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Episode 155. Barely Sang at the Met I
July 28, 2022 African American Singers, Behind the Iron Curtain, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Great Baritones, Happy Birthday, Mezzo Madness, Music for a World in Crisis Series, Needle Drop, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Singers of Color, Twentieth Century MusicAida, Alexander Melik-Pashaev, Argeo Quadri, Arlene Saunders, Carl Maria von Weber, Charles Mackerras, Chester Kallman, Der Freischütz, Der Rosenkavalier, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Don Carlo, Eleanor Steber, Elisabeth Grümmer, Felicia Weathers, Ferdinand Leitner, Friedrich Schiller, Galina Vishnevskaya, Giacomo Puccini, Giangiacomo Guelfi, Giuseppe Verdi, Gundula Janowitz, Hugo van Hoffmansthal, Idomeneo, Igor Stravinsky, Irmgard Seefried, John Barbirolli, John Pritchard, Joseph Keilberth, Julia Varady, La Fanciulla del West, La Traviata, Leopold Ludwig, Martha Mödl, Metropolitan Opera, Nancy Evans, Nello Santi, Oskar Czerwenka, Pavel Lisitsian, Piero Cappuccilli, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, The Rake's Progress, Thomas Schippers, Tristan und Isolde, Virginia Zeani, W.H. Auden, William McAlpine, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Wolfgang Windgassen, Wolgang Amadeus Mozartcountermelody
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Today's brain teaser: What do world-class singers Irmgard Seefried, Virginia Zeani, Piero Cappuccilli, birthday girl Gundula Janowitz, Galina Vishnevskaya, Giangiacomo Guelfi, Felicia Weathers, Elisabeth Grümmer, Wolfgang Windgassen, Pavel Lisitsian, and Arlene Saunders, have in common? If you need a hint, it's in the title of today's episode: each of them sang at least one and not more than ten performances at that venerable institution, the Metropolitan Opera. These and a number of other artists will be featured on this week's episode, to be followed by more world-class artists who, for one reason or another (though certainly not talent, skill, or ability) "barely sang at the Met." We hear music of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Stravinsky, Wagner, Puccini, and Weber, led by conductors who either were fixtures at the Met (Thomas Schippers, Nello Santi, Dimitri Mitropoulos), appeared occasionally at the Met (Leopold Ludwig, Charles Mackerras), or never appeared there (Wolfgang Sawallisch, Ferdinand Leitner, Joseph Keilberth) or appeared there only once (John Barbirolli, who led a single gala concert there in 1940).
Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and "inside stories." At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus cotent including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.
Episode 85. George Shirley @ 87
April 18, 2021 African American Singers, Art Song, Black History Month, Happy Birthday, Lieder, Mezzo Madness, Needle Drop, Operetta, Renata Scotto, Richard Strauss, Richard WagnerAlessandro Scarlatti, Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, Colin Davis, David Garvey, Elisabeth Soderstrom, Erich Leinsdorf, Fernando Previtali, Ferruccio Busoni, Georg Solti, George Shirley, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Howard Swanson, Igor Stravinsky, Ilva Ligabue, Jacques Offenbach, Jascha Horenstein, Jess Thomas, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Joanna Neal, John Pritchard, Josef Krips, Josephine McGill, Judith Raskin, Karl Weigl, Langston Hughes, Leontyne Price, Pierre Boulez, Renata Scotto, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Shirley Verrett, Sylvia Olden Lee, Thomas Schippers, Wayne Sanders, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartcountermelody
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Today I finally get to pay tribute to one of the singers who was a formative influence on me as a budding opera and vocal aficionado. George Shirley, born on April 18, 1934 in Indianapolis, Indiana, was one of the most versatile tenors of the second half of the twentieth century, and a pathbreaker as the first African American tenor to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. I first encountered him through his matchless portrayal of Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande opposite Elisabeth Söderström. But his Mozart is equally celebrated: the podcast also features live and studio recordings of George Shirley as Tamino (opposite Judith Raskin), Don Ottavio, Ferrando (opposite Leontyne Price), as well as his extraordinary Idomeneo. Extant live performances of George Shirley including assumptions of roles as diverse as Don José (opposite Shirley Verrett), David in Die Meistersinger, Pinkerton (opposite an incandescent young Renata Scotto), Mephistopheles in Busoni's Doktor Faust, and even Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos. All of these are included in the episode, as are rare song recordings from throughout his career. Raise a glass to the great George Shirley, and join me in thanking him for having shared his extraordinary artistic gift with us for all these years!
Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and "inside stories." Occasional guests from the "business" (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody's core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. At Countermelody's core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. And please head to my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available.
Episode 77. Margaret Tynes (Black History Month 2021 V)
February 24, 2021 African American Singers, Black History Month, Broadway, Full-Figured Baroque, Giuseppe Verdi, Needle Drop, Richard StraussA Drum Is a Woman (Ellington & Strayhorn), Aida (Verdi), Anita Turner-Butler, Billy Strayhorn, Brock Peters, Creole Folk Songs, DuBose Heyward, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, George Shirley, Georges Bizet, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giuseppe Verdi, Ira Gershwin, LeVern Hutcherson, Lili Chookasian, Macbeth (Verdi), Margaret Tynes, Massimo Bruni, Pál Varga, Paul Belanger, Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), Richard Strauss, Salome (Richard Strauss), Spirituals, Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Thomas Schippers, Warren Edward Vincentcountermelody
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For a special bonus episode this week (without the usual paywall!), I bring you the extraordinary soprano Margaret Tynes, who in September celebrated her 101st birthday! Tynes is a unique artist, fearlessly forging her own musical, dramatic, and vocal path, aided and abetted by a strong voice with a powerful top register. Though she made a number of significant appearances in her homeland earlier in her career (including an appearance in Duke Ellington's jazz suite, A Drum Is a Woman), her later successes were focused primarily in Europe, where she was particularly celebrated for her extraordinary Salome, with which she created a sensation in Spoleto in 1961, and her Lady Macbeth. All these and more are featured on this episode, which also includes spirituals and Creole folk songs, as well as excerpts from Aida, Carmen, and Porgy and Bess. Guest artists include LeVern Hutcherson, most remembered today for his appearances on stage and screen in Porgy, and George Shirley, the first African American tenor to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Episode 6: Shirley Verrett II: La Regina del Bel Canto
October 28, 2019 African American Singers, Bel canto, Mezzo Madness, Singers of ColorAdalgisa, African American opera singers, bel canto, Beverly Sills, Cecilia Gasdia, choral music, Cornelie Falcon, Edinburgh Festival, falcon soprano, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Pretre, Gioacchino Rossini, John Alexander, Kristina Boerger, Leyla Gencer, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Maria Stuarda, Moise et Pharaon, Mose in Egitto, Norma, Paris Opera, Samuel Ramey, Shirley Verrett, Sinaide, Thomas Schippers, Vincenzo Bellinicountermelody
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Episode 6. Shirley Verrett II: La Regina del Bel Canto.
In this episode in my Shirley Verrett miniseries, I explore a wide range of the artist's bel canto roles, including the roles of Neocle in Rossini's L'assedio di Corinto, Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Leonora in La Favorita, Sinaïde in Rossini's Mosè in Egitto and the French version Moïse et Pharaon, and finally, the roles of Adalgisa and, finally, the title role in Bellini's Norma, surely one of her greatest creations. Musical examples abound, with other featured artists including Leyla Gencer as Maria Stuarda, and John Alexander, who played Pollione to both Verrett's Adalgisa and her Norma.
Countermelody is a new podcast devoted to the glories of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great classical and opera singers of the past and present with the help of guests from the classical music field: singers, conductors, composers, coaches, agents, and voice teachers. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and "inside stories." At Countermelody's core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please also visit the Countermelody website for updates, additional content, and to pledge your support. www.countermelodypodcast.com


Gov. Greg Abbott was in San Antonio on Friday to speak at the North San Antonio Chamber Of Commerce luncheon.
Abbott told chamber members that he still supports a bill that would prevent local governments to require private businesses to offer paid sick leave.
"Paid sick leave is a great business strategy. It's a tool some businesses can use to attract employees, to retain employees and business should be free to use them. But it should be used as a strategic mechanism by businesses at their own discretion. It should not be mandated by government," Abbott said.
The city of San Antonio in August approved an ordinance requiring paid sick leave to be offered to employees.
The ordinance went into effect 2019, but if Senate Bill 15 is passed by lawmakers, the ordinance would be null and void.


