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Was London's Grenfell Tower Fire Preventable?
This isn't the city's first public housing building to be destroyed due to unsafe conditions.
By Yasmeen Serhan
The charred remains of Grenfell Tower in West London, Britain on June 16, 2017. (Hannah McKay / Reuters )
The fire that engulfed west London's Grenfell Tower last week, killing at least 79 people and leaving several dozen others injured, is not the first time the city has witnessed the collapse of one of the many tower blocks that make up its public housing.
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In 2011, it was estimated that three-quarters of Britain's social-housing blocks are potentially unsafe in a fire—a condition linked to decades of neglect, poor maintenance, and a lack of proper fire-safety regulations.
I spoke with Lynsey Hanley, the author of Estates: An Intimate History and a regular contributor to The Guardian, to discuss the rise of social housing in London that led to the construction of buildings like Grenfell Tower, and what the blaze could mean for the safety of such housing structures going forward. As someone who has lived in social housing and written extensively on its impact on British society, Hanley offers context about the role such housing was envisaged to play, and how it will need to change to fulfill that promise.
Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Yasmeen Serhan: In your book you mention the role the "social welfare state" played in the development of London's public housing. How did that come about?
Lynsey Hanley: After the First World War in Britain, there was a massive rush to build lots and lots of social housing, or what was the called council housing, because the prime minister at the end of the first World War, Lloyd George, promised what he called "homes fit for heroes."
There were about one and a half million council houses built in Britain between the First and Second World Wars. After the Second World War, Britain's urban centers had so much housing destroyed in bombing raids that there were hundreds of thousands of people left homeless … The minister for health, Nye Bevan … built upwards of 150,000 new homes a year, and they were of far superior quality because his idea was that the doctor and the butcher and the baker and the vicar and the laborer and so on would all live in pretty much identical or similarly sized houses, all on the same streets together and that there'd be proper social mixing. He also had the idea that rented council housing would be so desirable that you wouldn't actually want to buy a house. He sort of envisaged differences in assets and, by extension, the importance of social class kind of withering away because everyone would be living in good quality housing.
Serhan: Were these buildings typically high rises?
Hanley: In Britain, there's this sort of strange quirk which is that every Englishman wants his castle, and people long expected to live in houses with gardens, so individual terraces or row houses with their own front and back garden that were no higher than two stories. But what we call "tower blocks," or high rises, those came along after the war and was influenced by continental architects like Le Corbusier, a Swiss architect who imagined continental cities with basically everybody living in 30-plus high blocks of flats. It was a totally and utterly futuristic vision of what city living could be like, and a lot of architects in Britain were really taken with this idea because after the war so many cities were just flattened by German bombing and it was almost like they had a blank slate. ... Corbusier's vision was quite seductive for a lot of city architects in Britain, but really in the popular consciousness low rises and houses were still by far the most popular idea.
High rises only really began to take hold in cities when the Labour government immediately after the war was replaced by a Tory government, which wanted to compete with Labour on the number of houses that got built. They started giving council subsidies to build over six floors ... all of the sudden in the 25 or 30 years after the war they ended up with about 4,000 tower blocks across the country. It only formed a small part of all the council housing in the country, because we built an absolutely extraordinary amount up to the 1970s. By the end of the '70s, about a third of all households lived in council housing, of which only a relatively small percentage lived in tower blocks.
Serhan: You come at this topic from a person experience, as you've lived in council housing yourself. What was your experience like?
Hanley: I grew up on a 1960s-built estate outside Birmingham that had about 30 tower blocks in the estate, though I grew up in a house. Then I moved to London to go to university when I was 18 and found myself living in an inner-city council estate in the east end of London. I identified a lot of similarities and differences between the estates I had grown up on … I saw how the physical design of the houses in both estates were so distinguishable from private housing, which in Britain you associate with very solid looking, quite grand looking Victorian-terraced housing or larger 1960s housing.
On the estate in London, I saw people's lives being really sort of circumscribed by its location, by the fact that it was right next to the massive road, so pollution and traffic and the sound of police sirens were all stressing factors. There were people's experiences of social isolation, particularly living in tower blocks. You know, mums with babies would be really isolated if they lived in the upper floors because they couldn't get down or bring their buggies [strollers] down if the lift [elevator] broke. I really started to see how the effects of class were reinforced by the kind of housing that people were living in.
Serhan: Have there been any notable cases of high rises like Grenfall collapsing due to improper construction?
Hanley: In 1968, there was a building called Ronan Point in the east end of London and two months after it was completed a gas explosion knocked off one entire side of the building and killed four people. An architect called Sam Webb carried out an investigation into the causes of that disaster and he found that basically the subcontractors who built it for the private builders on behalf of the council were under-skilled in the process of putting up prefabricated tower blocks, so they cut corners every which way because they were doing it quickly and doing it cheaply and didn't truly know what they were doing. … Ronan Point was described as a "house of cards" basically held together by bolts.
Serhan: Some reports suggest the Grenfell Tower fire spread so quickly because of flammable cladding used during the building's 2015 refurbishment.
Hanley: Yes, the cladding itself that was used was flammable and should have never been used. One of the issues when tower blocks are clad or re-clad in that way is that there is a necessary gap between the cladding and the building itself that allows the cladding to expend and contract in poor weather, but that cavity can also technically mean that if a fire starts the fire can be sucked up like a vacuum between the cladding and the exterior, which appears to be what happened in the case of Grenfall.
Serhan: Have there been incidents like what occurred at Grenfall before?
Hanley: There was another more recent fatal fire in another tower block in London called Lakanal House in 2009, in which six people died. It was caused by fire spreading very quickly through the building. Sam Webb advised the legal team on behalf of the tenants and again he was saying the way tower blocks were built and are now under-maintained and under-regulated in Britain basically makes a lot of tower blocks "death traps," in his words.
When you're growing up on an estate, it's actually not that unusual to see fires in tower blocks. But in most tower blocks, and this is how they're legislated to be built, each individual flat has to be built in such a way that if there is a fire it can't spread beyond that flat—so the issue with Lakanal House and Grenfell Tower is why that didn't happen in this case.
Serhan: Grenfell tenants voiced concerns about safety, writing last year that "only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord." How common are such concerns when it comes to council housing?
Hanley: People's concerns about council housing in London to date have been more to do with gentrification and the very intense pressure placed on tenants of council housing to agree to regeneration programs. These often end up in their housing being demolished and then them getting displaced so they don't get to live in the area or even the borough that they've made their lives in and then sort of nominally given the right of return once the estate is regenerated and coming back to find that the housing is unaffordable. Essentially it was a way of getting rid of them so they could build luxury flats on the space.
Serhan: What changes do you think would have to be made in order to address these safety concerns?
Hanley: Building regulations are going to have to be completely overhauled, fire-safety regulations are going to have to be overhauled. I would have thought that it will become law to have to fit sprinkler systems and effective fire-alarm systems in all blocks and flats, because that's not currently law. It's the law for care homes and schools that are newly built, but not in tower blocks so that may ultimately change.
Serhan: What role do you see public housing playing in British society?
Hanley: My sort of guiding principle when it comes to housing is that it should have been made a national housing service just like we created the National Health Service. Housing is an absolutely essential component of public health. Secure and good quality housing is the very basic building block of peoples's lives, and if your housing is rubbish, you just can't build a life on it. Bad housing makes you ill. Expensive housing reinforces your poverty. You have to have good housing, and the market can't meet that need. We had this chance after the war to create a situation in which the fear of housing insecurity and the fear of unaffordable housing and the fear of actually dying because of bad housing all could have been removed, and it hasn't.


