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Rugby coach may face conflict of interest in run for Greenwich school board
Updated 7:21 pm EDT, Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Greenwich High School rugby coach Joe Kelly, seen here collecting his Greenwich Old Timers Athletic Association lifetime achievement award in 2018, could find his coaching career will stop him from serving on the Board of Education. The town's legal department is examining if he can run even though he is an employee of the school district.
Greenwich High School rugby coach Joe Kelly, seen here collecting his Greenwich Old Timers Athletic Association lifetime achievement award in 2018, could find his coaching career will stop him from serving on
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GREENWICH — Joe Kelly is best known as the successful coach of the Greenwich High School rugby team. But that role could trip up his attempt to join the town's Board of Education.
Kelly, a Republican, announced plans this week to shift his previous campaign for the Board of Selectmen to the school board instead. That decision would clear the way for Board of Education member Lauren Rabin to pursue the Republican nomination for selectman.
But Kelly's new candidacy is facing concerns of a possible conflict of interest.
Employees of the school district are not allowed to serve on the Board of Education, according to Town Clerk Carmella Budkins.
But the town Republican leadership is seeking advice on whether Kelly could still serve on the school board even though he is paid for his part-time position as rugby coach.
"We are looking at the statutes to see if this is a conflict," Republican Town Committee Chair Richard DiPreta said Tuesday. "Once we determine if there is a conflict of interest here, we will discuss it with Joe and determine what we can do moving forward."
On Tuesday, Kelly said he was awaiting guidance from the town's legal department. He said he hoped his position as a coach would not prevent him from also serving the town as a school board member.
"I hope we can get through this," Kelly said, expressing a strong desire to remain as coach as well as run for the school board in the fall. "We're trying to get it clarified."
Town Attorney Wayne Fox said he was reviewing the issue and hoped to have a determination soon.
Kelly is also the CEO of Uranium Markets, a commodities firm with offices in Manhattan and London and its headquarters in Greenwich.
He has earned high praise for his work as rugby coach, receiving the Greenwich Old Timer's Athletic Association lifetime achievement award last year for guiding the team to nine championships during his 10-year tenure.
Only one employee — the superintendent of schools — reports directly to the Board of Education. However, all the other school employees, including the Greenwich High athletic director, who oversees all the coaches, report to the superintendent.
Last year in Danbury, Democrat Jane Grandieri was elected to the Board of Education but declined the seat after it was determined that she couldn't serve on the board and take a job with the school district as a behavioral therapist. That determination was made under state law, which would also govern Greenwich's statutes.
Kelly said he has previously asked the school district to not pay him at all, or to pay him only $1 and give the budgeted money to the assistant coaches instead. However, district regulations do not allow a volunteer coach.
"As far as I am concerned, I'd love to forgo my pay and be a volunteer," Kelly said, adding that he donates his salary to the rugby program's booster club every year. "If I had a choice, that's obviously what I would do."
According to the Greenwich school district, Kelly earned $7,527 as coach for the 2019 Spring Rugby Season, under the town's agreement with the Greenwich Education Association.
DiPreta said Kelly would be an asset to the Board of Education and noted Kelly's popularity in town with Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters.
"We think he would serve the town well as a member of the Board of Education," DiPreta said. "We think that of all the candidates that we put forward, otherwise we would not put them forward."
If it is determined that Kelly can serve on the school board, he would be one of three Republicans vying for two seats among the four that are up for election this year. While Rabin is not be seeking re-election to the Board of Education, Barbara O'Neill, a former board chair, will seek her third four-year term and town resident Karen Kowalski is looking to run for the first time, DiPreta said.
O'Neill confirmed her re-election plans on Tuesday. Kowalski could not be reached for comment.
In July, the RTC will hold its nominating meeting and can put forward more than two candidates for the two seats. Additionally, any candidate that does not earn a party nomination could gather signatures to petition their way onto the ballot.
For Kelly, he said he hopes for a quick resolution. If it comes down to choosing between remaining as rugby coach or running for the Board of Education, Kelly would not indicate what he would do. But he said he would want to have a conversation with the public about his best path.
"I have made a commitment to this (rugby) program," he said. "I've made a commitment to the parents and I've made a commitment to the youth. I said I would be there for the long run. I told the kids coming in that they would have the same level of commitment that the kids who just graduated got. There would be a lot to discuss because I have made promises."
When asked what would happen if he had to make a choice, Kelly said, "Let's hope it doesn't come to that."


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Some of the cyclists who will be taking part in the race.
Ari's Cancer Foundation is sponsoring 23 riders from Groenvlei High School in Lansdowne to fly to the finish line in the 2019 Cape Town Cycle Tour.
The journey began more than a year ago when the pupils decided to take on the challenge of the 2018 cycle race in support of Ari's Cancer Foundation ("Teenagers get a chance to compete in cycle race for cancer," Bulletin February 22).
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Mr Jansen said the team had spent the first few months training on spinning bikes in the school gym before progressing to the road using 15 commuter bikes, donated by the Pedal Power Association.
Over the last eight weeks, they have spent weekends building up saddle hours by doing long rides around the peninsula.
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Groenvlei teacher Godfrey Hendrickse said he was proud of the pupils' commitment and dedication.
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For more information, contact Zelda Jansen at cbbzel@mweb.co.za, or Groenvlei School at 021 703 2227.
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María Belén Landáburu González (Burgos, 20 de marzo de 1934) es una abogada y política española, procuradora en Cortes y consejera nacional del Movimiento durante la dictadura franquista, y senadora por designación real entre 1977 y 1979.

