Arias da Camera by Händel, Durante, Marcello, Clari, Steffani, Cesti .
Meldorf, Dom , 20.00 "Venezianische Kapriolen"
Finally !!!!!!!!!! Jaroussky will arrive in Barcelona and Torroella de Montgrí !!!!
Grazie, numi!!! And thank you a lot, lot, lot, Jana, for this good news.
I live in Israel, and I was wondering if anyone knows if Philippe is planning to come to Israel?
He has many fans in this country.
There is none scheduled for now, apparently.
Thank's. Sorry he is not coming to Israel for the time, but C'est la vie!
I´m very sorry, here is the link to the Wigmore Hall´s schedule for April 2011, there is no mention about this concert.
Would you like to give here the more precise info? Many thanks.
Would you like to share the link , where from you got this precious info?
The info came from "Summer11" The Wigmore Hall brochure, which they send early to friends (like me) who can book early. I've scanned the page but I cannot work out how to post and image on the forum, "host an image" doesn't seem to do anything.
The Wigmore Hall Box office told me when I booked (Jan 7) that they did not expect this performance to be in as much demand as, say, the Daniel Baronboim concert. Good news that not everyone likes the same music/musicians.
Please, take a look on your PM.
At the site of Wigmore Hall is still no information.
Does someone know the program that HE is going to interpret in Saltzburg with Marc Minkowski?
I have just seen in MEZZO that on March 29, at 13' 00, broadcast ORLANDO FURIOSO from the T. des Champs Elysées, with the wonderful distribution that already is annotated in the Calendar. Will someone of the geniuses of the forum be able to record it?.
If everything going well I plan to be there again. Jana?
And I´m also thinking of to go to the Halle concert, but I don´t like to go alone there, maybe my friend Steffi likes to join me again. It´s a Saturday so the chance is good.
Orlando finto pazzo : aria " se in ogni guardo"
Catone in Utica : aria " se mai senti spirati sul volto "
Giustino : aria " vedro con mio diletto"
Orlando furioso : aria " nel profondo "
In addition, in Budapest will not be Marie-Nicole: "elle se fait remplacer pour les représentations prévues à Budapest dans les jours qui viennent, pour se concentrer sur celles de Londres et de Nice".
Found a castlist for 24.03.11 in Budapest.
Philippe will sing in Bremerhaven, Stadttheater with Concerto Köln ( Caldara- program).
The tickets for Schleswig- Holstein Musikfestival at 15.07.2011 are almost sold out, I called there yesterday. Online you can still get only the few places "without a sight" .
The tickets for Bremen Musikfestival at 15.09.2011 are in sell !
The sell at the online ticket-office of TCE starts at 20 Juni!
Vous êtes bien aimable; j'irai sans doute à Bruxelles mais les places ne sont pas encore en vente , je crois! Grand merci en tout cas .
Moi aussi normalement j'irai à Bruxelles. Peut-être serait-ce l'occasion de faire connaissance?
Oui, ce serait avec plaisir.
Super, dès que les places sont mises en vente , on se contacte.
In July I am going to be in Germany and I think it`s the only one chance for me (this year) to attend concerts of Phillipe Jaroussky.
I would be grateful if someone helps me. I didn`t find information myself.
It`s very kind of you!!!
as a little advice, perhaps for next year: One could already sign in for tickets for the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival on the website in February....I was lucky and got a ticket for the concert!
It is the main rule in these cases- the earlier the better. When the ticket - sale started, try immediately!
Tickets for concert in Halle are on sale now.
We´ll have an hot summer! Good luck!
I´d like to go there, but I don´t know my own schedule yet.
August 25th 2011, 17:00 h.
"... se suspendre aux lèvres de Philippe Jaroussky pendant le Nisi dominus de Vivaldi..."
By the way, tickets went on sale last friday!
Can not be expressed better. And it is absolutely true.
Thanks for transcribing it, bonita.
My dear, it is not "schedule by Jana", it is "schedule by our forum", where each of us try to participate and to help.
I´m sorry, it was the first way I found to say it was a new concert not mentioned in the "schedule up there"
I am very happy to contribute!
Found a "quite confidential" concert in St-Prex, Switzerland (along lake of Geneva) at it seems that it was not listed in official programme schedule... The first date on August 16th is already fully booked but there are seats left on August 17th.
The concert "Jaroussky and friends" is dedicated to Opium with Jérôme Ducros & Gautier Capuçon... with special programme & surprises!!
Another concert in Switzerland, Le Sentier, on 13.09.2011 with Concerto Köln (Caldara programme).


