- Kin Long is the world leader in the production of fittings for glazing. At the exhibition in Azerbaijan, we present glass spider and cable systems for planar glazing, fittings for PVC and aluminium windows and doors, a wide range of fasteners for all-glass doors, partitions and shower cabins, accessories for glass canopies, stair railings and bathrooms. All our products are made of stainless steel.
The company has proven itself in the global market. Part of the facade of the entrance at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is the highest building in the world, was reveted (faced) using our glass spider systems. Just to name a few, we can also mention the facade system of the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest (China), as well as many business centres in New York, etc. More than half of all airports in China are also lined with the Kin Long glass spider systems.
We participate in the exhibition for the second time. We already have a dealer in Azerbaijan. At our stand, the professional audience, including representatives of construction companies can familiarize themselves with our company's products and get the necessary advice. The main purpose of participation in the exhibition is to find new customers in Azerbaijan.


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2G scam: CAG report to be tabled in Parliament today
NEW DELHI - The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the 2G spectrum allocation is expected to be tabled in Parliament today
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will table the Performance Audit Report on the issue of licences and allocation of 2G Spectrum by the Department of Telecommunications in the Lok Sabha.
Mukherjee will also reportedly hold a luncheon meeting with the leaders of all political parties.
Earlier, talking to reporters here, Mukherjee said: "The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s demand for a JPC probe into 2G spectrum issue is 'unacceptable."
"Why should the Prime Minister make a statement in Parliament. It is the privilege of the Minister to make a statement on the floor of the House. If Raja wants to make a statement, he can do so," he added.
Further criticizing the BJP, Mukherjee said: "JPC demand is absolutely unacceptable. During their six year tenure, how many JPCs they had agreed to including on Tehelka (issue)?"
He further said the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is chaired by a member of the opposition party, would thoroughly study the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the issue.
"We are destroying all the institutions. How the system will function? They (BJP) are also running governments in different parts of the country. This is totally a sad affair," said Mukherjee after the Parliament was adjourned for the fourth consecutive today.
Earlier, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram dismissed an opposition demand for a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum scam, terming it as 'meaningless'.
"Demand for JPC is completely meaningless. Let Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) allow the House to run," Chidambaram said.
He further said the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) will be referred to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, which has the representation of all parties.
"Let Public Accounts Committee (PAC) go into the matter. The CAG report will be discussed comprehensively in the PAC," he added.
The 2G spectrum allocation has reportedly caused an alleged loss of Rs1.76 lakh crores to the Government, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has stated in a report.
The report is understood to have stated that former Information Technology and Communications Minister A Raja, who resigned over his alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, had no apparent logical or valid reasons to ignore the advice of the Law and Finance Ministries while allocating telecom spectrum to several firms in 2007-08. (ANI)

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Vincent Ryan's recent CFO article, Rethinking Buybacks, should give directors pause before jumping on the bandwagon. In the first quarter of 2014, S&P companies repurchased an estimated $159.5B of their own shares. However, the performance of the S&P 500 Buyback Index, which tracks 100 stocks with the highest buyback rations, is lagging the return of the overall S&P 500 by nearly one percentage point, after beating it by 10% in 2013.
Between 1986 and 1996, dividends totaled $457 million while stock buybacks totaled $1,761 million, nearly four times as much. While dividends rewarded shareholders for holding stock, repurchases rewarded shareholders for selling the stock. The purpose of stock buybacks was to boost the company's stock price. Who were the prime beneficiaries? They were the company's top executives, such as John Sculley and Michael Spindler, with their stock-based pay, running Apple into the ground.
Ryan also addresses the downside. "Companies do what naive investors often do; buy when share prices are high, not low." "Wiser to Wait: Do Firms Optimally Execute Share Repurchases?" looked at 5,498 firms that repurchased stock during at least one quarter between 1984 and 2010. "Firms, on average, buy when they should not," the researchers concluded. When companies are doing well, they have the cash but probably shouldn't be buying. When they are doing poorly, they don't have the cash but might do better in repurchases.
Don't set thresholds for organic investment too high, as this will lead to less organic investment and more share repurchases.
Don't overestimate the benefits financially engineered EPS growth will have on the share price.
Don't allow internal optimism to exaggerate the potential gap between the company's market price and its intrinsic value.
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Duke: $60,000 A Year For College Is Actually A Discount
By Lisa Chow
Published February 21, 2014 at 10:36 AM EST
In 1984, it cost $10,000 a year to go to Duke University. Today, it's $60,000 a year. "It's staggering," says Duke freshman Max Duncan, "especially considering that's for four years."
But according to Jim Roberts, executive vice provost at Duke, that's actually a discount. "We're investing on average about $90,000 in the education of each student," he says. Roberts is not alone in making the claim. In fact, it's one most elite research institutions point to when asked about rising tuition.
But just where exactly is all that money going? Michael Schoenfeld, Duke's vice president of public affairs, says for part of that answer, you need to look up: "For the first time in probably anybody's memory, there will be two cranes hovering over the main campus quad." Duke is in the process of renovating its library and dining hall; $8,000 of the $90,000 Duke spends on each student goes into building and maintaining physical infrastructure on campus.
Another $14,000 goes to pay a share of administrative and academic support salaries, which in Duke's case includes more than $1 million in total compensation to the university president, Richard Brodhead, and more than $500,000 to the provost, Peter Lange, according to 2011 tax filings. Also, $14,000 goes to dorms, food and health services; $7,000 goes to staff salaries for deans and faculty; and miscellaneous costs take up another $5,000.
Then a big chunk, $20,000, goes to Duke students who get financial aid.
"For those paying full freight, the full sticker price, their tuition dollars are supporting students who otherwise could not afford to come to Duke," Lange says.
It benefits people like sophomore Tara Mooney. She is among the roughly 50 percent of Duke students who receive financial aid. "I call them normal people," she says. "Getting financial aid, that's what I consider normal."
Most financial aid recipients have to repay a portion of their aid, which comes in the form of loans and grants. Mooney is a special case. She's one of 500 undergraduate students (not including those on merit or athletic scholarships) who pay nothing at all.
Mooney says her mom lost her job at a public school about the same time that she was applying to college. "When we saw the aid package is when my mom and I started crying, because we knew that I could actually come here," she says. "They were going to give me enough money that it was actually possible."
But the biggest category of costs is faculty, at $21,000 per year per undergraduate student.
Jennifer West is a professor of bioengineering and materials science with a long list of publications, awards and titles. To hire West away from Rice University, money wasn't enough. She came with an entourage. "I moved a whole entire research group with me, so I had to move a lot of people and then we had to move a lot of our equipment and rebuild our lab," she says. "They actually sent architects to Rice who looked at our lab facilities there, then used that information to go back and design the facility that would work for us at Duke."
West is not alone. Duke pays what it calls "startup costs" for a lot of professors, particularly in the sciences.
And decisions about hiring faculty can drive up costs in other parts of the university. Duke considers a lot of that spending when it says $90,000 is what it costs to educate an undergraduate each year.
Charles Schwartz, a retired professor from the University of California, Berkeley, who has been studying university finances for the past 20 years, takes issue with this way of accounting. He says it's unfair to place the financial cost of professors like Jennifer West, who spend most of their time in the lab, on undergraduate students. "It's just wrong to bundle all those costs together," he says.
Lange disagrees. "If for instance you try to say ... nothing about the time the faculty member does research redounds to the benefit of the undergraduate ... then I guess you can do the accounting a completely different way," he says. "I think that's a deep misunderstanding at how, at least at a place like Duke, how the actual educational delivery happens."
Schwartz doesn't deny the value of research. It helps advance the human condition, discover new technologies, find cures for cancer and, in Jennifer West's case, build transplantable organs from a small sample of cells. But Schwartz questions how much undergraduates benefit from that.
In the end, Schwartz and Lange don't disagree on the value of what goes on at places like Berkeley and Duke. The disagreement is over the story that Duke tells its undergraduates.
So if you're a student at Duke, are you getting a massive discount on the cost of your education? Or are you subsidizing a giant educational edifice that you as an undergraduate student will barely come into contact with?
The answer sort of depends on what kind of student you are.
If you're engaged in research and capitalizing on your professors' expertise, maybe you're getting something that's worth more than what you paid. If you've got a good financial aid package, you're definitely getting a good deal. But if you're a full-paying student, who's not learning much from professors outside the classroom, it's the university that's getting the deal.
Lisa Chow


