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Louis Nunn November 27, 2019
Mental health support teams to launch across schools in Rushcliffe and Gedling
Pupils struggling with mental health issues are set to benefit from more joined-up care and support across schools and NHS services as a new mental health support service is launched in a number of schools in South Nottinghamshire.
Mental Health Support Teams will be available to pupils in Rushcliffe and Gedling from December 2019, giving them access to help from NHS trained staff earlier and within their school environment.
Local NHS Commissioners and Nottinghamshire County Council have received pilot funding to roll out the scheme, enabling the teams to be set up in schools across Rushcliffe and Gedling to offer increased access to emotional and wellbeing support.
The teams will be staffed by mental health professionals from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust CAMHS services and will work with children and young people with mild to moderate emotional, mental health and well-being problems.
The scheme will be launched at a partnership event today, Wednesday 27 November, which will give involved and interested organisations the opportunity to find out more about the CAMHS services and how practitioners and teachers will work together.
Initially, 43 schools will benefit from the rollout of the scheme. The Mental Health Support Teams will be operational by December 2019, and will include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy therapists, Education Mental Health Practitioners and administrator.
The team will:
• deliver evidence-based interventions in or close to schools and colleges for those with mild to moderate mental health issues;
• help children and young people with more severe needs to access the right support;
• work with and within schools and colleges, providing a link to specialist NHS services;
• and build on and increase support already in place, not replace it.
These schools will be the first in Nottinghamshire to implement and test the Mental Health Support Team delivery model, and learning from these trailblazers will inform the future rollout of the scheme across the City and County.
Dr James Hopkinson, Gedling GP and the Nottingham North and East Clinical Commissioning Group's Clinical Lead, said: "This scheme is a great opportunity to focus on early intervention.
"We know young people and their parents and carers want to be able to access mental health services quickly and that the earlier mental health problems are identified the better the health outcomes.
"Issues like exam stress, low mood and friendship difficulties will all be tackled to help young people as they navigate school. Having mental health support teams in schools will provide additional support for well-being and mental health directly to children and young people and offer an easier and more familiar setting for them to access care when they need it."
Councillor Philip Owen, Chair of Children and Young People's Committee at Nottinghamshire County Council, said: "Schools play a vital role in identifying mental health needs and building resilience in young people, so we believe these teams will enhance the support already in place.
"The mental health support teams will work with children, young people and their parents and carers to help them access the right support and provide a link to specialist NHS services. They will also offer one to one and group interventions for those experiencing anxiety, low mood, friendship difficulties and behavioural difficulties."
Dr Julie Attfield, Executive Director for Mental Health with Nottinghamshire Healthcare commented: "Any additional investment into the mental wellbeing of young people has to be celebrated. I am delighted that this support is being extended to enable more young people to benefit."
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Tibco Expands Cloud Services, Partnerships
Tibco Software, the cloud and business intelligence specialist, announced a batch of upgraded services and partnerships this week, including expanded cloud-native support aimed at developers along with a cloud partnership with Microsoft Azure. Read more…
Google, Looker Eye Data Scaling via Multi-Cloud
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Google Cloud has moved to buttress its position in the booming data analytics sector with its acquisition of data platform and visualization tool vendor Looker.
Underscoring a trend among infrastructure vendors, Google Cloud said Thursday (June 6) Looker's platform would run on multiple clouds and Looker customers would be able to access data from Google Cloud's competitors. Read more…
Google today unveiled a handful of new cloud services designed to simplify common tasks in the data analytics workflow, including a beta of a new data integration and ETL service called Cloud Data Fusion, the capability to leverage BigQuery from a spreadsheet interface, and the addition of Tensorflow machine learning capabilities to BigQuery ML, among others. Read more…
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Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. Among his first moves was announcing plans to invest $13 billion in this year in U.S. Read more…
Data Warehousing with a Modern Twist
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Google Cloud is extending the reach of its BigQuery data warehouse deeper into Europe, enabling users to store data and perform analytics in the countries where they operate.
Regional availability of data storage and analytics was introduced in London this week with a phased rollout across Europe scheduled for later in the year, Google announced during a company event in the British capital on Wednesday (Oct. Read more…
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Looker, the data platform builder looking to expand the reach of its "horizontal" foundation, added another component this week with the integration of its tools with the beta release of Google's cloud-based BigQuery ML. Read more…
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With Amazon Web Services maintaining its dominance n the public cloud market, the price wars of the last few years have given way to new ways of competing with the AWS juggernaut as big data, analytics and machine learning help expand the booming cloud market. Read more…
Looker Rolls New Google BigQuery Tools
Addressing the growing need to gain insights from ever-larger data sets, an analytical tool vendor specializing in Google's BigQuery database is releasing new platform components designed to expand availability and use of the Google platform across the enterprise. Read more…
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Aug 1, 2012 |Providing real-time traffic updates is a practical and feasible application of the big data analysis technology that exists today. While there are multiple companies plugging away at the task of delivering actionable information based on real-time streams of GPS.... Read more…

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We believe in equipping every believer for that purpose so that the healing power of God may be demonstrated both inside and outside the church. We are compelled by the commands of scripture to reach people where they are by allowing the power and compassion of God to operate through us to touch that which concerns them most.
