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Watching Live Broadcast TV with an Antenna
Watching TV On Demand with a Streaming Media Player
Casting Videos from the Web to Your TV Using PlayOn Software
Mirroring Your Computer or Mobile Device Screen on Your TV
Cutting the Cable Cord: Putting It All Together
TV Programming Options
As much as cable and satellite providers would like you to think they're the only ones with the good content, you do have other options.
Where Can You Find Your Favorite TV Shows Without Cable?
Comparing Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, and Hulu Streaming Content Providers
Sling TV: A Streaming-Only Service for Cord Cutters
More About Streaming Media Players
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Introduction to Streaming Media
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Streaming Media Players: In Canada
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Frequently Asked Questions about Streaming Media
The Bring Back Classic Google Maps Campaign
We're not giving up the fight! These links take you to resources supporting the campaign to get Google to bring back Classic Maps.
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Discussion Sites
Here are some more places people are talking about Google Maps.
Google Maps and Earth Help Forum Main Page
Announcing the full roll-out of the updated Google Maps for desktop
I Hate the New Google Maps
Reddit: Google Maps
Alternative Mapping Sites
While none of these alternative sites are perfect replacements for Classic Maps, they're what we've got for now. I haven't checked most of these out personally yet, but I'm linking to them anyway in case you find them helpful for your purposes.
General Maps Based on Classic Maps
Note: Google has recently changed their API so that all maps now have the new-style controls. However, this doesn't affect most of the underlying features.
Google MapMaker
This site is designed to let people make additions and corrections to Google Maps. However, it uses Classic Maps as its base map and provides some of its features including Directions (under the Edit menu), a variation of Street View/Maps split screen, and 2D satellite view.
Classy GMap
An excellent alternative to Classic Maps with some of its most popular features, this mapping solution has undergone some changes since first developed. Check out this post for the most recent update (01/18/16).
Google Maps Streetview Player of Brian Folts
A reader emailed me this link with some detailed instructions about how to use it. There's not enough room for me to write them up here, so I've copied them into a comment on the original Google Maps post.
Instant Street View
Thanks to reader Sappy for sharing this find that has a lot of Classic Maps' features (searchable, zoom, 2D satellite view). However, it doesn't have a full split-screen Street View or directions.
Meteomodel
Thanks to reader Szymon for sending along this link for a Polish site. The map has Street View (not split-screen) but doesn't have search or Directions.
Thanks to reader Dave for sharing this German site.
Wareko Map
T4L reader Wareko is also developing a map based on Google Classic, available in Japanese and English!
Specialty Maps Based on Classic Maps
TennisMaps
Thanks to reader James for sharing this website that he maintains to help people find tennis courts around the world.
SolarGIS
Thanks to reader S.H. for sharing this Google-based map that includes solar radiation and temperature data.
Thanks to reader John for sharing a whole slew of URLs that incorporate Classic Maps.
www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp
shipspotting.com/ais/index.php
www.sunearthtools.com/dp/tools/pos_earth.php?lang=en
www.heywhatsthat.com/
www.westernhvdclink.co.uk/map-of-route.aspx
Maps Based on Other Platforms
One of the original mapping applications.
Microsoft's mapping site.
Yahoo Maps Directions
While Yahoo! has shut down its main Maps site, this implementation is currently still working.
Open-source mapping software. A reader adds, "OSM is just the database: It's up to someone to read the data and build actual maps, and possibly provide a router such as OSRM for directions."
Thanks to reader Metal for sharing this site, which describes itself as "a multilingual open-content collaborative map, where anyone can create place tags and share their knowledge." Has both map and satellite views, but does not include a street view or directions feature.
Cycling-Focused Maps
Thanks to reader Frederic for sending me these links. Descriptions in quotations are taken directly from the site.
Ride with GPS
"Ride with GPS makes it easy to drag and draw your own custom routes with lightning fast elevation profiles to help you anticipate (or avoid) those big climbs."
Bike Route Toaster
"BikeRouteToaster.com is a course creation application primarily aimed at Garmin Edge/Forerunner owners although other users without a GPS may also find it useful for planning rides."
Cycle.Travel
Pretty straightforward-looking route planner built with OpenStreetMap.
From their About page: "Ride with GPS was founded by two guys that love writing cool software and riding their bikes: Zack Ham and Cullen King."
New Google Maps How-Tos
Yeah, I hate 'em too... But if we're going to be stuck with them at least for the foreseeable future, I'll be working on some tutorial posts to try to make them a little less painful.
Google Maps Timeline: How to Use It, How to Lose It
A new feature from Google has privacy advocates worried and I think rightly so.
Measuring Distances in New Google Maps
This popular feature from Classic Google Maps still exists in the new version, but you find and use it a little differently.
Google Is Getting Rid of Classic Maps for Good (Ugh.)
The original sad-news post, it includes basic info on the Full vs. Lite version of the maps.
What's Happening at Tech for Luddites in 2019
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So… The last new post on Tech for Luddites (since removed) was a weekly headlines roundup published on February 2, 2018. (!) I never expected to go this long without posting anything new, but there have been several reasons for having gone missing in action.
But first, some history…
It's hard to believe that this month marks T4L's tenth anniversary. (!) Over the years, I've written hundreds of posts on a wide variety of topics. A lot of those posts no longer exist, but I did find this archive page on the Wayback Machine that lists posts from its launch on January 2, 2009 to May 2013.
I'm not surprised to see large gaps between postings during that time as well—for one thing, there was a two-year period when I took a full-time job. And while a lot of these posts don't even exist anymore on the current site, surprisingly some still do although they've been updated multiple times over the last decade (including new titles in some cases). A few examples:
Password Control in 3 Easy Steps (The very first how-to!)
The Twitter Hash Tag: What Is It and How Do You Use It?
The latter was the post that changed everything. It was when I looked at my web stats in early 2013 that I discovered it was getting more than 1,000 visits a day, which made me think, "Hmm… maybe there's something here."
At that point I decided to focus on T4L as an actual business, which I'd been doing ever since… until last February.
So what happened in February?
Nothing! 🙂 At least there was no one event that made me say, "Wow… I need to take an 11-month break starting now!" Instead it was the culmination of a number of things that had been happening over the previous two years that made me hit the pause button and keep it paused until now.
Topic Choices
For every Twitter hashtag post that attracted more than a million visitors over the years, there were at least a dozen that received almost no traffic. Most of my how-to posts take a lot of time to write and create screenshots, etc. and the low return on the time and effort I had invested was disappointing.
