Always you cross my mind.
Because of you, I always think twice.
Cautiously, I peek through the window, called Life.
Desiring only understanding, I seek Peace from your actions.
Ending each day with a silent prayer of Hope.
Finally, sleep comes calling and I can dream.
Gorgeous images swirl through my head.
Is it true what they say about Heaven?
Judgment time with the Almighty One must have enlightened you.
King of Hearts and Souls; what was his ruling on your life?
Loving you from below the Heavens, I sail on through the land known as, Life.
Nothing escapes your touch; I see you everywhere.
Oh, what I would give to sit with you again.
Perhaps, you could answer my questions that silently simmer.
Questing after a sign, I seek meaning in my life.
Realizing that we can't sit again.
Talking to you from my heart.
Universal rays reach forth, caressing me.
Vindicating me, validating, vilifying me.
Why did you choose to leave me questioning your love?
X-raying the memories for evidence of a man with a heart.
Zealot, silently defending my love for you.
This is so…full, like a whole story in pieces, like the title. Very powerful. Hugs!
Touching. An original spin on the prompt, both very beautiful and moving in equal measure.
Thank you taking the time to read the post and comment. I am glad that you felt it beautiful and moving.


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Bob Rennie's $25,000 lunch: Why Vision's Vancouver is so unaffordable
Daniel Tseghay, Maria Wallstam, Nathan Crompton, Sean Antrim, Tristan Markle March 7, 2014
For $25,000 you could have attended a private roundtable lunch meeting today with Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. Organized by real estate marketer Bob Rennie, it's the most recent, and perhaps most tasteless, case of the real estate industry filling Vision's coffers.
Bob Rennie is the most prominent condominium marketer in British Columbia. His following of real estate agents, brokers and, more importantly, developers, has earned him the moniker condo king.
The biggest players in real-estate keep him as close as possible, ensuring they'll have the ear of BC's most powerful politicians. Peter Wall of Wall Financial Corp, for example, maintains access to Rennie by paying him $25,000 a month as a consultant.
In this role as real-estate co-ordinator, Rennie has been a key to the creation of both the Vision and BC Liberal political dynasties.
After the deposition of Gordon Campbell, he threw his weight behind Christy Clark's leadership bid in 2011. He has been credited with being a key part of Clark's comeback, and his support for her during the provincial elections was critical for the BC Liberal victory.
In 2012, he was rewarded with an appointment to the board of BC Housing by Clark and Housing Minister Rich Coleman.
At the municipal level, Bob Rennie wholeheartedly backs Vision Vancouver. In 2005 he contributed a hefty $96,639 to help Vision Vancouver – a party bankrolled by real estate corporations since its inception – get off the ground and split from COPE.
That year, Vision's first big fundraiser was a who's-who of real estate magnates.[1] To name a couple of notables, Concord Pacific gave $65,750 and Polygon Homes gave $12,980.
Rennie marketed the condos in the Woodward's development under the slogan "Be Bold or Move to suburbia," working closely with the Vision's Jim Green and Westbank's Ian Gillespie. Presumably, he was asking condo buyers to be "bold" by buying condos in a low-income neighbourhood.
During the 2011 election campaign, real-estate firms in the city gave Vision Vancouver over $1 million dollars, or half of its campaign budget. Ian Gillespie organized a big-money corporate fundraiser for Vision Vancouver, similar to Rennie's lunch.
In the 2011 election, Wall Financial Corporation and its affiliates gave a whopping $280,000, more than a quarter of Vision's real estate-connected donations that year. The next year Wall Corp was granted one of the largest re-zonings in East Vancouver's history at 955 E Hastings, which local residents are dubbing "Woodward's East."
Since donations between election years are not made public, the available statistics are only the tip of the corporate donations iceberg. After the 2005 and 2008 campaigns, Vision disclosed that it held post-elections fundraising drives, raising hundreds of thousands from real estate sources. But after the 2011 election, Vision chose to no longer reveal its post-election contributions.
When developers give Vision $25,000, what kind of government do they get in return?
There was a time in Vancouver where we had a surplus of housing and maybe developers were evil in that environment, I don't know. But they sure aren't now. There's a spectrum of developers who range from the amazing to maybe not amazing, but we need them.
–City Councilor Andrea Reimer at Vision Vancouver's 2008 nomination meeting[2]
Corporations and the real-estate industry donate to Vision Vancouver because it pays off.
The ruling party strategically approves developments that make their donors rich. Most notably, Wall Financial was a founder of Vision Vancouver and donated $280,000 in 2011. Since Vision came to power in 2008, Wall has seen its profits increase from $18 million to $61 million.
Rize Alliance (who donated $10,950 to Vision in 2011) had their 26 story tower approved at Broadway and Kingsway, right in the heart of working class Mount Pleasant, despite community opposition of 80%.
Westbank, which donated $11,705 to Vision and $31,000 to the BC Liberals in the last municipal and provincial elections, was given a rezoning in Chinatown right in the middle of a community planning process. Next week council will be giving Westbank hundreds of millions of dollars of new density in exchange for building almost zero new social housing on the Oakridge Mall site.
The Aquilini Family, who has donated at least $10,000 to Vision over the last two elections, and donated over $285,000 to the BC Liberals before the provincial election, got a $35 million tax exemption for their project next to GM Place.
Concord Pacific, which donated $36,250 to Vision in 2011 and $40,000 to the BC Liberals, is allowed to use urban farms to evade property taxes. They also get to flex monopoly powers on housing supply: in 2009 Concord, in combination with Westbank, built 58% of all of the condos constructed in Vancouver that year.
These super-profits are in turn buoyed by across-the-board tax-cuts, which have led Vancouver to host the second lowest tax-rate in the region next to West Van, and the second-lowest combined corporate taxes in the world according to KPMG.
Corporations see affordable and social housing as a threat to the market and an unwelcome competitor in the scarce supply of housing. As a result, Vision has worked to liquidate the existing affordable housing stock.
Under Vision's corporate governance, condos are targeted at the most affordable existing neighbourhoods: Marpole, Grandview Woodland, the DTES, Mt. Pleasant, and the West End. These neighbourhoods are currently more affordable and land is the least expensive, meaning their land base can be purchased and gentrified more easily, resulting in the highest profit margins.
Residential evictions are now widespread, whether it is within blocks of City Hall or on the backs of Chinese seniors and long-time residents of the DTES facing dramatic rent increases. Next week the city will be voting on a policy report recommending the redevelopment of Heather Place. This means that evictions notices for 86 families may come soon as well.
In response to all this, Councillor Geoff Meggs said that stopping rent hikes will unfairly force landlords to lose money.
Cultural venues are also struggling to survive, a large number of them having to shut down in 2013. The Waldorf, The Zoo Zhop, the Red Gate, and Dynamo for instance all fell victim to gentrification, as through the sting of arts cuts that came before the Olympics weren't enough.
Even the very concept of affordable and social housing is at risk. Vision has affirmed a practically meaningless definition of affordability, such that councillor Kerry Jang said: "Well, you know, affordable housing is something that somebody can afford."
This week Vision has given us a new definition of "social housing" that includes market housing the poor cannot afford. In 2006 Bob Rennie proposed moving away from social housing to for-profit "social housing condos." Now, under Vision, the definition of social housing is being mutated to make Rennie's dream a reality.
The housing crisis deepens
Given that housing is the most important issue for residents of Vancouver, according to a recent poll, we should consider what a developer-controlled city hall means for the majority of us.
Since the 2008 election victory of Vision Vancouver, rents have increased by over 15%. The number of homes being demolished has been steadily increasing, from 758 in 2008 to 1,034 in 2012. The number of low-income households in Vancouver has decreased by 18% and public school enrolment is dropping by 2% per year as low-income families leave the city.
These statistics are only a quantification of what most people in Vancouver already know. It's clear that low-income people across the city are struggling to pay their bills or find a job while others are enjoying unprecedented profits at their expense.
Ironically, the corporations that caused the housing crisis are even put in charge of fixing it – just as Wall Street tycoons were put in charge of the US bailout in 2008. The Mayor's Affordability Task Force is dominated by property owners and headed by real estate tycoon and former BC Liberal MLA, Olga Illich. Unsurprisingly, the task force has recommended privatization and deregulation, bolstered by a housing authority also run by real estate interests.
Instead of creating real affordable housing, Vision has decided to police the crisis. Since 2008, City council has inflated the annual police budget by 30%, or an astounding $54 million. The city now spends twice as much of its budget (20%) on policing as does the City of Toronto.
Last year, council tried to increase the fines to low-income people to $10,000 – a ten-fold increase – for sleeping on the street. The measure was halted only by a public outcry and legal action by PIVOT legal society. All this so that police can continue arresting low-income people in the Downtown Eastside for offences that aren't enforced anywhere else, only to make the area more amenable to condominium investment.
False promises on False Creek
"I can see the concern that rents are going up but I assure you, Bob Rennie has had nothing to do with that…In fact, he supports social housing in the athlete's village and in other projects."
–Vancouver City Councilor Geoff Meggs, APTN March 3rd, 2011
In 2008, Gregor Robertson made a campaign promise to end homelessness by 2015. He also raised hopes when he scolded the NPA for cutting back on promises to build 800 units of affordable housing at the Olympic Village.
But those hopes were quickly dashed. After the election, affordable housing at the Olympic Village was privatized into condominiums and market rentals, and Robertson put Bob Rennie in charge of selling the Olympic Village units on the market.
The developer who received a financial bailout from the city – Millenium Development – is now one of the most active gentrifiers in the Hastings Corridor with its Boheme project across from the evicted Waldorf.
Despite the 2015 homelessness promise, homelessness has increased. Cynically, the yearly homeless count is conducted a week before Vancouver's winter shelters close their doors.
A developer's rallying call
There's a reason why developers are willing to pay $25,000 for a chance to talk to Gregor Robertson. Vision Vancouver is in charge of where and how many square feet are developed in a given day. For those who can come up with donation money to Vision Vancouver, the hefty price of lunch with the mayor is more than made up for in rezonings, exclusive contracts, fee-exemptions and super-profits.
Instead of developers controlling city council, we need rent control protecting residents.
The commodification of land, rooted in the continued colonial structure, underpins the profit-motive that has spread gentrification, driven up property values, and given landlords the incentive to "renovict." We have to understand corporate donations as symptomatic of this larger process, rooted in a history of dispossession.
Bob Rennie's $25,000 developer lunch is a preemptive rallying call for the development industry to support the party that has been their champion for the past six years. What they're preempting is a push-back from renters.
The stakes for those of us who aren't Vision financiers, they seem to recognize, are so high that people are banding together and forming a viable opposition.
Just as the developers have made a rallying call, the people have theirs.
[1] "Developers help bankroll mayor's faction: Councillors question contributions," Frances Bula, The Vancouver Sun, 1 Apr 2005.
[2] "Vision Vancouver led by Gregor Robertson believes it's poised to take over city hall. But as a "progressive" party backed heavily by developers and casino operators, what does it really stand for?" Mike Howell, Vancouver Courier [Vancouver, B.C] 24 Sep 2008: 1.
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Harold Steves	 on March 7, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Wow, a $25,000 dinner? This must be an early April 1st joke. I was surprised when Bob Ransford said he supported Vision and then I remembered Vancouver votes at Metro where Bob is working for Sean Hodgins to get Metro approval to develop the green zoned Spetifore Farm (Southlands) in Delta. But I can't imagine them shelling out $50,000 for dinner. Please tell me its "April Fool!"