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Enrollment Management and Marketing > Enrollment Matters > Innovative Program Increases Access to Study and Research Abroad
Innovative Program Increases Access to Study and Research Abroad
Students travel to Ireland, Argentina and Columbia in June to conduct research and service
Ashley Ford / 6/5/2015 / Posted in: Center for Access and Attainment / Twitter / Facebook /
McNair Scholars from DePaul and University of Central Florida during a research trip to Croatia in 2014. Click to enlarge image.
Study abroad is an increasingly important high-impact experience for students preparing to work in a globalizing world—particularly for those entering academic and research careers. Yet students from minority and first-generation college backgrounds are less likely to participate in study abroad.
Recognizing this, DePaul has become a leading institution in making international education experiences more accessible to students. Part of this effort has been through EMM's TRIO McNair Scholars and Arnold L. Mitchem Fellows programs which provide academic support for low-income, first generation and minority students preparing for doctoral studies and faculty careers.
For almost a decade, with additional funding support from EMM, nearly three-quarters of DePaul's McNair graduates have participated in some form of study abroad.
In addition to existing programs, McNair and Mitchem have also developed their own summer experiences focusing on group-based research in international settings. Three groups of students departed in June for the following countries for two- to three-week research abroad trips:
Ireland: Students will research socioeconomic barriers to graduate education access in Ireland at All Hallows College in Dublin, Ireland.
Argentina: Students will examine issues of discrimination and privilege in Argentina and the use of arts for community intervention at the University of Buenos Aires.
Colombia: Students will study the impact of bicycling as a model for urban development, on citizen health and social capital, and will study Columbia's higher education system at the Universidad Piloto de Colombia in Bogota.
The McNair and Mitchem international research experience is distinct from many traditional study abroad programs in its intensity, research focus and engagement with students and faculty at host institutions abroad. Participants are exposed to international higher education settings and perspectives while simultaneously learning research skills and gaining experience that makes them more competitive candidates for graduate programs and for future graduate-level work.
To date, McNair and Mitchem participants have benefitted from similar experiences at 11 universities in seven countries, including Argentina, the United Kingdom and Croatia. Since the inception of both programs at DePaul, 100 percent of McNair and Mitchem participants complete a summer research experience at DePaul, other U.S. universities or abroad, and more than 60 percent participate in study or research abroad at some point in their undergraduate careers.
Past research abroad experiences in Argentina have been profiled by DePaul Magazine. For more information, contact Luciano Berardi, director of the McNair Scholars and Arnold Mitchem Fellows program.

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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, there have been a number of unsuccessful lawsuits by disappointed investors against their banks for mis-selling financial products, breach of duty of care, or misrepresentation. Individual plaintiffs have failed, in the main, because the Courts have not accepted that they were misled or unaware of the financial risks involved. For example, Judge Reyes in Kwok Wai Hing Selina v HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA  HKCU 1320 described the investor as "an adult, not a child…Ms Kwok is (and was) perfectly capable of understanding the key terms of the Statement." This recent case of Chang Pui Yin and Ors v Bank of Singapore Limited  HKCU 1858, represents the first significant victory for customers of a bank in a mis-selling case.
On 8 August 2016, the Court of First Instance decided that the relationship manager at the defendant bank had breach her contractual duty towards the bank's private banking clients by failing to exercise "reasonable care and skill" in assessing the clients' investment objectives and risk appetite, in offering them unsuitable investments, and in failing to warn of applicable risks.
According to the judgment, Mr and Mrs Chang (the "Changs") led relatively simple lives until 1997, when Mr Chang received a 'huge windfall' of HK$120 million from his connection with a relative's family business. The newly wealthy couple retired back to Hong Kong. Mrs Chang had bank accounts with Standard Chartered Bank ("SCB") during 1997-2004 and became good friends with Ms Yvetti Chau, customer relationship manager ("RM") of SCB. The RM moved to the defendant bank in 2004 ("Bank"), formerly ING before it was acquired by Bank of Singapore in 2009. Mrs Chang opened a private banking account with the RM and the Changs risk profile was classed as "medium risk" by the Bank.
The Changs and Nextday International Limited ("Nextday"), an investment vehicle of Mrs Chang, were sold high-risk investment products, including accumulators, equity-linked notes, foreign currency options and forwards, high yield bonds and equity options. These investments suffered significant losses as a result of the 2008 financial crisis. The Changs and Nextday claimed damages against the Bank for breach of contract, negligent advice, misrepresentation and/or undue influence in relation to their investments made through the Bank.
The plaintiffs' case was that pursuant to the banking agreement, the Bank would ascertain the financial circumstances and investment objectives of the plaintiffs; and then give investment advice and recommendations with reasonable care, skill and diligence in accordance with those circumstances and objectives.
The Court found in favour of the Changs and held that the Bank was in breach its contractual duty of care towards them by advising and recommending that they invest in products which did not match their investment objectives, and by failing to warn the Changs of the risk inherent in the investments offered to them.
Judge Bharwaney explained that the investors were "elderly and unsophisticated" and "wholly different from the vast majority of plaintiffs pursuing their private bankers in our courts" in that they "had very little real understanding about the investments they had made through the Bank".
The Court considered whether the Bank agreements gave rise to a requirement to provide advisory services, or if they were "execution only". A clause governing the scope of the banking services stated that "investments will be directed by you in the case of Custody Accounts (Custody Accounts) and Accounts which are established on an advisory basis only (Non-Discretionary Accounts)." The Court found that the expression 'established on an advisory basis only' suggested that the Bank was providing an advisory service (and not "execution only" services).
Having established an advisory duty, the Court relied on an earlier case of Susan Field v Barber Asia Ltd HCA 7119 of 2000, to establish that the RM had breached a contractual duty of care owed to the customer by failing to exercise reasonable care and skill by (1) not ascertaining and having regard to the Changs' investment objectives and risk appetite (2) not offering products which were suitable to the Changs' investment objectives and risk appetite and by (3) not warning the Changs of the risks inherent in the investments that were being offered.
This case demonstrates that the Courts are now prepared to hold banks accountable for negligent or misleading advice in situations where the customers genuinely rely upon banks to provide investment advice. Notwithstanding that the Bank had other non-reliance clauses and disclaimers in the service agreements, the Court interpreted an ambiguous clause within the Bank's standard terms and conditions against the Bank, and determined that the relationship between the Changs and the Bank was advisory in nature.
In assessing the level of sophistication, the Court will look at a range of factors, including the customer's education, personal background, investment experience, tape recordings of communications between the client and the Bank, and financial expert witnesses.
Banks will no longer be able to rely on non-reliance clauses to create a contractual estoppel and limit the duties owed to the investor. It will be important for banks to carefully document their suitability obligations as a defence against future mis-selling claims.
For further Alerts regarding mis-selling this year, please refer to our February 2016 Financial Services Alert.
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Another project I have been working on is making holiday wreaths using Designer Series Paper. Depending on the size of your foam ring, you will need between 26 - 36 strips of your paper.
The top wreath was smaller so I used less strips, but for both wreaths the strips were cut to measure 12" x 1 1/4". To adhere them to my styrofoam wreath that I purchased at a local craft store, I used snail adhesive and ran it down the back of the strip. Fold your strip over the center of your ring, careful not to adhere it until you grab the top pieces. Put these ends together, and then run your fingers down to the center to place it onto the wreath. Keep adding your paper, overlapping it just slightly on the prior piece until you are finished. I then used my 1 1/4" square punch to snip the ends, added a sentiment and a ribbon for hanging to finish the wreath.
The wreath above used retired Designer Series Paper, but the one below was made using the new Merry Music Specialty Designer Series Paper. I used three sheets of the paper that had the sheet music to Jingle Bells on it and liked that you could actually read the lyrics on the sheets because the strips are wide enough. My ribbon hanger and bow were made with some coordinating Basic Black 7/8" Striped Ribbon, and I used a glue gun to put the ribbon onto my wreath.