There have been other posts that have done really well, but they were more of a fluke than anything else. For example, when I wrote about ways to get back to Google's Classic Maps because I couldn't stand the new ones, I had no idea how that within a few months that post would replace the hashtag one as my top-visited post until Google finally broke all the workarounds for accessing the original maps. *sigh*
And when I did find categories of posts that were popular—there was actually a period where I became somewhat of an expert on the Thesis theme for WordPress (!)—I would come to realize that I could never keep up with all the changes that were happening. (It also didn't help when companies changed their technologies so dramatically that all my previous posts were no longer relevant—again, see Thesis theme for WordPress…)
When I first started T4L, the very few comments that came in were usually from personal friends. Over the last couple of years, however, the volume increased dramatically both in the comment section on individual posts and in emails I've received from readers and most of these were questions about the posts. While some of these questions I could address quickly, a lot of them would be very specific situations that would require a lot of research on my part to try to figure out the problem. And don't get me started on all the comment spam!
It got to the point where I would see that I have dozens of comments waiting to be answered and that itself would become a barrier to even starting on them (and then of course I would feel guilty for not answering them, which would make them seem even more overwhelming…).
When I started focusing on building a business out of T4L, I made a point of following a lot of other people who make their livings through their online businesses such as Pat Flynn and Amy Porterfield. I added newsletters and how-to videos and a podcast and experimented with various social media options like creating a Facebook group and posting to Pinterest, achieving various levels of success. And if this had all happened ten years earlier, I probably would have been a lot more motivated to put in the effort needed to try to take my business to the next level.
But the reality is that I'm at the point in my life where I'm looking forward to at least partial retirement and I frankly don't want to work that hard anymore. On top of that, I've experienced some major life changes over the last couple of years, including moving back to Canada, and Tech for Luddites really fell down my list of priorities.
So what does that mean moving forward?
Well, I don't want to just abandon the site. I'm proud that I have been able to help a lot of people solve some of their most frustrating technical problems. And I still do make some money from it. But I do have to rethink the way I manage T4L, so here's what I'm planning for the immediate future. I'll decide if I need to make more tweaks after I've seen the response to these changes.
This will be the biggest change. Instead of trying to write a couple of posts a week, I'm going to write just one a month on the first Friday of the next month. (Hello, January 2019!) It will include various news and tips that I hope readers will find useful and if are any topics that seem to spark a more-than-average level of interest or that need a more detailed explanation, I may write a separate post to increase its visibility.
I'm also going to be reviewing existing posts to update the most viewed ones.
The most recent monthly update will appear at the top of the T4L home page and it will be followed by links to key posts related to streaming media, since that's one of the most visited areas of the site now. Other existing posts will remain available for people to find via search engines, although there will also be links to each of the top-ten most popular ones in the sidebar.
This is a tough one but for the time being I'm going to turn off the ability to add new comments to posts. Instead there will a link to send an email with any feedback, including questions. I'll do my best to respond to those, but that response may be "I don't know." If appropriate, I'll add some of the questions and comments to that month's post.
There won't be a separate email newsletter anymore. Instead, if you're currently signed up for the monthly newsletter or weekly digest, you'll now receive an email every month with links to all posts that have been published that month. If you've previously selected to be notified of individual posts, you'll receive the monthly update as well as any other posts as they become available (this will be rare). All emails contain a link to change your preferences or unsubscribe altogether. You can also choose to receive subscriber-exclusive emails for news and promotions that won't be published on the site.
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If you don't want to receive an email but do want to be notified of the posts, you can follow Tech for Luddites on Facebook or Twitter, the only social media channels I'll be posting to. Note that for Facebook, you have to deliberately choose to follow the page and select whether you want to receive notifications or not.
The Luddite Lounge podcast will not be returning at this point.
So that's what to expect going forward. Here's to a 2019 that brings you all health, happiness, and minimal tech troubles!
Your monthly tech tips
For this first post in the new format, here are a few iPhone-related how-tos that are less-than-intuitive. Enjoy!
Cursor Placement
While moving the cursor into the middle of a word to correct a typo on an Android phone can be a bit tricky, it seemed impossible on an iPhone until I learned this trick.
When your cursor is in a text field, press and hold on the field and the text will be magnified. Without lifting your finger, drag the cursor to the left or right to place it exactly where you want.
Find Text in Safari Page
If you're looking for a word when you're using Safari, tap the Share button and scroll to the right to the Find on Page button. If you think you'll use this option a lot, you can press and hold the icon to move it ahead of others that you don't use as often.
Delete All Emails
You'd think there'd be a Delete All option right there on the screen, but nope. And the steps to do this make no sense at all, so you simply have to memorize them.
Because Apple.
Go to your Inbox or whatever folder you want to empty.
Click the Edit link at the top right.
Select the first email in the list. Three links will appear at the bottom of the screen: Mark, Move, Trash.
Press and hold the Move link and, without releasing it, deselect the email.
You'll now go a screen that prompts you to move all the emails to another folder, including Trash.
Once they're in the Trash folder, you can go to that one and click Edit and a Delete All link will appear at the bottom.
Easy-peasy, right? 🙄
See you in February!
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…..we are liking the look of this major new BBC4 music series which starts tonight 15th April….
The first episode in a series charting the UK's popular music heritage through the eyes of music fans. Twiggy celebrates the 60s, meeting skiffle musicians, fans of the Shadows, Liverpudlians who frequented the Cavern Club at the height of Merseybeat, Beatles devotees, Ready Steady Go! dancers, mods, lovers of ska, bluebeat and Millie Small, and fans of the Rolling Stones.
Unearthed pop treasures include a recording of John Lennon's first ever recorded performance with his band the Quarrymen.
The first of a series of artist-fronted documentaries which explore the decade that formed or defined them sees Sir Tom chronicle his unique journey through the decade that formed him. It illuminates both him and the period in which modern Britain began.
A chance to see all three episodes of this documentary series examining the birth of rock 'n' roll.
Don Everly tells the story of the Everly Brothers giving viewers his own unique perspective on the their music, life and success.
The story of how British teenager Billy Fury became an overnight sensation in the 1950s and recorded his first album, The Sound Of Fury, and its impact on the birth of British popular music.
Looking for vinyl, CDs, music memorabilia and more? Visit eil.com for an incredible range of rarities, new releases, hard-to-find items and more.


