "
"In the meantime, we've got a pretty big long-term sourcing commitment as we expand into all of these various market initiatives that we've put in place," Huang said. "So I expect to see a supply-constrained environment for most of the year, which is what I'm guessing at the moment."
Nvidia's second-quarter net income was $ 2.37 billion, or 94 cents per share, compared to $ 622 million, or 25 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings, excluding stock-based compensation and other items, were $ 1.04 per share, compared to 55 cents in the last year quarter.
Revenue hit a record $ 6.51 billion, up 68% from $ 3.87 billion in the previous year quarter.
Analysts estimated adjusted earnings of $ 1.02 per share for $ 6.33 billion in profit. In May, Nvidia forecast revenues of $ 6.17 billion to $ 6.43 billion.
Analysts polled by FactSet predicted that Nvidia's gaming revenue would rise to $ 2.98 billion, while second-quarter gaming revenue was up 85% to $ 3.05 billion, the most high never recorded in the previous quarter. It exceeded $ 2.76 billion.
On the data center side, revenue grew 35% year-on-year to a record $ 2.37 billion, but analysts are forecasting revenue of $ 2.27 billion.
Nvidia has also faced headwinds in its plans Microprocessor design company Arm Ltd. for $ 40 billion From SoftBank Group Corp.
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Earlier this month, rumors were circulating that the deal could be blocked by UK regulators. Arm is based in Cambridge, England.
"Some gun licensees have expressed concern and are opposed to the deal, and discussions with regulators are taking longer than expected, but regulation," Cress said in a prepared statement. We are in the process. "We are confident in this transaction and regulators should be aware of the benefits of the acquisition for Arm, its licensees and the industry."
Chip industry continues to deliver strong profits amid supply shortage, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski (ur. 13 czerwca 1971 w Łęczycy) – polski prawnik, urzędnik państwowy, nauczyciel akademicki, doktor habilitowany nauk prawnych, w latach 2010–2014 generalny inspektor ochrony danych osobowych IV i V kadencji, w latach 2014–2019 zastępca europejskiego inspektora ochrony danych, w 2019 p.o. inspektora, a od 2019 europejski inspektor ochrony danych.

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Ukończył w 1995 studia na Wydziale Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. W 2000 uzyskał stopień doktora nauk prawnych (specjalność prawo konstytucyjne) na podstawie napisanej pod kierunkiem Andrzeja Pułły rozprawy pt. Sądowa interpretacja zasady podziału władzy i rola ustrojowa sądów w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki. Specjalizuje się w informatyce prawniczej, prawie nowych technologii i informatyzacji administracji publicznej. W latach 2002–2008 był wykładowcą, a następnie docentem Gdańskiej Wyższej Szkoły Administracji. W 2003 został adiunktem i kierownikiem Pracowni Informatyki Prawniczej Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. W 2021 Rada Dyscypliny Nauki Prawne UG na podstawie cyklu publikacji pt. Prawne gwarancje zrównoważonego przetwarzania informacji w czasach big data nadała mu stopień doktora habilitowanego w dziedzinie nauk społecznych w dyscyplinie nauki prawne.

W latach 1996–2000 był redaktorem, a następnie wydawcą w Wydawnictwie Prawniczym LEX, w latach 2000–2002 kolejno wydawcą i redaktorem naczelnym w 2p.pl Portale Profesjonalne, a później szefem redakcji internetowej Polskich Wydawnictw Profesjonalnych – Wolters Kluwer Polska (do 2003).

W 2006 został powołany przez wicepremiera i ministra spraw wewnętrznych i administracji Ludwika Dorna na stanowisko doradcy do spraw informatyzacji w jego gabinecie politycznym. Pełnił tę funkcję również w gabinetach politycznych następnych ministrów Janusza Kaczmarka, Władysława Stasiaka oraz wicepremiera i ministra spraw wewnętrznych i administracji Grzegorza Schetyny (do października 2008). W tym samym okresie sprawował również funkcję współprzewodniczącego, reprezentującego Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji, Komisji Regulacyjnej ds. Polskiego Autokefalicznego Kościoła Prawosławnego. W październiku 2008 objął stanowisko dyrektora Departamentu Informatyzacji Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych i Administracji. W 2010 został powołany do składu Rady Archiwalnej przy ministrze kultury i dziedzictwa narodowego. Jest członkiem Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Prawa Europejskiego.