To that end, we would love to pass on to you what the Lord has given us, taught us, and allowed us to experience regarding healing the whole man.
Jim Banks was trained in electrical engineering and started his career as an electrical design engineer for a Houston based consulting engineering house, only to find that he didn't like engineering very much. After a couple of years, he moved into technical sales to take advantage of his education. There he rose to sales and marketing director for several manufacturers. The first of which was in Houston, Texas where he met and married Patricia, who at the time was in Management with Southwestern Bell.
Life often takes a number of interesting turns, as it has for Jim and Pat. Despite however or where ever they were employed, they continued to minister in prayer to the hurting on nights and weekends free of charge for about 15 years. They made the shift into full time ministry in 2002 with a move from the Atlanta area to Asheville, NC where they founded House of Healing Ministries, a ministry to broken hearted individuals. But perhaps more importantly, they established an equipping ministry for the Body of Christ to allow a portion of it to become the compassionate healers they were always meant to be. Part of that effort was to establish a comprehensive healing community through the church they attended, which still operates today. This group of compassionate healing minsters were trained in various aspects of physical healing prayer, inner (emotional and spiritual) healing, deliverance and is capable of effectively dealing with about any issue you can think of. In the last 9 years Jim & Pat have trained over 8,000 individuals in some form of inner healing. Through this web site and a number of video courses currently being filmed, that number will continue to grow.
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Jim and Pat Banks live in Thompson's Station, TN (as of Oct 30th, 2018) and travel and train about 50% of the time. They have four children and six grandchildren - all of whom they are very proud.
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I've been c r a v i n g A slow cooker meal. I was browsing Pinterest when I came across this recipe.
Here's the ingredients I used to make this meal I forgot to add the organic carrots I purchased from Whole Foods. I needed to use them before they wouldn't go bad. I thought it'd go well with the dish (and it did).
I added carrots which I chopped and grated. I marinated the ingredients together in the refrigerator for an hour.
I cooked on high for 4 hours. So good!
So I save a lot of recipe tutorials that I find on Facebook, but this one in particular caught my eye because I love shrimp and asparagus. This recipe was quick and easy, two things that are crucial to me because my daughter takes up most of my time! But I thought it was missing something… a carb (laughs). So I picked my favorite, white jasmine rice that I came across after visiting Whole Foods. I will say this, I didn't follow the recipe to the T.
Wait, let me explain. I bought all of the ingredients. But instead of reviewing the recipe like I wanted. I jumped up right after I put baby down for a nap (afraid she'd wake up at any moment), and went solely off of memory and it still turned out well.
It didn't take long to prep. I say roughly 12 minutes because I had to thaw out my shrimp. To do that I just placed my bag of shrimp into my strainer, and ran cold water over them, tossing them for an even thawing out, until the ice had melted. I didn't use warm water because I found that higher temperature can begin to cook (pink coloration is an indication of that). I also cut off & disposed of the asparagus ends, and cut the asparagus in half to fit in the pan (rinse them first). I heated 1 tbsp of olive oil on medium heat and tossed my shrimp in with 2 tsp of red pepper, ground peppercorn medley, and a dash of sea salt. I did begin to cook my jasmine rice adding a tbsp of blue bonnet butter & a tsp of lemon pepper for taste. I've been taught one of the best ways to cook jasmine rice is to let it cook. Do not stir (I will stir as its finishing up (the bottom will stick if I don't) when majority of the water is absorbed. If you have any suggestions on how not to burn the rice, please let me know (maybe I should turn my eye down?) in the comments below! This batch I was able to avoid burning by adding a little more water and stirring as it finished cooking down. I also did pre-rinse the rice because I noticed it wasstarchy the first time I cooked it with kabobs (I should've blogged that recipe—so good).
In the meantime, I did remove my shrimp after cooking, and adding my favorite, Kikoman's soy sauce (original recipe said 2 tbsp), but since I added sea salt, I cut that down to 1 tbsp (forgot the soy sauce was needed after I already added the salt). I added the soy sauce immediately into the skillet to blend into the flavors of the crushed red peppers and peppercorn medley. I then added the asparagus, cooking for 2-3 minutes (I wanted the crunch of the vegetable in tact & Voilà! The end result.
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One-step Deposition of Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Membranes for Solar Cells
Perovskite solar cells are a promising next-generation photovoltaic technology due to their high power conversion efficiencies and low costs. Perovskite solar cells exhibit comparable efficiencies to traditional polycrystalline silicon solar cells at, potentially, one third the costs. As perovskite solar cells can be manufactured on flexible substrates and are semi-transparent they are a promising candidate for building-integrated photovoltaics. In order to manufacture perovskite solar cells suitable for building-integrated photovoltaics the thickness of the light absorbing layer must be reduced to improve transparency. Porosity in the perovskite layer is also desirable to produce a solar cell with a more neutral color. Current methods for producing thin, porous perovskite layers are difficult to efficiently scale up, use multiple steps, or are difficult to control.
