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The new Skoda Kamiq, which makes its world debut at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show next week, is the Czech brand's third all-new SUV and the smallest one it's launched to date.
Billed as a city SUV crossover, the new Kamiq is gunning for the Nissan Juke, Renault Captur and Vauxhall Mokka X (as well as its Seat Arona sister car). Skoda hopes it will bring brand new, younger customers into dealers, those who have never considered the brand before.
At 4,241mm long, it's only slightly larger than a regular supermini, and shorter overall than a family hatchback like a Volkswagen Golf (or, indeed, the upcoming new Skoda Scala). But the higher ground clearance gives it a safe and sturdy feel inside, and the tall body creates plenty of space.
Chunky styling draws from the Skoda SUV family DNA, with a wide grille and contoured bonnet. Even the smallest wheels are 16 inches in diameter; up to 18 inches are available, underlining the tough and chunky look.
The Kamiq is "powerful and emotive, despite its compact dimensions," said Skoda head of design Oliver Stefani. He's proud of the split LED headlights; choose optional full LED lights and the daytime running lights "appear like four gemstones above the main headlights". Crystalline 3D effects further enhance the "glistening jewels" appearance.
The Scala introduced Skoda's new interior layout, with a large, freestanding infotainment screen in the centre of the dash. The Kamiq is the second – and at 9.2 inches, the screen is the largest in the city SUV segment.
There's lots of soft-touch materials and more crystalline textures, while ambient lighting in three colours – white, red and copper – help it feel more spacious at night. Luxury touches include optional heated seats in the rear as well as the front.
The boot is enormous – 400 litres with the seats up (20 litres bigger than a VW Golf), 1,395 litres with them folded. Skoda will even let you option a fold-down front passenger seat, so loads up to almost 2.5 metres can be loaded in.
Skoda's selling the Kamiq purely in front-wheel drive guise: people care more about fuel economy than off-road traction in this sector (although it does have 37mm more ground clearance than a Scala, add the engineers). There is a diesel, a 115hp 1.6 TDI, but the best-sellers will be the turbo petrol engines – a 1.0 TSI with 95hp or 115hp, plus a 1.5 TSI with 150hp.
Those who want a sportier drive can have a sport chassis setup, that's 10mm lower and comes with adaptive suspension – choose from normal, sport, eco and individual modes.
There are lots of standard safety features, plenty more optional ones, and a Skoda wouldn't be a true Skoda without a plethora of so-called 'Simply Clever' features. The Kamiq? It has no fewer than 20 of them.
These include sector-first door edge protectors, an electric tailgate, removable LED torch and a Skoda Connect app that allows you to remotely check whether the Kamiq is locked, or how much fuel is in the tank, from your smartphone.


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Andy & Tara's World: Bolivia: Free of Bolivians at Last!
CAPYBARAS!!! And peccaries! You knew that would get me out of the woodwork. :) So glad to hear that you guys made your way out of Bolivia without too much hassle and that you aren't letting the bad experience with the bag slow you down. Your pics have been absolutely incredible--I will sheepishly admit that the photo of the sign prohibiting peeing in the salt flats may well be my favorite. And that railroad graveyard is really wild! I'm curious: How much of a difference is there in the Spanish from country to country? Are the idioms and accents pretty similar throughout?
As to your question, our Spanish is definitely not good enough to notice different idioms from country to country much, though I guess we do notice when words for certain foods change from place to place (like strawberry is sometimes frutilla and sometimes fresa depending on where you are, same with avocado, which can be aguacate or palta). And in Ecuador they seem to refer to folks like us as "extranjeros" (foreigners) rather than the slightly pejorative "gringos" we got elsewhere. So, OK, I guess we notice this stuff a little bit.
Accents are definitely more noticeable. Argentina´s was probably hardest to understand, though we met some Venezuelans the other day in Quito and were reminded of how tough they are to understand when they start dropping all their s's! I think we had less trouble with comprehension in Peru and Bolivia, and Ecuador's not too bad either.


Polly Broman-Wright (graphic design, Studio at Tufts) earned a Fifth-Year Certificate ('62) and Diploma ('61) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her recent work includes a book jacket and illustrations ('00), a hand-bound, hand-written collaborative book project ('00), the Invitational Calligraphy exhibit at Symphony Hall, Boston ('99), a group calligraphy exhibit with the Masscribes, Brookline, MA ('99), and community art exhibit at Morse Institute Library, Natick, MA ('99). She also had selected works for "In Celebration of Trees," a juried art exhibit at the Center for the Arts, Natick, MA ('99), and "Leaves, Lines and Letters," a retrospective solo exhibit of forty years of her art, including drawings, calligraphy, nature prints, small handmade books, and painted objects, Morse Institute Library, Natick, MA ('99).


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Unaccademia è un'istituzione destinata agli studi più raffinati e all'approfondimento delle conoscenze di più alto livello. Il termine può indicare una società scientifica dedicata alla ricerca nel campo delle scienze naturali, della filosofia e delle belle arti.
L'aura di prestigio associato all'origine del nome spinge molti istituti (soprattutto privati) a fregiarsi di questo appellativo, sebbene non sempre in maniera appropriata.

Origine della scuola filosofica

Il termine accademia deriva dal greco e indicava la scuola filosofica di Platone, fondata nel 387 a.C. e situata in un luogo appena fuori le mura di Atene, chiamata così dal nome dell'eroe di guerra Academo che aveva donato agli ateniesi un terreno che divenne un giardino aperto al pubblico dove Platone filosofava con i suoi discepoli. Qui Platone scrisse i suoi dialoghi e Aristotele seguì le lezioni del maestro fino alla sua morte.
Incerta la funzione specifica della scuola, s'ipotizza che:
 fosse dedicata alle Muse con un carattere quindi religioso;
 fosse una scuola di formazione politica per i giovani greci;
 fosse indirizzata allo studio e alla ricerca come una specie di università moderna.

Evoluzione della scuola platonica
Tradizionalmente nell'antichità si distingueva in diverse fasi lo sviluppo della scuola. Tra gli antichi, Diogene Laerzio parlava di cinque diverse "Accademie", a partire dallo scolarcato di Platone fino ad arrivare a Filone, al termine dell'ellenismo. Cicerone invece identificava semplicemente un'accademia antica e la "nuova accademia" di Carneade e Filone.

Mentre a quanto sembra gli immediati successori di Platone, Speusippo e Senocrate, continuarono l'insegnamento del fondatore senza apportare innovazioni di rilievo, una vera svolta si ebbe con lo scolarcato di Arcesilao (Accademia di mezzo). Arcesilao inaugurò il nuovo corso del platonismo ellenistico: a partire da lui, fino al primo secolo, il platonismo venne guardato innanzitutto come una filosofia scettica. La svolta scettica fu probabilmente influenzata dalla polemica che Arcesilao inaugurò contro il dogmatismo della dottrina stoica, che veniva allora insegnata ad Atene da Zenone di Cizio.

Anche i successori di Arcesilao - in particolare Carneade (Accademia di mezzo) - proseguirono sia lo sviluppo scettico del platonismo sia la polemica con lo stoicismo, fino al I secolo d. C. Filone di Larissa, in quest'epoca, iniziò una revisione delle posizioni dei suoi predecessori, puntando verso un approccio più sincretico con le altre scuole di pensiero ellenistiche, in reazione agli orientamenti scettici; il più famoso allievo di Filone, Antioco di Ascalona, ruppe del tutto con l'insegnamento dei predecessori, e con l'Accademia di Atene, fondando una nuova scuola in Egitto, e dando del platonismo una interpretazione che tendeva a trasformarlo in un sistema dogmatico con molti punti di contatto più che di polemica con lo stoicismo.

Schematicamente si è soliti distinguere:
 Accademia antica (IV secolo a.C.) (387-315 a.C.) corrispondente alla trattazione di temi matematici-pitagorici nell'ultima fase del pensiero platonico (esponenti: Speusippo, Senocrate, Eraclide Pontico (390 circa-310 circa a.C.), Eudosso di Cnido (408 circa-355 circa a.C.);
 Accademia di mezzo (III secolo a.C.) rappresenta una fase dello scetticismo con Arcesilao di Pitane e Carneade di Cirene;
 Accademia nuova o Scuola platonica (dal II secolo a.C. in poi) ritornano temi legati al platonismo in una trattazione eclettica (esponenti Simplicio, Proclo);
 529 L'imperatore Giustiniano chiude l'ultima scuola ad indirizzo neoplatonico.
 Nuova accademia o Accademia platonica di Firenze fondata dagli umanisti fiorentini nel XV secolo ispirata al platonismo rinascimentale di Marsilio Ficino e Pico della Mirandola.

