I took the plunge last week and picked up a Homepatrol 2 for use on the nightstand and in the truck. I wanted something with a screen that was easy to see while mobile and could be "hot-swappable" between multiple cars. That didn't leave many options and so I found myself looking at the HP series. Then it was a matter of deciding on the first or second model. I have a bad habit of sometimes going cheaper and regretting it later when I decide I need the feature set I didn't get so I opted for the newer version.
I also have the 436HP so figuring out the HP2 wasn't much of a chore.
Overall, I really like the HP2 so far. The screen is a pleasure to read, audio is good and the menu is easy to navigate.
That looks like a great setup. What does the mounting setup consist of?
It's basically just a cup holder mount with the Homepatrol bracket attached to it. I had the faceplate of a Yaesu 857 attached to it up until yesterday but I've decided to attach that to a seat bolt mount in the near future.
The benefit to this setup is that I can grab the whole mount right out of the cup holder and just drop it into another car if I want to. The other advantage is I can rest my wrist on the shift knob while keying through the menu. Oh, and no drilling required!
The cup holder mount is a good choice, for anything heavier you'd need something much more sturdy and rugged. A friend of mine bought one of those mounts for his old Pro-34 and because of the weight of the scanner, it kept falling over. They're not made for every scanner or other application, but that is a good choice for that radio.
The only thing I ran into was that the bottom of the stem where it attaches to the base has a somewhat shallow fitting. I hit it with some rubber cement. The HP2 has close to the same weight as the remote face I had on there previously so I suspected it would be ok. You're right, not much more weight would be an option here.


On November 18th, David Bowie will release a massive compilation celebrating his 50 weird, wonderful years in music. Included on the three-disc collection, titled Nothing Has Changed, will be "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)," a new song Bowie recorded earlier this year with longtime producer Tony Visconti. Presumably, this is the new music Bowie cryptically teased a few months back.
"Sue (Or in a New Season of Crime)" will be out the same day as the compilation as a digital download and a limited edition 10″ single.
Nothing Has Changed tracklists below. It's an eclectic mix of rarities, outtakes, live recordings, and hits alike.


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How much do states spend on prisons?
Southern states spend the least per inmate and have some of the highest prison incarceration rates in the nation.
Published on Thu, September 15, 2022 12:00AM PDT
State governments spent a combined $55 billion on corrections in 2020, with most of the spending going toward operating state-run prisons. There were more than 1.2 million people in prison[1] in 2020, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Spending per prisoner varies widely across states, from about $18,000 per prisoner in Mississippi to $135,978 per prisoner in Wyoming in 2020. States spent an average of $45,771 per prisoner for the year.
Money allocated to corrections departments in each state primarily goes toward prison operations and paying correctional officers. Some states may also fund additional rehabilitation programs, drug treatment centers, and juvenile justice initiatives through these state agencies.
Most states leave the operation of jails to county and city law enforcement agencies. Jails hold people awaiting trial or those with sentences of less than one year. An inmate is transferred to a state-run prison after being convicted of a felony with a sentence of one year or longer.
However, six states[2] with relatively small prison populations operate under a "unified" system, which integrates the prison and jail systems. These states typically have higher spending per prison inmate because some state-allocated funds also go toward the jail system.
What factors influence spending?
One major cost included in prison spending is salaries and benefits for correctional officers. The average annual salary for a correctional officer was $53,420 in 2021, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Pay for correctional officers on a state-by-state basis tends to track with how well all workers are paid in a state. Officers in high-wage states, such as California, New York, and Massachusetts, make double the salaries of officers in low-wage states, such as Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia.
Another large factor in prison spending is the operational costs of prison facilities. For states with small prison populations, these costs increase the spending per prisoner.
Operational costs can also be higher in states with older prisons that require more upkeep. The three oldest prisons[3] in the US that are still in operation are in New York and New Jersey. The fourth is in California. New York and California each spend more than double the national average cost per inmate.
Which states have the highest prison incarceration rates?
The prison incarceration rate is the number of prisoners per 100,000 residents of the state. Alaska tops all states with 625 prisoners per 100,000 residents. Mississippi has the second highest prison incarceration rate at 594 prisoners per 100,000 residents.
The South[4] has the highest prison incarceration rate of any region, at 424 prisoners per 100,000 residents. The Northeast has the lowest prison incarceration rate at 185 prisoners per 100,000 residents.
For more on the prison population, check out the USAFacts' Crime & Justice metrics page.
Occupational Employment and Wages
Prisoners in 2020
National Institute of Corrections
State Statistics Information
This data set includes those in state-run prisons, federal prisons, local jails, and private prisons.
Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont operate a "unified" system.
The New Jersey State Prison, Auburn Correctional Facility, and the Sing Sing Correctional Facility are the oldest state prisons in operation.
Based on the Census Bureau regional divisions
How common is it for released prisoners to re-offend?
How did the pandemic affect jails?
Homicides increased by 25% but overall crime rate fell in 2020
Prisoners held in private prisons

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Lewis & Clark prepares students for lives of local and global engagement. located in Portland, Oregon, the college educates approximately 2,000 undergraduate students in the liberal arts and sciences and 1,500 students in graduate and professional programs in education, counseling and law.
Politics of Oregon. The state is broken up into two main geographically separate political areas: the liberal cities of the Willamette Valley and the rest of the state, whose voters are moving from conservative to libertarian. While about 47% of the population of Oregon lives in the Portland metropolitan area as of 2013,
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Oregon is listed as tied with Hawaii for being the sixth most liberal state (fifth, if you don't count Washington, D.C., which is probably best compared with other urban areas instead of states).
Oregon still has a functional state government, which makes it more liberal than most states. Republicans and Democrats split the house 15/15 this term and got along fine last session, working together to solve some very thorny budget problems.
SEATTLE – Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) leaders are considering new rules that would require members to vote together on certain issues and support specific policy proposals, a move aimed at.
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History Repeating Itself? And The Big Finish
By Brian F. Aug 27, 2010, 10:58pm EDT
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Brian: Rewind back to April 2005. Coach Tom O'Brien had a legitimate QB competition on his hands in the spring. Senior Quinton Porter was battling sophomore Matt Ryan for the starting job. Despite Ryan completing a higher percentage of passes and less interceptions in the spring, O'Brien named Porter the team's starting quarterback on April 26. TOB always seemed to favor Porter, going back to the 2003 season when he decided to start him over JUCO transfer Paul Petersen.
Porter went on to win the first two games of the season at BYU and against Army before leaving the Florida State game with a right ankle injury (a 28-17 loss). Porter finished the FSU game 20-31 for 151 yards, 1 TD to go with 2 INTs. Porter gave way to Matt Ryan. The next week, Ryan, despite throwing 2 INTs, led the Eagles to a 16-13 win over Clemson in Death Valley. Porter struggled through much of the rest of the season before relinquishing the starting role to Matt Ryan for good the week before a 30-10 win over N.C. State.
Fast forward to present day. For all the good that Shinskie did in his first year as the Eagles starter, he was wildly inconsistent -- throwing just one more touchdown pass than interception in 2009. While Shinskie has shown some improvement this fall, at least statistically, Mike Marscovetra has the better stats coming out of fall camp. In the final two scrimmages, Marscovetra has gone 20-for-22 for 161 yards, while Shinskie went 25-of-43 for 220 yards. Towards the end of the final scrimmage, Marsco was taking a majority of the snaps with the first team.
Spaz has made it clear he is still favoring Shinskie for the starting job. I'm sure both will get a good amount of snaps in the first two games, but all indications are that the job is still Shinskie's to lose given the experience.
Is it going to take another early season loss to unseat Shinskie as the starting QB? Do you think that Marscovetra is really the more talented of the two QBs? How do you see the QB competition playing out over the next month?
Jeff: This is a great comparison, but fortunately, I do not think that we are dealing with the same situation we were in 2005 where the backup QB at the beginning of the season would end up being the second best QB ever at Boston College. In 2005, we were both constantly hoping that Ryan would be the starter and were convinced that our record would be better if he was. Now, there are plenty of people out there favoring one of the QBs other than Shinskie, but they're not in love with Marscovetra, they really just dislike Shinskie.
If you're looking at who has more athletic talent, I think it's safe to say that as a former professional baseball player, Shinskie gets the nod there. And given that Shinskie was able to win the starting job from Tuggle last season and has been named the starter again despite this only be his16th month of football practice after a long hiatus, you have to say Shinskie does have talent.
Last year, Shinskie was frustrating to watch at times. He threw a bunch of beautiful balls, and then made some very costly mistakes. His numbers though, were not helped by numerous drops and tipped balls that resulted in interceptions.
I have thought Shinskie was the answer since the beginning of last season and still do. My instincts were right with Paul Petersen and with Matt Ryan as many other people's were, I hope I am right with Shinskie. We will know for sure by the end of this season, or probably by the end of October if he is a winner or not.
Brian: Mark Herzlich will undergo an MRI today and could be back on the field for the season opener. How many snaps do you expect Mark will play against Weber State?
Jeff: I think the target will be 15.
Jeff: Colin Larmond, Jr, will see no snaps this season. Which freshman will catch the most passes by the end of the season?
Brian: Gotta go with the popular vote and say Shakim Phillips.
Brian: ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit is picking the Eagles in the Atlantic this year, opposite Miami. You surprised?
Jeff: Hence him voting us in his top 25. I like the pick, not as high on Virginia Tech as I once was, although I do think they'll beat Boise State.
Jeff: Speaking of rankings, you know it hits home in my family where BC, Clemson and Navy are ranked. BC is ranked the lowest of those three in almost every major poll and Navy even cracked the Top 25 in the cbssports.com poll. Should I be worried that Navy will finish the season higher than BC?
Brian: Very. Navy has the schedule to put together a very special season this year.
Brian: Riddick & Reynolds asks the question "Is Mark Herzlich's comeback overshadowing Nate Irving's?" Your thoughts?
Jeff: What R&R seems to miss is that Herzlich has a great story and was Defensive POY in the conference prior to it.
Jeff: We have been bullish on this years football team, but not so much on the basketball team. Chances the football team wins more games than the basketball team this year overall? Chances the football team wins more ACC games than the basketball team does?
Brian: 1 1/2 percent, and ZERO percent.
Brian: Last one, two of three Hokie fans over at The Key Play are predicting a BC win over Virginia Tech. Is this a feeble attempt at some sort of reverse psychology?
Jeff: I think Hokie Nation -- or whatever they're called -- is feeling the same way I am that they won't win the Coastal by default due to returning the most offensive talent.