This technology minimises the steps required for production of a porous perovskite layer for solar cell applications. The technology also allows for efficient scale-up and control of the porosity of the perovskite layer. This is achieved by utilising spin coating and microgels to provide a micropatterning template around which the perovskite crystallises. Microgels (which are like microscopic sponges) are already widely used to produce surface coatings in the automotive industry, and are compatible with solvents used to produce perovskite layers. The perovskite layer can be deposited in one step, with good control over porosity achieved by adjusting the ratio of microgel to perovskite. This technology can potentially be applied to multiple perovskite compounds, providing a scalable and controllable method for the production of a variety of semi-transparent solar cells.
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* To stall for time just to end the game during their turn with a little burn effect (like the one from Gagaga Cowboy) without giving the opponent any chance to comeback once time is called.
* To slowplay to get a time extension and win a game during their turn by just doing a little bit of damage.
* To accuse their opponent of slow play even if they are not, and the opponent to defend themselves about it. This would end up in SO MANY discussions between players, making the game a lot more stressfull to play.
* To constantly rush their opponent while getting close to time (even if they are playing at a good pace) to not lose because of the new procedures.
* To constantly overthink responces to your opponent plays to cut down time or run out of time during an opponent's standby or main phase before they could win the game in their Battle phase; ending up in an unfair win.
This new End of Match Procedures it is not only counterproductive (allowing long discussions between opponents and the judges to arise) but overall is unhealthy for the competitive game.
I think KONAMI shoul change the End of Match Procedures back to at least have 4 turns in total after time is called (2 per player), every other change i think it is okay.


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Classical music: Pianist Ilya Yakushev returns to play Russian jazz with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra on Friday night, then a recital of piano classics at Farley's House of Pianos on Saturday night
ALERT: The second of two FREE Friday Noon Musicales — devoted to the music of John Harbison on the occasion of his 80th birthday — will take place this Friday at the First Unitarian Society of Madison, 900 University Bay Drive. The Mosaic Chamber Players will perform. The concert runs from 12:15 to 1 p.m. The composer will be there to sign copies of his new book "What Do We Make of Bach?"
Although he has heard the jazz suites by Dmitri Shostakovich many times, The Ear was surprised to learn how many modern Russian composers fell under the spell of American jazz.
Cultural difference combined with cultural exchanges might be one explanation.
But he also wonders if perhaps living in a state of psychological and emotional distress and danger – the Stalinist Terror facing composers in the Soviet Union and the Jim Crow racism facing African-American jazz artists in the United States – created a certain affinity between such apparently different musical traditions.
One thing is certain: the program that Ilya Yakushev (below), who was born and trained in Russia and now teaches at the Mannes College of Music in New York City – promises to be one of the most interesting programs of this season.
During his return to Madison, the Russian virtuoso pianist – who has his own interest in jazz and played a solo version of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" when last here — will perform two programs at venues where he has proven to be a sensational audience favorite.
This Friday night, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Capitol Theater of the Overture Center, Yakushev will once again team up with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (below) and its music director and conductor Andrew Sewell, to perform two rarely heard Russian works that demonstrate the influence of American jazz.
Those two Russian works are "Ten Bagatelles for Piano Orchestra" by Alexander Tcherepnin (below top) and the "Jazz Suite for Piano and Small Orchestra by Alexander Tsfasman (below bottom).
You can hear the Lyrical Waltz from Tsfasman's Suite in the YouTube video at the bottom.
The WCO complements that with two jazz-influenced works by Igor Stravinsky (below): Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra and "Ragtime."
Then the concert concludes with one of the most iconic and well-known pieces of all classical music: the Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
For much more information about Yakushev and the program as well as to a link to buy tickets ($15-$80) go to:
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Then on this Saturday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Farley's House of Pianos, 6522 Seybold Road, on Madison's far west side near West Towne Mall, Yakushev will perform a program of impressive tried-and-true classics as part of the Salon Piano Series.
An artist's reception will follow the concert.
Tickets are $45 in advance (students $10) or $50 at the door. Service fees may apply. Tickets can also be purchased at Farley's House of Pianos. Call (608) 271-2626.
Student tickets can only be purchased online and are not available the day of the event. Tickets can be purchased in advance from:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/706809brownpapertickets.com
For more information, go to: https://salonpianoseries.org
Yakushev's recital program is:
Adagio in B minor, K. 540 (1788), by Mozart
Sonata in F minor "Appassionata," Op. 57 (1804), by Ludwig van Beethoven
Vallée d'Obermann, S. 160 (1855), from "Années de pèlerinage, Première année" (Years of Pilgrimage, First Year), by Franz Liszt
The song "Widmung" (Dedication) by Robert Schumann as transcribed for solo piano by Liszt, S.566 (1848)
"Mephisto Waltz No. 1," S. 514 (1862), by Liszt (below, in an 1886 photo, the year before he died, when Liszt was teaching many students, by Nadar)
In addition, on Saturday at 4 p.m., Yakushev will teach a FREE and PUBLIC master class at Farley's House of Pianos, where he will instruct local students.
The master class program will include:
Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1, First Movement by Beethoven; performed by Kevin Zhang who studies with Kangwoo Jin.