Su participación fue decisiva para que se rebajara la mayoría de edad legal de las mujeres de los 25 a 21 años, equiparándola al hombre establecida en la Ley de 22 de julio de 1972.

Formó parte de la ponencia de la Ley para la Reforma Política de 1977, la única mujer que participó en este proceso.

Biografía

Fue Procuradora en Cortes de representación familiar elegida por la provincia de Burgos. (Accede a los 33 años a las Cortes y una de las procuradoras más jóvenes). Adscrita al ala social del falangismo. Regidora central del Servicio Social, secretaria general de la Federación de Amas de Casa, consejera del Fondo de Ordenación y Regulación de las Producciones y Precios Agrarios (FORPPA). Vocal de la Junta de Gobierno del Grupo Español de la Unión Interparlamentaria, miembro titular del Instituto Internacional de Estudios de Clases Medias, miembro de la Unión Internacional de Organismos Familiares, directora del Gobinete Técnico de la Familia, consejera nacional en representación de las estructuras básicas (Familia), secretaria segunda del Consejo Nacional del Movimiento. También fue representante de España ante la condición jurícia y social de la mujer del consejo Económico y social de la ONU y Vocal de la Comisión General de Codificación.

Asegura que su vocación política nació en la Universidad: «Lo que me alienta en estos momentos es pensar que dentro de unos años, cuando los españoles hayamos alcanzado madurez política suficiente, se podrá decir en una entrevista lo que ahora se dice en los apartes».

A comienzos de la década de 1970 fundó, con Isabel Cajide, la revista Artes.

Aportaciones al Código Civil

Miembro de la Asociación Española de Mujeres Juristas, presidida por María Telo, que intervendría luego en la modificación del Código Civil, su participación fue decisiva para que se rebajara la mayoría de edad legal de las mujeres de los 25 a 21 años, equiparándola al hombre en la Ley de 22 de julio de 1972.

Los trabajos encaminados a la reforma del Código Civil, dieron lugar a la constitución de una Sección Especial de la que formaron parte cuatro vocales femeninos. El 17 de enero de 1973 se celebró, con la asistencia del ministro de Justicia, Antonio Mª de Oriol y Urquijo, la primera sesión de la Sección Especial, creada para «estudiar las incidencias que los cambios sociales puedan haber producido en el Derecho de familia y la formulación en su caso de la correspondiente propuesta».

Estas cuatro mujeres juristas fueron María Telo; Carmen Salinas Alfonso, Asesora jurídica de la Sección Femenina; Concepción Sierra Ordóñez, especializada en derecho de familia y causas de separación matrimonial; y Belén Landáburu, perteneciente a la Sección Femenina y protagonista de la reforma del Código del año 1972.

Distinciones
 Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil del Mérito Agrícola (1973)
 Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil de Beneficencia (1976)
 Encomienda con Placa de la Orden de Cisneros

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Corto Las Constituyentes Oliva Acosta (2008)
 Las constituyentes  Documental de Oliva Acosta (2011) sobre el trabajo de las mujeres que participaron en la Legislatura Constiuyente.
 «Pioneras de la democracia.» El País. Lola Huete. Diciembre 2012