Accademie italiane
La nascita delle accademie moderne è strettamente collegata allo sviluppo dell'Umanesimo. Infatti le università, salvo poche eccezioni, rimasero fedeli al metodo della filosofia scolastica durante tutto il Rinascimento. Perciò gli Umanisti crearono delle istituzioni alternative dove coltivare il loro modello di cultura. In Italia queste istituzioni furono soprattutto le accademie.
 secondo molti storici, la più antica Accademia letteraria d'Italia è quella fondata, nel XIV secolo, a Rimini dal forlivese Jacopo Allegretti
 sempre a Jacopo Allegretti è attribuita la fondazione, a Forlì nel 1370, dell'Accademia dei Filergiti, con vocazione insieme letteraria e scientifica
 La più antica accademia d'Italia tuttora esistente è l'Accademia Pontaniana, fondata a Napoli da Antonio Beccadelli nel 1458, precedente quindi all'Accademia della Crusca, nata a Firenze nel 1583.
 tra gli istituti più anziani, l'Accademia di Firenze durante il Rinascimento fiorentino fu ristabilita con il nome "la nuova Accademia platonica" nel 1439 da Cosimo de' Medici.
 L'Accademia delle Arti del Disegno di Firenze, è la più antica Accademia pubblica di arte creata al mondo, fu istituita da Cosimo I de' Medici, il 13 gennaio 1563, su consiglio dell'architetto aretino Giorgio Vasari e fu inizialmente denominata Accademia e Compagnia dell'Arte del Disegno in quanto suddivisa in due branche operative differenziate. Il ruolo ed il prestigio di questa istituzione crebbero fra il Cinque e il Seicento grazie allo straordinario contributo di Accademici come Michelangelo Buonarroti, Andrea Sansovino, Francesco da Sangallo, Agnolo Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini, Giorgio Vasari, Bartolomeo Ammannati, il Giambologna, ecc. Fra gli scienziati che accedettero all'istruzione scientifica vi fu Galileo Galilei. È tuttora esistente (www.aadfi.it) e promuove la salvaguardia e la protezione delle opere d'arte in Italia.
 L'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (la più vecchia università privata nel mondo cristiano occidentale, 1119).
 L'Accademia Cosentina (1511) è la seconda del Regno di Napoli e tra le più antiche di Europa tra quelle ancora esistenti.
 L'Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza, fondata nel 1555 da un gruppo di intellettuali, tra i quali l'architetto Andrea Palladio, che fece costruire il Teatro Olimpico.
 Accademia dei Concordi di Rovigo (1580).
 Accademia nazionale di San Luca(1593)
 Accademia dei Sepolti di Volterra (1597).
 Accademia galileiana di scienze, lettere ed arti, già Accademia dei Ricovrati, fondata a Padova nel 1599 da Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro, Galileo Galilei, e altri.
 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, fondata nel 1603 da Federico Cesi, Francesco Stelluti, Anastasio De Filiis e Johannes van Heeck.
 Accademia del cimento, fondata nel 1657 a Firenze.
 Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere La Colombaria di Firenze (1735).
 Accademia Ercolanese fondata da Carlo di Borbone (1755).

Accademie di belle arti

 1563 Accademia delle Arti del Disegno di Firenze
 1573 Accademia di belle arti Pietro Vannucci di Perugia
 1593 Accademia di belle arti di Roma
 1710 Accademia di belle arti di Bologna detta "Clementina"
 1750 Accademia di belle arti di Venezia
 1751 Accademia ligustica di belle arti di Genova
 1752 Accademia di belle arti di Napoli
 1757 Accademia di belle arti di Parma
 1764 Accademia di belle arti Gian Bettino Cignaroli di Verona
 1769 Accademia di belle arti di Carrara
 1776 Accademia di belle arti di Brera di Milano
 1778 Accademia Albertina di Torino
 1780 Accademia di belle arti di Palermo
 1784 Accademia di belle arti di Firenze
 1793 Accademia Carrara di Bergamo
 1816 Accademia di belle arti di Siena

Accademie d'arte drammatica
 1936 Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica - "Silvio D'Amico" (Roma)
 1946 Accademia Pietro Sharoff (Roma)
 1951 Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi (Milano)
 1976 Scuola di teatro Alessandra Galante Garrone (Bologna)
 1982 Accademia internazionale di teatro (Roma)
 1992 Scuola del teatro stabile di Torino (Torino)
 1992 Scuola di Teatro Menandro (Roma)
 2001 Accademia teatrale ITACA (Corato, provincia di Bari)
Scuola di recitazione "Giovanni Poli" del teatro a l'Avogaria di Venezia (Venezia)
 Scuola del teatro stabile di Genova (Genova)
 Scuola del teatro stabile di Catania (Catania)
 Scuola del teatro Bellini (Napoli)
 Istituto nazionale del dramma antico (Siracusa)
 Accademia d'arte drammatica della Calabria (Palmi, provincia di Reggio Calabria)
 Accademia Teatrale Lorenzo Da Ponte (Vittorio Veneto)

Accademie musicali
 1543 Accademia Filarmonica di Verona
 1585 Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma
 1615 Accademia dei floridi di Bologna
 1666 Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna
 1932 Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena
 1985 Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" di Imola (BO)
 1987 Accademia musicale teresiana
 2002 Accademia musicale di Firenze
 2003 Accademia dei ragazzi di Forio d'Ischia (NA)
 Accademia corale Opitergium di Oderzo (TV)
 2008 Verona Accademia per l'Opera di Verona (VR)

Il termine accademia musicale indica anche una manifestazione pubblica a pagamento in voga alla fine del Settecento e all'inizio dell'Ottocento organizzata da un cantante, strumentista o compositore, che aveva il ruolo più rilevante all'interno di un programma di brani musicali molto vario, con intervento di molti esecutori, sinonimo di concerto.

Accademie linguistiche e letterarie
 1511 Accademia Cosentina
 1527 Accademia degli Intronati di Siena
 1540 Accademia degli Infiammati di Padova
 1561 Accademia degli Insensati di Perugia
 1564 Accademia degli Unanimi di Salò
 1582 Accademia dei Piacevoli o Soavi di Venosa
 1583 Accademia della Crusca di Firenze
 1588 Accademia degli Svegliati di Pisa
 1597 Accademia dei sepolti di Volterra
 1613 Accademia degli Infecondi di Roma
 1619 Accademia degli Erranti di Brescia
 1690 Accademia dell'Arcadia di Roma
 1743 Accademia dei Trasformati di Milano

Accademie delle scienze
 1560 Accademia dei segreti di Napoli
 1603 Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei di Roma
 1657 Accademia del Cimento di Firenze
 1691 Accademia delle scienze di Siena, detta anche dei Fisiocritici
 1714 Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna
 1753 Accademia dei Georgofili di Firenze
 1757 Accademia delle scienze di Torino
 1766 Accademia nazionale delle scienze detta "dei XL", in Roma
 1785 Accademia di Agricoltura di Torino
 1824 Accademia Gioenia di Catania
 1828 Accademia agraria in Pesaro
 1936 Pontificia accademia delle scienze in Vaticano

Accademie miste
 1516 Accademia Properziana del Subasio di Assisi
 1574 Accademia dei Filergiti di Forlì
 1598 Accademia dei sepolti di Volterra
 1599 Accademia dei ricovrati di Padova, ora Accademia galileiana di scienze, lettere ed arti
 1671 Accademia di scienze, lettere e belle arti degli Zelanti e dei Dafnici di Acireale
 1680 Accademia dei dissonanti, ora Accademia nazionale di scienze, lettere e arti di Modena
 1718 Accademia nazionale di scienze, lettere e arti di Palermo
 1729 Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti di Messina
 1735 Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere La Colombaria di Firenze
 1748 Accademia degli Euteleti di San Miniato
 1750 Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati di Rovereto
 1768 Accademia di agricoltura scienze e lettere di Verona
 1768 Accademia nazionale virgiliana di Mantova
 1774 Accademia mediterranea euracea di Termini Imerese
 1797 Istituto lombardo di scienze e lettere di Milano
 1797 Società del Liceo di Brescia
 1798 Accademia ligure di scienze e lettere di Genova
 1808 Società Reale di Napoli
 1810 Accademia Petrarca di lettere, arti e scienze di Arezzo
 1819 Accademia lucchese di scienze, lettere e arti
 1825 Accademia Filelfica di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Tolentino
 1838 Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti di Venezia
 1902 Accademia del Frignano "Lo Scoltenna" di Pievepelago
 1949 Accademia Angelico Costantiniana di Lettere, Arti, Scienze
 1996 Accademia Federiciana di Scienze, Lettere, Arti