Six Variations on "Nel cor piu non mi sento" (In My Heart I No Longer Feel) by Beethoven, performed by Daniel Lee who studies with Irmgard Bittar.
Etude in G-Flat Major ("Black Key") Op. 10, No. 5,by Frederic Chopin; performed by Alysa Zhou, who studies with Denise Taylor.
Master classes for the 2018-19 season are supported by the law firm of Boardman & Clark LLP.
The concert is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Salon Piano Series is a nonprofit founded to continue the tradition of intimate salon concerts featuring exceptional artists. To become a sponsor of the Salon Piano Series, please contact Renee Farley at (608) 271-2626 or email renee@salonpianoseries.org
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Classical music: Today is Sept. 11. Here are 10 pieces by 10 different composers inspired by the terrorist attacks of 2001
Today is Sept. 11, 2018.
That makes it the 17th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S.
Two of the attacks took place on the Twin Towers (below) of the World Trade Center in New York City.
One took place on the Pentagon (below) in Washington, D.C.
And one, with an unknown target but perhaps either The White House or The Capitol, was thwarted on board Flight 93 when passengers forced the plane to crash in a field (below) in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
In past years, The Ear has chosen certain pieces to play or link to.
This year he found a list of 10 pieces of new music, with photos of the composers and short paragraphs of background as a program note, on the website for Classic FM digital radio.
Some of the pieces and the composers he already knows – and suspects you do too. They include John Adams, Steve Reich, Joan Tower, Eric Ewazen, Ned Rorem and John Corigliano.
But there are also quite a few new titles and names, including Robert Moran, Anthony Davis, Howard Goodall and Michael Gordon. (You can hear Howard Goodall's "Spared" in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
You can find recordings on YouTube.
Here is a link to the story to help you to listen in remembrance – although silence is also perfectly appropriate:
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/occasions/memorial/classical-music-inspired-911/
Of course, lots of old music and historic composers can be suitable without being new music directly inspired by 9/11.
So please tell us: What music would you play to mark the occasion?
Leave your choice and the reason for it in the COMMENT section along with, if possible, a link to a YouTube performance.
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Classical music: Today is Sept. 11. What music would you listen to, to commemorate the terrorist attacks on that day
The news today will be filled with Hurricane Irma, Hurricane José and Hurricane Harvey as well as the wildfires raging out west.
But today is also Sept. 11, 2017.
That makes today the 16th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in the Twin Towers in New York City (below top); the Pentagon in Virginia, close to Washington, D.C. (below middle); and that thwarted hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93, which passengers forced to crash in a field in Pennsylvania (below bottom) before it could reach the Capitol or White House.
During the September 11 attacks, 2,996 people were killed and more than 6,000 others wounded. These immediate deaths included 265 on the four planes (including the 19 terrorists), 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon.
A lot of music could be played to mark the occasion.
At bottom, in a YouTube video, is "On the Transmigration of Souls," a piece by the American composer John Adams that was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic specifically to mark the event. It ended up winning a Pulitzer Prize.
It uses both an orchestra and a chorus, and it incorporates voices and sounds, actual recordings and tapes, from the events of that day. It all makes for a moving tribute.
But other music, in smaller forms and in many other styles, would also be appropriate.
What piece would you suggest?
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Classical music: Let us celebrate Brit Grit after the Manchester terrorist attack with Elgar's Symphony No. 1
First came the unforgettable.
Then came the unforgivable.
In the first case, I am talking about the woefully under-attended performance on Sunday afternoon at the Wisconsin Union Theater by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (below) under its outgoing maestro Edo de Waart.
The MSO played the Overture to the opera "Don Giovanni" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; "Schelomo: A Hebraic Rhapsody" by Ernest Bloch, with principal cellist Susan Babini as soloist; and the Symphony No. 1 by Sir Edward Elgar.
In each case, all sections of the orchestra performed stunningly well and the caliber of performance made you wonder: "Why don't we hear this group more often?"
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra used to tour to Madison every year or so. It should do so again.
Then not long after the concert came word of the deadly terrorist attack by a suicide bomber at a pop concert in Manchester, England.
Sure, sometimes these things just happen. But coincidences can have power.
The Ear can't think of a more stately and forceful statement of British fortitude and stoicism – the same grit that saw Britain through the Nazi blitz — than the poignant march-like opening of the first movement of Sir Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1.
Chances are you don't know the symphony.
Chances are you know Elgar from his "Pomp and Circumstance" Marches, from his "Enigma Variations" for orchestra, from his Cello Concerto, from his Violin Concerto, from the violin miniature "Salut d'amour."
But this is grand and great Elgar (below) who, like Brahms, turned to writing symphonies only late in his life.
We don't hear Elgar's first symphony often enough.
And this just happens to be the right time, both because of the world-class performance by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and because the symphony was premiered in 1908 — in Manchester — and then went on to be popular enough to have some 100 performances in its first year.
But it has fallen out of favor. The last time the Ear heard it live was years ago when the UW Symphony Orchestra played it under the baton of guest conductor and UW-Madison alumnus Kenneth Woods (below), who now leads the English Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Mahler Festival.