On Saturday I attended a fabulous event: Meet The Blogger Amsterdam, organized by Lise of Urban Style Vibes and Holly Becker of Decor8. Over 120 bloggers attended the event. It was great to finally meet so many colleagues face to face, including Karine Candance Kong of Bodie and Fou, Danielle de Lange of The Style Files, Carole King of Dear Designer's blog and Franca de Jonge of Villa d'Esta.
Holly gave an inspirational talk about how she changed drastically changed her life and dropped a corporate career to pursue her dreams. A girl after my own heart! After her talk she did a signing session for her book "Decorate" a must have style bible for the home which she wrote together with the lovely Joanna Copestick. The book is filled with beautiful pictures, great decorating advice and wonderful quotes and insights from some of the world's best designers, including Jonathan Adler and Betsy Burnham.
Decorate is amongst others available through Amazon.
Believe it or not but YES I still find time to create "free" work. It is something I actually need, painting in total freedom. No time pressure, no instructions, no rules, just paint, following my instinct, boosting my creativity. I am showing you one of the paintings I am working on at the moment. It is not quite finished. I am still missing something, but I haven't quite figured it out yet. In order to find out what it is missing I have hung it on my wall in stead of leaving it on the easel. It is a great little trick that helps me to see my work from a different angle. What also helps is photographing the painting frequently while in progress. A photograph enables me to distance myself from my work and helps me to finally dare to take the decision that a works is finished (I can be my most brutal critic)!
Morning Coffee (a New York International Gift Fair sneak peek)!
I am an addict. I have to admit that when I don't have my latte in the morning I don't function properly. I just love that moment when I switch on my Nespresso machine, foaming some milk and then accompanied with a slice of "peperkoek" (a typical Dutch breakfast cake) hit my desk, sipping coffee while doing my mail.
Especially for that moment I designed a small tray measuring 20x27cm. Just big enough for a nice cup (or two) and a treat. The tray is handmade out of birchwood in Scandinavia and eco-friendly. It will be making its debut at the New York International Gift Fair in August (13-18) as part of my new Abstract collection of trays and pillows. Soon available through various retailers worldwide or alternatively my webstore. (pssssst and mum you know the even better part of this functional little work of art.... no more stains on my antique desk! :)).
For wholesale enquiries kindly send and e-mail to info@mariskameijers.com.
I receive regular requests to donate artwork for charity auctions, but a few weeks back I got an unusual request from The Orange Babies Foundation .... if I could paint some ostrich eggs. I reluctantly said yes, not because I did not want to support the cause, but simply because I had no clue how to tackle the eggs. I have no experience when it comes to painting 3 dimensional objects. I love my canvases, and I love them big. My favourite medium is oils but because of the time pressure I needed to work with acrylics. The eggs were staring at me and I was staring back. Yesterday the foundation came to pick up the result: 3 ikat inspired eggs. Off they went to join the other art eggs by, amongst others, fashion illustrator Piet Paris, tattoo artist Hollywood Mark and painters Ans Markus and Menno Schenk that have participated in this project. The eggs will be sold during the Orange Babies Gala on June 25 and one of my favourites is Hollywood Mark's tattood egg!
* The Orange Babies Foundation was established to help HIV infected women and their babies in Africa. Orange Babies also supports children infected with the virus or otherwise directly affected.
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Olivia Wilde says she doesn't believe her character in 'Richard Jewell' traded sex for news tips, in response to recent backlash
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Olivia Wilde plays a journalist in the film "Richard Jewell."
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Actress Olivia Wilde took to Twitter to defend her character Kathy Scruggs' actions in the upcoming film "Richard Jewell."
"Contrary to a swath of recent headlines, I do not believe that Kathy 'traded sex for tips,'" Wilde wrote on Twitter, calling Scruggs "bold, smart, and fearlessly undeterred."
Wilde plays the real-life journalist Scruggs, who helped break a story that the FBI was investigating a security guard named Richard Jewell for the 1996 bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
In the film, Scruggs is shown sleeping with an FBI agent (played by Jon Hamm) — something that has caused a significant backlash since it appears that Scruggs is trading sex for tips.
Olivia Wilde defended her "Richard Jewell" character, real-life journalist Kathy Scruggs, on Twitter Thursday night after critics accused the film of portraying Scruggs as trading sex for tips.
"Contrary to a swath of recent headlines, I do not believe that Kathy 'traded sex for tips,'" Wilde wrote in a series of tweets. "Nothing in my research suggested she did so, and it was never my intention to suggest she had."
—olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) December 12, 2019
In the film, Scruggs is shown having sex with an FBI agent, played by Jon Hamm, and then later breaking a story about how the FBI was investigating a security guard named Richard Jewell for a bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
"Richard Jewell" is based on true events, but Wilde says that the relationship between Scruggs and the FBI agent was more than a quid pro quo.
And Wilde, who reiterated that she has "deep respect" for journalists, also said that the accomplishments of Scruggs — and women in general — shouldn't be overshadowed by their personal relationships.
Wilde's response comes after "Richard Jewell" was slammed by critics, including the paper where the real-life Scruggs used to work, for including the controversial scene.
On Monday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution called on filmmakers and Warner Bros. to acknowledge that they took dramatic license with events in the film, and even issue a disclaimer that Scruggs didn't actually sleep with an agent for her story.
But Tuesday, Warner Bros. called the paper's claims "baseless" and said that they "will vigorously defend against them."
A newspaper doesn't approve of how Clint Eastwood's movie 'Richard Jewell' portrayed a female reporter, and it's asking for a disclaimer
Warner Bros. is standing behind 'Richard Jewell' after an Atlanta newspaper accused the film of taking 'dramatic license' with a female reporter's story
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Mission The mission of LPS is to advance and promote the art of photography in the River Parishes of south Louisiana. To help achieve this goal, we offer our members a variety of programs, classes, seminars, and field trips throughout the calendar year. And on occasion, we get together just to have fun.
Meetings Our meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm, except December. We meet at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library on Goodwood Boulevard in the first floor conference room. Visitors are welcome to attend any meeting. For those wishing to become members, 2019 dues are $20 per year, plus $5 each for additional family member. Each meeting consists of a competition and a program featuring a guest speaker. Members are encouraged to submit entries for the competition. All in attendance vote on the entries and results are announced at each meeting. Who wins is not important, what is important is the knowledge gained from studying other entries and sharing in the details of how those images were captured.
Classes We offer members educational classes, each covering a specialized topic, by their request. Such topics include digital photography, Photoshop, macro photography, and many more. Further, some topics may be broken down into skill levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Classes are usually held on Saturday and are 2-3 hours in length.
Seminars Occasionally, LPS is proud to bring in one or more of the top experts in some aspect of photography for a seminar and/or workshop. Attending a seminar or workshop by these professionals on your own can cost hundreds of dollars. But as a club, we are able to bring these seminars to our members for a small fee per member. Hands-on workshops will have a limit on participants and may require an additional, but modest, fee.