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Q: Find an initial condition for the ODE $xy'+3y=6x^3$ Find an initial condition of the form
$$y(x_0)=y_0$$
for the ODE
$$xy'+3y=6x^3$$
so that the solution is
$$ y=x^3-\frac{1}{x^3}$$
I found that the general solution to the ODE is
$$y=x^3+\frac{C}{x^3}$$
So, how should I proceed to find $C$?

A: Since $y(x_0)=y_0$ and $y=x^3+\frac{C}{x^3}$, plugging the initial condition yields to
$$y_0=y(x_0)=x_0^3+\frac{C}{x_0^3}.$$
From this,
$$C=(y_0-x_0^3)\;x_0^3.$$
Then, the solution of your ODE is
$$y=x^3+\frac{(y_0-x_0^3)\;x_0^3}{x^3}.$$

A: You have found the general solution. That is great!
Now you want to find the initial condition such that the constant, C, in the solution = -1.
Your general solution has the form; y(x) = $x^3$ + $\frac{C}{x^3}$
If we consider the form of the initial condition equated as the form of the general solution;
y($x_0$) = $x_0^3$ + $\frac{C}{x_0^3}$ = $y_0$
We want to find $x_0$ and $y_0$ such that the above equation solves C = -1, by inspection (not always easy) we may choose $y_0$ = 0 and $x_0$ = 1, such that:
y($x_0$ = 1) = 1 + C = 0 = $y_0$ $=>$ C = -1
Hence giving your solution the form:
y(x) = $x^3$ - $\frac{1}{x^3}$
In this particular problem we were asked to solve one equation in one unknown, if we had more than one constant we would have to find additional initial conditions, such as an initial condition on some boundary or on the derivative of the solution.