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The First International Students at VT
Virginia Tech has had a rich history of international students from its beginnings as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC). James Dunsmuir from British Columbia, Canada enrolled in the college in 1874 just two years after VAMC opened in 1872. The timeline, "First International Students at Virginia: By Year" includes the first and early international students from 1874 through the early 1960s.
The map, "First International Students at Virginia Tech: By Country," gives an listing of countries and the names and years of attendance of the first and early students from a particular country.
Help us build the timeline. The University Archives is eager to learn more about the first and early students at Virginia Tech. If you have more information about these students, have noticed that a particular student's name is missing, or can contribute to our knowledge of students not listed who were the firsts from a particular country, please contact Special Collections and University Archives at specref@vt.edu. We would gratefully receive biographical information, documents, and memorabilia that would help us learn more about these pioneering students at Virginia Tech.
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Firland Sanatorium, Seattle's municipal tuberculosis hospital, opens as Henry Sanatorium on May 2, 1911.
By Paula Becker
On May 2, 1911, Firland Sanatorium, Seattle's municipal tuberculosis hospital, opens as the Henry Sanatorium. It will be renamed Firland the following year. The sanatorium is located about 12 miles north of the (then) Seattle city limits, at 19303 Fremont Avenue N (now part of the city of Shoreline). Firland is built by the Anti-Tuberculosis League of King County, an organization founded to combat "the white plague," as tuberculosis is called. Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death in Seattle. Railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son died of the disease, provides the land and initial funding.
Queen Anne Neighbors Object
League members first attempted to erect a tent-style sanatorium of the type commonly in use around the country at the time. The location was to have been a wooded area donated by Thomas W. Prosch on the west side of Queen Anne Hill. Neighbors, fearful of the highly contagious disease and unwilling to share their district with what many still considered a pesthouse, rebuffed the League with angry protests, threats, and waving broomsticks.
Fear of tuberculosis victims, known commonly as consumptives because the wasting effects of the disease led to an apparent "consumption" of the patient's flesh, has deep cultural roots: As one of its historians writes, "More than a mere disease, it brooded in the subconscious of every doctor and nurse, as much as in the anxieties and terrors of the lay population, an impregnable and pitiless shadow" (Ryan, 127). Community sentiment demanded that tuberculosis sufferers keep their distance.
League president Horace Henry stepped forward with a donation of 34 acres of land 12 miles north of the (then) Seattle city limits in the Richmond Highlands area, along with $25,000 seed money. Henry's teenaged son Walter had succumbed to tuberculosis several years earlier after an unsuccessful attempt to find a cure in the dry Southwest.
The sanatorium was located near the present-day northern border of Shoreline. The land is bordered by Fremont Avenue N on the east, Palatine Avenue on the west, 195th Street on the north, and 190th Street on the south.
Seattle voters passed a $10,000 bond issue in the spring of 1910 to aid in construction costs. On May 2, 1911, the Henry Sanatorium accepted its first patients.
On March 5, 1912, Seattle voters passed a $125,000 bond issue (82 percent in favor) to build a permanent tuberculosis sanatorium, thus demonstrating an understanding of the magnitude of the TB problem the city faced, and its gratitude for the League's pioneering role in addressing this issue. The League deeded the property to the city, and the Henry Sanatorium became Firland. The name was a nod to the bucolic fir forest covering the property. Dr. Robert M. Stith (1874-1943), whose mother had died of tuberculosis, was appointed Medical Director, a position he would hold until his death.
Patients were housed in open-air cottages of the type commonly in use in tuberculosis sanatoria around the country. Nursing staff was initially forced to sleep on the floor, since the only non-patient areas of the facility had no beds. Since there was as yet no paved road between Seattle and the hospital compound, supplies were sent via the Interurban trolley. From the trolley station at Richmond Highlands, the supplies were taken by wheelbarrow to the Sanatorium.
By 1913 the North Trunk Road, now Aurora Avenue N, was paved with bricks at the insistence of physicians so that they and the patients' families could have more ready access. Eventually, buses served Firland on the half-hour.
Open air cottages, Henry (later Firland) Sanatorium, April 14, 1914
Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives (143)
Frederick G. Hamley, Firland: A Story of Firland Sanatorium (Seattle: Firland Occupational Therapy Department, ca. 1937); Frank Ryan, M.D., The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won -- And Lost (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992); Barron H. Lerner, Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis Along the Skid Road (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998); information contributed by Vickie Stiles, Shoreline Historical Museum.
Note: This entry was corrected on February 27, 2020.