Clever children are more likely to smoke cannabis in their teenage years, but less likely to smoke tobacco. Researchers find this could be due to greater caution passed down by parents in early years. However, they are twice as likely to use cannabis and alcohol persistently throughout their teenage years through to adulthood.
A recent study conducted by the Universtiy College London (UCL) found that students age 11 who are high achievers academically are more likely to get high as teenagers. The report was based on the academic achievements that were formed from the results of Key Stage 2 tests taken at this age. The national Key Stage 2 test focuses on cognition in maths, science and English.
The BMJ Open Journal published the study, the first online peer-reviewed medical journal designed to provide open access to all research study types. It looked at the data of 6,059 young people from 838 state-funded and 52 fee-paying private schools in England, over a period of seven years. It suggests that high academic achievers are "initially cautious of illegal substances in early adolescence as they are more aware of the immediate and long-term repercussions that breaking the law may incur than those with lower academic ability."
Information about academic achievements was correlated with the health behaviour of students and tracked through responses to questionnaires in early and late adolescence (13/13 to 16/17 and 18/19 to 19/20 respectively). Their use habits were categorised as occasional or persistent and early or late.
High academic achievers from age 11 were seen to be less likely to smoke tobacco during adolescence. But pupils who were more academically successful were also almost twice as likely to use cannabis persistently and 50% more likely to use it occasionally, as well as alcohol. The same patterns observed in teenagers appeared to be carried through to adulthood. "The outcomes of cannabis use were found to be worsened by early onset and an increased frequency of use."
Researchers believe that these results could be due to greater caution expressed in younger years about the health risks of tobacco - possibly passed down by parents, while the use of psychoactive substances are due to greater curious tendencies, although "these associations persist into early adulthood. This provides evidence against the hypothesis that high academic ability is associated with temporary 'experimentation' with substance use."
Although the study provides a huge sample size followed seven times over 7 years, data was of course not provided for the exact quantity of consumption of either alcohol, cigarettes or cannabis. Neither were the KS2 data of 1.7% of the fee-paying school students provided. The study still offers us cornerstone research into the habits of intelligent young teenagers and the general habits of young people alike.
Especially for erudite children, this study could possibly suggest it might be a favourable idea to educate children on the health factors associated with cannabis, alcohol and tobacco. This way they will be more equipped to make better-informed decisions about what kind of choices they make in their teenage years.
Certainly choosing cannabis over tobacco is not a bad idea. Research suggests that using cannabis could even help in reducing the harm caused by smoking, especially if used correctly such as with a vaporizer or CBD oil. On the contrary, cannabis is proven to help reduce infection and the buildup of mucus with its anti-inflammatory properties. A brilliant alternative to smoking tobacco.
Let's hope that parents keep up the trend on educating clever kids about the health risks and dangers of smoking and drinking, so that the devastation caused by alcohol and tobacco could be reduced in the future.