Warren Walker	 on March 7, 2014 at 7:51 pm
Great article. Make sure you are at City Hall Monday to document the fun and games over Oakridge.
Michael	 on March 7, 2014 at 8:46 pm
Really sad to see how horribly the city is being managed – just a disgrace –
Sky Goodwin	 on March 8, 2014 at 1:22 pm
I'm a Vision supporter – or was. My family has lived in Vancouver for generations. Now I am moving because I can't afford to raise my family here – and we are no where near the poverty line! Sickening. Sorry Vision – love all the enviro talk – but obviously you don't really care about the people who live here.
John	 on March 10, 2014 at 7:26 pm
@Sky Goodwin – Sad for you, but it's thanks to people like you, who ate up Vision's envirobikelane pablum, that they still rule city hall.
Daniel Tseghay	 on March 11, 2014 at 4:27 pm
We can't really blame people for that. We should focus our condemnation on those in power who actively work to misinform and misdirect people.
Bob	 on December 6, 2016 at 12:56 pm
I'm all for blaming the public. If the public is too stupid to realize what they do then they deserve what they get.
Linda Olivares	 on March 8, 2014 at 3:12 pm
It is a pure and simple case of corruption. The rich get richer and the poorer stay poor and suffer! So sad to see the chances of our children owning homes and raising their children taken away by the greed and manipulation of those with money.
Anonymoose	 on March 9, 2014 at 1:38 am
Contrary to the general mood of the comments here, I love 46-story condo buildings, and I support the idea of more high-rises in Vancouver (…Toronto, Ottawa, heck, everywhere). I live in a beautiful Concord Pacific high-rise and it's amazing, I can't wait to buy a condo at the upcoming Park Ave buildings in Surrey (pool, tennis, roof-top gardens, golf, theaters, etc). Not only do I feel these high-rises offer a better way of living you could not afford otherwise, but they're also great for the environment, because when people live together in buildings like these, there is tremendous savings in heating/electricity costs, transportation costs, mail delivery, etc.
I love the idea of more high-rise buildings to cope with the lack of affordable homes and even rental units in the region. And contrary to what "Sky Goodwin" says, this has nothing to do with pushing people away with high prices. The truth is that Canadians love Vancouver, and a lot of people want to live here, and it's like New York — you only have so much room to work with. So as the population grows, the old idea where every family has a standalone home is an unsustainable dream. To accommodate the influx or migrants to the region, we have to build vertically to be able to fit everyone in. You can buy a 2 bedroom condo for $400,000, and if you are a responsible parent and only have 1 child, that will be enough for you. And a few years down the line, you can afford to upgrade to a 3 bedroom for $500,000, and now you have enough room for another child.
There is no need for a standalone home when you're living in a big city. But if you want one, sure, there will be a few left in the city — but they will cost $1.25 to $2.5 million because the demand is so high. A developer would much better use the land from 10 houses to put up a 46 story tower. And instead of housing 10-16 families, they would be able to house 425. So from my perspective, to somehow stop this natural process and to say "my family deserves an 'affordable' standalone home", I would think you are really greedy because you believe that somehow your family has a right to enjoy this land at the expense of the greater majority being able to share it.
Mathew Mcconaughey	 on March 13, 2014 at 5:38 pm
This is an entirely sensible response to the article. The anti-densification arguments are so tired. Tired of selfish Vancouverites thinking that we live in a bubble immune to exogenous demand factors
bill mccreery	 on March 21, 2014 at 2:53 pm
See my comment above. You're out of hand dismissal needs a bit more behind it don't you think?
Sure anonymoose it's all sunshine and sparkles until that tower starts to leak and need new pipes in 15 years. When the special assessments start rolling in you will change your tune, And glass highrises are not "green".
Jared	 on March 19, 2014 at 9:54 am
Sure, I agree that condo towers are a necessary evil in a big city but having to pay $500,000 to live in some crappy 700 square foot 2 bedroom shoe box is outrageous. Vancouver families deserve better than that and to believe otherwise only makes you part of the problem.
Joe blow	 on March 9, 2014 at 11:29 am
The STRATA fees in Vancouver, are the real enemy…
Bill McCreery	 on March 9, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Anonymous sounds like a Vision troll. But to quickly answer it's points… Density and high buildings can have their place, if that is the wish of those affected, in particular the people living in a neighbourhood. Questions such as how much density, where, and how high and how many high buildings are beneficial are questions that this council is not willing to properly discuss with the neighbourhoods.
Stefanie	 on March 10, 2014 at 2:43 pm
I really want to like this article, but it's very poorly written. I can't make head or tails of the random assortment of statistics you've thrown around… and I'm an analyst for a living. Developers made campaign contributions and they got rich. Vision is in power and things are bad. Can you at least try and show the connections here? If you know something I don't, I'd sure love to hear about it. But as it is, this article demonstrates absolutely nothing.
And no, I am not a supporter of Vision.
Born and raised local gal	 on March 11, 2014 at 1:09 am
Wow. I was born and raised in Vancouver/Richmond in a single family home. Families only being able to afford and having to raise two children in a 1000 square foot two bedroom apartment is NOT a step up for the city. It's a massive step backwards for quality of life. Real estate prices are not on par with salaries in Vancouver. That is the biggest problem. Speculative, resort-style buying pushed prices up and gives excuses for the market while local employers continue to low-ball experienced workers. Anonnymouse's post is hollow propaganda. There are several negative forces at play. Equity between incomes and housing costs is the BIGGEST problem. Justifying that we should all live in smaller spaces is NOT any rational answer. (Oh and Annonymouse, did your parents have to give you the downpayment money on both your first box in the sky and the second one you talk about purchasing?) Only 1 in 10 of my peers has been able as local kids to get into the market without family money helping out. Again, we have a problem….and building more towers isn't going to solve it!!!!
Trev	 on March 17, 2014 at 6:08 pm
Ah well. I guess it's time to get back to our gardens, stop whining and start working together on a Vision that we can all benefit from.
My two cents	 on March 17, 2014 at 11:03 pm
There's some very interesting information and supporting statistics in this article. I don't doubt that Gregor and Vision are courting the developers and that the developers are courting whomever holds the reigns of power. And while I may not like it, that's just politics. Also, there is long history of mayors of Vancouver being in bed with developers. In fact, Gordon Campbell was a developer before he entered politics. This city still runs on the old boys network mentality (along with the province; and while a woman, our premier definitely operates in that manner). In many ways, the town, it's administration and, in my opinion the attitudes of many of those who reside here, are very juvenile, not worldly. Of course, Vancouver is not alone in this regard.
What is missing from this piece (and from the comments) is the basic fact that real estate prices have skyrocketed in the past decade. Vancouver is seen as a very attractive place to live by many wealthy folks from around the world and quite frankly, Canada is up for sale. It has been for years and that is a federally legislated issue. I don't have the numbers at my fingertips but my hunch is that the there has been far more real estate purchased by folks who are new Canadians than by Canadians moving here from other parts of the country.
Wanna change? Hold the collective feet of Gregor, Vision and those who support them to the fire. End homelessness by 2015 is a lofty goal. The election will be a mere couple of months before 2015. Time to call in those promises; make it a major election issue.
Tyler	 on March 17, 2014 at 11:22 pm
I don't live in Vancouver. I have no political stake in this. I'm a tax-and-spender. With that out of the way, ridiculous to think that a desire to build affordable housing will result in affordable housing for everyone. The reason it's so expensive to live in Vancouver is because many, many people want to live in Vancouver and some of those are willing to pay a lot of money to do so. That drives up prices. You can, and should, build "affordable housing" units that don't sell for market rates and are available to the truly poor. But to get the prices down for the market units for the average homebuyer, you need to either up the supply, or decrease the demand by making Vancouver a crappier place to live, take your pick. This is not right-wing economics, it's basic supply-and-demand stuff.
James	 on March 20, 2014 at 3:16 am
They are both increasing the supply and decreasing the demand by making Vancouver a crappier place to live (by ignoring the wishes of local communities, destroying cultural spaces, etc.)
Eventually, I expect prices will come down, but the greedy soul-less developers will have already made their money while the hapless buyers of these units will be left holding the bag.
Warren Walker	 on March 18, 2014 at 1:34 pm
Supply-and-demand econonics is just fine. I agree with that.
It's been often said "the true worth of a community is defined by how well we take care of our own" .
My generation fell into the "free love" era. We were trained in the "go to school, get a good job, work forty years, then retire" mentality.
The problem for me and many others is our parents made money really easily but the Information Age replaced the Industrial Age in a heartbeat, gender biases turned upside-down, and our archaic educational system was still pumping out Industrial Age grads.
Suddenly competition for our jobs heated up or our jobs simply vanished and now we look like Neanderthals.
Throw in a development community on high-density steroids after finding out they can buy City Hall and you're bound to find us all butting heads.
Had VV insisted on LEEDS Platinum specs and REAL mitigation for noise and pollution from the Oakridge redevelopment they could have easily won over the community. Instead, they've angered their friends and relatives and the community who are going to spank them soundly next election.
VV can hold all the $25,000 per plate fundraisers they want and it won't help them at the polls.
They'll fall apart anyways after the infighting starts over the spoils from their influence-peddling.
My ancestors and ancestors of many Vancouverites traveled halfway across the planet to avoid dictators only to find them AGAIN at city hall!
Invest in Knowledge (@DeceitinDrugs)	 on June 28, 2014 at 7:01 pm
Christy Clark Rich Coleman, Dianne Delves from is UDI, chair Fraser Valley and member Abbotsford EDC)..Bob Rennie…..
Dianne Delves, Quantum Properties serves on #Abbotsford Mayor's Economic Prosperity Task Force, which is
also made up mostly of property owners/developers.
Meanwhile, Quantum Properties at Mill Lake chopped down large trees two years ago and lot
sits empty and overgrown with weeds.
Abbotsford taxpayers are oblivious to what goes on behind closed doors in terms of development in
the city and DCC'S are at an all time low, while a select few monopolize development in the city.
Condo Cutzen	 on July 7, 2014 at 4:14 am
Developer Ian Gillespie builds expensive condos in tall towers in Vancouver but he himself will not live in them. No, his family lives in a mansion near the ocean. What is good for the goose (developer) is NOT good for the gander (his own family). Shame that such people get rich on the backs of those poorer by cramming them into buildings like sardines just to make a millions. Ethically this is wrong.
Brin Alais	 on November 3, 2014 at 1:38 pm
Its disgusting to realize how rotten is our political system. to allow such ideology to succeed. Are we citizen or just ordinary consummers? I wonder. Do we still need to vote?
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For the third year running, AMV BBDO picked up the Google FAB Agency of the Year Awardat the 18th International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards (The FAB Awards) at The Hurlingham Club. The winner of the award is the agency with the most points accumulated from nominations, FAB Awards & FABulous Awards on the night. […]
How Snickers and Colenso BBDO NZ rewarded hungry people for downloading ridiculous apps
By newsroom on April 6, 2016 Latest, Marketing, Media, Mobile
People do stupid things when they're hungry. With the average person spending 4.7 hours a day on their smartphone, most/a lot of those stupid things now happen on those devices. To take advantage of this Snickers and Colenso BBDO built three of the dumbest apps the world has ever seen. Apps that no one in […]