So here, in the YouTube video at the bottom, is a complete recording from the BBC Proms in 2012. Perhaps you will only listen to the opening movement, or even just the opening of the opening movement, with its moving theme that recurs throughout and then returns at the end.
But however much you listen to — and you shouldn't miss the glorious slow movement – it seems a fitting choice to share today.
After all, as Leonard Bernstein once said: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
If you have another choice of music to listen to on this deadly occasion, leave word and a YouTube link in the COMMENT section.
Solidarity through music!
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Classical music: The Festival Choir opens its season Saturday night with a light and music project devoted to peace
The Festival Choir of Madison (below, in a photo by Stephanie Williams), singing under its director Sergei Pavlov, will open its new season with a mixed arts event devoted to peace.
The concert is this Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Atrium Auditorium at the First Unitarian Society of Madison, 900 University Bay Drive.
"Da Pacem Domine" is a project of music and light dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
It will feature light design by Andrew Schmitz.
Tickets are $15 for general admission; $12 for seniors; and $9 for students.
For more information about this concert, tickets and the entire season with three more concerts, go to: http://festivalchoirmadison.org
Says Pavlov (below), who teaches at Edgewood College:
"Tonight the Festival Choir of Madison presents a project that goes beyond the concept of a traditional concert. With the help of compositions from all around the world, we recreate a day in the life of a nation. Yes, this day is September 11, 2015. But in fact, it could be any day in history, when humanity has faced profound grief caused by hatred and destruction.
"The concert comprises six parts: "Morning," "Cries and Whispers," "A Prayer for Peace," "Interlude," "The Memory of our Heroes" and "On Earth, as it is in Heaven."
"From the dream-like visions of Daniel Elder, through the biting dissonances of Hikaru Hayashi and the otherworldly sounds of Ēriks Ešenvalds, the Festival Choir of Madison and the light designer Andrew Schmitz will take you on a journey of compassion and hope.
"Experience the healing power of LIGHT AND MUSIC in a project inspired by choral works of Arvo Pärt, John Tavener, Ēriks Ešenvalds (heard below in a YouTube video), Hikaru Hayashi, Daniel Elder, Rene Clausen and James MacMillan."
There will also be cello music by Johann Sebastian Bach and bagpipe music performed by Rhys O'Higgins.
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Classical music: Read the reviews. This afternoon is your last chance to hear — and, thanks to NASA, to see — Holst's "The Planets." But ARRIVE EARLY! The Madison Symphony Orchestra has alerted its audiences about new security measures at the Overture Center
The Madison Symphony Orchestra has sent out the following note, via email and regular mail, about new security measures at the Overture Center.
They will be in effect for the three MSO concerts this weekend, including the performance today, Sunday, Sept. 25, at 2:30 p.m.
For more information about the program, visit this link:
https://welltempered.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/classical-music-the-madison-symphony-orchestra-opens-its-new-season-this-weekend-with-music-by-holst-and-photographs-by-nasa-in-the-planets-an-hd-odyssey/
"Due to changes in the Overture Center's security procedures, there will be only THREE main entry points into the building (below) as you come for your concert. When you arrive, please enter at:
• The main Overture Center entrance on State Street
• An entrance on Fairchild Street (one door only)
• The "back" entrance on Henry Street
Security stations will be placed at each entrance where Overture staff will conduct a bag search on bags larger than a small purse, including backpacks.
We anticipate that the process will be smooth and proceed quickly, although we do recommend you come early for peace of mind so you can enjoy the concert from start to finish!
For more information on the Overture Center's security measures, please visit the website at overturecenter.org/about/security
The Ear wonders what effect these new security measures will have on attendance at the symphony, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra concerts, the Madison Opera, the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society and other non-musical events.
The Ear would like to know if the new security measures come in response to an actual terrorist threat or are simply a new standard operating procedure. The published explanation leans to the latter and says the Overture Center was to take the same precautions that big presenters in, say New York City and Washington, D.C., do.
But The Ear wonders: Will similar measures now be adopted by the Wisconsin Union Theater, the University of Wisconsin School of Music and other major local venues?
Does anyone have more information or an opinion?
What do you think about the necessity or desirability of such measures ?
And what was your experience like with the new procedures?
In the meantime, this afternoon is your last chance to hear the program that generally gets very positive reviews.
Here is the review that John W. Barker (below) wrote for Isthmus:
http://isthmus.com/music/beautiful-music-distracting-backdrop/
And here is the review that Jessica Courtier wrote for The Capital Times:
http://host.madison.com/ct/entertainment/music/concert-review-mso-takes-audience-on-a-stunning-trip-to/article_6dd45c4d-c11b-5c77-ae54-35a3e731b1cb.html
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Classical music: What music would you play to honor and mourn the dead, wounded and traumatized victims of the gay night club shooting in Orlando, Florida?
It has been a week now.
A very long, hard and emotional week.
The Ear has heard some classical music dedicated to the victims — 49 killed, some 50 wounded and countless traumatized — of the mass shooting at Pulse, a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, that took place one week ago. (Below is a vigil in support of the LGBT community.)
Others might choose a standard like the famous "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. It is undeniably moving and perfectly appropriate.