A: You found that the given function is actually an element of the solution family. Now you have to just pick some $x_0$ and insert into the given function.
\begin{array}{c|c}
x_0&y_0=y(x_0)=x_0^3-\frac1{x_0^3}\\\hline
1&0\\
2&8-\frac18=7+\frac78=\frac{63}{8}\\
\frac12&\frac18-8=-\frac{63}{8}
\end{array}
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10 Things you must do in Nashville
Published by John Mark Walker on December 10, 2019 December 10, 2019
Listening to great music should be on top of your "to do" list when visiting Nashville, but the city offers historical sites, parks and museums as well. For example, the Parthenon in Centennial Park is a duplicate of the temple in Greece that is home to timeless artworks and the areas surrounding it are magnificent, specifically in the summer and spring. In addition, outside
Nashville, many plantation homes offer great historical tours and make for an informative trip. It is basically a town that throbs to the beat of every type of song and resonates well with life. It is a town that harvests unbelievable cuisine, boundless panorama of nightlife, Southern hospitality and American music.
Here are top 10 Things you must do in Nashville, Tennessee:
1. Hit the Hall-Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Kick start your experience with a visit to the recently expanded Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The globe's largest music museum offers every evolving exhibit featuring both the legends and today's country music hottest stars. Grab a bite inside the Museum at Bajo Sexto, an authentic Mexican taqueria or 2/22 Eatery, a restaurant serving Southern Favorites. Then
explore the hall's new retail stores offering local created gifts, clothing and a great selection of music and books.
2. Visit Belle Meade Plantation
Constructed in a breathtaking Greek revival design in 1853, the plantation is popularly known as the Queen of the Nashville Plantations.' At the middle of the Belle Meade Plantation is a mansion whose walls are peppered with bullet holes from the civil war and where guides dressed in ancient costumes offer tours of the building's antebellum-design interior. You will
also explore the grounds which are home to the renowned Iroquois steeplechase, the
oldest in the country as well as the nation's best thoroughbred breeding farms. During the fall and summer, the plantation hosts various events including antique auctions and Easter egg hunts.
3. Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Although Nashville, Tennessee might be popular for its country music, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center offers a state of art facility for classical music. Its world class design is influenced by most of Europe's finest music concert halls like the custom built 3,600 pipe concert organ, but it is the great attention to acoustical details that allows for a remarkable
musical atmosphere. It is also sweet home for the Grammy Award Winning Nashville
Symphony, so there is a high chance to catch a great concert all year round.
4. Hang at the Bluebird Café
You know how sometimes in a bar or restaurant you will hear a lady or a guy singing the latest song by Lady Antebellum or Keith Urban? Well at this café, the difference is that the lady or the guy will be the one who wrote the song. The world-class café invented the writers in the round,' a circle with 4 song writers taking turns playing their hits to a rapt audience.
5. Adventure Science Center
Take a break from country music and history and treat your young ones to some hands on educational leisure activities. Engaging displays allow kids to learn about science from what goes on thousands of light years above their heads to what really goes on inside their bodies. Children can step inside a face changing booth to get a glimpse of what their future faces will
look like or get behind a flight simulator and learn what it really takes for one to become an astronaut. In addition, regular lectures and demonstrations help kids learn from the facility's interactive components and the shows in the planetarium are engaging for the entire family.
6. Take an endless Journey — Ryman Auditorium
Also known as the 'Progenitor of Country Music,' Ryman Auditorium has many different artists including Patsy Cline and Jon Bon perform on its stage since 1882.Celebrities of the Grand Ole Opry Perform every Friday, Saturday and Tuesday evening with guest appearances by some of the greatest names in country music. You can also tour the backstage and record your song in the recording studio. With over 80 years under its belt, it is the globe's longest working radio broadcast and shows no signs of bowing out anytime soon.
7. Uncover Johnny Cash
Visit the Johnny Cash Museum and discover the driving force behind
The Man in Black. The facility which opened in early 2013, boasts of the globe's
largest collection of Cash's memorabilia and artifacts including letters, films
and handwritten notes penned by Johnny Cash himself plus over 2- costumes made
famous during the legend's career. Displays show different moments in his life
including his marriage to June Carter, the famous prison concert and his years
in the Air Force. And because the facility is endorsed by his family, you can
bet you will likely stumble across other personal data not available to the
public anywhere else.
8. Monday night dance party
If you have moves, show them on the dance floor at Nashville's
best kept secret, 5-spot.There is always something great going on at this hip
haunt joint every night, but Monday night is certainly the New Friday here with
revelers packing out its amazing dance party. Do not show up expecting modern
tunes and glow sticks. The hits here are 60's and 50's rock n roll and doo-wop.
Wear whatever you want, but expect to see locals in full rockabilly wear. Do
not be a wallflower, because it will not be long before one of the movers grabs
you to be their dancing partner.
9. Visit the Hermitage
Developed in 1821 for President Andrew Jackson, this Greek-style
mansion now stands as an artifact into the leader's home life and as historical
landmark. Most people are familiar with Jackson's stint as president, his
appearance on the 20 dollar bill and his role in the 1812 war, but a visit of
the over 1000-acre estate provides a more personal and up-close look. Along the
guided tour you will see the original cabin, the kitchen, the main house, the Old
Hermitage Church and Jackson's tomb. Another display tells the touching story
of the over 100 slaves that worked on the estate from 1804 to 1864.
10. Ride the Row — RCA Studio B
No trip to the city of music would be complete without touring where Elvis began! Visit music Row and take a tour of the RCA Studio B where the famous Elvis recorded over 180 songs. Dolly Parto, Eddy Arnol, Chet Atkins, Roy Orbison and many other famous artists recorded classics here.
Order it Tennessee' fried
Nothing tastes great like South of America than Hattie B's fried chicken! Soaked in season for over 40 hours and then crisp fried in different levels of chili, a diner picks his or her own heat level. Nonetheless, be warned-the hottest choice, 'shut the cluck up' is not for the soft hearted!
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Dave Pike, foreground, Craig Parks and Recreation Department director, and Jeremy Sanders, city parks supervisor, scope out Loudy-Simpson Park Wednesday afternoon in preparation for Whittle the Wood Rendezvous. The four-day event is scheduled to kick off June 13 at its new location and includes a chainsaw carving competition, free concerts and an arts and crafts fair.
• 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. "The Tropical Coyotes" performs in a free concert. A beer garden opens at 5 p.m.
• 7:30 a.m. Registration opens for "Wake the Whittler," a 5K walk/run and mile-long fun run to benefit Friends of Moffat County Education. The race begins at 8 a.m. Participants can pre-register at Craig Parks and Recreation, 300 W. Fourth St.
— Mathers' Lounge & Café, 420 Yampa Ave.
— Kmart parking lot, 1198 W. Victory Way.
• 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. A free arts and crafts fair takes place, featuring food vendors and a beer garden.
• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Bear River Young Life and Colorado Cruisers car and motorcycle show takes place in the 400 and 500 blocks of Yampa Avenue in downtown Craig.
• 4 p.m. A silent auction closes for wood carvings created in the competition.
• 5:30 p.m. "Alter Eagles: The Definitive Eagles Tribute" performs in a free concert.
Dave Pike, Craig Parks and Recreation director, scanned Loudy-Simpson Park on Wednesday afternoon.
He was trying to imagine what the grassy lawns would look like with a stage, arts and craft booths, wood carvers and anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 people who turn out for the final day of the Whittle the Wood Rendezvous.
Hosting one of the city's biggest events at a new location posed challenges to Pike and his staff.
"When we were at City Park (now known as Veterans Memorial Park), we'd done it so many years in a row that it kind of ran like clockwork for us," he said.
A wood-carving competition headlines the four-day event as competitors from around the region and nation transform wood stumps into sculptures that sell to the highest bidder at an auction June 16. Free concerts, beer gardens, a car show in downtown Craig and an arts and craft fair round out the weekend.
City officials worked with their counterparts at Moffat County to move Whittle the Wood in the wake of deteriorating negations between the Craig City Council and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4265 regarding Veterans Memorial Park.
The city officially announced the venue change in January, and Pike believes Loudy-Simpson Park is a good fit for the event.
The park's distance from downtown Craig is a potential drawback, as attendees often walked to the event in the past, but Pike hopes a free shuttle service will help offset the disadvantage.
Shuttles run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. June 16, departing every 30 minutes from locations around Craig.
A Triple Crown baseball game is scheduled to take place at Loudy-Simpson Park during Whittle the Wood weekend, so "parking will be at a premium out there," Pike said.
A new location isn't the only change to Whittle the Wood this year. The schedule includes an additional free concert set for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 15.
Attendees are prohibited from bringing alcohol to the event, but beer gardens will be provided June 15 and 16.
The rendezvous' final day also will include the first "Wake the Whittler," a 5K walk/run and mile-long family fun run.
The race starts at 8 a.m. at Loudy-Simpson Park, and registration opens at 7:30 a.m.
Participants can pre-register at the Craig Parks and Recreation Department, 300 W. Fourth St.
Adult registration costs $20, but participants who sign up before Monday pay $15. Registration for children costs $5.
All proceeds benefit Friends of Moffat County Education, a nonprofit community organization designed to help raise money for educational projects.
Attendees also can expect to find familiar events, including the Bear River Young Life and Colorado Cruisers car and motorcycle show set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the 400 and 500 blocks of Yampa Avenue in downtown Craig.
On average, the car show raises about $3,000 annually for Young Life, and the proceeds help pay for camp scholarships, said David Pressgrove, Bear River Young Life area director.
During the past two years, the show has garnered about 120 entries, including a few "pretty cool looking" cars built from the ground up, he said.
The show concludes with a poker run where, for a $10 entry fee, participants can try to land a lucky hand.
Pressgrove believes the activities scheduled during Whittle the Wood make for a notable weekend.
"It's just a fun weekend to be out and about in Craig," he said.


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Q: Validation that .NET/C# generated webservice proxy client object is connected to the right object on the server side I create c# proxy client class by
svcutil.exe WSDL

add this class to the project and use it as any other class.
During development cycle WSDL as well as server side changes and connection fails.
Is there way how I can be sure that client class on my side matches server side?
Preferably inside program.
Please, do not provide suggestions that I have to regenerate and recompile. It takes some time and during this time server can change.
Another suggestion to "manually" validate that all methods match as well as their signatures does not work either. It could be the same signatures but class is different. For example, each service has method GetVersion() and it returns latest version but client shows this latest version from server side when actual client side class is few versions old.