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Q: Keyword not supported: 'authentication'. for Azure Sql Sever connection string Returns error 'Keyword not supported: 'authentication'' while trying to create a context using EF Core
"Data Source=tcp:XXXXXXX.windows.net,1433;Initial Catalog=XXXXX;Persist Security Info=False;MultipleActiveResultSets=False;Encrypt=True;TrustServerCertificate=False;Authentication=Active Directory Integrated"

A: Azure Functions V2 builts on top of .Net Core and AFAIK SqlClient for .NET Core still does not support using the 'Authentication' keyword in the connection string. That should work when this issue is actually fixed.

A: You can reference this bob: Azure Active Directory Connection String.
It has the same error with you. And the answer gives two suggestions:

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*Have you been through this troubleshooting guide: Use Azure Active Directory Authentication for authentication with SQL.

*do you have .NET Framework 4.6 or later installed?
Follow this two suggestions, the problem is solved. I think you can try it and maybe it can helps you.
Hope this helps.

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Yahoo talks to Microsoft, gets stock boost
All eyes on Google earnings
Google beats estimates, for now
Open Source (dupe)
Source Seeker
By Julie Bort, Network World |
Study: Search advertisers paying less per click
Looks like Google was right to concentrate on revving up its search ad volume this year. New research from Efficient Frontier shows that the average cost per click (CPC) on Google dropped 14% in Q1 2009, but that overall ad volumes increased--along with the percentage of ads clicked. So what revenue Google lost per ad, it may have made up for in quantity.
The study showed that Google competitors also saw a dip in CPC revenue, with Yahoo seeing a 16% decline and Microsoft a 28% drop. And overall, the average CPC declined 19% compared with Q1 2008, and 13% compared with Q4 2008. None of which is good news as the search engines look to survive a down economy where their mainstay consumers are tightening their belts.
Still, Efficient Frontier found some bright spots to report. Overall, the search engines are showing more ads more frequently, and users are clicking on them more. For example, the number of times an ad was shown, on average increased 11% compared with Q1 2008, with Google increasing impressions a whopping 20%, compared with Yahoo's 1% and Microsoft's 10% increase. At the same time, users clicked on a slight fraction more of those ads, with Google seeing a 2.27% increase vs. Q4 2008 (although total click-throughs dropped vs. Q1 2008 by 2.55%).
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But Efficient Frontier's best news had to do with ROI. As consumers buy less and advertisers find they need to be more judicious with their resources, search engine advertising continues to provide a robust bang for the buck. For example, quarter over quarter, advertisers on Google Search saw an ROI increase of 10%, while Microsoft Live Search saw a 43% gain and Yahoo's ROI increased 12%.
"Advertisers will continue to demand greater ROI from their search campaigns, as a buffer against economic uncertainty," said Dr. Siddarth Shah, senior business analyst at Efficient Frontier. "We are at an interesting crossroads. On one hand, advertisers are slicing budgets. On the other, more users are searching online, and clicks are cheap. This provides the perfect opportunity for advertisers with deep pockets to embrace the downturn, to consolidate market share and continue growing their businesses."
It's a nice thought, but the proof is in the numbers. And Google's announcing how it fared this past quarter on Thursday at 1:30 pm PT. Stay tuned.
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Mariinsky II (New Theatre)
2021 | Friday
Stars of the Stars
Evening of one-act ballets: Concerto DSCH. In the Night. Symphony in C
Artists Credits
Arseny Shuplyakov
Konstantin Zverev
Elena Yevseyeva
Kristina Shapran
Vasily Tkachenko
Ballet company
Mariinsky Ballet
Music by Frederic Chopin
Music by Dmitry Shostakovich
Music by Georges Bizet
Choreography by George Balanchine (revisions)
Choreography by Jerome Robbins (revisions)
Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky (revisions)
Concerto DSCH
Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky
Assistant Choreographer: Tatiana Ratmanskaya
Lighting Designer: Mark Stanley
Costume Designer: Holly Hynes
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
Concerto DSCH to the music of Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto is Alexei Ratmansky's seventh ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre. Today the theatre's repertoire includes three of his "plot" ballets – the witty and ironic Cinderella and The Little Humpbacked Horse and the laconic Anna Karenina. The company also has experience of performing Ratmansky's plot-less ballets – fifteen years ago he staged the strikingly emotional and stylishly refined Middle Duet and the flowing and heartfelt Le Poème de l'extase. Concerto DSCH , which has no literary plot, is different – joyful, witty and totally filled with movement. It is as if Ratmansky is almost afraid of permitting a musical motif that is suitable for dance. Such miserliness in the movements, such concentration of the choreographic text is beguiling for both the dancers and the audience. Ratmansky is an inarguable master of plot-less dance who can create, with virtuoso ease, forms of virtuoso solos, duets, trios and crowd scenes and, with impeccable taste, fill them with amazing dance combinations. Concerto DSCH is just one such example. Solving the puzzle of his incredibly musical combinations has proved an engaging task for the Mariinsky Ballet.
This ballet was created in 2008 for the New York City Ballet, and it is ideal for a company that is focussed on the instrumentalism of dance and ensemble-performance. Moreover, Ratmansky refers to it as a "portrait of that company". On the other hand, the text of Concerto DSCH and the style of the scenes it contains are full of references to Soviet realities that cannot be fully understood by American performers, while for Russian dancers and audiences it brings a whole bag of associations and raises an emotional response on more than just the choreographic content. For those unfamiliar with Soviet sculpture and have no idea of the athletics displays and well-loved-techniques of Soviet cinema from the 1920s–50s, many of Ratmansky's high supports are simply conjured-up poses, and the gestures mere original ideas of a ballet-master. To feel and convey the energetic purposefulness of an adagio one has to see at least a few Soviet films that celebrate the sincere simplicity of meetings in the evening between loves who live next door, where a shyly stolen kiss was the limit of what was allowed. And in the energetic drive of the final crowd scene, breathing with its life-giving optimism, one can recognise the generally-accepted Soviet concept about doubts of a happy future.
Ratmansky is obviously captivated by Shostakovich's music and the spirit of his time, and in his ballet he tenderly revives this. In the title of his ballet the choreographer uses the composer's musical autograph (D.Sch in the German musical notation), which has no direct link to the Second Concerto but which does identify with the ballet's style. Just like Balanchine, paying tribute to the Imperial Russian Stage, named his own ballet to piano the music Ballet Imperial by Tchaikovsky.
Concerto DSCH is Ratmansky's second "Russian" ballet, staged abroad and brought to a Russian theatre in which much can only be fully felt and understood by Russian performers. The first was the Russian Seasons (also created with NYCB) that featured motifs of Russian folklore. Apparently paradoxically to westerns critics, the choreographer's journey across the ocean in search of his cultural roots allowed him to distance himself from the strong traditions of the stage presence of those cultural roots and has helped him present them in a new light. With Concerto DSCH it was the same story. The production for NYCB demonstrated Ratmansky's talent in creating varied and engaging combinations, yet always logical compositional constructions and drawings, enchanting with the free nature of his dance. The same production for the Mariinsky Theatre also brought to light a subtle stylist who can put an entire history of the Soviet era into a one-act ballet.
Olga Makarova
Premiere: 28 May 2008, New York State Theater, New York
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 4 July 2013
Dmitri Shostakovich was a fan of ballet and composed numerous dance scores in the 1930s, including The Bolt and The Bright Stream. Alexei Ratmansky has choreographed both of those works for the Bolshoi Ballet, and for New York City Ballet's 2008 spring season, Ratmansky created another work to a score by Shostakovich, this time the Piano Concerto No. 2. Shostakovich wrote the concerto in 1957 as a birthday gift for his 19-year-old son Maxim, and it displays the composer's optimistic energy after the repressions of the Stalinist era. The opening allegro evokes a brisk military march with the piano referencing the British melody Drunken Sailor. By contrast, the andante movement basks in Russian soulfulness for the strings, piano, and solo horn. The brief, invigorating allegro finale takes on a 7/8 meter as the entire orchestra sprints to the finish. The ballet's title refers to a musical motif used by Shostakovich to represent himself, with four notes that, when written in German notation, stand in for his initials in the German spelling (D. Sch.).
Age category 12+
Music by Frédéric Chopin
Choreography by Jerome Robbins (1970)
Staged by Ben Huys
Costumes by Anthony Dowell
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton
Recreated by Nicole Pearce
Prior to the appearance of this ballet in the Mariinsky Theatre repertoire, Russian audiences knew Jerome Robbins only as a hypostasis – Robbins-the-choreographer-of-musicals, Robbins-the-Broadway-triumph. Not for his "live" productions, of course, but rather for his film version of Westside Story, which caused a veritable furore in the cinemas of the Soviet Union. In 1992, the Mariinsky Theatre brought another Robbins to the country – Robbins the lyricist and the intellectual, one of the two leading figures at New York City Ballet. The man who took Chopin's nocturnes and in 1970 created In the Night – a short ballet for three couples. Initially they appear on stage in turn, while in the finale they all dance at the same time. Each of the couples offers their own version of the dialogue between man and woman – and, impeccably reproducing the choreographic scene, all the performers bring their own ideas of paired relationships to these dialogues. The good-natured coquetry and the claims of divine service, competing in the dazzle and the childlike thirst for trust – all different people, and so every time In the Night looks just that little bit different from the previous display.
Anna Gordeyeva
World premiere: 29 January 1970, New York City Ballet, New York
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 18 March 1992
Premiere of the revival: 5 May 2009
Running time 25 minutes
Performed by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust
Age category 6+
Symphony in C
Music by Georges Bizet (Symphony No. 1 in C)
Choreography by George Balanchine (1947)
Staging by Colleen Neary
Costume design by Irina Press
George Balanchine staged one of his most famous ballets for the company of the Opéra de Paris in 1947. Invited from beyond the ocean, the choreographer, in executing the French commission, was absolutely sure of himself: in this new work, as in most mature ballets by Balanchine, there was no plot, there were no human passions behind the dance, and only the music, its rhythm and structure determined the development of the choreographic image. The character of the dance was dictated by Georges Bizet's youthful Symphony in C Major. Its sparkling lightness provided the name of the work – Le Palais de cristal. It is true that soon after the ballet was brought to New York the invented title became forgotten, and for over half a century many leading ballet companies throughout the world have been proud to have Balanchine's Symphony in C in their repertoires. This ballet is ideal for showcasing a company's merits: the four parts of the ballet are staged for four pairs of soloists, and in this ballet dancers can dazzlingly show off their skills and take on the incredibly complex fiorituri of the shading in the allegro, and proudly and majestically "sail" into the adagio.
World premiere: 28 July 1947, Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Paris
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 9 February 1996
The ballet of George Balanchine Symphony in C is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® service standards established and provided by the Trust
The Mariinsky Theatre would like to express its gratitude to Mrs Bettina von Siemens for her support in bringing the "Ballets of George Balanchine" project to life