New Delhi: Shopping online is one of the most favoured hobbies we have these days. Since we are hooked to our handy smartphones the entire day, shopping has definitely become more convenient and fun.
Surfing through e-commerce sites and learning about new products and their attributes is quite an entertaining leisure. But like every scientific boon has a downside, so does shopping online.
Recently, it was found that e-commerce giant Amazon India had been selling a beauty product for a preposterous price. While they showed the actual price of the product to be over Rs 30,000, they were selling the same for Rs 6,400.
Any excited shopper would go gaga over such a discount, but would it not strike you even for once as to how they are able to give this massive discount, or at least whether the product in question is actually as expensive as Rs 30,000?
Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate 30ml is a nighttime facial oil that claims to visibly restore the appearance of skin, as per the official website of Kiehl.
Here comes the twist, upon checking some others sites, we found a huge gap in the prices. While Amazon claimed to lure in buyers with an exaggerated MRP (marked retail price), Nykaa, Sephora and Kiehl's website displayed a much lesser MRP.
Kiehl's and Sephora priced the facial oil at $47, which if converted to Indian currency would be about Rs 3,200 approximately.
On the other hand, Nykaa, Strawberrynet, and skingene.in are selling the same 30ml facial oil for Rs 3,700, Rs 4,761.50 and Rs 4,779, respectively.
Those who are gullible and often get lured in with inviting discounts are suggested to check product specifications with three-four websites before purchasing anything online.
What often happens with the discount culture is that online platforms put up exaggerated MRPs and then give high discounts showing their customers that it is a beneficial deal. But in reality, these items are actually being bought at a much higher rate.
DB Post contacted Amazon for comments but the company has not responded yet.
MV Natrajan, Chief business officer, VLCC, shares some tips on how one can make sure the product they are buying is genuine.
Flimsy packaging: Before buying any product, consumers should inspect the packaging and design of the product in addition to the colour of the product. One should be aware of flimsy packaging, eg: missing details such as batch no, place of manufacture, address, etc.
Unreal discounts: If you buy something at a fraction of the price, or the deal is too good to be true, then it usually is not true. If the offer is unrealistically low, say, 70-75% of the MRP, one should know that it may be a fake product.
Look out for details: A company prints several important details such as batch number, date of manufacturing, MRP, expiry date on the pack. It is important for consumers to check for these details before buying any product. Typically, fake products miss out on a few details while copying the information. If consumers have any doubt, they should call the company line and confirm the batch number details. They can further send the product to the company for analysis.
How can one be aware of frauds while shopping online?
"With counterfeiting on the rise, it becomes all the more important for consumers to check for the authenticity of a product to avoid buying fake ones. Counterfeit products can quite often appear to be authentic. Hence, the best way to get genuine beauty products online is to buy the products straight from the brand or its authorised retailers and dealers," suggests Natrajan.