After arriving in the United States a few years before the outbreak of World War Two, Pierre Monteux made a fair number of recordings for RCA Victor, first with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and later with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Still, he was not the label's favored conductor during the 40s and 50s; that honor went to Arturo Toscanini. As a result, Monteux did not have the opportunity to record as much of his repertoire as he might have.
Fortunately, like Toscanini, he participated in many radio broadcast performances, and these have been preserved. Starting in the 1940s, Standard Oil of California sponsored a Sunday evening radio program called "This Hour is Yours," and it featured commercial-free live performances of orchestral music played by orchestras in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Monteux participated in these programs until 1952, when he left his post in San Francisco. The music that he conducted tended to be more popular than one would often hear during a subscription concert, but by no means was it all of the lollipop variety. The only limitation imposed by Standard Oil was that no selection could be longer than 23 minutes. This, of course, ruled out the longer symphonies and concertos, for example, although individual movements sometimes were programmed.
This impressive 13-CD set includes a very generous selection from Monteux's Sunday evening broadcasts. Music and Arts posts prominent thanks on the front of the box to Nancie Monteux-Barendse and The Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians. (This is the school that Monteux himself founded in Maine in 1943.) The excellent performance-by-performance annotations are by music critic Arthur Bloomfield, who was fortunate to see Monteux conduct the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on many occasions, and who even sang in the chorus during one of the "Maître's" performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. These 13 discs are being sold for the price of eight. This newly-remastered set – as always, Maggi Payne has done fine work – replaces an earlier version from a few years back (CD-978) – one which was three discs shorter. Sunday Evenings With Pierre Monteux is an excellent companion to another Music and Arts release, Pierre Monteux in France (CD-1182, 8 discs), which includes performances from 1952 to 1958.
Monteux recorded all of the Beethoven symphonies at least once, although those recordings seem to have fallen a little out of favor in recent times, given all the hullabaloo about original performance practice, revised editions and the like. Monteux's stereo Fifth with the London Symphony is something akin to genial, without shortchanging the music's fist-shaking drama. The performance here – or composite performance, I should say – is more volatile, although it too lacks the monumental fatalism of many a more acclaimed reading. With the exception of Consecration (which is more appropriately measured in tone), the overtures are done with gusto, and even a disarming lightness, which is something one doesn't always get in Beethoven. The Adagio from Creatures is performed with classical delicacy.
The "Haffner" Symphony also was a work that Monteux recorded in the studios, but late in his career, and overall, Mozart did not occupy the conductor as much as Beethoven. (Monteux was most likely to head in this direction when he had guest soloist who was so inclined – Lili Kraus or Yehudi Menuhin, for example.) Monteux's San Francisco "Haffner" is warm and human, with more sly touches than moments of fragile beauty. The overture to Don Giovanni is terrifying (rightly so), while The Magic Flute has more fun than gravitas. Monteux throws himself into the Turkish music in The Abduction from the Seraglio with obvious enjoyment. Kapell's jeweled tone suits the two movements from the concerto well. The Gluck overture, like the Beethovens on Disc 1, is played with an energy than does not preclude dignity. As for Haydn's 88th – delightful!
Monteux had a special affinity for Richard Strauss's music, but he did not get to make very many recordings of it, so this disc is decidedly valuable. It gets off to a superb start with a passionate, virtuosic Don Juan. In fact, some of the love music is downright pornographic in its intensity, and elsewhere, the title character's failed heroism comes forward loud and clear. Death and Transfiguration also is given a passionate reading, but it is a little too hectic for me, although the orchestra's strings sound gorgeous in the "transfiguration" portion. Monteux plays it in just 22:34; I find that any reading faster than 24 minutes is unconvincing. Till Eulenspiegel's Streiche are particularly lustige here. This score brings Monteux's impish sense of humor to the fore. (Also, butter wouldn't melt in concertmaster Naoum Blinder's mouth during his solos.) In the Rosenkavalier Suite, gentle satire never is far beneath the sentiment. Monteux gets the irony right, and again, the orchestra plays beautifully for him.
French conductors typically are not associated with Wagner's music, but there are exceptions: Cluytens, for one, and of course Monteux. Parsifal, Wagner's sacred music-drama, is treated affectionately by Monteux, albeit with respect, and the San Francisco brass make a fine showing here. The Act One Prelude to Die Meistersinger is refreshingly low on pomp and long on tonal splendor and singing quality. The Act Three Prelude is taut and moody, with a great sense of forward impetus. The apprentices dance with an endearing skip in their step, and the masters process most impressively – but again, with circumstance, not undue pomp. Monteux greatly emphasizes the contrast between the storm music and the music associated with Senta in the Act One Prelude to The Flying Dutchman. This is a splashy performance which will leave you feeling seasick, if you are prone to that malady. The Tristan Liebestod builds to a genuinely orgasmic climax, and the Prelude also glows with unusual warmth. Monteux's affinity for Wagner is reaffirmed time and time again on this disc.
More Wagner, and again, Monteux never runs the risk of letting the music suffocate under its own weight. Wagner seldom gets more lyrical or caressing than this. I must admit that I prefer a more bombastic (!) approach to Rienzi. Nevertheless, Monteux's reading won't fill you up: it is more a flaky French pastry than a Black Forest Cake! Speaking of bombast, there is none in this version of Liszt's Les Préludes (imagine that), and you won't even think of Flash Gordon serials as you hear it. I am half-Hungarian (I won't say which half!), and I can tell you that Monteux's Hungarian Rhapsody is the real thing.
Monteux was famous for his Berlioz, and so it is appropriate that an entire disc is devoted to this composer, even though Monteux made many studio recordings of his music. Everything here is treasurable. The conductor coaxes some of the most fantastic and delicate playing out of his orchestra in the excerpts from The Damnation of Faust, and in the Roman Carnival Overture. (For once, the "Marche hongroise" sounds authentically Hungarian. Judging from this and the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody on the previous disc, Monteux must have had a drop or two of Magyar blood flowing through his veins.) It is interesting to compare Monteux and Toscanini in the excerpts from Roméo. Both conductors are driven in the opening section and in the "Fête at the Capulets," but Monteux finds a Tristan -like longing and eroticism in "Roméo Alone" and the "Love Scene." I also enjoyed the music from L'enfance du Christ, because Monteux doesn't make it too sweet, as it sometimes can be.
The two Mendelssohn overtures are feisty affairs in Monteux's hands, although he hasn't recaptured the ability of Fingal's Cave to make us feel cold and windblown. The "Italian" Symphony features a hectic first movement and a reined-in saltarello Finale, with many tender moments in the two middle movements. All in all, it's a likeable reading, but not among the very best. The same goes for Roméo and Juliet – more conventional in tempi than the "Italian." The five Brahms waltzes (you know, the ones you played with your piano teacher when you were young) make the disc worthwhile, thanks to Monteux's smooth and smoochy interpretations. Brahms would have blanched over Alfred Hertz's orchestrations, however.
Now here's an eclectic mix of music. Pops standards rub elbows with the furrowed-brow masterworks of Brahms and Messiaen. The latter's L'Ascension gets an unusual performance here: as quick and hot as lightning, and visionary. (With Stokowski's, this must have been one the first performances of this score in the United States.) The Tragic Overture is taut, and all of the many moods in the solitary movement from Brahms' First Symphony are given their chance to come to a full blossoming. The Mignon overture sparkles, while The Sorcerer's Apprentice is made to seem more threatening and grotesque and less brilliant than it can be. Rossini's overture sounds a little rough around the edges, particularly because of a haphazard oboe solo. Monteux adds welcome toughness (and a weird string vibrato!) to the Valse triste, elevating it above the usual salon fripperies. The Euryanthe overture races along excitingly, and Monteux shows his affection for the United States (or least for Sousa!) in a rousing and yet almost balletic performance of The Stars and Stripes Forever.
Again, like Cluytens, Monteux gloried in Russian music, and it played a big role in his concert programs and in his recording schedule – and not just in San Francisco. The savage fun of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances is marred only by a few seemingly pointless cuts. (There is no chorus, either.) The third movement of Rachmaninoff's Second also has cuts, which were more usual at the time. Nevertheless, it's a distinguished performance, filled with emotion but not with syrup. The second movement, played after the third, is uncommonly intense. If only Monteux had left us the whole symphony, in one medium or another. Rimsky's Capriccio espagñol is a party that threatens to get slightly out of hand. Even concertmaster Naoum Blinder sounds a little tipsy in his solos. Similarly, the Russian Easter Overture, well-played as it is, seems to look back to a time when the imaginations of Russians living far from cities dwelt as much on devils and witches as they did on saints. In contrast, the Christmas Eve suite sparkles with the innocence of new snow, Monteux turns Glazunov's Scènes de ballet into a mountain of whipped cream – not inferior to his ballet The Seasons, in a performance such as this one!
This all-Franck disc begins provocatively with Gabriel Pierné's sometimes not very Franckian orchestration of the Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue – certainly one of the masterworks of the piano literature. In its own way, it is no less splashy than a Stokowski arrangement of Bach, and Monteux's performance has that same Stokowski-like quality of important yet delicious shamelessness. Monteux also brightens up the sepia tones of the excerpts from the now neglected Rédemption and Psyché. The Franck Symphony was one of the conductor's signature works. He made commercial recordings of it three times – twice in San Francisco (on either side of this 1946 performance), and most famously, in Chicago. The Chicagoans' playing trumps that of the San Franciscans, and the RCA Victor "Shaded Dog" recording still sounds remarkable, even on CD. Still, there is nothing like a live performance to add a shiver of excitement, and only the occasionally rather rough and scratchy condition of this broadcast gets in the way of pleasure – and then, not very much at all. Apparently this is the only work longer than 23 minutes that the conductor was allowed to program for these Sunday evening broadcasts. Apparently the sponsors realized that chopping up Monteux's Franck would be like hacking the arms off of Michelangelo's David.
More pops heaven. Lord knows Grétry's music doesn't need to be played by a full-size symphony orchestra (and perhaps it shouldn't be), and yet what Monteux does with it makes it all worthwhile: Grétry has never sounded so much like Offenbach! Monteux also makes the Nicolai overture into a racy romp, thus belying its German origins. Massenet's virtually forgotten Phèdre overture turns out to be a pretty good piece of music, with lots of heavy-breathing in this composer's best style, and Monteux squeezes as much juice as he can from it. Without shortchanging the Spanish rhythms in The Three-Cornered Hat Suite, Monteux emphasizes the music's alluring melodies. Neither William Tell nor Tannhäuser are business as usual; Monteux's light touch in both keeps the music from sounding hackneyed. A similarly light touch in Respighi's Fountains of Rome also wards off bombast, without compromising the score's picture-postcard attractions.
The Beethoven is gripping, thanks to sharp dynamic contrasts and very purposeful tempos. Still, there is both light and shade to this reading, and a Classical poise. (I disagree with the annotator's assertion that Solomon is "serene" and "witty" here, although the temperamental differences between the pianist and the conductor make this performance particularly interesting and compelling.) Somehow, when Liszt orchestrated Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy, the music's intelligence seemed to drop a few notches. In this version, it is more a flashy showpiece than something to be taken seriously. Still, Lili Kraus's pianism does its best to keep the music on the up-and-up, and Monteux supports her ably. I was a little disappointed in the Tchaikovsky, mostly because Cherkassky's playing seems fast and perfunctory, and also the sound is scratchy, and not as immediate as almost everything else in this collection. No such reservations apply to the craggy and very individualistic Brahms, in which the Orchestra's concertmaster again comes to the fore, joined by his brother, the principal cellist.
This last disc is the equivalent of an "everything" bagel. Monteux was no stranger to English music. For example, hear his fine recording of Elgar's Enigma Variations. His performance of Walton's silly Façade music (admittedly, much sillier without the recitations) has less stout and Stilton than a more continental wit. The Schumann Fourth receives a revelatory performance. I don't think I've ever heard it played with more brio and muscle. The same qualities apply to the Mozart as well, which strays just about as far from powdered-wig territory as it can. (The annotator's comment about a "more buffo than Olympian" first movement is right on the mark.) A third movement shorn of repeats assists this reading in coming in under the 23-minute mark. I don't know why the aria from Alfano's verismo opera Risurrezione was sung in French, but I have translated the title back into Italian. (Alfano, of course, is most famous for completing Puccini's Turandot, and this aria, at least, is worthy of the master.) Warenskjold has a large, lovely voice, and her passionate singing on this aria makes me want to hear more from her. Pohjola's Daughter pulses with atmosphere and with sensitive orchestral playing; you'll seldom hear Sibelius's music sound more beautiful than this. Over 14 hours of enjoyable listening come to an end with Chadwick's peppy Jubilee, a fine reminder that Monteux became a citizen of the United States in 1942. Even though the conductor always remained a Frenchman, he threw himself into being an American the way that he threw himself into his conducting, and this performance knits those two activities together.