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Young Victoria, The (United Kingdom/United States, 2009)
The Young Victoria, which was selected as the closing film of the 2009 Toronto Film Festival (a position that often attracts mediocrity), isn't so much poorly made as it is uninspired. It's hard to determine whether the root cause is that the early years of Victoria's reign were inherently dull or whether the production makes them seem that way. With a muddled focus that can't hone in on whether this should be a period piece romance or a dissection of the cloak-and-dagger politics of the day, The Young Victoria never gels. The pedestrian screenplay and lackluster direction by French Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée disallow the members of a generally fine cast to accomplish much with their roles. The Young Victoria feels like a wasted opportunity and is among the least impressive in a long line of motion pictures about British royalty.
The film starts out juicily enough. Victoria (Emily Blunt) is a year shy of her majority and her mother, the Duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson), and the head of her household, Sir John Conroy (Mark Strong), are already plotting how to control the youthful monarch once she ascends to the throne upon the death of King William (Jim Broadbent). They want her to sign papers making them regents, but she refuses. They continue to scheme but at this point the movie loses interest in them. They show up from time-to-time during the rest of the film but in marginalized roles. The story shifts to the romance between Victoria and Prince Albert (Rupert Friend), who has been sent from Germany by his uncle to gain influence over the young soon-to-be queen. Meanwhile, on the home front, Victoria has fallen under the spell of Lord Melbourne (Paul Bettany), the Prime Minister, who wants to shape her opinions and use her as a political trump card.
Historically, The Young Victoria is reasonably accurate, although its portrayal of King Leopold of Belgium (Thomas Kretschmann), Victoria's uncle and one of her principal advisors, is in a negative light. The film covers only the period from 1836 (a year before she became queen) until 1841 with a couple of brief flash-forwards at the end. As the title implies, it is not a comprehensive look at Victoria's reign. A more dramatically compelling film about the queen, which chronicles her later years, is 1997's Mrs. Brown. A better rendition of the segment of Victoria's life covered in this movie can be found in the 2001 TV mini-series, Victoria & Albert, which is available on DVD.
The most fascinating elements of films about rulers relate to the behind-the-scenes politicking, backstabbing, and influence peddling. There's plenty of that going on in The Young Victoria - Conroy's failed attempt to strong-arm his future liege into making him a regent or personal secretary, Melbourne establishing "control" over her, and Albert's shaking off the leash placed upon him by Leopold. None of the various plots, however, are strongly developed and the screenplay, credited to Julian Fellowes (who has written a number of classic adaptations for British TV), keeps them mostly in the background. Those who enjoy movies about royalty for the delight of seeing the monarch outwit and overmatch his/her opponents will find little to appreciate in The Young Victoria.
The romance between Victoria and Albert is intended to be the film's emotional centerpiece, but it comes across as tepid. There's not much of a spark between Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend. The film's attempts to spice up their sex life (to the extent that anything can be considered to be "spiced up" in a PG-rated movie) raises an eyebrow when one considers that Victoria's lasting legacy may have been her strict code of morality. Ultimately, one almost feels more affection from Victoria for her pet spaniel than for Albert.
Emily Blunt, normally known for fiery performances (as in My Summer of Love and The Devil Wears Prada), is surprisingly bland here, never really bringing Victoria to life. Her task isn't made easier by an equal lack of animation evident in Friend's work. Paul Bettany is solid but his role is secondary. The same can be said of Miranda Richardson. Mark Strong has the makings of a good villain but, after his early attempts to force Victoria into signing a regency agreement, he disappears into the background. (He gets a chance to be a more substantive bad guy in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes.) Jim Broadbent is in fine form, but he's in so little of the film (about three scenes before his character dies) that his participation is easily forgotten.
As is almost always the case with British period pieces, The Young Victoria is a visual treat. The coronation scene, with its colorful palette and rousing rendition of "Zadok the Priest," offers a mesmerizing cinematic moment. Vallée displays an excellent eye for the time period if not for the characters inhabiting his drama. (There are also instances in which the dialogue sounds jarringly modern.) For those who are students of the British monarchy, the film represents a curiosity - a chance to see how a group of filmmakers have chosen to represent this phase of history on the screen. For the average movie-goer, however, the film lacks the verve necessary to make the tale engrossing in the way Elizabeth did. (To be fair, the 1500s make for more rousing cinema than the 1800s.) The result is a well-mounted production that comes across as a little dull, rambling, and undercooked.
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Thomas Kretschmann, Jim Broadbent
Screenplay: Julian Fellowes
Cinematography: Hagen Bogdanski
Music: Ilan Eshkiri
U.S. Distributor: Apparition
MPAA Rating: "PG"
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Heartwarming story set in post-war Poland. Little Lucja's Grandpa Feliks has seen off the German army, and the Communists, and now he is looking forward to a long and peaceful retirement. He plans to begin with a tasty Christmas Eve dinner of carp. But when the carp arrives alive and takes up residence in the bathtub and Lucja's heart, has Grandpa Feliks finally met his match? High quality cream paper and a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all.