Accademie militari
 Accademia militare di Modena
 Accademia navale di Livorno
 Accademia Aeronautica di Pozzuoli
 Accademia della Guardia di Finanza di Bergamo

Altre
 Accademia italiana della cucina
 Accademia italiana della marina mercantile
 Accademia nazionale di danza, fondata nel 1940 da Jia Ruskaja
 Accademia nazionale di scherma, fondata nel 1861
 Accademia Internazionale Incisione Artistica

Accademie estere
A partire dalla metà del secolo XVII molti stati europei si dotarono di accademie sull'esempio italiano. Esse ebbero un'importante funzione culturale nel successivo secolo e mezzo, in quanto le università in tale periodo erano ancora sostanzialmente organizzate sul modello medioevale: avevano ancora solo le facoltà di teologia, diritto e medicina, cui si aggiungeva la facoltà di filosofia (già delle arti) in cui gli studi di grammatica e retorica erano rivolti al latino ed al greco antico, mentre delle scienze (il vecchio "quadrivio") si studiava soprattutto la matematica. Solo la cattedra di "filosofia naturale" si occupava di scienza sperimentale.

Si comprende allora come le accademie abbiano colmato importanti lacune nell'organizzazione culturale dell'epoca: le accademie delle scienze furono le istituzioni più decisive nel promuovere la nascita della scienza sperimentale, mentre le accademie linguistiche furono le prime istituzioni a studiare le lingue moderne, fino ad allora dette "volgari". L'insegnamento artistico, poi, è rimasto estraneo alle università europee fino a tempi recenti.

All'inizio dell'Ottocento le università furono profondamente riformate e conseguentemente le accademie persero la loro preminenza nell'organizzazione culturale. Determinante fu la fondazione dell'Università di Berlino nel 1810 che fu subito dotata di laboratori sperimentali di fisica, chimica e scienze naturali, nonché di un policlinico. L'esempio fu gradualmente imitato da tutte le università. Importante fu anche la riforma delle università francesi, recepita anche in altri paesi fra cui l'Italia, con cui fu abolita la facoltà di teologia e la facoltà di filosofia fu divisa nelle facoltà di Scienze (matematiche, ma anche fisiche, chimiche e naturali) e di Lettere (antiche e moderne).

Diverso è il caso della Russia, dove l'Accademia russa delle scienze (e in precedenza l'Accademia delle scienze dell'URSS) continua ad essere un ente guida della ricerca.

Accademie di belle arti
 1648 Académie des beaux-arts di Parigi
 1662 Accademia di belle arti di Norimberga
 1682 Reale accademia di belle arti dell'Aja
 1692 Accademia di belle arti di Vienna
 1696 Accademia delle arti di Prussia
 1752 Académia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando di Madrid
 1754 Regia accademia danese di belle arti
 1757 Accademia russa di belle arti
 1768 Royal Academy di Londra
 1768 Accademia di belle arti di Bruxelles
 1773 Accademia reale svedese delle arti
 1799 Accademia di belle arti di Praga

Accademie musicali
 1661 Académie Royale de Danse di Parigi
 1669 Académie Royale de Musique di Parigi
 1672 Académie Royale de Musique et Danse di Parigi
 1771 Accademia reale svedese di musica
 1822 Royal Academy of Music di Londra
 1875 Accademia Franz Liszt di Budapest
 Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields (orchestra inglese).

Accademie linguistiche e letterarie
 1323 Consistori del Gay Saber per la poesia cortese
 1583 Accademia della Crusca per la lingua italiana. L'accademia della Crusca è la più antica accademia linguistica del mondo.
 1617 Società dei Carpofori per la lingua tedesca
 1635 Académie française
 1643 Ordine Florifero della Pegnitz per la lingua tedesca
 1663 Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres per le lingue classiche
 1713 Real Academia Española
 1753 Accademia reale svedese di lettere, storia e antichità
 1783 Accademia imperiale russa
 1786 Accademia svedese

Accademie delle scienze
 1652 Academia Naturae Curiosorum di Halle, detta "Cesarea Leopoldina"
 1660 Royal Society di Londra
 1666 Académie des sciences di Parigi
 1700 Regia accademia delle scienze prussiana, rifondata nel 1992 come Accademia delle scienze di Berlino
 1700 Accademia delle scienze di Lione
 1710 Regia società delle scienze di Uppsala
 1724 Accademia russa delle scienze
 1731 Royal Dublin Society
 1739 Accademia reale svedese delle scienze
 1742 Regia accademia danese di scienze e lettere
 1751 Accademia delle scienze di Gottinga
 1754 Accademia delle scienze utili di Erfurt
 1759 Accademia bavarese delle scienze
 1760 Regia società norvegese delle scienze
 1763 Accademia elettorale di scienze e belle lettere di Mannheim detta "Teodoro-Palatina"
 1769 Accademia reale del Belgio detta "Teresiana"
 1773 Regia società di scienze e lettere di Göteborg
 1779 Accademia delle scienze di Lisbona
 1783 Royal Society di Edimburgo
 1785 Royal Irish Academy
 1808 Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
 1815 Accademia svizzera di scienze naturali
 1825 Accademia ungherese delle scienze
 1846 Accademia sassone delle scienze di Lipsia
 1847 Accademia austriaca delle scienze
 1847 Reale accademia delle scienze esatte, fisiche e naturali di Madrid
 1853 California Academy of Sciences di San Francisco
 1863 National Academy of Sciences di Washington
 1952 Accademia polacca delle scienze
 1980 International Academy of Science (IAS, Accademia internazionale della scienza), fondata dall'International Council of Scientific Development (ICSD) e da Linus Pauling, Sir John Kendrew, Konrad Lorenz, Andrei Sacharov, Lord Alexander Todd, e Ilya Prigogine.

Accademie militari
 Accademia reale svedese di scienze belliche
 Società reale svedese di scienze navali
 United States Naval Academy (1845 Annapolis)
 United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)

Accademie pontificie
(1542) Pontificia accademia dei virtuosi al Pantheon
(1718) Pontificia accademia di teologia
(1810) Pontificia accademia romana di archeologia
(1879) Pontificia accademia Cultorum martyrum
(1879) Pontificia accademia di San Tommaso d'Aquino
(1959) Pontificia accademia mariana internazionale
(2012) Pontificia accademia di latinità

Altre accademie
 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (scienze del cinema), l'ente che premia con l'Academy awards, noto in Italia con il nome di "Premio Oscar"
 Accademia Burg Fürsteneck Accademia per formazione professionale e culturale in Germania
 Accademia della Canzone italiana in Germania Accademia per formazione artistico culturale in Germania

Accademie immaginarie
 Accademia della Flotta Stellare

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Per le accademie italiane:
 Michele Maylender, Storia delle Accademie d'Italia, 5 voll., Bologna, Cappelli, 1926-1930.