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I am in withdrawal. No more new episodes of "The Good Wife," "Parenthood," "'black-ish," or "Nashville" til mid-January? What am I supposed to do in the meantime? Read? Geeze - next you'll tell me that I'm supposed to exercise and get a good night's sleep too.
Well – in lieu of any of those boring alternatives, I have taken to the internet! And of course, it's all in my desire to find out the latest end-of-year giving information for you – my brothers and sisters in the faith (and I rarely, well sort of rarely, peek at Facebook).
It's no surprise – people of faith want to give too. And a lot of them want to give on line. If you have on-line giving capability, make sure you've made it easy. Send an email on December 31 with a link to your donation/offering page. For some great tips on year-end giving, here's an excellent eight-minute video from Better Fundraising for All.
Your congregation, for the most part, reflects the statistics cited above. Don't count them out or do a half-hearted year-end giving effort. And, I bet a few folk in the pews can also hardly wait for the return of their favorite TV shows in January.
Don't forget! I am happy to review your year-end letter. Send it to me at inspiringgnerosity@gmail.com. I promise not to use red pen.
Cesie Delve Scheuermann is a consultant in stewardship, development, and grant writing. Over the past decade, while working as a volunteer and part-time consultant, she helped raise over $2 million dollars for numerous non-profit organizations. She served as the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference Lay Leader from 2008-2012. She is resorting to watching reruns of "Property Brothers" until January. Her position with the Conference is funded through a generous grant from the Collins Foundation. You can reach her at inspiringgenerosity@gmail.com.


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The Inside Story of How the RIAA Killed Muxtape
Adam Frucci
Muxtape, the simple, awesome and insanely popular online mix tape creator went offline last month with a brief explanation: "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA." Since then, we haven't heard anything about it. Until now. Justin, the creator of Muxtape, just posted a long, detailed account of what exactly happened and what the future of the site holds. It's a pretty great inside look at just how stupid and confused the music industry is right now. Essentially, he was working out very complicated licensing deals with the major labels (after they threatened him) well before the RIAA shut the site down. They weren't playing ball as much as he would have liked, but they were making slow progress. Then, one day, out of the blue, the RIAA got in touch with his host and shut the site down. Despite the fact that the RIAA is paid for by the major labels, none of the people he was dealing with seemed to care enough to do anything about it. In the end, he decided to ditch the progress he was making with the labels and head in a completely different direction. In the near future, Muxtape will be a simple music player for bands to stream their music in a way that's embeddable and expandable around the web. It sounds cool, but I'm not in a band. I liked the old Muxtape. It was a simple way to share music with friends that didn't provide downloads, instead introducing people to music that they could then obtain legally. Slap Amazon and iTunes links on all the songs and I guarantee that music sales would increase. Instead, it's just another example of the RIAA idiotically biting the hands of the music fans that feed them. [Muxtape]


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Q: googletest - memcmp failing on identical structs I'm using nanopb (same as google protobuf) to generate structs.
TEST(MyTest, DataInfo_tSerDes)
{
    DataInfo_t DataInfo_t_data_to_ser = DataInfo_t_init_default;
    DataInfo_t DataInfo_t_data_from_ser = DataInfo_t_init_default;
    DataInfo_t DataInfo_t_default = DataInfo_t_init_default;

    int cmp_val2;
    cmp_val2 = memcmp(&DataInfo_t_data_to_ser, &DataInfo_t_data_from_ser, sizeof(DataInfo_t));
    // Make sure the input is different from the current output
    EXPECT_EQ(cmp_val2, 0);
}

Output:
[==========] Running 1 test from 1 test suite.
[----------] Global test environment set-up.
[----------] 1 test from MyTest
[ RUN      ] MyTest.DataInfo_tSerDes
test_1.cpp:477: Failure
Expected equality of these values:
  cmp_val2
    Which is: -51
  0
[  FAILED  ] MyTest.DataInfo_tSerDes(0 ms)
[----------] 1 test from MyTest (0 ms total)

My EXPECT_EQ statement is failing; why?
How can those two structs, initialized to same struct initialization value, not be the same?

A: The struct might have a few so-called padding bytes between the fields. These bytes have no meaning, they are there because the other fields must be aligned to 2^n bytes. (E.g., int-s must be aligned to 4 bytes.)
e.g., struct S { char c; int i; }; will have 3 padding bytes between c and i as if it were declared like this: struct S { char c; char __padding[3]; int i; };. These padding bytes are usually ignored by assignment and equality comparison, but memcmp (and memcpy, and other functions that operate at a byte -- and not at C++ object -- level) do see these bytes and are affected by it.
As mentioned in the comments, the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler fills these padding bytes with 0xCD values.

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Q: Proof that $\operatorname{rank}(dT)=1$ implies the image is a curve I have a question about the proof that if the differential $dT$ of a transformation has rank 1 (2) at each point in a domain, then the image will be a curve (surface).
Stated more precisely (in $\mathbb{R}^3$ for convenience), suppose $T: \mathbb{R}^3\to \mathbb{R}^3$ is $C^1$ in an open set $D$ and has rank $1$ at each point $p\in D$. Then $T$ maps onto a curve in the target...in any point of $D$ there is a neighborhood in which one of the variables in the target can be used to express the others.
The proof I have read (in Buck's Advanced Calculus, p. 369-371) goes as follows: write $T$ as
$$T: \begin{cases}u=f(x,y,z)\\v=g(x,y,z) \\ w = h(x,y,z).\end{cases}$$
Take $p_0 \in D$. The matrix for $dT$ has at least one entry nonzero near $p_0\in D$ since it is rank 1, suppose for convenience it is $f_1$. Define $F(x,y,z,u) := f(x,y,z) - u = 0$, and by the implicit function theorem since $F_1 = f_1 \neq 0$, we can solve $x = K(y,z,u)$ in a neighborhood of $p_0$.  Now $$v = g(K(y,z,u), y, z) = G(y,z,u)\\ w = h(K(y,z,u),y,z)=H(y,z,u).$$
We can show that $v$ and $w$ do not depend on $y$ or $z$. For instance $\frac{\partial v}{\partial y}=0$ as follows: we can regard $y,z,u$ as independent near $p_0$ by what we've just shown. Therefore, differentiating the equations for $u$ and $v$ and solving, we get $$\frac{\partial v}{\partial y}= \frac{\left|\begin{matrix} f_1 & f_2 \\ g_1 & g_2 \end{matrix}\right|}{f_1},$$ which is zero since the numerator is a $2 \times 2$ submatrix of $dT$. $\blacksquare$
My question is: we have shown that $v=G(u)$, $w = H(u)$ in a neighborhood of $p_0$, but we have not shown that these functions are $C^1$, for instance, so how do we know that the curve is not degenerate? Intuitively, $\operatorname{rank}(dT)=1$ should guarantee that the image is not a point (perhaps even that it is a smooth curve), but how have we shown this?
If we try to take the derivatives of $G$ and $H$, we get $G'(u) = g_1 \cdot K_3$, $H'(u) = h_1 \cdot K_3$, and I see no reason why $g_1$ or $h_1$ should be nonzero near $p_0$. ($K_3$ should be $\frac{1}{f_1}$ near $p_0$, so it should be nonzero.) Can someone clarify for me?