25 czerwca 2010 z rekomendacji posłów Platformy Obywatelskiej został powołany przez Sejm na stanowisko generalnego inspektora ochrony danych osobowych. Urzędowanie rozpoczął po złożeniu ślubowania przed Sejmem w dniu 4 sierpnia. 25 lipca 2014 Sejm powołał go na kolejną czteroletnią kadencję. 3 grudnia tego samego roku Sejm podjął uchwałę o jego odwołaniu w związku z kandydowaniem na urząd zastępcy europejskiego inspektora ochrony danych, dwa tygodnie później zgodę na odwołanie ze stanowiska GIODO wyraził Senat. W grudniu 2014 Wojciech Wiewiórowski rozpoczął urzędowanie na stanowisku zastępcy europejskiego inspektora ochrony danych.

W sierpniu 2019 został pełniącym obowiązki europejskiego inspektora ochrony danych (Giovanni Buttarelli zmarł 20 sierpnia 2019). W listopadzie 2019 Komisja Wolności Obywatelskich, Sprawiedliwości i Spraw Wewnętrznych Parlamentu Europejskiego rekomendowała go na nowego inspektora. Odpowiednia decyzja została wydana 5 grudnia 2019, urząd ten Wojciech Wiewiórowski objął następnego dnia.

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Absolwenci Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Generalni Inspektorzy Ochrony Danych Osobowych
Urzędnicy Wspólnot Europejskich i Unii Europejskiej
Wiceministrowie i urzędnicy III Rzeczypospolitej
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Q: Pandas check if cell value is between range from another data frame So I have two data frames. Df1 has names and values as follows:

Source
Target
volume

dog
cat
3

cat
rat
2

Df2 has range for each name as follows:

name
min
max

dog
1
2

cat
1
3

what I would like to achieve is to check if the values in source or target columns in df1 exist in name column in df2, and if they exist to check if the volume is between them min and max values and result a data frame as shown below:

Source
Target
volume
S. in range
S. min
S. max
T. in range
T. min
T.max

dog
cat
3
No
1
2
Yes
1
2

cat
rat
2
yes
1
3
-
-
-

If the name does no exist in df2 there should be a line or similar indicating that the name was not found.
Im not entirely sure how to get this work as I need to check for values from two columns and combine them into one data frame.

A: You can use .set_index() on df2 to make it a lookup table by name.  Then use .map() to map the Source and Target to get the min, max values:
df2a = df2.set_index('name')
df3 = df1.copy()

df3['S.in range'] = np.where(df3['Source'].isin(df2['name']), df3['volume'].between(df3['Source'].map(df2a['min']), df3['Source'].map(df2a['max'])), None)
df3['S.min'] = df3['Source'].map(df2a['min'])
df3['S.max'] = df3['Source'].map(df2a['max'])
df3['T.in range'] = np.where(df3['Target'].isin(df2['name']), df3['volume'].between(df3['Target'].map(df2a['min']), df3['Target'].map(df2a['max'])), None)
df3['T.min'] = df3['Target'].map(df2a['min'])
df3['T.max'] = df3['Target'].map(df2a['max'])

df3['S.in range'] = df3['S.in range'].replace({False: 'No', True: 'Yes'})
df3['T.in range'] = df3['T.in range'].replace({False: 'No', True: 'Yes'})

Result:
print(df3)

  Source Target  volume S.in range  S.min  S.max T.in range  T.min  T.max
0    dog    cat       3         No      1      2        Yes    1.0    3.0
1    cat    rat       2        Yes      1      3       None    NaN    NaN

(I suppose the column values should be named volume according to description and expected result.  If not the case, can use values in the codes above and rename it if necessary for desired output).

A: Use DataFrame.merge with left join and rename columns for new DataFrames, then join in concat and set in range columns by numpy.select for also test if no match, so assigned Nones and Series.between:
df3 = (df1[['Source','volume']].rename(columns={'Source':'in range'})
        .merge(df2.rename(columns={'name':'in range'}), on='in range', how='left'))
df4 = (df1[['Target','volume']].rename(columns={'Target':'in range'})
         .merge(df2.rename(columns={'name':'in range'}), on='in range', how='left'))

df = pd.concat([df1,
                df3.drop('volume',axis=1).add_prefix('S.'),
                df4.drop('volume',axis=1).add_prefix('T.')], axis=1)

m10 = df['S.min'].isna()
m11 = df['volume'].between(df['S.min'], df['S.max'])

m20 = df['T.min'].isna()
m21 = df['volume'].between(df['T.min'], df['T.max'])

df['S.in range'] = np.select([m10, m11], [None, 'Yes'], 'No')
df['T.in range'] = np.select([m20, m21], [None, 'Yes'], 'No')
print (df)
  Source Target  volume S.in range  S.min  S.max T.in range  T.min  T.max
0    dog    cat       3         No      1      2        Yes    1.0    3.0
1    cat    rat       2        Yes      1      3       None    NaN    NaN