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Detailed voting for UMK 2016 revealed – Sandhja won with less than 15% of the votes
Giannis Argyriou / 29th February 2016 at 20:08 / National Selection / Finland
Sandhja
The Finnish national broadcaster revealed the full result of their national selection for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016. Sandjha who was third in the televoting won the ticket to Stockholm with the support of less than 15% of the total public votes.
The final result of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016 revealed quite a surprise as the winner Sandjha only received 14,4% of the total votes cast, and that is something which have made the competitors react.
Let's take things from the beginning. Contrary last year's edition of UMK, when the jury had only 10% of the votes, in this years edition the vote was 50-50 between the jury and the televote. The jury and the public group each had available 430 points and these were allocated based on the percentages of votes It was clear that Sandhja was jury's favourite. She won the 12 points from 5 of the 10 jury groups and scored 98 points from them. Mikael Saari who was second by the juries, got the maximum points from 3 jury groups and managed to earn 72 points, 26 points behind Sandhja. Saara Alto was third in juries with 67 points, getting the maximum points from 2 juries.
You can watch below the voting from the juries:
1 Cristal Snow Love Is Blind 41
2 Stella Christine Ain't Got Time for Boys 19
3 Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom Good Enough 35
4 Eini Draamaa 32
5 Barbe-Q-Barbies Let Me Out 46
6 Tuuli Okkonen Don't Wake Me Up 20
7 Sandhja Sing it Away 98
8 Saara Aalto No Fear 67
9 Mikael Saari On It Goes 72
In televoting things were completely different. The Finns could vote before and during the show. Sandhja who scored 98 points in the juries got only the 14,4% of the Finnish televoting. 14,4% of the total 430 points added another 62 points to her score. Saara Alto who won televoting, got 87 points from the public, from 20,2% of the total 430 public votes. Mikael Saari was second in televoting with 18,4%, or 79 from the total 430 points. In other words Sandhja won the UMK 2016 final due to the points she scored in the 10 jury groups.
Here are the voting details from televoting:
1 Cristal Snow Love Is Blind 12% 9% 9.1% 39
2 Stella Christine Ain't Got Time for Boys 6% 7% 6.5% 28
3 Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom Good Enough 10% 11% 10.7% 46
4 Eini Draamaa 4% 7% 6.7% 29
5 Barbe-Q-Barbies Let Me Out 12% 9% 9.1% 39
6 Tuuli Okkonen Don't Wake Me Up 4% 5% 4.9% 21
7 Sandhja Sing It Away 16% 14% 14.4% 62
8 Saara Aalto No Fear 11% 21% 20.2% 87
9 Mikael Saari On It Goes 25% 17% 18.4% 79
The combined results were as follows:
1 Cristal Snow "Love Is Blind" 41 12% 9% 9.1% 39 80 6
2 Stella Christine "Ain't Got Time for Boys" 19 6% 7% 6.5% 28 47 8
3 Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom "Good Enough" 35 10% 11% 10.7% 46 81 5
4 Eini "Draamaa" 32 4% 7% 6.7% 29 61 7
5 Barbe-Q-Barbies "Let Me Out" 46 12% 9% 9.1% 39 85 4
6 Tuuli Okkonen "Don't Wake Me Up" 20 4% 5% 4.9% 21 41 9
7 Sandhja "Sing It Away" 98 16% 14% 14.4% 62 160 1
8 Saara Aalto "No Fear" 67 11% 21% 20.2% 87 154 2
9 Mikael Saari "On It Goes" 72 25% 17% 18.4% 79 151 3
Below you can watch the song with which Sandhja won the UMK 2016:
Amir Haddad to represent France at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016 – Sandhja to represent Finland in Eurovision 2016
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29th February 2016 in National Selection. Tags: Sandhja, UMK 2016, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016, voting, YLE Countries: Finland
Source: EuroVisionary, Wikipedia, YLE
The Finnish national broadcaster revealed the full result of their national selection for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016. Sandjha who was third in the televoting won the ticket to Stockholm with the support of less than 15% of the total public votes. The final result of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016 revealed quite a… Read more
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What Makes Wes Anderson's Filmmaking So Unique?
by Steven Ruiz · Published February 16, 2018 · Updated February 17, 2018
Wes Anderson has a solid record of movies such as Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, which actually won a few Academy Awards. While he does get praise from many, there are others who don't really get his style of filmmaking. Many people could say that his type of style isn't their cup of tea. Regardless, his style is instantly recognizable, so what exactly does he do to stand out? Let's dive in and see what he puts in his films.
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His Sense of Comedy
Most of the comedy in his films is incredibly offbeat. Wes Anderson tends to use it in serious situations, which is unpleasant to some. However you feel about his humor, it's still a clear choice that makes Anderson distinct.
Sometimes comedy doesn't always have to be thrown at you like a ball in a game of catch — the best comedy is when you least expect it. Anderson hits the right notes when he adds his brand of comedy. The tone is kept fairly serious while comedy is utilized. He does a great job with it in films like The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
His Direction Style
In movies such as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson directs scenes as if they were plays on a stage. An example would be in The Life Aquatic when Bill Murray is walking around a ship. Instead of the camera following behind him, a set is built of the side of the ship, giving a wide view of everything that is happening as he walks from room to room. Rather than cutting, he keeps the scene going by following the character while at the same time offering a look at what is happening around in the environment. This helps each scene to flow smoothly.
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His use of colors and tints are what sticks out as well. Anderson brings these bright vibrant colors to all his movies. There's a distinct use of orange and yellow for movies such as The Darjeeling Limited and Moonrise Kingdom. In movies like The Life Aquatic and The Grand Budapest Hotel, he brings a variety of bright colors like pink, blue, and many other pastel colors that really pop. His visuals are so eye-catching in this regard. There's been a clear trend towards using stop motion and set building, and movies like The Life Aquatic and The Grand Budapest Hotel are great examples. It's nice and feels fresh.
His Rapport with Actors that Keep Coming Back to His Films
Many directors would only work with the same actor for two to three projects, but not Wes Anderson. His notable reuse of actors includes Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and of course Bill Murray as he has appeared in nearly all of Anderson's films. That is one aspect that even a layman would notice. It's not every day you see a director recast an actor over and over again and it's undeniably fun to see Anderson cast these actors and put him in a different role with different characteristics.
Let's focus on Bill Murray. In Rushmore, one of Anderson's earliest films, he plays a rich, high-profile company owner who helps Jason Schwartzman's character. In The Life Aquatic, he's an oceanologist looking to fight a big fish underwater. His roles aren't always that obscure, but Bill Murray still manages to succeeds in each role.
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His Music Choices are Always Stellar
Anderson gets help from his music supervisor Randall Poster. Depending on the tone of the movie, they select songs to match it. When Anderson wants a scene to be fast and loud, they select a 70s rock song. When he wants to have a heartwarming scene, they select a soft acoustic song. Randall Poster does a good job of giving Anderson a good song to use and it always turns out great. An example would be in The Life Aquatic, they used the song Search and Destroy by The Stooges for a comedic Bill Murray shooting scene.
