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Covasna es un distrito (judet) de Rumanía, en la región de Transilvania. Su capital es la ciudad de Sfântu Gheorghe.

Fronteras
 Distritos de Vrancea y Bacău al este.
 Distrito de Braşov al oeste.
 Distrito de Harghita al norte.
 Distrito de Buzău al sur.

Demografía
En 2002, Covasna tenía una población de 222.449 habitantes con una densidad de población de 60 hab/km².
 Húngaros: 73,79% (164.158 habs.)
 Rumanos: 23,28% (51.790 habs.)
 Gitanos: 2,68% (5.973 habs.)

Geografía
El distrito de Covasna tiene una superficie total de 3710 km².
La principal parte del relieve consiste del grupo de los Cárpatos del este. La mayoría de los lugares se encuentran en valles y depresiones localizados a lo largo de los diferentes ríos que cruzan el distrito. El principal río es el Olt, en cuyas orillas se encuentra la ciudad de Sfântu Gheorghe.

Economía
El distrito de Covasna ha sido uno de los distritos preferidos para las inversiones extranjeras, principalmente por los inversionistas húngaros, debido al perfil de la población.
Las industrias predominantes en el distrito son:
 Industria maderera.
 Industria textil.
 De componentes eléctricos.
 Industria alimentaria y de bebida.

Turismo
Los principales destinos turísticos del distrito son:
 La ciudad de Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy).
 Las Iglesias fortificadas de Transilvania.
 Los centros turísticos en las montañas colindantes de:
 Covasna (Kovászva).
 Balvanyos (Bálványos).
 Malnaş-Băi (Málnásfürdő).
 Vâlcele (Előpatak).
 Şugaş-Băi (Sugásfürdő).
 Baile Fortyogo (Fortyogó).
 Biborţeni (Bibarcfalva).
 Ozunca-Bai (Uzonkafürdő).
 Las montañas:
 Montañas de Baraolt.
 Montañas de Bodoc.
 Montañas de Nemira.
 Montañas de Întorsura Buzaului.

Divisiones administrativas
El distrito tiene 2 municipios, 3 ciudades y 39 comunas.

Municipios
 Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy)
 Târgu Secuiesc (Kézdivásárhely)

Ciudades
 Covasna (Kovászna)
 Baraolt (Barót)
 Întorsura Buzăului (Bozdaforduló)

Comunas

Referencias

Enlaces externos

www.covasna.ro – sitio de Covasna

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There are 19 Buckinghamshire Wedding Car suppliers from which to choose. Overall, they have an average rating of 5.0 out of 5. Couples usually enquire with 6 vendors in this category and books 10 months out from their wedding date, typically after a Marriage Celebrant and before a Videographer. Wedding Car suppliers charge between £700 and £700, averaging at £700. Given UK weddings typically cost £21,585, this means UK couples spend % of their wedding budget on Wedding Car.
We offer quality vintage, classic and modern wedding cars complete with chauffeurs and cover a large area from our base near Milton Keynes.
We have extensive experience in wedding car hire and aim to deliver only the very best service for your special day.
Our brand new Cheshire 4×4 hire office is now open. Offering quality 4×4 car rental in Chester.
We supply transport for all types of weddings from small private parties to spectacular society functions and ensure the same high level of service.
Elegant Cars provide a very special car for your wedding day, furnished with ribbons and flowers and complete with a courteous and helpful uniformed chauffeur.
We have everything from traditional bridal cars to the most modern supercar for the groom.
We are a small family run company expanding quickly in the market today.
We understand the importance of your event and we pride ourselves on providing a personal, professional service.
We are proud to be members of the "National Association of wedding car professionals" and the chosen supplier of wedding transport.


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namespace Microsoft.Test.Taupo.OData.Common
{
    using Microsoft.OData.Core;
    using Microsoft.Test.Taupo.OData.Contracts;

    /// <summary>
    /// Configuration settings for a test.
    /// </summary>
    public class TestConfiguration
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Constructor.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="format">The format used for the test.</param>
        /// <param name="version">The OData protocol version to be used for the payload.</param>
        /// <param name="request">True if the test is reading a request. Otherwise false if it's reading a response.</param>
        public TestConfiguration(ODataFormat format, ODataVersion version, bool request, TestODataBehaviorKind behaviorKind)
        {
            this.Format = format;
            this.Version = version;
            this.IsRequest = request;
            this.RunBehaviorKind = behaviorKind;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The format used for the test.
        /// </summary>
        public ODataFormat Format { get; protected set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The version of the protocol used in the test.
        /// </summary>
        public ODataVersion Version { get; protected set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// True if the test is for a request. Otherwise false if it's for a response.
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsRequest { get; protected set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The behavior to use when running the test.
        /// </summary>
        public TestODataBehaviorKind RunBehaviorKind { get; private set; }
    }
}

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Tora Sushi is located within our Westminster club. Sit at our sushi bar or order from any table in the club. Fresh rolls and more served daily.
Watch beautiful girls dancing on our main stage and 2 sub-stages so you can have the best view in the house from any seat you choose. All stages are beautifully lit and have perimeter seating for an up close and personal experience.


Taurus is proud to present the curvaceous Vadour d'ou Egg Boiler. The Vadour d'ou has a beautiful stainless steel outer housing and stainless steel heating plate. It has an On/Off switch and double layer for maximum usage and a water measuring cup included.


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I woke up bright and early to shop the sales but could not decide if I should indulge in winter stuff now or splurge on spring in a few months. But you know what they say, a bird in the hand is….


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Letter, Loretta Roach, May 12, 1993.
Letter contains information regarding the state of South Boston High School one week after closing due to a race fight.
Letter, Boston School Committee, February 18, 1992.
Background of activities for beginning of school year.


The bioreactivity or susceptibility of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to microbial degradation in streams and rivers is of critical importance to global change studies, but a comprehensive understanding of DOM bioreactivity has been elusive due, in part, to the stunningly diverse assemblages of organic molecules within DOM. We approach this problem by employing a range of techniques to characterize DOM as it flows through biofilm reactors: dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations, excitation emission matrix spectroscopy (EEMs), and ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry.
The EEMs and mass spectral data were analyzed using a combination of multivariate statistical approaches. We found that 45% of stream water DOC was biodegraded by microorganisms, including 31–45% of the humic DOC. This bioreactive DOM separated into two different groups: (1) H/C centered at 1.5 with O/C 0.1–0.5 or (2) low H/C of 0.5–1.0 spanning O/C 0.2–0.7 that were positively correlated (Spearman ranking) with chromophoric and fluorescent DOM (CDOM and FDOM, respectively). DOM that was more recalcitrant and resistant to microbial degradation aligned tightly in the center of the van Krevelen space (H/C 1.0–1.5, O/C 0.25–0.6) and negatively correlated (Spearman ranking) with CDOM and FDOM. These findings were supported further by principal component analysis and 2-D correlation analysis of the relative magnitudes of the mass spectral peaks assigned to molecular formulas.
This study demonstrates that our approach of processing stream water through bioreactors followed by EEMs and FTICR-MS analyses, in combination with multivariate statistical analysis, allows for precise, robust characterization of compound bioreactivity and associated molecular level composition.