A: Around each point $u$ you have that $G$ and $H$ are compositions of $C^1$ functions and thus $C^1$, hence your image is a $C^1$ curve. Note that your $K$ changes as we move along the curve but different $K$s will agree on intersection (implicit function theorem).
If the function is constant in a neighbourhood around $p_0$ then the rank at $p_0$ would be 0.


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Exes Of Evil
made a little joke
Asked by a voter what qualified her to handle leaders from countries such as Iran and North Korea, Clinton began her reply, then stopped and, for effect, repeated the question. "What in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men?" she said wryly, prompting peals of laughter from the audience.
writingThe Politico
It was revealing because--asked about dealing with evil men like Osama bin Laden--her mind seemed to go to her domestic enemies. It's absurd to suggest that she thinks Bill is evil like Osama. But Kenneth Starr? Rick Santorum? Her joke suggests that she buys into the notion that American and Middle Eastern "zealots" are cut from the same cloth, an idea that dovetails with her belief that there was (and is) a right-wing conspiracy to destroy the Clintons. But it does tell you how deeply inimical she still feels to elements of the American right, how little she has forgiven.
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Members of Parliament frustrated with the slow pace of NPA on prosecuting apartheid-era political crimes
Celestine Hendricks Celestine Hendricks
8 December 2021, 8:16 PM | Joseph Mosia	| @SABCNews
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
Members of parliament have raised their frustration with the slow pace at which the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is going on prosecuting apartheid-era political crimes.
They say it is unfair on the families of victims that they have to hire their own lawyers to try and speed up the process.
Concerns were also raised about the sudden resignation of Head of the Investigative Directorate Hermione Cronje.
Some families of victims of apartheid-era crimes are nervous that the perpetrators – the majority of whom are very old – will start dying off without taking responsibility for their actions.
Lukhanyo Calata, son of one of the Cradock Four Fort Calata, expressed frustration following the death of former President FW De Klerk. He believes that De Klerk knew something about the killing of his father and the others.
MP's in the Justice and Correctional Services Committee said the lack of progress in this regard was not on.
ANC MP, Richard Dyantyi, says no amount of justification is convincing about this lack of progress.
"The justification you are making for this lack of progress is not persuasive, is not compelling and I think the kind of presentation you are making, I think, we should ask you to go back and with some certain timelines to say by this time in January can the NDPP come back to us, not with some kind of general presentation. The NDPP or NPA has been caught with pants down on this issue of TRC. No amount of justification is convincing about this lack of progress. It's actually a shame chair."
NPA Head Advocate, Shamila Batohi, says while she is also keen for cases to be taken to court, acting too hastily could be detrimental to successful prosecution. She she says the NPA has now appointed dedicated prosecutors in all provinces to work on TRC matters. She added that they are keen to work with the families of the victims.
"One can ask the question, why did the NPA not deal with these matters before this date. And as I have explained this is the challenge that we were facing. We have a dedicated capacity now. And I'm asking that let's just give this a little time to show results. And if at the end of a reasonable period, we say well this is also not working. Then let's think about trying something else. So, for now chair, that is the position with regard to particularly the Fort Calata matter."
Initially Batohi was reluctant to explain Cronje's sudden departure.
"It shouldn't come as a surprise that leaders will come and go and adv Cronje has decided to vacate at this point and the exco of the NPA and myself have supported this. This is not a sign of any collapse or crisis in the NPA. It's healthy when leaders take an organisation to this point and leave it for a new leader with fresh new energy and pick up from where we are."
MPs were, however, not satisfied with the explanation.
DA's, Glynnis Breytenbach, says it is deeply concerning.
"It is deeply concerning that somebody of the caliber of Adv Cronje abandons her project on which she has obviously worked very, very hard, putting a lot of time at great personal cost half complete. It's unlike her and it leaves me deeply concerned."
Batohi then admitted that there were problems that led to the decision to let Cronje go.
"Of course yes, there were professional conflicts. But at our level, at the level of heads of entities, you don't expect that we would be leaving, because there are professional tensions. And so, there's a whole range of issues that led to the point, where I and my Exco decided it was in the best interest of the institution, of the NPA that we part ways."
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How do consumers make good choices about clothes? Spider silk and brand transparency.
By Alex Newman
Employees stitch together blue plaid shirts in a factory in China in 2013. Wages have risen in China, but it still controls more than a third of apparel exports.
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It took him 32 years, but scientist Sam Hudson and a team of other researchers have found a way to produce silk without silkworms.
Unlike fabrics such as polyester or nylon, there's no petroleum-based plastic. Unlike rayon, there's no toxic chemicals or deforestation involved.
It's a yeast that when you add sugar and vitamins, it grows — secretes, to be precise — a spider silk.
"You take a tank of water, put the yeast in it and put in the sugar and the salts and the vitamins," explains Hudson, a polymer chemist at the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University. "The yeast starts growing and reproducing. It gets a little cloudy, but the yeast manufactures this protein and secretes it out. [We] filter it out and dry it, and we get a whitish powder. That's where I step in. I take that powder and dissolve it into a solvent, and then we can spin it."
Fibers are created from the spider silk protein, which will be turned into silk thread.
Courtesy Bolt Threads
Hudson is working with Bolt Threads, an Emeryville, California-based biotech startup, to perfect the process of creating spider silk thread. So far, they've created 50 neckties and a yellow silk used by designer Stella McCartney in an exhibit for MoMA in New York City called, "Is Fashion Modern?"
Hudson and Bolt Threads' new fabric is just one solution to the fashion industry's pollution problem. The garment industry is also guilty of underpaying and overworking workers, polluting the sites where clothes are made and overproducing so much that cast-off clothes are hurting economies in developing countries and filling landfills.