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, more commonly referred to as the United Kingdom or the UK, is a unitary state consisting of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are also three Crown Dependencies in nearby waters, and 14 Overseas Territories across the globe. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the United Kingdom was the world's foremost superpower, with roughly a quarter of the world's landmass and population under the dominion of the British Empire. Throughout the 20th century, the British Empire gradually dissolved, and countries such as Germany, the U.S., and USSR gained more international influence; however, the UK remains one of the world's leading economies, with considerable political, cultural, and technological influence. Since 2016, Brexit, i.e. the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, has been the most influential factor in the UK's foreign policy, and adaptation to life outside of the EU has had a significant impact domestically. Thus far, most consider the economic and bureaucratic fallout of Brexit to have been overwhelmingly negative, it has put strain on the UK's political relationship with the European trading bloc, and trade barriers have resulted in shortages or price hikes for certain goods and services. Nonetheless, the UK will have a higher level of economic autonomy going forward, and it remains to be seen whether any long-term benefits will outweigh the obstacles and challenges that the UK has faced until now.
In 2021, the United Kingdom had a total population of roughly 67 million people. England has, by far, the largest share of this population at 57 million; followed by Scotland with 5.5 million, then Wales with 3.2 million, and Northern Ireland with 1.9 million. The UK's crude birth rate is around 11 births per 1,000 population, while the death rate is around nine per 1,000 population, meaning that the UK has a very small rate of natural increase. In 2019, the UK's total fertility rate was just over 1.6 births per woman. London is, by far, the largest city in the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.3 million people. Manchester is the second largest city at 2.7 million people, and Birmingham third with 2.6 million, while Belfast is the largest of the executive capitals. The largest non-British population in the UK is from Poland, with a population of 815,000 people, followed by Romania at 404,000; due to Brexit a large number of European migrants have left the UK, therefore these proportions may change in the coming years. There are also significant South Asian, African, and Caribbean populations in the UK, from former-colonies of the British Empire, and these groups make up the majority of the UK's non-white population. The UK generally ranks among the top 10 percent of countries in terms of demographic development, and ranks 13th on the latest Human Development Index.
The United Kingdom also has one of the world's most developed economies. It's GDP of 3.1 trillion U.S. dollars makes it the fifth largest economy in the world, and the second largest in Europe. The country's currency is the British Pound Sterling (GBP), with the Bank of England as the central bank. The UK is a net importer of goods, with total import values over 50 percent higher than exports in 2020. In recent years, the UK has fallen outside of the top 10 leading exporters, and is now ranked 12th in the world, and sixth in Europe. The European Union is the UK's largest trading partner, however the U.S. receives the largest share of any individual country. Between 2016 and 2021 the national debt rose from 2.5 to 3.4 trillion U.S. dollars, however in 2019, unemployment had reached its lowest rate in decades before the covid pandemic hit.
The UK is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system, in which the ultimate legislative power is held by the centralized Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister is the head of the executive branch, while the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, serves as head of state in a more ceremonial capacity. Next to the central government of the UK, three of the four member countries, namely Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, have their own devolved national administrations. The three national administrations all consist of an executive body and a legislative institution with different levels of authority. Power is delegated to the devolved administrations by the central parliament and can theoretically be withdrawn or limited at any time. General elections in the UK use a First Past the Post system to determine the 650 Members of Parliament, and the leader of the party or coalition with the most seats is usually named Prime Minister. Parliamentary sessions or terms generally last for five years, although early elections can be called with two thirds support in a vote in the House of Commons. The minimum voting age in the UK is 18 years, although it is 16 years in local elections in Scotland.
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Towards a Biosocial Approach to Occupational Safety and Health
Posted on March 8, 2019 by Michael Flynn, MA
The integration of the social determinants of health paradigm by occupational and public health researchers and institutions is leading to a recognition of the need for a more holistic and nuanced perspective on work and its impact on population health (Ahonen et al 2018; Schulte and Vainio, 2010; WHO 2008). Fundamental to this transformation is the need to complement traditional approaches to occupational health with new conceptual and methodological perspectives that can better account for the social aspects of health and well-being.
Occupational health evolved into a fundamentally technical and applied field dedicated to identifying and eliminating the physical, chemical, and biologic hazards found at the workplace (Peckham et al, 2017). This has resulted in a view of cause and effect rooted in the biomedical model of health (Farmer et al, 2006). As a result, the injury experience is removed from its geographical, historical, and social context. While this approach has led to significant reductions in occupational injury and illness, it has separated occupational health from its historical roots in social medicine and limited its ability to account for the social structures that circumscribe health outcomes (Flynn, 2018). It has also led to the distinction between work-related and non-work-related exposures, injuries, and illnesses which has evolved into a line of demarcation between occupational safety and health and other disciplines within public health (Peckham et al, 2017; Flynn and Wickramage 2017). This division has limited the ability of occupational and public health institutions to address the significant influence that work has over aspects of life that contribute or detract from workers' health and that of their families.
My recent commentary in a special issue of the Anthropology of Work Review dedicated to the occupational health of immigrants highlights the limitations of current approaches to occupational safety and health and argues for the need to move toward a biosocial approach (Farmer 2006) to worker health and well-being (Flynn, 2018). Greater inclusion of the social sciences in occupational health is essential in addressing the challenges that shifting social trends such as the increasing reliance on new employment arrangements and the growing demographic diversity in the workforce. Anthropological theory, methods, and approaches are particularly important to advancing our understanding of the social aspects of workplace safety and addressing calls in the literature for a more holistic, public health-oriented approach to worker health.
The ethnographic approach, central to anthropology, can help researchers develop an understanding of society in general, and specific aspects in particular, from the point of view of the subject of the study. This approach can be used to reinsert occupational injuries or illnesses into their social context and the lived experiences of workers, their families, and their communities (Leong et al 2014; Saxton & Stuesse, 2018; Stuesse, 2018; Unterberger, 2018). It not only provides a better understanding for how social vulnerability materializes in the lives of workers, but also helps bridge the divide between occupational health and other public health disciplines. Anthropology also provides theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to identify how exclusionary social structures are codified in occupational safety and health organizations and internalized by the professionals who staff them (NIOSH 2018; Castillo 2018).
The relationship between migration, work, and health is a rich but underexplored area in social science research. Because the search for employment is a central motivation to migrate, work represents an ideal location to study the convergence of the forces of global macro-economic structure and policy with the pursuit of survival and well-being for labor migrants, their families and their communities (Flynn, 2010). Indeed, the experiences of immigrant workers figured prominently in the early development of occupational health as a field (Abrams, 2001). However, anthropological research with migrants rarely explicitly addresses occupational health.
Limited interaction between occupational health and social sciences such as anthropology is truly a missed opportunity. Cross-fertilization between these disciplines would not only help develop our understanding of the social aspect of safety, but could help bridge the gap between occupational and community health and further our understanding of how structural vulnerabilities materialize in workers' lives.
If you have used social sciences, specifically anthropology, in your occupational safety and health research please share your experiences or examples in the comment section below.
Michael Flynn, MA, is a Social Scientist in the NIOSH Education and Information Division and Coordinates the Occupational Health Equity Program.
Abrams, Herbert K. 2001 "A Short History of Occupational Health." Journal of Public Health Policy, 22:34-80.
Ahonen EQ, Fujishiro K, Cunningham TR, Flynn MA. (2018). Work as an Inclusive Part of Population Health Inequities Research and Prevention. American Journal of Public Health 108(3): 306-311. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304214
Castillo, C. G. (2018). What the Doctors Don't See: Physicians as Gatekeepers, Injured Latino Immigrants, and Workers' Compensation System. Anthropology of Work Review, 39(2), 94-104.
Farmer, Paul, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, Salmaan Keshavjee 2006. "Sturcutral Violence and Clinical Medicine." PLoS Medicine 3:1686-91.
Flynn, M. A. (2018). Im/migration, Work, and Health: Anthropology and the Occupational Health of Labor Im/migrants. Anthropology of Work Review, 39(2), 116-123. doi: 10.1111/awr.12151
Flynn, Michael A. 2010. Undocumented Status and the Occupational Lifeworlds of Latino Immigrants in a Time of Political Backlash: The Workers' Perspective. Masters Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati.
Flynn MA, Wickramage K. (2017). Leveraging the Domain of Work to Improve Migrant Health. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 14(10): 1248, doi: 10.3390/ijerph14101248.
Leong, F.T.L., Eggerth, D.E., & Flynn, M.A. (2014). A Life Course Perspective on Immigrant Occupational Health and Well-Being. In Eds. Robert Sinclair and Stavroula Leka, Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice. Volume 3. Wiley-Blackwell: New York. doi:10.1002/9781118713860.ch7
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. 2018. Occupational Health Equity: Program Description. Accessed from https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/programs/ohe/description.html
Peckham, Trevor K, Marissa G Baker, Janice E Camp, Joel D Kaufman, Noah S Seixas 2017. "Creating a Future for Occupational Health." Ann Work Expo Health 61:3–15.
Saxton, D. I., & Stuesse, A. (2018). Workers' Decompensation: Engaged Research with Injured Im/migrant Workers. Anthropology of Work Review, 39(2), 65-78.
Schulte Paul, Harri Vainio. 2010 "Well-being at Work – Overview and Perspective." Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health 36:422-29.
Stuesse, A. (2018). When They're Done with You: Legal Violence and Structural Vulnerability among Injured Immigrant Poultry Workers. Anthropology of Work Review, 39(2), 79-93.
Unterberger, A. (2018). "No One Cares if You Can't Work": Injured and Disabled Mexican‐Origin Workers in Transnational Life Course Perspective. Anthropology of Work Review, 39(2), 105-115.
World Health Organization. 2008. Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health; World Health Organization: Geneva, Switzerland.
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3 comments on "Towards a Biosocial Approach to Occupational Safety and Health"
This blog post reminded me of a mentor who did a lot of ergonomics work in construction. He used to say that he was "practicing anthropology without a license."
I don't have any formal training in ethnography or anthropology but I appreciate these comments immensely. I think anyone who has worked in applied occupational health and safety settings, working with workers, implicitly knows that "culture" matters. The same is true for public health workers who interact with the public. NIOSH supports important work in the area of safety culture and safety climate. Expanding the vision to "culture" writ large is an underrealized opportunity. Who better to lead the effort than actual anthropologists who take the notion of "culture" as seriously as an industrial hygienist does the notion of "exposure"?
Mike Flynn says:
Glad to hear this resonated with your experience. You make an important point. In addition to complementing traditional OSH research, anthropology could also serve as a valuable resource for safety professionals as they address challenges related to the social aspects of promoting safety such as changing organizational culture or promoting safety in cross-cultural settings.1,2 The International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organizations (INSHPO) use seven dimensions to outline the roles of the OSH Professional and OSH Practitioner in their guidance document Occupational Health and Safety Professional Capability Framework: Global Framework for Practice.3 Anthropology is particularly relevant to two of these; Organizational culture and its impact on OSH, and Communication, engagement and influence especially given the growing diversity in the workforce and prevalence of transnational companies. Building bridges between applied anthropologists and safety professionals will provide additional tools for those "practicing anthropology without a license."
1. Flynn, M.A., Castellanos, E., Flores-Andrade, A. (2018). Safety across Cultures: Understanding the Challenges. Professional Safety 63(1): 28-32.. https://search.proquest.com/docview/1985541331?pq-origsite=gscholar
2. Flynn, M.A. (2018). Safety across Cultures. NIOSH Science Blog. Posted at https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2018/03/13/safety-across-cultures/ on 13 March 2018.
3. INSHPO (International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organisations) (2017). The Occupational Health and Safety Professional Capability Framework: A global framework for practice. International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organisations (INSHPO). Park Ridge, IL, USA.
http://www.inshpo.org/docs/INSHPO_2017_Capability_Framework_Final.pdf
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I personally am now a huge fan of Redmine.  It is fairly flexible and it is blistering fast. I was able to use Redmine over a 128kb connection without any problems. The thing I like most about Redmine is that it is very simple and unintrusive in the development process.  It will integrate with just about any version control software (I use it with git), and it parses the commits and automatically links the commits back to the work items.
It is a ruby on rails project, which was not ideal for me, being a C# fan, but I found it very easy to install and there are number of great plugins.
I currently am running:

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*Gitlab for Version control

*Jenkins for automated builds and CI

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Die Paternosterklippe im Harz ist ein Felsen nahe der Stadt Ilsenburg im sachsen-anhaltischen Landkreis Harz.

Geographie und Geologie
Die Paternosterklippe liegt im Nationalpark Harz etwa 2,8 km (Luftlinie) südsüdwestlich des Ilsenburger Kernorts. Sie befindet sich etwas nordöstlich und hoch oberhalb der Einmündung der Loddenke in die Ilse auf einer Höhe von .

Die Felsformation wird aus Ilsetal-Granit gebildet und ist durch eine intensive Wollsackverwitterung gekennzeichnet. Sie ist als Geologisches Naturdenkmal (Geotop) ausgewiesen.

Sonstiges
Einer Sage nach leitet sich der Name Paternosterklippe vom letzten Vaterunser (Paternoster) ab, das hier eine Gruppe von Nonnen betete, bevor sie sich auf der Flucht vor Raubrittern in den Tod stürzte.

Vorbei an der Klippe führt der Wanderweg vom Ilsestein zur Plessenburg. Vom Fels bietet sich bei guten Sichtbedingungen ein weiter Blick über das Ilsetal in Richtung Südsüdwesten zum Brocken.

Siehe auch
 Harzklippen

Einzelnachweise

Geographie (Ilsenburg (Harz))
Felsen in Sachsen-Anhalt
Granit
Geotop in Sachsen-Anhalt


I had a great time for my study abroad when I was in college. I studied in Milan, which was just awesome. Once I got used to them, I loved Italian men. I loved the way art and aesthetics were more important than money. I liked the pace of life, which was in some ways more consuming but in other ways much slower than here in New York. I liked how you could drink a glass of wine at lunch without someone calling you an alcoholic. Basically, I think this was the favorite part of my life.
Now I'm clawing my way up the junior levels of the corporate scramble here in New York, working crazy hours, staying out all night every weekend with people who do not in the end fascinate me. I guess I'm going through my own quarter-life crisis. I need a change, before I become one of those frenetic American tourists I used to see in Italy, trying to stuff a year's worth of pleasure into a four-day getaway.
I think I'd like to look at working abroad. Italy would be great. I'm looking at all of Europe, but I'm open to anything more exotic than Long Island. I speak a little Italian, a little French, and even some Spanish, but I'm not really fluent in anything but American. I'm looking at something fun to do for five or ten years, and after that, who knows? Any advice for me? How can I make this dream into a reality?
You are not alone. Study abroad is more popular than ever among American students, and many of those students, like you, discover there is attractive quality of life in other parts of the world. However, shocking as this might seem, foreign employers are not always as enamored of hiring Americans for offshore appointments. Why? Because of language and cultural problems.
The junior year abroad has been replaced by the semester abroad, or even by shorter tours and "experiences." Total language immersion has been replaced by studying in English in an exotic locale, often taught by professors who are themselves from Indiana or Michigan. So the abroad experience may not be so broadening as it used to be.
The really good news is that the tide is turning in your favor, and English is becoming the lingua franca of the world. A friend of mine works for a German multinational and the company language is English even in Germany,. They speak English in her office, even though practically everyone except her is German. Another friend works for a Chinese company in Vietnam, and they conduct most daily business in English. Yet another works for a multinational where all offshore assignments require fluency in English, no matter the country of origin for the employees involved.
The Going Global books and web site are expensive, but should be available through a library near you. In them you can learn about resume and CV formats and hiring practices for countries all over the world. You should also look for the nearest embassies for the countries of interest to you, and see if they publish lists of exporters to the United States. And check for chambers of commerce that specialize in transnational commerce, such as the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce located near you in New York.
Finally, be sure to look for the foreign locations of your current employer. Large companies have satellite offices virtually everywhere, so look long and hard before you decide you have to switch companies to launch your dream of working overseas.
It's probably a good idea to pick a country and a language to specialize in, rather than just looking all over the globe. So in your case it sounds like Italy and Italian would be great places to start. You need to plan all your vacations so you go to Italy, and you need to take Italian language classes and improve your language skills past the tourist-ordering-dinner-and-finding-the-toilet level of communication. If you can't take classes, buy any of the high-quality language acquisition programs now available on CD and DVD.
Spend your vacations on language intensives rather than tours of castles. In my travels I constantly run into Europeans and Asians in language schools, but not so many Americans. Demonstrate your intentions in action, rather than words.
Finally, start talking to everybody you know about who they might know in Italy. Find some people who are working in Italy or using Italian language in their work in the U.S. Get invited to dinner in New York with friends hosting Italian visitors. Most foreign companies hire only people they've met before, or people who are referred from a trusted source. They tend not to hire someone they know only from a resume.
So I suggest you meet some more Italians, my friend. If you stopped going out all night every Friday and Saturday with people you don't even like, you'd have plenty of time and energy to devote to this.


i was wondering if you wanted to post in here. thanks for clearin that up.
I have been waiting so long to post in here.
I've had my 870 since I was 15 it's my favorite shotgun. It's such a versatile gun it's good for most applications.
These are three of the hundreds...3 of the most prized.
8mm Japanese Nambu w/original holster. Holster is worth more b/c americans took the gun off of dead japanese soldiers and left the holster.
SW 38 Special Police Edition: Bought it from a retired Chicago cop at his garage sale. Came with the police belt and cuffs and everything.
Dan can i have some guns out of you 'stache of hundreds.
Even after i gave you that leather jacket?
I'll give it back with a gun in the pocket..
Nice revolver. The built in muzzle break is badass.
holy hell, how much does that thing run?