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The Jenyns Beetle Voyage Project
Looking to the past to guide conservation for the future
Conversion of natural habitats to agriculture is the primary driver of biodiversity loss worldwide and in many countries is still continuing at a rapid rate. However, around Cambridge, the most dramatic expansion in agriculture happened hundreds of years ago. This included large-scale drainage of wetland (called fenland), causing dramatic declines in species of plants and animals that relied on this habitat. Using specimens housed in the Museum, researchers are able to study these past changes.
Behind the scenes in the insect room we store over one million individual specimens, many of them collected from local areas over the past few hundred years. These specimens and the data labels associated with them provide a unique record of the past, allowing researchers to document long-term changes in species distribution and abundance, resulting from environmental changes, such as agricultural expansion and global warming.
Amongst the wider collection, the material recorded by Leonard Jenyns is particularly useful, as he produced a detailed notebook entry for every species he collected. His recordings are written up in three beautiful, manuscript volumes called Entomologia Cantabrigiensis (Insects of Cambridge), which provide detailed information on where species were found, as well as when species emerged or arrived in the year. Researchers at the Museum are working to catalogue this information and make it accessible online for the first time, so that everyone can easily view and make use of this valuable resource.
The ultimate aim of the Jenyns Beetle Voyage Project is to use information on long-term changes in species to benefit modern day conservation. Not only do these records show how species and habitats have changed, but, by cataloguing species that have been lost, they can guide conservation efforts to restore the diverse fauna of wetland habitats. Based near Huntingdon, the Great Fen Project aims to restore over 3500 hectares of arable land to fenland. Projects such as these represent the best chance to restore some of the fenland biodiversity of Jenyns' time.
This project has been supported by funding from Arts Council England from the Designation Development Fund, which ensures the long-term sustainability of Designated museum collections, and which maximises their public value and the sharing of best practice across the sector. Support for website development has been provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The project's team also carries out research in Southeast Asia, studying the impact of modern day habitat conversion. This work has been made possible by grants from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Isaac Newton Fund.