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Clint Eastwood: Made in Spain by Francisco Reyero
Spanish journalist Francisco Reyero presents his new book, followed by a conversation with Mark Parascandola, author of "Once Upon a Time in Almería."
The making of Clint Eastwood as a worldwide star began with a journey into the unknown. When struggling to find work in 1964, Eastwood took an offer from a non-established Italian director to shoot a western movie in Spain. Director Sergio Leone hoped to count on the likes of James Coburn, Charles Bronson, or even Henry Fonda as the star for the movie. However, financial restraints left him with Clint Eastwood, a young man with moderate success in television, as his only choice.
After several chaotic weeks in Spain, unpaid bills, and threats of ending the project, A Fistful of Dollars premiered in Italy in 1964. The success of the movie brought Eastwood back to Spain, where he worked over the next two years in the equally succesful For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966). Eastwood became a well-known star three years later, when the films were premiered in the U.S.
About Francisco Reyero
Francisco Reyero (Sevilla, 1971) has been working as a journalist in Spain for the last twenty years. Reyero has participated in radio and television shows, and published several essays on famous figures and personalities linked to Spain, like Frank Sinatra and Clint Eastwood. His work Nunca volveré a ese maldito país (Fundación Lara/Planeta, 2015) narrates the difficult relationship between the famous singer and Spain. Clint Eastwood: Made in Spain (Fundacion Lara/ Planeta, 2018) is an English version of Eastwood: Desde que mi nombre me defiende (Fundación Lara/Planeta, 2017). The book tells the story of how the Californian actor became famous accepting a project to shoot a western movie in Almería.
About Mark Parascandola
Mark Parascandola is a photographer based in Washington, D.C. with family roots in Spain. Parascandola was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities 2017 and was a Finalist for the Sondheim Prize 2011 and for Critical Mass 2016. His latest photobook, Once Upon a Time in Almeria: The Legacy of Hollywood in Spain (Daylight Books), was published last year. The photographs document the film sets, locations, and landscapes used in the many movies made in Almería since the 1960s.
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Review: My Style Studio: Notebook (Wii U eShop)
Better off with real Paper
My Style Studio: Notebook is more of an app for the Wii U than a game, as it lets you draw in a virtual book. While not the most thrilling of eShop releases, it attempts to fill a small gap of opportunity for users looking to draw on their Wii U system. Unfortunately this isn't really a gap that needs to be filled, and as such My Style Studio: Notebook has stiff competition to face.
The interface in this game is one of the most questionable we've ever encountered; while attempting to look realistic the game actually becomes increasingly frustrating. The whole point of an art app should be to make things simple and enjoyable, not confusing and unintuitive. The app just drops you right into the drawing studio, if you could call it a studio. By clicking on things you can interact with them to use them, usually.
Picking a page to draw on in the book should not be one of the biggest problems, but without instruction players will likely spend a while flipping through pages unable to draw on them. The lack of tutorials in game and in the manual is even more frustrating once you realize you actually need them in a simple art app.
Once you get to a page and begin to draw, the results are underwhelming. There is a very limited number of tools to choose from, and you can't even zoom in to draw more accurately (arguably one of the main reasons to choose digital art over the real thing). You'd have more control and options if drawing on a real piece of paper, unfortunately, which means all that time spent going through menus is wasted.
This title should be avoided unless you've run out of other possible apps to use for your purposes. The main demographic, young children, would most likely leave in confusion as they can't figure out how to draw in the art book, or once they do, become disappointed in the actual interface. My Style Studio: Notebook is an app that serves no real purpose, as there are plenty of other drawing apps available on the Wii U eShop, and is too simplistic and confusing to use enjoyably.
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Deluxe Presentation Script of Gone With the Wind Sold for $22,688 at Auction
Boston — A Gone With the Wind shooting script presented to Leslie Howard by David O. Selznick sold for $22,688 according to Boston-based RR Auction.
Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Hollywood up for Auction
Boston — With more than 1,200 items up for bidding, RR Auction's September sale features a
Boston — A deluxe-bound 'Gone With the Wind' shooting script presented to Leslie Howard by David O.
"The Making of 'Gone With the Wind'" Exhibition Will Take Visitors Behind the Scenes
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Prima di raggiungere gli Skid Row, Affuso frequentava l'università a New York e viveva a Wallkill, New York, dove suonava la batteria in una tribute band dei Rush chiamata Minstrel. Nel 1993 partecipò come ospite al disco solista del bassista dei Guns N'Roses Duff McKagan intitolato Believe in Me, nel quale parteciparono anche Sebastian Bach e Dave Sabo, oltre ad altri ospiti illustri come Lenny Kravitz, Slash, Jeff Beck ed altri. L'anno seguente apparì come ospite anche all'album solista di Gilby Clarke, chitarrista dei Guns N' Roses Pawnshop Guitars. Affuso lasciò la band nel 1996 a seguito del suo scioglimento. Nel 1998 suonò con gli Ozone Monday, gruppo composto da tutti i membri degli Skid Row escluso Sebastian Bach, e con un certo Sean McCabe alla voce. In seguito venne sostituito in questa band da Charlie Mills, che successivamente suonò anche nella riunione degli Skid Row nel 1999. Dopo aver sciolto i rapporti con gli Skid Row, Rob abbandonò la musica per lavorare in un'azienda di marketing. Inoltre entrò in possesso di una tenuta per cavalli nei pressi di New York.