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Kees Wieringa is een Nederlands pianist, componist,  programmamaker, schrijver, cultureel ondernemer en voormalig museumdirecteur. Hij werd in eerste instantie bekend door zijn uitvoering van werken van de Nederlandse componisten Jakob van Domselaer, Daniël Ruyneman en Simeon ten Holt. Behalve als pianist is hij ook bekend als maker van radio- en televisieprogramma's. Daarnaast is hij actief met theaterprojecten van theatermaakster Moos d'Herripon. Hij was directeur van diverse culturele instellingen en vanaf 2016 directeur van het Al Thani Museum in Qatar, waarover hij het boek 'Inshallah' heeft geschreven. In 2022 is hij een eigen cultureel centrum in Frankrijk begonnen onder de naam YXIE - Manoir des Arts.

Levensloop
Wieringa studeerde aan het Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. Hij maakte in 1991 zijn debuut in Londen, New York en Jakarta, en heeft sindsdien concerten gegeven in diverse landen, onder meer in 1994 in Carnegie Hall in de Verenigde Staten en in Rusland. Daarnaast werkte Wieringa mee aan radio- en televisieprogramma's. Hij was gastdocent aan de Princeton-universiteit, de New York-universiteit en enkele conservatoria in Rusland.
Kees Wieringa speelde niet alleen in vele vermaarde concertzalen in binnen- en buitenland, maar geeft hij met evenveel elan concerten op een klein eiland bij Japan of op een plein in Bogota waar de straatjeugd zijn veiligheid moet waarborgen. Ook in zijn repertoire, in zijn interpretaties, in de samenstelling van zijn programma's en de keuze van zijn collega musici sijpelt zijn avonturenmentaliteit door.

Solist
Als solist trad Wieringa op met onder andere het Residentie Orkest, het Radio Symfonie Orkest, Het Balletorkest en het Noord Nederlands Orkest. Als pianist nam hij deel aan diverse festivals, waaronder het Festival Nieuwe Muziek te Middelburg, het Festival Oude Muziek te Utrecht, het Bang on a Can Festival in New York en de 'Ferienkurse' in Darmstadt in 1992. Hij bracht cd's uit met muziek van Beethoven, Liszt en Simeon ten Holt. Hij maakte bovendien een serie cd's Nederlandse sonatines voor piano, met een overzicht van de Nederlandse pianomuziek in de 20e eeuw. Verscheidene componisten hebben composities aan hem opgedragen.

Componist
Naast het geven van concerten maakte Kees Wieringa ook radio- en televisieprogramma's en componeerde veel waaronder een opera 'Het Volmaakt Rood' met The Lau in de hoofdrol.

Museumdirecteur
Wieringa vervult diverse bestuursfuncties. Zo was hij directeur-bestuurder van cultureel centrum YXIE in Alkmaar (2008-2012) en Kranenburgh, culturele buitenplaats in Bergen (2012-2016). Hij realiseerde in Bergen grote tentoonstellingen met onder andere Sjoerd Buisman en Joost Zwagerman. In 2016 werd hij directeur van het Kunsthuis Amsterdam Art Rooms. In hetzelfde jaar volgde zijn benoeming tot algemeen directeur van het Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al-Thani Museum in Qatar.

In 2019 heeft Kees Wieringa met UNESCO vanuit Qatar een groot rondreizend project door Europa en de VS georganiseerd onder de titel 'Cultures in Dialogue' om een brug te slaan tussen oost en west. Kees Wieringa publiceerde ook een boek onder de titel The Majlis - Cultures in Dialogue

Momenteel realiseert Kees Wieringa met Moos d'Herripon een Manoir des Arts ten zuiden van Parijs.

Composities
 C in Klein (1996), elektronische muziek
 Het Monument (1999), elektronische muziek - 41'47"
 Vluchten (1999), muziek voor slagwerk, ud en zang - 49'35"
 Touch (1999), elektronische muziek en piano - 71'30"
 Wit (1999), elektronische muziek - 8'10"
 Zwart (1999), elektronische muziek - 8'30"
 Blauw (1999), elektronische muziek - 32'
 Petersburg, een stadscompositie (2001), elektronische muziek - 60'
 Tokyo, een stadscompositie (2001)
 Winterslaap (2001)
 Theo van Doesburg (2002)
 Midas (2003)
 Opening GCO (2004)
 BAG (2005)
 Esfahan (2006)
 Zorro (2006)

Discografie
 Jurriaan Andriessen - portret van Hedwig (Do Records 008)
 Boudewijn Buckinx - In De Buurt Van Neptunus (Cassa Nova REC CNR 950821)
 Alvin Curran – for Cornelius (Do Records 009)
 Theo van Doesburg (Do Records 005)
 Jakob van Domselaer – Pianoconcerten no.1 en 2 (NM Classics)
 Jakob van Domselaer – Pianomuziek (Do Records 001)
 Een Nieuwe Lente (Beethoven/Liszt) (Do Records 007)
 Morton Feldman Session - DVD  (Do Records 201)
 Morton Feldman – Untitled Composition (Attacca 9160–3)
 Simeon ten Holt – Canto Ostinato (Emergo Classics EC 3944-2)
 Simeon ten Holt – Incantatie IV (CDJD 18 SH)
 Simeon ten Holt – Lemniscaat (CLAR 53317–19)
 Simeon ten Holt – Méandres (NM Classics 92106)
 Simeon ten Holt – Natalon in E /Cyclus aan de Waanzin (CDJD 13 SH)
 Simeon ten Holt – Soloduiveldans no.2 (WVH 055)
 Simeon ten Holt – Soloduiveldans no.3 en Eadem Sed Aliter (Do Records 003)
 De Ploeg, Daniel Ruyneman en zijn tijd (Do Records 002)
 Nederlandse Sonatines voor piano 1 (Do Records 004)
 Nederlandse Sonatines voor piano 2 (Do Records 006)
 Jacob ter Veldhuis – Diverso Il Tempo (BVHaast)
 Jacob ter Veldhuis – Heartbreakers (Emergo Classics)
 Jacob ter Veldhuis - Shining City (Basta 3091 742)
 Jacob ter Veldhuis - Suites of Lux (Basta 3091 752)
 Kees Wieringa – Zorro (Do Records 010)
 Kees Wieringa – BAG (Do Records 011)
 Canto Ostinato Revisited (Do Records 014)

Albums

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Externe link
 Officiële website
 The Majlis - Cultures in Dialogue

Klassiek pianist
Nederlands componist
Nederlands pianist
Directeur van Nederlands museum


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Suspect in shooting of Illinois ATF agent arrested
May 8, 2018 at 11:51a.m.
By DON BABWIN and MICHAEL TARM
CHICAGO (AP) — A law enforcement official says a suspect has been arrested in the shooting of an ATF agent in Chicago.
The official is not authorized to talk about the arrest and spoke to The Associated Press only on condition of anonymity.
The official says Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents arrested the man in Chicago on Monday night. A federal court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
The suspect had been the subject of a massive manhunt since early Friday when the agent was shot in the face during what authorities described as a pre-dawn ambush in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. He is expected to fully recover.
The agent was part of a task force designed to stem the flow of illegal guns into Chicago.
January 3, 2012 12:39 p.m.
Official: Friendly fire likely killed agent in NY
March 19, 2011 12:10 a.m.
Agent: LSP now stands for Last Stop Prison'
May 16, 2008 midnight
FBI does not play well with others
Officials: Suspect arrested in bomb at Colo. mall
December 27, 2015 midnight
Officials: Fire at mosque is suspicious