If your day goes to crap, there will always be ice cream. If the world goes to crap, there will always be a marketing genius who creates an inspiring video.
Since everyone could use a little love (and ice cream) right now, Ben & Jerry's was the perfect company to release an adorable and heartwarming commercial about the importance of coming together.
The animated clip, titled One Sweet World, features a peace-promoting cherry in a rally full of sour lemons. Feeling defeated and ostracized, the cherry seeks respite in the amazingly-named Rosa Park. After finding an empty picnic bench, the cherry is startled to realize that a lemon is sitting right next to him. The cherry assumes the worst, but is relieved to see that the lemon simply wants to share a happy song and become BFFs. As a result of their newfound friendship (documented on social media, of course), peace and harmony spreads across the land.
The message is simple: "we don't live in a one flavor world."
"At Ben & Jerry's, we're concerned that the dominant message we see in society today is one of division... it's sometimes easy to think the world is becoming increasingly divided. So, we've been thinking about how we can amplify a message of unity & love using the thing we know best: ice cream!" the YouTube video's caption reads.
So the next time life gives you lemons, understand that not all lemons are rotten, celebrate the good ones and figure out a way for them to be incorporated into soemthing great, like a new Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor. Because a play on Lemon Meringue Pie sounds pretty freakin' delicious right now.


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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Andrew Yang might not even be aware of it, but the controversial economic ideas espoused by the two young U.S. politicians are being tested in a national election thousands of miles away.
In India's polls, which start on Thursday and go on for more than five weeks, 900 million voters will decide on whether to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi a second term.
New York Representative Ocasio-Cortez's call for a jobs guarantee, the most ambitious part of her Green New Deal, also finds an echo in India, where unemployment and rural distress are central election issues. The Congress Party's manifesto vows to fill 3.4 million public sector jobs and bolster a taxpayer-funded rural employment program to 150 days of assured work. That would be up from 100 days at present (although even 50 days of work has proved hard to deliver).
Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party has criticized the opposition for promoting policies it says will raise the tax burden on the middle class. In its own manifesto, the BJP pledged to cut taxes for middle income families while promising a more modest 6,000 rupees a year cash transfer to all farmers.
The Congress Party's income supplement would cost 2 percent of current GDP, once it ramps up. By then, sustained double-digit nominal GDP expansion will have lowered the program's cost to no more than 1.2 percent to 1.5 percent of GDP, according to the party's head of data analytics. However, if the extra purchasing power pushes up prices more than output, then politicians will almost certainly come under pressure to lift that initial $1,000 a year payment.
Even assuming that the government recouped some of the cost by taxing increased sales of goods and services and higher corporate profit, it would have to curb other subsidies and expenditure. Borrowing more isn't an option for India. Without a surge in household financial savings, which have ranged between 9 percent and 11 percent of GDP in recent years, having a public sector that eats up more than 8 percent of GDP would place a very heavy burden on the private sector.
But leaving aside the funding challenge, the more interesting debate is on what has caused this sharp leftward turn. India is transitioning from being a development state to a compensatory state, as Rathin Roy of the New Delhi-based National Institute of Public Finance and Policy puts it, describing the new clamor to put money directly into the pockets of citizens.
But are those justifications really so different?
The long slide in workers' bargaining power in the West, and a decline in their share of national income, is well documented. Something similar has occurred in India too. Between 1981 and 1991, when the country was still sitting behind high barriers to foreign trade and investment, 32 percent of the economy's value added went to labor as compensation, according to an International Labor Organization working paper. Creditors claimed 27 percent as interest, and less than 21 percent accrued to shareholders as profit.
However, in the 1990s, New Delhi began to slash import duties and relax license restrictions. The price of imported machines dropped. Workers were still cheap, but as globalization gathered pace, they became three to four times more expensive to hire relative to capital goods in 2010 than they were in 2000, according to University of Manchester economist Kunal Sen. This discouraged labor-heavy businesses and encouraged more capital-intensive enterprises. Between 2001 and 2013, labor's share of India's value-added dropped to 23 percent, lenders' take fell to 12 percent, and profit's share zoomed to almost 50 percent.