Nosco worked with Face Stockholm to digitally print its cartons.
A digitally printed carton made using Neenah's papers.
Lumson's lipstick range is decorated with its Pop Up Technique, some of which is done digitally.
Photo-realistic images of faces on glass bottles, digitally printed by Stoelzle Glass USA.
Quadpack's digitally printed wood compacts.
Kurz' Digital Heat Transfer kit with material and stamped pieces.


Several things have happened in the last day, some good and some bad. For reasons Evans can only begin to guess at, two of the people in the clinic who came down with the new plague woke up from their naps yesterday morning feeling completely better. No breathing issues, no symptoms at all. As if the disease affecting the zombie plague in their lungs were just gone.
That doesn't track with what we know of the illness, but then our information was gathered from a very small group of people initially. What we don't know could just about fill the grand canyon.
Thing is, another four people began showing symptoms yesterday. Theirs aren't as bad as some people who've been hit with the disease. Again, I refer you to the giant chasm of things we don't know about this illness as to why that might be.
And on top of that, while we haven't suffered any major zombie attacks recently, there is a large shift in the behavior of the local New Breed. We beat them like rented mules the last time they hit us. Time to prepare and experience in defending our home gives us the advantage, but every time they change tactics we have to adapt right along with them or risk getting our asses handed to us.
We've got to be perfect at it or people die. Simple as that.
The main problem is that the New Breed seem to have lost their cohesion. Instead of gathering numbers in some hidden place to come after us, they've split into small groups (much as they did when we first encountered them) and move around the environs near New Haven waiting for our people to leave. It's not as bad to deal with six or ten of them as twenty, but there are just so damn many small groups that we can't track a tenth of them. Breaking up into units means keeping eyes on the enemy went from difficult to nearly impossible.
But they aren't attacking. I mean, they are coming after our people but not every group. Not every time. Instead, they're making runs at some folks as if they mean business (and by business, I mean eating people) while others they only seem interested in scaring. The best predators in the animal world strike when they're completely undetected by their prey.
Human beings, though...we understand the psychology of creating fear. Maybe there's enough person left in those New Breed to grasp this concept. Putting us more on edge than the standard for the world as it is now is a good idea. Fear makes people stupid, and stupid people make mistakes. All it would take is a relatively small group of New Breed taking advantage of chaos to create enough of an opening for the rest of them to get inside.
No more New Haven. Goodbye loved ones.
Lucky for us that the trick only works if you don't know it's coming. It was awfully nice for the New Breed to show up so close to our home. I'm sure they haven't had time to build up the kind of numbers we dealt with before. Will wants to send out some Beaters to see how the New Breed enjoys surprise attacks.


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Tampa Bay Rays: Best of January
By Austin Reimann
BALTIMORE, MD - SEPTEMBER 15: Avisail Garcia #26 of the Chicago White Sox rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the ninth inning during a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on September 15, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – AUGUST 5: First baseman Jesus Aguilar #24 of the Milwaukee Brewers hauls in the throw from second baseman Eric Sogard for the out at first base on Evan Longoria #3 of the Tampa Bay Rays to end the first inning of a game on August 5, 2017 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images)
Story #1: Max Pierre, the Sax Man
I learned about the passing of Max Pierre after reading a very well written and moving John Romano column. I have only fond memories of Max dating back at least 10 years as he was always outside of gate 5 playing his saxophone.
"Following each game, without hesitation, I would implore my grandfather for a single dollar. He would reach into his pocket to reach for one which I would then go place in his Saxophone case. No matter the song, Max would stop playing and say a quick "Thank you young man!". It was obvious he loved what he did and his genuine kindness was so refreshing."
Thank you Max and rest in peace.
Related Story. RIP Sax Man. light
Story #2: Former Rays speak out
Rylan Stiles touched on some former Rays comments regarding the state of baseball. Evan Longoria discussed the lack of free agents being signed. Chris Archer touched on Bonds and Clemens, while Steven Souza talked about the exorbitant costs of youth baseball.
"Poor contracts and overspending get in the way of that unless you are a fan of the Yankees. Look at the Kansas City Royals. After winning their first World Series in over 30 years, they gifted Alex Gordon 72-million dollars, when his decline was foreshadowed and inevitable. They paid Gordon for his past performance, and not what he could netback for the franchise during the life of his contract. They really outbid themselves, as the only team with even lukewarm interest in Gordon at the time were the Whitesox. Now, they were from back-to-back AL Champions one of the worst teams in baseball. A bad contract or two or three (see Jason Hamel and Ian Kennedy as well) can do that."
Former Rays speak out. light. Related Story

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Tomorrow, September 9th 7:30 PM
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Care home visits allowed under new lockdown restrictions
Nov 3rd 2020 2:56PM
Close family and friends of care home residents will be allowed to continue visiting them during England's second national lockdown.
Government regulations state that such visits are an exception to the restriction on leaving home which is expected to come into force on Thursday, following a vote in Parliament.
Families of elderly care home residents had called for visits to be permitted, describing them as "essential" for mental health, while more than 60 organisations and experts had also called on the Government to enable visits to continue.
The regulations, published on Tuesday, state that the exception comes under medical need, and that it is reasonably necessary for someone to leave their home to visit a person staying in a care home where they are a member of that person's household, a close family member, or a friend.
Jill Thornton and her family have recently been unable to visit her mother-in-law Joan, 85, due to restrictions.
Joan lost her son and Ms Thornton's husband, John, when he was just 32 and later her husband Graham, aged 74.
Jill Thornton (left), with her mother-in-law Joan, 85 (Jill Thornton/PA)
"When every day is the same in a care home, (six weeks) must feel like six years," Ms Thornton, 55, told the PA news agency.
"I can definitely hear now in her voice a lack of connection that there was even two or three months ago.
"They're such a polite, generous, and respectful generation that they don't like to make a fuss… unless people actually start speaking out about it now, they're going to be forgotten.
"Visiting an elderly relative is not a luxury, it is absolutely essential to not only their mental health, but their physical health as well."
In an open letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, 60 organisations, researchers, professionals and bodies representing relatives, carers and providers, brought together by the National Care Forum, said that prohibiting visits denies residents their human rights.
They said banning visits is "intrinsically harmful" and causes "extreme anguish" and that the "default position" should be that care homes are open for visiting with mitigation measures.
Lydia Loader, 32, said her father had been visiting and supporting her mother Sally Ann Loader, who has dementia, in her Sheffield care home every day before the pandemic.
Lydia Loader volunteered at her mother's care home so she could see her (Lydia Loader/PA)
After the outbreak, these had to halt, but Ms Loader took a volunteer job working inside the care home after being furloughed as a make-up artist.
"It meant that I could report back to my dad," she told PA.
"He really was not coping because he couldn't go in and see mum, so it actually helped him a lot."
She said the halt in visits in the area due to Tier 3 rules has taken its toll on residents.
"Some of them have been really down and can't understand why their families are not coming in," she said.
"It affects the residents because they feel so down, it takes away the things that make them happy and so it makes them feel depressed."
Alex Webber's mother is also in a care home in Sheffield and struggles to communicate due to Parkinson's disease and increasing cognitive impairment.
National lockdown must not include locking out care home visitors. We're leading 60+ organisations calling on govnt to support care homes to enable visits @vicrayner Add your voice here https://t.co/AaAwVMti5u#VisitingCountdown
To add your voice to the list, please
— National Care Forum (@NCFCareForum) November 2, 2020
The family had been visiting the 95-year-old every week since her husband, Ms Webber's father, died in August.
"Mum was with him when he died, holding his hand," explained Ms Webber, 67, from south London.
"We rushed to Sheffield to see Dad and to comfort Mum… wearing PPE, we were able to be close to Mum emotionally and physically."
Ms Webber said the family is lucky as the care home is "very humane" and gives "great care" but new local restrictions have meant the family has been unable to visit since October 24.
"She isn't easy to talk to and has largely fallen silent on the phone… but when we visit, we can communicate using body language and visual cues," said Ms Webber.
"We can talk about Dad, joke, sing songs to her and read familiar poetry. We are thinking all the time of ways to connect and keep her enjoyment of life alive.
"We look forward to being able to see Mum again soon but know too well that we could lose her first."
Coronavirus R rate remains steady as Sage urges public to 'remain vigilant'


Yesterday Gary Nabhan brought us some Chapalote corn. This is one of the oldest corn varieties in the southwest.
We wanted to see if we could turn this beautiful corn into a tasty and colorful polenta.But first we had to get all the kernels off the cob. Luckily Marco was there to help us. We ran it through the stone mill and Robbie turned it in to polenta. Beautiful color and taste!
Posted on November 9, 2011 by Emma and filed under Blog and tagged 2011.