What is Dell SupportAssist app (formerly Dell System Detect)?
Dell SupportAssist app (formerly Dell System Detect) is an application that runs on your Windows-based PC or tablet with your permission and interacts with the Dell Support website so that we can provide a better and more personalized support experience.
Note: You must be logged in as an administrator to download and install Dell SupportAssist app on your Dell PC.
Note: Some firewall or antivirus software may block or limit the functionality of Dell System Detect without a notification.
What does Dell SupportAssist do?
There are three main actions that you can take on Dell Support website that use the Dell SupportAssist application. When you take one of these actions, you will either be prompted to download and install Dell SupportAssist if it is not already installed or the application will automatically start and install the latest version before completing the action.
This is the most common use of Dell SupportAssist app. At various points on the Dell Support website, you have the option to have your product detected so that Dell can provide targeted support. When you click Detect Product, the application runs on your system and detects the Service Tag of your Dell computer. Dell then uses the Service Tag to look up product information, such as your original system configuration and warranty end date, to provide a product-specific support experience.
Once you have identified your product, you have the option to run a Detect Drivers (System Analysis) on the Driver & Downloads tab of the Product Support page. When you click Detect Drivers (System Analysis), Dell SupportAssist looks at which drivers are installed on your system and compares it with the latest available drivers. This is the most accurate way to determine which drivers are out of date on your system. Once the scan is complete, you can choose to "autoinstall" the updates with the Dell SupportAssist application. Similarly, Dell SupportAssist is used when you choose to download drivers from your downloads list or any time the driver size is greater than 2GB. For more information on Detect Drivers or System Analysis, refer to the Dell knowledge-base article Detect Drivers or Drivers by System Analysis.
You also have the option to "Run a diagnostic" on the Diagnostics tab of the Product Support page to detect and solve common hardware and software problems. When you click Run Diagnostic, the Dell SupportAssist application acts like a bridge between the online and Dell SupportAssist application. Dell SupportAssist helps invoke Dell diagnostic tools (SupportAssist) in the right mode and manages the progress and communications protocol between the tools seamlessly.
How to install Dell SupportAssist?
Review the Terms and Conditions, check the box and click Continue.
Once the installer downloads, a notification window will appear asking if you want to install this application. Choose Install from this window.
Upon successful installation, a confirmation icon will appear in the Windows taskbar. Product detection will begin automatically.
How to uninstall Dell SupportAssist?
Press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog box.
In the Run dialog box, type appwiz.cpl, then press the Enter key.
In the Programs and Features window (previously called Add/Remove Programs in Microsoft Windows XP), select Dell SupportAssist from the list of applications.
Click the Uninstall button on top.
If Dell SupportAssist installation fails with the error message "Cannot continue. This application is improperly formatted. Contact the application vendor for assistance.", refer to the Dell knowledge-base article How to Troubleshoot Dell SupportAssist Installation Failure.


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The family is welcome to recommend relatives or shul members to daven Kabbalat Shabbat, Pesukei D' Zemirah, Shacharit, Musaf, concluding services, Adon Olam, Yigdal, and Mincha.
**Please tell the chazzan that it is our custom not to repeat words during chazaros HaShatz. It is wonderful to have family members lead services, but if they feel uncomfortable or inexperienced--reconsider. We are also stricter in regards to leining.
Anyone wishing to lein from the Torah requires testing by either David Blass or Ron Goldgewert months in advance. David Blass can be contacted at rituals@arzeidarom.org If the bar-mitzvah boy is taught by an experienced teacher from the community, please have the teacher contact David Blass directly.
Petichah - opening of the Aron Koshesh (and Hotza'ah if applicable for a second Sefer Torah) can be given out by the family to any male over the age of 13.
For the Shabbat of the simcha the family will be offered an alliyah for the Bar Mitzvah Boy or Chattan plus three additional alliyot.
Fathers, sons, and brothers are not called up in succession for alliyot.
Efforts to give the family additional alliyot will be made subject to other chiyuvim/s'machot, and at the discretion of the Rabbi and gabbai.
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Keep students, staff and visitors "educated" on the proper campus directions, such as where to park, when there is an important meeting/test in progress, or when the live student radio DJ is "On Air"!


I hate press releases, but I'm delighted to introduce a few new members of the Inside Elections team, so this brief will have to suffice.
Later this month, Leah Askarinam will start as a full-time Reporter & Analyst for Inside Elections, covering all of the key House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. She was most recently an Assistant Editor with The Atlantic, where she worked closely with veteran columnist Ron Brownstein to analyze data that demonstrates the demographic trends that shape politics and policy.
Leah grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and moved to New Orleans to attend Tulane University, where she was editor-in-chief of the student-run newspaper. She stayed nearby for another few years as a middle school English teacher in Chalmette, through the Teach for America program.
I'm also excited to welcome Nathaniel Rakich as a Contributing Analyst. He'll be working on long-term data projects that we'll unveil later in the cycle.
Nathaniel's writing and analysis has been published in The New Yorker, FiveThirtyEight, the Boston Globe, and Grantland, and he previously worked as a senior political analyst at a prominent data and research firm. In his spare time, the Harvard University graduate runs Baseballot, a blog about baseball and politics. In past lives, Nathaniel has worked as a front-office assistant for the Boston Red Sox and still lives in the Boston area.
We're also adding Robert Yoon as a Contributing Reporter & Analyst. For more than 17 years, Rob was Director of Political Research at CNN, where he was one of the network's principal authorities on elections, debates, the presidential nomination process, voting procedures, and money in politics.
Over the course of five presidential campaign cycles, Rob has helped prepare eight different moderators for 30 presidential debates dating back to 2000. He has received two Emmy Awards, five total Emmy nominations, a Peabody Award, and a Headliner Award for his contributions to CNN's election coverage. Most recently he was on the ground in Montana providing special election coverage for Inside Elections.
That's in addition to our Production Artist Will Taylor, who is invaluable in making each issue coherent and completed on time, and of course Stuart Rothenberg, Senior Editor and Founder who continues to write his column and provide guidance.
This story first appeared in Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales on June 2, 2017.


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Brits can't believe Brexit is really happening, so they're petitioning for another EU referendum
What have we done?
Image: Reuters/Andrew Kelly
Akshat Rathi
About 16.1 million Brits voted to keep the UK in the EU, but 17.4 million voted to leave. With a difference of 1.3 million—and a margin of 48% to 52%—it would seem like a clear win for one camp.
Or so you would think. Not everyone is convinced, and they are signing petitions in large numbers to call for another run of the EU referendum.
One such petition had already got more than 103,000 signatures before the official parliamentary website crashed. The petition asked the UK government to set up a rule that would accept the "leave" vote only if it got a 60% majority with 75% turnout. With 100,000 signatures reached, the parliament will be forced to consider debating it.
These petitions can work, as happened when the parliament was forced to debate whether to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK. But, in this case, there is little chance that anything will come of it beyond a required debate.
Even though a country can set its own rules to deciding the outcome of a referendum, only a handful have set conditions that are as demanding as wanting more than 60% of a vote to seal the fate of a referendum, according the Sweden-based Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide. Moreover, those that do set such conditions tend to be small nations like the Pacific island of Kiribati.
Still, these desperate attempts are a sign of the deep turmoil the UK is feeling following the Brexit vote. Only time will tell if this will make the country stronger or divide it further.


Nickel, Abe A. died peacefully on Monday, September 15 at the age of 82 at the Polson Place Care Centre. He is survived by Sarah, his lifelong friend and wife of almost 62 years. He also leaves five children, Ken (Emily), Trail, B.C.; Linda (David) Letwin, Red Deer, AB; David (Janet), New Westminster, B.C.; Mitzi (Robin) Chenoweth, Pitt Meadows, B.C. and Carol (Darwin) Keeling of Surrey, B.C. There are thirteen grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. He came from a family of nine children, being predeceased by two brothers, John and Henry. Surviving are his brothers and sisters Susie Ens, Margaret (Ernie) Skavlebo, both of Kelowna, B.C., Alvin (June) Nickel, Edmonton, AB, Jake (Margaret) and Ron (Virginia) both of Calgary and Mary (Tom) Webb of Turner Valley, AB and many nieces and nephews.
Abe was born in Siberia and moved to Canada with his family in 1929, where they farmed in Saskatchewan. He married his childhood sweetheart in 1941 and in 1946 they moved to Vernon. Of prime importance to him was his faith, which he actively shared with others, and served as an elder in the local congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses for many years. Abe was well known in the construction industry working as a superintendent on many projects in the area, some of which are the Library Museum and the Vernon Senior Secondary School. Abe will be remembered for the love and devotion for his family. He was well known for his hospitality.
The family expresses deep gratitude to all the staff at Polson Centre for the wonderful care and kind attention they gave our husband, father and grandfather for the past two years.
Memorial services will be held on Friday, September 19 at 2:00 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 1424 Mission Rd., Vernon, BC.