What have I learned from my English class this year? When my Sophomore year began, I had no clue how it would go. Everyone that has been Sophomore before, said that this year would be harder than your freshman year. When I first heard this, I was like "What?, For real?" while I was chuckling under my breath and saying to them " It's going to be a piece of cake for me this year". Then when it came to the start of the new school year I was like "Oh man ,I'm already struggling in school and am also trying to play basketball at the same time. At first I said to myself what am I going to do if I'm struggling in school right now, but then I realized that I've been struggling because I have bad study habits. I started to change the ways of my studying every day instead of being a couch potato and just staring at the TV watching sports for hours on daily basis.


Short Stories for Children for ... SAND AND STONE ... book. The villager tried all the spectacles one by one.
Download the 2018 Skipping Stones Book Awards List. ... Nature art (right) by Betsy Jenifer, 17, of Chennai, India adorns the front cover of the issue.
Rameswaram, (also spelt as Ramesvaram, Rameshwaram) is a town and a second grade municipality in the Ramanathapuram district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.It is on Pamban Island separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is about 40 kilometres from Mannar Island, Sri Lanka.
10 Popular Games You Probably Didn't Know Were Played In Ancient India by Shreya Pareek May 15, 2014, 1:34 pm I ndia has always been rich in culture and tradition, and games have been an important part of Indian culture since forever.
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese, it became an international bestseller translated into some 70 languages as of 2016.
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Горно-Белево () — село в Болгарии. Находится в Старозагорской области, входит в общину Братя-Даскалови. Население составляет 291 человек.

Политическая ситуация
В местном кметстве Горно-Белево, в состав которого входит Горно-Белево, должность кмета (старосты) исполняет Танё Иванов Иванов (Граждане за европейское развитие Болгарии (ГЕРБ)) по результатам выборов.

Кмет (мэр) общины Братя-Даскалови — Ваня Тодорова Стоева (коалиция партий: Болгарская социалистическая партия (БСП), национальное движение «Симеон Второй» (НДСВ)) по результатам выборов.

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'It's totally irresponsible': Canadian ethicist slams rogue Russian's plan to edit human embryos
The ethical implications are more complicated than the usual dystopian warnings about babies-made-to-order, a bioethicist explains
Genna Buck
Russian molecular biologist Denis Rebrikov.	Denis Rebrikov/Kulakov National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology
Canadian bioethicists and genetics experts are speaking out against Denis Rebrikov, the Russian molecular biologist who plans — in defiance of international scientific norms — to alter human embryos using CRISPR gene-editing technology to allow prospective parents with genetic deafness to conceive a child who can hear.
"We are putting ourselves on the path to changing the human evolutionary story. This is not up to one scientist. It's not up to a group of scientists or a group of political elites. It's up to all of us," said Françoise Baylis, a professor of philosophy and bioethics at Dalhousie University who serves on a World Health Organization committee that is developing global standards and oversight for editing of the human genome.
The ethical implications of this kind of rogue science are wide-ranging and nuanced, Baylis explained. But the obvious ones are dire: Making genetic changes to eggs, sperm, or early embryos, collectively called the human germline, affects not only the eventual person these cells may become, but also their offspring.
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Though there is a "spectrum" of views among scientists and ethicists about whether germline editing will ever be a good idea, Baylis said, there's a robust consensus that it's not yet close to being safe, effective or reliable. Many of our genes have multiple functions, so changing them could have unpredictable results. Also, there's the very real spectre of "off-target effects" — accidental changes, potentially devastating ones, to genes the scientist intended to leave alone.
In fact, the only other attempt to edit human embryos with CRISPR did not work out as intended. The result of a slapdash and secretive germline editing project by disgraced Chinese geneticist He Jiankui resulted, reportedly, in the birth of twin girls last November. His intention was to modify a gene called CCR5 in a way that would confer resistance to HIV. Instead, one of the twins appears to have mosaicism — some of her cells have the altered genes, but others do not. The other girl has the intended modification in only one copy of the gene. It's not clear yet what other effects the modifications may have. (A second pregnancy with a CRISPR-edited embryo was reported last year, but it's unknown if it resulted in a live birth).
The Russian situation is somewhat different. Rebrikov, the scientist, told New Scientist he recruited five couples in which each partner has two copies of a mutation in a gene called GJB2, a variation that is common in Western Siberia. People with only one copy of the mutated gene are carriers of the trait, but those with two copies are deaf from birth. If two people with this kind of deafness get together, any children they have will be deaf too.
Prof. Françoise Baylis: "We are putting ourselves on the path to changing the human evolutionary story." Handout
What the Chinese and Russian projects have in common is that they're both fundamentally unnecessary, explained Baylis. They fulfil a "want" — to do "cool science," to be the first — not a real medical need.
There are sound ways to prevent HIV without taking such drastic measures. Similarly, the vast majority of people who want to have a healthy child, but have a genetic disease in the family, can achieve that goal with current genetic technologies. Chief among these is pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, in which the intended parents go through invitro fertilization, then choose only to implant embryos that do not have the trait that causes disease.
Only a tiny, tiny number of people have the kinds of genetic conditions like GJB2-related deafness, in which there's no way the intended parents can naturally produce a child without the trait they're concerned about. But the desire to be the biological parents of a child who can hear is a want, not a need, and not worth the risk of such an untested, dangerous medical procedure, Baylis said. She also argues that such work takes away "time, talent and treasure" from science with a far bigger potential payoff for society.
Though the vast majority of mainstream scientists and ethicists are vehemently opposed to human germline editing in the short-term — only a few "transhumanist" types who are interested in augmenting the human species are excited about it — Baylis is already deeply troubled by the language that is being used to describe the potential future impact of editing the human germline. The discourse is all about how CRISPR could eventually be a "cure" or "treatment" for a variety of genetic diseases. But, in her view, that's the wrong way to think about it.
"Embryos are not people yet. They're not patients. They don't have to exist," Baylis said. And treating them as if they are flies in the face of, "all of the reproductive choice women have fought long and hard for."
Many of our genes have multiple functions, so changing them could have unpredictable results
Further complicating the Russian project is what it implies about the nature of deafness — that it is a disease to be cured and eliminated, rather than a valuable form of human variation. Some of the ethical issues surrounding plans to edit deafness out of the human genome will be explored in an upcoming article in Impact Ethics, a Canadian academic bioethics publication. The authors are Teresa Blankmeyer Burke and Jackie Leach Scully, both scholars from the deaf community. It's expected out this week.
Baylis is not against CRISPR being used on embryos in the future, under very specific conditions. It has to be proven highly safe and effective, and there must be a "broad societal consensus" that it is ethical. Baylis said the consensus should be very broad, including a range of perspectives from marginalized groups like people with disabilities.
"It's totally irresponsible (for Rebrikov) to thumb his nose at the international community when it's very clear that there's concern globally on the part of scientists, policymakers and ethicists," she added. "Instead, it's 'Here's this really cool thing to do and I'm just going to do it.' "
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Jeepers Creepers Reborn
Forced to travel with her boyfriend to a horror festival, Laine begins to experience disturbing visions associated with the urban legend of The Creeper. As the festival arrives and the…
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12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond…
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The Twin (2022)
Every parent's worst nightmare is just the beginning for Rachel's ordeal as in the aftermath of a tragic accident, she and her husband Anthony decide to move to the other…
Supercool (2021)
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Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez. The film won Best Documentary at the 85th Academy…
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Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone's throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of…
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A group of Finnish and British people get stuck to a cabin when a creature which is a half human, half rabbit, attacks on them. The creature is Bunny the…
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Stoney creek? for real? what a pathetic,unfriendly course. i shot 66 1st time out.give me a challenge. id rather play a mini golf course than this piece of garbage.
An excellent option for beginner intermediate golfers looking for a quick challenge. You can take a foursome out after 5pm and get 12-13 holes in. Where else can you do that?
This is one horable course. They need to do a better job at keeping this golf course in place. All in all this is a short course with a lot of tough holes. But i like to play here.
Short course (Par 65), some challenging holes arcoss the creek, some easy holes. Decent condition, fair pricing.
The 18-hole Stony Creek Golf Course in Oak Lawn, Illinois is operated by the Park Lawn Park District. Stony Creek Golf Course offers 5,004 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 65. The course rating is 62.5 and it has a slope rating of 103 on Bent grass. Designed by Carl Getz, the Stony Creek Golf Course features waterfalls, fountains and boulders and a full-service restaurant and bar. The course opened in 1994.