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Ойген Штейнах (; 22 січня 1861, Гогенемс, Форарльберг — 14 травня 1944, Терріте поблизу Монтре, Швейцарія) — австрійський фізіолог, піонер сексології.

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Ойген Штейнах народився в 1861 році у сім'ї лікаря єврейського походження. Вивчав медицину в Женевському та Віденському університетах.

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1886 року захистив докторську дисертацію в Інсбруцькому університеті й впродовж багатьох років займав посаду асистента Евальда Герінга в Карловому університеті у Празі. У 1890 році Е. Штейнах отримав право викладати фізіологію в даному вищому навчальному закладі, в 1895 році — звання екстраординарного професора, в 1907 році — ординарного професора. Заснував першу серед німецькомовного простору лабораторію загальної та порівняльної фізіології.

1912 року Штейнах переїхав до Відня, де очолив відділення біологічних досліджень Австрійської академії наук. Найбільш відомі роботи Ейгена Штейнаха присвячені фізіології контрактильної субстанції, фізіології чуттєвого і нервового збудження та фізіології сексу.

Дослідження в області фізіологічної регенерації

Сумніви в науковому світі викликали дослідження професора в області фізіологічної регенерації. Ейген Штейнах робив спроби домогтися омолодження людини шляхом трансплантації яєчок. Разом із Робертом Ліхтенштерном Штейнах був основним пропагандистом цього методу омолодження. Він також пропонував використовувати трансплантацію яєчок в якості «терапії» для гомосексуалів. Після 1945 року спірний метод ксенотрансплантації був забутий.

Штейнах також намагався домогтися ефекту омолодження за допомогою операції вазектомії. Найвідомішими з його пацієнтів були психоаналітик Зигмунд Фрейд та лікар-ортопед Адольф Лоренц. За методом Штейнаха британський лікар Норман Гейр провів в 1934 році омолодження лауреата Нобелівської премії Вільяма Батлера Єйтса.

Після аншлюсу Австрії в 1938 році, Ейген Штейнах так і не повернувся на Батьківщину зі Швейцарії, де проходив санаторне лікування. Там він і помер у 1944 році.

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 Sonja Walch: Triebe, Reize und Signale. Eugen Steinachs Physiologie der Sexualhormone. Vom biologischen Konzept zum Pharmapräparat, 1894—1938. (Wissenschaft, Macht und Kultur in der modernen Geschichte 8) Böhlau-Verlag: Wien usw. 2016. ISBN 978-3-2052-0200-4.
 Heiko Stoff: Ewige Jugend. Konzepte der Verjüngung vom späten 19. Jahrhundert bis ins Dritte Reich. Böhlau Verlag: Köln 2004, ISBN 3-412-11103-1.
 Susanne zur Nieden (Hrsg.): Homosexualität und Staatsräson. Männlichkeit, Homophobie und Politik in Deutschland 1900—1945. Campus-Verlag: Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-593-37749-7 .
 Volkmar Sigusch, Günter Grau (Hg.): Personenlexikon der Sexualforschung, Campus-Verlag: Frankfurt a. M. 2009 ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9

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 Біографія

Члени Леопольдини
Медики XX століття
Медики XIX століття
Австрійські сексологи
Австрійські фізіологи
Доктори медицини
Випускники Віденського університету
Випускники Женевського університету
Викладачі Карлового університету
Вікіпедія:Сторінки з неоднозначними геоланками
Статті з джерелами з Вікіданих
Померли 1944
Померли 14 травня
Народились 1861
Народились 28 січня

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As with all ascents at high altitude, the climbing is still strenuous and requires a high standard of fitness. But it is an ideal trekking peak to experience the thin air of 8000m for the first time.
A small team of Sherpas will accompany the expedition to provide the carrying power and to ensure the high camps are well stocked.
Our familiarity with the mountain and our ability to transcend the logistical hurdles, as well as providing excellent base camp food and comfort, makes the possibility of taking those final steps onto an 8200m summit that much greater.


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Ute Creek is a Robert Trent Jones II design that opened in 1997 and is one of only six RTJ II-designed courses in Colorado. Owned and operated by the City of Longmont, this 18-hole course plays from 5,509 yards to 7,167 yards (par-72). It features five lakes, two creeks, multi-level fairways and native grass areas.
The standard walking rates are $36/weekdays and $41/weekends.
Wide open course that I think any level golfer would enjoy playing. You do have the sand and the water to contend with. Very nice course that I would play again.


Market demand for safe haven currencies like the Japanese Yen has been dwindling lately, and the Japanese Yen has seen little in the way of domestic support either. As a result, the British Pound to Japanese Yen (GBP/JPY) exchange rate saw some of the biggest gains among major Pound exchange rates on Monday.
After opening last week at the level of 144.72, GBP/JPY fluctuated widely for most of last week and only closed slightly higher at the level of 144.77. When markets opened on Monday, GBP/JPY spent most of the day climbing and trended near the level of 145.64 at the time of writing. This put it just slightly below last week's best levels.
However, while the finalisation of the agreed deal was slightly supportive for Pound movement on Monday, the Pound's strength was overall highly limited as market focus returned to uncertainties within UK politics.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal now faces potentially even greater obstacles at home than UK negotiators did in Brussels, due to concerns that there is not enough support among UK MPs to pass the deal.
Markets are anxious that if the Brexit deal fails to pass through UK Parliament, it could collapse completely and lead to a 'no-deal Brexit'.
Some of Prime Minister May's most significant allies, including Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists Party (DUP) and even many members in her own Conservative Party, have indicated they will not support the agreed UK-E deal.
In terms of data, Monday saw the publication of Britain's October finance mortgage approvals results. These fell short of expectations but had little notable impact on the Pound's appeal.
Much of the Japanese Yen's recent strength has been due to market demand for safe haven currencies, as Japanese data and the Bank of Japan's (BoJ) monetary policy outlook have given investors little to be bullish about.
In a major sign that market risk-sentiment has been rising lately, the Japanese Yen fell on Monday while many riskier currencies strengthened.
This was due to various global factors, including calming political jitters as well as speculation that the Federal Reserve's monetary policy outlook would soon become more cautious.
Among the primary causes of lower safe haven demand on Monday was speculation that US-China trade tensions could lighten this week, if an upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping goes well.
Anticipation for the meeting has also kept a lid on risk-sentiment however, with investors hesitant to avoid safe haven currencies too much in the event that US-China trade tensions worsen rather than improve.
Demand for the Yen was dented further by a disappointing Japanese manufacturing PMI on Monday. The figure slipped to just 51.8 in November, below the expected 53.0.
Amid a lack of notable ecostats due for publication tomorrow, and as the anticipated UK Parliament vote on the Brexit bill draws closer, the Pound to Japanese Yen exchange rate is likely to remain focused on politics and geopolitics.
UK distributive trades data from CBI will be published on Tuesday, but is unlikely to be particularly influential for the Pound. Any perceived shifts in support for the Brexit bill are much more likely to drive movement.
For example, if UK Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to drive support for her negotiated Brexit deal appear to be working, the Pound could see further gains against the Japanese Yen.
Of course, the Yen's strength could improve too if safe haven currencies become more appealing again.
If investors become more anxious that US-China trade tensions may fail to improve or could even worsen, the Pound to Japanese Yen exchange rate could shed some of Monday's gains.