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We employ a small group of professional, highly trained and friendly staff who are able to help serve food to your guests and attend to their needs throughout your function allowing you to focus on your guests. Don't leave your engagement party catering to chance, trust Talapicious Events Catering and we'll make sure you serve the best food possible to your family and friends at your engagement party.
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Bird flu vaccine for poultry headed for 'total failure'
An outbreak of bird flu at a Hong Kong poultry farm is raising concerns as some of the birds that died had been vaccinated against the virus. That's an alarming sign that the vaccine may be losing its potency as new strains arise.
Microbiologists at the University of Hong Kong say the diseased chickens had only one quarter of the antibodies they found in vaccinated birds back in 2001. And one top scientist in Hong Kong says the vaccine appears headed for total failure.
"I'm disappointed because Hong Kong has done so well since this outbreak started," Peter Cordingley, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, told Time. "But this is a very versatile virus. It's on tractor wheels and in wild birds. It may be found on a farmer's boots. We've seen this virus embedded right across Asia."
Apparently there's no new vaccine to take the place of the old vaccine, and that raises the risk of a human epidemic.
- read the report from Time
ALSO: Seattle-based PATH is investing $3 million in a pandemic vaccine program being advanced by Lentigen. Report
GSK's Shingrix has only tapped part of a huge market: exec
GSK's Shingrix has generated blockbuster sales early in the launch, but there's a lot of remaining opportunity, an exec said at JPM.
Merck snags FDA approval for Ebola vaccine following EU nod
Quickly after Merck's world-first Ebola vaccine approval in Europe, U.S. authorities licensed the shot.
by Eric Sagonowsky Dec 20, 2019 8:07am
J&J deploys 200K Ebola vaccine doses to fortify Rwanda's border
In an effort to stop an Ebola outbreak that has claimed 2,200 lives at the Rwanda border, J&J is shipping 200,000 doses of its vaccine to the country.
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Come celebrate the lingerie trends of the coming season (just before NYFW- and yeah, Valentine's Day!) with Faith Bowman of Sassy Ethnic Bohemian in February 10th, 2015 at premier lingerie boutique Intimacy on 5th Avenue.
Enjoy sparkling wine and savory treats as well as handmade goodies from SEB Bakery as you shop for lingerie and fragrance from Agent Provocateur, Aubade, Chantelle, and Simone Perele and get $20 off your purchase!
And? Jacqueline Ranieri of Shop Jacqueline Rose will be on hand to raffle off a piece from her collection! Each purchase gets you a chance to win.
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Q: Powering the Arcology great works I just finished my first ever Arcology great works.
But it seems to need power, which makes perfectly good sence.
How does the Arcology get its power demand met?

A: You need surplus power in a city in the same cluster as the Arcology. The power is transferred automatically.
You may need more than the exact amount of surplus power. Power transfer is not 100% efficient.