Local businessman and family man, Greg Petty announces candidature for Wollongong Lord Mayor.
"Wollongong deserves independent representation free of political influence and past Council scandal"
Greg Petty announces candidature for Lord Mayor and outlines his vision for community representation in a new look independent community focused Wollongong City Council.
Independence is the key to making a change for the better.
Helensburgh resident and small businessman, Greg Petty has today (30 June 2011) announced he will stand as an Independant candidate for Lord Mayor at the forthcoming Wollongong City Council elections, to be held on 3rd September 2011.
Greg says, "I look forward to representing the whole community, from Helensburgh to Dapto and Windang. Residents in the Wollongong City Council Local Government Area will have a candidate who is skilled, experienced and prepared to represent the community, protect the environment and promote local business and employment with a strong commitment to transparency, integrity and achievable goals; free of political party influence or past Council scandal. Working these values among the elected Councillors will be my number 1 priority".
Has the Candidate been actively representing the community while the Council has been under political Administration for the past three and a half years?
Has the candidate been involved with council previously?
Can we trust any political party Candidate?
Is the Candidate a member or ever been a member of a political party or organisation?
Does party politics belong in Council?
Will the Candidate listen and value your views or those of a political party?
Will the Candidate be accepting donations?
What has the Candidate been doing for the past few years?
Greg Petty is an accountant and company secretary, aged 56, who operates a business in the Wollongong area. He has owned and operated businesses successfully for almost 30 years, and has employed over 50 staff.
Greg stood at the NSW State election in March, 2011 for the Seat of Heathcote as an Independent with the endorsement of legendary corruption fighter and former South Coast MP, John Hatton.
"I know Greg has the ability and quality to effectively represent the people as Lord Mayor of Wollongong. Not being a member of any political party means he can be free to make decisions based on listening to and interacting freely with the community and not have to follow political party policies".