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Políticos de España del siglo XX
Juristas de España
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Senadores de la Legislatura Constituyente de España
Procuradores de las Cortes franquistas
Comendadores con placa de la Orden de Cisneros
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Nacidos en Burgos
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I'm currently reading a book entitled Pagan Christianity?. This book, by Viola & Barna, takes a look at the origins of our church practices. It's extremely thought-provoking and I would highly recommend it to anyone who has ever been curious about how Christians started meeting in buildings, having ordered services centered around preaching, taking communion in the manner we do, organizing choirs, and a host of other practices that we Christians engage in. If you do pick it up, a bit of a warning… you could be challenged and made very uncomfortable by what you read.
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In its evolutionary development, the system has been able to comply with the latest banking requirements in the business process phase, by using the knowledge of banking experts. Also considering the technical aspect, the system has grown, using research and development and new IT outcomes. Today the largest Iranian banks are utilizing this system for their foreign affairs.
An entirely professional software system for foreign currency affairs, is needed to respond to the mentioned features. This system should be comprehensive in responding to all banking needs in addition to being flexible and up to date with today's technology.
Withdrawing from client banking accounts during the day in the local currency for the provided foreign currency services and sending (transferring) the summary of the foreign currency operations to the General Ledger system at the end of the day to keep the bank book keeping functions integrated.
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Alexander Ross, the subject of the book I am presently writing, was one of the many Scottish Highlanders who immigrated to North America and became a fur trader. He spent 15 years as a trader in what are now British Columbia and the American West Coast before retiring to the Red River Settlement where he and his Okanogan First Nations wife Sally raised a large family. Also, during his time at the Red River, Ross farmed, worked as a trader, was active in local politics, and wrote a number of books about his experiences.
Ross' fur trade career almost ended before it had properly begun when he was part of a small group of men who were abandoned on one of the deserted Falkland Islands on their voyage from New York via Cape Horn and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) to the west coast of North America in 1810-11. As he described the beginning of the event:
"The ship's off!" When all of us…beheld…the Tonquin, under full sail, steering out of the bay we knew too well the callous and headstrong passions of the wayward captain to hesitate a moment in determining what to do;…some [of us] made for the boat, whilst others kept running and firing over hill and dale to warn…[two men] who had not yet returned….We…[stowed] ourselves into a trumpery little boat…In this dreadful dilemma, we launched on a rough and tempestuous sea, and, against wind and tide, followed the ship.
Ross's first year at the Red River in 1825-26 was almost equally dramatic:
It was not until the beginning of May when the ice started to move on the Red River that people realized they had another serious problem. The water rose nine feet in 24 hours, overflowing the river banks and spreading over land to people's houses almost before they were aware of the danger. By May fifth everyone had abandoned their homes for higher ground. "The most singular spectacle," Ross wrote, "was a house in flames, drifting along in the night…one half immersed in water, and the remainder furiously burning."
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Jerusalem Post Israel News Israeli Politics
Ministerial Committee approves proposal for reduced regulatory burden
Peretz says government plan would be disastrous for environment
By SHARON UDASIN
Wide view of the Knesset
(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Members of the Ministerial Committee for Social and Economic Affairs approved on Sunday a proposal aiming to disencumber the country's regulatory arrangements – with a sole objection coming from Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz.
Following a government decision on August 25, 2013, the Prime Minister's Office was tasked with bringing for approval a plan to improve the country's regulatory process and reduce the bureaucracy associated with it. The proposal on the subject, approved during Sunday's meeting, stressed the need to both reduce the regulatory burden within existing regulations, as well as formulate assessments regarding the expected effects of new ones.
Elements of the proposal were based largely upon the OECD's 2012 Recommendation of the Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance, according to the proposal.
In the proposal, the authors stipulate that when determining a new regulation, each regulator would need to follow a new regulatory impact assessment (RIA) methodology. First and foremost, the regulator must clearly define the purpose of regulation, the need for regulatory intervention to achieve that purpose and the expected benefits of the regulation. In relevant situations, the regulator would need to reduce the need to apply for permits ahead of time, by establishing binding and clear rules, subject to enforcement, oversight, deterrence and economic efficiency.
The proposal also calls upon the regulator to calculate the expected burden caused by a regulation, as well as reduce overlaps and inconsistencies between the new regulation and others. Calling upon regulators to reduce harm to the public interest, the proposal also requires consistency, transparency of information and dialogue with the relevant parties.
Prior to enacting a regulation, the regulator would need to prepare a document, known as the RIA report. The reports would need to be published starting from January 1, 2016, alongside publications of bill memorandums, as well as alongside secondary legislation, prior to the approval of the relevant minister or Knesset committee.