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12 of the best-produced recordings to test your speakers
By Mary Stone published 27 April 21
"The recording is not what one hears, but what one must make others hear" – George Martin
(Image credit: The Beach Boys)
Great production can often seem like a dark art. It can involve technical prowess, sculpting instruments into sonic bubbles of EQ, and it can also veer into mystical shamanism, gently coaxing out performances while unorthodox mic positions abound.
Does a great sounding album need unearthly sound effects? Or long, meandering takes captured live? And do they always have to be over budget?
Besides long hours of hard work, we consistently find that the best-sounding albums happen when the recording studio is used as another tool to capture and communicate an artist's vision.
There are far too many excellent examples to cover in one list, but we've included groundbreakers, some gleaming sound-check classics (consider this your Steely Dan disclaimer), and, hopefully, a few you may not have considered as studio masterworks before. Let us try to persuade you otherwise.
Nils Frahm interview: "When I like something I want to know why; I want to understand the principle"
Spilt Milk by Jellyfish (1993)
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In the early 90s, the West Coast pop-rock group Jellyfish had a short but eventful existence, managing to cram what should by rights be a decades-long creative arc into just two blistering albums. Spilt Milk is the second and considered the band's masterwork, though we recommend also giving their breezier debut Bellybutton a spin.
Combining intricate harmonies, decadent orchestration and sunshine melodies, Spilt Milk was a failure commercially in part due to its unashamed craftsmanship at a time when grunge authenticity was coming to the fore.
Indeed the album is sometimes even accused of committing the cardinal sin of being 'overproduced'. It bursts with late-stage grandiosity and wears its influences on its sleeve, from opener Hush – a Pet Sounds lullaby with a Day in the Life warped orchestral line – to the bombastic Queen-style romp of Joining a Fanclub including a left-field nod to Roy Wood in the sparkling saxophones lurking in the background of the searing guitar.
But this is much more than an exercise in pomp and pastiche. Producer Albhy Galuten (famed for his work on Saturday Night Fever and creating the first commercial drum loop) carefully captured the full-bodied tones of every single instrument – and there are a lot of them – taking days to perfect each one.
The album's title was chosen in reference to it being both over budget and behind schedule (a recurring theme in this list), as the Spilt Milk sessions dragged on for six months, while the band agonised over intricate arrangements, retakes and tweaking.
The result is daring excess laced with irony and levity, as sudden shifts and pushy drums make way for bursts of vocal chorus. It's an overload of ideas and sounds that should be in competition with each other but instead delight.
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The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd (1973)
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A fair bit of cliche surrounds Dark Side Of The Moon and Alan Parsons' legendary quadraphonic mix. But Pink Floyd's landmark concept album, blending psychedelic rock, spoken word and sound effects, remains a remarkable piece of work that has had an inescapable influence on the music creation and production industry.
Having already stretched technical limitations in their previous two albums, Pink Floyd spent nine months of 1972 at Abbey Road Studios using its state-of-the-art equipment both to capture a musical framework of extended, live in-studio jams and to create the psychological sonic palette that helped unify the album and serve its theme of a descent into madness.
From the eerie layering of interview tapes and that heavily sculpted kick drum heartbeat opening the album on Speak To Me, to the rhythmic cash sequence at the start of Money – achieved by painstakingly splicing together Roger Waters' cash register recordings into a loop 20 feet long, that had to be slung around microphone stands – Dark Side of the Moon continues to remind musicians just how versatile, expressive and illustrative the studio can be.
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Reach by Jacky Terrasson (1995)
(Image credit: Jacky Terrasson)
For Reach, Jacky Terrasson's acoustic jazz piano trio was recorded by Mark Levinson (yes, that Mark Levinson) in close quarters, and that's exactly what it sounds like: a piano trio in a small room.
The album was recorded in 1995, at the end of a six-month tour. Terrasson, drummer Leon Parker and bassist Ugonna Okegwo played in the same space, with no partitions, and every accent and offbeat tempo shift reflects the intuitive interaction of players who appear to anticipate one another's every move.
Levinson used a two-microphone recording technique capturing tracks in single takes. The spontaneous quality of the music is enhanced by the open, airy atmosphere; nothing is close mic'd, and no compression was used.
The dynamic range and subtlety can be a challenge both for your speakers and your ears, but it's one that pays dividends. Listening to Parker's drums' candid, minimalist sound is particularly revealing; the timbre of each hit shimmers and rings with incredible aural nuance.
Find Reach by Jacky Terrasson on Amazon
Toto IV by Toto (1982)
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It should come as no surprise that a band made up of session musicians would be capable of creating a great sound. In 1982, though, Toto were struggling to replicate the commercial success of their debut album and increasingly under fire from cynical critics who mocked them for seeming sterile and pre-fabricated.
Instead of trying to chase acclaim, the band dug their heels in, bringing in even more studio musicians to create a polished, multi-layered record that gave them two of their most successful singles – Rosanna and Africa – and garnered six Grammys, including Producer of the Year for the band.
It's clear that every performer on Toto IV has amazing mastery of their own dynamics; for such an unapologetically pop record, there's an astonishingly full-sounding acoustic range and lack of compression. But the band also experimented with how technology could help to enhance their vision, and throughout the long recording process they lived in a Winnebago in the studio's car park, tinkering day and night.
To cram the complicated arrangements onto 24-track machines, engineer Al Schmitt used three separate recorders simultaneously with one track of each machine running SMPTE time code to keep everything in sync. In a technique borrowed from Paul Simon, after each track was finished, the master would be copied and mixed down to continue working with for over-dubs to maintain the sonic integrity of the first generation of tapes.
When it came to mixing, there were still too many tracks to fit on the sound desk. So mix engineer Greg Ladanyi worked in sections, painstakingly cutting verses and choruses together as he went along, with the band lined up to take on fader duties –and the process repeated until absolutely perfect.
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Never Too Far by Dianne Reeves (1989)
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Usually classified as adult contemporary, with its late 80s/early 90s snare and sizzling reverb tails, Never Too Far boasts a tremendous sonic variety of African and Latin influences framed by Reeves' powerful, virtuosic voice and backed by a band of jazz luminaries.
Producer George Duke, who played keys with Frank Zappa and contributed synths and sequencing to Michel Jackson's Off the Wall, imbues Never Too Far with an expressive, electric element, from the bluesy keyboards in Come In to the bouncy Synclavier in Fumilayo, gently folded into the mix like cream.
Meanwhile, on songs such as Fumilayo and Eyes on the Prize, fusions of call-and-response and funk, Duke showcases his talent for combining complex rhythmic textures as interlocked beats and hooks skip together with clarity and ease.
With so many competing styles, it's the quality of the production and Reeves's vocal that makes the whole record adhere. Her voice is incredibly present with a naturally open sound that's often pushed to the extremities of her range and, as a result, Never Too Far is full of expertly captured delicate moments of vulnerability.
Find Never Too Far by Dianne Reeves on Amazon
Aja by Steely Dan (1977)
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Often accused of being peddlers of yacht rock, Steely Dan are notorious for their obsessive studio process, strictly running their own sessions with military precision.
This attention to detail garnered a clutch of Grammys for their long-time engineer Roger Nichols and producer Gary Katz, as well as the devotion of live sound engineers who rely on their brand of crisp, tightly honed funk to check their rigs are all in working order.
Their reputation for pathological rigour is well earned. On Aja, their fourth and most successful album, the band spent a year-and-a-half in the studio, remixing the album 13 times in the process and enlisting more than 40 session musicians with 19 different guitarists brought in to play versions of the guitar solo on Peg.
But to dismiss Steely Dan as sounding 'clinical' would be to deprive yourself of some of the most expert production ever committed to tape. Yes, there's the perfect tiptoeing bass intro to Black Cow and cut-glass high-hats, but Aja is also deeply idiosyncratic, full of swerves and disorienting sounds, such as the minute-long drum solo that closes the title track performed by the legendary Steve Gadd, cloaked in otherworldly synthesizers and horns.
In 2010, Aja was added to the United States National Recording Registry for its artistic, historical and cultural significance. Even four decades after its release, it is one of the finest recordings ever made, transcending technology, taste and trend.
Find Aja by Steely Dan on Amazon
Vespertine by Björk (2001)
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As a producer, Björk is no stranger to constructing whole sonic universes. While she may have more groundbreaking and avant-garde albums, 2001's Vespertine – her first to be recorded entirely on Pro-Tools – demonstrates the Icelandic artist's mastery of complex textures. She invents a form of homespun electronica in which the interplay between synthetic and natural sounds forms an architecture of introverted chamber music.
For three years before making the album, Björk recorded noises around her home – from the shuffling deck of cards heard on Hidden Place, to feet in fresh snow on Aurora – and magnified them to create 'microbeats'. Sounds were chosen that would maintain sonic integrity even when downloaded as an mp3, and most tracks contained 30 to 40 of these microbeats combined together in a process she described as "crocheting a huge blanket with a tiny needle".
In an album where electronic sounds are the norm, traces of the analogue world – be it static and glitches on Cocoon, the warm harmonics of harpist Zeena Parkins or Björk's own vocals whispered at close proximity to the mic – provide welcome acoustic interjections with a sense of ecstatic domesticity and comfort in an icy landscape.
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Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes (1969)
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Fair to say 1968 was a difficult year for Isaac Hayes. After a decade at Stax Records as a session musician, producer and songwriter of hits including Soul Man and B-A-B-Y, he had finally released his debut album as a solo artist and it bombed.
Stax itself was in a tumult: the Memphis label lost both its biggest star Otis Redding and four members of its house band in a plane crash the year prior. Oh, and its distribution deal with Atlantic had expired contentiously, resulting in the loss of its masters.
Vice President Al Bell's solution? To record a new back catalogue ASAP. He demanded 27 new albums by mid-1969 and called upon Hayes to quickly turn out a follow-up to his flop. Hayes reluctantly agreed with the caveat of having complete creative control. This auteurism resulted in four tracks luxuriating out over 45 minutes, blending pristine production with an opulence-laced rawness that set a precedent other artists scrambled to replicate.
Hayes played Hammond and sang the vocals live while simultaneously conducting the newly reformed Bar Keys, laying down his performance as single takes with the process described by co-producer Marvell Thomas as: "Play whatever you want to play and have a good time doing it."
That freedom of expression extended into post-production. The 12-minute extended remake of Burt Bacharach's Walk On By was sweetened by string overdubs, recorded separately in Detroit to expedite the process, that crescendo and collapse into Michael Toles's slinky, psychedelic guitar building into a frenzied finale over six intense minutes.
For all its excesses, Hot Buttered Soul remains a tight, cogent, honest and intimate album with artistry infiltrating every part of the recording process.
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Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (1977)
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It's a wonder that Fleetwood Mac managed to create anything at all during their recording sessions for Rumours, in the face of crumbling interpersonal relationships and hedonistic drug use. Even more remarkable is that the record became their most commercially successful album, renowned for its sonic clarity and harmonic sweetness.
Despite the soap opera behind the scenes, in the studio the band were scrupulous when it came to detail, with Lindsey Buckingham re-stringing his guitar every 20 minutes to maintain the crispness of tone while recording Never Go Back Again, and Christine McVie's Songbird being tracked during an all-night session at Zellerbach Auditorium to achieve an authentic concert hall ambience.
Songs were written by the individual members, without collaboration, the only exception being The Chain which was cobbled together from four different tracks. It was nearly left off the album before being resurrected after Buckingham asked for it to be spliced with blank tape to add the iconic kick drum of the verse.
The radio-friendly sound producers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut achieved was a result of arduous 16-hour days and an element of chance. For the first week, they struggled to get any sound out of the API console. Caillat said: " Everything sounded like a miniature person was playing these miniature instruments, and we were just pulling our hair out.
"[We] tried everything to make the sound bigger. We even taped two kick drums together out of frustration... Finally, I got pissed off. I said, 'Goddamn it, what the hell's going on here?' And I literally just started turning knobs, and within about five minutes of doing this on a track we were trying to cut, it was sounding great."
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen by Georg Solti (1965)
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There are more than a few reasons you might not fancy listening to a bit of Wagner. But, as the humorist Bill Nye quipped: "Wagner's music is better than it sounds". And Decca's recording of Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by the uncompromising Georg Solti and featuring a maverick cast, is widely considered a masterpiece.
Der Ring des Nibelungen was groundbreaking as the first opera ever recorded in a studio, and it demonstrated the potential that the stereo LP format could have in making performances accessible at a time when epics were too expensive to mount regularly.