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Alia also attended the opening ceremony of IFFI last week wearing an Ekru angarkha style anarkali. The hanging sleeves on Alia were a bit odd especially considering they seem to be fitted on the runway version.
Other than that she looked good.
She looks good. I do like her earrings.
She looks really sweet and delicate. Beautiful.
thanks for posting this, i thought she looked stunning in the footage from IFFI. the sleeves also really looked great when she was on stage for the ceremony. this outfit is a real knock-out – the new Sabyasachi, a great take on authentic & innovative. well done Alia Bhatt + style team.
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I kind of think she has dressed pretty old for her age!
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1/2 cup ghee or oil+ghee mixture should be added, otherwise you cannot shape it to ladoo and also it will not taste good.
Use ghee for more flavor and taste but to me 1/4 cup ghee is more enough and we totally loved the ladoos.
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Yummy laddo.............You made it perfectly.
"Happy Diwali" to you Sangeetha.
Wat a health take off from the usual laddoos, i always want to make these laddoos but still they are in my to do list..Looks fabulous Sangee.
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CEO activism, the growing trend of top executives speaking out on sensitive social and political issues, has been labeled the "new normal." But behind the scenes, executives do not feel in control. They are struggling to anticipate and respond to intensifying pressure from the public, investors, and — above all — their employees.
There are conflicting views of how CEOs should proceed. One survey suggests the public wants chief executives to lead on social change without waiting for the government to act. A separate survey shows public support for corporate engagement on such issues as sexual harassment and equal pay — though not on gun control or abortion. A third survey indicates that brands may be punished for even mentioning President Donald Trump, regardless of whether they are being critical or complimentary.
Companies we work with at BSR, a nonprofit sustainability business network and consultancy, feel trapped: Although every conceivable action carries considerable risk, inaction may not be much of an option, either.
What to do, now that the neutral middle ground has become a quicksand? We have been working with businesses to develop a strategic framework for when to take a stand on social issues. It draws on the work of R. Edward Freeman and others regarding stakeholder theory, which offers a way of examining the interests of all groups affected by an organization — not just shareholders but also customers, employees, governments, suppliers, and communities. We started by studying how distinct stakeholder groups view our corporate clients' positions on social issues. Here is what we learned.
Companies must consider values, not just shared value. Most companies prefer to prioritize their business interests in line with both fiduciary duty and the shared value approach to corporate responsibility, which connects business success with social good. This would suggest that companies should act only when there is a clear business case and an opportunity for direct action. For example, most would assume that it's easier and more effective for the CEO to cut a company's climate emissions than to take a stand on immigration. A CEO could be forgiven for thinking it's safest to only weigh in on political issues that affect operational and strategic goals, industry dynamics, or a company's regulatory and policy landscape.
But a company's exposure to a political issue is also determined by its values. Values are determined by the company's culture, mission, and voluntary commitments, along with the opinions and beliefs of a range of actors — not just customers but also employees, business partners, and civil society organizations.
We were surprised to find that when business interests and values conflict, values are the dominant variable. That's why, although focusing on core interests may seem sensible, reality shows it to be untenable. Tech companies, for example, had little to gain strategically by opposing the Trump administration's family separation policy. But Microsoft and Google found it impossible to remain silent in the face of employee demands for a response to what staff regarded as an assault on company values. The same dynamic may now complicate Google's plans to re-enter China's search market. Employee pressure can even drive significant turnover in senior leadership ranks, as happened recently at Nike, which earlier this year was sued for sexual discrimination by several former employees.
Employees are now a company's most powerful interest group. In many ways, corporate power seems to be high: Companies prioritize shareholder value; union membership rates are at an all-time low; employment contracts for some jobs include nondisclosure clauses as standard features; certain sectors of the workforce are moving toward gig economy jobs with diminishing hourly rates and no health care; other sectors are facing unemployment as jobs are automated. So why are leaders responding so readily when employees pressure them to demonstrate integrity? Workers are freely using the tools of this hyper-transparent era — including petitions and email leaks — to land punishing blows against corporate reputations and finances, in the process emerging as companies' most powerful interest group. At a time when the U.S. economy seems to be approaching full employment, employees have more influence over whether and how their leaders speak out.
Polarization heightens risk. Companies seem to face the greatest peril when an issue is politically polarizing to customers and has more to do with values than with long-term financial consequences. On Jan. 28, 2017, Uber cut congestion pricing to John F. Kennedy International Airport while New York taxi drivers were protesting President Trump's new immigration policy; although the move was a financial one on Uber's part, it was perceived as aligning the company with the "Muslim ban," leading to the #deleteUber hashtag and to hundreds of thousands of riders deleting their accounts. Keurig faced complaints when it pulled advertising from Sean Hannity's Fox News show. Delta drew outrage and lost tax breaks when it decided to end a travel discount for the National Rifle Association. Still, Target, after undergoing boycotts and petition drives for implementing a transgender bathroom policy in its stores, said it had suffered no material financial impact.
Companies certainly have tools to parse the views of their customers, but fretting over who is yelling the loudest on Twitter does not offer a firm ground for action. Basing decisions on corporate principles and employee values is a better approach than trying to navigate what is likely to be a broad spectrum of customer sentiment.
Your rhetoric has to be aligned with your dollars. Companies face heightened scrutiny over influence-peddling and corruption, which makes it much harder to decouple public rhetoric and private lobbying efforts. The Center for Political Accountability has called out companies on a range of issues, including contraceptive makers that indirectly fund political officials who aim to limit women's reproductive rights. C-suite hypocrisy is now a media focus, with funding for business associations a particularly vulnerable flank. Climate activists have long highlighted the gap between the oil and gas sector's softening rhetoric on climate change and the corporate funding for its trade group, the American Petroleum Institute, which has opposed numerous climate change policies.
Opportunities for direct action may be constrained. Companies are not governments, and their customers are not the electorate. So even when they want to take action, there are concrete limits on what businesses can achieve. Companies can accept or decline business, and they can tackle such issues as diversity and climate change in their own operations, but on pure policy matters like trade or immigration, there's only so much they can do.
Companies know this well, but they struggle to communicate the limits of their ability to drive systemic social change, which leaves them at risk of raising expectations they cannot fulfill. For example, an incident of discrimination by staff at a Starbucks in Philadelphia led to public outcry against the company, which soon stood accused of helping foster gentrification and systemic racism in the U.S. This was a discouraging development, given that the organization has long mounted efforts to drive collaborative action on race and immigration issues, including a pledge to hire 10,000 refugees.
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a - wave amplitude. The vertical distance from mean level to crest, measured in metres.
H - wave height. The vertical height from crest to trough, measured in metres. It is equal to twice the amplitude.
L - wave length. The horizontal distance from crest to crest, measured in metres.
T - wave period. For a moving wave, the duration of one cycle from one crest to the next crest, measured in seconds.
A wave in the ocean is a disturbance that travels through water, accompanied by a transfer of energy. When the wind blows across the ocean, it creates wind waves. Over time these build up and become larger, self-sustaining ocean waves that travel beyond the area of wind that created them. Wind waves are not self-sustaining and will die out when the wind stops.
'Sea' is a description of the wind waves raised by the wind in the immediate neighbourhood of the place of observation at the time of observation. 'Swell' is a description of the ocean waves that are not raised by the local wind.
What we call sea state is the effect that the local winds have on sea conditions – this is independent of travelling swell waves generated by winds outside of the local area. Sea state is related to the Beaufort scale which describes the state of the sea. The Beaufort wind force scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea. It was originally devised by an Irish Royal Navy officer, Francis Beaufort, in the early 19th century. In that time, naval officers made regular weather observations however without a standard scale, they were very subjective. The Beaufort scale assisted in standardizing these observations. The scale has been adjusted and added to over the past 200 years, and while some countries use forces up to seventeen, the World Meteorological Organization recognises thirteen classes, from zero to twelve. Part of the modern Beaufort Scale is shown in figure two.
Each Beaufort force number has expected wind speeds, wind wave heights and sea conditions associated with it. The Beaufort scale is very popular in the marine community as the condition of the sea is so important. While wave heights are given, their impact on various sized vessels depends on many other factors, such as wave period, additional swells and the depth of the water. Also, the larger waves need some distance over which to develop, giving very different wave heights for onshore or offshore winds near the coast. Because of this, a description of the sea surface is more beneficial to the mariner than just the wind wave heights alone. The World Meteorological Organization and MetService use the Douglas Sea Scale to define sea state. It was developed in the 1920s by Captain H.P. Douglas, and its purpose is to estimate the roughness of the sea (see figure three).
Combining the Beaufort Scale sea state images – what a mariner would expect the sea to look like – with the expected corresponding wind speeds and the Douglas Sea Scale (figure three), you get figure four.
Figure 4: Relationship between the Beaufort Scale and sea state description (right hand side bordered in red).
Figure four shows the relationship between the expected sea conditions and the sea state description. From this we can derive figure five (the sea state guide at MetService) which relates wind speed, sea state and the expected wave height.
Note that wind wave heights are significantly affected by local conditions, such as whether the wind is onshore or offshore and the fetch and its duration. New Zealand's mountainous terrain also has a large influence on the wind flow – it can vary significantly around the next headland or in the lee of the next set of hills. The wind flow, in turn, affects the local sea conditions. An offshore wind blowing from the land onto the sea is usually smooth close to shore but noticeably rougher further out because it takes a little distance for the wind to work up waves on the sea surface. It starts off generating small wavelets close to the land, then short steeper waves and then bigger less steep waves further out. On the other hand, onshore winds do not have this fetch limitation. Depending on the wind direction, the more sheltered areas of MetService forecast areas should not be as rough as exposed areas. When interpreting the sea state in a MetService forecast, the local conditions need to be taken into consideration.
Significant swell height: the average peak-to-trough height of the highest one third of the waves. This is what you'd generally 'eyeball' the wave height to be (see figure six).
The depth of the water also has an impact on swell characteristics. As waves move into shallow water, the waves begin to interact with the sea bed. The result of this friction is an increase in wave height: this process is known as shoaling. The increase in wave steepness continues until the wave breaks. MetService uses a variety of techniques to forecast swell waves. Nomograms are an effective graphical technique to estimate characteristic wave heights and periods. Bretschneider devised a nomogram in the mid-1900s, based on very large amounts of wave data, called the Bretschneider nomogram (see figure seven).
In figure seven, the vertical and horizontal axes display wind speed (knots) and fetch length (nautical miles) respectively, the white lines are wave period (seconds), the solid dark blue lines are wave height (feet) and the dashed blue lines show the duration of the wind within the fetch (hours). Once a mariner or forecaster has determined the wind speed, fetch length and wind duration, the wave height and period can be estimated. Example 1: Consider a wind of 30 knots blowing over a fetch of length 80 nautical miles for a duration of 12 hours. Using the Bretschneider nomogram, follow the 30 knot line across until you arrive at one of the constraints. In this case, you reach the fetch length constraint before you get to the time constraint. At the intersection of 30kt and 80nm, the significant wave is read off as approximately 10 feet/3 metres (yellow line) in height with a period of 7 seconds (orange line).
Figure 8: Example 1 Bretschneider nomogram.
Example 2: Consider a wind of 60 knots blowing over a fetch of length 600 nautical miles for a duration of 24 hours. Using the nomogram, follow the 60 knot line across until you arrive at one of the constraints. In this case, you reach the time constraint before you get to the fetch length constraint. At the intersection of 60kt and 24 hours, the significant wave is read off as approximately 45 feet/13.7 metres (yellow line) in height with a period of 15 seconds (orange line).
Figure 9: Example 2 Bretschneider nomogram.
At MetService we use various global wave models as swell guidance. The model with the greatest amount of data is created by the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). An example of this guidance is shown in figure ten.
Figure 10: MetService ECMWF swell guidance.
A large depression deepens east of the North Island while the country sits under a ridge of high pressure. Winds off the East Coast may be only 10 knots, so the sea is slight, but the deep depression generates large easterly swell waves that reach the shore.
A small depression moves rapidly over the lower South Island. Winds in Dunedin briefly rise to a northwesterly gale, so the sea is briefly very rough. However there is insufficient fetch and duration to generate large swell waves. As soon as the wind eases, the conditions improve.
It is just as possible to have both a significant sea state as well as swell. When we combine the wind waves and the swell waves this is what we call combined waves.
Here are examples of a coastal and recreational marine forecast that contain both sea state and swell forecasts.
MetService has a swell warning service arranged with particular regional councils around New Zealand coastlines. This is to cover such hazards as erosion, waterfront safety and infrastructure inundation. The warning criteria have been set by the individual councils and are different for each area; most have a threshold of around 3.5m in height, with some more sensitive thresholds set according to other meteorological conditions such as atmospheric pressure and wind strength. Although swell is strictly the determining factor, in practice it is combined waves (including all landward swells and the contribution of wind waves) that are used as the forecast parameter.