The proposal stipulates, however, that the minister supervising the regulation in question will have the ability to exempt his or her ministry from the RIA procedure, if the effect of the regulation on those being supervised or on the public interest is negligible.
In 2015, the RIA rules would apply to two regulations initiated by each ministry throughout that year – one piece of primary legislation and one piece of secondary legislation, according to the proposal.
Peretz was the only minister to vote against the proposal, citing numerous problems associated with the plans in a letter written to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu prior to the Sunday meeting.
"I believe that the proposal, if it is advanced, would cause considerable harm to the existing government regulatory system and the ability to advance necessary regulatory reforms, and particularly items related to environmental regulation," Peretz wrote.
While the RIA calls for the requirement of an assessment of regulations prior to the implementation of legislation, Peretz pointed out that any minister supervising specific regulation would be able to waive the need for a regulatory impact analysis.
Based on studying the implementation of the specific regulatory impact analysis methodology in other countries, ministry officials found that the structure has largely proved too flexible, making the results of the analyses too easy to manipulate, he said.
Meanwhile, although the proposal would require estimates of direct costs from any new regulation, it would not demand an examination of indirect impacts or benefits, according to the minister.
"The proposed methodology is based only on one part of the regulatory assessment equation," he wrote.
Peretz also voiced particular concerns about the harm that might be caused to the country's environment, a sector that still is not up to par with many OECD demands. Implementation of the proposal could bring about delays in the passage of necessary environmental regulation, Peretz argued.
"The Environmental Protection Ministry is acting to meet the standards of existing environmental arrangements in the world and reduce these gaps," he said. "The requirement to conduct an RIA prior to the advancement of environmental legislation will damage the ability of the ministry to advance environmental regulation, due to the absence of organized and clear methodology."
Another issue that Peretz criticized was the failure to include an environmental cost and benefits analysis under the framework of RIA within the proposal.
Experts across the world have stressed how crucial it is to include environmental cost and benefits within an RIA framework, and the OECD emphasizes that each of its member countries must do so, he explained.
Nonetheless, such costs and benefits have not been included in Israeli governmental drafts for RIA implementation methodology, Peretz said.
In each ministry, the proposal chooses select departments that will be responsible for reducing their regulatory burden in 2015.
Looking at his office in particular, Peretz criticized the fact that the two branches chosen by the government within his ministry would be the noise and radiation department and the pesticides department. Both the pesticides and radiation sectors require new legislation, and must not be subject to the proposal to reduce the regulatory burden, Peretz said.
With regards to this issue, the Ministerial Committee members agreed on Sunday to grant the Environmental Protection Ministry the right to choose its pilot departments.
While emphasizing his objections to the RIA proposal, Peretz stressed that he is in principle in favor of reducing regulatory burdens – simply not according to this scheme. Within his own ministry, he has taken steps to alleviate bureaucratic hurdles, particularly in the green business- licensing sector, he added.
"I believe that the goal of reducing the regulatory burden and bettering regulation is correct," Peretz said. "Nevertheless, the suggested method in the proposal is destructive and will lead to a freezing of reforms and endanger the ability of the government to legislate for the benefit and welfare of the public."
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The Eccentric Beauty of Rural, Soviet-Era Bus Stations
By Patrick Sisson Sep 16, 2015, 11:30am EDT
A Soviet-era bus station in Córnaje, Belarus, featured in photographer Christopher Herwig's new book Soviet Bus Stops. All photos by Christopher Herwig
If you were stuck in the middle of nowhere in, say, Armenia during Soviet times, your transportation options may have been limited. But according to the photos in Christopher Herwig's new book, Soviet Bus Stops, at least you had something interesting to look at while waiting for a ride. One-of-a kind bus stations, a type of infrastructure folk art, dot the landscape, having seemingly arisen from some far-off architecture contest to populate rural areas.
Herwig discovered this unique type of architecture during a bike trip from London to St. Petersburg in 2002. The Canadian photographer had been on similar journeys before and was struck by the gap between reality and the National Geographic fantasy of foreign travel. As he spent hours passing through flat, boring farmland, he made a game of snapping a photo every hour. As the trip began winding through Lithuania, he began to notice these exceptional bus stops.
Taraz, Kazakhstan
Kootsi, Estonia
He discovered they were officially designated "minor architectural forms." Locally inspired and created by road workers and artists, the stations remained unnoticed and outside the purview of the central Soviet bureaucracy.
"Because they're small, they flew under the radar," he says. "They could be frivolous and experimental. They couldn't really fail; they didn't need to convey any massive ideological opinion, and didn't even need to function that well. People got wet, it wasn't the end of the world."
Herwig staged a small exhibit of his work in Stockholm the year after his initial trip, and has since traveled through numerous countries including Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan, where he lived for a few years, seeking out more of these eccentric structures. Due to their location and unique shapes, repair and maintenance is costly and many are currently crumbling or in disrepair, making his book an especially timely means of documentation.