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Antonia Bethke (* 9. Juli 1993) ist Sportgymnastin im Verein Bremen 1860. Sie ist mehrfache Deutsche Meisterin und Sportlerin des Jahres 2012 des Bundeslandes Bremen. Seit 2013 studiert sie an der Universität Göttingen.

Erfolge (Auswahl)
 2005 Gewinn des Turnfestpokals in Berlin
 3× Bronze bei den deutschen Jugendmeisterschaften 2008
 Gold 2012 beim Deutschland-Cup im Gymnastik-Mehrkampf
 Gold im Einzel der Deutschen Meisterschaft in der freien Wettkampfklasse 2012
 Gold mit der Mannschaft bei den Deutschen Meisterschaften in der freien Wettkampfklasse 2012
 Sportlerin des Jahres 2012 in Bremen

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Deutscher Meister (Turnen)
Sportler (Bremen)
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Geboren 1993
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Euro Court: Religious Beliefs Don't Justify Discrimination
In four cases brought by people who say their Christian beliefs prohibit them from providing services to same-sex couples, the European Court of Human Rights ruled today that their beliefs do not justify discrimination. The ruling upheld British laws which ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. According to a press release from the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights:
In the first case, Lillian Ladele was a civil registrar in London. She was dismissed because she refused officiating at civil partnership ceremonies for same-sex couples after it became legal in 2005. She claimed she was discriminated because of her faith.
The Court ruled there had been no discrimination, and that British courts—who upheld her dismissal—had struck the right balance between her right to freedom of religion, and same-sex couples' right not to be discriminated.
In the second case, Gary McFarlane was a counsellor providing psycho-sexual therapy to couples. He was dismissed for refusing to work with same-sex couples, arguing this was incompatible with his beliefs. The Court ruled unanimously that there had been no violation of his right to freedom of belief.
The ruling may be appealed within the next three months.
Update: Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund) is mentioned in the official ruling (PDF: 515KB/53 pages) as a third party intervener.
Tags: Alliance Defense Fund, Britain, European Union
I'm really pleased to hear this. People are entitled to live according to their religious beliefs but they are not entitled to prevent other people from not living by them.
When christians say recognizing someone's same sex marriage violates their freedom of religion they are assuming their freedom of religion should be absolute and priortized above every LGBT persons freedom. In a twisted way they can argue religious freedom demands they be allowed to kill gays or refuse to serve them in their restaurant but that doesn't fly in a society where people's freedoms are balanced and equal. A christians freedom to kill or discriminate against gays infringes on the gays freedom to live and have the same rights as other. Freedoms sometimes conflict and that means sometimes people have to compromise and can't have things always go their way as their right to swing their fist ends when it meets a gay person's nose.
Exactly, Priya – as I'm fond of saying, "when someone is beating you with a stick, it's not discrimination to take the stick away."
Priya — it's not just that their freedom of religion should be prioritized above every LGBT person's, but above everyone else's. When they talk about "violating their religious freedom," what they're trying to do is establish the supremacy of their particular beliefs over civil law.
Right Hunter.
Exactly – every religion I've come across has a tenet of "we are right and everyone else is wrong."
As long as theists leave that belief at home, I have no problem with them. But as soon as they try to legislate that kind of supremacism, then we have a problem.
DN,
Pretty much anyone I've ever met (perhaps excluding Unitarians) who ever had an opinion on religion, politics, sports, or the best syrup for pancakes thinks that they are right and everyone else is wrong.
By definition. That's what having an opinion means.
But you are right that problems start when it becomes "I'm right, you're wrong, and I'm going to outlaw being wrong."
No, Timothy, having an opinion doesn't mean having a certainty that every other opinion is wrong.
For example, it is my opinion that there is likely life on other planets. But I know I have no way of measuring, testing, or demonstrating that, so I keep an open mind. Adherence to a religion *requires* a belief that everyone else is wrong (and I agree with you on Unitarians so far as I understand their views). Put another way, I've never (ever) heard of a muslim saying "well I believe in Allah, but for all I know the jews are right." Or a catholic saying, "well I think the blessed virgin Mary is the end-all, be-all of existence, but that Zoroastrianism sure has something going for it."
And as for your analogy, someone defending his position on sports, politics, or syrup could point to evidence and make a logical case based on demonstration. For sports, they could point to win/loss statistics. For politics, they could point to effectiveness in getting laws passed. And for syrup, they could research the popularity of all sorts of recipes. (By the way, I'm by no means suggesting the tests I propose are exhaustive or even particularly good – I'm saying that an argument can be made – *based on evidence*).
But when it comes to religion, it fails any demonstration. Every. Time. So if someone wants to tell me "you should be a fan of XXX sports team because they've had the winningest record in history," that's a world apart from saying "you should believe in my god even though I have no falsifiable, testable, or repeatable way of demonstrating that my god exists."
And I'm glad we agree that it's beyond the pale to then say, "my god says you're a sinner and you should pay higher taxes than everyone else." But that, frankly, is cold comfort.
"my god says you're a sinner and you should pay higher taxes than everyone else."
In fact that happens. Taxes are designed to allow people to reduce their income by the amount they donate to religious organizations which means those of us without fantasy alignments pay higher taxes than someone of the same income who follows a fantasy. I know it can and probably is argued that a non believer can achieve the same reduction by donating to established charities. The thing that is not mentioned, however, is that non religious charities have to report to the IRS what they receive in donations and how they dispense those funds. Churches do not have to follow this regulation and we don't know how much money religious organizations squirrel away but a study by the PEW research organization has said that over 50% of all churches and synagogues have people involved in the control of church money are stealing from the churches and synagogues. That does no one any good.