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5つ星のうち5.0Beautiful concertos! Wonderful performances; why aren't there more recordings of them?
From the opening of the Parry, the thought struck me and stuck with me all the way through, "Why hasn't anyone recorded this before?" If this is an example of Parry being "Brahms and water" then I think said water needs to be barreled and distributed to music schools around the world.
We as listeners need to approach every bit of unfamiliar music as we would new cuisines; without the accumulated prejudices of the critics of the last century, and actually LISTEN to the notes!
Taken in context, judged against anything from Britain of the same time or at least 90% of the music in Europe at the same time, Parry's Concerto stands up and deserves to be heard.
Yes, this isn't great music, but where is it written that we must turn aside from lesser lights in the musical firmament? There are times for a Beethoven Sonata, and there are times for the pure, bubbling joy of the opening of Stanford's Concerto. I'd buy this recording again for that moment alone: it never fails to lift my spirits. But even better is the rapturous, delicate, haunting Adagio, which, if not great music, makes me believe, while I'm hearing it, that music can hardly be more lovely. Stanford, not Brahms, gets a handful of stars for that.
The Parry Concerto is a somewhat lesser work, for me at least, though most prefer it. It is thoroughly enjoyable, full of energy and beauty.
Piers Lane, though gaining an audience through such recordings as this one is a mostly undiscovered wonder. If you haven't heard his Saint-Saens Etudes, you should. Martyn Brabbins and his Glasgow BBC Symphony Orchestra have this music completely in their hearts. They can be heard to equal, excellent effect on other releases in this ongoing Hyperion series.
I come back to this recording fairly often. It's when I need a breath after the weight and concentration of heavier fare. I enjoy it so much that I often listen to it more than once. Everything can't be and oughtn't to be unrelentingly, overwhelmingly magnificent. It can still be more than we have reason to expect. I believe that we should accept such gifts and be thankful.
Considering that Parry & Stanford were essentially starting from scratch when writing their concerti, it is surprising that these pieces are as good as they are. With virtually no symphonic or concerto tradition up which to build (unless you count John Field, dead since 1837), British composers were largely stumbling around in the dark in the 1880's and 1890's. Nonetheless, Parry & Stanford both managed to acquit themselves decently.
These are not earth-shattering works, by any means. It is no accident that they have been neglected for as long as they have, but both concerti is well-crafted (particulary Parry's) and are highly listenable pieces. There is not a great amount of originality on display --- one could mistake both of these as very early works of Brahms --- but I suppose it is to be expected, considering the circumstances.
Piers Lane does a fine job, although the orchestra seems a bit listless in its accompaniment. This is a nice enough CD, displaying what are in effect a couple of musical curios. Every now and then I will come across a relatively unknown composition that stuns me with its beauty & originality, but in general most of these unknown pieces leave little lasting impact. Enjoy these pretty musical confections for what they are.
The two concerti on this CD are heavily influenced by 19th century German composers -- Stanford's concerto stems from Schumann and Mendelssohn, while Parry's concerto stems from Brahms. Yet no one would mistake these two works for their influences. The Stanford concerto is light, easy-going, yet ultimately not terribly memorable (unlike Mendelssohn, who could be light but wonderfully delightful at the same time). The Parry concerto is more substantial; its musical language is somewhat like Brahms's (without the German master's impeccable sense of form) but it also points towards Elgar. It is a work that gets better and better as it progresses -- a rather rambling first movement gives way to a pensive second movement, then to a lively and well-structured finale.