In 2003, The National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act was passed. New procedures had to be developed to comply with these new laws during re-proclamation. The Grasslands Programme identified several urban conservation sites that required the strengthening of their protected area status. These areas contribute to achieving provincial biodiversity targets in the Gauteng conservation plan (C-plan) as well as national biodiversity targets. The Grasslands Programme assisted in developing these procedures and piloting them at certain sites. Checklists, application forms, templates and flow charts of the steps that need to be taken prior to proclamation were developed to assist this proclamation process in Gauteng. Biodiversity information, title deeds and property boundaries were collected into a dossier for each of the sites in preparation for their proclamation.
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Survival in the Air Age; A Report by the President's Air Policy Commission
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In 2009, Matthew Kahl of the 101st Airborne Division returned stateside from his first combat deployment. In Afghanistan he had seen firsthand the carnage of explosions set off in crowded street markets. Back on base at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, he tried to put those memories behind him. But echoes of wartime still haunted him as he as he inched through the commissary.
He made his way through the market with his back to the aisles' shelves, keeping a watchful eye on the bustle. Children toddled behind their mothers, sometimes squealing or crying. Kahl couldn't stand the crying.
Then a thought hit him, coursing through his body hit him like an electric current: All of these people are going to die. His eyes darted around the fluorescent-lit store as the dread grew. I'm going to see them all die, he thought. Any minute now.
Kahl had taken his back off the shelves just long enough to turn a corner when a man bumped into him from behind. Before Kahl knew what happened, the man was in the air. The next moment he was on the ground, sprawled on his back, looking up at Kahl incredulously.
What had transpired was still crystalizing in Kahl's mind as he sheepishly apologized, offered his hand to help the man up, and excused himself from the store.
Kahl had just experienced a PTSD-related flashback. To this day, he doesn't have a clear memory of what happened in the commissary. The unexpected bump from a stranger triggered combat memories, and he says his mind was transported back to the crowded Afghan markets where he had witnessed explosion after explosion.
Sitting in his parked car outside the store, he watched the military police pull up. Then he drove off.
That's when Kahl decided to stop going out. For the sake of others, he told himself, he'd stay home. There, he found temporary relief from his unrelenting hypervigilance: alcohol and a heavy-duty regimen of military-prescribed painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs, and sleep medications. The cocktail of pills and liquor rendered Kahl incapacitated most of the time, which only added to his self-loathing.
"I took a few hits off a joint," Kahl said of his first time using cannabis to cope with PTSD. At first he didn't feel much, he remembers. Then he did.
Kahl wasn't alone. A 2014 study in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs found that cannabis patients in New Mexico, where PTSD has long been a qualifying condition, experienced a 75% decrease in three major PTSD-related symptoms. A separate study in 2015 concluded that "substantial numbers of military veterans with PTSD," have improved their coping ability through cannabis and experienced relief from symptoms such as anxiety and insomnia.
Kahl decided commit to cannabis to help manage his PTSD. He and his wife, Aimee, moved their family to Colorado in the summer of 2014. Colorado didn't permit treatment of PTSD with medical cannabis at the time, but because Kahl had a number of other medical conditions from injuries sustained in combat, he had no problem acquiring a doctor's recommendation.
For other veterans, however, access was more difficult. Kahl saw friends living with PTSD, but not other ailments, who weren't using cannabis.
"I styled myself as a bit of a cannabis evangelist," Kahl said. He began growing his own plants and learning what strains best eased his symptoms. He cultivated extra to give away to other veterans. When it comes to treating PTSD, he said, not just any strain will do.
Anecdotal reports suggest that CBD-rich cannabis and certain terpenes and flavonoids are more beneficial than others, according Sue Sisley, the psychiatrist who spearheaded the first Food and Drug Administration-approved clinical study into how smoked cannabis affects PTSD symptoms. In other words, the high-THC strains typically available at retail stores aren't the strains most PTSD sufferers turn to.
Kahl now grows primarily to breed, such as this cross of ACDC and a high-CBD strain called R4.
Several earlier attempts had been made to add PTSD to Colorado's list of qualifying conditions, but none was successful. To add a new condition, the state requires "published literature of randomized controlled trials or well-designed observational studies of human subjects." But proponents of adding PTSD to the list say that's an impossible standard to meet given the research roadblocks imposed on the Schedule I drug by both the FDA and Drug Enforcement Agency. The state's high standard for data, they complain, effectively strips Coloradans of the ability to bring any such petition forward.
That doesn't mean patients haven't tried. The most recent of many efforts took place in July 2015, when 35 individuals gave impassioned testimony before the Board of Health. But the effort fell flat.
Kahl was at that meeting. He delivered testimony alongside a host of other advocates and PTSD survivors, not all of whom were veterans. He shared his story of how he found healing in cannabis. Then he joined the boos and jeers as the board voted the petition down.
Something had changed for Kahl. He had been roped into the world of political advocacy. It no longer felt sufficient simply to share his harvest with a few friends anymore. Kahl's new goal was for all veterans, and anyone suffering from PTSD, to have the ability to try medical cannabis for themselves.
He and fellow advocates, notably Teri Robnett and her husband Guy Duran as well as researcher Sisley, enlisted the Denver cannabis law firm Hoban Law Group to appeal the board's decision. They also hatched a Plan B: If the Board of Health couldn't be moved, the team reasoned, perhaps they could pass a law to add PTSD as a qualifying condition in Colorado.
A year later, in the summer of 2016, a golden opportunity arose. Representatives of the CDPHE Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council spoke in favor of adding PTSD to Colorado's list of qualifying conditions at a presentation to state legislators.
Kahl is still using cannabis to manage his PTSD symptoms. And so far, he said, he's been able to stave off incidents like the one in the Fort Campbell commissary.
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I've found that 1:1 THC:CBD ratios are great, and I compound my medicine out of multiple strains to get the ratios I need. That's why I grow high-CBD plants. THCV is also good for depressive secondary symptoms of PTSD, and combinations of minor cannabinoids have helped me recover from cognitive deficits due to TBI.