Decca producer John Culshaw saw the possibilities in stereo to present home listeners with a 'theatre of the mind', in which characters could cross from stage left to stage right, move forwards and back or tail off as exiting off to the wings.
Recording took place over nine years from 1956 to1965, in the Sofiensaal in Vienna, a former sauna with a bright bathroom reverb. The room was fitted out with Decca tree mics and the 'stage' marked out like a chessboard to carefully position the singers.
While sound effects such as thunder or the noise of Valhalla collapsing into ruin were added technically, the studio conditions gave Culshaw the opportunity to overcome the compromises of recording live. He revelled in detail and historic accuracy, going to great lengths to replicate the impractical orchestration Wagner had originally specified, including a section of six harps, medieval steer horns and 18 anvils to be hammered at brief interludes.
The power and impact of the recording was such that Culshaw claimed: "The anvil passage and the thunderclap at the end of Rheingold became a sort of international standard by which you judged the quality of your gramophone player."
Full of energy and devastating dramatic power, Der Ring des Nibelungen was a huge commercial success, sharing chart space with Elvis, and galvanising the classical recording industry.
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Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys (1966)
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It's hard to believe that an album ubiquitously regarded as the pinnacle of craftsmanship and aesthetic refinement could have sold so poorly on its release. Still, while the lush melancholia of Pet Sounds took the long route to public acceptance, its sonic influence was felt immediately – not least by Paul McCartney, who has said that God Only Knows spurred the recording of Sgt. Pepper's.
Brian Wilson famously refined the wall of sound technique that Phil Spector had created – so that "if the material was not the greatest, the sound would carry the record" – by separating and spreading out instruments to produce a clearer, less cacophonous feel. In this instance though, the material was pretty strong.
The tense and expensive nine months of recording sessions were managed with an iron fist by Wilson, who regarded the album as a solo project and used a huge orchestral palette with the notorious Wrecking Crew serving as the backbone of the album.
Wilson, who is deaf in his right ear, created the final mono mix in a single nine-hour session to provide more consistency over how people would hear the album regardless of the quality or the placement of their home system. And despite numerous re-releases, purists still swear by this version, complete with its quirks, such as an audible tape splice between the chorus and bridge of Wouldn't It Be Nice and chatting during the instrumental break of Here Today.
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The Black Album by Jay-Z (2003)
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Jay-Z marked his first retirement the only way he knew how. He made an era-defining swansong, with nearly every track produced by a different luminary of the 2000s: Just Blaze, Kanye West, The Neptunes, Eminem, DJ Quik, Timbaland, 9th Wonder and Rick Rubin.
Of course, it's not uncommon for modern albums to have vast armies of producers. But The Black Album features here because it is one of the few to make each song a sonic showcase of 'show me what you got' style while maintaining a single storytelling journey.
There are many details to admire, from Kanye West's magnificent dancehall track Lucifer, made at the apex of his chipmunk era with a blown-out bass with which many speakers will struggle to grapple, to the towering organ sample in Just Blaze's Public Service Announcement.
And, while we could have filled this list solely with Rubin's work, we're making do with the sublime 99 Problems. Exceptional for its dry, close aesthetic combining old school hip-hop collage (the drum track is built from samples of Mountain's Long Red, Billy Squier's The Big Beat, and Wilson Pickett's Get Me Back On Time Engine #9) and pretty much no melodic content other than the cadential inflections of Jay's voice as he raps about the trappings of fame and racial inequality.
The Black Album is also notable for the production work that it inspired. Jay-Z broke with Roc-A-Fella's tradition of not releasing a cappella 12-inches, opening the floodgates to a wealth of remixes, the most famous example being Danger Mouse's transcendent, career-making mashup with the Beatles own sonic masterpiece, The White Album.
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and Fagen's Nightfly?
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But surely, and with the greatest of respect, Fagen's Nightfly and his other related work has been done to death a bit. It's nice sometimes, to see some other stuff. I for one, on the strength of this list, will be listening to a lot more Jellyfish having now heard of them.
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I don't get it. Why I take an old recording (e.g. Wagner), with all the limitation of the time, to test current or not so old speakers? It's like hooking up an mp3 player for a sound check:eek:
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Are you assuming the article is talking about the first Wagner recordings? And that it was recorded when Wagner was still around? How cute.
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There's probably a more constructive way to answer the question than to just be condescending. Or can't you actually explain it?
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In our latest episode of A Week in My Flexible Work Life podcast, Juliet Mann discusses office/home working, ESG strategies and competition for talent with John McLaughlin, Chief Commercial Officer and Partner at EMEA. We've gathered some highlights from their chat below, but to listen to the full episode click here: …
John has worked for Aon in a variety of roles over the past 12 years in 5 countries across 4 continents, and is an established voice within the HR community. John leads Aon's Human Capital Solutions commercial team in Europe with a focus on enabling clients to drive better decision making through human capital data to drive performance while managing risk.
When people think about Aon, they think insurance. Assessments solutions is a human approach to business, talk us through this.
Insurance is all about risk, assessment goes down that same path. "We assess people to understand if they are fit for an organization or a role, so we want to minimize the risk of making a bad hiring decision and a bad promotion decision." That goes both ways, John says, "we want to make sure that people are matched to the right role, so they can flourish." Assessment has been around for decades, even centuries, but Aon focuses on assessment in the realm of "industrial organizational psychology."
What are your three words that sum up the future of work?
Flexibility – how do we fit our work lives around our social lives?
Skills – how do we ensure we keep the work force upskilled to power our evolving business models?
Purpose or belonging – how do firms ensure that they reflect the values of their employees going forward?
Many people working from home feel like they don't belong to the office environment. How do you instill this sense of belonging to keep the team going?
"Creating a compelling employee value proposition" is key. What are the values you stand for as an organization and how do you communicate that to your employees? Lots of firms do great work around ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) credentials. The question is, how do they communicate this? Do the employees know about the work that they do? Do they let their employees participate in the ESG strategy sessions? He's noticed that leading employers set up strategies, around ESG for example, but they also set up employee representative groups so that everyone gets a chance to influence the organization.
There is a lot of cynicism and criticism surrounding ESG, how can these strategies engage employees, give them a sense of purpose and upskill them?
"Some of the criticism for ESG is quite fair, because in general, it's in its early stages. It's a framework that is still evolving." It encourages us to think about our actions on the social, environmental and governance side. How can a company set themselves up to incorporate all these different criteria necessary to build an ESG strategy and then report what they're doing to stakeholders and potential employees? By setting up a framework, we can create a level-playing field, which "allows us to educate people on what we truly stand for as organizations."
Do you see there being more importance placed on a connected office-environment?
Twitter started hybrid working before it was cool, "any of us today who are not working for Twitter, probably have experienced the headaches that come with trying to set up a hybrid meeting and last-minute trying to fix things." Technology plays a crucial role but many technical aspects can go wrong, taking up valuable time. Education and etiquette are also important, "it's very easy for the people in the room to take over the discussion."
Incentives and rewards, can you make it possible to reward people for turning up to the office without taking away from the people who work from home?
"That's probably my favorite topic right now." The way we view hybrid working has shifted hugely since the pandemic. Pre-pandemic, working from home might have been something people gave part of their salary for, but "employees are rightfully asking how they are meant to cover expenses." Employees have got used to not having these expenses, so the conversation has flipped and now John's clients are asking him whether they should be paying for people to return to the office. His answer is yes, "it's a fairly simple concept in the world of psychology and particularly the psychology of work, it's easier to give something than it is to take away something."
There are cultural benefits too, "an office environment makes the interconnection between people easier." John went into his London office for the first time in two and half years, admitting that he wasn't as productive as when he works from home. But that's not the point, "you don't go into the office to be on calls all day and to write a hundred emails, you go in to interact with your colleagues." That is what the future of hybrid work is looking like, office-work has a different purpose now. Though, if there's less employee productivity, what's the point? "When I come back from the office", John says, "I'm energized in a very different way", claiming that his productivity increases significantly after spending time with his colleagues. Meanwhile, creative productivity actually comes much more naturally in an office environment as you create and honor opportunities with your colleagues far quicker. He says that office environments need to reflect this change, "in Aon we started to build up all these collaboration spaces" and predicts other companies will follow suit.
The hierarchy of needs have changed since the pandemic, what are your thoughts on that?
John points to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, postulating that women, pre-pandemic, would have defined themselves differently to men in terms of their needs. He states an average woman would have ranked family first, in terms of importance in her life, followed by friends and then work, whereas an average man was more likely to define himself through work first, then family and then friends. "It shows how we've had these gender differences across the classical hierarchy of needs," but there's been a shift in values since the pandemic, predominantly on the male side. "Men have had a lot more exposure to their families over the past couple of years," becoming more involved in the management of their house and children. Since the pandemic, "we have reevaluated what's important to us in life and what is driving our energy" and this is a really interesting perspective for employers as they begin to think about how they can fit work around their employees' social lives.
Let's talk about upskilling, how do you think that has changed? Good talent is valuable, how do you keep people motivated?
Personal development for employees is crucial. On average, a skill becomes outdated in 3 – 5 years, so consistent upskilling is essential to stay relevant, but it's also what employees want. Over the past 5 years salary has always stayed top in the study of what employees value the most, but second to that is career development.
Wages have been stagnant for a long time, while they are stuck, is there an onus on employers to provide alternatives such as career development and upskilling?
John challenges the question: "depending on the sector, wages have become unstuck," noting financial services and big banks in particular. "It doesn't actually matter if wages are stuck or increasing because the competition for talent, at the moment, has never really been seen before." There's this notion that labor markets have entered unhealthy territory because so many jobs are remaining unfilled, there's a "real squeeze" in the labor market with competition that hasn't been seen in 15 – 20 years. Therefore, many organizations are looking at the broader employee value proposition (EVP), which includes salaries, benefits and development opportunities. "EVP is the biggest thing going and flexibility forms part of that".
Everyone is looking at the future of HR. Is there a risk employers will over-promise opportunities? What do you suggest to your clients to avoid that?
"We have all these different levers at our disposal when it comes to creating an employee value proposition": pay, benefits, career development. However, he says "we will probably get to a point where we see diminished returns on investment for salary." An example of this is Deutsche Bank increasing their total compensation in 2021 by 30%, "that's significant. Can you continue pulling that lever? Probably not." Therefore you need to diversify your EVP, ensuring not to double-down on one particular aspect. And everything has to be in balance, if you don't offer flexibility, you'll have to pay more.
What's your advice for management when it comes to keeping employees motivated?
"Listening and allowing employees to participate." Simply, by creating participation groups, organizations will become aware of their employees' needs and wants and consequently know how to motivate them. It's about listening to employees continuously because their needs are ever-changing, with hybrid working over the pandemic being a prime example of this. Companies who offered flexible working before it was popular are struggling because it's normal now, it's no longer a draw.
The structure of work has flattened, it is less hierarchical. The tide is turning, there's a shift; is it the newer, younger, more diverse voices that the top brass want to hear from?
Everyone is talking about having a diverse workforce, "we need to make sure these voices are heard. Unfortunately not every organization is there when it comes to their D & I (diversity and inclusion) strategy." This is even more prominent at leadership level, so it's crucial we listen to young people and specific groupings across society.
An example of a company having a positive impact is Unliver, they are doing wonderful work in terms of their ESG strategy and giving back to the societies in which they operate. However, John poses an interesting question as to whether Unilever has over-rotated on their ESG strategy, "typically a good ESG strategy is a good business strategy… their business results did not reflect that necessarily."
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Sofía Arzarello (1897, Montevideo, Uruguai - 1981) fou una escriptora, professora i activista uruguaiana.