But so far the piece that most moved The Ear, unexpectedly, was a familiar one that aired on Wisconsin Public Radio: the "Nimrod" variation from the "Enigma Variations" by Sir Edward Elgar.
The Ear hears tenderness, gentleness and even love in the music. But in it he also hears strength, resilience and pride as well as sorrow, acceptance and resignation.
Plus, he likes the idea of enigma that is attached to it, given all the issues and questions — terrorism, Islamic radicalization and extremism, homophobia, self-hatred, hate crimes, gun control, protests, mass grieving — that still surround the incident and remain to be solved.
You can listen to the piece of music in the YouTube video at the bottom that features conductor Daniel Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It has more than 3 million hits.
But The Ear is also sure that there is a great deal of other music that would suit the purpose. They include:
The passions, oratorios and cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Requiems of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Giuseppe Verdi and Gabriel Faure.
The symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Peter Tchaikovsky and Antonin Dvorak.
The string quartets, piano trios, duo sonatas and other chamber music by Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert as well as the solo piano music of Chopin, Schumann and so many others.
The masses of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
The songs of Schubert and arias and choruses from all kinds of operas, but especially those of Giacomo Puccini.
And on and on.
Leave your personal choice, with a YouTube link if possible, and your reason for choosing it in the COMMENT section.
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Classical music: The Festival Choir of Madison performs under famed choral conductor Joseph Flummerfelt this Saturday night.
The Ear has received the following timely and important announcement:
The Festival Choir of Madison (below) and its new artistic director Sergei Pavlov – who teaches at Edgewood College — will close the current season with a special concert this Saturday night, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Christ Presbyterian Church, located at 944 East Gorham Street in downtown Madison.
The performance features one of the legendary American choral conductors, Maestro Joseph Flummerfelt (below right, with Sergei Pavlov). You can hear a long Q&A interview with Joseph Flummerfelt in the YouTube video at the bottom.
The program with the Festival Choir includes music by German composers Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms, British composer Herbert Howells, Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, Polish composer Henryk Gorecki and Scottish composer James MacMillan. Sorry, no word on individual works to be performed.
Tickets for the evening concert are available at the door and cost between $9 and $15.
Since 1971, Joseph Flummerfelt (below) has been responsible for most of the choral work of the New York Philharmonic, working closely with its music directors Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel and Alan Gilbert. Until 2004 he was Director of Choral Activities in the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.
Joseph Flummerfelt (below) with the Westminster Symphonic Choir and New York Choral Artists has been featured in 45 recordings, including a Grammy Award-winning CD of the Symphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler with Leonard Bernstein. His collaboration with the great American composer Samuel Barber includes the Grammy Award-winning recording of Barber's opera "Anthony and Cleopatra."
In 2004 Flummerfelt was awarded a Grammy for the New York Choral Artists' recording of "On the Transmigration of Souls," a Pulitzer Prize-winning composition written by John Adams in memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
A master teacher, Flummerfelt's many former students occupy a number of major choral positions throughout the world. Yannick Nezet-Seguin (below) — the current music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra and guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, who, as a teenager, studied with Dr. Flummerfelt in two advanced conducting summer workshops — cites him as one of the two major influences in his life as a conductor. A 2009 New York Times article said, "Mr. Nezet-Seguin called those sessions with Flummerfelt the only significant conducting lessons he ever had."
Flummerfelt has a special connection with Madison as well. As an undergraduate student in De Pauw University in Indiana, he was deeply inspired by a performance of a visiting choir, and the conductor of this group was Robert Fountain, the legendary Director of Choral Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.
Also on Saturday, May 7 at 11 a.m. there will be a question/answer session for all who would like to meet the Maestro Flummerfelt. The host is Edgewood College, and the session will be at the Washburn Heritage Room in the Regina Building. This is a FREE event.
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Classical music: Heard enough about Prince? Read about violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Plus, a FREE voice recital commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare is at noon on Friday
ALERT: This week's FREE Friday Noon Musicale, held from 12:15 to 1 p.m. in the Landmark Auditorium of the historic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Meeting House of the First Unitarian Society of Madison, located at 900 University Bay Drive, features tenor Adam Shelton and pianist Vincent Fuh in the program "Assassinating Shakespeare." The concert features music by Gerald Finzi, Roger Quilter, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Schubert and Dominick Argento.
It's a week later but news about the premature death at 57 on April 21 of the influential superstar pop rocker Prince continues to preoccupy the media.
To flood the media, really.
The Ear doesn't want to take away from Prince and his substantial artistic achievements. Nor does The Ear mean to belittle Prince's premature death, which is sad and unfortunate but hardly unusual in the world of pop music — and not really tragic in the larger scheme of things, given how the world is filled today with terrorism and refugees.
But he does think maybe a little perspective about this celebrity or star is required.
Does anyone else share The Ear's impatience with such saturation coverage and think that the media have gone overboard? There have been so many stories, so much repetition, such meaningless follow-up and continuing coverage that it almost belittles Prince's death with endless trivialities and predictable banalities.
So take a break.