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"Fluke Reliability brings a model of "connected reliability" that is unique to the industry because it invites collaborations."
Arun Nair
MANAGING DIRECTOR APAC, FLUKE RELIABILITY
Fluke acquired Pruftechnik in 2019. Could you share more about the integration between the two companies and could you introduce the new entity, Fluke Reliability?
Today, Pruftechnik, eMaint and Fluke Connect form together Fluke Reliability. This entity brings under one umbrella Pruftechnik's core product line, especially in handheld devices, together with eMaint's computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software, used to manage work orders, PM schedules, parts inventories, and, finally, the software tool of Fluke Connect, used in gathering and storing measurements from test tools and condition monitoring systems.
The idea behind bringing these assets together is to create an Industry 4.0 connected system whereby, if a client buys a number of Fluke devices and Pruftechnik devices, these can be communicated to the cloud through Fluke Connect, while eMaint tracks the measurements of these tools to create a visual dashboard of these three components into one place. As with any acquisition, integration takes time. Pruftechnik had 16 global subsidiaries, each with its own procedures and country regulations, so synergizing with Fluke is a complex but very fruitful process.
What are your views on the pace of digital adoption?
Right after the pandemic hit, we saw the global spearheading and fast-tracking of digital initiatives. Industrial players had to work 10 times faster than before to shift to digital tools, in two phases: in the first stage, the shift to remote work pushed massive data and assets migrations, as well as applying different technologies to oversee operations without physical presence. The second stage involved looking at how these adjustments could actually benefit the business, and digitalization came to the forefront of people's minds. During this period, demand for wireless sensors peaked.
As a supplier of these technologies, we also needed to adapt. For instance, we used augmented reality goggles to guide a remote team at a large power plant in the Middle East where our people could not travel. Finding and applying these solutions was an eye-opener for us, as I'm sure it has been for many companies. Managers and C-suite executives no longer have the luxury to see digitalization as an option but as a necessity.
What drives innovation at Fluke Reliability?
Technology has been greatly democratized in recent years: items like wireless sensors used to be expensive, difficult to learn, and hard to get hold of, but today these are becoming cheaper and generally more accessible. Following this course of evolution, the next step in the development of sensors is to improve their effectiveness- be it by improving their reaction speed, improving their lifespans, or even their battery lives, which is an issue for many devices. Fluke Reliability works on these aspects to create more user-friendly software and continue that process of democratizing technologies. Ultimately, we want to make sure our customers understand and feel comfortable with the technologies we supply.
What opportunities for growth do you identify in APAC?
APAC has the largest growth prospect within Fluke Reliability, as it gathers the world's fastest-growing economies and populations, driving further industrialization and investments. Asia also seems to have crossed the pandemic in a more stabilized way, though it is not protected from future shocks. With Fluke on board, we expanded our reach to India and China, two giant markets opening fantastic growth opportunities. China is our biggest market at the moment, followed by Japan and Indonesia, where we operate directly through our own subsidiaries. South Korea is also a very strong market, though we don't have a direct presence there. The level of local infrastructure we establish in each country impacts our market penetration, and we noted we can achieve a lot more through our own representation and our own people.
What are the main objectives and priorities for Fluke Reliability?
We are proud to be part of Fluke, and Fluke's parent company, Fortive, both household names in the industry with many success factors instilled within them. We are continuously training our employees to acquire new skills. Fluke Reliability brings a model of "connected reliability" that is unique to the industry because it invites collaborations. As the saying goes: it takes a full village to get new maintenance up and running, so collaborations will be essential in our future development.


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Tšolo charged with fraud and corruption
Former Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Temeki Tšolo
…Frazer Solar slams "politically motivated" charges in connection with botched M1, 7 billion solar deal
Pascalinah Kabi
THE Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) has charged former minister Temeki Tšolo with corruption in connection with the botched M1, 7 billion solar power deal between the government and Frazer Solar.
Mr Tšolo appeared at the Maseru Magistrates' Court on Thursday where he was read the charges and released on M5000 bail. He will next appear in court on 30 December 2021.
The fraud and corruption charges relate to Mr Tšolo's role in committing the government to the deal with the German company for the supply of solar power to Lesotho over a period of four years.
The M1, 7 billion deal was signed in 2018 during the tenure of the previous Thomas Thabane administration. Mr Tšolo was Minister in the Prime Minister's Office at the time.
He signed the deal on behalf of the government. However, the project was not implemented after Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro- who was Finance Minister at the time- refused to refused to sign the financing agreement for the implementation of the project.
However, Frazer Solar insists it had a valid agreement that was signed on behalf of the Lesotho government by Mr Tšolo.
Early last year, the German company was granted a massive £50 million (M856 million) in damages by a South African arbitrator for the government's alleged breach of the contract. In April this year, Frazer Solar successfully petitioned the Gauteng High Court to grant it an order allowing it to garnish Lesotho's water royalties due to it in terms of its Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) agreement with South Africa for the transfer of water to the neighbouring country.
However, Frazer Solar has not laid its hands on the royalties and Lesotho's other assets. This after Dr Majoro petitioned the same court to nullify the damages award. Dr Majoro has also petitioned Lesotho's High Court to overturn the damages award. Both cases are pending.
As part of the government's multi-pronged approach to reverse the deal, the DCEO has now charged Mr Tšolo with fraud and corruption in the Maseru Magistrates' Court.
According to the charge sheet, Mr Tšolo acted in "joint common purpose" with Frazer Solar director, Robert Frazer, to "make a false representation" that Mr Tšolo was authorised to represent and bind the Lesotho government to the solar power deal with Frazer Solar.
Messrs Tšolo and Frazer's aim was for the government to act on the misrepresentation "to its detriment in the amount of M855 000 000, thus the accused is guilty of fraud," the charge sheet states.
Mr Tšolo is further accused of corruption in that he unilaterally and unlawfully signed a memorandum of understanding and supply agreement with Frazer Solar "for the purpose of obtaining an undue advantage to himself or another, Robert Frazer. Thus, the accused is guilty of the crime of corruption".
Frazer Solar has slammed the charges, describing them as baseless and politically motivated.
"These charges are nothing more than a baseless, politically motivated smokescreen. The Government of Lesotho is scrambling to cover its tracks. Resorting to such desperate tactics only serves to expose the true weakness of their position. Frazer Solar continues to enforce its final and binding arbitration award in South Africa and other international jurisdictions. Distractions and obfuscations like this don't and won't stop Frazer Solar enforcing its rights and it remains as confident as ever of ultimate victory," the German company said in a weekend statement.
Lesotho reselected for MCC funding
Majoro denies minister's "unfounded" corruption allegations against him


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The Southampton Vikings were an ice hockey team from Southampton, England. Their home venue was Southampton Ice Rink.

The Vikings were established following the collapse of French side Club Francais Volants. The name 'Vikings' was adopted due to the new team using the shirts of the old French club which had large V logos on them. Southampton's first game was a 10–5 victory over the London All Stars in 1936. The club played only briefly before succumbing to financial problems.

The team was reestablished in 1952 and would win the Southern Intermediate League in their first season. The Vikings continued playing until 1964 when they once again closed. The team returned for a third time in 1976 and would continue playing until the closure of the rink in 1988. During this time the Southampton Vikings played a single season in the Premier Division of the British Hockey League.

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History of the Southampton Vikings