From a flip of the hair to hands on your hips, how you move, gesture, and make expressions can say as much as what comes out of your mouth.
Angel Rose, 34, an assistant vice president at a bank in upstate New York, was interviewing candidates for a teller position, which required that a person have good people and communication skills, a professional presentation, and a strong focus on customer service, among other abilities.
One candidate in particular stood out, but not in a good way. While she could have been very intelligent, her nonverbal communication and body language were way off. Her handshake was more of a finger shake, her eye contact was nonexistent, and her slouched posture exuded insecurity. For Rose, what the candidate said didn't matter because her body language spoke volumes: she wasn't a good fit for the position.
"Most communication experts now believe that almost 90% of what we say comes from nonverbal cues, which includes our body language," says Patti Wood, author of Success Signals: A Guide to Reading Body Language.
Body language, she explains, is everything from our facial expressions, to eye contact, to our gestures, stance, and posture. While the nuances of body language are complicated, there are some common body language signs worth a thousand words.
Flipping your hair, shaking hands, making eye contact, and smiling are more than just movements -- they're a part of your nonverbal communication, adding emphasis and emotion.
"Body language represents a separate communication process beyond words," says Ross Buck, PhD, a professor of communication sciences and psychology at the University of Connecticut. "It exists simultaneously with language, but it is emotional and largely happening at the subconscious level."
Handshakes. A handshake can say so much more than hello, nice to meet you. "The most important part of a handshake is palm-to-palm contact," says Wood. "It's even more significant than the grip."
The palm-to-palm contact expresses an intention of honesty and openness, and that your interaction will be sincere and nonthreatening.
The "limp fish" handshake, Wood explains, seems so uncomfortable because it usually means that the palms don't touch, as Rose experienced in her interview.
Bone crusher: A person may be insecure and trying to overcompensate with an over-the-top hello.
Palm-down handshake: A person may be trying to express his dominance.
A left-handed wrap of the handshake from the top: A person may be trying to express his dominance.
A left-handed wrap of the handshake from underneath: A person may be trying to support and comfort you.
Synchrony. Synchrony happens when two people who are interacting mirror body language cues, explains Buck. What can it mean?
"Synchrony is a signal that both people are on the same page," says Buck. "When you see someone copying your body language, or you notice that you are copying his, it's a clue that you are probably sharing a similar mind-set at the time."
Posture. "Posture can be sign of dominance or submissiveness," says Buck.
Shoulders back with an erect posture can be a sign of dominance, he explains, while being slumped can mean insecurity, guilt, or a feeling of shame.
Eye contact. "While the rules of eye-contact engagement vary from culture to culture, in the U.S., it can mean honesty and forthrightness," says Buck.
The eyes are a powerful part of our body language cues and can express everything from sexual interest, to annoyance, to happiness and pain, he explains.
Playing with your hair. When a woman cups her hand, palm out, and tucks her hair behind her ear, it can be an expression of flirting, and can mean openness and interest, explains Wood. But be careful: It can also mean her hair is in her eyes.
"If you want to better manage your own body language, you need to think about every aspect of your day and how you behave," says Wood.
While you might think you are friendly person, if you go straight to your office and avoid eye contact with anyone, it can send the wrong signals to your co-workers, she explains.
Go through your morning routine -- what you do at lunch, how you spend your afternoon and evening -- and ask yourself questions like: Do I smile? Do I make appropriate eye contact with people? Once you better recognize your body language, you can start to manage it in a more meaningful way.
On the flip side, how can you use the body language of others to your advantage? Most important is to trust your gut.
"Body language says so much, that you can use it to gauge the sincerity of what a person is saying," says Wood.
If a person is telling you something, and he's covering his mouth, he might be lying, she explains. If a person's hands rub from his forehead down across his face, he could be wiping away an emotion, like stress or anxiety. Either way, if what a person is saying contradicts his body language, your intuition might be picking up on something that is not quite right.
Still, whether you are trying to manage your body language better, or understand that of others, remember the value of words.
"If you become too attentive to body language, instead of what you are saying or someone is saying to you, you miss out on the larger process of communication," says Buck.
A basic understanding of body language, combined with verbal communication, can come in handy in almost every situation in your daily life. Here are some common scenarios in which body language can have a big impact, plus tips for putting your best foot forward while you watch what others around you are saying with their silent signs.
"Men tend to talk a lot on first dates when they're interested in a woman," says Wood. "If you're interested back, make eye contact and listen."
If either person isn't interested, and looks around the room and avoids eye contact, that's a sign that a second date isn't likely.
"When men touch a woman on the small of her back to walk her through a door, that's a sign of confidence and interest," says Wood.
For women, it's the length of their touch that measures their interest. While short, less-than-a-second touches are appropriate, touches that are too long could convey an intimate meaning.
Job interviews. First and foremost, don't sit down while you wait for your interviewer to come and greet you; it puts you in an awkward position where you have to stand and gather yourself and your belongings in an odd sort of shuffle.
"Instead, stand and wait, or sit on the arm of a chair," says Wood. "And when your interviewer arrives, make eye contact, raise your eyebrows slightly in acknowledgement, smile, and then shake hands."
During the interview, she suggests you make eye contact when listening to show your interest, but don't stare. Sit up in your chair instead of slouching, and when you're done, leave strong by giving a good, palm-to-palm handshake.
Dinner with the in-laws. "One of the most important body language signs you should convey during your first encounter with your partner's parents is eye contact with your partner," says Wood.
Your partner's parents want to know that you are interested in and care for their child. The best way you can tell them that you are "the one" is to look at your partner with love and affection.
SOURCES: Ross Buck, PhD, professor, communication sciences and psychology, University of Connecticut, Storres, Conn. Patti Wood, MA, certified speaking professional; author, Success Signals: A Guide to Reading Body Language. Angel Rose, assistant vice president, Oneida Bank, Rome, N.Y.


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Айрат Тагирович Каримов  (21 января 1941 года — 11 мая 2016) — советский и российский композитор, пианист и педагог. Заслуженный деятель искусств Республики Башкортостан (1995). Член Союза композиторов Российской Федерации и Республики Башкортостан.

Лауреат и призёр республиканских конкурсов композиторов.

Участник Декады башкирской литературы и искусства в Москве (1955), Дней культуры БАССР в г. Ульяновск (1968), Дней Республики Башкортостан в Москве (1997).

Организатор и художественный руководитель вокально-инструментального ансамбля «Ирэндык» (1970—1976) Башкирской государственной филармонии.

Биография

Айрат Тагирович Каримов родился 21 января 1941 года в Уфе в семье известного башкирского композитора Тагира Шакировича Каримова. Воспитываясь в атмосфере любви к музыке, часто слушая игру отца на баяне, бывая с ним на филармонических концертах, Айрат рано приобщился к этому искусству. С 5 лет началось обучение: в Детской музыкальной школе № 1 (ныне ДМШ №1 им. Н. Сабитова) и музыкальном училище (ныне Уфимское училище искусств) в классе фортепиано замечательного педагога и пианиста М. А. Зайдентрегера — музыканта высочайшей исполнительской культуры и эрудиции.

Первое выступление юного пианиста на концертной эстраде состоялось в 1955 году на Декаде башкирской литературы и искусства в Москве.

В 1955—1959 гг. учился в Уфимском училище искусств по классу фортепиано у М. А. Зайдентрегера. В 1959 году по окончании училища поступает в Уральскую государственную консерваторию имени М. П. Мусоргского в класс профессора И. М. Рензина.

В 1959—1964 гг. обучался в Уральской государственной консерватории им. М. П. Мусоргского. Успешно окончив консерваторию с квалификацией «концертный исполнитель», Айрат возвращается в Уфу, где некоторое время совмещает педагогическую работу с концертной деятельностью: работает преподавателем специального фортепиано в Уфимском училище искусств и музыкально-педагогическом училище, а также концертмейстером в Башкирской государственной филармонии, в филармониях городов Орла, Севастополя. Выступления в концертах, записи на радио, сотрудничество с певцами и композиторами увлекали его всё больше, и он полностью перешёл на филармоническую работу. В филармонии Ростова-на-Дону становится художественным и музыкальным руководителем эстрадного ансамбля «Донские ребята».

В 1970 году назначен музыкальным руководителем созданного в Башкирии и ставшего популярным эстрадно-инструментального ансамбля «Ирэндык». Как солисты, так и эстрадный ансамбль, организованный и возглавляемый Айратом Каримовым, нуждались в оригинальном репертуаре. Молодой руководитель, подбирая репертуар, обрабатывал и аранжировал для ансамбля произведения современных башкирских композиторов, башкирские и татарские народные мелодии. Именно в эти годы появились его первые собственные оригинальные сочинения — песни, инструментальные пьесы, фантазии на темы песен разных народов. Шесть лет работы в этом коллективе стали очень плодотворными для Каримова, а деятельность «Ирэндека» — яркой страницей в развитии башкирской эстрады. Также свой творческий путь в ансамбле под руководством Айрата Каримова начинали талантливые выдающиеся певцы — заслуженные артисты России Ильфак Смаков и Назифа Кадырова.