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package shapeless.examples

/**
 * Determining whether an `HList` contains a given type (optionally including
 * subtypes) exactly once.
 *
 * See this Shapeless Dev mailing list question for the original framing and
 * some additional discussion:
 *
 * https://groups.google.com/d/msg/shapeless-dev/HvV63toSBNM/K84lmwSsYzwJ
 *
 * @author Travis Brown
 */
object UniquenessExample extends App {
  import shapeless._
  import ops.hlist.Filter

  /**
   * We'll enrich `HList` with a `unique` method that takes a type parameter,
   * gathers evidence that the list contains that type exactly once, and
   * returns the element of that type. It will not compile if the type does
   * not occur exactly once in the list.
   */
  implicit class Uniqueable[L <: HList](l: L) {
    def unique[A](implicit ev: Filter.Aux[L, A, A :: HNil]) = ev(l).head
  }

  // A simple type hierarchy for demonstration purposes.
  class Foo
  class Bar extends Foo

  // Some example instances.
  val foo = new Foo
  val bar = new Bar

  // An example `HList`.
  val stuff = (1 :: bar :: foo :: "a" :: HNil)

  /**
   * Because `filter` does not select subtypes of the query type, both `Foo`
   * and `Bar` occur uniquely in the list, and we can write the following:
   */
  val uniqueFoo = stuff.unique[Foo]
  val uniqueBar = stuff.unique[Bar]

  assert(foo == uniqueFoo)
  assert(bar == uniqueBar)

  /**
   * If we wanted to confirm that the list uniquely contains `Foo` or any
   * subtype of `Foo`, we could first use `unifySubtypes` to upcast any
   * subtypes of `Foo` in the list to `Foo`.
   *
   * The following would not compile, for example:
   */
  //stuff.unifySubtypes[Foo].unique[Foo]
}


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Carlos Averhoff, Jr., is a tenor saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and educator. Born in Havana, Cuba, he was classically trained in Cuba's top music schools: the Manuel Saumel Conservatory of Music, the Amadeo Roldán School of Music, and the Higher Institute of Art. He continued his education in the United States, receiving a bachelor's degree (Summa Cum Laude) at the Berklee College of Music and a master's degree with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music. He recently earned a teacher fellow position at the University of North Texas in Denton, where he started his doctoral studies.
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For a family seeking a real world school experience, Port Chester Schools fit the bill. Diversity is Port Chester's strength, both in terms of race, ethnicity and economics. The students are hardworking and far from pretentious. The school district is large enough to avoid the social clique issues that crop up elsewhere. The course offerings are really great - both IB and AP courses are available at the high school. There are a variety of clubs and sports available. The music, drama and art programs are outstanding. It's a bit crowded but a bond was passed that will bring space and improvements by 2020.
My experience with Port Chester High School was an "okay experience. I wish it could have been better between some teachers that gave me a hard time but other then that. It was okay. I am looking forward to college for so many things! I'm going to go to another state for college! So it will be an different environment from New York! I'm also happy to go there on my own and way from my family.


Kip Carpenter changed our lives. He helped me and my wife create a safe, functional and beautiful home where we can age gracefully. We will never forget this transformation as we enjoy his handiwork daily.
Thirty years can go by quickly and even a well maintained residence can become unsafe and uncomfortable. Things wear out. Codes change. Our bodies deteriorate even faster than our house. Things that once worked suddenly stop functioning. The alternatives are simple—live with it, move, or change it. We wanted to change it but were overwhelmed by the scope. Where do we start? What about our pets? Where do we live? How long will it take?
He did the kitchen first. It was a total rip and replace which took just two weeks. There was a dust wall. The refrigerator was in the living room and we ate out for awhile. The kitties napped in the bedroom. We got a beautiful kitchen that works for us and our lifestyle. The previous kitchen just did not work. We ate and ran. The new kitchen is the most relaxing room in the house and we rarely leave. Everything in the room is outstanding and the new GFCI outlets add a new level of safety.
Next we worked on the bathrooms. Mold is a serious problem and it loves a moist place. Our bathroom fans were original to the house. They just moved everything to the attic. Kip replaced the old rattletraps with new units. The new fans exhaust through the roof and use timers so they continue to pull the moisture out even after you leave the room. I call them Whispersuck 2000s because they are so quiet and powerful.
According to the CDC, people over 65 slip and fall at least once a year. Some of these falls are fatal. Our bathrooms were small and had tubs. We knew that a fall in a steel bathtub would be serious. We just did not know what to do. Kip managed to squeeze in a walk in shower for us. We not only got a shower that is easy to access, it even opened up the room. For us, the project was painless. There was a dust wall. It took three weeks. We slept on the sofabed. The kitties napped in the extra bedroom. I recall hearing loud banging one day. The rest of the time things were quietly moving along.
Kip managed the impossible. He understood us and had a vision of what we needed. He gave us detailed estimates. One project came in quite a few dollars below estimate. One came in a few dollars above. The dollar variance on both projects was less than 2%. That is pretty remarkable for construction projects. I wish I was the same low variance on my information technology projects. These projects were affordable and made our house a place we can live for a very long time. Kip took on all the worries of how to do it and how to correct mistakes. Construction requires that the right people install the right stuff according to schedule. Reality intervenes with rainstorms, delays and incorrect products. We led our lives and our kitties napped while Kip solved all the problems.
By every measure, Kip greatly exceeded our expectations. We expected the projects would be more expensive but they were less expensive. We expected the projects would take a long time, but they were finished quickly. We expected to make a few compromises on finished products but we made none.
Our desire was to stay in our home for a long time. These updates allow us to do just that. We are delighted with the results of Kip's efforts which have updated our house and made it safe.