Discografia

Con gli Skid Row

In studio
 Skid Row (1989)
 Slave to the Grind (1991)
 B-Side Ourselves (1992)
 Subhuman Race (1994)

Live
 Subhuman Beings on Tour!! (1995)

Raccolte
 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row (1998)

Partecipazioni
 Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood (1989)
 Varii artisti - Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell (1989)
 Varii artisti - A Tribute to The Priest (2002)
 Varii artisti - A Tribute to the Creatures of the Night (2002)

Altri album
 Duff McKagan - Believe in Me (1993)
 Gilby Clarke - Pawnshop Guitars (1994)

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Collegamenti esterni

Musicisti pop metal
Batteristi heavy metal
Batteristi hair metal
Batteristi hard rock

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«Мо́ре душ» () — британский телевизионный сериал, повествующий о приключениях команды отдела парапсихологии университета Клайда.
Сериал имел большой успех в Великобритании. В России он также известен под названием «Секретные материалы: Море душ».

Начиная с 2004 года по 2007 год было снято 4 сезона, 20 серий. Получил награду BAFTA Scotland — лучшая драма (2005).

Сюжет
События происходят в вымышленном университете Клайд в Глазго, в отделе по изучению парапсихологии. Главные герои сериала: доктор Дуглас Монаган, и два его помощника Джустин Макманус и Крейг Стивенсон. К ним обращаются за разрешением преступлений и загадок в области сверхъестественного обычные граждане и государственные структуры. В то же время героям приходится разбираться с руководством университета, финансированием их разработок и также с проблемами в их личной жизни.

В ролях
 Билл Патерсон — Дуглас Монаган
 Доун Стил — Джустин Макманус
 Иэйн Робертсон — Крейг Стивенсон
 Барбара Рафферти — Рена
 Луиза Ирвин — Тина Логан

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A complete eye exam involves a series of tests designed to evaluate your vision and check for eye diseases. Your eye doctor may use a variety of instruments, shine bright lights directly at your eyes and request that you look through an array of lenses. Each test during an eye exam evaluates a different aspect of your vision or eye health.
Children 5 years and younger. For children under 3, your pediatrician will likely look for the most common eye problems — lazy eye, crossed eyes or turned-out eyes. Depending on your child's willingness to cooperate, his or her first more comprehensive eye exam should be done between the ages of 3 and 5.
School-age children and adolescents. Have your child's vision checked before he or she enters first grade. If your child has no symptoms of vision problems and you don't have a family history of vision problems, have your child's vision rechecked every two years. If your child does have vision problems or a family history of vision problems, have your child's vision rechecked as advised by your eye doctor.
Adults. In general, if you're healthy and have no symptoms of vision problems, you should have your vision checked every five to 10 years in your 20s and 30s. Between ages 40 and 65, have your vision checked every two to four years. After age 65, get your eyes checked every one to two years. If you wear glasses, have a family history of eye disease or have a chronic disease that puts you at greater risk of eye disease, such as diabetes, have your eyes checked more frequently.
First, you'll be asked about your medical history and any vision problems you might be experiencing.
Next, how clearly you can see (visual acuity) is measured. This helps determine your prescription for glasses.
Your eye pressure is measured, for which you may receive drops that enlarge your pupils.
Your eye doctor checks the health of your eyes, possibly using several lights to evaluate the front of the eye and inside of each eye.
This test examines the muscles that control eye movement, looking for weakness, poor control or poor coordination. Your eye doctor watches your eye movements as you follow a moving object, such as a pen or light, with your eyes.
This test measures how clearly you see. Your doctor will ask you to identify different letters of the alphabet printed on a chart (Snellen chart) or a screen positioned some distance away. The lines of type get smaller as you move down the chart. Each eye is tested separately. Your near vision also may be tested, using a card with letters similar to the distant eye chart that is held at reading distance.
Light waves are bent as they pass through your cornea and lens. If light rays don't focus perfectly on the back of your eye, you have "refractive error." Having refractive error may mean you need some form of correction, such as glasses, contact lenses or refractive surgery, to see as clearly as possible. Assessment of your refractive error or refraction helps your doctor determine a lens prescription that will give you the sharpest, most comfortable vision. Refraction assessment may also determine that you don't need corrective lenses.
Your doctor may use a computerized refractor to measure the curve of the surface of your eyes and estimate your prescription for glasses or contact lenses. Or he or she may use a technique called retinoscopy. In this procedure, the doctor shines a light into your eye and measures the refractive error by evaluating the movement of the light reflected by your retina back through your pupil.
Your eye doctor usually fine-tunes this refraction assessment by having you look through a mask-like device that contains wheels of different powers of lenses (phoropter). You'll be asked to judge which combination of lenses gives you the sharpest vision. By repeating this step several times, your doctor finds the lenses that give you the sharpest visual acuity.
Confrontation visual field exam. Your eye doctor sits directly in front of you and asks you to cover one eye. You look directly at your eye doctor while he or she moves his or her hand in and out of your visual field. You tell your doctor when you can see his or her hand or fingers and how many fingers you see.
Tangent screen exam. You sit a short distance from a screen and focus on a target at its center. You tell your doctor when you can see an object move into your peripheral vision and when it disappears.
Automated perimetry. Your eye doctor or a technician uses a computer program that flashes small lights as you look into a special instrument. You press a button when you see the lights.
You could have poor color vision and not even realize it. If you have difficulty distinguishing certain colors, your eye doctor may screen your vision for a color deficiency. To do this, your doctor shows you several multicolored dot-pattern tests. If you have no color deficiency, you'll be able to pick out numbers and shapes from within the dot patterns. However, if you do have a color deficiency, you'll find it difficult to see certain patterns within the dots. Your doctor may use other tests, as well.
When examining your cornea, your doctor may use a dye, most commonly fluorescein (flooh-RES-een), to color the film of tears over your eye and see any damaged cells on the front of your eye. Your tears wash the dye from the surface of your eye fairly quickly.
A retinal examination — sometimes called ophthalmoscopy or funduscopy — allows your doctor to evaluate the back of your eye, including your retina, optic disk and the underlying layer of blood vessels that nourish the retina (choroid). Usually before your doctor can see these structures, your pupils must be dilated with eyedrops that keep the pupil from getting smaller when your doctor shines light into the eye.
Direct examination. Your eye doctor uses an ophthalmoscope to shine a beam of light through your pupil and to see the back of your eye. Sometimes eyedrops aren't necessary to dilate your eyes before this exam.
Indirect examination (indirect ophthalmoscopy). During this exam, you might lie down, recline in a chair or sit up. Your eye doctor examines the inside of the eye with the aid of a condensing lens and a bright light mounted on his or her forehead — a bit like a miner's lamp. This exam lets your eye doctor see the retina and other structures inside your eye in great detail and in three dimensions.
The retinal examination usually takes less than 10 minutes, but it may take several hours for the effects of the dilating drops to wear off. Your vision will likely be blurry, and you may have trouble focusing on near objects. If light bothers you, you may need to wear dark glasses (or sunglasses) for a short time. You may be uncomfortable driving with dilated pupils, so make sure you have transportation after your exam. Depending on what you need to see at work, you might need to wear reading glasses or remove glasses that correct for nearsightedness until the effects of the eyedrops wear off.
A test measures your intraocular pressure (tonometry) — the fluid pressure inside your eyes. It helps your eye doctor detect glaucoma, a disease that damages the optic nerve. However, eye pressure measurement is just one thing your eye doctor considers when determining your risk of glaucoma. It's possible to have higher than average eye pressure and not have glaucoma or to have glaucoma if you have normal eye pressure. Your eye doctor will also carefully evaluate your optic nerve for signs of damage.
Applanation tonometry. This test measures the amount of force needed to temporarily flatten a part of your cornea. Fluorescein, the same dye used in a regular slit-lamp exam, is usually put in your eye to make your eye easier to see. You'll also receive eyedrops containing an anesthetic. Using the slit lamp, your doctor moves the tonometer to touch your cornea and determine the eye pressure. Because your eye is numbed, you won't feel anything.
Noncontact tonometry. This method uses a puff of air to estimate the pressure in your eye. No instruments will touch your eye, so you won't need an anesthetic. You'll feel a momentary pulse of air on your eye, which can be a surprising.
If your eye pressure is higher than average or your optic nerve looks unusual, you doctor may use pachymetry. This test uses sound waves to measure the thickness of your cornea. The most common way of measuring corneal thickness is to put an anesthetic drop in your eye, then place a small probe in contact with the front surface of the eye. The measurement takes seconds.