An expert on the form, Herwig has chronicled stations in 14 countries over the decade-plus he's spent on this project. He like the oddball buildings because they offer a unique form of expression and oftentimes blend in with the landscape, especially some of the examples from Armenia, which, while Brutalist, appear to aim for a light and airy feel. But even he hasn't spent much time using them as initially intended, preferring to travel to sites via car, taxi or bike.
"The times I've traveled by bus have been the more painful times," he says. "Do you yell for the driver to stop so you can take a photo? Then you'll be stuck there for another day in the middle of nowhere."
Some of Herwig's photos from the Soviet Bus Stop series can be found at The Fence, a photo exhibit in Brooklyn up through September. His new book, Soviet Bus Stops, comes out this month.
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker's Ending Was Changed During Filming
Although it's important for a script to be finished by the time a movie starts shooting, that doesn't mean certain elements of the story won't change during filming. In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's case, its ending went through various changes in the creative process, including as the cameras were rolling on the final installment of the Skywalker Saga. As Daisy Ridley recalled when asked how she found out about The Rise of Skywalker's ending:
So going off what Daisy Ridley told Fox 32 anchor and ReelBlend cohost Jake Hamilton, while the overall scope of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's ending sounds like it will be the same as what J.J. Abrams told the actress who knows when, there were some minor adjustments made during the course of production. Even then, given that there's still a lot of postproduction work to finish, plus any time that might be set aside for reshoots, maybe even more changes will be implemented.
Of course, given how secretive Disney and Lucasfilm are when it comes to upcoming Star Wars movies, even in comparison to other major film franchises, we probably won't get any inkling of what Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's ending holds in store through advertising and marketing. Ideally after the movie has come out, Daisy Ridley, J.J. Abrams or someone else on the cast and crew will be forthcoming about how the final ending differed from what was originally put on paper.
Taking place approximately a year after the events of The Last Jedi, no specific plot details for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker have been revealed yet. That said, the trailer did reveal some interesting tidbits, like how the protagonists will be visiting a site containing some Death Star wreckage and that Emperor Palpatine will somehow fit into the proceedings.
Daisy Ridley's Rey is joined by other familiar faces from the Star Wars movies, like John Boyega's Finn, Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron, Adam Driver's Kylo Ren, Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker and Billy Dee Williams' Lando Calrissian, while unused footage of Carrie Fisher from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi will allow Leia Organa to be included. As for new characters, Naomi Ackie's Jannah will be along for the ride, as will Keri Russell, Richard E. Grant and Dominic Monaghan's still-to-be-identified players.
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Topic: Which is the best source for Blind Lemon Jefferson?
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paulreso1
Which is the best source for Blind Lemon Jefferson?
I am a guitar player & love BLJ's music. Understandably, it is not the highest recording quality, but there are several versions of BLJ's music available. I wonder if anyone can point me in the direction of the best remastering of this classic music (I particularly would love to hear the guitar parts more distinctly)
Re: Which is the best source for Blind Lemon Jefferson?
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http://weeniecampbell.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Blind_Lemon_Jefferson
Hi Paul - the CDs Slack points to are the basic completist choices, though really only the Yazoo Best Of can claim to be "improved".
If you are getting down to the individual song level, it's worth seeking out the older, out-of-print Yazoo CD King of the Country Blues for some stuff that was replaced on the Best Of disc, for a couple tracks that are superior to the transfers on the JSP set.
The CDs that come with the Blues Images calendar each year have included several tracks by Lemon. Some of these already appear on the Yazoo. Others are better transfers that don't appear on the Yazoo, like Lemon's Worried Blues, Christmas Eve Blues and Black Snake Moan No. 2. Perhaps they appear on some of the Yazoo compilations like the Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series, I don't know, haven't checked.
Black Swan's Blind Lemon Jefferson CD sounds significantly better than Yazoo's two offerings.
Thanks for the info, Great Bear. Good to know.
Hi all ...thanks for the information...I will check out the Black Swan CD
Paramount Blues: Early Morning Blues (Black Swan) is also worth owning for it's four BLJ tracks: Yo Yo Blues, Bootin' Me 'Bout, Empty House Blues and Bed Springs Blues.
doctorpep
Blind Lemon Sets
Hello, everyone. I'd like to know if you recommend Blind Lemon's Texas Blues Box set, which also includes early T-Bone and Little Hat Jones, or the 4 cd JSP box set? Apparently, the former has 1 more song than the JSP set.
Did Lemon record 94 or 95 songs?
If anyone owns both of these, what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
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Hi doctor pep,