In luxury apartments historically and contemporarily, the Korean tradition of eating, sleeping and sitting on the floor includes the importance of the tactile qualities of specific floor finishes, as well as the use of low-level furniture and bangsuks (cushions for sitting).
A number of Asian cultures, including those of China, Korea, Japan and Thailand traditionally conducted life on the floor. Korea's long-standing custom of sitting on the floor.
The living floor developed, and was sustained over time, because of two representative floor systems that mitigated Korea's long winters and hot summers—ondol (floors heated from underneath) and maru (wooden floors).2 Ondol utilizes direct heat transfer from wood smoke to the underside of a thick masonry floor. During the Chosun Dynasty (1392 –1910), when the ondol was popularized, general living standards improved, and many Koreans equipped individual rooms with ondol floors. Chairs and sofas suspended above the floor were unnecessary, because ondol warmed the floor surface where people satin winter, and when unheated, ondol created a cool floor in summer. In modern usage ondol refers to any type of underfloor heating. Modern versions of ondol floors are heated by circulated hot water from water heaters, or an electrical heating system of dielectric heating or induction heating.
The public spaces in traditional Korean homes, such as maru, were floored with wood. Maru provides a cool space in Korea's hot and humid summers, so that various family rituals could be held regardless of the season. Raised above the ground, maru also facilitated ventilation through the house.4 In contemporary Korean apartments, maru has ondol system as a home heating. Traditional maru is finished by a glue-like substance mixed with red clay coated the wood and made the finishes durable. If a more even coloring was desired, gardenia dye was added to the bean oil mixture. With use, the wood floors generally turned a deep dark brown.5 Natural materials and their finishes were thought to create harmony between humans, the natural environment, and a house. A traditional Korean floor provided an appropriate living environment for daily practices, functional, aesthetic, and sanitary.
As Koreans moved from traditional housing to urban apartments, their life styles and interior spaces became more westernized. There are, however, several cases in which the traditional Living Floor has been adapted to contemporary apartment living.
The Living Floor is not only an aspect of indigenous cultures in specific Asian areas, but it has also become an international living style particularly adaptable for apartments. The idea of a Living Floor has also gained a growing number of western converts as a technique to make small spaces visually larger. Low-ceilinged rooms grow higher perceptually with lower-to-the-floor furnishings.
In the early 1960s, J. Neil Stevens designed a penthouse guest room with a Living Floor in the Ambassador West Hotel in Chicago. The "mattress" was placed on a low platform, and an antique tea table and bangsuks were arranged with a traditional Asian screen in the background. Other chests in the room are western in height. In the same time period Jerald Intrator designed a Living Floor seating area in a Greenwich apartment in New York City by raising the seating area off the floor plane, but keeping it low to the floor. Essentially a platform, raised by a plinth with a deep reveal, accommodates Bangsuks, as well as a corner seat with cushions to support one's back.10 In both designs, the adaptation of a Living Floor for Americans relied on raised cushions and beds slightly off the floor, but Stevens' penthouse guest room borrows strongly from an Asian aesthetic. Intrator's design, however, is more generalized in its iteration, drawing from traditional Asian design, as well as Modernism.
In the 1970 decade, Ron Doud and Lisa Elfenbein designed a Living Floor for another New York City apartment. The furniture in the living space is comprised of two seats and a table whose shapes are exaggerated, as if they were sculptural objects in gallery. Contributing to this impression is a sculptural object, an abstract lamp, and a dark, round object dropped slightly below the ceiling. A single seat sits on a two-inch high wooden platform which is turned vertically to serve as the framework for the seat back, which is of an exaggerated height. The seat and back are upholstered in the same manner. Two pillows rest on the upholstered seat. The "sofa" has the same two-inch wooden seat and seat back and the same upholstery treatment. This seat is elongated horizontally to sit more than one person. One side has a low back next to the wall, and four pillows are arranged as if a person should recline. The room also contains a large round table that is also low in height. When the interior was published in Architectural Record, the author argued that the abstract shapes of the furniture could be adapted to the human body in various ways, and be used in various positions in tune with users' needs.11 However the furniture was used, the design of this Living Floor departed from the expression of Asian themes and origins.
1) Michael Freeman, Sian Evans and Mimi Lipton, In the Oriental Style: A Sourcebook of Decoration and Design (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990), 62.
2) Sang Hun Choi, Interior Space and Furniture of Joseon Upper-Class Houses (Seoul, Korea: Ewha Womans University Press, 2007), 15, 41.
3) Choi, Jae-Soon et al., Hanoak: Traditional Korean Homes (Elizabeth, N.J.: Hollym, 1999), 179.
4) Choi, Interior Space and Furniture of Joseon, 41.
5) Choi, Jae-Soon, Hanoak, 179.
6) Choi, Interior Space and Furniture of Joseon, 90-91.
7) Freeman, In the Oriental Style, 143.
8) Sung-a Byun, "River Way," Interiors Korea, no. 202 (July 2003): n.p.
9) "A-Project," Interiors Korea, no. 240 (Sept. 2006): 144 -149.
10) "Converted Stable," Interior Design 47, no.2 (Feb. 1961): 124-125.
11) CKH, "Opting for the Unconventional Interior" Architectural Record 167, no.11 (Nov. 1979): 127-130.
12) Freeman, In the Oriental Style, 206-207.
13) Evidence for the archetypical use and the chronological sequence of Living Floor in luxury apartments was developed from the following sources: 1880 Wunhyyon Palace [c1880] Seoul in Choi, Jae-Soon et al, Hanoak: Traditional Korean Homes (Elizabeth, N.J.: Hollym, 1999), 155 / 1960 Guest Bedroom, Greenwich Village Apartment  Jerald Intrator, Interior Design; New York City in Anonymous, "Converted Stable" Interior Design 47, no.2 (Feb. 1961): 124-125; PhotoCrd: Lisanti; Ambassador West Hotel Penthouse  J. Neil Stevens, Interior Design, NSID; Chicago in Anonymous, "Mood Oriental," Interior Design 33, no.8 (Aug. 1962): 109; PhotoCrd: Marshall Berman, Jr. / 1970 Brian Thompson Apartment  Ron Doud and Lisa Elfenbein, Ron Doud Inc.; New York City in CKH," Opting for the Unconventional Interior," Architectural Record 167, no.11 (Nov. 1979): 127; PhotoCrd: Anonymous / 1990 Private Apartment [c1990] Paris in Michael Freeman, In the Oriental Style: A Sourcebook of Decoration and Design (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990), 205; PhotoCrd: Pascal Hinous / 2000 River Way Apartment [c2003] Si-young Choi/Axis; Seoul, Korea in Sung-a Byun, "River Way'" Interiors Korea no. 202 (July 2003): n.p.; Private Apartment [c2006] E-wha Yu/ ITM I & A; Seoul, Korea in "A-Project," Interiors Korea no. 240 (Sept. 2006): 144 -49.
2) Kim, Najung."Theory Studies: Archetypical Practices of Contemporary Luxury Apartment Design." M.A. Thesis, Cornell University, 2009, 71-81.


Salmon is one of the better quality protein choices, this isn't so much because of it's protein content (although it does rank high) but for it's rich supply of Omega-3 fatty acids, one of the best sources of Omega-3 you can find. Don't freak at the word 'fat' not all fat is bad for you, these fatty acids helps prevent inflammation, protection from heart disease, aids brain function, and protect the nervous system from damages of aging.
When purchasing salmon try steer clear of farmed as they are commonly crammed in pens filled with chemical, waste, and fed synthetic blends. This means less nutritious and likely to be treated with antibiotics you shouldn't need to introduce to your own body. Buy wild salmon from a reputable source that supports sustainable fishing.
Sesame Crusted Salmon with sweet potato and orange dressed salad.
One medium sized sweet potato approx 200grams, peeled, thinly sliced.
2 x 150g Salmon fillets, skin on.
2 Cups salad leaves of your choosing, I opted for an old favourite watercress.
Season the salmon lightly with salt and pepper then place sesame seeds onto a plate and press seeds to coat one side.
In a skillet add in olive oil and place over medium to high heat, add in sweet potato and cook for 3-4 minutes per side or until tender. Once done transfer the sweet potatoes onto a a place, set aside and keep warm.
Using the same skillet, cook the salmon skin side down for approx 4 minutes, then turn onto the opposite end and cook for 2 more minutes.
Meanwhile mix and dress the watercress with orange juice, salt and pepper to taste. You can drizzle a wee bit of olive oil to the dressing if you like, I usually let the salmon naturally take charge of this as it's being cut into.
Divide the meal into two and serve up.


Neck muscular strain is when the neck muscle fibers are over stretched, strained or torn. This causes pain that results in the muscles going into a protective spasm, limiting your movement and increasing the pain.
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Holding a hot water bottle or heat pack to your neck may help to reduce any pain and muscle spasms.
Sleep on a low, firm pillow at night. Avoid using two pillows as this may force your neck to bend unnaturally.
Avoid wearing a neck collar – there is no evidence that this will help to heal your neck, and it is better to keep the neck mobile.
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Pakistan floods: Climate change experts say global warming could be the cause
The world weather crisis that is causing floods in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia and landslides in China is evidence that global warming predictions are correct, according to climate change experts.
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
9:00PM BST 10 Aug 2010
Almost 14 million people have been affected by the torrential rains in Pakistan, making it a more serious humanitarian disaster than the South Asian tsunami and recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined.
The disaster was driven by a 'supercharged jet stream' that has also caused floods in China and a prolonged heatwave in Russia.
It comes after flash floods in France and Eastern Europe killed more than 30 people over the summer.
Experts from the United Nations (UN) and universities around the world said the recent "extreme weather events" prove global warming is already happening.
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-president of the body set up by the UN to monitor global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the 'dramatic' weather patterns are consistent with changes in the climate caused by mankind.
UN launches £290 million Pakistan appeal
Floods heap more misery on war-torn Swat Valley
China mudslide death toll tops 700
Climate change round the world
Pakistan floods 'the worst disaster in UN history'
Pakistan crisis: full coverage
"These are events which reproduce and intensify in a climate disturbed by greenhouse gas pollution," he said.
"Extreme events are one of the ways in which climatic changes become dramatically visible."
The UN has rated the floods in Pakistan as the greatest humanitarian crisis in recent history, with 13.8 million people affected and 1,600 dead.
Flooding in China has killed more than 1,100 people this year and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage across 28 provinces and regions.
In Russia the morgues are overflowing in Moscow and wildfires are raging in the countryside after the worst heatwave in 130 years.
Dr Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution at the Met Office, said it was impossible to attribute any one of these particular weather events to global warming alone.
But he said there is "clear evidence" of an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events because of climate change.
"The odds of such extreme events are rapidly shortening and could become considered the norm by the middle of this century," he warned.
Dr Stott also said global warming is likely to be make extreme events worse. For example, when there is more heat in the atmosphere it holds more water and therefore floods in places like Pakistan are heavier.
"If we have these type of extreme weather patterns then climate change has loaded the dice so there is more risk of bad things happening," he said.
Professor Andrew Watson, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia, which was at the centre of last year's 'climategate' scandal, said the extreme events are "fairly consistent with the IPCC reports and what 99 per cent of the scientists believe to be happening".
"I'm quite sure that the increased frequency of these kind of summers over the last few decades is linked to climate change," he said.
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Source: Res. Pap. NE-461. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Sevice, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 8p.
Recreation visits to natural areas are often supposed to result in a variety of unique emotional benefits for urban people. To test this, data on the moods of visitors to state parks, golf courses and museums were compared. The results indicated that (1) visitors arrived at all of the areas with moderate levels of positive moods and low levels of negative moods; (2) the levels of both positive and negative moods tended to decline during the experience; (3) while there were differences in moods between individual areas, it is not possible to attribute these differences solely to the type of recreation environment. Instead, there may be a process of anticipation and consummation that pervades recreation experiences and tends to outweigh differences between environments.
More, Thomas A. 1980. Emotional responses to recreation environments. Res. Pap. NE-461. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Sevice, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 8p.