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International Jazz Day this Sat.: Dozens of events all over D.C.
This Saturday marks the fifth annual International Jazz Day, a celebration of the spirit of jazz that focuses on its ability to unite people across the globe.
Each year the day has a different Global Host City, and this year that city is D.C. Dozens of jazz events will take place across the District's eight wards, uniting jazz enthusiasts and casual listeners alike for a day of celebration and fellowship.
In 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) named April 30 as International Jazz Day. UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and legendary pianist Herbie Hancock, who serves as UNESCO's ambassador for intercultural dialogue, have led Jazz Day to become a worldwide celebration.
Hancock is also chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which has an office in D.C., and he helped forge a partnership between the two entities. Together, the institute has put its formidable reputation in the jazz world behind UNESCO's mission to cultivate peace and facilitate dialogue among diverse cultures, while reaching audiences across continents.
International Jazz Day started in 2012, in select venues in Paris as well as a sunrise performance in New Orleans and a sunset performance in New York City. It has since expanded to include events in 195 countries across seven continents, including participation in Antarctica. The Global Host Cities have included Istanbul in 2013; Osaka, Japan, in 2014; and Paris in 2015. Each host city offered unique events, inaugural festivities featuring both local and international performers, and jazz event catered to citizens who might not otherwise have had easy access to the music.
This Saturday in the District, an opening ceremony at 9 a.m. in Dupont Circle will kick off with a drum ceremony featuring the saxophonist David Sanchez. Keynote speeches will be given by Bokova, Hancock, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and vocalist and United Nations FAO Goodwill Ambassador Dee Dee Bridgewater. The Duke Ellington High School Jazz Band will also perform. Live music will continue in the circle throughout the day, featuring sets from Crunk Funk Brass, the Nasar Abadey Quartet and others.
The day program offers a range of activities for audiences, including families with young children and young adults. Some of it reaches beyond any notion of typical jazz programming. Words, Beats & Life – a hip-hop-focused nonprofit – will host their third annual Fine Lines Paint Jam, featuring 100 artists designing a long canvas, a photo contest and free art tutorials. At the Petworth Recreation Center, Rochelle Rice will perform an interactive class educating attendees on the life of Latin jazz legend Tito Puente.
At 2 p.m., the Monk Institute will present "Jazz Expressions: Vocals & Dance" at the Kennedy Center. Performing artists will include Bridgewater, vocalist Al Jarreau, dancer and choreographer Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards and the Monk Institute's Performance Septet.
In Petworth, as well as Rice's performance at the recreation center, the Petworth Citizen & Reading Room will host "Mixology in the Jazz Age," a history lesson on the music and drinks of jazz culture during the Prohibition era. A question-and-answer session with famed bassist Christian McBride at Serendipity Jazz Coffeehouse, in Brookland, is sure to be educational and entertaining. Around the corner, the Jazz and Cultural Society will host an afternoon jam session.
The National Museum of American History will convene a roundtable discussion entitled "Jazz, Human Rights, and Cultural Diplomacy." Panelists will include Bokova, former French Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, Hancock, and the activist and South African trumpet master Hugh Masakela.
Shino pointed out that International Jazz Day has allowed UNESCO and the Monk Institute to forge new philanthropic and charitable partnerships. Jazz Day will present a Dupont Brass concert at So Others Might Eat (S.O.M.E.), an interfaith coalition that serves the poor and the homeless; this show will be open to S.O.M.E. clients only. And Thrive DC, an organization aimed at ending homelessness, will host a closed performance by Grammy-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves, accompanied by drummer Nasar Abadey, bassist James King and pianist Cyrus Chestnut.
"We're working with amazing people who want to do incredible things for the community. All the artists participating want to give back," Shino said.
International Jazz Day will also shine a spotlight on the many musicians in D.C. who are already making significant cultural contributions – both locally and abroad.
Veteran D.C. saxophonist, educator and organizer Davey Yarborough is among the day program's featured musicians. He is an instructor at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and built its jazz orchestra into an internationally recognized high school jazz ensemble. His Washington Jazz Arts Institute focuses on mentorship, instruction and jazz education for students.
Yarborough and his wife, vocalist Esther Williams, will be performing in Dupont Circle at 2 p.m. "Just in my lifetime, seeing jazz turn from illegitimate music to something that's respected internationally, it's an honor to be here at this time," he said.
The day will culminate in the International Jazz Day Global Concert, hosted at the White House by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. It will be broadcast on ABC, at 8 p.m. Performers will include Aretha Franklin, Sting, Diana Krall, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Buddy Guy, Hugh Masakela, Terrance Blanchard and Trombone Shorty.
Each year, International Jazz Day expands it scope, touching the hearts and lives of more people who at first glance may not seem to have much in common. It further proves the power of jazz to transform and transcend.
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Starting with Census 2010, the decennial census and annual American Community Survey (ACS) are integrally connected. This section is focused on topics concerning Census 2010/ACS data access and use, applications using these data and the integration and analysis of these data with other data. Census 2010 has its own focus page.
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide more frequently updated demographics for national and sub-national geography than provided by the decennial census program. The ACS collects and produces population and housing information every year instead of every ten years. ACS is integrally connected with Census 2010. This section is focused on topics concerning ACS data access and use, applications using these data and the integration and analysis of these data with other data.
• Create ACS-based profiles and reports with the API Gateway.
• Develop custom ACS data extract files with DEDE.
• View, query, rank, compare ACS data using interactive ranking tables.
• Create pattern maps with ACS data using the CV XE GIS.
• Use time-series ACS data with related projections (see below).
Use links in the table below to access ACS annual data.