Here is a story – from the Deceptive Cadence blog for NPR or National Public Radio — about this past weekend's 100th anniversary of the April 22, 1916 birth of the famed British violinist, teacher and polymath Sir Yehudi Menuhin (below top as a child, from the Underwood Archives, and below bottom as an older man in a photo by Erich Auerbach for Getty Images).
It is filled with inspiring details that command your respect for this great artist and humanitarian, who was international in his interests and many of whose accomplishments The Ear didn't know. You can hear him playing Bach in the YouTube video at the t bottom.
It is written by Tom Huizenga and features a lot of commentary and recollection by the gifted violinist Daniel Hope (below), who played music of European Jewish composers exiled in Hollywood during World War II by Hitler and the Nazis coming to power, with the Madison Symphony Orchestra two seasons ago.
Here is a link:
http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2016/04/22/474824320/yehudi-menuhins-potent-blend-of-music-humanism-and-politics
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Classical music: Collaborative pianist and UW-Madison professor Martha Fischer is The Ear's "Musician of the Year" for 2015
There is now so much outstanding classical music in the Madison area that it is hard to single out one performer or even one group as the Musician of the Year.
So this year The Ear was wondering how to honor all the musicians who generally go nameless but perform so well — all those string, brass, wind and percussion players and all those singers –- and not just the higher-profile conductors or soloists.
Then he was sitting at the astounding debut recital by Soh-Hyun Park Altino, the new violin professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, given the night of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Her partner was faculty pianist Martha Fischer.
And then is when The Ear decided that the Musician of the Year for 2015 should be Martha Fischer (below).
I'd say "accompanist," but we really don't call them accompanists any more. The better term, and the more accurate term, is collaborative pianist.
And if you heard Martha Fischer play the thorny piano parts of the violin sonatas by Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms, you know you heard amazing artistry. (Park Altino also played a solo work by Johann Sebastian Bach.)
Here is the rave review by The Ear:
https://welltempered.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/classical-music-if-a-perfect-debut-concert-exists-new-uw-madison-faculty-violinist-soh-hyun-park-altino-gave-it-last-friday-night/
Now, The Ear has to disclose that he knows Martha Fischer and is a friend of hers as well as of her husband Bill Lutes.
But none of that takes away from Fischer's many accomplishments, which too often fly under the radar and go uncredited.
Indeed, by honoring her, The Ear also hopes to draw attention to and to honor the many mostly anonymous ensemble and chamber players, including those in the Madison Symphony Orchestra (below top in a photo by Greg Anderson), the Middleton Community Orchestra, the Madison Opera Chorus and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra as well as the UW Symphony Orchestra, the Edgewood College orchestras and choirs, the UW Chamber Orchestra and the UW Choral Union (below bottom) and other UW choirs.
Too often, the members of those groups and so many others — such as the Ancora and Rhapsodie String Quartets, the Oakwood Chamber Players and the Willy Street Chamber Players, the Madison Choral Project, the Festival Choir and the Wisconsin Chamber Choir — pass unnoticed or under-noticed, much like Fischer. But like her, they deserve attention and respect.
Because they too are collaborators.
They serve the music. The music does not serve them.
And the truth is that most music-making is collaborative -– not solo performing.
In addition, Fischer is also the model of the kind of academic that Gov. Scott Walker and the go-along Republican Legislators don't seem to recognize or appreciate. They prefer instead to scapegoat and stigmatize public workers, and to hobble the University of Wisconsin with budget cuts and so-called reforms.
Remember that old saying: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach? It's nonsense, especially in this case.
Martha Fischer is someone who both teaches and performs. She also participates in faculty governance and heads up the committee searching for a new opera director. When The Ear asked her for an update on the search, she provided records with complete transparency up to the limits of the law. Our corrupt, secretive and self-serving state government leaders should be so honest and so open.
Fischer is a first-rate collaborator who performs and records regularly with other faculty instrumentalists and singers. They include UW trombonist Mark Hetzler, trumpeter John Aley and singers baritone Paul Rowe and soprano Julia Faulkner, who has since moved on to the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
A model of the Wisconsin Idea in action, Fischer also serves as a juror for piano competitions, gives talks around the state and helps recruit talented students.
As a researcher, Fischer – who trained at the Julliard School, Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music — traveled to England and interviewed famous collaborative pianists about playing Schubert's art songs.
By all accounts, Fischer is a phenomenal teacher of both undergraduate and graduate students. The Ear has heard her students in concerto and solo recital performances, and was impressed. He also talked to her students and heard nothing but praise for her teaching.
He has heard Fisher herself sing, from Schubert lieder to Gilbert and Sullivan songs. She does that amazingly well too.
Fisher is one of the co-founders, co-organizers and main performers of the UW's Schubertiades (below). The third annual Schubertiade is on Saturday, January 30, at 8 p.m. in Mills Hall. Go there and you can hear her sing and play piano duets and other chamber music. It is always one of the outstanding concerts of the year.
Well, The Ear could go on and on. The personable but thoroughly professional Martha Fischer works so hard that there are plenty of reasons to honor her.
So, for all the times her playing and other talents have escaped attention, The Ear offers a simple but heartfelt Thank You to the Musician of the Year for 2015.
Please feel free to leave your thanks and remarks in the COMMENTS section.