For the sixth time this two day event wil bring policy makers, entrepreneurs, researchers across disciplines from both academia and industry together. The MCAA Annual Conference is the flagship event and provides a forum for presentations, workshops, debates, career fair and networking, with a focus on research careers, innovation and science policy. This year the event is focused on "Research and Innovation Beyond the Information Age". The 2019 event is expected to gather more than 700 participants including members of excellence of the academic society, European Commission, and renowned speakers.
The president of the Austrian Academy of Science Prof. Anton Zeilinger and the CEO/CTO of Infineon technology Austria AG Dr. Sabine Herlitschka have already agreed to be a keynote speakers for the event. Currently, 23 parallel sessions on different topics including Mentoring, Researchers Evaluation under Responsible Research and Innovation, Open Science, Science Communication and Science Diplomacy, Entrepreneurship, Gender Diversity, Future of Research, Writing Project Proposals, Researchers Mental health are planned. You will find more information on the event website. If you are interested, you can also look at the past events. Several international and national academic organizations including Research in Germany, TU Wien with a booth maintained by its European and International Research Support, Vienna BioCenter, Vikki Academy and Johannes Kepler University Linz have already confirmed their participation at the career fair.
The Marie Curie Alumni Association is an international non-profit organization based in Brussels, established and supported by European Commission. It is a global network of researchers consisting over 11,000 current and former beneficiaries of Marie (Skłodowska-)Curie Actions (MSCA). The MCAA is currently comprised of 31 geographical chapters and 10 working groups. The key focus of MCAA is to promote career development, networking and science policy.
Registration is open to all researchers and General Public.
Group Registration for more than 10 persons are possible!
The conference is free for MCAA members. All past and present beneficiaries of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are eligible to join the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) for free of cost.


Baseball players of all abilities will take to the field for the annual Payette Miracle League fundraising game. The organization provides opportunities for children with disabilities to play baseball, and the game is a way to connect with the community, help raise awareness about special-abled players, and raise money to build sports facilities that meet the unique needs of players and their families. The fourth annual fundraising game will help celebrate Harmon Killebrew Days, and will be held at the Payette Sports Complex behind McCain Middle School, located at 400 N. Iowa Ave.


Comtek, a pan-European provider of telecoms and communications equipment repair services, has today announced that former Nortel Networks managing director John Freebairn has joined the company as group director and vice president of business development. In this newly created position, Freebairn will be responsible for spearheading the growth of Comtek's telecoms business within Northern Ireland, as well as working with the senior management team across Comtek's EMEA operations to drive Comtek's global expansion.
With experience spanning more than three decades, Freebairn brings a wealth of knowledge to this new role at Comtek. Most recently, he was the managing director at Nortel Networks, a position he had held for close to five years. In this role he led a 500 person supply chain team through the process of divesting the business to a number of telecom equipment manufacturers. Prior to this, he held a variety of positions within Nortel, including leading engineering, quality and manufacturing operations at Nortel's Operations Centre in Belfast through the 1990s and during the last decade running Nortel EMEA's Business Operations and Supply Chain Operations including logistics, repair and customer service.
As part of his new role, Freebairn will manage the investment into the creation of Comtek's state of the art Nortel telecoms repairs business in Northern Ireland and will work closely with Comtek's senior management personnel in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany as the company looks to expand.