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Macron 'Appalled' By Holocaust Victim's Murder In Paris
March 27, 2018 By Cnaan Liphshiz
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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech to police officers and gendarmes in the Gendarmerie headquarters on January 16, 2018 in Calais, France.
(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the suspected murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris, which he called "appalling" before vowing to fight anti-Semitism.
Macron made the comment on Twitter on Tuesday about the March 23 slaying of Mirelle Knoll, 85, whose torched body was found with 11 stab wounds inside her apartment.
Prosecutors on Monday indicted two defendants, including one of her neighbors, in connection with what is being tried as a murder with aggravated circumstances of a hate crime. They are also charged with robbery.
"I am deeply affected by the appalling crime committed against Mrs. Knoll. I reaffirm my resolute determination to fight against anti-Semitism," Macron wrote.
Hundreds of French Jews and non-Jews are scheduled to attend a silent march in her memory Wednesday in Paris.
Sammy Ghozlan, founder of the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA, on Tuesday told JTA that "authorities on the national level acted swiftly and correctly" in dealing with the investigation. It was "a lesson learnt" from the handling of the slaying of another Jewish woman, Sarah Halimi, last year, he said.
In April, BNVCA and the CRIF federation of French Jewish communities were among several French Jewish organizations that protested the omission of hate crime charges from the draft indictment of a Muslim man who confessed to killing Halimi, a 66-year-old physician, in her apartment.
The defendant, Kobili Traore, was heard calling Halimi, his neighbor, "a demon." Halimi's daughter said he had called the daughter a "dirty Jew" two years before he pummeled her mother in her apartment for over 30 minutes and threw Sarah Halimi to her death from her three-story home.
CRIF called the omission of hate crime charges a "cover-up." They were finally included in a revised indictment following weeks of vocal lobbying by Jewish groups.
The controversy was among several similar cases in recent years, including a case last month in which a judge scrapped hate crime charges from the indictment of Arab youths who allegedly assaulted a Jewish teenager and took his kippah.