His Storytelling is Lovably Odd
In films like The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson depicts the film as a book with chapters, with each act having an equal amount of chapters. This allows him to tell the story with a good, structured narrative. It's brilliant if you ask me. Even when Anderson doesn't use this technique, the feeling of strong narrative structure is still there. In Rushmore, his narrative is a bit more like a play rather than a book.
With a lot of stories he has told, Wes Anderson has a unique way of telling them. His movies' tones are always serious even with comedy being played. His style is very out there and no one else does it better. We'll see how Anderson performs in his newest film Isle of Dogs when it releases in March 2018.
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filmmakhermagazine says:
One of many things that I love about Wes Anderson films is the meticulous production design. The color palette on his films alone are incredible and very specific to his style.
Patricia Henderson says:
P.S. I'll be reaching "The Darjeeling Limited" soon on my Adrien Brody blog (going in chronological order, with rare exception). I cannot wait to dive into it! Woo!!
Oh my gosh, how have I not commented on this post yet? This is wonderfully written, and carefully considered, and I love it. I also love Wes Anderson movies, and I don't care who likes it! nods defiantly
scificritic says:
Love Wes Anderson's stuff. I got to see 'Isle of Dogs' last week. Here's my review: https://screenhubweb.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/spoiler-free-isle-of-dogs-review-screenhub/
MarkyP says:
I'm a big Wes Anderson advocate. Do George A Romero next.
Ammaarah says:
I LOVE Wes Anderson films. I actually reviewed and discussed the significance of Moonrise Kingdom in my recent article for finding love in other mediums https://thatgirlammaarahwrites.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/valentines-day-finding-love-in-other-mediums/
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Stephen Harper has gone back to Africa after five years. In 2007, he went to Uganda for the Commonwealth summit. Now he's in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the Francophonie summit. He has taken a side trip to Senegal to do what politicians love: handing out a cheque — in this case, for food aid to the Sahel region. But there are signs that he is also beginning to see Africa's economic growth as a trade opportunity for Canada, as seen in Foreign Minister John Baird's recent trade trip to Nigeria.
Harper is late to it, just as he was with China, India and other emerging economies. But, given the prolonged American economic crisis, he's working hard at diversifying Canadian trade.
This is welcome, unless you are among those environmentalists and others who loathe his policy of just shovelling out resources to world markets. To them, Harper is the chief agent for tarsands producers and a mining industry derided for abuses abroad. Yves Engler argues so in his new book, The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy. He also berates Harper for, among other things, being the chief cheerleader for right-wing Israeli policies, and for fancying himself as a chief spear-carrier of a warrior nation.
No question that Harper's foreign policy has been tainted by ideology, ignorance, incompetence and personal petulance. It has also been hostage to the partisan needs of the Conservative party.
The recent announcement that Canada will be sharing some embassies with Britain is very much in keeping with: (a) Harper's nostalgia for Canada as a colonial appendage of Great Britain — damn the sentiments of Quebecers, (b) his stated fondness for the English-speaking world — a.k.a. the white man's club — and (c) his wish to retain the G8 rather than expanding it into the G20 as Barack Obama and others want in order to reflect new global economic realities.
Harper's commitment to Israel translated into full-throated support for Israeli wars in Lebanon and Gaza; equating Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah with the Nazis; echoing Benjamin Netanyahu's warlike noises against Iran; and demonizing the United Nations (and snubbing it on a recent visit to New York). These policies contributed to Canada's failure to win a Security Council seat in 2010.
Harper has been lukewarm to the Arab Spring, much like the right-wing neo-cons who pine for the certainty of dictatorships. Baird's recent bluster berating the UN for non-action on Syria is just hot air, given that Ottawa is not exactly lining up for military intervention to topple Bashar Assad.
At home, Harper went after groups deemed insufficiently supportive of Israel — the Montreal-based Rights and Democracy, the Christian ecumenical aid group Kairos, the Canadian Arab Federation and Palestine House.
These policies were credited with helping Jason Kenney's ethnic strategy of winning ridings with Jewish populations.
The Conservatives also wooed the Coptic Christian and Pakistani Canadian Christians in the GTA with a foreign policy pledge: establishing the Office of Religious Freedom. This was widely taken to mean advocating mostly for Christians and other minorities in Muslim nations. While Baird makes perfunctory references to the beleagured Muslim minority in Burma, he has little or nothing to say about plight of other religious groups, such as the Shi'ites in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, or Sufi Muslims in Pakistan. This discredits the core Canadian value of universal human rights.
The Conservatives also wooed the Canadian Hindu community by deepening ties with India, including opening a consulate in Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat. Its chief minister (premier), Narendar Modi, was implicated in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in which 1,000 were killed. Widely derided in India, this Hindu nationalist is barred from entering the U.S. but his supporters in Canada, especially at the Canada India Foundation, have been lobbying Harper to let him come to Canadaon a trade/business visit.
Improving relations with India is very much in Canada's interest, but whitewashing Modi's reputation is not.
On China, Harper began with rage at the regime's lack of respect for human rights. But he has since changed his tune. Our bilateral trade has soared — to $64 billion last year, making China our second-largest trading partner.
On Afghanistan, he started off with macho swagger — "cutting and running is not my way." He has since cut and run, and no longer talks much about establishing democracy there or saving women and girls.
He cost Canada up to a reported $600 million with his heavy-handed dealings with the United Arab Emirates over a request by the Dubai-based Emirates Airlines for more landing rights in Canada. While he claimed to be acting in the interest of Air Canada, the real story was that it was mostly his petulance that derailed the negotiations.
The U.A.E. cancelled the free use of an airbase as a transit point for Canadian troops and equipment to and from Afghanistan. It also slapped a visa on Canadians, of whom 40,000 are there working mostly for 200 Canadian companies doing business in the Gulf region as well as Asia and Africa.
Mercifully, cooler heads have since prevailed and are restoring the relationship.
Ottawa has also been wooing oil- and gas-rich Kuwait and Qatar. Trade Minister Ed Fast has just finished visiting Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Ottawa is re-engaging Turkey. With its booming $1 trillion economy and long-standing NATO membership, Turkey is a partner Canada needs.
After a series of mishaps over the years, Harper is at last settling into a sustained policy of advancing trade on multiple fronts. It has new free trade agreements with nine countries. It is pursuing one with the European Union. It has new foreign investment agreements with 11 countries, and is negotiating with 11 others. It is fostering better ties with Brazil, Korea and others.This is the most helpful thing the prime minister is doing for Canada on the world stage.