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author: Ven. P. Wachissara Thero
Democracy, KNDU Act & Decision Making
By Ven. P. Wachissara Thero –
Today, the most argued and debated heading in all platforms of communication is KNDU Act. Although it has many interpretations from different parties, the Act itself is a hard-to-find copy in Sri Lanka. That itself is a reflection of transparency and democratic standards of the country, which portraits in upbringing a such a change in to Educational System.
We, humans, have past the era of inhuman acts of different faces. However, some of the left-over modes of genetic influences are now in stage in various formats. These deteriorated enactments of civilization deformities can cause severe damages to the whole system of civilized society unless otherwise tackled strategically.
Right to information Act (RTI) recently brought in to the Parliament was a successful democratic achievement in Sri Lanka, it could have brought to the table long ago. It implies that Doable Democracy is far ahead from where we are.
Dark Side of The Country
Sri Lanka now lacks Susanthika Jayasinghe like Runners to bring global medals to the country, no strong GDP ranks to go out in praying foreign funds. No personnel to develop a schematic draft to request an insurance claim (in relation to the pearl ship claim). No cricketers to win international games. No scientists like Arthur C. Clarke to conduct world renowned research.
Let us leave the overseas context and discuss local ground holds. Sri Lanka is now becoming a country of unsafe Childhood, Women rights violations, Democracy banned, Media suppress, Unemployment, youth unrest, etc. More cases ae piling in courts on crime and unjust. No cases being solved except political and politician force. However, rivalry over power and corruption are becoming increasingly high.
General perspective of the public is frustrating. In their view, "Decisions made after gaining independency in the country have caused more damages to the countrymen than previous regimes". No development trend has emerged in the country identical to the nation even after state independency proclaimed. Tea, Rubber and more income generating businesses are colonized farming businesses. We all know that.
Every day, we cut trees grown to protect the tropical climate of the country. Every day, we upload a heavy container of unskilled women for foreign services. Kill animals and sell rare species to foreign countries. Consumption of Non-renewable resources has set Super Consumerism Goals. Abuse of vital resources of the country are at high ends. No or less measures being taken to protect the prevailing conditions.
Ethical standards of the country are in quarantined state. Press has no idea of confidentiality of involved parties except marketing. Oh God, where are you?
Prostitution is banned but it is everywhere. Child abuse is illegal and it is a capital heist but who cares? We are being socially abused in many circumstances; no organization stand out to scream on it.
How many cases can be able to file against, if we deep down into political manifestos of each party. A duty un attended.
Easter Sunday attack is an organized crime; justice delayed is justice denied. Are there any positive side to reiterate?
Bright Side of The Country
Yes, there are many positive aspects as well. We have a legal system but it needs amendments, and committed human resources to up hold the dignity. We have a political replica but it needs committed role models like Gandhi; an iconic Indian political role model who does not even wore a piece of cloth unless otherwise homemade. We do have a wealthy fertile ground but we need committed pairs of hands to cultivate. Further, a nature driven sensitive farming skin is only gained through traditional influence. Neither skills nor knowledge can generate that. We do have a resource rich Human power we all think ahead plan smartly but who is going to work? Even the best plan can be a worst one if not implemented properly. For instance, the title upholds the Sri Lankan constitution. "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka". Naming things and planning are much easier than working things out.
The Rat Cat Problem
Once, all the rats have gathered to discuss their issues in general. The major concern was about the cat. The rats' Cat Problem is a symbolic representation of current Sri Lankan society. Where all the rats have planned smartly to tie a bell around the neck of the cat with a rope. This plan could have indicated the cats coming nearer to the rats. However, implementation process of the plan was an utter failure. This story brings awareness to many aspects of our lives, including political, social, financial and many more.
Rational Thinking
This article does not aim to conclude with negatives or black marks on rational thinking. There are relapses on behavioural conducts. It is acceptable. Any behavioural modification program can have deviations, but it should be within the standard error margins. Further, there should be follow up sessions to integrate the outliers to the normal desired behavioural conduct.
The above paragraph is a conceptual explanation of any given drive, including democracy. Although, we have a well planed desired behavioural outcome from the society under the heading of democracy, it may not be the case at all times. It does not mean to say we are abnormal, or partially or completely off the democratic path. Decisions that are threatening to our stand of democracy must be addressed adequately. Thereby, all the parties involved will have an opportunity to move forward with a growing inclination.
Newly proposed KNDU Act damagingly violates the democracy, which is unacceptable. As per the knowledge gained through reliable public sources, neither UGC nor academic communities have been given opportunities to make alterations of the proposed act adequately. Further, new Act on KNDU does not respect the well-established Universities Act of 1978, which has long been protecting the academic dignity in the country. Not only that, even the composition of proposed decision-making body within the KNDU Act has militarized the free education pathway of Sri Lankan nation. Further, no state university, educational institution should level or stand above the University Grants Commission. Not only that, Education and educational institutions must be supervised time to time, standards and the quality should be maintained.
In this rational thinking space, we also must address the much-debated argument of privatization or corporatization of education topic at least to some extent.
Free Education vs Freedom of Education
The Free education concept should not be a barrier to the freedom of education. Although we call it a free education, commercialization is a part of the process and invariably come into play in different degrees. State-owned institutions have agreeably or disagreeably crossed the line to be as well. The degree of commercialization of state institutions are varied. For example, the government hospital can give away a prescription to obtain services privately. A state university can charge some fees to provide examination services. However, in this process Free education and free health care services do not go in vain.
Free of charge service providing nature of particular institution in Sri Lanka does not implies solely on matters related to monetary transactions. These services are the basic needs of human life. Therefore, equal opportunity creation for all is also a part of establishment.
Equity and Equality
The equal opportunity creation can also be a problematic condition if not addressed the equity within the equal ground. Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Whereas, Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.
Foreign Qualifications and Expenditure
Families by strong hardships invest more on children's education. It is a productive output to the country by all means. Whether they have learned within the country or outside. Educated children will bring the wealth to the country, tangibly or intangibly. The question is about the money being spent on foreign institutions. In order to moderate that, we do need to device a mechanism. No doubt on it.
With that note, any observer with a serene mindset can understand that, the KNDU Act and few other recent Government decisions which have caused severe social unrest, have aroused due to failure of democratic decision-making process. On the other hand, of course elected government has only 60 months period. No time to sit and discuss, have lengthy conversations. On the contrary, do the government agents have the ability to oppose decisions made by higher authorities? Does the 2/3rd of the power indicates a kingship? Multi facets of views can be opening our eyes on different focuses. However, enquiry alone does not bring us to work.
People of this nation need results, outputs. They want their game to be the best game, need to bring Olympic Medals to the country, need employment; most of them are behind politicians to get a government job, they need quality food, public transportation should be well equipped, need parks to relax, roads with more lanes to run ambulances and emergency vehicles in a separate lane, need public sanitary facilities developed, no crime should take place, and must ensure the life security, tax imposes must be at minimum level or at least healthy cut offs, need public and privet property protection; at least a secure environment to run business, need education system to be more advanced to compete with global needs, people need trusted information through media, and of course, they need liquor of best quality, above all government should protect the sovereignty of the nation which is promised at the time of oath taken, all of this at the time of worst pandemic situation. can the government deliver expectations of the general public?
In the recent history there were no opposition party which had set go goal to right decisions of the government. It is about the exploitation of the opportunity and the power-hungry mindset. No family together can watch a parliamentary debate. Harassments, abuse and verbal Diarrhea of parliamentarians have spread the ethical deterioration disease to schools and every public institution. listening to disagreements is one of the major faces of democracy, how unfortunate we are? Have you ever had a third option to consider before walking into the voting booth, at least a second opinion?
You Must Be the Change You Wish to Be
In my belief, it is an impossible task to develop a country without developing the person, impossible to develop the economy of the country without developing household economy. It is impossible to develop the Businesses locally without developing entrepreneurial attitudes. It is impossible to develop a civilized behavioral movement without framing a Justice based Common legal framework which sees the act of involvement without seeing the faces of involves. It is impossible to imagine a quality oriented out puts in any fields without addressing the Standards of relevant domain. In brief, it is invariably an act of individual responsibility and responsibleness of each and every person of the country that brings collective output of the representation at global forums.
I heard that, A herd of fox cannot have a Lion as their Leader.
Where do you place Sri Lanka as a nation in your life decisions? How do you protect the dignity of the country being a countryman? After all, "Decision shapes destiny", it is a must to uphold democracy while making decisions, especially governments democratically elected. No one should make decisions unless the decision-making responsibility vested in one's shoulder. Let the relevant parties make decisions based on their expertise in the field. If we are to make decisions on behalf of the client or client cooperation, let us question our clients thoroughly and adequately. However, one should make one's own decisions, Not anyone else. If desired, relevant parties can make suggestions with an empathizing mindset.
Development is crucial, and can only be validated if it is achieved only through democracy. Let us sit down on a leveled chair.
*Ven. P. Wachissara Thero, Senior Lecturer, Uva Wellassa University
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justice / August 11, 2021
The Noble Eightfold Path has the remedy. The author knows
Raj-UK / August 12, 2021
I can't see the relevance of lacking in sportsmen & women in the context of this write up. Apart from the possible 'gene' associated, it is costly & arduous training that makes winners at competitions. There are many countries which do not give prominence to sports & it has no significance to economic superiority. In fact, sports is big business all over the world & considering the conduct of many of SL's sporting heroes, I have not much respect for them for prostituting their fame. Whatever the sport, the entourage that accompanies the teams in international events are bigger than the team itself, a burden on tax payer, & the sporting venues in SL have been just vanity projects.
The lack of competent officials in govt. service is due to political cronyism & the failure of our education system to turn out people with integrity. Arthur C Clarke was only a resident, not a product of SL. Although, he did contribute to scientific learning in SL, how much we benefitted is doubtful, considering the country is still governed by backward yobs who still believe in divine powers. Maybe the country will benefit more if the religious clergy does a better job in teaching moral values, particularly, to those who hold high offices.
davidthegood / August 15, 2021
If you wish to privatize uni education, the obvious first step is to increase the registration fees substantially to cover costs of education of state students who should appreciate how costly their uni education is