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NOSFERATU: 100 Years Later
Film Codex, Horror Necronomicon
by @holocronGeorge
Exactly 100 years ago today, FW Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror debuted in Berlin. The now infamous horror film was an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula that set the ground rules for a century of horror films to come. Let's take a look back at Nosferatu and celebrate its 100th birthday.
Nosferatu was backed by Prana Films, a short-lived German film studio founded by Enrico Dieckmann and Albin Grau. Grau was an occultist, who was inspired to produce a vampire movie after a Serbian farmer told him his father was one of the undead. Henrik Galeen was inspired to actualize Grau's vision and wrote a screenplay largely based on the classic Dracula novel.
Filming took place in the summer of 1921, helmed by director FW Murnau. Max Schreck played the ominous Count Orlok, who has since become a staple imagery in pop culture. Schreck's performance is so frightening that a film in 2000 called Shadow of the Vampire was developed, which told a fictional take on the making of Nosferatu with Schreck being an actual vampire.
The film made its debut on March 4, 1922 in the Marmorsaal of the Berlin Zoological Garden. Members of Berlin's elite class were invited to the preview screening and arrived in Biedermeier costume. Nine days later, Nosferatu had its official premiere at Berlin's Primus-Palast.
So, ultimately, what makes Nosferatu so iconic and why are we talking about it 100 years later? Well, for starters, Nosferatu is genuinely scary. A century on and the film remains chilling and unnerving. Count Orlok's silhouette is immediately recognizable to this day, and has been the influence of various movie monsters and vampires over the decades, as seen in projects like Salem's Lot, What We Do in the Shadows, and Midnight Mass. There is an eerie quality to Nosferatu that is difficult to put your finger on. Being a black-and-white silent film, there's a rawness and somewhat minimalist quality to it that makes it all the more frightening. Nosferatu is a model for how to capture atmosphere in the context of a horror film. The artistry underlying the shadowy and menacing imagery is captivating.
Nosferatu, in many ways, remains the definitive vampire film. It's a testament to the longevity and sheer quality of the film that it's still discussed by horror enthusiasts and movie fanatics alike in such glowing terms. If you haven't seen the legendary vampire picture, now is the time. Happy 100th birthday, Nosferatu!


Glassware that features a bowl mounted on a stem with a broad base.
Choose thin, clear, unadorned stemware. Decorative, cut glass or frosted stemware will obscure the color and clarity of the wine. Thin, lead crystal has the transparency and luster that displays wine at its best.
Choose a glass that has a tulip shaped bowl. Red wines benefit more when served in a "fatter" tulip shaped glass. Tulip bowls should taper slightly inward toward the rim, this will channel the wine into the nerve receptors in your nose when you sniff the wine.
The glass should be on a tall, sturdy stem. The purpose of the stem is to prevent your hand from warming the bowl of the glass and, subsequently, the wine.
The foot (or base) of the glass should be broad enough to prevent the glass from tipping easily. The foot should be firmly attached to prevent it from snapping when swirled.
Choose a wine glass that is large enough to hold a full serving of wine without reaching halfway full. Be cautious, the glass should not be so large that it is awkward to hold. A good rule of thumb is to serve table wines in 8-10 oz. glasses, dessert wines in 6 oz. glasses, and sparkling wines in a slender glass (champagne flute) to prevent bubbles from dissipating.
When trying to achieve a professional feel of wine tasting, the glasses made specifically for tasting are known as INAO (Institut National des Appellations d'Origine) glasses.
If you are willing to spend more on a glass collection, there are glasses available that have been specifically designed to highlight the distinct features of different wine types.
The way in which you wash and care for wine glasses has a direct effect on the taste of wine.
Crystal glasses are more porous than normal glassware. The tastes and odors from storage boxes and soap are easily absorbed by crystal. Store glassware upright on a well ventilated shelf or hang them from a specialty glass rack.
If washing glasses by hand, use the hottest water possible and very little detergent. There are sponges available that are specifically designed for cleaning the inside of wine glasses.
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\section{Methods}

\subsection{Curtains}

The curtain experiments were carried out using fabric: thickness $220$ $\mu$m, density $\rho_c=820$ kg/m$^3$ and elastic modulus $E \sim 1$ MPa; natural latex:  thicknesses $220$ and $400$ $\mu$m, density $\rho_c=980$ kg/m$^3$ and elastic modulus $E \sim 1$ MPa; paper: thickness $125$ $\mu$m. The fabric curtain was 4 m long and 2.5 m wide, while the rubber and paper curtains were 2 m long and 1 m wide. Each curtain was hung with an imposed sinusoidal boundary condition through an array of screws of tunable length.
The wavelength was fixed to $\lambda=20$ mm with an amplitude $A$ spanning  from 1.2 to 8 mm. The bottom edges of the curtains were left free except for the ballasted curtain experiments where 10 steel disks of $180$ g each were hung from the bottom edge with a spacing of $100$ mm in between. The average wavelength was obtained by dividing the total width of the curtain by the number of wrinkles found at a given distance from the constrained edge.
For the various curtains, the evolution of $\lambda$ with the distance from constrained edge was analyzed with power laws. These fits yield the following exponents:
\begin{itemize}
\item [-] 0.62 $\pm$ 0.02, short fabric curtain;
\item [-] 0.66 $\pm$ 0.07, paper curtain;
\item [-] 0.50 $\pm$ 0.01, long fabric curtain;
\item [-] 0.51 $\pm$ 0.02, $400\, \mu$m rubber curtain;
\item [-] 0.53 $\pm$ 0.03, $220\, \mu$m rubber curtain;
\item [-] 0.54 $\pm$ 0.04, ballasted $220\, \mu$m rubber curtain;
\item [-] 0.53 $\pm$ 0.02, ballasted $400\, \mu$m rubber curtain.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Graphene bilayers}

Suspended graphene membranes were prepared by standard mechanical cleavage technique on Si/SiO2 wafers with pre-patterned trenches. Bilayer graphene sheets were identified by color contrast in an optical microscope and/or Raman spectroscopy described in W. Bao {\it et al.} Nature Nanotech. {\bf 4}, 562 (2009).
The Si substrates were p-doped, and the thickness of silicon and SiO2  are 0.5 mm and 300 nm, respectively. The trenches, fabricated at the UCSB Nanofabrication facility, were defined by photolithography followed by plasma etching in a reactive ion etcher (RIE) system. Strain in graphene sheets was estimated using the same procedure as the one used to produce Fig.~1e in W. Bao {\it et al.} (2009).

SEM image of graphene bilayer thin sheets suspended across pre-defined trenches on Si/SiO$_2$ substrates and annealed at 523K were recorded with a tilt angle of $75^{\circ}$ to improve the contrast in amplitude.

\subsection{Isolated wrinklons.}

These experiments were carried out using A4 size sheets made of biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP Innovia) of thicknesses 30, 50, 90, 100 and 250 $\mu$m and elastic modulus $E \sim 2.6$ GPa.  To impose a sinusoidal condition at the edge of the sheet we used Plexiglas clamps of thickness 5 mm with sinusoidal profiles of different amplitudes and wavelengths to clamp the sheets: fixed amplitude $A=3$ mm with wavelengths $\lambda=13,\,18,\,26$ and $58$ mm; fixed wavelength $\lambda=24$ mm with amplitudes $A=3,\,4,\,5,\,6$ and $7$ mm. A second clamp of wavelength $2\lambda$ and amplitude $2A$ was used to impose a second profile condition for the sheet at a certain distance $L_2$ away from the clamped edge. In this way we forced the sheet to switch from the initial wavelength $\lambda$ to the next wavelength $2\lambda$, thus generating the formation of a controlled wrinklon.
The distance $L_2$ was selected by separating progressively the opposite clamps until the shape of the wrinkles became stationary and before a new generation of wrinklons could arise.

\subsection{Morphology of wrinklons.}

\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig_sup.pdf}
\caption{{\bf a}, Origami describing the distorted domain at the $\lambda$ to $2\lambda$ transition. This toy model is illustrative of a sheet with a vanishing thickness and shows the necessity to stretch the sheet to connect both $\lambda$ and $2\lambda$ patterns. For sheets with vanishing thickness, the deformation energy is concentrated in sharp singularities (ridges or d-cones). The width/size of these singularities decreases as the thickness tends to zero. The limit would then correspond to sharp folds that is modeled by simple origami. The scale bar is 5 cm. {\bf b}, Schematic representation of the transition domain for sheets with finite thickness. The slope, $\alpha$, along $x$ direction is indicated.
}
\end{figure*}

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