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Road rage is causing a small, but increasing percentage of deaths on U.S. roadways, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Road rage was linked to 467 fatal crashes in 2015, up 500 percent from the 80 recorded in 2006. The number of firearms used during a road rage more than doubled between 2014 and 2016 to 620 incidents. Don't think you will never be confronted by an irrationally enraged driver as you drive around your city. Three fatal local incidents in the past two months show that no one is completely safe.
In a chilling road rage incident in Dallas in September, a 58-year-old U.S. Postal Service employee, Tony Mosby, was fatally shot by Donnie Ferrell, 26. The Dallas News quoted an assistant U.S. attorney, who said of the shooter, since sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, "He wanted to show off for his girlfriend and his cousins." The prosecutor said 96 percent of road-rage incidents are committed by men in their 20s, like Ferrell.
In Dallas in August, a five-months-pregnant woman driver almost sideswiped a motorcyclist. When she got out of her car to check for any damage, the rider confronted her, used foul language, threatened to kill her and spit in her face. She pushed him away, and he hit her in the face and broke her jaw in two places.
Also in August, in Garland, Francisco Pasillas, 33, driving with his wife on Centerville Road, had a confrontation with another driver because they were cutting each other off. The other driver shot at Pasillas' car and killed him.
Writing in Psychology Today, Dr. Joni Johnston advises drivers to keep their tempers in check to avoid becoming a victim of road rage or when they encounter a hostile driver. "Certain traffic conditions, such as overcrowding on the highway, set the stage for conflict between drivers." Don't engage in aggressive driving, such as speeding, tailgating, and blocking someone from merging into your lane because it annoys you. "We don't know what we're getting into if we angrily confront a distracted or aggressive driver," she writes. "Maybe it'll be an apologetic out-of-towner whose erratic driving is because she's lost. But maybe we'll meet a loose cannon with a short fuse who's just hankering for a fight."
Stay relaxed and keep your cool, even when you're delayed in a traffic jam and worried about making it to work on time. After all, "That 'bozo' or 'moron'" who endangered you by screeching "to a halt at the traffic light could be a man trying to get his laboring wife to the hospital for the birth of their child."
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Sir, – As one of the many thousands of Irish nationalists who voted for the Belfast Agreement in 1998, I didn't realise that I was voting for an end to what Fintan O'Toole describes as "19th-century Irish nationalism".
This is what he claims in his recent article "The long 19th century is over" (Opinion & Analysis, June 30th 2018). In his usual sweeping style, he says that this old nationalism "died formally and legally in 1998, when Irish people voted overwhelmingly to change articles two and three of the Constitution".
While it is true that articles two and three were changed, the traditional nationalist objective (of the 19th century or other) for an independent united Ireland was not. The Belfast Agreement simply changed the manner in which this objective could be achieved – by seeking majority consent for it in the six counties.
He also characterises Irish nationalism as a largely abstract ideology, divorced from the historical circumstances which gave rise to it, with his most egregious claim being that its main ideological force was "Anglophobia".
This ignores the concrete conditions of Irish life, which for centuries was under the political and economic strangle-hold of successive British administrations.


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Q: How will I throw error in calculator using javascript? custom error not default errors?using exceptional handling When user type wrong input than the custom error will generate and
    show error (you have typed wrong input)..I have create default error
    but not custom error.I need. I need custom error.Anyone help me

var Scrn = document.querySelector('#screen');
var maibox = document.querySelector('.calBox');
var exp = '';
var errro_btn = document.querySelector('#error_screen');
var close = document.querySelector('#close')

maibox.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
  let vlu = e.target.value;

  if (vlu) {
    if (vlu != 'undefined') {
      if (vlu == '=') {
        try {

          exp = eval(exp)
          Scrn.innerHTML = exp
        } catch (error) {

          errro_btn.innerHTML += error.message
          errro_btn.style.display = "block"

        }
      } else if (vlu == 'ac') {
        Scrn.innerHTML = '0'
        exp = ''
      } else if (vlu == 'OFF') {
        Scrn.innerHTML = ''
        exp = ''
      } else if (vlu == 'undefined') {
        exp = '='
        Scrn.innerHTML = '0'
      } else if (vlu == '√') {
        exp = Math.sqrt(exp)
        Scrn.innerHTML += vlu
      } else if (vlu == '^') {
        exp = Math.pow(exp)
        Scrn.innerHTML = vlu
      } else if (vlu == 'sin') {
        exp = Math.sin(exp)
        Scrn.innerHTML = vlu
      } else if (vlu == 'cos') {
        exp = Math.cos(exp)
        Scrn.innerHTML = vlu
      } else if (vlu == 'tan') {
        exp = Math.tan(exp)
        Scrn.innerHTML = vlu
      } else {

        exp += vlu
        Scrn.innerHTML = exp
      }
    }
  }
})

errro_btn.addEventListener('click', (e) => {

  if (e.target.id === "close") {
    errro_btn.style.display = "none";
  }
})
.calBox{
  position: relative;
  width: 400px;
  padding: 20px;
  margin: 100px auto;
  background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #767676,#767676,#767676, #aaa);
  border: 1px solid #aaa;
  box-shadow: 0 0 3px 4px #8e8888 ;
}
span{
  position: relative;
  display: block;
  width: 380px;
  height: 38px;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  background: #bdcbbd;
  margin-bottom: 30px;
  margin-top: 4px;
  font-size: 34px;
}
#error_screen{
  position: relative;
  display: none;
  width: 380px;
  height: 34px;
  color: #D8000C;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  background: #FFBABA;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  margin-top: 0px;
  font-size: 16px;
}

#close{
  padding:1px 5px 4px;
  font-size: 15px;
  box-shadow: none;
  color: #ffbaba;
  float: right;
  border: none;
  margin: 0;
  border-radius: 50%;
  background: #D8000C;
}
#close:focus{
  outline: none;
}

.buttons{
  margin-top: 40px;
}
#ac{
  background: #4D8C50;
  float: right;
  padding: 10px 18px !important;
}
#oFF{
  padding: 10px 12px !important;
  background: #4D8C50;
}
#ans{
  background: #4D8C50;
}
button{
  padding: 10px 22px;
  margin: 10px;
  font-size: 20px;
  box-shadow: 0 0 8px 2px #9c9a9a;
  background: #454545;
  color: #fff;
  border: none;
  border-radius: 6px;
}