Hudson has spent his entire professional career as a chemist chasing a feasible product. "It took me 32 years to even hold something in my hand," he says.
Scientists at Bolt Threads monitor a batch of silk-producing yeast at the company's headquarters in Emeryville, California.
Bolt is nearly able to make a 1-ton batch of silk protein about every three days. How much silk is that? According to Hudson's math, that one batch is equal to the silk of 20,636,363 spiders.
"You just can't farm spiders," he says. "We've tried."
He's tried a lot of things to find a way to grow the silk protein found in spiders.
"The bacteria didn't work; the potatoes didn't work; the silkworms didn't work," he says. "We never had access to sufficient quantities of these materials from some kind of biotech process. We finally found the right organism to make this protein."
This story is a part of a special Across Women's Lives series. Read more: Wear and Tear series: The women who make our clothes and How a sweatshop raid in an LA suburb changed the American garment industry and Her job at the mill bought her a new, better life. And, participate in our interactive: How fair is your fashion? Take the quiz.
The resulting fabric is a silk that can be engineered for more stretch, easy washing or other desirable qualities. And when a consumer is done with it? Since the silk comes from natural materials, the end product will be biodegradable.
But it's a long road before all our clothes will be made from spider silk.
"It's not going to be a commodity like polyester," Hudson says. "But hopefully, 100 years from now, most of the fibers will be made from some biological process and not petrochemicals."
Worldwide production of polyester and nylon has exploded since it was first created in the 1930s. Both materials are made from petroleum-based plastics, and when these things hit a landfill, they don't biodegrade.
Some experts estimate that half of the world's clothing supply is made from synthetic materials and these clothes shed plastic microfibers during the washing cycle, which are now being found all over the planet.
So, what should consumers do until spider silk is more common?
Jocelyn Whipple is a materials expert and a member of the global coordination team for Fashion Revolution, an ethical fashion advocacy group.
"I think the very first thing that people can do is take the time to look at your label before you even buy something and inform yourself about fibers," Whipple says.
Her advice: Look for recycled polyester and secondhand clothing and avoid blends, which are nonrecyclable and tend to shed more fibers during washing.
Polyester and nylon that hasn't been blended with other fabrics can be melted down and turned back into another fabric. She points to companies like Adidas, which is experimenting with recycled polyester and reclaimed ocean waste. Other companies are remaking nylon fishing nets into clothes.
"If [polyester] remains in its 100 percent form, it is actually recyclable," Whipple says. "It's not fresh oil, basically."
Whipple says consumers should also look for 100 percent organic cotton and organic wool products and simply know more about what they're buying.
"I think the very first thing that people can do is take the time to look at your label before you even buy something and inform yourself about fibers," she says.
Sandra Capponi is making things even easier for consumers. Capponi is the co-founder of Good On You, an app that launched in Australia in 2015 with ethical ratings for hundreds of brands.
The Good On You app has more than 1,200 brand ratings. Here are ratings for companies making jeans.
Good On You app
The app launched in North America in 2017 and now has more than 100,000 users around the globe.
"We start with the premise that we're all about empowering shoppers to shop better and to shop according to values that are important to them," she explains. "I think it is important to recognize there is a person behind every piece of clothing we wear. So, somebody is paying the price in the end if a T-shirt is only costing you a few dollars."
Good On You uses publicly available information from companies to evaluate them based on impacts on people, the planet and animals.
"We find that brands are simply not communicating to the public," Capponi says.
The app uses a team of 30 volunteers, called "ethical detectives," and has rated more than 1,200 brands and plans to expand soon to several thousand.
In the app, users can directly message companies about the ratings.
"One individual is just one voice," Capponi says. "The power of Good On You is we're building a collective community, a collective voice, that really will have the power to shift the culture and the behavior of businesses."
If Capponi had to give consumers one tip for making better clothing choices?
"Ask yourself, 'Do you really need this?'"
Stay tuned for more of AWL's "Wear and Tear" series this week:
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Thursday: Like mother like daughter — how two generations of Bangladeshi women view their work making clothes for Americans.
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Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) is an American Buddhist monk of the Kammatthana (Thai Forest) Tradition. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1971 with a degree in European Intellectual History, he traveled to Thailand, where he studied meditation under Ajaan Fuang Jotiko, himself a student of the late Ajaan Lee. He ordained in 1976 and lived at Wat Dhammasathit, where he remained following his teacher's death in 1986. In 1991 he traveled to the hills of San Diego County, USA, where he helped Ajaan Suwat Suvaco establish Metta Forest Monastery (Wat Mettavanaram). He was made abbot of the Monastery in 1993. (Source Accessed Aug 7, 2020)
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CommunityThis Week in Fish and Wildlife
This Week in Fish and Wildlife: Relocating Pine Martens in the Little Belt Mountains
On today's This Week in Fish and Wildlife, we once again revisit an effort for some of Montana's smaller wildlife.
By: Chet Layman
On today's This Week in Fish and Wildlife, we once again revisit an effort for some of Montana's smaller wildlife. Fish, Wildlife and Parks working in partnership with several groups to try to re-establish a population of Pine Martens in the Little Belt Mountains.
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park's Morgan Jacobsen says the Pine Marten population in parts of Southwest Montana are very strong, so FWP is trapping some of them and relocating them to the Little Belts. Jacobsen says FWP has partnered with the Montana Trapper's Association, Furbearers Unlimited, Fur Takers of America, Safari Club International, and the US Forest Service to continue this relocation effort.
Jacobsen says an earlier effort to relocate 30 Pine Marten's was successful and this is another effort to try to move another 30 into The Little Belts. He says Pine Martens had been plentiful in that area in the past, but for several reasons that population had disappeared. Jacobsen says it took into February of last year to reach the 30 Pine Marten wanted for that relocation effort and he expects that to happen again this year. He also says trappers have already captured several for the relocation effort so far this year.