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El 1936 va cofundar l'Associació d'Intel·lectuals, Artistes, Periodistes i Escriptors que tenia per objectiu defensar els drets de tots els creadors de cultura davant dels estralls socials i econòmics de l'època. Entre les seves accions va defensar la República durant la Guerra Civil Espanyola i la condemna des de l'Uruguai per l'assassinat de Federico García Lorca.

Va estar casada amb Eugenio Petit Muñoz fins al 1974, quan va morir. Si bé la seva obra es va veure reflectida en un sol llibre, els seus escrits es poden trobar a les publicacions Justicia, España Democrática, Alfar, Paralelo 35, Letras i La Pluma.
Una calle en Montevideo la recuerda y homenajea.

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Cybersecurity & Singapore - Overview of Cybersecurity in Singapore
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Recently, the Singapore public health system was hit by a major cyber attack compromising the personal data of an astonishing 1.5 million patients. As a result of this cyber attack of "unprecedented scale and ...
S$75 Million Grant to Pave the Way to Singapore's Equity Market
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Come February, enterprises will be able to tap into a S$75 million grant administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for help with fund raising through Singapore's equity market. The Grant for Equity Market ...
Prospective Refinements to CCCS' Competition Guidelines in 2021
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Digital platforms have experienced significant growth and popularity in Singapore in recent years and COVID-19 has accelerated its proliferation. The rapid pace of innovation and broad adoption of these platforms have ...
Legal and regulatory changes needed to support Singapore's Smart Nation push
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Singapore's 2017 Smart Nation Initiatives
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As major strides are made in digital technology, the Singapore Government is taking aggressive measures to facilitate innovations by both the public and the private sectors. Clever financial incentives, as well as ...
Venture capital investment model agreements released in Singapore
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On 23 October 2018, the Singapore Academy of Law's Promotion of Singapore Law Committee and the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association jointly launched the Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements ...
Beyond the PIC Scheme: Funding for Start-ups in Singapore
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Marcus Chow looks at the conclusion of the Singapore Government's Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme, as well as which new schemes supported by the Singapore Government can provide funding, tax and other ...
Singapore: COVID-19 & Corporate Governance: Telecommuting, Meetings and Security during the New Normal
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With the disruption and uncertainty caused by COVID-19, organisations need to be aware of the heightened cybersecurity risks and take measures to protect their organisation and workforce while working remotely.
IMDA Launches IoT Cyber Security Guide
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The Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore ("IMDA") published the IoT Cyber Security Guide ("IoT Guide") on 13 March 2020.
Singapore Introduces Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme
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On 3 March 2020, the Cybersecurity Agency of Singapore ("CSA") introduced the Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme ("CLS") as part of Singapore's Safer Cyberspace Masterplan.
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Uber Water Shipment Shows Trucking's Load-Matching Future
Once the Hurricane Harvey dissipated, Niagara Bottling rushed to get bottled drinking water from nearby plants in Texas to those in need. "Everything that could be challenging was challenging," said Brian Reed, at that time Niagara's vice president of transportation and customer service. On Friday, Sept. 1, Niagara was ready to send 127 truckloads with 4.8 million bottles of water into Houston. The problem was finding the capacity to haul those loads on what was a late Friday afternoon in Texas, in the wake of a hurricane, and the start of the Labor Day weekend.
"We're a 24/7 shipper, but when it comes to getting capacity on Fridays, after the hours of 5 p.m. Central Time, or 3 p.m. Pacific Time, things get very quiet," Reed said (Niagara is based in Ontario, California, in the "Inland Empire" east of Los Angeles). "We have great logistics providers, but the number of people who can book new trucks for us gets smaller" at that hour. "Saturday morning is another open time but by noon, that capacity is gone," he said.
The problem was compounded by a tight trucking market. This fall, capacity in general is harder to find and comes at a premium price compared with 2016. In early September, hurricanes Harvey and Irma combined with the start of the peak trucking season and a healthier economy to absorb excess capacity and push spot market truckload rates upward by double digits.
That Friday, Niagara found itself "near that window and time of day when our normal capacity starts to disappear," Reed said. Despite that, the bottler managed to quickly ship all 127 truckloads by turning to one of its newest logistics partners, mobile app-based marketplace Uber Freight. The loads were booked within hours by the small trucking companies and independent truck drivers at the core of the Uber Freight network, launched in April.
At Uber, that feat is seen as a proof-of-concept moment, one that should reduce or put an end to skepticism about its potential in the freight brokerage market. "Seeing those loads clear off the board in minutes was something magical," Bill Driegert, director of Uber Freight, said. "What we saw during Hurricane Harvey particularly was a situation where our platform showed its value in being able to scale and take on additional volumes at a challenging time for many operators. It was the first time we saw the potential of what this could become."
The incident also underscores the increasing importance of technology in the logistics and freight brokerage industry, and should impel competitors, including established logistics companies, to double down on the development of digital tools that help speed up shipper-carrier transactions and increase the ease and lower the cost of finding, booking, and shipping freight.
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Thanks to recent advances in signal processing, the interest for fast ℓ1-regularized reconstruction algorithms in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has intensified. The approaches based on the alternating-direction of multipliers method (ADMM) are particularly well-suited due to the prime convergence speed and flexibility of use of this algorithm. Yet, the standard ADMM scheme still relies on a nested conjugate gradient (CG) to solve the linear step in its alternating-minimization procedure, which can be costly when handling large-scale problems. In this work, we present an inner-loop-free ADMM algorithm for 3D reconstruction in cryo-EM. By using an appropriate splitting scheme, we are able to avoid the use of CG for solving the linear step. This leads to a substantial increase in algorithmic speed, as demonstrated by our experiments.