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Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015
Letter from America: Singapore International Foundation, and Medford Book Club: A Reprise
By David Fedo
Early in October, I was unexpectedly invited to serve, in Washington DC, as one of seven panellists on the broad topic of "What's Next, Singapore?" This "dialogue", as it was called, was sponsored by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF), and was to be similar to dialogues held earlier in Bandung, Indonesia, and Kuala Lumpur; a fourth event is scheduled for November in London.
The catalyst for these programmes is the publication this year of SIF's Singapore: Insights from the Inside, Volume Two, a book of essays by 50 current and former expatriates, edited by Richard Hartung. I had edited an earlier Volume One, with 31 writers, published just before I departed from Singapore in 2012, after five years as an expatriate living and working in the country.
Travelling to Washington, the capital of the United States, is always a treat, whatever the occasion. With its many classically-themed buildings and historic monuments, not to mention the great museums, restaurants, parks and green spaces, the city is one of the most attractive urban centres in the world. It is also a walkable city which, given its choked vehicular traffic, is a very good thing.
The Singapore programme was scheduled in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill – the chamber in which it was held was reputed to be the very place where, in the early 1970s, the famous/notorious Watergate hearings were conducted, and which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Lots of old ghosts were swirling about in that room!
SIF asserts that its goal is to "build enduring relationships between Singaporeans and world communities, harnessing these friendships to enrich lives and effect positive change." This claim seems to be justified. The focus of these wide-ranging activities, initiatives and services has been on projects involving healthcare, education, the environment, arts and culture, and livelihood and business.
In his opening remarks, Ambassador Ong Keng Yong, the SIF Chairman, elaborated on this theme in relation to the Singapore-US partnership. He referred to a number of programmes, including Singapore Internationale, where "artists and arts groups from Singapore presented their works in various cities across the US and embarked on collaborations with their counterparts." Little By Little is another arts and cultural exchange while, according to Ambassador Ong, in a programme of a different kind, the SIF partnered with the Rotary Club of the State of Rhode Island to provide 17,000 needy Cambodians with access to clean drinking water.
Over the years, the SIF can point to numerous additional exchanges, fellowships and educational programmes that have improved and enhanced the lives of both non-Singaporeans (in the US and elsewhere) and Singaporeans alike. "We are committed," said Ambassador Ong, "to taking our good relations forward with the American community, as we consider 'What's Next, Singapore?' for the next 50 years."
That feeling of goodwill prevailed that night in Washington. Jennifer Lewis, an SIF Governor, served as the panel's knowledgeable moderator and queried its members, who included Hartung, the aforementioned editor of Insights; Matthew Herrmann, SIF's first representative in Washington; Elizabeth Weise, of the USA Today newspaper; and Christian Hogan, Managing Editor of New America.
The dialogue among the panel and members of the audience, although lively, produced no real surprises. Issues involving housing and Singapore's diverse population came to the fore. One concern that emerged was that of foreign workers who are perceived by some Singaporeans to be taking jobs that native Singaporeans believe are rightfully theirs. The panellists believed that the government is trying to find a balance between the challenge of maintaining a pool of talented and skilled employees, wherever they may be found, and insuring that employment at all levels is available to eligible Singaporeans. Education practices in Singapore were referenced. Not surprisingly, a commitment to transparency by the new government was deemed to be essential.
With so much discord and turbulence in today's world leading to tragic results, the goal of the SIF – to bring about bilateral understanding and respect from nation to nation and people to people – is more important, and even more necessary, than ever. Let us applaud it when it happens.
In QLRS's issue of October 2014, I wrote about the syllabus of my Medford Book Club readings that year. (Medford, a suburb just north of Boston, is a city that traces its founding back to 1630; it's where I live.) The focus was on books written by authors associated with Boston (Henry James' novel The Bostonians, and Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express, as two examples), and books that had some specific connection with Boston (The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Dennis Lehane's Mystic River, as two other examples).
This year I have chosen to focus on two great 20th century American novelists: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, both of whom arrived on the literary scene in the 1920s, a period which is often called the Golden Age of the American Novel.
Fitzgerald's reputation, since his death in 1940, has risen significantly over the years. The Great Gatsby (1925), by far his finest book, is now acclaimed as a classic; many call it one of the best novels ever written by an American. Its narrative of the derailed dreams of the enigmatic Jay Gatsby, conveyed in exquisite prose, is a riveting tale of betrayal and loss. (Leonardo DiCaprio played Gatsby in the most recent overhyped movie of the novel.) Tender is the Night, the next best of Fitzgerald's novels, is good, but doesn't come close to Gatsby.
Hemingway, most of whose papers, manuscripts and hunting trophies are housed in Boston's John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, lived longer and produced more novels. In my view, his first, The Sun Also Rises (1926), is the best; it's a moving account of American expatriates in France and Spain. But A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), both war novels, are well regarded too.
As I wrote last October, it is heartening to see adults willing to forgo the television sitcoms and actually read books – and then be willing to leave their houses, condos and apartments and make their way to a library to discuss them. This is amazing in a country where, according to America's National Endowment for the Humanities, only 55 per cent of its adult population actually read a book for pleasure in any given year. (No wonder Donald Trump has become a serious candidate for the Presidency.)
At my first Book Club meeting this month, there were participants, young and old, from a variety of backgrounds. Not surprisingly, all were women – women vastly outnumber men as readers in the US. As was true last year, the members seemed willing to engage in dialogue with each other, but were also willing to listen. Other than giving the context for (and background to) each book, and asking some questions, I try to say as little as possible. Which I believe is, like walking in Washington DC, a good thing.
QLRS Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015
About David Fedo
Return to Vol. 14 No. 4 Oct 2015
Singapore International Foundation
External link.
Singapore: Insights from the Inside, Volume Two
External link to the Singapore International Foundation.
External link to Biography.com.
External link to the Nobel Foundation.