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Anrosey is een gemeente in het Franse departement Haute-Marne (regio Grand Est) en telt 131 inwoners (2020). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Langres.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Anrosey bedraagt 10,9 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 14,8 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Gemeente in Haute-Marne

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Q: Boost library installation I downloaded boost 1.57. I am using Visual Studio 2012.
I added mypath\boost_1_57_0 to additional include directories.
I also added mypath\boost_1_57_0\libs into additional library directories.
In my code I just want to add a library #include <boost/filesystem.hpp> , but I get this error.
Error   5   error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_filesystem-vc110-mt-sgd-1_57.lib'

How can I solve this?

A: Open you property page,in "Configuration Properties"->"Linker"->"Input"->"Additional Dependcies",add the "libboost_filesystem-vc110-mt-sgd-1_57.lib";


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Mountain Chief employs a disciplined internal process to identify and select our small business partners. Conducting a cost/benefits analysis of each subcontracting opportunity is our first step in this process. We look closely at our previous involvement with each candidate as well as their proven performance on similar efforts in order to select the best qualified small business partners. Using this process, we aggressively seek new and innovative companies that possess unique or special skills matching our partnering requirements. Please register your interest by clicking the link below and filling out the attached web form. A Mountain Chief representative will contact you to discuss applicable opportunities.
You may submit your request by email to teaming@mcmsusa.com. Thank you for your interest!


Well, it started off like any other Sunday morning - with the Janitor ringing my bell to ask if I had some rubbish which I forgot to put out. But the afternoon definitely has made it one of the days I think I will remember, at least for some time.
Afternoon I was supposed to meet V and V, and so off I went to the restaurant, running a little late, in a cab, reading an entertaining E-book. On reaching, the doorman in a hurry to let me out, and the cabbie ytaking his own time to find the change, I forgot my cardinal rule of looking once at the seats while leaving. And I forgot my precious phone there.
Hence, thi sis an Eulogy of my worthy Nokia N72. A phone which bears so many things, till recently it was my connect to the world outsdide office. Not only did it have innumerable phone numbers and messages, it also had instant photographs, ebooks, music, some access information of my bank acconts, internet access etc etc.
I feel a little lost without it for the moment at least,. Having a reliance to fall back on was definitely worth a lot.
Unlike the Mumbai Mirror article of the day (today of all days) this cabie was not part of the 80% (?) who return stuff left in their taxis. This one duly switched off the phone after a number of calls were made to contact it. What he will get out of that old phone I wonder, because it is really old, sratched and ... well, has forced me to buy a new one when I was postponing the purchase, as requested by so man of my friends. The phone was infact a little more tha just a phone for a long time, it was one I did not want to part with, wilfully at least. So I tink, Fate too was kind of bored with it.
Well, as long as our dear cab driver does not try and use the information in it in some manner, I am reconciled to the fact that it is gone and it is time for a new phone for me. But that, will take some time, and will not be tomorrow.
PS - Iron man is a Hindi Movie with good special effects, bad acting, and in English. I like the persistent use of blue LED's in it. All in all, a pretty decent movie though.