If you want to hear Martha Fischer in action, here is a link to the SoundCloud posting of her playing the Brahms Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100, for Violin and Piano with violinist Soh-Hyun Park Altino:
https://soundcloud.com/uw-madisonsom
Then listen to the delicacy, balance and subtleties, of Fischer's playing in this YouTube video of a lovely Romance for Trumpet and Piano:
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New mechanism of optical gain in two-dimensional material requires only extremely low input power
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Credit: by Zhen Wang†, Hao Sun†, Qiyao Zhang, Jiabin Feng, Jianxing Zhang, Yongzhuo Li, and Cun-Zheng Ning
In a new paper published in Light Science & Application, researchers from Tsinghua University and Arizona State University report their results on studying the fundamental physics of excitons, trions, and related complexes. Excitons are quasi-particles formed by an electron and a void called hole left when an electron is excited in a semiconductor. Such an exciton can be charged, to form a so called trion when it further binds with another electron or a hole. The team discovered an interesting process that gives optical gain, a prerequisite for signal amplification or lasing in a semiconductor, by exploring the intricate balance and conversion of excitons, electrons, holes, and trions. Interestingly the required level of input power to realize such optical gain is extremely low, 4 to 5 orders of magnitude lower than in a conventional semiconductor such as GaAs or InP, which are the workhorse materials for optoelectronic devices currently.
The distribution of these exciton-related complexes and their dynamical mutual conversion are at the very heart of solid state physics for many decades. There are still unresolved issues as to how these excitons form more complex particles and eventually transform into an ionized conducting phase of charged particles as we introduce more and more of them into a semiconductor. This process is called the Mott transition, after Sir Nevill Francis Mott, the celebrated British Nobel winning physicist. Conventional theory for the occurrence of optical gain says that free excitons cannot produce optical gain before the Mott transition in a semiconductor with freely moving charges. Optical gain occurs after electron density exceeds the so-called Mott density, typically a very high level of density on the orders of trillions of particles per centimeter squared. Such an extremely high density requires a high level of injection of electrical current, or electrical power. Most of our current semiconductor lasers that power our internet, data centers, and many other applications are based on such semiconductors.
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The recent emergence of atomically thin layered materials made such study possible and more meaningful. These materials comprise of only a few layers of atoms. Because of the thinness of the materials, electrons and holes attract each other 100s times stronger than in conventional semiconductors. Such strong charge interactions make excitons and trions very stable even at room temperature. This was the reason why the authors could explore such intricate balance and carefully control their mutual conversion to achieve optical gain. By creating excitons through optical pumping by a laser, excitons form trions with part of electrons whose number is controlled by a gate voltage. When more electrons are in the trion state than electron state, a condition called population inversion occurs. More photons can be emitted than absorbed, leading to a process called stimulated emission and optical amplification or gain.
"Another motivation for this study was the apparent contradiction between a few high profile experiments in the field in recent years. There have been a few experiments reporting laser demonstrations using 2D materials as gain media. There lasers required very low level of pumping when excitons are dominant light emission mechanism. But the only existing experiment that proved the existence of optical gain in such materials requires much higher level of pumping", said Ning, who leads the research team. Ning noticed the densities in the laser experiments are smaller than the Mott density by 3 to 5 orders of magnitude, while optical gain was only observed after the Mott transition. Since laser operation requires the existence of optical gain, Ning asked "where does optical gain come from in those laser experiments?" or "what is the mechanisms of optical gain at such a lower level of optical pumping? Or more generally, are there any possible new gain mechanisms before Mott transition?" These questions led to their experimental investigation started several years ago.
"We have systematically pursued this issue experimentally for 2-3 years. We bounced a beam of light of a broad spectrum off 2D molybdenum ditelluride and carefully watch if the reflected signal is larger or smaller than the incident beam to look for any sign of light amplification," said Hao Sun, who is a lead author of this paper in charge of optical measurement.
"To be sure, similar trion gain experiment was conducted in 1990s with conventional semiconductors", noticed Ning. "But the excitons and trions were so unstable, both experimental observation and, especially, utilization of this optical gain for real devices are extremely difficult." "Since the excitons and trions are much more stable in the 2D materials, there are new opportunities to make real-world devices out of this observation", pointed out Ning. "For the moment, this result belongs to basic physics research, but as for all the important observations in semiconductors, they could eventually be applied to making real lasers," commented Ning.
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Q: generate all possible strings with 0 and 1 (given length) i need a function in java that give a (int length) as input and print all possible strings with '0' and '1' letters.
this is not a permutation because number of 0 s and 1 s are different in each possible string
EXAMPLE: length=3

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*111

*110

*100

*000

*001

*011

*010

*101

A: You can try something with 2^N (N can takes as length ). Then convert 0-2^N to binary and use proper binary formating. The you can have what you looking for.
First step- get 2^N
double twosPow = Math.pow(2, occurrence);

Now iterate from 0 up to twosPow. and convert number to binary
Second step- how to convert int to binary?
Integer.toBinaryString(k); // 0<=k<  twosPow

Third step- format binary
String.format("%" + length + "s",binary).replace(" ", "0")

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