It looks like the the set from Snapper includes an additional take of Corinna Blues. The JSP set does not include this first take of Corinna, plus it does not include third versions of Got the Blues, and Long Lonesome Blues. The latter two do not look like they're on the Snapper set. All three of these alt. takes are available on Document, DOCD-5625, Too Late, Too Late Vol 11. I have not heard the Snapper release but I would guess that much like JSP it does not involve much actual remastering beyond playing with EQ and is taken from existing material (such as one would find on Document). Though I would be curious to hear from anyone who has done an A/B of the sets. Don't know whether the Snapper documentation includes discographical information. JSP does.
blueshome
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I have the Snapper set in front of me, I was just listening to a Willie Reed song. It has reasonable sound (I haven't heard the JSP, but I doubt there'll be a lot in it on past experience) and a 20-odd page booklet including a discography. At the price you can't go wrong.
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Gingergeezer
The best remaster of Jefferson's music I have ever heard is on the Pristine Audio label.
http://www.pristineclassical.com/LargeWorks/Jazz/Jazz-Blues.html
All of their Blues CDs feature astonishing sound quality and the jefferson one is particularly impressive. (The Robert Johnson ones are just staggering!)
Norfolk Slim
There are mixed views on the pristine treatments.
Personally I agree that the Lemon one is excellent- you can hear the top end wailing vocals without them breaking up and being harsh on the ear.
But then there's a some value in that harshness which arguably you lose.... Certainly sounds more "real" to me and less the product of a cheaply pressed record. Worth a try.
http://simonfield.bandcamp.com/album/moonshine
misterjones
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Best Audio
This has been discussed generally here before (and I'm aware of the page that contains suggested reading and listening), but I wanted to focus on the P-Vine releases. I have the JSP set. About a year ago someone opined that the P-Vine set was better. A CD seller at another site concluded the Patton P-Vine set was the same as the Document Patton set. I thought the Jefferson JSPs were as good or better than the Jefferson Documents. And so it all seems to go in circles.
I'm VERY skeptical the Jefferson P-Vines are noticably better that the JSP set. Are they? (I have the Pristine Audio and Yazoo versions and I think they are better than the JSPs. What I'm trying to determine is whether it's worth paying the price for the P-Vines as a relacement for the JSPs as my complete set. I'm aware the JSPs are three short of complete, but I could download those.)
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Quote from: misterjones on March 27, 2011, 04:20:04 PM
I merged this topic since we already had one dealing with the best Lemon audio. I haven't heard the P-Vine set myself.
I should add that, unless a company is working from totally new transfers, I too would be very skeptical, since it is otherwise playing around with EQ and some digital tricks that may not have much to add. I don't have the Pristine CD but found the sample sounded somewhat "digital" to me.
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The flame of a Bunsen lamp was colored by the introduction of some sodium compound as the usual source of light, because the interference bands can, in homogeneous light, more easily be given forms which permit delicate discrimination ; a luminous gas flame and the electric arc were also employed. A Nicol prism was sometimes interposed, and the plane of polarization was placed in various positions. The optical parts of the apparatus were so related that the visible interference bands coincided with the surface of the more distant mirrors ; their displacement can then be detected by referring their position to lines ruled on the mirrors.
With this apparatus, one observer adjusted the interference bands in width and position ; when these were made suitable, the second observer used the commutator to produce a magnetic* field, first in one coil and then in the other. He announced the change from one to the other in such a way that the first observer did not know which coil was acting, so that the effect of any possible bias might be excluded.
the acceleration thus suspected was not more than one part in one hundred millions. But the displacement was so slight that they could not be confident of its existence.
In the examination of the effect of a magnetic field on a ray passing through it, the appearance on making and breaking the circuit suggested the possibility of a change in the density of carbon bisulphide while in the field. There was produced a momentary displacement of the interference bands, which was unmistakable, being many times as great as the displacement which it was suspected continued as long as the current passed. It was easy to imagine that the force which quickly brought the molecules of the liquid into the new positions in which they produce rotation of the plane of polarization, might carry them beyond the position of equilibrium, to which they would quickly return. To examine this phenomenon, a thick brass box filled with carbon bisulphide was placedin each coil, and the two boxes were connected with each other and with a glass tube of small diameter. After all parts of the apparatus had come to a uniform temperature, the level of the liquid was brought to a convenient part of the glass tube, and a current of twenty-seven amperes was sent through the two coils, in such direction as to produce a magnetic field in both coils. Each time the circuit was completed, there was a momentary rise of the liquid by 0.06 mm., and an instantaneous fall to 0.03 mm. On breaking the circuit, there was a momentary fall to —0.03 mm., and an instantaneous rise to 0.00 mm. This displacement could be well measured three or four times by means of a reading micrometer with an amplification of about sixty diameters, the probable error of a reading being less than 0.005 mm. After three or four measurements, the heat developed in the coils made it necessary to wait many hours for equilibrium of temperature to be established again. There were 380 cubic centimeters of carbon bisulphide in the magnetic field ; the area of the capillary tube was 0.55 square millimeters; the lasting change of density or the change in the volume of the containing envelope was therefore one part in twenty-three million. The intensity of the field was 1,650 centimeter-gramme-second units.