In 2013 the Alabama legislature passed an act which authorized municipalities to establish a "pre-trial diversion program" for DUI cases. Several municipalities have passed a diversion ordinance, which applies to several types of cases. A diversion program is a form of what I call "reverse probation". The person typically undergoes a series of obligations like counselling, treatment, drug and alcohol random testing, community service and a host of other things. After doing these things for a specified period of time and after an admission of guilt of the DUI, then the individual's DUI case will be dismissed on the payment of court costs along with many other fees. Sounds like a steal of a deal, right? NOT SO FAST! For every DUI arrest that has occurred after July 1, 2018, if a citizen undergoes a diversion program they are required to have an ignition interlock device installed in their vehicle for a period of six months, or the length of the diversion program, whichever period is longer. The citizen pays for the installation of the interlock device, the monthly fees associated with the interlock, and has to take the device in for maintenance monthly. The diversion program may require the person to plead guilty to the DUI in order to enter the diversion program. This can have very negative results with certain people. In addition, most DUI cases have attached to them an administrative driver's license case that is totally separate from the DUI criminal case. Unless the citizen takes the correct legal steps to stop the driver's license from being suspended, then the license will be suspended for 90 days, 1 year, 3 years or longer, depending on the previous DUI arrest and/or conviction record. The DUI case may have a valid legal defense. There may not have been sufficient cause to pull the vehicle over in the first place. The roadblock may not be constitutional. The deprivation period prior to the breath test may have been insufficient.
If you are arrested for DUI, SEEK THE ADVICE OF AN EXPERIENCED DUI ATTORNEY within 10 days of the arrest date. Some courts, like the City of Huntsville, Alabama set the DUI arraignment court date the very next day after the DUI arrest, before the person has had an opportunity to analyze their situation. You can always plead "not guilty" and maybe change your plea to guilty but it is most often very difficult to change a guilty plea to "not guilty".
PRICE AND FLOWERS LAW FIRM is VERY experienced DUI LAW FIRM. I, Phillip B. Price am the only attorney in North Alabama who is Board Certified in DUI defense. Call us to evaluate your DUI situation.


Following a national search, recommendation by City Administrator Kelly Hayworth, and unanimous City Council approval, Shane Kron was appointed and sworn in as Chief of Police on February 14.
Registration begins on February 27 for plots at the Coralville Community Gardens.
This is part of a national scholarship program that promotes and rewards scholarship, leadership, and talent in young women.
Presented by Regina High School. The fiery Eliza Doolittle becomes an unwitting subject in a phonetics professor's case study to transform the young working-class girl into a refined member of high society.
Presented by Combined Efforts. Enjoy a memorable evening of music, song, dance, comedy, art, and a sword fight as local performers join the creativity of the Combined Efforts Theatre Company, Men's Choir, Dance Company, Writers' Group, and Expressive Visual Artists.
Join us for an artist talk with 2016 Iowa Arts Council Fellows Stephanie Brunia, Brent Holland, Jennifer Knox, Akwi Nji, and Yun Shin, followed by a casual reception.


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Zac Efron Was Right at Home as Ted Bundy in New Behind The Scenes Photo
Published on January 4th, 2019 | Updated on February 4th, 2019 | By FanFest
Hollywood is just a few weeks away from the start of Sundance and while there are going to be a lot of strong contenders premiering, one film that we are looking forward to is Zac Efron's turn as serial killer Ted Bundy for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.
Excited to welcome the amazing @kayascods as Carole Ann 🙌 😎#wickedcrew #behindthescenes
A post shared by Zac Efron (@zacefron) on Feb 15, 2018 at 3:57pm PST
Efron had been very active on his social media accounts often sharing behind the scenes shots during filming, but now he's revealing just how real things got behind the scenes. In the new look, Efron is seen wearing a blue jumpsuit standing in a prison with director Joe Berlinger. He goes on to reveal that they actually filmed in a prison for two weeks during the shoot and that while they were there his "trailer" was an old jail cell. Talk about getting into character! Check it out below.
Behind the scenes filming #extremelywickedshockinglyevilandvile – we filmed in a prison for 2 weeks- my "trailer" was an actual prison cell. Countdown to #Sundance pic.twitter.com/c2JyAYJYPR
— Zac Efron (@ZacEfron) January 4, 2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is told from the perspective of Bundy's girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins), who was with him for years, living in constant denial before she eventually turned him in. It was only towards the end of his trial that Bundy began speaking in detail about the heinous and grizzly crimes he committed, shocking both Kloepfer and the world.
Ready for Sundance! #extremelywickedshockinglyevilandvile
A post shared by Zac Efron (@zacefron) on Nov 29, 2018 at 9:23am PST
In addition to Efron and Collins, Extremely Wicked will also star John Malkovich as Judge Edward Cowart, who presided over Bundy's highly televised murder trial in 1979, Jim Parsons as Larry Simpson -the lead prosecutor, and Maze Runner's Kaya Scodelario as Bundy's ex-wife Carole Anne Boone. What do you think about Zac in character? Are you looking forward to him taking on such a manipulative and evil role? Let us know!
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month!
Casey Perriccio
Having studied Media & Writing at James Madison University, I always knew that I wanted to do some type of creative writing, but being able to write about zombies, Starks, and superheroes on a daily basis for Fan Fest is my actual dream. While I probably shouldn't be as proud as I am to be so similar to Nick Miller, I do hope to one day write my own "Pepperwood Chronicles'.
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