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RAICES Rejects Salesforce's Donation Amid Immigration Row
Words by Jan Lee
Tech companies that specialize in surveillance and cloud-based services are discovering an uncomfortable truth about this century's new economy: Today's skilled workers aren't afraid to speak up, and speak up loudly if they feel their employer isn't living up to its ethical potential.
In the past few months, a growing number of companies have found themselves in a ticklish situation when they have signed service or product agreements with the federal government. The leadership at Microsoft, Google, Amazon and most recently Salesforce have all received letters from their employees questioning the companies' decisions to enter into contracts that provide services to federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Defense (DOD).
After the American Civil Liberties Union published information that Amazon's Rekognition facial software was being used by the federal government to track civilians including alleged illegal immigrants at the border, Amazon employees calling for the company to cancel the contract. Civil rights organizations followed suit, demanding that CEO Jeff Bezos "stop powering government surveillance infrastructure." The appeal doesn't seem to have slowed Amazon's enthusiasm for cloud software. The company reported last week that its revenue from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which includes the Rekognition software, has jumped 49 percent. Google, faced with resignations and outrage from employees about its contract to sell artificial intelligence software to the federal government, is one of the only companies that has agreed to implement new guidelines restricting the use of its products. In June the company said it would phase out the contract that nets Google more than $130 million and allows the government to use its program, Project Maven, to analyze footage in search for military targets. But questions about whether the program is also being used to track civilians in non-battle settings have forced it to reconsider the lucrative contract with the Department of Defense.
And earlier this month, Salesforce found itself in the news as well. In June, some 650 employees signed an open letter to the CEO Marc Benioff calling on him to reconsider allowing Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to use the company's cloud software in hiring processes. While the company declined to say at the time whether it would cancel the contract, it did take what some might consider innovative steps to dispel the controversy, by donating a quarter-million dollars to Raices.
The small Texas-based nonprofit gained attention earlier this year for raising funds to cover the legal costs of Latino families that had been separated by ICE at the border. The fact that the Trump administration says it is no longer separating children from incarcerated parents doesn't seem to have slowed the outpouring of donations from Americans who say they are enraged at the Trump administration for its handling of immigration issues. To date, Raices, which means "roots" in Spanish, has raised more than $20 million toward protecting immigrant rights.
But it's taken a very public stand toward Salesforce's oddly timed donation of $250,000. The offer arrived at the NGO's doorstep shortly after Salesforce's employees appealed to Benioff to "reexamine" the company's stance on potentially aiding CBP and ICE with software that can be used for surveillance of immigrants. "We cannot cede responsibility for the use of the technology we create," Salesforce employees wrote last June, "particularly when we have reason to believe that it is being used to aid practices so irreconcilable to our values." For its part, Salesforce says it is not "working with CBP regarding the separation of families at the border," nor is it "aware of any Salesforce services being used for this purpose." According to a Facebook post by Raices, the nonprofit declined a $250,000 donation from the company last week. In an open letter to Salesforce, it said the company's cloud software is the "operational backbone of the agency and thus does support CBP in implementing its inhumane and immoral practices." The organization said it would accept the donation only if Salesforce "would commit to ending [its] contract with [CBP]," which Salesforce has since said it will not do. Tech companies are now faced with difficult, ethical decisions about what limits that should be imposed when it comes to using a cutting edge product with moral and ethical implications. Is it enough for companies to say they aren't "aware" when critics charge a product is being used inappropriately? Do they have a responsibility to know, and to set contractual limits to its use? The questions that lie ahead will no doubt be a test for today's tech companies that also strive to be stewards of corporate social responsibility. Image credits: Molly Adams (Flickr); Wes Schaeffer/Salesforce)
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Jan Lee is a former news editor and award-winning editorial writer whose non-fiction and fiction have been published in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the U.K. and Australia. Her articles and posts can be found on TriplePundit, JustMeans, and her blog, The Multicultural Jew, as well as other publications. She currently splits her residence between the city of Vancouver, British Columbia and the rural farmlands of Idaho.
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Christina Smith Montgomery (1870-1965), headmistress, was born on 21 March 1870 at Kelso, Scotland, eldest child of William Montgomery, draper's assistant, and his wife Janet, née Smith. She attended Kelso Grammar School where she acquired a lifelong love of classical studies. After the family arrived in Melbourne in 1884, she and her younger sister Margaret (d.1917) attended Cambridge Street State School, Collingwood, and in September 1886 were appointed pupil-teachers there. In 1891 they both enrolled and became prizewinners at the new Melbourne Teachers' College. Matriculating in 1892, Christina attended the University of Melbourne (B.A., 1897; M.A., 1900), becoming one of the first women graduates employed in the State Department of Education.
Throughout, she taught full time at Ballarat and Drouin but her studies did not diminish her glowing inspectors' reports, which referred to her 'care and energy'. The first director of education, Frank Tate, noted that as a very young, 'undersized' junior teacher, by her mere presence she quelled classes that defeated men over six feet (183 cm) tall. Christina waited for promotion until she was 29, her progress impeded by her studies and the further handicaps imposed on women in the depression. In 1898 she took leave to become head of evening classes at Perth Central Girls' School, which confirmed her preference for teaching older students. She was promoted on returning in 1899.
When Melbourne Continuation School opened in 1905, Christina Montgomery was appointed Latin teacher. In 1923 she became headmistress, under the principal, Joseph Hocking; but in 1927, after the school had been condemned on health grounds, the boys moved to the new Melbourne High School at Forest Hill, while the girls remained in the renamed Melbourne Girls' High School. From this inauspicious beginning Miss Montgomery established the first girls' academic high school, eventually renamed MacRobertson Girls' High School.
Unashamedly flaunting her classical prowess, she named the houses after Greek nymphs, adopted 'Potens Sui' as the motto, and launched a students' paper, Pallas. Monty's raison d'être was to rival both the brother school and independent schools academically. Her girls were not to suffer the disabilities she had overcome. Moreover, World War I had convinced her that any hope for a sane future lay in women's hands. Her speech nights resounded with the glories of her girls' achievements. She established the school's enduring scholarly reputation, successfully resisting attempts to make its curriculum more 'domestic' and even to close it down. Her greatest triumph came when in 1931 it was moved from a 'penitentiary'-like slum to Government House. Determined that her girls would be at home with high culture and social graces, Monty continued an established weekly 'social hour'.
She had won parents' militant loyalty in the political battle to save the school in 1930. Between 1927 and 1932, the year of her retirement, enrolments rose from 340 to 805, despite the Depression and the £6 per term fees, but the demands imposed by the school's vulnerability drained her considerable energies. She felt she dare not err. Her feminism was characterized by a touchily nervous jealousy of the girls' reputation. Being embattled made her seemingly aloof, formidable and humourless to some pupils and teachers, yet she had a dry wit. Her imperious dignity counterbalanced her minuteness and possibly a fieriness that matched her flaming auburn hair. By her dowdiness and undemonstrative reserve this female dominie concealed a warmth and a suppressed sentimentality that escaped occasionally when she talked of travel or her mother, 'to whom I owe all'. Monty approved of the 'new education'; and while her teaching style was thorough and didactic, she admired good teachers who could unbend. But in battling for women's equality she was uncompromisingly meritocratic.
Like a shrewd champion sportswoman, Christina Montgomery gave up at her peak. School had been her whole world; but more than a third of her life was to be spent in retirement, during which she wrote a travel book, Recaptured in Tranquillity, and a detailed textual study, Shakespearean Afterglow (1942). The Montgomery family had prospered as Fitzroy retailers; Christina died, at Brighton on 27 August 1965, considerably more prosperous than she was born. She was buried in Melbourne general cemetery.
Gwyneth Dow, 'Montgomery, Christina Smith (1870–1965)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/montgomery-christina-smith-7628/text13335, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 23 April 2019.