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Art & Leisure
Coal remains a better option
Published:Sunday | September 26, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The Editor, Sir,
Please permit me the opportunity to respond to Mr Howard Chin's letter (September 18) on clean coal, which was prompted by an interview I did. Mr Chin based his disapproval of my proposal on the fact that coal plants produce, among other things, carbon dioxide, ash, and sulphur dioxide, all of which are harmful to the environment unless disposed of safely and efficiently.
Let me make my position clear: all energy production comes with trade-offs. As policy decision makers, we all have to weigh the positive against the negative implications of any energy source we decide on. In my view, when this is objectively done, coal, using clean-coal technologies, is our best option at this time.
I have said repeatedly that one of the foundations on which Jamaica must build its economic future is on a cheaper energy source. Jamaica currently pays up to six times the cost of energy of our major trading partners. The cost of energy in some businesses can be as high as 10 per cent of sales. If your competitor is paying less than two per cent for the cost of their energy, then they will have an eight per cent cost advantage in the market place. For example, the same business in Jamaica that pays $850,000 per month in electricity charges will pay $150,000 in Trinidad.
Is it any wonder why, for this and other reasons, Trinidad sells to Jamaica more than 25 times the amount that Jamaica sells to them?
Coal is the world's largest energy source for national grids representing 40 per cent of electricity production worldwide. In recognition of the environmental impact, the research and development of clean-coal technologies (CCTs) over the past 20 years have so advanced that they enhance both the efficiency and the environmental acceptability of coal extraction, preparation and use. CCTs are currently reducing the greenhouse emissions and carbon dioxide emissions from coal-based electricity generation and increasing the market potential for businesses.
In 2008, of the total volume of carbon released from fossil fuels worldwide, coal and petroleum each produced approximately 36 per cent, while natural gas produced 21 per cent. When we consume energy, whether using gasolene in cars, heating or cooling our homes with natural gas, or lighting our homes with electricity, we produce green house gases (CO2). The average American household produces 12.4 tons of carbon dioxide from household operations, and an estimated 11.7 tons from automobile use. The CO2 emissions per person per year of the USA is 20 tons; The United Kingdom 9.5 tons; Japan 9.4; China 2.7 tons; and India 0.96 tons. The point is that we are all guilty of polluting the atmosphere and while we strive for clean renewable energy that will have little or no impact on our environment, we must nonetheless make hard choices in the best interest of our country's economic growth and improvement of the per capita income of our population.
South East St Ann
Mr Chin says, "It's not too bad if you're burning coal to make cement like Carib Cement Company does, because the ash becomes a part of the cement." Mr Chin may be unaware that St Ann was chosen as the site for a second cement plant recently. Our limestone deposits (the raw material for cement) are both outstanding in quality and quantity. Currently, we export industrial grade limestone from St Ann. He should also be aware that the biggest problem facing the expansion of our bauxite industry is the high cost of local energy. Additionally, the ash from coal cannot only be used in the manufacturing of cement but also in road repairs, a practice commonly used in South America. In other words, an industry could be anchored around coal that reduces the cost of construction (cement) and improves our road networks.
If we had a coal plant in St Ann, this would justify the reopening of the Reynolds plant in my constituency, for instance. Furthermore, alumina plants require significant quantities of sulphuric acid in their production process. A formidable coal plant could also assist the bauxite companies by providing them with this commodity. The coal plant I proposed would, therefore, benefit my constituency and Jamaica in several ways: reducing the cost of electricity across Jamaica, reducing the electricity costs to the hotels, facilitating the expansion of the mining industry, and creating a new cement plant for the export of products to North America. Currently, the Dominican Republic operates three coal plants which contribute 20 per cent of their energy demand. Persons pay US$0.15 per kilo watt hour for energy as compared to Jamaica that is in excess of US$0.32 per kilo watt hour. They also use low-sulphur coal, less than one per cent, as compared to the three per cent, sulphur-heavy fuel oil we use in Jamaica.
While my position is supporting the competitive access to our energy grid, I do not support the arguments advanced by some that liquefied natural gas (LNG) is our energy "saviour". They fail to address any of the significant questions posed, e.g.: What will the final price of LNG be? Where will we get our sources from? Who will guarantee the supply? How can we prevent cartelisation when it now becomes our sole fuel source since this does not represent a diversified fuel strategy? If LNG is so cost effective, why do we need to provide guarantees of a market prior to making an investment?
Additionally, there are limited sources of LNG throughout the world, and, therefore, in the coming years, we could be subjected to a cartel similar to OPEC, which could adjust prices as it sees fit. We would be 'out of the frying pan into the fire'. Since Jamaica is an island and the proposed facility is to be on a barge, what guarantees do we have if a hurricane were to destroy the barge? The cost of transporting and distributing LNG is the most expensive of all energy sources. What guarantees will we be offered against vandalism of the pipes which are required for distribution?
Space will not permit me to go into more detailed information on the justification of coal versus LNG, but I would be very happy to sit with Mr Chin to discuss the matter further.
I am, etc.,
LISA HANNA, MP
Southeast.stann@gmail.com
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Life is a complex journey and it goes on becoming more complex as we go ahead with it. When I was a child I always wanted to become young as early as possible. I felt that young people have lot of power and they can take their independent decisions. I always wanted to take my all decisions myself; moreover I also wanted to become a self independent person. However in reality after being a young man today, life is turning me into a different personality which I never wanted myself to be? People's expectations, family's expectation, friend's expectation, job's expectation and relative's expectation, all are making me to behave in some unexpected way, in a way which I never liked. This is a way which is more superficial and away from reality.
Due to this, my emotional feelings are getting killed and I am becoming more and more emotion less person, or simply a dead human. Many times, I have to put a false face on my face to make others happy. Many times I have to hide my feeling and emotion for not to hurt the feelings of other people. On the other hand people do not take care of my feelings. Some people take advantage of their position; some take advantage of their relation and some of their intelligence to make me fool. I do not want to say that everyone is bad but many people around me are doing this with me. They are only trying to make me fit in a place where they can take advantage from me. Everyone is looking for his advantage by using me. Some want money from me, some want emotional support, some want praise, and some may want other things.