Подобная разносторонняя и насыщенная творческая деятельность способствовала раскрытию в одарённом музыканте композиторского таланта. Поэтому, когда в 1976 году первый ректор Института искусств, профессор Загир Гарипович Исмагилов пригласил Айрата в свой класс композиции, он с благодарностью это принял, поскольку в глубине души уже решил стать профессиональным композитором. Айрат Каримов с огромным интересом и вниманием занимался в классе маститого Маэстро, писал произведения разных жанров, уделяя большое внимание национальной музыке.

В 1976—1981 гг. учился в Уфимском государственном институте искусств (ныне Уфимский государственный институт искусств имени Загира Исмагилова) по классу композиции у проф. З. Г. Исмагилова. Окончив учёбу, работал заведующим музыкальной частью Республиканского русского театра драмы (1981—1988).

С 1988 года Айрат Каримов находился на творческой работе.

Краткая характеристика творчества
Имя композитора Айрата Тагировича Каримова связывают прежде всего с развитием в республике национальной эстрады. Он первым ввёл в башкирскую профессиональную музыку такие новые для неё жанры, как танго, джаз-вальс, вальс-бостон, буги-вуги, босса-нова, джаз-баллада.

Айрат Каримов работал в различных жанрах инструментальной и вокальной музыки. Отбор выразительных средств в его произведениях всегда диктуется темой сочинения и особенностями замысла. Уже в первой крупной работе композитора — дипломное сочинение Концерт-рапсодия для фортепиано с оркестром (памяти отца) — прослеживаются сдержанность и глубина строгих интонаций музыки, в которую органично вплетаются темы светлого и жизнерадостного характера лирических песен Тагира Каримова. Музыка «Концерта-рапсодии» очень эффектна и интересна, слушается на одном дыхании. Автор стал также и первым исполнителем партии солиста с оркестром Института искусств под управлением М. Голубицкого (запись рапсодии находится в архиве республиканского радио).

Одним из наиболее крупных произведений в творчестве Айрата Каримова является балет «Похищение девушки» (по одноимённой комедии Мустая Карима на либретто И. Х. Хабирова). Образность и яркость тематического материала, красочность оркестровки, понимание законов сцены, пластики национальной и современной хореографии — всё это проявилось в музыке балета, который был принят к постановке Башкирским государственным театром оперы и балета.

В симфонической поэме «Мужество», посвящённой героям Великой Отечественной войны, запечатлены героико-драматические образы. Музыка поэмы отличается мощной внутренней силой и эмоциональностью. В хоровых сочинениях неизменно проявляется мастерство композитора, прекрасно знающего все тонкости хорового письма и выразительные возможности хора.

В пьесах для камерного оркестра и ансамбля скрипачей есть всегда присущее Каримову умение мастерски выстраивать композиции, изящество подачи материала, естественное развитие	,
музыкальной мысли.

Лирические образы нашли удивительно поэтичное воплощение в вокальных миниатюрах — романсах, песнях, хоровых зарисовках, обработках народных песен.

Произведения Айрата Каримова исполняются на различных концертах, фестивалях музыки композиторов Поволжья и Урала, на Фестивалях симфонической и хоровой музыки в Уфе. Имеются фондовые записи на радио и телевидении.

Сочинения
Балет «Похищение девушки» (1998; по пьесе Мустая Карима на либретто И. Х. Хабирова)

Концерт-рапсодия для фортепиано с оркестром (1981)

Симфоническая картина «Мужество» (1985) по поэме «Ҡырк алтынсы һалдат» — «Сорок шестой солдат» Х. Гиляжева

Концертная фантазия на башкирскую народную песню «Тафтиляу» для струнного квартета (1994)

Хоровая поэма «Карусель» на стихи М. Карима в пер. Е. М. Николаевской

Пьесы для эстрадного ансамбля

Произведения для камерного и духового оркестров

Песни и романсы (около 50)

Вокальные и инструментальные произведения для детей

Автор музыки к 30 спектаклям Башкирского театра драмы и Русского академического театра драмы; к документальным фильмам «Трудный путь в будущее» (1993), «Город мой» (1995); концертных обработок башкирских народных песен для хора.

Награды и звания
Заслуженный деятель искусств Республики Башкортостан (1995)

Лауреат Республиканского конкурса музыкальных произведений, посвященных 50-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне (1995)

Лауреат Первой премии за песню «Мы жизни одной» на слова Урана Киньябулатова в конкурсе, посвященном 65-летию Победы (2010)

Библиография
 Йырҙар һәм романстар. Өфө, 2003;
 Пёстрый альбом: сборник фортепианных пьес для детей и юношества. Уфа, 2001;
 Сборник пьес для духовых и ударных инструментов. Уфа, 2010;
 Сборник пьес для духовых инструментов. Тетр.2. Уфа, 2011.

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Литература
Галина Г. Хистәр яҡтылығы //Һоҡланһын бар донъя. — Өфө, 1999.

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OK. Sometimes when a company tries to do a big reveal, they go one of a couple different directions. First is the Apple route – blacking out room windows in R&D, attaching test devices to desks at Apple HQ, and even masking field testing units with external casing to make sure no one knows what's up. Sure it may not seem like that's how they roll now, but that's how they do things. Get their audience so amped that whatever they introduce is an instant hit they've all been waiting for.
The second is the straightforward method. That's more or less saying "hey kids, product X is going to be out on the 37th of Zuhtember (naturally "X' and "Zuhtember" being code for a number and who gives a damn). But in this case potential customers know exactly what's coming and what's going to be involved. I guess the cleanest example here after the Apple thing would be Samsung and their Galaxy phones if you want an example.
So both of those methods make sense, and we've seen both dozens of times before. What confuses me sometimes is when some companies try to blend the two of these in some sort of "openly secretive" teaser thrown out onto the interwebs. Which is the route than Sony took today with their latest teaser on their official US website. Go ahead, watch it. It has all the elements of a big reveal – flashy effects, zoomed shots of different aspects of what gets collected for a final image, and of course mystic and cryptic heavy beats in the background to add an ambiance of mystery and allure. Sweet. Even a date and a time for a very special event so fans have something to look forward to. So what could it possible be? My interest is now piqued beyond recognition – WHAT COULD IT BE? Four very familiar shapes – a triangle, a circle, an X, and is that… is that a square?
Look at the video kids. It's gonna be the PlayStation 4. I mean I can't for sure say it, but watch it again. Search your feelings. I don't think you really need the force with you to sense this one.
The date? February 20th, at 6:00pm. The teaser is an ad for the Playstation Meeting, which is a venue where Sony's unveiled consoles and hardware before (that's where they unveiled the Vita before), so the PS4's a feasible prediction. And Sony wanting to beat Microsoft to the punch on consoles does make sense too. There's also a chance that maybe they could be releasing the fruits of their venture with Gaikai, but MY PEOPLES – I'm still calling PS4.
74. first PSN, now SOE: Sony, WTF?
38. apple in the ballroom with the candlestick… what?


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