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Mitel Helps Schools Move Communications to the Cloud with E-Rate Incentive
Cloud-Based Solutions from Mitel Continue to Make the Grade in Schools of All Sizes
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Leading schools choose Mitel for simplified communications
Mitel® (Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW), a global leader in real-time business, cloud and mobile communications, is offering an incentive of 40 percent off retail for E-Rate funded purchases to help K-12 schools realize the benefits of implementing a cloud-based solution before government funding for these voice services phases out in 2019.
Cloud-based platforms provide a secure, low cost solution with superior quality and reliability. Mitel's cloud-based solutions earn high marks from education customers. Following recent deployments, more school districts report better communications among staff, greater productivity, and improved interaction with students and the community.
Illinois' West Aurora School District 129 worked with Mitel partner Sound Incorporated to roll out a hosted cloud solution to support communications across 20 buildings, bypassing building constraints, saving money and freeing up IT personnel. The staff of 1,800 also gained access to productivity-enhancing features for better serving its 12,000-member student body.
Replacing an outdated system, Raytown Quality Schools in Missouri selected a Mitel solution to give its staff of 1,300 the ability to easily connect and collaborate with each other, the district's 8,800 students, parents and the community. Mitel partner Allegiant deployed the solution, which also included MiCollab mobile client capabilities for communicating on the go.
Another Mitel customer in Illinois, Wauconda Community Unit School District 118, used a Mitel solution to standardize and simplify technology across six schools for a staff of 500, supporting 4,000 students. Mitel partner MidCo, Inc. helped implement a hosted cloud solution that unifies and streamlines messaging, provides a single portal for making changes and gets new teachers up and running quickly.
"We wanted to standardize communications. A lot of our buildings didn't even have voicemail. Everything was coming through the main office and notes were being left in mailboxes. That's one of the greatest benefits of Mitel's system—it allows us to communicate better internally, with students and the community," said Scott Cittadino, assistant superintendent of Technology, Wauconda Community Unit School District 118.
"Schools are turning to the cloud to modernize and standardize as they look to simplify communications, lower cost of ownership, acquire more features and increase reliability. Mitel's education solutions also help them ultimately derive value from the practical application of empowering staff, improving parents' involvement, enhancing safety and enabling better student outcomes," said Wes Durow, chief marketing officer, Mitel.
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Did you try holding down the on/off and the home buttons at the same time for 30 sec?
Try what that eman05 wrote If that does not work there could be a need for strengthening the contacts screen or the screen is burnt out and require replacement.
i've tried holding the home, on/off buttons together for 30-60 secs that hasn't worked at all?? how would I go about strengthening the contacts screen?
I would remove the battery take the two screws out from the bottom and slide the rear cover up now undo the screw in the battery and gently lift the battery connector up til it pops out now press power to drain any power that was in it for 3 seconds. Then reconnect battery and try to power up..
I've Just received my battery today and replaced it but nothing has happened not even any light coming on or anything... Any Other Advice???
My phone turned black wheni was talking to someone and my lock button is broke. So i tried pressing the home button and it doesnt do anything. But when i put it into the charger it dings but doesnt turn on. Siri starts talking as well. It is really weird but idk what to do.