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Rufoclanis erlangeri is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.

It is similar to Rufoclanis numosae, but smaller and greyer, with a much better defined postdiscal band in hindwing.

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Moths described in 1903
Fauna of Somalia
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American Toxicology offers an option for testing synthetic Cannabinoids! Why would someone want to smoke an unknown substance made by an unknown person in an unknown location? Great question! Well simply put it's because they want to obtain a similar high experienced when smoking Marijuana without testing positive for cannabis on a drug test.
You may be concerned about a loved one or your teenager being involved with illegal drugs or these newer drugs that give a similar "high" that comes from smoking marijuana. These synthetic drugs can be purchased easily by anyone from your local smoke shop, tattoo parlor or even gas station/convenient store!
Just because you can buy it doesn't mean you should try it!
Similar to THC, these synthetic cannabinoids like to bind to cannabinoid receptors in the brain and other organs. Some reports indicate JWH-018 binds to the CB1 Receptor with even greater affinity than THC does, which creates a higher risk for overdose!


Stanford University, recognized as one of the most prestigious and innovative academic institutions in the world, has been prioritizing students' career development by reinventing its model of career education and investing in additional staff to ensure that its undergraduate and graduate students have a successful transition from college to career. BEAM, Stanford Career Education is accepting applications and nominations for the Assistant Director of Career Ventures. Career Ventures, one of BEAM's three collaborative units, is the Hub for customized industry connections & employer engagement. Additional information about Stanford's Vision 2020 for Career Education is available at: http://beam.stanford.edu.
Reporting to the Assistant Dean and Associate Director of Career Ventures, the Assistant Director of Career Ventures is responsible for cultivating relationships with employers from STEM industries to identify internship or full-time opportunities for Stanford students. Create career connection opportunities for students and help deliver against employer recruiting needs by creating educational and engagement opportunities. Act as an industry specialist, meeting with students and/or student organizations to help them to engage with employers within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields.
Administer, implement, and interpret university and department policies and procedures on issues regarding student life, advising, career counseling and academic services. Identify, clarify, and resolve highly visible or complex issues with substantial significance and impact that may span multiple areas, using expert technical and professional knowledge requiring independent judgment.
Collaborate in center-wide initiatives, such as open houses, career fairs, meetups, and programs for various constituent groups.
Utilize social media and technology to brand BEAM and Career Ventures and increase awareness of career resources, programs, opportunities, and meaningful connections for employers, students, and alumni.
Assist with identification and nurturing of career communities by developing relationships with Faculty, various campus departments and student groups to fully engage the university network of stakeholders and enhance students' connections to employers and opportunities.
Administer, implement, and interpret university and department policies and procedures on issues regarding student life, advising, career counseling and academic services.
Identify, clarify, and resolve highly visible or complex issues with substantial significance and impact that may span multiple areas, using expert technical and professional knowledge requiring independent judgment.
Manage an area or program in student services, analyze effectiveness, and make final decisions on program eligibility.
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A Csapda (eredeti cím: Snitch) 2013-ban bemutatott amerikai akciófilm, melyet Ric Roman Waugh írt és rendezett. A főbb szerepekben Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper, Susan Sarandon, Jon Bernthal, Benjamin Bratt és Michael Kenneth Williams látható.

Az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban 2013. február 22-én mutatták be. Összességében vegyes kritikákat kapott, a Rotten Tomatoeson 57%-ra értékelték 150 kritikus vélemény alapján.

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Egy apa beépül a drogellenes csoportba, hogy kiszabadítsa a fiát, akit bebörtönöztek, miután felültették egy drogügyletben.

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John Matthewst (Dwayne Johnson), a sikeres üzletembert ledöbbenti a hír, amikor megtudja, hogy 18 éves fia bajba keveredett. A fiú ugyanis tíz év börtönbüntetést kapott, mert átvett egy bizonyos csomagot, amiben tudatán kívül kábítószer volt. Amikor Jasont elutasítja a céltudatos államügyész, Joanne Keeghan (Susan Sarandon), azt ajánlja neki, hogy börtönéveinek enyhítéséért mondja el a barátja nevét, de John azt kéri Keeghantől, hogy inkább ő maga hadd épüljön be abba a bizonyos drogkartellba. Az elszomorodott apa be tud szivárogni a kegyetlen Malik bandájába, de amint próbálja megmenteni fiát, véletlenül bajba kever egy másik ártatlan embert is. Ám mikor leleplezi az egyik mexikói, drogkereskedelemmel foglalkozó bandafőnököt, a halálos játszma még veszélyesebbé fajul.