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«Молода кров» () — украиноязычный студийный альбом дуэтов украинской певицы Тины Кароль, выпущенный 20 августа 2021 года. Пластинка является десятой по счёту в дискографии певицы.

Об альбоме
Молода кров — музыкальный альбом дуэтов Тины Кароль. В нём певица представила песни-коллаборации с юными и прогрессивными исполнителями украинской эстрады. Проект вышел при поддержке Министерства культуры. В альбом вошли семь композиций записанные с такими артистами как: Wellboy, группой KAZKA, артисткой Alina Pash, группами Latexfauna и Сам на Сам, Никитой Ломакиным и Ivan Navi. Тина Кароль, посвящает этот альбом будущему украинской музыки

Как говорит сама певица:

«У меня было несколько украинских песен, и я подумала: почему я буду снова петь одна? Нужно лучше вспушить кого-то из молодых и талантливых, показать их многомиллионной аудитории. Я услышала, что в этих песнях звучат именно эти голоса».

Миссия проекта открыть для широкой аудитории новые имена, пополнить каталог украинской музыки современными песнями и обратить внимание слушателей на украинскую поп-культуру.

«Мне всегда приятно поддерживать такие инициативы. Продвижение молодых талантов — это знаковая тема, особенно накануне 30-летия независимости Украины», — говорит певица.

Предыстория
Тина Кароль призналась — реализовала проект почти полностью за свой счёт. И очень надеется, что это только начало, и будет «Молодая кровь» вторая, третья, четвёртая части. Не так давно Тина продала свой NFT-лот — уникальный цифровой автограф в виде отпечатка пальца. Полученные средства Тина Кароль передала на развитие своего музыкального проекта «Молодая кровь».
«Все вырученные средства передаю в проект "Молода кров" — будущий украиноязычный альбом, выход которого приурочен ко Дню независимости Украины. В нём вы услышите неожиданные дуэты и мы вместе откроем новые имена. Важно помнить историю и создавать новую. Проект "Молода кров" о музыке и молодых исполнителях, которые будут звучать завтра», — написала Тина.

Позже стало известно, что покупатель приобрел лот за 12,4 BNB, а это примерно 103,7 тысячи гривяен.

Продвижение
Проект «Молода кров» — это совместный украиноязычный альбом Тины и 7-ми молодых перспективных исполнителей. Об этом проекте, который приурочен к 30-летию независимости Украины. 20 августа 2021 года, певица пришла в студию телеканала 1+1 рассказать в «Завтраке с 1+1» вместе с министром культуры и информационной политики Александром Ткаченко. Ведь проект поддерживает Министерство культуры и информационной политики Украины.
«Слушайте альбом на всех стримингових площадках и поддерживайте украинскую молодежь, давайте объединяться, будем целостными», — сказала Тина Кароль.

Тина Кароль вместе с группой KAZKA представила украиноязычную песню «Зірочка». Певицы выступили с новой песней на «Вечере премьер» с Екатериной Осадчей.

Синглы
13 августа 2021 года Тина выпустила дуэтную песню «Зірочка» с группой KAZKA. Это первый трек из украиноязычного альбома дуэтов «Молодая кровь». Вторым синглом из альбома, стала композиция «Bounty», вышедшая 17 августа того же года. Сингл записан совместно с украинской группой Latexfauna.

Список композиций

История релиза

Примечания

Ссылки
 tinakarol.com — официальный сайт Тины Кароль

Видео

 Тина Кароль и Александр Ткаченко, рассказали об идее проекта «Молода кров» и представили участников. 20.08.2021 г.

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A VBA Progress Bar can be used to manage your users anxiety about the execution time of your VBA Macro. Sometimes there are very large and complex solutions built in Excel (which is a mistake mind you), where calculations or macro executions can take minutes or even hours. This causes many issues, especially for the end users who usually do not know how long processing the calculations/macros will take. In such cases it is important to notify the end users of the progress of your macros/calculations so they can switch to other activities. This is where the VBA Progress bar can aid you.
The easiest approach to animating an Excel is to create a simple VBA UserForm with the use of a label control which width you can manipulate to show the current progress. Easy and straightforward.
Below find a quick tutorial of how to create your own VBA Progress Bar User Form!
First you need to create a customer VBA User Form. Click on the link in case you want a tutorial on how to create these.
lProgress.Caption = "" & CLng(CDbl(progress) / maxProgress * 100) & "%"
lTimeLeft.Caption = "" & tlHour & " hours, " & tlMin & " minutes"
lTimePassed.Caption = "" & tlTotalHour & " hours, " & tlTotalMin & " minutes, " & tlTotal & " seconds"
AddProgress (Optional inc As Long = 1) – add inc incrementally to the amount of total progress. Assuming if you want to process 200 files and set the max value in Initialize and you processed 3 files then run AddProgress with inc equal to 3. When you process another 4 files then run AddProgress with inc equal to 4.
Now that we know the functions needed to run the Progress Bar let us configure and run your Animated Progress Bar in Excel. I added step by step comments to the example code snippet above.
I hope this was helpful. Managing the expectations of you users is key to creating effective automations in Excel VBA. Be sure to also check out ways to enhance the performance of your VBA Macros.


Chiura Obata was one of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans forcefully relocated from their homes, work, and communities to the stark barracks of desert internment camps during World War II. As an artist faithfully recording the world around him, Obata's work from this period gives us a view into the camps that is at once honest and strikingly lyrical.
Topaz Moon brings together more than 100 paintings and sketches from Obata's internment period, from the stables at Tanforan, California, to the barracks in Topaz, Utah. Edited by his granddaughter Kimi Kodani Hill, these images are accompanied by a text that draws heavily upon the letters of Obata and his wife, Haruko, family documents, and interviews with family and friends.
Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was born in Japan and came to California in 1903. A master in the traditional Japanese sumi ink and brush technique, he also excelled in art education and taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1932 until 1954, except for his years of internment. Other works were previously published in the book Obata's Yosemite (Yosemite Association, 1993).