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Stellaris Console Edition Interview: PS4 Pro, Xbox One X Enhancements, Improvements And More
Posted on : September 25, 2018 By Gary Mueller
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Stellaris is a grand strategy game set in space and the game had initially released for the PC back in 2016. Now, the developers are working in collaboration with Tantalus Media to port the game to the PS4 and Xbox One. Given the lack of strategy games on consoles, it will certainly be nice for players to have the opportunity to get the Console edition soon.
To learn more about Stellaris: Console Edition and what exactly it will bring to players, Gamingbolt reached out to the developers with some questions and Game Director Daniel Moregård provided the following answers.
"In general there only seems to be a handful of strategy games available for consoles, so naturally we're very excited to be able to bring a grand strategy game to the console market for the first time ever."
Would you say that there is a lack of Strategy games such as this one on consoles?
Yes, definitely. In general there only seems to be a handful of strategy games available for consoles, so naturally we're very excited to be able to bring a grand strategy game to the console market for the first time ever.
If this game performs well on consoles, would you consider bringing some other Paradox titles to consoles as well?
We want to bring our games to as many people as possible, but the game itself always comes first. Not all games can be translated to work well with a gamepad. Something we may do is to make sure newer games keep the gamepad in mind during early development, so that it becomes easier to translate the game to console if we choose to do so in the future.
Are there any major differences between the initial PC version and the Console Edition of the game?
For all intents and purposes, it's the same game. We've focused on how best to adapt Stellaris to being played on console. While there have been some interface changes, the complexity and challenge of Stellaris will remain the same. We aim to make a true grand strategy experience available on consoles.
What are some of the major improvements and changes that have been added to the game since its initial launch on PC?
There have been a lot of large overhauls since the game's 1.0 version including traditions, species rights, factions and numerous other improvements, not even counting all the DLC features. Stellaris is a game that changes a lot for every new update, so it's honestly even hard to remember how much it has changed already.
At what resolution and frame rates will the game run on the base PS4 and Xbox One?
The game is not as much about frame rates as it is about CPU cycles. We've worked a lot on performance and stability, so we are confident the player experience on a console should mirror that of the PC.
"It is too early to comment on or promise anything beyond what we've announced thus far including the Plantoids Species Pack, Leviathans Story Pack, and the Utopia Expansion. Our ambition is to be able to catch up to the PC at some point."
And what about on the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X?
There is no specific support for PS4 Pro and Xbox One X in terms of 4K resolution, but since the consoles feature newer hardware the game will of course be able to make use of that.
Are there any plans to bring the game over to the Nintendo Switch as well?
As noted before, ideally we'd love to be able to bring our games to as many people as possible, but there are no current plans to bring the game over to the Switch.
When will the Apocalypse expansion become available on consoles?
What made you decide that this was the right time to bring this game over to consoles?
PDS does not really have the resources to adapt the game to PC ourselves (as it would conflict with further PC development), so it was paramount to find reliable partners to work with. After finding a good partner in Tantalus, we decided to take the leap.
When is the Console Edition set to release?
We have not yet announced the release date.
"The important thing for us is that the player experience should be the same as on the PC."
The game will feature Xbox One X specific enhancements. What can players expect if they are playing the game on Xbox One X? Is 4K/60fps on the cards?
4K is not supported, but since the Xbox One X features newer hardware the game will of course be able to make use of that.
And how will the PS4 Pro version turn out in terms of resolution and frame rate?
Similarly, 4K is not supported.
From a development perspective, how do you find the Xbox One X to be? With so much GPU power, we are sure you must be doing some amazing things.
This game is not so much about GPU as it is about CPU, so that aspect does not really affect Stellaris in that specific way. That said, we've found that Stellaris runs really well on the Xbox One X.
How is the game running on the original Xbox One and PS4, frame rate and resolution wise?
It is running great! The important thing for us is that the player experience should be the same as on the PC.
Next gen is coming sooner or later. From a development perspective, what is your biggest expectation from PS5 and Xbox Scarlett?
Right now we're focusing on making sure Stellaris: Console Edition is the best we can make it but we look forward to learning more about the next generation. That said, having more CPU power certainly sounds like a very good thing.
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First of all remember this relies on getting traffic to our blog in the first place (but that is a whole different issue).
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I often wonder if we remember we are to provide 'something' for the reader. I am of course a fan of the, once in awhile, 'getting to know you' posts... but even an opinion post can be a method for teaching. A few 'reveals' and a reader will know, and be able to align themselves with the writer. I worry that I do this too much, over share. The day I quit blogging to reach others is the day I better quit. Hmmm.
Kim, you are so good at sharing yourself and connecting with your readers - This is what you excel at. Thanks so much for sharing your gems of wisdom here and happy blogging and connecting with others. That's what people with chronic illness need - connection with people who understand.