If I had to sum up the internet in one word, I would have to say "opportunity".
Through the use of the internet, people are taking control of their lives by building their own brands and businesses the way they want to.
I first started making money online as a teenager back in the mid 90s. Back then it was quite surprising to hear about a kid making good money online, but as technology continues to advance and spread across the world, we are seeing younger individuals make money online and gain more attention then ever before.
It's time to explore the world of opportunity that the internet has to offer in this latest episode of Rise of the Entrepreneur.
Matthew Woodward is an entrepreneur, affiliate marketer and blogger — but more importantly, Matthew was able to create something amazing online, provide value to others and completely change his life in the process.
Like many bloggers, Matthew actually found himself with a legitimate business model after creating something he was just playing around with — which was actually an SEO experiment to see if he could get his site content to rank in the search results. In addition to creating a business fore himself, Matthew's blog has received numerous awards, such as Top Affiliate Marketing Blog from Affiliate Summit, Best of SEJ, Top 75 from UnBounce and Technorati Top 100 in Business. Jump forward a couple years later and Matthew Woodward is now living the life of an online entrepreneur, having not only re-located from the UK to Costa Rica, but also forever leaving the corporate world as well.
I can't thank you enough for listening in to the fifty-seventh episode of the Rise of the Entrepreneur. The podcast is currently available through iTunes (usually ranked in Top 50 in BUSINESS) and has already been downloaded in over 100+ different countries!


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Jane Ann Ream, 77 of Clayton, Mich., died Feb. 2, 2019.
She was born April 14, 1941, in Vinton, Iowa, the oldest child of Robert and Louise (Gibson) Miller.
On April 25, 1970, Jane married Richard Ream, and they were blessed with more than 48 years together.
Jane held several different positions in her life including switchboard operator, secretary, girls basketball coach for both Sand Creek and Lenawee Christian Schools, working at H&R Block and at the Adrian Church of the Nazarene. The role she loved most was that of pastor. Jane's talent for teaching and sharing her faith was greatly appreciated at Living Waters Church of the Nazarene in Ann Arbor as well as at Morenci Church of the Nazarene.
She enjoyed sunflowers, windmills, bird watching, making stained glass with her sister and watching Kentucky Wildcats basketball. Jane enjoyed spending her free time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren at their activities, family functions or through social media.
In addition to her husband, Richard, she is survived by daughters, Jeannetta (and Kerry) Ingold of Pennsylvania and Amanda (and Travis) Boring of Clayton; daughter-in-law Wendi Darting of Milford, Ind.; siblings, Jack (and Helen) Miller, John (and Katie) Miller and Juanita (and Donnie) Robinson; nine grandchildren, Jake (and Rachel) Darting, Kaitlynn (and Shane) O'Brien, Kathryn Boring, Christina Darting, Mitchell (and Kelsey) Ingold, MacKenzie Ream, Ethan Boring, Isaac Darting and Saydie Boring; and three great-grandchildren, Taylin, Brycin and Brooke.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by brothers, Jim and Joe Miller and her son, Wesley Darting.
Memorial services are planned at 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9, at Adrian First Church of the Nazarene, with Dr. David Fulks, Jr., and Rev. Larry Betz officiating. Burial will follow at Dover Center Cemetery. Visitation is scheduled at the church Saturday from 10 a.m. until the service at 1 p.m.
Contributions are suggested to Adrian First Church of the Nazarene or Morenci Church of the Nazarene.


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