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    <button id="close">x</button>

  <button id="7" value='7'>7</button>
  <button id="8" value='8'>8</button>
  <button id="9" value='9'>9</button>
  <button id="ac" value='ac'>ac</button>
  <button id="oFF" value='OFF'>OFF</button>
  <button id="4" value='4'>4</button>
  <button id="5" value='5'>5</button>
  <button id="6" value='6'>6</button>
  <button id="del" value='del'>del</button>
  <button id="1" value='1'>1</button>
  <button id="2" value='2'>2</button>
  <button id="3" value='3'>3</button>
  <button id="+" value='+'>+</button>
  <button id="/" value='/'>/</button>
  <button id="0" value='0'>0</button>
  <button id="*" value='*'>x</button>
  <button id="." value='.'>.</button>
  <button id="-" value='-'>-</button>
  <button id="√" value='√'>√</button>

  <button id="sin" value='sin'>sin</button>
  <button id="cos" value='cos'>cos</button>
  <button id="tan" value='tan'>tan</button>
  <button id="ans" value='='>=</button>

A: You just need to replace error.message by your custom message.
errro_btn.innerHTML+= error.message

Becomes :
errro_btn.innerHTML += "Your custom message"

A: Your current code is:
errro_btn.innerHTML+= error.message

Change this to:
errro_btn.innerHTML+= "Your custom error message here"

Below is working code snippet:

var Scrn =document.querySelector('#screen');
var maibox = document.querySelector('.calBox');
var exp = '';
var errro_btn = document.querySelector('#error_screen');
var close = document.querySelector('#close')

maibox.addEventListener('click',(e)=>{
 let vlu = e.target.value;

 if (vlu) {
  if (vlu != 'undefined'){
   if (vlu == '=') {
    try{

     exp=eval(exp)
     Scrn.innerHTML=exp
    }
    catch(error){

     errro_btn.innerHTML+= "Your custom error message"
     errro_btn.style.display="block"

    }
   }
   else if(vlu=='ac'){
    Scrn.innerHTML='0'
    exp=''
   }
   else if(vlu=='OFF'){
    Scrn.innerHTML=''
    exp=''
   }
   else if (vlu=='undefined'){
    exp='='
    Scrn.innerHTML='0'
   }
   else if(vlu=='√'){
    exp=Math.sqrt(exp)
    Scrn.innerHTML+=vlu
   }
   else if(vlu=='^'){
    exp=Math.pow(exp)
    Scrn.innerHTML=vlu
   }
   else if(vlu=='sin'){
    exp=Math.sin(exp)
    Scrn.innerHTML=vlu
   }
   else if(vlu=='cos'){
    exp=Math.cos(exp)
    Scrn.innerHTML=vlu
   }
   else if(vlu=='tan'){
    exp=Math.tan(exp)
    Scrn.innerHTML=vlu
   }
   else{

    exp+=vlu
    Scrn.innerHTML=exp
   }
  }
 }
})

errro_btn.addEventListener('click', (e)=>{

 if (e.target.id=== "close") {
        errro_btn.style.display = "none";
    }
})
.calBox{
 position: relative;
 width: 400px;
 padding: 20px;
 margin: 100px auto;
 background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #767676,#767676,#767676, #aaa);
 border: 1px solid #aaa;
 box-shadow: 0 0 3px 4px #8e8888 ;
}
span{
 position: relative;
 display: block;
 width: 380px;
 height: 38px;
 padding: 5px 10px;
 background: #bdcbbd;
 margin-bottom: 30px;
 margin-top: 4px;
 font-size: 34px;
}
#error_screen{
 position: relative;
 display: none;
 width: 380px;
 height: 34px;
 color: #D8000C;
 padding: 5px 10px;
 background: #FFBABA;
 margin-bottom: 10px;
 margin-top: 0px;
 font-size: 16px;
}

#close{
 padding:1px 5px 4px;
    font-size: 15px;
    box-shadow: none;
    color: #ffbaba;
    float: right;
    border: none;
    margin: 0;
    border-radius: 50%;
    background: #D8000C;
}
#close:focus{

 outline: none;

}
.buttons{
 margin-top: 40px;
}
#ac{
 background: #4D8C50;
 float: right;
 padding: 10px 18px !important;
}
#oFF{

 padding: 10px 12px !important;
 background: #4D8C50;

}
#ans{
 background: #4D8C50;
}
button{
 padding: 10px 22px;
 margin: 10px;
 font-size: 20px;
 box-shadow: 0 0 8px 2px #9c9a9a;
 background: #454545;
 color: #fff;
 border: none;
 border-radius: 6px;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>

 <title>calculator</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">

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   <button id="close">x</button>

  <button id="7" value='7'>7</button>
  <button id="8" value='8'>8</button>
  <button id="9" value='9'>9</button>
  <button id="ac" value='ac'>ac</button>
  <button id="oFF" value='OFF'>OFF</button>
  <button id="4" value='4'>4</button>
  <button id="5" value='5'>5</button>
  <button id="6" value='6'>6</button>
  <button id="del" value='del'>del</button>
  <button id="1" value='1'>1</button>
  <button id="2" value='2'>2</button>
  <button id="3" value='3'>3</button>
  <button id="+" value='+'>+</button>
  <button id="/" value='/'>/</button>
  <button id="0" value='0'>0</button>
  <button id="*" value='*'>x</button>
  <button id="." value='.'>.</button>
  <button id="-" value='-'>-</button>
  <button id="√" value='√'>√</button>

  <button id="sin" value='sin'>sin</button>
  <button id="cos" value='cos'>cos</button>
  <button id="tan" value='tan'>tan</button>
  <button id="ans" value='='>=</button>

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