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FIR Interview: Catching up wth GMnext – February 23, 2008
It has been six weeks since the launch of GMnext, General Motors' ambitious communication effort aimed at tighter integration into the social media space and earnest, comprehensive engagement in conversation with customers and other constituents.
In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz talked with GM's Scot Keller and Christopher Barger about the initiative's first month-and-a-half, lessons learned, surprises, things that have gone as expected and reaction from mainstream media and the blogosphere. They also provide insights into events that followed the activist takeover of the comments section of four user-uploaded photos.
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Born and raised in Southern California, Scot M. Keller is a third generation car executive whose career spans 25 years. He has broad based experience in automotive marketing, communications, motor sports, heritage, and brand management with brands including Alfa Romeo, Audi, Chrysler and Jeep.
In 1999, Scot joined General Motors Corporation where he currently holds the position of Director Communications GMnext. In this capacity, Scot directs the corporation's day to day activities around the global centennial celebration and GMnext digital experience. He also has responsibility for GM's Heritage Communications directing the corporation's involvement in key events including The Amelia Island and Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegances.
Scot currently resides in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan with his wife and two children.
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Christopher is responsible for setting General Motors' communications strategy in the emerging social media that make up "Web 2.0" (blogs, wikis, podcasting, user-generated content, social network engagement, and others). His team coordinates and counsels authors for GM's corporate blogs (FastLane and FYI), builds and manages GM's relationships with influential voices from across the social media landscape, and develops new social media resources for GM content and information.
Prior to joining General Motors in mid 2007, Christopher held a similar position at IBM where he was involved in such ground-breaking work as the investor relations department's "IBM and the Future Of…" series of podcasts.
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Xbox One adds Skate 3 to its backwards compatibility list
One of the most popular skating games of the last console generation is now available to play on the Xbox One via its backwards compatibility feature.
Microsoft has announced Skate 3 is now available via the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature.
Skate 3 has been one of Microsoft's most requested titles to be added to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility list. The title has been a fan-favorite for quite some time, which builds on top of its Flickit control scheme by offering more ways to team up with their friends in order to build a skate crew and shape their brand.
The support of Skate 3 on Xbox One comes on the one-year anniversary of the launch of its backwards compatibility feature. To celebrate the occasion, EA and Microsoft have teamed up to offer the San Van Party Pack DLC at no extra cost. The offer is only for a limited time, so be sure to grab it before November 20th.
Those who own a physical copy of Skate 3 can start playing it on their Xbox One right now, although if you need to purchase the game, it's currently on sale on the Xbox Live Marketplace for $9.99 for Gold members.
Daniel Perez posted a new article, Xbox One adds Skate 3 to its backwards compatibility list
dodob
The engineers behind porting these games to the Xbox One are true unsung heroes. I wonder how many dudes are working one porting one game? I imagine one has to know the hardware architecture inside out for both systems to do so. A lot of emails and calls back and forth to the original developers I imagine, figuring out undocumented software hacks, etc.
Dravenport
agreed, im having a lot of fun with some of these old games #truemvps
Shadowdane
Yah it's pretty amazing they get these running so great... I do wonder if it's emulation or they are basically porting the engine to the XB1??
Redwall45
From what everyone has said it's some vm emulator thing. I don't truly know and probably won't ever understand.
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Yo5hiki
Skate 4 would be tremendous!
id love it


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Symphonie en la mineur
« italienne »
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
Cyril Bongers
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Though listed in all d'Indy catalogues and biographies, the Italian Symphony had long remained unpublished.
D'Indy was just 18 when he wrote these lines. When he obtained his French literature "Baccalauréat", his grandmother Résia offered him a two-month trip to Italy, the cradle of the arts, civilization and Christianity. This was a reward for his efforts and success but also a disguised way to deter him from the project of a military career; it eventually proved to be very fruitful.
Indeed the homeland of Dante and Michelangelo was able to inflame his young romantic mind and to inspire him one of his first important works, but also to lead him for good towards a career far different from the one meant by his tedious law studies. Even before his departure, he already had the idea of a vast program symphony, whose first canvas was drawn in the enthusiasm of the different legs of his journey between Roma, Naples, Florence and Venice, then during a stay in Germany and in Switzerland.
A hard-working learned man, hungry for greatness and perfection, he proved a strong and willful spirit to design and complete such a project. But let's not reduce this piece to a writing feat: through these pages at times grandiose and poetic, noble and sharp, deep or whimsical, the author proves all to be really has the "soul of an Artist"… After years of an undeserved oblivion, let's discover its many riches…
Rome (Andante maestoso – Allegro ma non troppo)
Florence (Allegro vivace)
Venise (Andante, sans lenteur)
Naples (Saltarelle : Allegro ma non troppo)
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