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Home » Competitors bulk up buying power
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Competitors bulk up buying power
Competitive health systems combine supply chain purchasing power in hopes of saving millions.
Two Louisville, Ky.-based health systems are squeezing savings out of their supply chain by taking group purchasing to the local level.
While membership in a group purchasing organization on its own can produce savings for a hospital or health system, Norton Healthcare and Baptist Health are looking to increase savings even further by trying to combine and standardize purchasing for selected supplies.
The first step in the arrangement — an agreement to buy medical and surgical supplies — is expected to save $15 million between the two over the life of the five-year contract.
"It's a different model," says George Hersch, vice president of materiel management for Norton, a five-hospital system. "We're pretty excited and proud of it."
Norton and Baptist decided to negotiate together to create standards for supply purchases to achieve greater volume discounts. Baptist owns seven acute care hospitals. Though they negotiate the purchasing agreements together, the two systems sign separate contracts with the seller or distributor of the supplies. Hence, even though the systems' joint purchasing agreement is only three years long, they were able to sign five-year agreements with supplier Medline Industries Inc.
"We're not a merged entity at all, we're just working together. So we have to have separate contracts, even though the terms and conditions line up to be the same," Hersch says.
With a med-surg agreement in place, Hersch says the two are looking to expand the effort. Consolidation of pharmacy purchasing is one area under consideration. "That should produce significant savings based on what we saw in med-surg," he says.
Hersch also says the two are considering the adoption of a competitive-bid reverse auction for commodities. They would identify bidders for a commodity, such as trash can liners, and allow them to use a third party to competitively bid online for the business. "The parties can keep bidding lower until nobody wants to bid anymore," he says.
The collaboration between Norton and Baptist, though unusual, has worked well enough so far that others might be interested in the concept.
"Who would think that competitors would come together to benefit the [residents] of their community by reducing costs?" Hersch says. "I wonder if it might spring up in other communities."
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Santorum surprises, Gingrich grumbles, Romney rolls on
The oddity of the odyssey of the 2012 Republican nominating contest was foreseen by no one.
By Eric Black | Columnist
Newt Gingrich speaking to supporters
Rick Santorum, with little money or organization, too much baggage from his Senate career (which, it must be remembered, ended in a landslide loss in own home state) and – according to those who had him down as a non-factor until a few days before the Iowa caucuses – not much, in the Charisma Dept., is the surprise of the year and remains the leading alternative to Mitt Romney.
Santorum's wins in Alabama and Mississippi last night defied the polls and gave him the great chimerical quotient of the year – what the pundits always call "momentum," although it seems to have none of the qualities of what the physicists would call momentum – heading into the next rounds (Missouri and Puerto Rico this weekend, then a big primary in Illinois next Tuesday). It's weird how Santorum always does a bit better than the last round polls suggests he will.
When the cable news guys get Santorum on camera, the only thing they can think to ask is whether he will call for Newt Gingrich to get out of the race. Santorum, one assumes, desperately wishes Gingrich would get out, which would give him a chance to win most of the remaining primaries. But he ritually declines to actually call for Gingrich to get out and instead makes the trite (but true) point that it's up to each candidate to make the get-out decision for himself. This is unarguably true, especially in the age of the Super PAC when, like Gingrich, you have even one very rich admirer who makes $3 million an hour.
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Santorum's it's-up-to-Newt statement is usually interpreted as a sign of faux respect, intended to make Gingrich feel kindly enough toward Santorum to get out of the race. But over the course of last evening, another possible interpretation for the Gingrich-stays-in enigma began to emerge.
The Gingrichian enigma
Gingrich, whose spokesman recently said that Gingrich had to win both Alabama and Mississippi to remain a "credible" candidate, lost both states but last night renewed his vows to stay in the race until the convention.
Gingrich has won just two primaries, one in his own state of Georgia and one in the neighboring state of South Carolina. Even if he had won in two other neighboring states last night (which he didn't), there is no credible path to the nomination for him. He has astronomical unfavorable ratings and is especially detested by women.
Twice this year, Gingrich seemed to be on the verge of wresting front-runner status from Romney — once in the week before the Iowa caucuses and once in the aftermath of Gingrich's big win in South Carolina. Both times he was subjected to a very expensive and devastating attack of negative ads by Romney (excuse, by the Super PAC that supports Romney but is legally barred from coordinating its message with Romney's campaign). It has made sense since then that Gingrich's top goal, if he cannot be the nominee, is to deprive Romney of the prize.
Gingrich no longer tries to conceal his contempt for Romney, whom he has called a liberal and a liar and other unflattering words that begin with letters other than L. On Fox last night, Brett Baier all but begged Gingrich, in the spirit of party fellow-feeling, to say something nice about Romney.
Gingrich said that a Romney presidency would be preferable to four more years of Barack Obama in the White House, which would be a devastating blow from which America could never fully recover. (That's not a quote, but it's not far off.) On Planet Republican, "better than Obama" is something less than a compliment. Baier invited Gingrich to say something nicer. Gingrich refused.
And yet, by one common analysis, Gingrich has become Romney's key ally. By staying in the race and splitting the anybody-but-Romney with Santorum, Gingrich has deprived Santorum of likely wins in several key states, including big ones like Ohio and Michigan. OK, that's the mystery.
Over the last couple of days, and again last night in his posts-defeat interviews, Gingrich offered a different view of the delegate math and perhaps a different explanation for why his decision to stay in the race isn't really helping Romney.
The great thing about the Alabama and Mississippi results, he said last night, is that Romney will get fewer than one-third of the delegates from those two states. If a combination of Gingrich and Santorum continues to hold Romney to fewer than one third of the future delegates, he cannot amass the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the GOP nomination on the first ballot.
National Journal has strung together several recent statements by Gingrich suggesting that this is Gingrich's goal: to turn Romney into "a front-runner who ends up not finishing the race." In a radio interview just before the Alabama voting, he likened the strategy to a "tag-team" approach, with Santorum and himself working together to the one goal of depriving Romney of a first-ballot clinch.
If you torture the delegates long enough, it may be possible to make this argument begin to border on sane, but no, it doesn't cross that border. Romney has plenty of supporters within the Republican establishment and is widely viewed as matching up better against Obama than Santorum or Gingrich. There are the super delegates, drawn from the ranks of exactly those establishment figures who could put Romney over the top, even on the first ballot, if he is very close.
It would be dangerous to assume that Gingrich is divulging his true motive for staying in the race. But if it's the one described above, it's close to delusional.
Where's Romney?
Romney stayed off the air last night. His campaign did not have the usual campaign headquarters event for the media. He was clearly hoping to just move on from a bad night, or at least a bad night in terms of what the pundits call the "narrative." The narrative is the story line and the story line continues to be that Romney can't clinch the nomination – even against such dwarves as Santorum and Gingrich.
The narrative is prose, made up of words. But the nomination will be won by a non-narrative made up of numbers. The non-narrative math says that the continuing strength of the Romney organization kept last night from really being so bad for Romney.
The numbers aren't quite final, but as best the Washington Post could determine this morning, Romney probably won more delegates than Santorum last night, despite finishing third in both southern primaries. That's because Romney, and only Romney, has enough money and organization to compete everywhere including, last night, in caucuses in Hawaii and American Samoa. Although there weren't many delegates at stake, Romney appears to have quietly won enough of them compared to his rivals to have offset Santorum's louder wins in Alabama and Mississippi. The Post has the delegate totals for the night thus:
Romney: 41
Santorum: 35
Gingrich: 24
Ron Paul: 1
Still to be determined: 9
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Santorum surprises, Gingrich grumbles, Romney rolls on

By Eric Black | Columnist

March 14, 2012

The oddity of the odyssey of the 2012 Republican nominating contest was foreseen by no one.

Rick Santorum, with little money or organization, too much baggage from his Senate career (which, it must be remembered, ended in a landslide loss in own home state) and – according to those who had him down as a non-factor until a few days before the Iowa caucuses – not much, in the Charisma Dept., is the surprise of the year and remains the leading alternative to Mitt Romney.

Santorum's wins in Alabama and Mississippi last night defied the polls and gave him the great chimerical quotient of the year – what the pundits always call "momentum," although it seems to have none of the qualities of what the physicists would call momentum – heading into the next rounds (Missouri and Puerto Rico this weekend, then a big primary in Illinois next Tuesday). It's weird how Santorum always does a bit better than the last round polls suggests he will.