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News from Roland Wicksteed for September 2015
06:47 25 September 2015
By Roland Wicksteed, Dave Jackson, Dave Almond, James Archer, Neil Winder, Ben Knipe
On Thursday September the 10th a blur of Lycra clad cyclists whizzed past the entrance to Aira Force. The Tour of Britain had come to town.
The Tour of Britain's origins are believed to date back to just after the Second World War. The event has grown and grown ever since. This year saw competitors such as 2012 Tour De France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish winner of 26 Tour De France stages, taking part.
With two of the eight stages starting or ending in Cumbria the locals had really gone to town in decorating road side verges, trees, gardens and anywhere else they could think of to place what has become a local landmark, of bikes that had been painted yellow.
It was decided here at Aira Force we needed to enter into the spirit. So in keeping with the ethos of naturally made items, we thought we would make a bike out of some leftover timber we had in the yard.
After a day of sawing, bolting and painting, what started the day as a pile of wood, was now a giant wooden bike
I wonder if Sir Bradley could have won the Tour De France on this!!!?
It took four Rangers to load it onto a trailer and deliver it to the bottom of Park Brow (just outside the tea room)
The bike being secured into position.
On the day of the race the sun came out and the local primary school came down to cheer on their favourite cyclists.
The 120 or so competitors shot past in the blink of an eye.
Overall it was a great day enjoyed by all. And if you look closely enough on the highlights, you can just about pick out the yellow wheels of the bike as the helicopter shot pans down Ullswater.
Working Holiday Group at Millerground.
This post is in recognition of the invaluable help we received from the Working Holiday Group who were with us between the 6th and 11th of September at Millerground and for half a day at St. Catherine's.
The main gateway to Millerground.
National Trust land at Millerground is one of the few public access points to Windermere's eastern shore. It is extremely popular, especially as it is within easy reach of the nearby towns of Bowness and Windermere.
Millerground is at the base, on its west side, of a large drumlin known as Queen Adelaide's Hill. Drumlins are elongated hills formed from glacial deposits. This glacial till or moraine consists largely of gravel and, as a result, is very soft and easily eroded.
When lake levels are high, and especially during Winter storms these banks, consisting of glacial till, are all too easily undermined by strong wave action, putting the raised lake shore footpath at risk.
To combat this, the undermined areas are filled in with stone and then larger stone is pitched at an angle to protect the repaired area. See below.
With the help of the recent working holiday group the last 'at risk' sections have now been repaired and barring extreme Winter storms should now be good for many years to come.
Queen Adelaide's Hill, above Millerground... formed by a glacier.
Members of the working holiday group are seen here collecting both smaller stones for filling in the undermined areas, and larger stones for the revetment or stone pitching work.
This shows an undermined area in the process of being repaired. If left for too much longer the footpath above would be compromised by being undercut.
Another section well on the way to completion.
The surface of the footpath was upgraded in several places with several tons of resurfacing material..MOT road-stone. A lot of blind or partially sighted pedestrians use this path.
The new surface being raked in.
We were lucky with the weather; the mist from temperature inversions gave way to sunshine for most of the week.
On the Wednesday, the working holiday group had a day off and took to the water with Windermere Outdoor Adventure who have a base at Millerground. Here, Lee is giving instructions and a safety talk.
Paddling due south. Wednesday was the only overcast day!
Group photo.
The group stopped at Cockshott Point to stretch their legs and have a chat with the fell rangers who are working on a major lake-shore revetment project there.
A stop in-front of some of the revetment work completed the day before at Millerground!
Later in the day the group went sailing.
The sails ready to be hoisted.
On the Friday, 2000 bulbs were planted at St. Catherine's.
Mission accomplished! Group photo by the 'Spirit of Place' Sculpture at St. Catherine's.
Netted Carpet Moth Survey. (East Windermere) 2015.
The netted carpet moth is one of our rarest moths; its caterpillars or larvae depend on touch-me-not balsam, a 'nationally scarce' annual plant. It is their only food source.
The Netted Carpet Moth (Eustroma Reticulatum) is classified as vulnerable in the Red Data Book and listed as a priority species by the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. Its main stronghold is within the Lake District.
Touch-Me-Not Balsam (Impatiens Noli-Tangere) with larvae in late August. Caterpillars pupate in the ground by October. Adults emerge in July and are 'on the wing' until mid August. The females lay eggs singly on the underside of the plant's leaves.
Since 1990 larval count surveys have been undertaken by Dr. Paul Hatcher of Reading University and John Hooson, National Trust Wildlife and Countryside Adviser, with help from Trust staff and volunteers.
The fifth Quinquennial Survey started out at St. Catherine's near Windermere on September 2nd. and then covered the other East Windermere sites.
A caterpillar about to be photographed on touch-me-not at St. Catherine's by Academy Ranger, Pete.
The cool summer has delayed the caterpillars growth and development; many were exceptionally small and incredibly hard to spot. The larvae go through four stages of growth known as instars before they pupate. Usually by September the larvae are on their third or fourth instar. The one in the image is only on its first!
A rare find was this caterpillar on its third or fourth instar!
No Caterpillars were found at the Hodge Howe Wood site in spite of an intensive search!
Sadly, none were found at this large stand of touch-me-not, a previously unrecorded site.
Success! A caterpillar on the underside of a balsam leaf at the Birthwaite Road site.
A rare and unusual image of my clean fingernails!
Seriously, it is showing a small larvae lunching on a small touch-me-not seed pod or capsule.
YIKES! This large caterpillar is the larvae of the elephant hawk moth and they are occasionally seen on touch-me-not. More often they are to be seen on willow herb.
Once the rest of the known sites have been surveyed an estimate of the current UK populations can be arrived at; this will give an indication of how well the netted carpet moth is doing.
Related posts to this one are on this blog and tell the story of National Trust's rangers' conservation work involving the moth and the plant.
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Ranger. It is a privilege to live and work in this beautiful area; it is unique. I am based at Windermere and Troutbeck. My favourite work is drystone walling and hedgelaying. I enjoy instructing Working Holiday Groups in both of these traditional crafts. Part of my work involves keeping the numbers of "invasive non native species" down as much as possible. I also continue to work on a project, the aim of which is to increase the numbers of the scarce touch me not balsam plants,(yellow flowering plants in the image's background!) which the rare netted carpet moth depends upon for its survival. The numbers of moths and plants are mainly restricted to a few small sites in The Lake District.
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How to Find Success as an Introvert in the Workplace
As a vast oversimplification of human personality, it's often said that most people are either inclined toward introversion or extroversion. And while extroverts are more vocal—which makes them seem like the majority—the reality is that there's nearly a 50–50 split between introverts and extroverts.
Why is it then that introverts often feel so out of place in the office? Despite the business world being made up of millions of introverted professionals, it's not always easy to know how to be successful. But for those who are willing to lean in and grow, there are plenty of opportunities to thrive.
Understanding One's Introversion
Before being able to thrive as an introvert, one needs to understand how to function and what sort of impact this has on them as a person and a professional.
"Introverts tend to be more quiet, reserved, and introspective," author Kendra Cherry explains. "Unlike extroverts who gain energy from social interaction, introverts have to expend energy in social situations. After attending a party or spending time in a large group of people, introverts often feel a need to 'recharge' by spending a period of time alone."
Within a work setting, introverts tend to speak up less often, prefer to work alone, and crave periods of solitude—such as a lunch break. Extended periods of engagement are taxing and can actually result in lower productivity.
Four Tips for Introverts
Though introversion is often discussed in a negative context, it can actually be advantageous in the workplace. Here are some tips that are successful:
Prepare (When Possible)
It takes a lot of courage for introverts to speak up in meetings. If in a meeting where ideas and suggestions are expected, it's best to prepare in advance.
As entrepreneur Stacey Lastoe points out,
"It may take a few minutes of your day or week to jot down notes or do some brief research on the topic that the marketing manager has stated will be the focus of the meeting, but think of how much better you'll feel when you're not only able to nod in understanding, but you're also able to respond to the host as soon as you're given a chance."
Preparation breeds confidence, which subsequently increases the likelihood of engaging in a group setting. Remember this to be set up for success.
Schedule Some Alone Time
If it's known that being around people for extended periods of time results in bad performance, organize the daily schedule so that there are purposeful breaks. Instead of scheduling back-to-back meetings, create a 30-minute buffer so time can be spent alone in an office with a closed door. Lunch breaks can also be utilized as a chance to be alone and relax.
Connect with People Your Way
While extroverts often shine the brightest in meetings and at company parties, introverts are not always willing to put themselves out there in big group settings. If not careful, people will start to think of an introvert as being unfriendly. In order to combat this, be sure to connect with people on an individual basis—which is generally a strength for introverts.
"Take key stakeholders out to lunch or for coffee," career expert Vicki Salemi recommends. "You can build individual relationships one-on-one rather than in a group setting."
Let Other People in
It's easy for introverts to come off the wrong way to extroverts. It's nearly impossible for an extrovert to understand how an introvert thinks and feels—and vice versa—but an introvert can explain themselves to others. Let people know that work is best completed when alone, and brief periods of time to recharge in solitude are often needed. Most coworkers will respect these wishes and give the space needed to thrive.
Embrace Introversion
Introversion isn't something to run from. If fought, one could ultimately end up frustrated, anxious, and depleted. Embracing the way one's brain works and learning to leverage strengths while overcoming weaknesses will prove to be highly advantageous in a career.
Larry is an independent business consultant specializing in tech, social media trends, business, and entrepreneurship. Follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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I'm one of those annoying people that cruises around town with my favorite tunes blasting from my car's stereo system. In fact, I demand the same quality in sound reproduction I get from my home system.
The Pioneer Premier DEH-P600UB CD Receiver ($270) delivers that and more, cranking out a sweet 50 watts of sound per channel (for up to four channels). This baby can also be upgraded to provide Bluetooth compatibility, satellite radio and HD-FM, or you can purchase the DEH-P700BT ($310), which includes the Bluetooth adapter. In addition, if you're an iPodite, you can plug your music player in to the unit's USB port and control it directly from the receiver or the included remote control.
It has a removable faceplate that can be stored in a case that comes with the receiver.
It can play MP3, WMA and ACC files stored on CDs.
You can attach an external amplifier and speakers to its three RCA Hi-Volt outputs.
Its three-line digital display gives you all the information you need about what tunes are playing or what station you're listening to. In addition, you can use it to search for your favorite tunes on your iPod.
Its Supertuner technology virtually eliminates noise and distortion.
You can store 24 of your favorite radio stations on its six buttons.
It comes with a two-year warrantee.
Its remote control gives any back-seat driver the ability to play his/her favorite tunes, etc.
It has a seven-band equalizer.
For more information on the DEH-P600UB, check out the Pioneer Electronics Web site.


a solid 7. This is a fun movie that bucks the D.C. trend for darkness and replaces pompous nonsense (S vs B, JL) with puerile humour befitting the young protagonist.
Sort of Big meets Spider-Man, this is real fun at times. And while some effects and story components don't quite work (seven deadly sins) it is enjoyable and entertaining.
Mark Strong plays a surprisingly consistent and mean bad guy. There's no quarter given to his young opponent irrespective of his guise.


The band will release their first full-length 'Morningside' on 24th May.
Swimming Tapes have announced the details of their debut album.
The band will release their first full-length 'Morningside' on 24th May. They're previewing the eleven-track effort with a new single, 'Pyrenees', which you can check out below.
The band explain, ""Pyrenees" is a sweet little bop of a pop song. It might only clock in at two-and-a-half minutes but we still managed to get two different guitar solos in there. The song's about what follows an argument with a loved one, that middle of the night feeling when you realise actually you're the one in the wrong."