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Vanity Fair, July 1916
WHERE TO SPEND THE SUMMER
Valuable and Timely Suggestions for the Vanity Fair Travel and Tourist Bureau
By C. P. West
THIS is the season of the year when the tired business man is made still more tired by the constant importunity of his wife, who, urging her demands by the exhibition of little Freddie's pallor and little Percy's spots and baby Wilfrid's peevishness, insists that he select some spot (not one of little Percy's) and go away to it for what is sometimes slangily called the "solstice"—in other words the months of July and August, when asphalt sidewalks bubble, and dogs, developing hitherto unsuspected art in their temperaments, run about the place biting the citizenry in the leg.
It would matter little, and we should not waste our time and space writing an article on the subject, if it were simply a matter of despatching the family to the country and remaining in New York oneself; but things have reached such a pitch nowadays that husbands are expected to accompany their better halves and quarters on the annual exodus; and, such being the case, this question of where to go for the summer calls for somewhat serious thought. We are a nation of sportsmen, and the first thing we ask about any summer resort is "What is the hunting like?" For this reason I can conscientiously recommend
Sunny Boochville
on the Jersey coast. Rarely, if ever, during recent years (I am informed by the hotel-keepers of that Paradise who advertise in the pages of this magazine) has the swatting there been so good.
"I preserved my coverts carefully through the spring," writes mine host of Ye Jolly Olde Inne at Boochville, "with the result that there is sport for all who care to pay the absurdly small prices quoted in the accompanying booklet. My son, James, who has just returned from a fishing expedition with his face the size of a water-melon, tells me that never in his experience has he known the mosquitoes to be so strong on the wing.
"He said that he mistook them at first for starlings, and, being extremely fond of birds, scattered the remains of his picnic lunch on the grass for them.
"It was only subsequently that he realized that he himself was the lunch.
"I cordially invite those who hitherto have only done their hunting in the inferior Long Island country to pay me a visit. I shall be only too delighted to show intending guests my magnificent heaps of tin cans and bottles, all partially filled with stagnant water in which trillions of mosquitoes are having their early schooling. The piazza and the tennis courts are vocal with the beautiful song of the game, that thrilling eeeeeeeee-eee-eee which strikes a responsive chord in every good sportsman's breast and starts him reaching automatically for his citronella bottle."
BUT I must remember that in Vanity Fair, which is not only the inseparable companion of the American man, but also the indispensable ingredient in the happiness of his wedded wife (or wedded divorced wife, or divorced wedded wife, as the case may be), attention should be paid to feminine as well as masculine tastes.
Our rugged males may desire a spot where there is good mosquito-swatting, but the female of the species has other requirements. Realizing that what every woman wants is a place where she can sit in a rocking-chair on the porch and knock the other lady guests—from which it follows that these guests must have knockable qualities—I present to your notice
Glorious Gloomport
on the New England coast. I quote from a communication from the proprietor of the Hotel Splendide at Gloomport—formerly Murphy's Road-House; "things are already in full swing down here. Yesterday three couples engaged rooms, registering respectively as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith of New York, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. John Smith of Boston, and the liveliest speculation is already rife as to the genuineness of their claim to be considered respectable.
WHISPERED discussions take place almost nightly on the piazza as to this point, and, needless to say, a pleasant time is being had by all. In addition to the above, I am also housing for the summer two guests who have been recognized as motion-picture actresses and one lady the shade of whose hair is alone enough to make the success of any summer hotel. Come to Glorious Gloomport and enjoy yourself."
Since penning these lines, I have received a telegram from mine host which runs as follows: "Add Glorious Gloomport. Two more doubtful blondes." Volumes could say no more. Are you passionately fond of music? Then the only place for you is
Restful Prune Harbor
on the north shore of Long Island. The affable proprietor of the House of a Thousand Delights sends me several copies of affidavits to which he has sworn before a notary public, the gist of which is that no college freshmen or sophomores are permitted to infest his hostelry. We can all understand the vital importance of this message.
HITHERTO life has meant for us months of attempted recuperation from the effects of two months spent in listening to young men massacring "The Old Oaken Bucket" in close harmony under our windows, while on the porch other young men came down heavily on the barber-shop chords inseparable from the rendition of "Sweet Genevieve." But at the House of a Thousand Delights—if we may believe the sworn statement of its proprietor— nothing of this kind will be possible.
Guests are carefully searched on registering, the search being extended to their baggage, so that not even a mandolin can be smuggled into the hotel. That this precaution is no idle one is evidenced by the fact that on four separate occasions undergraduates have attempted to bring banjos into the place by means of the ingenious statement that they were a new kind of tennis racquet.
I am, however, informed by the proprietor that he now has the situation well in hand.
But it may be that some of my readers, having selected the right kind of parents or having done well in War Stocks, are in a position wholly to avoid the summer hotel.
They may desire to rent a charmingly furnished home for the warm weather.
They, too, can be accommodated. The preparation of summer homes is one of those industries of which one hears litt1e but which are among the most important in the country. Broadly speaking, a summer home is one in which it is impossible to live in winter.
THEY abound all over the country. Thrifty men run them up on a foundation that consists of an old barn or a disused tool-shed and leave Nature to do the rest. They count, not without reason, on the fact that the ocean is within view and that there is an actual patch of grass outside the front door to make up to the tenant for the discomforts within.
The tenant sniffs the ozone and feels that it would be a shame to grumble at having to sleep in a room a little smaller and stuffier than the one which, if he had been a man of a different kind, he would have inhabited at Sing-Sing. A house of this kind, situated within walking-distance of the ocean (if you are a good walker) and separated by a full three feet from the houses on each side, may be rented for the season for a thousand dollars. But for those who have no family claims and who are in a position to go where they please in the summer we cannot speak too highly of
Delightful New York
This well-known city, with all the modern conveniences, is adapted in every way to suit the needs of the holiday-maker of taste and discernment. Other resorts are obliged to stake their all on one brand of air, and if the visitor does not like that they have shot their bolt.
How different with New York, the Queen of Summer Spots. How pleasant to stroll through the picturesque gasoline-scented glades of Broadway and, having revelled in the thought that one is filling one's lungs with the fumes of something that costs thirty cents a gallon, to wander down the quaintly carved old steps of the subway, where the atmosphere is entirely composed of mildew, cinders, wet cement and slot machines. Then to some Bohemian restaurant where the air is solid with smoke and genius, and afterwards to a motion-picture house where there is no air at all.
No, there is no monotony for the man who spends his vacation in New York. It is not only the air that has variety, but the sights. What could be more stimulating than to spend the day time watching laboring men sleeping on the benches in the parks and the night time in watching Diamond Jim Brady dancing the fox-trot at the Follies Roof.
IS the sound of the surf more delightful than the drowsy murmur of streetcars refusing to stop for passengers—or the half-heard whisper of the steam-drill employed in the construction of the skyscraper just outside one's window less soothing than the music of the thrush and whippoorwill?
Yes. I mean No.


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Q: Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics In Quantum Mechanics, as we know, the uncertainty is defined as
$$\Delta x=\sqrt{\langle x^2\rangle-\langle x\rangle^2}.$$
My question is - Why is uncertainty equal to the standard deviation?

A: The uncertainty doesn't have to be equal to the standard deviation. Standard deviation however is a frequently used measure of uncertainty in any probabilistic domain (not necessarily QM). All the quantum-mechanical relations involving uncertainties could be derived using another uncertainty measure, although the math involved may be more challenging.

A: For a random variate $x$,
 $$\langle ( x-\langle x\rangle )^2\rangle ^{1/2}$$
is by definition its standard deviation*.
A quantum measurement is like any other statistical measurement so the uncertainity being the range in which the observable may lie, $1$ standard deviation is a good statistical measure of uncertainty, though not the only one.

*provided its first and second moments exist.

A:
In Quantum Mechanics, as we know, the uncertainty is defined as-$$\Delta x=\sqrt{\langle x^2\rangle-\langle x\rangle^2}$$

This is not quantum mechanical uncertainty.

My question is- Why is uncertainty equal to the standard deviation?

It is not. The quantum mechanical uncertainty in measuring the variable $x$ is given by the probability distribution for measuring the variable  $x$ . The probability  distribution is given by the complex conjugate squared of the wavefunction describing  the measurement of x.
Lets take as an illuminating example the experiment " electrons scattering off a double slit, with given parameters" and ask what is the probability of the single electron to be found at x in this plot:

Take the top frame where single spots mark where an electron has hit. The standard deviation for x, and y are within the micrometer  measurements , the errors on the x. The quantum mechanical uncertainty is seen by the spread of the dots ( footprints of the electrons impinging the same way on the slit). The full complexity of the quantum mechanical uncertainty is seen in the lowest frame, where the wave nature of the solution is also obvious, but also that the quantum mechanical uncertainty is very much different than the statistical measurement uncertainty.

A: There are many ways to measure the spread of a distribution in statistics apart from standard deviation. For example we also use the interquartile range, frequently regarded as a better measure (depending on the situation) and there are those who advocate the mean absolute deviation.
Standard deviation is often chosen because it has convenient properties; for example, it is a natural parameter for the normal distribution, which, because of the central limit theorem, is often a reasonable approximation to an unknown probability distribution. Whether we use standard deviation, some other measure or something less common, is a matter of human choice.
Likewise, the definition of uncertainty so that it is equal to standard deviation is a matter of human choice. It is a good choice, both because it corresponds to one of the most used statistical measures (i.e. standard deviation), and because it is convenient to work with. Also, by using this particular definition of uncertainty, it is straightforward to prove Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in the usual form.
Again, it is a matter of human choice, but it is certainly a good choice and there is no substantial reason to change it.

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