Ice hockey teams in England
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Defunct ice hockey teams in the United Kingdom
Ice hockey clubs established in 1936
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My Chemistry teacher explains how fat is good for you and carbohydrates are bad for you. He will explain that margarine should be banned. Vegetable oil should be banned. Cereals should be banned. Instead people should eat more fatty foods because fat does not make you fat. He will disagree with the doctors that say eat a balanced diet. Twist to the story is that he suffers from Ketosis as a result of his diet. His son suffers from this as well. Now compare a diet of a normal person i.e. me or anyone of you who does believe in doctors to eat a balanced diet - we don't suffer from any fatal disease as a cause of diet. What are you views about it? Does anyone have similar views to my Chemistry teacher?
Borderline › well, I eat carbohydrates before I go to the gym.
well, I eat carbohydrates before I go to the gym.
stepinsidee › I thing deseases play a major role in what you eat and how you treat your body.
A balanced diet is important in order to keep fit and healthy and I also believe carbs should NOT be cut out.
Follow a realistical diet that you can stick to forever, ie allow yourself to have a cheat day where you eat what you want, or don't deprive yourself of a bar of chocolate if you crave it but at the same time keep wishing your limits.
Rather then following a strict diet and not enjoying yourself, follow one where you can eat what you want, be healthy and lose weight!
I thing deseases play a major role in what you eat and how you treat your body. A balanced diet is important in order to keep fit and healthy and I also believe carbs should NOT be cut out. Follow a realistical diet that you can stick to forever, ie allow yourself to have a cheat day where you eat what you want, or don't deprive yourself of a bar of chocolate if you crave it but at the same time keep wishing your limits. Rather then following a strict diet and not enjoying yourself, follow one where you can eat what you want, be healthy and lose weight!
stepinsidee › And most importantly on that you can stick to for long-term!
And most importantly on that you can stick to for long-term!
MSBT98 › Yh that's absolutely agreeable..... a balanced diet is the main key for a healthy life not "fat is better than carbohydrates" and end up having ketosis.
Yh that's absolutely agreeable..... a balanced diet is the main key for a healthy life not "fat is better than carbohydrates" and end up having ketosis.
Do you think doctors fulfil this oath that they take upon graduation? "Hippocratic Oath: Modern Version. I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow"
Do you think doctors fulfil this oath that they take upon graduation?
"Hippocratic Oath: Modern Version. I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow"
ze2000 › No they don't. And that's where the origin of the word "hypocrite".
No they don't. And that's where the origin of the word "hypocrite".
Life may have evolved on at least three planets in a newly discovered solar system just 39 light years from Earth, NASA has announced.
ze2000 › I just read about it. I wonder how they know if it plausible to contain water. They hardly know where there's water in the Solar System. They're just guessing to justify their budget.
I just read about it. I wonder how they know if it plausible to contain water. They hardly know where there's water in the Solar System. They're just guessing to justify their budget.
The Asian Elephants, native to Southeast Asia (including Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and some parts of Africa) face threats of extinction every day due to increasing human population. Out in the wild, destruction of indigenous Asian Elephants' habitats and hunting only satisfy humans, but does it keep elephants contented? These miraculous and some clever mammals contribute to the joys of ours when we visit zoos, however have humans ever contemplated these largely beautiful organism's feelings? The Asian elephants have lost vast majority of their natural habitat. "Humans have become their direct competitors for living space". Due to the quick increase in population of humans, the need for food and space has risen; forests and living spaces for elephants, i.e. savannah habitats, have been used for growing crops, turning them into pastureland for livestock and since humans require of daily usage of vehicles or warmth, timbers are used for the fuel. In effect, the homes for elephants are being destroyed. This leads to human and elephant conflicts. In addition, competition for food between humans and elephants intensifies. For example, in Kunene in Africa, elephants seem to be a threat for people – they cause damage to the crops, break infrastructures that are vital for the civilians, e.g. water pipes, and these become costly for the public. The loss of elephant population results as humans begin to retaliate. On recent news, "a 57-year-old woman was slightly injured when she and a husband encountered an adult elephant (Asian) on Thursday in the east coast Telupid district in the latest human-elephant conflict". A school of thought is that elephants may never actually come out of their homeland (i.e. jungle) and enter a city, however that is quite common now. It is mainly down to the fact that elephants are losing their habitat, which makes them 'homeless', and the only possible place to look for food and a place to live is to enter the city. Not only human and elephants conflict lead to reduction in population of elephants, there has been a genetic threat too. Male Asian elephants carry tusks, therefore a target for illegal hunting would allow for poaching aimed at the tusks mainly. Tusks are used for ivory, which greatly reduces the number of male elephants. Having less male elephants would cause consequences, mainly due to the fact that poachers find it easier to kill the immature elephants as they would be a simple target, resulting in species unevenness. Moreover, this would lead to inbreeding and gradually lead to low breeding success as it would be widespread. Mortality rate would go up and genetic variation with larger gene pool will not be possible. Not only juvenile elephants would affect the breeding rate, killing larger elephants for tusks would also contribute a larger share since they will not exchange genetic material with another female species, thus the biodiversity would become less. Humans stand up for each other, why can't we stand up for animals - in the end looking at classification, humans are defined as animals - so what's the difference. Stop this animal poaching for money sake, let's give them the rights they need!
HappyLady › Such a shame such wonderful animals have such a struggle to survive.
Such a shame such wonderful animals have such a struggle to survive.
I always wondered if these had been really true!
Princess Diana and Bin Laden are both alive and well...! Really?
Princess Diana can be both alive and dead at the same time according to conspiracy theorists.
Bilston › Accidental or not, it seems ilke it was convenient.
Accidental or not, it seems ilke it was convenient.
Borderline › why would she choose romania?
why would she choose romania?
Bilston › I don't like Trump at all, but I think is not correct the way his detractors are proceeding.
I don't like Trump at all, but I think is not correct the way his detractors are proceeding.
ze2000 › True, he didn't have a chance yet.
True, he didn't have a chance yet.


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Yahoo's Balogh Resurfaces At StumbleUpon
Joseph Tartakoff May 16, 2011 - 3:37 PM CDT
Ari Balogh, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CTO and EVP of products who left the company a year ago, is joining StumbleUpon as its VP of engineering. The content recommendation service tells us Balogh will be a member of the company's management team and will "oversee all of the company's engineering functions including product development, science, infrastructure and internal IT support."
The big-name hire comes two months after StumbleUpon raised $17 million in a new funding round, which it said it would use to expand to new platforms and grow its employee base. The company has said its user base has more than doubled since it was spun off from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) two years ago and now totals 14 million.
Balogh joined Yahoo from Verisign in July 2008. Although he had been expected by some to leave soon after Carol Bartz took over as CEO, he stayed on until April 2010 and cited "personal reasons" for his departure, saying he had a "situation with my own family that is difficult and has driven me to make some changes in my life."
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The North Carolina Division of Waste Management administers a comprehensive program to manage scrap tires. This program prevents illegal dumping of tires by providing an infrastructure to safely collect, store, and recycle scrap tires. An advance disposal fee is charged when new tires are sold. The proceeds are distributed to each county to pay for collection and recycling of tires. Counties do not charge disposal fees for tires generated in North Carolina. Each load of more than five tires must be accompanied by a completed scrap tire certification form.
Because of reductions in funding per Session Law 2013-360, the Appropriations Act of 2013, the Division of Waste Management has scaled down the cost overrun grant amounts awarded to the county scrap tire programs. Continuing decreases to cost overrun grants are anticipated in order to keep the tire fund solvent.
Counties are advised to make whatever adjustments are needed to their budgets to account for these measures. All other provisions of the scrap tire law (G.S. 130A-309.51 through G.S. 130A-309-64) and the regulations (15A NCAC 13B .1100) remain unchanged. Counties will continue to receive tire tax distributions from the Department of Revenue. Resources for clean ups of illegal tire dumps will continue to be available while funds last. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Blind singer with autism blows away 'America's Got Talent' judges, audience with Golden Buzzer performance
Posted 7:53 am, May 29, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
A 22-year-old singer, assisted by his mother and a cane as he walked on stage, may have given one of the most memorable performances yet on "America's Got Talent."
Kodi Lee is blind and has autism.
His mother, Tina, told the show's judges that he loved music "really early on."
"He listened, and his eyes just went huge, and he started singing," she said. "I realized he's an entertainer. Through music and performing, he was able to withstand living in this world, because when you're autistic, it's really hard to do what everybody else does. It actually saved his life playing music."
She assisted her son to the piano, and he performed a rendition of "A Song for You" by Donny Hathaway.
All four judges, along with everyone else in the room, were on their feet when he was finished. Judge Gabrielle Union hit the Golden Buzzer, meaning he'll advance right to the live shows.
"What just happened there was extraordinary," said judge Simon Cowell. "I'm going to remember this moment for the rest of my life."
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