When the cable news guys get Santorum on camera, the only thing they can think to ask is whether he will call for Newt Gingrich to get out of the race. Santorum, one assumes, desperately wishes Gingrich would get out, which would give him a chance to win most of the remaining primaries. But he ritually declines to actually call for Gingrich to get out and instead makes the trite (but true) point that it's up to each candidate to make the get-out decision for himself. This is unarguably true, especially in the age of the Super PAC when, like Gingrich, you have even one very rich admirer who makes $3 million an hour.

Santorum's it's-up-to-Newt statement is usually interpreted as a sign of faux respect, intended to make Gingrich feel kindly enough toward Santorum to get out of the race. But over the course of last evening, another possible interpretation for the Gingrich-stays-in enigma began to emerge.

The Gingrichian enigma

Gingrich, whose spokesman recently said that Gingrich had to win both Alabama and Mississippi to remain a "credible" candidate, lost both states but last night renewed his vows to stay in the race until the convention.

Gingrich has won just two primaries, one in his own state of Georgia and one in the neighboring state of South Carolina. Even if he had won in two other neighboring states last night (which he didn't), there is no credible path to the nomination for him. He has astronomical unfavorable ratings and is especially detested by women.

Twice this year, Gingrich seemed to be on the verge of wresting front-runner status from Romney -- once in the week before the Iowa caucuses and once in the aftermath of Gingrich's big win in South Carolina.  Both times he was subjected to a very expensive and devastating attack of negative ads by Romney (excuse, by the Super PAC that supports Romney but is legally barred from coordinating its message with Romney's campaign). It has made sense since then that Gingrich's top goal, if he cannot be the nominee, is to deprive Romney of the prize.

Gingrich no longer tries to conceal his contempt for Romney, whom he has called a liberal and a liar and other unflattering words that begin with letters other than L. On Fox last night, Brett Baier all but begged Gingrich, in the spirit of party fellow-feeling, to say something nice about Romney.

Gingrich said that a Romney presidency would be preferable to four more years of Barack Obama in the White House, which would be a devastating blow from which America could never fully recover. (That's not a quote, but it's not far off.) On Planet Republican, "better than Obama" is something less than a compliment. Baier invited Gingrich to say something nicer. Gingrich refused.

And yet, by one common analysis, Gingrich has become Romney's key ally. By staying in the race and splitting the anybody-but-Romney with Santorum, Gingrich has deprived Santorum of likely wins in several key states, including big ones like Ohio and Michigan. OK, that's the mystery.

Over the last couple of days, and again last night in his posts-defeat interviews, Gingrich offered a different view of the delegate math and perhaps a different explanation for why his decision to stay in the race isn't really helping Romney.

The great thing about the Alabama and Mississippi results, he said last night, is that Romney will get fewer than one-third of the delegates from those two states. If a combination of Gingrich and Santorum continues to hold Romney to fewer than one third of the future delegates, he cannot amass the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the GOP nomination on the first ballot.

National Journal has strung together several recent statements by Gingrich suggesting that this is Gingrich's goal: to turn Romney into "a front-runner who ends up not finishing the race." In a radio interview just before the Alabama voting, he likened the strategy to a "tag-team" approach, with Santorum and himself working together to the one goal of depriving Romney of a first-ballot clinch.

If you torture the delegates long enough, it may be possible to make this argument begin to border on sane, but no, it doesn't cross that border. Romney has plenty of supporters within the Republican establishment and is widely viewed as matching up better against Obama than Santorum or Gingrich. There are the super delegates, drawn from the ranks of exactly those establishment figures who could put Romney over the top, even on the first ballot, if he is very close.

It would be dangerous to assume that Gingrich is divulging his true motive for staying in the race. But if it's the one described above, it's close to delusional.

Where's Romney?

Romney stayed off the air last night. His campaign did not have the usual campaign headquarters event for the media. He was clearly hoping to just move on from a bad night, or at least a bad night in terms of what the pundits call the "narrative." The narrative is the story line and the story line continues to be that Romney can't clinch the nomination – even against such dwarves as Santorum and Gingrich.

The narrative is prose, made up of words. But the nomination will be won by a non-narrative made up of numbers. The non-narrative math says that the continuing strength of the Romney organization kept last night from really being so bad for Romney.

The numbers aren't quite final, but as best the Washington Post could determine this morning, Romney probably won more delegates than Santorum last night, despite finishing third in both southern primaries. That's because Romney, and only Romney, has enough money and organization to compete everywhere including, last night, in caucuses in Hawaii and American Samoa. Although there weren't many delegates at stake, Romney appears to have quietly won enough of them compared to his rivals to have offset Santorum's louder wins in Alabama and Mississippi. The Post has the delegate totals for the night thus:

Romney:  41

Santorum: 35

Gingrich: 24

 Ron Paul: 1

Still to be determined: 9

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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron can add an honorary degree from Princeton University to his trophy case.
The former home run record-holder was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities for making America a better place with his "imperishable example of grace under pressure."
The university cited how he kept his cool while pursuing Babe Ruth's home run record nearly 40 years ago.
Princeton keeps its list of honorary degree recipients secret until the commencement ceremony. University President Shirley Tilghman gave the address, as she usually does.
The five others granted honorary degrees during Tuesday's ceremony are children's advocate Geoffrey Canada, clinical researcher and University of California-San Francisco chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, former Princeton history professor Charles Gillispie, dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison and legal expert Robert Rawson Jr.


Lemon trees are thought to be native to India, although they are also grown further afield, flourishing in warmer climates. The tree produces oval leaves and blossoms as well as a fruit which varies in rind, thickness and percentage of juice. Since 2005, Lush has sourced bergamot, lemon and mandarin essential oils from Reggio di Calabria in southern Italy, directly from family producers who have been producing citrus oils for three generations. The fruits are grown without pesticides, hand picked during winter and then the peel is cold-pressed to extract the oil.


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Q: How often does Apple.com update their refurbished stock? How often does Apple.com update their refurbished stock? Is there a schedule, is it based upon product availability, or a combination of the two?

A: Apparently there's no schedule, it is all based upon product availability.As soon as the product has passed all the Refurbishing steps, it's posted. What's certain is that products don't last long, so keen buyers are suggested to check every day, or even every hour.


I am a 68 yr. old male with bladder retention and a large diverticulum. I had green light prostate surgery 7 yrs. ago. I continue to have large post void retention as well as a fairly large bladder diverticulum. I am seeing a different urologist, and he has had me through a number of tests…uroflow, urodynamic, and next Mon. a cystocopy. My results from the uroflow and urodynamic indicated a lot of retention…over 450ml. and lots of pressure from the urodynamic test. I do have urge incontinence as a result. I have tried numerous meds, but don't like the side effects. Since I have mitro valve prolapes, and glaucoma, I'm afraid meds may make things worse. I have worn diapers for some time to manage my situation, and they don't bother me. I'm also afraid of catheters. How do I convince my urologist that I'm fine with things as they are? If surgery is necessary to protect my kidneys, I'm fine with that. So, that's my history somewhat abbreviated. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks for your attention.
Hi @ch665296f, welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I'm one of the community managers here. It sounds like you need to have a conversation with your urologist – have you tried telling him that you're comfortable with things the way they are?
Not directly, but he knows I wear them. I'm just afraid of side effects from meds, and catheter use and the chance of infections. I did try the catheter route after my green light surgery. It was a complete disaster. I don't like the idea of sticking something in your body where the sun doesn't shine. I have read about sphincterotomys. Is that a viable form of management, and ease kidney pressure.? I guess I will know more after my cystocopy next Mon.
Have you tried any of the behavioral techniques, like double voiding or diet management?